Johan Christian Schnaeder

Swiss Immigrant, 1729

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	~1707	Kirchdorf, Argau, Switzerland Palatine area on Swiss/German border
Marriage	~1727	Germany	To Susanna Margaretha Ranck
Death	1793	New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA
Burial	1793	Saint Stephen United Church of Christ Cemetery, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA.

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 8            Generation 9              Generation 10
 
                                      
                                                     
                                                         +-- Jacob Schneider
                                                         |   (1667-1726)
                          +-- Johan Christian Schnaeder--+ 
                          |   (1707-1793)                |   
 Johann Phillip Scneder --+                              +-- Elsa Klein
 (1740-<1800)             |                                  (????-????)
                          +-- Susanna Margaretha Ranck
                              (1707-1767)     
                                               
Sources: 

Children

(all children with Susanna Margaretha Ranck)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Anna Maria Margaretha Scneder	F	2 Feb 1729	Thierachenern, Bern, Switzerland		d. May 1801 Chester Co. PA
Elisabetha Scneder	F	b. 15 July 1732; bapt. 8 Jun 1735	New Holland, Lancaster Co. PA
Johann Jacob Schnader	M	25 Mar 1735	New Holland, Lancaster Co. PA	Anna Maria Kitzmiller (b. 11 May 1735 Lancaster Co. PA)	d. ~1829, Lancaster Co. PA
Johann Christian Scneder	M	b. 8 Mar 1738; bapt.3 Apr 1738	New Holland, Earl Twp., Lancaster Co. PA	Elizabeth unknown(b.~1746); married in New Holland	d. 22 Oct 1824, New Holland
Johann Phillip Scneder	M	15 Feb 1741	New Holland, Lancaster Co. PA	Dorothy Mueller/Miller	Direct Line d.ed <1800
Johann Michael Schnader	M	9 May 1745	New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA	Eleanora Mueller	d. 2 Sept 1831, New Holland

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Switzerland	~1707
Thierachenern, Bern Switzerland	by 1728/29
Weaverland, East Earl Twp.,Lancaster Co. PA	1729
near (present-day) Terre Hill, East Earl Twp.,Lancaster Co. PA	1733

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	"Descendants of Jacob Schneider" manuscript from JoAnn Cupp, including data from Scneder Bible records, church records and other sources. See full transcript with source list, at right. Generation No. 1 Jacob Schneider was born 1667, died 1726. He married Elsa Klein. Child of Jacob Schneider and Elsa Klein: Johan Christian Schnaeder. Generation No. 2 Johan Christian Schnaeder, born 1707 in Switzerland; died ~1793 in New Holland, Lancaster Co. PA. He married Susanna Margaretha Ranck about 1727 in Germany . Susanna Margaretha Ranck was a daughter of Hans Ranck & Margaretha Phillepes. Susanna Margaretha Ranck was born 29 Oct 1707 in Neckrau, Mannehim, Germany, and died 20 Jan 1767 in New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA. She was buried 23 Jan 1767 at New Holland Cemetery, Earl Twp., Lancaster Co. PA . Generation No. 3 (Children of Johan Christian Schnaeder & Susanna Margaretha Ranck): i . Anna Maria Margaretha Schneder, born 23 Feb 1728/29, Thierachenern, Bern, Switzerland; died May 1801, Chester Co., PA. ii. Elisabetha Schneder born 15 July 1732, baptised 8 June 1735, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster Co. PA iii. (4.) Johann Jacob Schnader , born 25 Mar. 1735, Lancaster Co., PA; died ~1829, Lancaster Co., PA. iv. Johann Christian Schneder, born 8 Mar 1737/38 New Holland, Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., PA; baptised 3 Apr 1738 at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster Co. PA; died 22 Oct 1824, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA . He married Elizabeth (surname unknown), in New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA. She was born ~1746. v. (5.) Johann Phillip Scneder, born 15 Feb 1740/41, Lancaster Co., PA; died before 1800. vi. (6.) Johann Michael Schnader, born 9 May 1745, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA; died 2 Sept 1831, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA.	Descendants of Jacob Schneider
2	Records of Pastoral Acts at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA 1730-1799, translated by Schwalm & Weiser. Records birth of Johann Phillip Scneder.
3	Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lancaster Co. PA, as in Pennsylvania Births Lancaster County 1723-1777 by John T. Humphrey, Humphrey Publications, Wash. D. C. 1997, p. 307. Lists birth dates for Elisabetha, Joh. Christian, Joh. Philip, Johann Jacob & Margaretha Schadter; father is Christian Schnadter, mother not listed.
4	Memorial Record to John Christial Schneider http://www.pa-roots.com/~lancaster/cemetery/trinity.html Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lancaster Co, PA "In Sacred Memory of: John Christian Schneider and his Wife Susanna Margreta who Arrived In America Sept 15, 1729 on Ship "Allen"; Their son John Michael Schneider and his wife Eleanora Mueller; Their son Christian Schnader and his wife Margreta Diller; Their son Isaac Schnader and his wife Susanna Weaver; Their son Aaron Weaver Snader, his wife Sarah White Hufman And their family." This file contributed by Cheryl Grove; clginvb@home.com (See Copyright notice) Note: The information in this memorial does not appear to be part of original church records but rather a later addition.
5	Rootsweb, Dargitz/Snader file by Jon Pennington, noted in correspondence of JoAnn Cupp; re. Johan Christian Schnaeder birth , marriage, and death data.
6	Passenger List, Ship Allen, 1729, from website "Historical Notes from the Church of the Brethern Network, http://www.cob-net.org/text/history_allen.htm Ship Allen, James Craigie, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes on 7 July 1729, arrived 11 Sept. 1729 Philadelphia. List to courthouse 15 Sept. 1729 lists 59 Palatines; about 126 persons total on board. List includes Christian Schneider, Susan Schneider, Mathew Schneider and Magdalene Schneider. See also: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/7010/shiplists_pa1729.html#ALLEN	(See complete passenger list)
7	Personal correspondence from JoAnn Cupp,(see Contributors page). She forwarded records of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church, New Holland, PA; Pennsylvania Births Lancaster County 1723-1777 by John T. Humphrey. She suggested to us the websites of Rootsweb - Dargitz/Snader file, & of the Church of the Brethern Network regarding the ship Allen.
8	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams]	N/A
9	The Ranks of Rancks, research manuscript of J. Allan Skiles, 1978. Excerpt available online as "Brief History of the Ranck Family", Rank Heritage Center, at http://www.ranck.org/ Susanna Margaretha Ranck married 26 Feb 1725 to Johann Valentin Weinkraus. Christian Schneder & wife Susanna Margaretha (Ranck), & daughter Margaret arrived in Philadelphia 11 Sept. 1729 on Ship Allen. They settled originally in Weaverland, later on 133 acres south of present Terre Hill.
10	"Our Snader, Schnader, Schneder, Schneider Family History", website by Mark D. Stotzer http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stotzer/snader.html Stotzer cites the following research of D. A. Beavens for the Swiss connection; Beavens' sources are unspecified: "JACOB SCHNADER /1 SCHNEDER was born in Switzerland near the boundary line of Baden & Wurtemburg, and died in came to (sic) America 11 Sep 1729 on the ship "Allen". " See also Stotzer and Snader Family: Switzerland and USA by Mark Stotzer at: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/o/Mark-D-Stotzer/
11	The People of Bowmansville , by Charles D. Spotts, Community Historians Annual, No. 9. (ref. from Stotzer site) http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/places/pennsylvania/lancasterco/towns/bowmansville/bowmanvl.htm#spot http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stotzer/snaderef.htm http://www.horseshoe.cc/ Of the ship "Allen" passengers, on the Captain's list is spelled "Snyder"; on the Oath of Allegiance list, "Schneider," and on the Oath of Abjuration list, "Schneder." The names are Christian, Jacob, and Mathias; Magdelin and Susanah. Apparently two of the men were married. It is believed that the home of the Schneders was in Switzerland, near the boundary line of Baden and Wurtemburg. After landing at Philadelphia they soon started for (Weberthal) Weaverland, where their friends, George, Henry and Jacob Weber had preceded them by several years. The Schneders were followers of Zwingli, but the Webers were Mennonites. "Information about the early generations of the Schneder family can be found in a small pamphlet by the late Reverend Charles B. Schneder, The Schneder Family, prepared for the Family Reunion, September 15, 1929, 37 pages. The writer has a copy in his files." Of the three Schneders, Christian remained in Weaverland and became the progenitor, among many others, of the late Aaron W. Snader, Esquire, once member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania. Mathias and Jacob went northeast and took up, by patent, 250 acres of land about where Center Church now stands, two miles south of Bowmansville. Jacob also purchased land from William Morris, the Welshman who received one of the first warrants for land within Brecknock Township.	Extract from "Reformed & Lutheran Settlers of Weaverland"
12	Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Ralph B. Strassburger & Wm. J. Hinke, 1934; published by Penna. German Society, Norristown PA. List of ships to Philadelphia 1729 includes ship "Allen" 15 Sept 1729, James Craiges, Master. List A (Captain's list), dated 11 Sept 1729 included: Christian Snyder, Jacob Snyder, Mathias Snyder, (no Snyder under age 15 listed), Susannah Snyder, Magdelin Snyder. N.B. the Ship cleared from Cows in the Isle of Wight. "At the Courthouse of Philadelphia, September 15th, 1729...A List was presented of the names of Fifty nine Palatines, who with their Families, making in all about One hundred & twenty six Persons, were imported in the Ship Allen, James Craigie, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Cows, as by Clearance thence dated 7th of July last." From the Minutes of the Provincial Council, printed in Colonial Records, Vol. III, pg. 368. List B, Signers of the oath of allegiance to England, dated 15 Sept 1729, included: Christian Schneider, Mattdes Schneider; (Jacob Schneider does not appear on the list, but there is a name transcribed as Jacob Heider. No Jacob Heider appears on List A. It is possible that Jacob's script signature has been miss-transcribed from List B. ) See: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/7010/shiplists_pa1729.html#ALLEN
13	Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania, J. H. Beers & Co. 1903, pgs 109-111. Matheis Schneider; Jacob Schneider & wife Magdalen; and Christian Schneider & wife Susanna Margretha; with fifty-six other Palatinates and their families, sailed from Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 7 July 1729, in the ship "Allen", James Craigie, master. They landed at Philadelphia, and took the oath of allegiance to King George II of England, Sept. 15, 1729. They originally came from northern Switzerland, near the boundary line of Baden and Wurtemberg, Germany. Some time prior to their coming to America went to Holland, thence to England, with a view of being transported to Pennsylvania. They settled in Weber-Thal, Lancaster Co., PA., where their friends, George Weber, Henry Weber and Jacob Weber, Swiss Memonites, had settled a few years earlier... This source primarily follows the line of descent: Christian Schnaeder> Michael Schneider, 4th son of Christian>Christian Schneder, eldest son of Michael>Christian Schneder>Isaac Schneder	See full text
14	Application for Membership in the National Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1948, for applicant Willard S. Fenstermacher. As per SAR membership rules, applicants must demonstrate direct male lineage to a person who served in some fashion in the revolutionary war. Mr. Fenstermacher gives his direct ancestry through Johan Christian Schnaeder and Susanna Margaretha Ranck. Their son, Michael Sneder, is listed has having been a Private, 3rd Class, 1st Company, 5th Battalion, Lancaster County [PA] Militia. Mr. Fenstermacher indicates that this information along with the data concerning his ancestry is contained in the Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Vol. VII, Page 497-515-992. He also indicates that the name Sneder is sometimes spelled Schneder, Snader, Schneider.
15	Gravestone at Saint Stephen United Church of Christ Cemetery, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA. The inscription reads, "Sacred to the memory of JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER 1707-1793 - SUSANNA MARGRETA, HIS WIFE 1797-1767 - Pioneers of [illegible] family buried in this lot. Supposed to be buried at Zeltenreich's cemetery."

Source notes

• Several of our sources seem to go back to the work of J. Allan Skiles.

• Weaverland appears to be a small community near the boundary of Earl and East Earl townships, on the south side of the Conestoga River, Lancaster Co. PA. Terre Hill is nearby, north of the Conestoga River and nearer to Black Creek in East Earl Twp.

Conjecture

• The "Allen" ship's list of passengers includes Christian and Susan Schneider, presumed to be Johan Christian Schnaeder and wife Susanna Margaretha Ranck. If so, their infant daughter Margaretha, born in Switzerland, would be about 4 months old at sailing; she is not included on the passenger list. In addition to them, two more Schneiders are listed, Mathew, and Magdalene.