Nicholas Lybarger

1707 -

• Name	Nicholas Lybarger  [1]
  Born	1707	Germany   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Frederick County, Maryland   [1]
  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.
  Person ID	I2900	Wm L Gann Ancestors
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2011

  
  

  Father	Benedikt Leyberger
  Family ID	F1299	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Maria Catharina,   b. Abt 1705, Germany ,   d. Frederick County, Maryland
  Married	1727	Brenschelbach, Germany   [2]
  Children	1. Nicholas Lybarger,   b. 1733, Palatinate, Germany ,   d. Mar 1808, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania  (Age 75 years)   2. Ludwick Lybarger,   b. 1727 - 1735,   d. Aug 1827, Madley, Bedford, Pennsylvania  (Age 92 years)   3. John George Lybarger,   b. 13 Jun 1741, Conewago, York, Pennsylvania ,   d. 10 Jul 1788, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania  (Age 47 years)
  Family ID	F1300	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S34637] Lybarger Descendants, John L. Lybarger, http://www.lybarger-descendants.com/. [S34637] Lybarger Descendants, John L. Lybarger.