Sex: Male.
Birth: 1815 in Manor, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Family: Wife: Annie 1820 - .
Children: Levi Mann 1835 - . Simon Mann 1843 - .
Parents: Husband: Bernhard Mann Jr 1770 - 1823.
Wife: Barbara Molz 1775 - 1830.
The origin of the Manns of Manor Township, Lancaster County, are possibly dual. In the absence of further evidence Bernard could be the descendent of one of two lineages.
On on-line geneology states:
Bernhart Mann sailed from Germany to America with his mother in 1742. His mother died during the passage and young Bernhart, aged 2, was "bought" by a Donegal farmer named Stehman for the price of his passage. When he was old enough, he struck out on his own, eventually purchasing a farm in Manor Township, Lancaster County. His German birthplace, Huiffenhart, is near Wimpfen. His mother's name is listed as both Anna Maria Stumpen and Mary Staumb.
This all seems quite definite. However the "History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men"; Chapter LXV. Manor Township By I. S. Clare, Lancaster, states:
James McMaster and his wife Elizabeth, May 14, 1764, sold to George Mann, John Mann, and Bernard Mann one hundred and fifty acres, adjoining the lands of John Keagy, Michael Thomas, Michael Kauffman, and James McMaster's other land.
This doesn't fit the then 24-year-old Bernard of the above story.
Furthermore an immigration record shows:
Name: Georg Bernhard Mann
Year: 1732
Place: Pennsylvania
Family Members: Wife Maria Margretha 27; Son Johann Jacob; Son Georg Bernhard; Daughter Maria Margreth; Daughter Anna Maria
Source Publication Code: 1031.8
Primary Immigrant: Mann, Gorg Bernhardt
Annotation: Date and place of naturalization.
Source Bibliography: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. 461p.
A preferrable theory would be that this immigration record is for the father and two sons who purchased the land in 1764. Therefore, possibly, there are already two Mann families in Manor Township from the early 1700's.
The first census, in 1800, shows both a Bernard and Bernhard as heads of family in Manor. By 1820 the heads are Barbara (undoubtedly the widow of Bernhard) and two John Manns of the respective sons. Of the male older generation, the 1850 census shows two Barnard Manns, born in 1804 and 1809m which must be from two different lineages; an Elizabeth Mann born in 1780; and a Jacob Mann born in 1807.
Change: 9 Jul 2006 Time: 01:00:00.