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From: Charles Whitmer <>
Subject: [PALANCAS-L] Re: Herman LONG
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:03:58 +0100


At 1999.03.04 18:54, you wrote:
>In ref. to the LONG family, I have from Biographical Annals of Lancaster
>County, Vol. II that I purchased from the Lancaster County Historical Society
>an article on page 647 and 648 about Benjamin K. Long that states the
>following unformation.
>
>The head of the family in American was a Herman Long who came to this country
>from Switzerland and located in Lancaster County, where he purchased a large
>tract of land in East Hempfield township. Part of this land is now in the
>town of Landisville. Herman was the great-grandfather of Benjamin K. Long. It
>also states that John Long was the grandfather of Benjamin. John Long had a
>son Abraham who was born April 20, 1778 (died December 28, 1846) and had a
>distillery along with his farming operations. He married Anna Kauffman,
>daughter of Christian on February 14, 1811. She was born December 4, 1792.
>and died December 18, 1870.

You should check out "The History of the Long Family of Pennsylvania", put
together by the Long Family Association in 1930. (It is available through the
FHC.) Their claim is that the original immigrant LONG is actually Christian
LANG who arrived about 1683 in Germantown. He had at least five sons, among
whom was Herman LONG (born ca 1700 in Lancaster Co).

Since it takes a while to get the film from the FHC, I have included a sample.
This book is about 300 pages long, crammed with very family trees of many
generations of LONGs and collateral lines.

--> I would love to buy a copy of this book from anyone who could sell me one!
(I had to take videos of a bad copied microfilm.)

Enjoy,
Chuck (6th-great-grandson of Herman LONG)

>
> 1. CHRISTIAN1 LANG was born 1664 in Langen, Hesse, Germany (Palatinate
> area). He married XXX XXX.
>
> Notes for CHRISTIAN LANG:
> [History of the Long Family of Pennsylvania]:
> "Our research work has lead us into Bern and Basel, Switzerland; and in the
> records we find that a number of Langs (Longs) who settled in Lancaster
> County, Penna., were originally located in Stadel, Windlach, Rath,
> Wintersingen, Muttenz, and Sissach, Switzerland.
> Some branches of the Lang Family of Switzerland immigrated to the
> Palatinate, Germany, locating in Langen, Hesse, and in Zweibruecken, Bavaria,
> as well as at other points in Germany. Later, some of the descendants of
> this branch of the family emigrated from Germany to America."
>
> "Christian LANG, the emigrant ancestor of the Long Family of Pennsylvania,
> from information that is apparently authentic, but very meager, came from the
> Palatinate, Germany. Family records do not clearly nor definitely state the
> name of the town or province from which he came, but family tradition
> indicates that he was located in or near Langen, Hesse, Germany."
>
> "We are led to believe that the family name was originally LANGEN, but
> later, was changed to LANG, and finally, about the time of the Civil War, the
> English pronounciation of LONG was universally adopted.
> Christian Lang, as near as can be determined at this late date, was born in
> the year 1664.
> He was influenced by men like William Penn, who very glowingly pictured the
> freedom and wonders of the new country across the sea, for tradition says
> that at about the age of nineteen or twenty years, he bade his family and
> friends adieu, and ventured across the waters to the shores of an unknown
> country, called America, landing at what was then known as Germantown, now
> Philadelphia, PA, in the year 1683-1684.
> On the voyage to America he became acquainted with a young German girl, who
> with her parents was also bound for these shores and an unknown future. This
> acquaintance ripened into love, and at a later time, probably in
> Philadelphia, they were married.
> We also understand that this Christian Lang was one of the one hundred and
> fifty high and low Germans who with Johannes Koster petitioned the Court of
> Philadelphia on March 15, 1706. A part of which petition follows:
>
> 'Court at Philadelphia, fifteenth day, third month, 1706.
> Petition of Johannes Koster and 150 other high and low Germans, having for
> 22 years behaved as liege and loyal subjects of England by cultivating lands
> in the Province, turning them into settlements, that 60 above petitioners at
> one time viz: - 7th day, 3d mo., 1691, had in open court promised allegiance
> to King William and Queen Mary, etc.'
>
> Being adventurous, and feeling that the greater possibilities of the future
> were on the frontier, Christian and his family did not remain in Germantown,
> but, following the trails and water courses, he finally arrived at
> Hickorytown, now known as Lancaster, PA.
> Tradition says that where Lancaster now stands, there was once an Indian
> Wigwam. A hickory tree stood in its center, not far from a spring. Under
> this tree, the councils met, and it was from one of these councils that a
> deputation was sent to confer with William Penn at Shackamaxon, in 1683. The
> Indian nation was called "Hickory", and the town was called Hickorytown
> before Lancaster was laid out. It is also said that the town derived its
> name from the log-huts that were built of hickory logs.
> Christian Lang was approximately fifty-four years old when he was recorded
> as a resident of Lancaster in 1718-1719. (Rupp's 30000 Names, page 438.)
> Unfortunately, records were not available so that we could definitely
> determine the names of all of his children, especially insofar as it relates
> to the female side of the family, for marriages, births and deaths occured
> without the proper recording at this early date. Therefore, we were not able
> to secure the statistics regarding the marriages of the daughters, nor were
> we able to get the names of all the male children. However, the records and
> history of the following children and their descendants will be given:
>
> 1) CHRISTIAN, married to Ann Margaret ---.
> 2) HERMAN, married to Anne Hershey.
> 3) URBANUS (Urban), married to Catharine Blum.
> 4) JOHN, married to Anna ---.
> 5) MICHAEL, married to Regina Magdalena Lora."

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