FAMILY HISTORY:  Altland, York County, PA

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Early Families in York County,  Historical Society of York Co.
York Dispatch, September 23, 1933.
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ALTLAND

Jacob Altlandt, the pioneer of this family in York County, was born in Europe 
about 1708.  He sailed from Rotterdam in the ship Princess Augustus and arrived 
in the New World on Sept. 16, 1736.  In the next few years he moved to the new 
lands west of the Susquehanna and established a farm of 150 acres in the 
wilderness, in what is now Paradise township.  He died in May 1756, leaving a 
widow, Maria Sybilla, who later remarried, and the following children:

(1) John Philip Altland, 1738-1804, the only son, who served in the Revolution, 
possibly at Brandywine in 1777.  On Christmas day 1795 he granted the land for a 
union church, graveyard and school (now known as Altland's Meeting House) for 
the use of the Lutheran, Reformed and German Baptist congregations of the 
neighborhood.  He was granted 42 acres of land in 1765 by the heirs of William 
Penn.  By his wife Anna Maria Scheider he had six sons and three daughters;
(2) Maria Catharine married Andrew Hantz;
(3) Anna Christina married George Eyster.  She is buried at Wolf's Church;
(4) Anna Sophia married Henry Gross in 1765.