Christian and Anna Cleophe came to the USA from the ship "Pink, John and William". They had a mutiny at sea and a trip of seveteen months instead of the fourteen it should have taken them. They finally landed in Pennsylvania. The family all settled around West Manchester which is Manchester today all exept Philip's son, Mikel Lau. He traveled to North Carolina, then to Virginia, then migrated to Tennessee. That is where he was honored thae name of "Grand Mikey, Father of all Lowes".
Christian and Anna Cleophe came to the USA from the ship "Pink, John and William". They had a mutiny at sea and a trip of seveteen months instead of the fourteen it should have taken them. They finally landed in Pennsylvania. The family all settled around West Manchester which is Manchester today all exept Philip's son, Mikel Lau. He traveled to North Carolina, then to Virginia, then migrated to Tennessee. That is where he was honored thae name of "Grand Mikey, Father of all Lowes".
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Johann Christian Lau (Johann Christmann Lau) emigrated to the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1732. He arrived in Philadelphia on a pinke (a type of ship) called the "John and William" on October 17, 1732, and was "qualified" as a German Palatine from the area of Lembach in what is now Alsace, France. Christian Lau and his family settled in York, and by 1745 owned a mill on the Codorus Creek just west of what is now the town of Bair. He purchased many other tracts of land in both Codorus, Manchester, and Jackson townships. Christian was survived by his wife Anna Cleophe Frye, and their three sons and two daughters (Philip, Peter, Michael, Anna Mariam, and Maria Magdalena. Christian was one of the original trustees of the church where he is buried. His grave stone was replaced in a ceremony on July 27, 1932.
