1728 Jan Burcko[l]ter signed the oath of allegiance to King George of England to be naturalized in Pennsylvania, which allowed him to hold land as a citizen. He was on the list of Mennonites. [1]
1756 A FindaGrave memorial reports that Anna Burkholder died in 1756 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Anna Burkholder was buried at Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was born on December 20, 1711 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [2]
Research Notes:
The Herr genealogy reports: Anna Herr married John Burkholder. [3] [4]
Mennosearch reports: "Hans Burkhalter, born c1706, Friedelsheim, Germany. died after 1760, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County. He died without leaving a will and there is no mention of him in deed records after 1760. He went to Pennsylvania with his father in 1717. He died at Conestoga Township, Lancaster County. He was married to Anna Herr (20 Dec 1711-before 1756), the daughter of Hans Herr (1681-1756). His father granted him 200 acres in May 1733 in Strasburg Township and he sold 100 acres of it on 12 Apr 1759 to John Kendig. He and Stephen Brenniman gave land to the trustees of the Mennonite congregation of Conestoga on 1 Jul 1755.25 It was land patented to Melchior Brenniman and later sold to John Burkhalter, who with his wife Catherine sold it to their son John Burkhalter. He was taxed at Conestoga Township in 1751 to 1759. He was taxed on 200 acres in 1756." [5]
Mennonite card file: Hans John Burkholder was married to Anna Herr. They had children named John Burkholder Jr and Jacob Burkholder. [6]
[1] Barbara L. Weir and Laurie A. Roffini, "German Qualification for Naturalization in Pennsylvania, 1728," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 37 (1991), 367-373, at 369, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[3] Theodore Herr, Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr and his direct Lineal Descendants (1908), 2, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[4] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Herr person 223; Burkholder A1-412, [Website].
[6] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].