Johann Philip LAU
Bio Johann Philip Lau was the oldest of eight children born to Christian Lau and Anne Cleophe Frey. He was born on 29 March 1722 in the town of Sulzthal (near current day Lembach) in Northern Alsace, along the present border of France and Germany. Philip was ten years old when his family immigrated to America on the ship John & William. They arrived in Philadelphia on 17 October 1732. Philip was 41 when he was naturalized in Manchester Township on 24 September 1763. It was a timeof persistent Indian attacks on the Pennsylvania frontier. Philip married Magdalena Gentzler, oldest child of Johann Conradt Gentzler and Maria Catharina Lotz,around 1760. They had six children between 1761 and 1773. Philip Lau secured more than 500 acres of land in York County, through seven land warrants from the proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania.
I also had this birthdate as 1728.
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He married Maria Magdalena Gentzler 1742 at York Twp, York, Pennsylvania . Maria Magdalena Gentzler was born at Dotzheim, Germany 26 Apr 1731 daughter of Johann Conradt Gentzler and Gertrude Schmeitzer .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Gertrout Lau
born 17 Mar 1761.
Henry Lau
born 1764.
Elizabeth Lau
born 7 Sep 1765.
Andrew Lau
born 1767.
Michael Lau
born 20 Feb 1771.
Magdalena Lau
born 1 Sep 1773.
Johann Philip Lau died 1791 at York, York, Pennsylvania .
Maria Magdalena Gentzler died 1779 at York, York, Pennsylvania .