Leinbach Genealogy
    Johannes Heinrich Leinbach (1705-1777)    Pennsylvania Branch
 
  
 

Ancestors
< 1 > Johannes Heinrich Leinbach (1649-1714) & Anna Barbara Lerch (1652-    )
< 1.1 > Johannes Leinbach (1674-1747)
& Anna Elizabeth Kleiss (1680-1765)

Birth
< 1.1.2 > Johannes Heinrich Leinbach was born on November 26, 1705 in Hochstadt, Wetterau, Germany.

Spouse
Salome (Johanna) Herman (1718-    )

Children
< 1.1.2.1 > Anna Catharina Leinbach / Beck (1740-1782)
< 1.1.2.2 > Anna Elizabeth Leinbach (1742-    )
< 1.1.2.3 > Anna Catharina (2nd) Leinbach (1744-    )
< 1.1.2.4 > John Daniel Leinbach (1746-1817)
< 1.1.2.5 > Maria Leinbach (1748-    )
< 1.1.2.6 > Christina Leinbach (1750-    )
< 1.1.2.7 > Henry Leinbach (1752-1832)
< 1.1.2.8 > Salome Leinbach (1755-    )
< 1.1.2.9 > Christian Leinbach (1757-    )
< 1.1.2.10 > Johannes Leinbach (1759-    )

Life
Johannes Henrich Leinbach came to America with his parents in 1723. On November 2, 1738, he married Salome (Johanna) Herman, who was born in Conestoga, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Johannes Henry lived on the Leinbach homestead in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania throughout his life and owned 218 acres of land there at his death. The Moravian records indicate that he had accompanied Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian patron, to the Wyoming Valley of the Susquehanna River near Reading, Pennsylvania.

Death
Died 1777 and was buried in the old cemetery at the Spies Church near Oley. (The old graveyard below the church has been abandonded and the stones moved to the newer cemetery on top of the hill.)

Genealogy
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