Hance Peter SUMI

                   Info. John William Summy 117 W.Spruce St. Palmyra,Pa.17078---sbrian@desupernet.net--717-832-3182   Maria and Peter Whisenant moved with their family to the Yadkin or catawba river valley in N.Carolina. about 1750/55.They may have moved to So.Carolina later on.  their family name was spelled many ways. They had at least 4 sons
                  

                   REC. OF LANCASTER MENN. HIST. SOC. 2215 MILLSTREAM PA,17602,WILL OF HANCE JACOB,WILL BOOK X VOL.2 PAGE 11,LANCASTER CO. PA.DTD.1 JAN 1762 PROB.9 FEB 1762
Info. John William Summy 117 W.Spruce St. Palmyra,Pa.17078---sbrian@desupernet.net--717-832-3182   Jacob was listed as age 22 on the Captains list in 1733 but may have been a few years older.
He took over his wifes plantation after his marriage to Jacob Bears widow and added considerable land to it during his lifetime.  His will is filed in gook x,vol.2,page 11 in Lancaster Co. Pa. and was probated 7 Feb..1762.  In it he says that it is my will that they shall not drive away my mother as long as she livety.  Obviously his mother was oliving when he wrote the willin 1761. The only mention of his life is in several tax records and in a visit by some Moravian missionaries who reported that he was not at all interested in their message. History records that he was buried at the Groffdale Mennonite church.
                  

                   Peter was a member of the German Reformed Church in Berks Co. Pa.from 1735 to 1755.  He placed an ad in a Germantown(Terman)newspaper in 1761which probably that he was selling .and he owned in Jackson Twp.Lebanon Co. and/or had not yet migrated to N.C..  The first records of him in N.C. are land grants in Tryon.Lincoln Co. in 1765.  His will(1787) is on file in Lincoln Co. N.C.  Info. in 1994 indicates they may have lived in Frederick Co. Md. for a time before going on to N.C.
                  

                   Known only as Frederick or Fritz in America,he is recorded in history as moving to the Catawba river valley in N.C. with another brother or a nephew.  He was in Pa. as late as 1753 when he had three children baptised at the Trinity Tuopehocken Church near Myerstownm,Leganon Co. Pa.  No info. after that date.
                  

                   peter sr. was born about 1722 at Alsace(now France). Michael died before 1790 at Rowan co., now Davidson co., NC. He married Barbara Merckel about 1745. She was born about 1725 at Berks or Lancaster co., PA. Barbara dies in North Carolina.They had about 7 children.
known only as Michael in America. He was in Pennsylvania until 1758 or later. It is thought that he moved to the Yadkin River Valley in Rowan(now Davidson) county, North  Carolina. His sons had land in what is now the Uwharrie National Forest which covers parts of Davisdon, Randooph, and Montgomery Countried in North Carolina.
Barbara Merklin and Michael Summi are shown as the parents of Eve Barbara Summi at her baptism, 7 Nov 1746, at Seltenreich Reformed Church in Lancaster County, PA. This is the only known record of her. There are Merkley and Merckey families in Lancaster & Berks Counties, Pa., but no record of a Merklin family.
It was a German custom to add "in" to the names of females. Some day it may be possible to identify her family. There os an old will in Berks County, PA which lists Barbara Summy as a legatee, but it does not identify her family name.
                  

                   History gooks indicate Johannes lived and died in Pa. His home is believed by old land patents,to have been in Jackson Twp, of what is now Lebanon Co. Pa.  In 1790, there is a John Summy in Dauphin Co. from which Leganon co. was formed in 1813,  History records and tradition say he had three sons; John,Abraham,and Michael and one dau.
                  

                   Records of Langensoultzbach Lutheran Church in Alsace
                  

                   Records of Langensoultzbach Lutheran Church in Alsace