Dwayne, Thanks for your input. I found the reference to Jacob Schneider in the PMHB and I have a few thoughts that may be helpful. 1. There isn't any way to tell how old this person is. It could be a young boy, an older boy, a middle-aged man, or someone older. Could be any of those since only the burial date is listed. 2. The fact that someone subscribed to the organization that made repairs on the Upper Germantown burying-ground doesn't necessarily mean that they were buried there. There is a Christian Schneider who subscribed in both 1760 and 1776 and I believe that there isn't a Christian Schneider in the burying-ground. This subscriber probably is the Christian Schneider who is buried in St. Michael's Lutheran Church cemetery, Germantown (1726-1802). Also, Alexander Mack, Jr. was a subscriber both years and is buried in the Church of the Brethren cemetery in Germantown. This is puzzling to me but I suppose that maintaining the burying-ground may have been seen as a community service, so they contributed funds towards its upkeep but were buried elsewhere. 3. There are people buried in the Upper Germantown burying-ground who are associated with the Reformed Church in Germantown. Adam Snyder, Sr. and Jr. are both buried there but Adam, Jr. attended his first communion at the Reformed Church. I believe that he was baptized there as well but I didn't take notes on that family since I was concentrating on the Jacob Schneider family. I suspect that the Upper Germantown burying-ground was more of a community graveyard than a Brethren graveyard. Plus, it seems unlikely to me that there would two Jacob Schneiders who died in Germantown in late Dec 1793 who were about the same age. I guess that it's theoretically possible but unlikely nonetheless. Anyway, you may have a different conclusion since there is some ambiguity here but what evidence there is seems to me to point to the man buried in the Reformed Church cemetery in Germantown. David Myers On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:47:47 -0400 "Dwayne Wrightsman" <dwayne55@comcast.net> writes: > David, > > I think that the Jacob Schneider you are looking for is the one who > was > buried on December 22, 1793, in the Upper Germantown Burying Ground. > It was > a Brethren cemetery, although not exclusively so, whose overseers > from 1760 > were Brethren Ludwig Engelhard and George Schreiber. You might want > to take > a look at Peter D. Keyser, M.D., "A History of the Upper Germantown > Burying-Ground, Germantown Avenue (Main Street) above Washington > Avenue," > THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, Vol. VIII, No. > 1, 1884, > pp. 414-426. > > This Jacob Schneider provided financial support for the cemetery > along with > a considerable number of well-known Brethren. In 1760 he gave 10 > shillings. > In 1776 he gave 5 shillings. I would assume that he was Brethren > and > neither Reformed nor Presbyterian. > > The Jacob Schneider you describe doesn't seem on the surface to be > your man > in all respects. As I recall there were many, many Schneiders in > the > Germantown area at the time, so I would consider the possibility > that you > have a mix of information about the Schneiders. > > Dwayne Wrightsman