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- Arrived with a Johann Jacob Masser.
will made Dec 12, 1795
1757 tax list, Oley, (Matthias Mosser) (see Rupps)
1767 tax list, Oley, 1C, $1, carpenter
1779 tax list, Oley, 2C, $60
1780 tax list, Oley, 2C, $5.0.0 carpenter
1781 tax list, Oley, 2C, $18.9 carpenter
1784 tax list, Oley, 2C, 1S, 10 persons this household
1790 census
1800 census (?widow)
sp - 1762 Jacob Masser
sp - 1764 Adam Kelly and Elisabeth Kelly
sp - 1765 Jacob Servei and Christina
sp -> 1794 Jacob Knackser and wf
will mentions: wf Barbara, Jacob, Henry, Abraham, Maria, Esther, c/o Christina w/o
Jacob Klouser (she is alive though).
Barbara sp -> 1799, Johannes Fick and Margaretha (at First Reformed)
Beginning of Masser family info in History of Northumberland County
(Floyd'sbook), pg 498.
MASSER. The Masser family, to which the late Dr. Franklin B.Masser, of Sunbury,
Northumberland counts belonged, as also the late Jacob C.Masser and his younger
brother, Felix C. Masser, both of Upper Mahantongo township, the latter
still engaged in farming and a large land owner, was established in Berks county,
Pa., in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
Matthias Masser, the first of this
family to come to America, was a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, and in an
early day settled in Alsace township, Berks Co., Pa., where he followed farming
and at the time of his death owned a plantation. His wife, whose maiden
name was Barbara Berger, was a native of Switzerland, and they are buried side
by side at Zion's Church, known locally as Alsace Church. His death occurred
July 20, l797, in Alsace township, but no date of her death is given.
His last will and testament, made Dec. 12, 1795, and signed "Mathias Maaser,'
states "I am old in years." It was witnessed by Jacob Young and John Spyker,
and was probated soon after his death. His seven children were: Jacob,
Johannes, Henry, Abraham, Maria, Esther and Christina (deceased wife of
Jacob Clauser; they had one child).
The early Massers worshipped with the German Reformed denomination and were
identified with the Spiess and Jacksonwald Churches, at which many of the name are
buried. The family is still quite numerous in Berks county, some of its members
still living in thelocality where the emigrant ancestor settled, and in l909 there
were nine adult members of the family in the city of Reading. Augustus W. Masser,
a seed merchant of that City, bears a strong physical resemblance to Felix C.
Masser, of Northumberland county.
*snip* - moved story about John to that section
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1733 - 1797 (64 years)