Johann Philip Beyer

Came to America aboard the Pennsylvania Merchant "Philadelphia" from Dackenheum, Bayern, Germany Arrived in Philadelphia September 10, 1731

Married Maria Elizabeth Beck November 11, 1721 - Bayern, Germany

Johann Philip Beyer died in one of the pre-French & Indian War skirmishes

CHAPTER III
JOHN PHILIP BEYER

A (1) JOHN PHILIP BEYER came from Grunstadt, Palatinate
Germany, if we may trust the tradition of his descendants. With him
and other relatives, as we know from the ship list, Vol. 17, Second Series,
Pennsylvania Archives, came his wife and children, on the ship “Phila¬
delphia Merchant.” They arrived at Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 11, 1731,
and settled first in Frederick Township, Montgomery Co., Pa., with
Christopher Bayer (Chapter IV) and his family, but soon moved into
Oley Township, and finally into Amity Township, Berks Co., Pa. He
was a member of the “Falckner Swamp” Lutheran Church, where five
of his children were confirmed Sunday after Easter, 1746, by the Patriarch
Henry M. Muhlenberg, who had arrived in America about 1742. Muh¬
lenberg, in whose coming John Philip Beyer greatly rejoiced, admired
him very much, as we gather from the “Hallischen Nachrichten,” Vol. II,
Page 147, where Beyer’s final illness, decease, and burial are reported,
together with an illuminating reference to the fact that John Philip, in
the infirmities due to age, had been influenced though not absorbed, by
the sect known as “New Borns.” It was John Philip’s request that Muh¬
lenberg should conduct the funeral services, and that he be buried in
his private graveyard, on his Oley farm, which graveyard must have
existed as early as 1746, when Beyer’s friend — probably relative — Jacob
Beck, was interred there Feb. 5, 1746. This graveyard, where his wife
was probably also buried, has unhappily been lost to his descendants.
He died May 7, 1753, as the church records show. Shortly before this,
on April 21, he made a very interesting “will,” recorded in full in Will
Book K, page 79, Philadelphia Court House. The “will” makes detail¬
ed provisions for his beloved wife Elizabeth, and the following children:
John Henry, Michael, Benedict (who is called the youngest son), Eliza¬
beth, and Barbara (married to Conrad Specht, the ancestor of Dr. A.
Stapleton, author of “Memorial to Huguenots”). The ship list seems
to imply that he had a son by the name of Jacob which inference tallies
with a tradition of Louis W. Boyer, a descendant, that there were four
brothers — all serving the cause of the American Revolution. Two
daughters, Catharine and Juliana, confirmed in 1746, are not mentioned
in the “will,” probably because they had died single. And yet we can
not be quite sure that John Philip names all his children then living,
for Muhlenberg speaks of “a numerous family.” This phrase may how¬
ever mean “descendants,” of which there were a large number in 1753.

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• Name Johann Leonardt Bear
• Birth 1700 Hesse, Hessen, Germany
• Death May 7 1753 Hesse, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany
• Family members
• Parents Samuel Beyer 1660 - 1732 & Maria Beyer (born Kirsch) 1666 - 1710
• Wife Elizabeth Bear (born Beck) 1702 - 1753
• Son Phillip Jacob Baer 1735 - 1794
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' Son of Samuel Beyer & Maria [Kirsch] Beyer 

Came to America aboard the Pennsylvania Merchant "Philadelphia" from Dackenheim, Bayern, Germany Arrived in Philadelphia September 10, 1731

Married Maria Elizabeth Beck November 11, 1721 - Bayern, Germany

Johann Philip Beyer died in one of the pre-French & Indian War skirmishes Burial location unknown Lost to time being on family >farm that no longer exist.

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