Hans / Johannes Jacob Kreider

Life

There are two possible immigration records for Hans Jacob. The first one has him arriving in 1732, aboard the "Phoenix", with two other Kreiders (Peter and Michael), who would likely be brothers. The second has him arriving aboard the "Princess Augusta" in 1736, along with sons Joseph, Frederick, and Martin, and presumably other family members.

Note that neither immigration picture is consistent with Jacob being a Mennonite and arriving in 1717. This Jacob may have been a Mennonite but he's not the same guy as the one who arrived at that time and settled in what is now Lancaster County among the other Mennonites who immigrated at that time.

Given how generic his name is, it's not clear at all that these represent the same person. However, for the moment we're assuming that this is indeed the case, and Hans Jacob returned to Europe to gather his family after first checking the place out with his brothers.

Hans Jacob is thought to have been born in Switzerland or Bas-Rhin. He may have been a cousin of the Mennonite Kreiders who emigrated to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1717, but that is by no means certain. His children did not join the Lancaster County Mennonite community. Two of them moved on to Virginia and North Carolina, and two stayed in the Philadelphia area and married into the Huguenot Baldy family.

He isn't known to have died in Philadelphia but he was on the tax rolls there as late as 1753.

Johannes Jacob Krider bore what is sometimes known as a "thin-veneer" Huguenot name. His descendants married into known Huguenot families, so I think it's a fair guess he and his family were French Huguenots, probably from the Bas-Rhin region of France.

Johannes arrived on the Loyal Judith on 9/25/1732, along with Peter Krider. Michael Krider may also have arrived in 1732 on the same boat - not clear. He later showed up on the tax rolls in 1753 in Philadelphia, where I presume he eventually died.

Conjectured children: Abraham Krider (who married an unknown Baldy daughter), and perhaps Anna Marie Baldy (who married John Jacob Baldy).

References:

• https://archive.org/stream/memorialshuguen00stapgoog/memorialshugue...