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                   PA.GERM. PIONEERS,PP.126-8,BEING A LIST OF PASS. IMP. IN THE BRIG.
RICHARD AND ELIZABETH,CAP. CHRISTOPHER CLYMER,SEP.28,1733(AGE 59) PHILAD.COURT HOUSE,43 PALATINER,WHO WITH THEIR FAMILIES,FROM ROTTER- DAM.BUT LAST FROM PLYMOUTH,PROV.COUNCIL,IN COLONIAL REC.PA.VOL.3, P.519.  REC. OF LANCASTER HIST. SOC.2215 MILLSTREAM RD.LANCASTER,PA.
17602.  WILL OF HANCE JACOB CHILD #2 DTD JAN.1762 AND MY MOTHER AS LONG AS SHE LIVETH.  HISTORY OF LANCASTER CO.PA. SAYS BOTH PARENTS LIVED WITH JACOB.
records of John William Summy-117w.Spruce St. Palmyra,Pa.17078-sbrian@desupernet.net-717-832-3182
Hans Peter was the son of Caspar Sumi from Saanen Switzerland.  Tradition has the family exiled from Canton Aargau and migrating to Offenburg in Middle Gaden,then to Northern Alsace where Peter was a herdsman near rexingen, and where he married in the Lutheran church.  There is no record as to when he converted to the "Annabaptists"or Mennonites". It was sometime after the birthof his children,possibly while they lived in Holland.  In their travels and migrations they could accumulate little property and they apparently had to work at whatever the nobility provided.  He was shown as a "herdsman" in alsace.  when this province was ceded to France, they migrated to Holland and from there came to America in 1733 with his wife Maria,and family.  He was the earliest known minister at the Groffdale Mennonite church in Earl Twsp.,Lancaster Co. Pa. after the departure of Hans Rudolph Magele about 1735.   Some info. from John william Summy,117 W.Spruce St. Palmyra,Pa.17078--sbrian@desupernet.net  717-832-3182