Johannes Jacob Christman Sr.

  General Notes:

Jacob Christman and his wife Elizabeth were residents of Westmoreland Co. On 23 Aug 1786, "Jacob Christman" purchased 300 Acres in Westmoreland Co., from "Provincial Papers: Warrantees of Land in the Several Counties of the State of Pennsylvania, 1730-1898" in Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, 1897, Vol. XXVI]

On 9 Sept 1786, the name "Jacob Crisman" was listed in the Pittsburgh Gazette newspaper in a list of people with Delinquent taxes ["The People and Times of Western Pennsylvania. Events from July 1786 to Feb 1797 as reported in the Pittsburgh Gazette Newspaper" by Clara E. Duer, April 1985: Western Pennsylvania General Society, Pittsburgh., pg. A2]

In ["Pastors and People: German Lutheran and Reformed Churches in the Pennsylvania Field" by Charles H.
Glatfelter, Vol. 1: "Pastors and Congregations", 1980, Publication of the Pennsylvania German Society Number 13, page 442] it states: "Mount Pleasant, Ridge, Frey's": "These Congregations near the western base of Chestnut Ridge in Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland Co., came into existence about 1782... the first school-house, purchased 1796... on June 6 of [1792] deeded to Matthias Ringle, Christian Lobinger, Jacob Christman, and Ruby Baer, trustees, three and one-half acres of land."

Johannes married Elizabeth Lauffer, daughter of Christian Lauffer Sr. and Susanah Catharina Best, in 1784 in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. (Elizabeth Lauffer was born on 10 Sep 1760 in Northampton (Now Lehigh) Co, PA and died on 10 Feb 1853 in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.)

Johannes next married Elizabeth Lefevre Albright.