In addition, four brothers – Peter, William, Jacob, and Henry – immigrated with their sister and widowed mother in 1741 and settled in Springfield, Bucks County and Upper Saucon, Northampton (now Lehigh) County. Christian, Hans, and Samuel Meyer (possibly brothers?) settled in Lower Salford circa 1718.
Several of these were Mennonites who found a home in eastern Pennsylvania. There were numerous immigrants named Meyer in colonial America. There have been nearly 50 ordained leaders of this name in the Bucks-Mont Mennonite community, and a number in Canada and other places. It’s interesting that many local descendants of the Meyer family have been good stewards, stable and reliable. The military and municipal titles Major and Mayor have the same root. Probably in many cases they were farmers who owned and managed their own land or the farms of nobles. Meyer was an occupational surname taken by medieval and early modern Germans who were managers or stewards of some kind. Below is some background information, and just a few stories. It would be impossible to include all branches of the family in a single post. Virtually everyone with roots in the community is descended from a Moyer immigrant, and often more than one. The Moyer/Meyers/Myers family is one of the most widespread in the Mennonite community of eastern Pennsylvania. The stories reflect the enrichment brought to communities over centuries by the descendants of immigrants. This series of posts highlights families descended from 18th-century Mennonite immigrants to eastern Pennsylvania, in connection with the MHC’s exhibit Opportunity & Conscience: Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania, on display through March 31, 2018. Our Immigrant Heritage: Moyer Written by Forrest Moyer on July 19, 2017
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