Grubb Family Tree

From The Overholtzer Book, compiled by Barbara Ford.

Samuel Oberholtzer cl700 Europe-wp 5/2/1748 arrived on the ship MOLLY at Philadelphia 9/30/1727. The Foreign Needs Commission of the Mennonite Church in Holland paid passages for all 45 Mennonites (10 families) who lacked funds to pay their own way on the MOLLY which included Samuel. He went to Lancaster Co and prob-ably squatted on about 195 acres until Conestoga Manor officially opened for settle-ment after the Penn estate was settled and on 5/26/1746 purchased 207 acres in Manor Twp from Michael Baughman. Samuel's name was on a Swisser Name list made 4/2/1728 of Mennonite property holders of the Conestoga Settlement when they solic-ited for naturalization, which seemed necessary for clear title to land ownership. M Elizabeth [-?-] d 1758?

Probably born in Switzerland or southern Germany. The village of Oberholz is in northern Switzerland.