Henry Lybarger

Other Events:

• Census: 1790, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1800, Cumberland Valley and Londonderry Twps., Bedford, Pennsylvania
• Census: 1810, Londonderry Twp., Bedford, Pennsylvania
• Probate: 6 Sep 1820, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania; Will proved; letters testamentary issued
• Residence: 1790, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania; With three boys under age 16 and two females
• Residence: 1800, Cumberland Valley and Londonderry Twps., Bedford, Pennsylvania; With five boys and a girl under age 10, a boy and girl age 10 to 15 and a woman age 26 to 44
• Residence: 1810, Londonderry Twp., Bedford, Pennsylvania; With a boy and girl age 10 to 15, a woman age 16 to 25 and a woman over age 44
• Will: 11 Jan 1819, Londonderry Twp., Bedford, Pennsylvania; To beloved wife Barbara; to "all my children"; to "youngest" son Daniel; wife Barbara, son Daniel executors
• _MILT: 1776; Private, 4 Co 1 Batt, Bedford Co. Pennsylvania Militia

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Birth:
The available source only shows birth year

Buried:
Lybarger Cemetery

Died:
The available source only shows death year

Henry — Barbara. Barbara was born Mar 1761; died 8 Sep 1828, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania; was buried Madley, Bedford, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1790, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1800, Cumberland Valley and Londonderry Twps., Bedford, Pennsylvania
• Probate: 11 Mar 1808, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania; Will proved
• Residence: 1790, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania; With four boys under age 16 and two females
• Residence: 1800, Cumberland Valley and Londonderry Twps., Bedford, Pennsylvania; With a man age 16 to 25 and a woman over age 44
• Will: 3 Jul 1803, Londonderry Twp., Bedford, Pennsylvania; To beloved wife Mary Ann; to "all my children"; sons Henry Lybarger and Ludwick Lybarger executors
• _MILT: 1776; Private, 4 Co 1 Batt, Bedford Co. Pennsylvania Militia

Notes:

Rev War service with Fourth Company, First Battalion Bedford County Militia.

Buried:
Lybarger Cemetery

Nicholas — Mary Ann. Mary died Aft 1826, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania; was buried Madley, Bedford, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried:
Lybarger Cemetery

Notes:

Nicholas (immgrant) marriage in Hornbach Reformed Church in Brenschelbach. Brenschelbach is no longer on present-day German maps but in the 1700's it was in what today is southwestern Germany with France to the south, the Rhine River to the east and Saarbrucken to the west. Brenschelbach was thus in the lower part of Alsace which was part of Saarland. It in turn, was part of a broader region known as the Palatinate which encompassed the whole of the Rhineland region including what is now part of Switzerland. Germany did not come into being as a separate nation until 1871, hence our Nicholas Lybarger in the 1700's were commonly referred to as Palatines.

The first of the Lybarger kinsmen to come to America emigrated from the Palatinate in the early part of the eighteenth century. This district, now Rhenish Bavaria, lies in a flat, fertile country along the River Rhine, bordering Alsace-Lorraine. Two hundred years ago this area was the battle ground of Europe's warring lords. For years the lands of the Palatinate and Alsace-Lorraine had been continually devastated; their villages destroyed; and their thrifty citizens tortured, robbed, and murdered. Religious persecutions, the tyranny of autocrats, destructive wars, failure of crops, famine, and ecnomic bankruptcy were all forces which turned the minds of the people toward the New World. With conditions thus, William Penn made a number of visits to the Palatinate and urged her people to seek peace and security in the Province of Pennsylvania. The response to this invitation was immediate and overwhelming. Thousands of farmers and artisans, often whole communities, abandoned the land of their birth and started for America. The route followed by the Palatines lay down the River Rhine to the seaport of Rotterdam, Holland, thence to Deal, England and finally across the Atlantic to Philadelphia. The newcomers were especially anxious to settle in Penssylavania or Maryland because religious toleration was assured, and economic oppurtunity was almost without limit.
It is worth of note that on August 27, 1739 there arrived at Philadelphia the ship "Snow Betsy" from Rotterdam and Deal, with Richard Budden its Commander. Amoung its male passengers over 16 years of age was Nicholas Leyberger. It well may be that the Nicholas here mentioned was the one who some thirty years later settled in Bedford Co. Pennsylvania, or he may have been the father of Nicholas, Sr. the pioneer in Bedford County.

Nicholas married Maria Catharina 1727, Brenschelbach, Germany. Maria was born Abt 1705, Germany; died Frederick County, Maryland. [Group Sheet]