Research Notes:
c 1682 Hans Good was born. [1] Hans Good was born in Shriesheim. [2] [3]
1693 Hans and Jacob Good signed a declaration with the Reist Mennonite indicating that they were not in accord with Jacob Ammann. [4]
1717 Hans Good, may have been the Han Guth who was a Mennonite living at Schaarhof, Baden, Germany in 1717. [5]
1719 Jonanness Guth [6] and Jacob Guth [7] were listed as arriving in Lancaster County. [8]
1717 "John and Jacob Good came over about 1717 and settled on Proprietary land between Lancaster and the Susquehanna, being on the 1718 Conestoga Assessment list." [9]
1728 In February, Hans Good was naturalized, by mark "HG", signing next to Gabriel Zimmerman. [10]
1734 Hans Good, who was probably born 1675-85, took out warrants for land in Lancaster County for 150 acres on February 28, 1734, and for 200 acres on March 3, 1734. [11]
1738 Hans Good lived on the old "Horse Shoe Road" in Leacock Township of Lancaster County, just before one crosses into Earl Township. [12]
1740 Hans Good warranted 2 parcels of land in Leacock Township, Lancaster County: 216 acres and 225 acres. Dated June 25. [13]
1748 Hans Groff of Earl Township and his wife Susan sold 200 acres. Dated May 14. The tract was part of the two tracts of land that Hans Good originally patented in Leacock Township in 1740. [14]
1749 Hans Good sold 239 acres to his son-in-law John Bear. Dated December 19. [15]
1748 Hans Good wrote his will, dated January 23, 1747/48, in Leacock Twp, Lancaster County. It was proven and recorded on March 26, 1750. [16] [17] [18]. The original will was written in German. There was no mention of a wife, but the will named Jacob, Fronica (wife of Abraham Bear), Catharine (wife of John Bear), Ann (wife of David Bear), Barbara (wife of Henry Baer), Christina, Anna (wife of John Landis), and Peter Good. The executors of his will were Abraham Bear and John Bear. [19] [20] [21] He signed by mark "HG". [22]
Hans Good of Lecock in the county of Lancaster and province of Pennsylvania Yeoman, being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God, therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, I do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a christian lick and decent manner at the discretion of my executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form - Imprimis, it is my will, and I do order that in the first place, all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied - Item I give and bequeath unto my son Jacob the sum of ten pounds, and to my son Peter the sum of ten pounds, and to my daughter Ann the wife of John Landes the sum of thirty pounds, and to my daughter Christina the sum of ten pounds and the remainder and residue of my estate real and personal shall be equally divided between my children namely, Jacob, Fronica the wife of Abraham Bear, Catharine the wife of John Bear, Ann the wife of David Bear, Barbara the wife of Henry Bear Christina and Peter. so that the division be equally made with what they receive in my lifetime, and what shall remain, and I do hereby constitute and depute my beloved son in laws Abraham Bear and John Bear to be my only and sole executors of this my last will and testament, and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former testaments wills and Executors by me in any ways before this time named willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23d day of January 1747/8, -
Signed sealed publised pronounced and declared by the said Hans Good as his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscriber - Andrew Bear - Emanuel Carpenter
Hans (the letters of) H G GoodPersonally appeared this twenty sixth day of March 1750 Andreas Bear and Emanuel Carpenter in witnesses to the above will & upon their solemn affirmations according to law, did declare and say that they were present and saw and heard the above named Hans Good the Testator sign seal publish and declare the above writing for and as his last will and testament, and that at the doing thereof he was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge.
We have followed only those descendant lines which may have married into lines that we are researching.
Marvin Brubaker has studied the descendants of John Good. [23]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 13, GA2.
[2] Dale Kenneth Weber and Verlene Vaughn Weber, Peter Good, 1530-1995, Family Book (1995), 2, [FHLCatalog], [FHLBook].
[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, suggests year 1685, [Website].
[4] Ira D. Landis, "Our Good Brethren," Mennonite Research Journal 1 (1960), 11-12, at 11.
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[6] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 438, left column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[7] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 437, right column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[8] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 13, based on a 1729 naturalization list.
[9] Ira D. Landis, "Our Good Brethren," Mennonite Research Journal 1 (1960), 11-12, at 11.
[10] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[11] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 310, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[12] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 310, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[13] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[14] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[15] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[16] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Probate Records, I-157, [FamilySearchImage].
[17] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[18] USGenWeb, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Will Abstracts (Gateway website), I-157, [USGenWeb].
[19] Ira D. Landis, "Our Good Brethren," Mennonite Research Journal 1 (1960), 11-12, at 11.
[20] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 13, GA2.
[21] Dale Kenneth Weber and Verlene Vaughn Weber, Peter Good, 1530-1995, Family Book (1995), 2, [FHLCatalog], [FHLBook].
[22] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[23] Marvin Brubaker, Good family, person 4, [FHLCatalog].