George EYSTER

                   Altland Family History
FAMILY HISTORY: Altland, York County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Abby Bowman Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/ _______________________________________________ Early Families in York County, Historical Society of York Co. York Dispatch, September 23, 1933. _______________________________________________ ALTLAND Jacob Altlandt, the pioneer of this family in York County, wasborn in Europe about 1708. He sailed from Rotterdam in the ship Princess Augustus and arrived in the New World on Sept. 16, 1736. In the next few years he moved to the new lands west of the Susquehanna and established a farm of 150 acres in the wilderness, in what is now Paradise township. He died in May 1756, leavinga widow, Maria Sybilla, who later remarried, and the following children: (1) John Philip Altland, 1738-1804, the only son, who served in the Revolution, possibly at Brandywine in 1777. On Christmas day 1795 he granted the land for a union church, graveyard and school (now known as Altland's Meeting House) for the use of the Lutheran, Reformed and German Baptist congregations of the neighborhood. He was granted 42 acres of land in 1765 by the heirs of William Penn. By his wife Anna Maria Scheider he had six sons and three daughters; (2) Maria Catharine married Andrew Hantz; (3) Anna Christina married George Eyster. She is buried at Wolf's Church; (4) Anna Sophia married Henry Gross in 1765.