Descendantsof
Bishop John (Hans) Lehman & Anna Hege
(Part I)

Scenes in Switzerland
by Karolyn Rae Roberts

HL - Peter Leeman (Lehman), I b1655 Verchigen,Bern,Switzerland - d Ibersheim,Germany - m1679 Barbara Jung (Files of Joseph Hoover) (Daughter of Hans Jung, b1630 & Anna Urner) b11/14/1658 Oberdiesenbach,Bern,Switzerland - dIbersheim,Germany - Children were Maria, Peter, & John.

HL1 - Maria Lehman (Daughter of Peter Lehman & Barbara Jung) - mHans Hege, Sr. - Maria & Hans sailed on the ship "James Goodwill" on September 27, 1727 with Hans & Anna Lehman, and Hans and Anna's three children. Henry Lesher and his two sisters came along; they were orphans. They all were Mennonites. Maria & Hans had a child named John Hege, Jr.

HL2 - Peter Lehman, II b1680 of Friedelsheim,Germany - d1741 Lampeter Twp.,Lancaster Co.,PA (Son of Peter Lehman &Barbara Jung) - mAnna ?

HL3 - Bishop Hans (John) Jung Lehman b1702 Eberston-Heff Schauffausen,Switzerland - d2/1776 near Manheim,RaphoTwp.,Lancaster,PA (Files of Donald B. Miller) - m1725 Anna Hege babt1704 Switzerland (AFN:1HL35-4PM) PA. Early German Pioneers, p192. Hans, a bishop, settled near the present Hernley Mennoite Meetinghouse in 1727. (There is another Hans Lehman that lived about four miles nortwest of this Hans, and his children have similar names) Hans was born in the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, about the year 1702. Hans & Anna had lived near Zweibucken at Eshterholf in the Palatinate region of Germany prior to their emigration to America. They sailed on the ship "James Goodwill" on September 27, 1727. Others that traveled with them were: Hans Hege and wife (Hans sister Maria Lehman);Hans sister, Maria Lehman; and Hans and Anna's three children. Henry Lesher and his two sisters came along, they were orphans. They all were Mennonites. Hans settled in the now Rapho Twp. of Lancaster Co.,PA. He bought 197 acres nw of Manheim known then as Stickelstown, between the present-day Colebrook St. and Hernley Rd. The land was surveyed on Dec. 22, 1735 and patented to John Leman on February 20, 1743. Hans served as a minister in the Hernley Mennonite Church and became its first bishop. He is mentioned in its first deed. The ground for the Hernley Meetinghouse and burial plots is one of the few meetinghouses or cemeteries now owned by a Mennonite congregation in Lancaster Co. which was deeded directly from the sons of William Penn as proprietary governors of PA to any of the church fathers. (First known as Rapho Mennonite Meetinghouse, then Lehman, now Hernley). The deed cantained the names of Thomas and Richard Penn. The first house also served as a schoolhouse for the community. Hans had evidently built a gristmill on his property and had constructed a dam and race to provide waterpower for it. Hans will was written January 1, 1772. On the homestead portion of the farm is a Lehman family cemetery where three generations of Lehmans are buried. (Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, vIII,#4,Oct. 1980)

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