Out of the Oberholtzer Book
by Barbara Ford:
SAMUEL OBERHOLTZER of
Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Samuel Oberholtzer, born abt 1700, in Europe, (will proved) 5/2/1748, arrived
on the Ship MOLLY at Philadelphia, 9/30/1727. The Foreign Needs Commission
of the Mennonite Church in Holland paid passages for all 45 Mennonites
(10 families) who lacked funds to pay their own way on the MOLLY which
included Samuel. He went to Lancaster county and probably squatted
on about 195 acres until Conestoga Manor officially opened for settlement
after the Penn estate was settled and on 5/26/1746 purchased 207 acres
in Manor Township from Michael Baughman. Samuel's name was on
a Swisser Name list made,
4/2/1728, of Mennonite property holders of the Conestoga Settlement when
they solicited for naturalization, which seemed necessary for clear title
to land ownership.