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== Biography ==
Margaretha Bär emigrated from Duhren in the Holy Roman Empire in 1719, with her parents and seven siblings. [ Burgert, Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. Page 432.] Based on the order of the list of children on the emigration record, she may have been born about 1714 (if they are listed in chronological order).
==Research Notes==
She may have been the Maria Margaretha who married Leonhardt Bender. [ Moravian church book, according to Annette K. Burgert in ‘’Eighteenth-Century Emigrants from German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society.] A primary source is needed for her last name, but it is widely reported by secondary sources to be Bear or Baer. That woman settled with her husband on a 215-acre parcel of land in what is today East Lampeter, very close to a Samuel Bear, who may have been this profiled woman's uncle [[Bar-123|Samuel (Bar) Bear (abt.1683-bef.1743)]].[See East Lampeter Warrant Map at https://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-522WarranteeTwpMaps/r017Map2823LancasterEastLampeterWeb.pdf and parcels warranted by Leonard Pendall and Peter Garber (previously possessed by Samuel Bear, see abutting survey A84-168 at https://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Book%20%20A1-A89/Book%20A-84/Book%20A-84%20pg%20336.pdf.]
On October 16, 1737, Leonhardt Bender’s wife Margaretha, of the Mennonites or Anabaptists, “confessed our pure Evangelical Lutheran Religion,” and was baptized; the sponsors were Michael Korr and George Bart and wife. [Trinity Lutheran Church Book.]
Leonhardt Bender’s wife Margaretha Benderin died 15 January 1771, aged 58y 10m. [Lancaster Moravian Church records.] [Findagrave at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/260401237/margaretha-bender.]
The evidence to suggest that they are the same person is:*Leonard Bender's wife's last name appears to have been Bear or Baer (though confimration is needed).*The timing of the birth of Leonard Bender’s wife roughly matches when the daughter of Jacob would likely have been born.*Leonard Bender was from Ittlingen, 12 km from Duhren, where Jacob and Barbara Frederick lived before they emigrated.*Jacob Bear was Mennonite, as was Leonard Bender’s wife before she converted.
Margaret Baer was born in 1712. She and her husband were part of the group of immigrants known as Palatines and then 'Pennsylvania Dutch.' She married Leonhardt Bender about 1727. She appears in records of Trinity Lutheran Church relating to the baptisms of her children and her subsequent baptism as a Lutheran. [ image and translation, Lancaster Moravian Church Records, Family History Library, Film 1029744 ] Leonhardt and Margaret were Moravians but due to doctrinal differences some Moravians became Lutherans. Margaret died in Lampeter Township in 1771.
== Sources ==
=== Acknowledgments ===
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Abt 1712 - Abt 1771 (59 years)
