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- == Biography ==
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'''Note''': This profile is for the Samuel Bär who was the son of Hans Jakob Bär (see [[Bar-177]]) and emigrated from Duhren with his parents and seven siblings to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1719.[Best, Jane Evans. A Bear Saga Update: Part Two. Publisher: Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. October, 1998. Page 17 and Footnote 8 on page 27.][Davis, Richard Warren. Emigrants, Refugees and Prisoners: An Aid to Mennonite Family Research, Volume 3. 1999. Page 32. Frame 1258 of 2009 on Familysearch at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS87-7SS8-D?i=1416&cat=761809.] He may have been born about 1705, based on the order that he was named in the list of emigrants, and what is known about his siblings.
He was probably the Samuel Bear who received patented land from Caleb Baker in today’s Conestoga Township on August 4, 1741 (see the legend for Parcel 18 on Conestoga Warrant Map). [Conestoga Warrant Map at https://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-522WarranteeTwpMaps/r017_0522_0000_2811_LancasterCoConestogaTwpWEB.pdf, on which the legend for Parcel #18 reads as follows: “(18) A-75-250. CALEB BAKER. 71 As. 36 ps. & Allow.; War. May. 16, 1741; Sur. June 29, 1741; Pat. Aug. 4, 1741; to Samuel Bear; A-10-366] [See also Survey A75-250 at https://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Book%20%20A1-A89/Book%20A-75/Book%20A-75%20pg%20502.pdf.]
According to Best (probably correctly), he was also the man who witnessed a deed from [[Baer-293|Abraham Baer (abt.1710-bef.1783)]] for land in Upper Leacock on January 28, 1746. One of the other two witnesses to this deed was John Jacob Bear (possibly his brother; see profile at [[Bar-217|Jacob Bar (abt.1714-)]]). The relationships between these three men has not been established for certain, but it seems likely that all three men were brothers.
According to Davis: in 1742, he was called Samuel Beer, widower at the Pequea, when he married Miss Barbara Snebli of Leacock Township, at the First Reformed Church at Lancaster. He was living "at the Peque," which would indicate that he was probably living at Conestoga Towonship at the time of his marriage. [See also Hinke, William J. ''Church records of the First Reformed Congregation at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1736-1806''. 1937. Page 23, at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/320116/?offset=#page=22&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= (Frame 22). ]
Best concluded in “Bear Saga Update: Part Two” that he was the father of [[Bare-918|Samuel (Bare) Bear (1731-1788)]], but she doesn’t explain the rationale. On May 12, 1768, one Samuel Bear and wife Margaret mortgaged a 1-acre parcel that appears to be a portion of land in Manheim warranted by Jacob Bare (probably [[Bar-217|Jacob Bar (abt.1714-)]]) in 1743. [See Lancaster Deed M-426.][ See also Surveys A84-131 and A84-150.]
On March 26, 1746 Samuel warranted 40 acres in what is today Bethel Township, Lebanon County, "adjacent to his other land." He still owned the land on December 4, 1750, but did not patent it. [ Survey H-258 at https://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books%20A%20-%20Z/Book%20H/Book%20H%20pg%20524.pdf.]That parcel, together with other land warranted two years later by [[Groh-139|Peter Groh (abt.1720-bef.1769)]], was patented much later, in the 1800s. [ Davis, pages 32-33.] Samuel also appears on several other deeds, in various capacities, with [[Graff-1072|Sebastian Graff (1711-1763)]].
Davis ascribes various tax records to him and suggests that he died after 1763 as a renter in Lancaster Borough. He gives him seven children (including Samuel), three of them tentative. There is more information about him in Davis' book.
== Research Notes==
He was probably the nephew of [[Bar-123|Samuel (Bar) Bear (abt.1683-bef.1743)]] who wrote his will in 1743.
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The correct last name spelling is Bär. This was his birth name from his father. It was spelled this way in Switzerland.
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He was not the Samuel Bare/Behr (different spellings on two ship lists) who arrived with Jacob Baer/Bähr on the ship Molly in 1727. [Pennsylvania German pioneers : a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 Author: Ralph Strassburger,Publication of the Original List edited by William John Hinke, Ph.D., D.D., Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, PA, 1934. Volume 1.] That man was [[Bar-123|Samuel (Bar) Bear (abt.1683-bef.1743)]], whose signature on the passenger list matches the signature on his will (this profiled man's probable uncle, as noted above).
== Sources ==
See also ''The Groff Book Volume 2'' by Jane Evans Best. Publisher: Groff Associates, Ranks, PA 1997.
== Acknowledgments ==
* Thank you to [[Harrington-1886 | Walter Harrington]] for creating WikiTree profile Bare-169 through the import of Harrington.ged on Mar 10, 2013.
* Thank you to [[Minder-4 | Sandy Minder]] for creating WikiTree profile Bar-219 through the import of Delong gedcom.ged on Apr 27, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Sandy and others.
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Abt 1705 - Abt 1763 (58 years)
