Marie "Mary" Lapp

Hackman?A Barbara Ruth is mentioned in the will of Mary (Hochman) Lapp, second wife of John Lapp. Terry Ruth believe s this Barbara is John Lapp's daughter who married Christian Ruth

Mary Hockman and her husband, Christian Halti arrived in Philadelphia aboard the ship St. Andrew, with her brothers Henry, Jacob, and Ulrich. They all came to America together, arriving in September, 1749 with a large contingent of Mennonites from Ibersheim on the Rhine. All four of these siblings settled in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

She first married Christian Halti who died in 1766. He named his brothers in his will. Mary then married John Lapp who died in 1793 and Mary named her surviving brother and her nieces and nephews in her will when she died childless (Bucks County Will Book 5, p. 386). There is no evidence that there were other siblings besides Mary, Jacob, Henry, and Ulrich. They almost certainly are the children of Ulrich Hackman of Ibersheim who died before 1743. The three younger brothers were probably too young to be listed in the ship's list when they immigrated with relatives in 1749.

Johann Jacob Hackman left a letter, dated 1761, in which he indicated that he was 64 years old, the only surviving of three sons of Ulrich Hackman and Maria Egli. His brother's were dead and he had eight nieces and nephews-his brother's children. "Four have gone to America, two live on the Rohrhof, two hours away, and two are here with me." The two a t Rohrhof and two at Mannheim were children of his brother, Abraham, who lived at Rohrhof and died in 1752. The other four would have been children of his deceased brother, Ulrich, and are no doubt, the four Hockman/Hackman siblings of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. ((From the Rhine to the Shenandoah; Vol III, Daniel W. Bly, Gateway Press; Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, p. 93.

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