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served as Statthalter of Steffisburg and the Feigericht Steffisburg, 1611-2.
(i.e. district governor and representative of the cantonal government of
Bern).

This Caspar:
Caspar Joder, the magistrate of Steffisburg, had a black eagle's
foot on golden ground. Caspar Joder was in office from the year
1611 into the first half year of 1613.
.
As magistrates they were the representatives of the mayors of.
Thun and through them direct representatives of the regime.

On this Day in Yoder History in 1596 the likely common ancestors of us
all, Caspar Joder and Margret Henning, were married in Steffisburg( (4 July)

Casper married Margaretha HENNIG 4 Jul 1596, Switzerland. Margaretha was born Abt 1571, Switzerland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Jost — Anna TRAXEL. [Group Sheet]

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"Our ancestors in Steffisburg were also thoroughly committed to
the Anabaptists. The brothers Jost and Nicolaus Joder
were married to two cousins, both named Anna
Trachsel. The marriages of both pairs took place on 14 October
1642. The children and grandchildren of both couples were
committed to Anabaptism, as were their spouses.

On Oct. 14, 1642 Brothers Jost and Nicholas Joder married
cousins named Trachsel in Steffisburg. These two brothers
are the progenitors of the Oley Yoder line, and through a
number of Anabaptist sons in each family are believed likely
ancestors of the Amish and Mennonite Yoders.

Nicolaus married Anna TRACHSEL 14 Oct 1642, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Anna was born Abt 1609, Switzerland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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4/21/1644---Hans-Joder------Jost-Joder-and------Peter-Blank
----------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Barbli-Meyer

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4/19/1646---Anna-Joder------Jost-Joder--and-----Isaak-Tsceggelar
----------------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Barbli-Guhmann

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9/12/1647---Verena-Joder----Jost-Joder-and------Verena-Frey
----------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Verena-Gungerich

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10/28/1649--Peter-Joder-----Jost-Joder-and------Peter-Blank
----------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Hans-Zimmermann
------------------------------------------------------------Barbli-Nisley

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4/4/1652----Jakob-Joder-----Jost-Joder-and------Abraham-Traxel
----------------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Peter-Meyer
------------------------------------------------------------Anna-Murer

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7/17/1653---Anna-Joder------Jost-Joder-and------Anna-Schneiter
----------------------------------Anna-Trachsel-------Barbara-Joder

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9/28/1655---Barbara-Joder---Jost-Joder-and------Hans-Bronnimann
----------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Margret-Carli
------------------------------------------------------------Anna-Stahli

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5/10/1657---Christen-Joder--Jost-Joder-and
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7/8/1666----Kathi-Joder-----Jost-Joder-and
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3/8/1644----Barbli-Joder----Nicolaus-Joder------Peter-Carli
----------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Christien-Russer
------------------------------------------------------------_____-?-Emberg

Barbli married Hans RUPP 30 Jan 1666, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Hans was born Abt 1644; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Anna married Hans BERGER 7 Jan 1670, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Hans was born Abt 1645; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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6/4/1648----Caspar-Joder----Nicolaus-Joder-and--Uli-Blank
----------------------------------Anna-Traxel---------Hans-Eymann
------------------------------------------------------------Margret-Carli

Caspar married Anni ZAUGG 7 Jan 1670, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Anni was born Abt 1648; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Adam married Barbli OCHSENBEIN 9 Jan 1671, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Barbli was born Abt 1651, Switzerland; died Aft 1683, Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

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Hans married Anna EICHER 9 Mar 1688, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Anna was born Abt 1660; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Magdalene married Peter MEYER 26 Apr 1689, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Peter was born Abt 1652; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Annegret married Ulli RISSER 10 Feb 1673, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Ulli was born Abt 1653; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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On this day in Yoder History,

Jost Joder, son of Nicolaus Joder and Anna Trachsel, was born on Jan. 13,
1655 in Steffisburg, Switzerland.

Jost marriedBarbara Rupp. He was one of the Anabaptist Joders
who appear to have left Steffisburg during the period of persecutions
in the early 1690s.

Yost married Barbara RUPP 9 Jan 1685, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Barbara was born Abt 1655; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Salomea married Hans GERBER 7 Mar 1678, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Hans was born Abt 1656; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Unknown: 20 Dec 1738, Colebrookdale Twp, Berks Co, PA; Jacob Naugle
• Immigration: Between 1709 and 1711, PA
• Naturalization: 1730, Oley Twp, Berks Co, PA
• Occupation: Farmer
• Probate: 14 Jan 1742, Philadelphia Co, PA
• Religion: Oley Twp, Berks Co, PA; Mennonite
• Will: 17 Jun 1739, Berks Co, PA
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PC, will F:268, file 245

A witness to the will of Jacob Naugle, Colebrookdale Twp, Phila. Co, 20 Dec 1738, signed
John Joder (or is this John Jr?)

Tax List, Oley Twp, 1734
(note: naturalization in PA German, Vol 35, pg 140)

On This Day in Yoder History:

March 10, 1672-- On This Day in Yoder History- Hans Yoder (OH) was born in
Steffisburg in 1672.

Jan.27, 1708, Anna Regina, daughter of Hans Joder (OH) and his wife
Phronica (Veronica) Iselmyn was baptized at the Schwetzingen Reformed
Church. Jacob Korner, schoolmaster, and his wife Rachel were her
sponsors. Not long thereafter, Hans and family started on their journey
toward Pennsylvania (see article by Dr. Don Yoder in YNL5).

In the Schwetzingen Reformed Church register(on deposit with the Baden
Church Archives in Karlsruhle) the following is annotatedon the
baptismal record for Anna Regina , daughter of Hans Yoder (OH) and his
wife: "this family went to the Island of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1709"



Jan.14, 1711- Hans Joder (OH), a progenitor of the Oley Valley Yoder line
andbelieved as the first of our name in the New World, purchased land in
Coventry Township, Chester County, Pa...somewhere opposite the presentday
city of Pottstown. (see YNL5).

April 30, 1711- Oley immigrant Hans Yoder married Anna Rosina LeDee in a service
performed by Paulus van Vlecq at the Whitemarsh Church,

March 25, 1714 Hans Yoder (OH) received his warrent from William penn for
land along the Upper Manatawny Creek in the Oley Valley. This included


most of the land around what is now called Pleasantville... (see YNL5)



March 10, 1735, On this day in 1735, he (OH) sold land in Berks County,
Pa. to his son John (OH1).

On Jan.14, 1742- The will of Hans and his brother Yost were both "proved"
in Philadelphia. Apparently the executors of both estates made a joint
trip to the courthouse for this purpose.

A "curious German deed" dated Jan.31, 1771 at Neustadt in the German
Palatinate was found by Dr. Don Yoder on his first visit to the Berks
County Courthouse. In it, Johannas Jotter, eldest son of Nicholas Jotter,
a brother of Oley immigrants Hans and Yost, transferred his rights to
some land in Pennsylvania to his first cousin John Yoder Jr.

See Oley Valley Heritage, The Colonial Years: 1700-1775. It has pictures
of the Yoder homes and discusses Hans Yoder being part of the religious
movement called "The New Born", led by Matthias Baumann. It would seem
to explain the absence of the early Yoders from the records of nearby Lutheran
and Reformed records.

From History of Northumberland County, pg 566:

The first of the Yoder (sometimes spelled Yodder and Yotter in the
German) name in America were Yost and Hans (or Hance), brothers, who
sought refuge in England from the religious persecutions suffered in
their native Switzerland. They brought little with them to America
besides their Bible. Upon their arrival in the New World they pushed on
into the wilderness beyond Oley hills, and finally settled on the
Manatawny.

*snip info on Yost Yoder*

Hans (or Hance) Yoder, the emigrant brother of Yost, was the
builder and owner of what is now known as Griesemer's mills (burned in
1847, and rebuilt the same year). This property in the early days was
the homestead of the Yoders of Oley. The survey of theplantation under
proprietary warrant to Hance Yoder was returned March 25, 1714.

At that time Oley township was
the haunt of Indians, and of wolves, bear and other wild game. The
wives of the German settlers also bore their part in the subjugation of
the wilderness. One day while at work, extending their clearing in the
forest, they having shut their children in the cabin as a protection
from the beasts which roamed over their land, they were suddenly aroused
by the report of a rifle in the direction of their cabin. As it was
not unusual for predatory bands of bloodthirsty Iroquoi

Johannes married Fronica ISELMYN Bef 1700. Fronica was born Abt 1672, Europe; died Abt 1710. [Group Sheet]

Johannes married Anna Rosina LEDEE 29 Apr 1711, Whitemarsh Church, PA. Anna was born Abt 1692, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Unknown: 24 Nov 1738, Oley Twp, Berks Co, PA; Peter Weiser
• Naturalization: 1730, Oley Twp, Berks Co, PA
• Probate: 14 Jan 1742, Philadelphia Co, PA
• Will: 29 May 1741, PA
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PC, will F:267, file 244

History of Northumberland County, pg 566:

Yost Yoder was one of the most active of the early
frontiersmen of Pennsylvania. His chief occupations were hunting and
trapping, which he always combined with farming, or rather with the
"clearing and cultivation of a plantation. It is certain that he and
his brother were located in Pennsylvania before 1714.

*snip remaining info*

Yost married Elizabeth UNKNOWN Bef 1718. Elizabeth was born Abt 1685; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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