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Catharine BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾. Parents: Henry BUCHER and Catharine VEITH.

Catharine BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 9 Jul 1706 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Conrad BUCHER and Margaretta MENTRENGERN.

Christian BUCHER⁽¹⁰²⁾

Children were: Anna Maria BUCHER, Ann BUCHER, Elizabeth BUCHER, Margareta BUCHER.

Christine BUCHER⁽¹³⁰³⁾ was born on 16 Mar 1773 in New Hannover Twp, Montgomery Co, Pa.⁽¹³⁰⁴⁾ She was christened on 1 Apr 1773 in Falkner Swamp Reformed Church, Montgomery county, New Hannover Twp, Pa. Parents: (John) Casper BUCHER and Catherine WANNEMACHER.

Claus BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾⁽¹³⁰⁵⁾⁽¹⁰⁷⁶⁾ was born in 1524 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He was born in 1524 in Neukirch, Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

He was married to Dorothea ZELLER on 6 Apr 1545. Children were: John (Hans Martin) BUCHER, George BUCHER, Anna BUCHER, Elizabeth BUCHER, Nicholas (Claus) BUCHER, Margaretta BUCHER, Agnes BUCHER.

Conrad BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ Parents: Henry BUCHER and Catharine VEITH.

Dieter BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁷⁶⁾ Parents: George BUCHER.

Children were: (John) Casper BUCHER .

Dorothea BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾. Parents: George BUCHER and Christiana MULLER.

Dorothea BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 31 May 1650 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Parents: John BUCHER and Maria BURTIN.

Dorothy BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 14 Jun 1700 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Conrad BUCHER and Margaretta MENTRENGERN.

Eleanora Dorothea BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 23 Apr 1772 in Lebanon, Lebanon Co, Pa. She died on 18 Oct 1772 in Lebanon, Lebanon Co, Pa. Parents: John Conrad BUCHER and Mary Magdalena HOCH.

Eliza BUCHER⁽⁴³⁾

Elizabeth BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 5 May 1554. Parents: Claus BUCHER and Dorothea ZELLER.

Elizabeth BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ Parents: George BUCHER and Christiana MULLER.

Elizabeth BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 14 Apr 1622. Parents: John BUCHER and Barbara RYSCHACKER.

Elizabeth BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 15 Apr 1698 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Conrad BUCHER and Margaretta MENTRENGERN.

Elizabeth BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 5 Jul 1696 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Elizabeth STEINER.

Elizabeth BUCHER⁽¹⁰²⁾ was born on 3 Feb 1808 in Lancaster Co, Pa. She was christened on 7 Jul 1811 in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manheim, Pa..⁽¹⁰²⁾ Parents: Christian BUCHER and Margareth .

Elizabeth (second) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 15 Jun 1706 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Elizabeth STEINER.

Emanuel (first) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 3 Feb 1695 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Elizabeth STEINER.

Emanuel (second) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 1 Aug 1697 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Elizabeth STEINER.

Emanuel (third) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 30 Jun 1700 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Elizabeth STEINER.

Ferdinand BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 12 Aug 1685 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He was born on 7 Apr 1691 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He died INFANT. Parents: John BUCHER and Maria BELLAR.

George BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 27 Oct 1548. Parents: Claus BUCHER and Dorothea ZELLER.

He was married to Christiana MULLER on 31 Aug 1572. Children were: Dorothea BUCHER , John BUCHER, Elizabeth BUCHER.

George BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁷⁶⁾ Is thought to be descendants of Claus and Dorothea Zeller Bucher.

Children were: Dieter BUCHER.

Henry BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born in 1654 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Hauptman uber eine stadt comp. (chief burgess), Wagemeister in der Oberzee waag (weighmaster), Oberzee July 2, 1683 according to source. Parents: John BUCHER and Maria BURTIN.

Children were: Maria BUCHER, Veronica BUCHER, Casper BUCHER , John (first) BUCHER, John (second) BUCHER, Henry BUCHER, Veronica (second) BUCHER.

Henry BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 10 Jan 1678. Parents: John BUCHER and Maria BELLAR.

Henry BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 30 Jul 1682 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. He died on 8 Jul 1753. Was a goldschmidt according to source. Parents: Henry BUCHER and Barbara BIGGLER.

He was married to Catharine VEITH on 22 Aug 1706. Children were: Barbara BUCHER, Henry BUCHER, John BUCHER , Conrad BUCHER, Catharine BUCHER, John Casper BUCHER, John George BUCHER.

Henry BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ Parents: Henry BUCHER and Catharine VEITH.

Jacob BUCHER⁽⁷²⁾⁽⁷²⁾ was born on 2 Jul 1781 in New Hannover Twp, Montgomery Co, Pa.⁽⁵⁴⁰⁾⁽⁷²⁾ He was christened on 8 Aug 1781 in Falkner Swamp Reformed Church, Montgomery county, New Hannover Twp, Pa.⁽¹³⁰⁶⁾ He died on 25 Aug 1849 in Post Creek, Chemung Co, NY.⁽⁷²⁾ He was buried in Post Creek, Chemung Co, NY. Parents: (John) Casper BUCHER and Catherine WANNEMACHER .

He was married to Jane ISENHAUER about 1804.

Johannes BUCHER⁽¹⁰²⁾ was born on 23 Mar 1779 in Lancaster Co, Pa. He was christened on 7 May 1780 in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Manheim, Pa..⁽¹⁰²⁾ Parents: Martin BUCHER and Catharina .

John BUCHER⁽¹²⁹²⁾⁽¹³⁰⁷⁾ was born on 30 Dec 1775 in New Hannover Twp, Montgomery Co, Pa. He was christened on 20 Feb 1776 in Falkner Swamp Reformed Church, Montgomery county, New Hannover Twp, Pa.⁽¹³⁰⁸⁾ Parents: (John) Casper BUCHER and Catherine WANNEMACHER.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ Parents: George BUCHER and Christiana MULLER.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 20 Jan 1583 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Parents: John (Hans Martin) BUCHER and Elizabeth LUTZEN .

He was married to Barbara RYSCHACKER on 15 Nov 1604. Children were: Anna BUCHER, Verina BUCHER, Barbara BUCHER, John BUCHER, Elizabeth BUCHER.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ Parents: Martin BUCHER and Anna ULMER.

He was married to Dorothea BLANK on 25 Oct 1642.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 4 Dec 1619 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He died on 4 Jul 1675. He was a Landschreiber (clerk of the courts) in Neukirch, in the Canton of Schaffhausen from 1642 to 1648. Parents: John BUCHER and Barbara RYSCHACKER.

He was married to Maria BURTIN on 20 May 1644. Children were: Catharine BUCHER , Dorothea BUCHER, John BUCHER , Henry BUCHER, John Conrad BUCHER, John Jacob BUCHER.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born in 1652 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Clerk of the cours 1683, Vogt (magistrate) April 15, 1696, Oberlandtmeister (superintendent of woods and forests) April 14 1702, Zumftmeister (master of a corporation or guild) July 1 1703, Obervogt uber Lohn (master of loans) August 24 1705. Parents: John BUCHER and Maria BURTIN.

Children were: John BUCHER, Henry BUCHER , Anna Maria BUCHER, Margaretta BUCHER, Barbara BUCHER, Ferdinand BUCHER.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 2 May 1676. Parents: John BUCHER and Maria BELLAR.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ Parents: Henry BUCHER and Catharine VEITH.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 9 Jul 1692 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Elizabeth STEINER.

John BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 26 Aug 1737 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Dorothea BURGAUER.

John (first) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 2 Jun 1679 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: Henry BUCHER and Barbara BIGGLER.

John (first) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 30 May 1691 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: John Conrad BUCHER and Margaretta MENTRENGERN .

John (Hans Martin) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 13 Feb 1547 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Came to America in 1722 with brother Benedict and settled in Lancaster County. Originally of the conton of Berne, Switzerland. Parents: Claus BUCHER and Dorothea ZELLER.

He was married to Elizabeth LUTZEN on 18 Oct 1572. Children were: Anna BUCHER, Barbara BUCHER, Martin BUCHER, John BUCHER, Stephen BUCHER, Catharine BUCHER.

John (second) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 7 Jul 1680 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: Henry BUCHER and Barbara BIGGLER.

John (second) BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 4 Apr 1703 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Goldsmith, according to source. Parents: John Conrad BUCHER and Margaretta MENTRENGERN.

John Casper BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born on 6 Jun 1720 in Schafthausen, Switzerland. Parents: Henry BUCHER and Catharine VEITH.

John Conrad BUCHER⁽¹³⁰⁹⁾⁽¹³¹⁰⁾ was born on 28 Dec 1792 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, Pa.⁽¹³¹¹⁾ He died on 26 Oct 1851 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, Pa.⁽¹³¹²⁾ He was buried in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA cemetery. In early life, he was engaged in merchandising; in 1830 elected to represent Dauphin and Lebanon counties in the Twenty-second Congress of the United States; appointed by Governor Porter in 1839 as an associated judge of the courts of Dauphin county, which office he held for twelve years. He was a man of enlarged views and of public spirit, unsullied reputation and unimpeachable integrity, engaged in all the public enterprises of his day, and held various positions of honor and responsibility. Many years a school director and president of the board of education of his native city, Harrisburg. A member and an officer of the German Reformed congregation at home, he was one of the leading laymen in the ecclesiastical councils of the church; treasurer of one of its boards and of its theological seminary.

Attended the Harrisburg public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Harrisburg; clerk of the land department of Pennsylvania in 1813; member of the borough council of Harrisburg; member of the board of school directors; elected to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833); trustee of Harrisburg Academy, Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., and Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa.; by appointment of Governor Porter was an associate judge of Dauphin County from 1839 until his death.

He was married to Ellen ISETT on 17 Jan 1820.

John Conrad BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾ was born in 1656 in Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He died on 30 Aug 1739. Parents: John BUCHER and Maria BURTIN .

Children were: Margaret BUCHER, John (first) BUCHER, Magdalena BUCHER, Barbara BUCHER, Elizabeth BUCHER, Dorothy BUCHER, John (second) BUCHER, Catharine BUCHER, Ursula BUCHER.

John Conrad BUCHER⁽¹⁰⁸⁷⁾⁽¹³¹³⁾⁽¹³¹⁴⁾ was born on 10 Jun 1730 in Neukirch, Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He died on 15 Aug 1780 in Lebanon, Lebanon Co, Pa. He was buried in German Reformed Church, Lebanon, Pa. Educated for the ministry of the German Reformed Church at the Universities of Marburg and St. Gall. Intending him for the ministry, his father afforded him the best educational advantages of his time and country. His album, still preserved, testifies to his connection with the celebrated institutions of learning at St. Gall, Basle, and Gottingen, and contains among its interesting and valuable contributions the autographs of Wagelin, Zollikoffer, John Laurence Mosheim and others.

At the age of 25 years, he came to America. Arrived in the Province of Pennsylvania Nov 1,1755. Having received a theological education, with the ministry in view as his life work, it is a matter of plausible speculation that through the instrumentality of the Rev. Michael Schlatter, who had a short time previously visited Europe for the purpose of bringing out German Reformed pastors to minister to the spiritual wants of the large German population of the Province, Conrad Bucher was induced to leave the refinements of a home abounding in wealth and comforts and undergo the hardships necessarily attendant upon life in a new country, although there is no positive evidence that he had fully entered the ministry until many years later.

The French and Indian war being in progress, he entered the Provincial army, and was commissioned ensign April 1, 1758, and stationed at Fort Louther, Carlisle, Pa. Beginning with Braddock's defeat, in 1755, the English arms met nothing but disaster. The county of Cumberland,which embraced all the country west of the Susquehanna, was especially exposed to Indian raids and incursions. In 1758, General Forbes, a Scotch veteran, was appointed commander-in-chief of the expedition for the reduction of the French Fort Du Quesne. Served in Forbes' great expedition against Fort Duquesne in the summer and autumn of 1758. The General Assembly of the Province resolved to place at his disposal two thousand seven hundred men. In order that German and Swiss settlers would more readily enter the service, parliament, in 1756, passed an "act providing for the appointment of German, Swiss, and Dutch Protestants as officers" In this emergency, Conrad Bucher entered the provincial service, commissioned as ensign, or second lieutenant on April 1, 1758 in the First Battalion, Pennsylvania Regiment.

The provincial army having achieved success in taking Fort Du Quesne and dispersing the French, established, manned, and equipped Fort Pitt, and returned to Carlisle. In this famous expedition Col. George Washington was in command of the Virginians, Col. Bouquet of the English, and John Armstrong, James Potter, Hugh Mercer, William Lyon, William Maclay, names famous subsequently in Revolutionary annals, held subordinate positions.

April 19, 1760, he was promoted to a lieutenancy. He was stationed at Fort Louther, Carlisle, one of the line of forts erected for the protection of the frontier. Lieut. Bucher participated in Bouquet's expedition, in 1763, for the relief of Fort Pitt, which had been assailed by the combined Indian nations in the war known as Pontiac's Conspiracy, and which was the next active field service of the provincial army. It was on this march westward that the famous battle of Bush Run was fought, on the 5th and 6th of August, in which the Indians undertook to wipe out the little army as they had done with Braddock in 1755,but in which the, in turn, were so thoroughly demoralized and their prestige destroyed,m through the superior tactics of Bouquet, that they retreated without making further demonstrations against the fort.

July 12, 1764, commissioned as adjutant, and promoted to a captaincy on the 31st of the same month. Organization was the Second Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment of foot, Asher Clayton, Lieutenant colonel commandant and the Hon. John Penn, colonel. His several commissions on parchment are in custody of his descendants in Harrisburg, Pa. He served in Bouquet's expeditions against the Indians in 1763 and 1764; they fought the battle of Bushy Run, August 5, 1763, the greatest battle on record between the whites and Indians.

While Bouquet's army halted on Fort Bedford, on the 8th of September, 1764, the officers of the Pennsylvania regiments formed an association under a written agreement "to apply to the Proprietaries for a tract of land sufficiently extensive to accommodate each one with a reasonable and commodious plantation, etc". In their formal application they represented that the land thus far purchased from the Indians did not afford any situation convenient for their purpose; they therefore prayed the Proprietaries to make "a new purchase, etc." In 1768, the Fifth Purchase, embracing the territory from the northeastern to the southwestern section of the Province not already purchased, was made, and in 1769 twenty four thousand acres were granted them; of this amount six hundred and sixteen acres in Buffalo Valley (Union County) and five hundred and seventy acres on Bald Eagle Creek (Centre county) were allotted to Capt. Bucher.

As remuneration to the officers for their services, the Proprietaries appropriated twenty-four thousand acres of land to be distributed among them according to rank, of which Captain Bucher drew six hundred and sixteen acres in Buffalo valley, now Union county, and five hundred and forty acres on the north side of Bald Eagle, including mouth of Marsh Creek, in Centre county. this is known as the Officer's survey. Peace with the French and Indians having been secured, he resigned his commission in 1765, and thenceforth devoted his time and labors to the ministry, serving with zeal and self-abnegation the churches at Falling Spring (Chambersburg), Shippensburg, Carlisle, Hummelstown, etc. etc. until the year 1768, when he accepted the call to the German Reformed Church at Lebanon, then Lancaster county, whither he removed his family in 1769. Here he remained, officiating statedly and serving these several congregations in, then, Lancaster and Cumberland counties, until his death, actually dying "in harness" August 15, 1780, and was buried in the graveyard of the church of which he was pastor. An ancient-looking sandstone, inscription in German, in which language he usually preached, marks the spot. He took the oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania June 10, 1778. A noted early divine (minister) as well as an officer during the French and Indian War. Parents: John Jacob BUCHER and Dorothea BURGAUER.

He was married to Mary Magdalena HOCH on 26 Feb 1760 in Carlisle, Cumberland Co, Pa. Was married by the Rev George Duffield, according to source. Children were: John Jacob BUCHER, John George BUCHER, Anna Dorothea BUCHER, Eleanora Dorothea BUCHER, Maria Elizabeth BUCHER , John Conrad BUCHER.

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