| Notes |
- [[Category: Kemper-Landis Graveyard, Akron, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category: Mennonites]]
{{Palatine Migration}}
==Biography==John Landes (1696-1756), the alleged son of [[Landis-159|Hans Jacob B. Landis]] and [[Witmer-48|Ann E. Witmer]] was born on 6 Mar 1696 in Germany. The parents of John Landes have also been said to be Hans Heinrich Landis[Jane Evans Best, Mar 1994] (b. ca 1645) and Elizabeth Hirt[Hal Ferguson of Idaho] who settled in Amwell, NJ. This and further speculation into this lineage to ca. 1520 has been reported at the now defunct HTTP:// ivory.im.com/~mrkeys/barron.html.
He was one of several John Landis' in the period, initially settled a 135 acre tract in the Ephrata region of Lancaster ca. 1717-1720[ A. Meyers, York Historical Society Vol 30, p.76] near Scenic View Dr and Rothsville rd and Cocalico, Middle and Hammer creeks in Akron, PA. While the german spelling appears to be 'Landes', it has been Americanized (by descendants or recording clerks) to 'Landis' for most of the descendants of John.
He married [[Naas-18 | Margaretha Naas]] in Lancaster, Province of Pennsylvania 1721. They produced 15 children[Elizabeth (Betty) Landis Carson pre 1990 research and early 1900's references]:
#Mary Landes (1722-1785) [m. Jacob Sontag/Sunday]
#John Landes (1723-1801) [m. Ann Mohler (1720)]
#Elizabeth Landes (1731-1804) m. Henry Mohler II brother of Ann
#Margaret Landes (1734-Aft 1815) [m. Christian Hess/Haas/Hase]
#Barbara Landes (1736-1818) [m. Jacob Keller]
#Susanna Landes (ca. 1737) [m. Daniel Bauman]
#Anna Landes (1739-Aft 1785) [m. Jacob Hernley]
#Magdalena Landes (1740-1826) [m. Michael Baer]
#Jacob Landes (1742-1804)
#Catherine Landes (1747-1835) [m. Samuel Bowman]
#Abraham Landes (1750-1832)
#Henry Landes (c. 1738)
#David Landes (ca. 1744-1825) [m. Anna Amelia Holl]
#Benjamin Landes (ca. 1752-1826) [m. Eve Hartman]
#Salome Landes (Bef 1754).
John purchased another 66+ acres [later set aside (presumably by brother after his death) as a family and neighbor burial ground] on 16 Mar 1738/39[Philadelphia DEED Bk A-189].
He died on 14 May 1756 in Cocalico, Lancaster, Province of PennsylvaniaKnown as "Ephrata John", throughout his later years. He and Margaretha are buried in [[:Category: Kemper-Landis Graveyard, Akron, Pennsylvania | Kemper-Landis Graveyard]] in Akron, Lancaster county, PA on the far upper end of the original 135 acres John had patented[[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91149687 Find A Grave Memorial# 91149687 ]]. John's (WP 30 July 1756) Will was written in german[Lan.Co. Will Bk B-152] and eventually translated and recorded as Y-2-395.
Following the death of John's widow, Margaretha, the children transferred the land (65 acres) to Johns brother, David 'Landes' between 1756/66 and 1774[Lan.Co. DEED's BB-530, BB-533, BB-535] which he in turn transferred to his son, David Landis, Jr in 1802. This was only for 42 acres, the difference of the 66 + acres was probably for the family and neighbor burial ground.
== Sources ==
*Will 01 May 1756 , Lancaster, , Province of Pennsylvania. [http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/392fc8af-aa8c-404b-8467-f86b06e4c0a3/9425256/-798662166 Transcript]*Johannes was born in 1696. He was the son of [[Landis-1184|Jacob Landis]] and [[Witmer-48|Anna Witmer]]. He passed away in 1756
Unsourced family tree handed down to [[Landes-150|James Landes]]
*Barry Shantz old non extant website
=== Acknowledgments ===* WikiTree profile Landis-165 created through the import of martins-clipping.ged on Aug 8, 2011 by [[Coggins-26 | Cody Coggins]]. *Thank you to [[Sine-16 | Patricia Sine]] for creating WikiTree profile Landis-378 through the import of Sine.ged on Sep 5, 2013.
|
1696 - 1756 (60 years)
