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Abraham H Gingrich I

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Abraham H Gingrich I

Birth
Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
1814 (aged 62–63)
Waterloo, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
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Excerpt from Ezra Eby 1881 Biographical History Of Waterloo - Abraham was married to Barbara Hunsicker (Hunsacker). "The father Abraham, not being able financially to procure a farm for each of his sons in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved to emigrate to some country where land could be purchased cheap. Consequently, his son David was requested to go on a journey in the spring of 1800, to the much spoken of Canada, and make a thorough inspection of the nature of the soil, timber and water, and advisability of settling there. No sooner had his son arrived in Waterloo County than he found everything far beyond his expectations and immediately a lot on which to settle was selected, just west of Doon. Late in the fall he returned to Pennsylvania where he and his father made ample preparations to move to Canada the following spring. In April 1801 old Abraham, his wife Barbara and 10 of his 11 children, (daughter Barbara and her family stayed in Warwick), successfully made the trek to the old Joseph Sheorg property, just opposite Doon, and arrived in the first week of June. To their great surprise they found upon arrival, that another party (Henry Bechtel) had located on the lot selected by David, the Fall previously. This caused the father and son to select another lot on which to settle. They then selected property a little east of Preston. Abraham settled on the old Isaac Bergey farm where he died about 1814, whilst his son David settled on a nearby farm later possessed by his grandson Jacob S Gingerich." He is believed interred on that farm just east of Preston.
Excerpt from Ezra Eby 1881 Biographical History Of Waterloo - Abraham was married to Barbara Hunsicker (Hunsacker). "The father Abraham, not being able financially to procure a farm for each of his sons in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved to emigrate to some country where land could be purchased cheap. Consequently, his son David was requested to go on a journey in the spring of 1800, to the much spoken of Canada, and make a thorough inspection of the nature of the soil, timber and water, and advisability of settling there. No sooner had his son arrived in Waterloo County than he found everything far beyond his expectations and immediately a lot on which to settle was selected, just west of Doon. Late in the fall he returned to Pennsylvania where he and his father made ample preparations to move to Canada the following spring. In April 1801 old Abraham, his wife Barbara and 10 of his 11 children, (daughter Barbara and her family stayed in Warwick), successfully made the trek to the old Joseph Sheorg property, just opposite Doon, and arrived in the first week of June. To their great surprise they found upon arrival, that another party (Henry Bechtel) had located on the lot selected by David, the Fall previously. This caused the father and son to select another lot on which to settle. They then selected property a little east of Preston. Abraham settled on the old Isaac Bergey farm where he died about 1814, whilst his son David settled on a nearby farm later possessed by his grandson Jacob S Gingerich." He is believed interred on that farm just east of Preston.

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