I, too, was going to recommend Jane Best's chronology. There are many Hans Bars and Jacob Bars and Bears and online they are much confused. I am following the line of Jacob (Jagely) Bar who fathered Bars, Bares, and Bears of Rockingham County VA (also Brethren). His brother Hans Rudolph died in 1749 in Lancaster County, Cocolico Twp. I have no record of his marriage or children. His other brother Henry was the proud progenitor of 13 children (he married Barbara Witmer). At one point I waded through Rupp's 30000 names and found four Jacob Bare/Bar/Bears. You have your work cut out for you. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "byron bowman" <bybow1@aol.com> To: brethren@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 8:38:03 AM Subject: Re: [BRE] Who were these Early Bär/Baer/Bear Brethren? Dwyane. Have you seen the article in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage vol 22 no 1 pp 26-36? Its title is Bear Saga Update; Part Three, and It was written by Jane Evans Best. I have the article because it contains a reference to Hans Heinrich Bar obtaining land in Earl Township from my ancestor Peter Beller, but I know nothing about the Bar/Bear family. Byron Bowman On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Dwayne Wrightsman wrote: > Looking through Brumbaugh’s History of the Brethren, I see there was > a Jacob > Baer (p. 308) who was baptized at Conestoga by Elder Michael Frantz > in 1742. > Was this the same Jacob Baer of Earl Township who immigrated with > Michael > Frantz on the Ship Molly in 1727? Was it the same Jacob Baer (son > of Jacob) > who died at Ephrata in 1768? > > > > Next I see that there was an Anna Baer (p. 309) who was baptized at > Conestoga in 1747. Was she the Anna Baer who became the second wife > of > Mennonite Peter Brubaker of East Hempfield? > > > > Next there was Madeline Baer (p. 313) who was baptized sometime > between 1755 > and 1763. Was she the Magdalena Bear who married Henry Neff of Manor > Township? If so, is there a relation between this Henry Neff and > the Henry > Neff who was elder at Cororus? > > > > I am trying to study the families of Jacob Bär (c1655- ) and, > especially, > the family of his son Heinrich Bär (c1695-1750). These families were > Mennonite but seem to have had connections with the early Brethren in > Lancaster County. > > > > Dwayne Wrightsman > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message