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Info taken from the book "The Conser Family" by Col.. John P . Horan 1981 Ruth Fratzke's recor ds show that John married but no name w as given.[2485774[1].GED]
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John George Conser (Johann Jurg Ganser, Ganzer, or Ganzert, but he almost always went by his middle name George) was born about 1685, probably in Alsace-Lorraine. It was in Alsace-Lorraine that he grew to adulthood and later married Anna Barbara (last name unknown) about 1720. It was in that region that they began raising a family. Probably because of religious persecution, (they were protestant in a primarily Catholic area) Johann Jurg, Anna Barbara, and family, along with thousands of other Alsace-Lorraine Protestants immigrated to Colonial America, Pennsylvania. Johann Jurg and family probably immigrated in the late 1720s. The Ganzer Family probably arrived in Philadelphia and then along with other German families traveled northwest of the city to a place known as Faulkner's Swamp Creek (later Macall's Manor and then New Hanover). It was a Faulkner's Swamp Creek that Johann pruchased a farm and settled with his family. This land was then in Frederick Township of Philadelphia County, but later became part of Montgomery County. Here the Ganzer family attended the Faulkner's Swamp Lutheran Church (later known as the New Hanover Lutheran Church, often claimed as the first organized Lutheran Church in America. It was at this place that all of their children were raised. George died on the farm in 1750 and his wife, Anna Barbara remained living on the farm with her son, Conrad and his family until her death in 1766. Both, George and Anna Barbara are buried in now unmarked graves at the New Hanover Lutheran Church Cemetery on the church grounds.
Excerpt from: The Journals of Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg in Three Volumes; translated by Theodore G. Tappert and John W. Doverstein; published by The Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States and The Muhlenbert Press, Philadelphia. 1942
Vol. 1, The Year 1750 January, p. 235.
p. 235 "In this same month I was summoned during the night to go fourteen miles away to visit an old man(1a) who was a member of the New Hanover congregation and had suffered with asthma for many years. He now lay on his deathbed. He desired Holy Communion, and I could not refuse him since he had led a quiet God-fearing life, during his long illness had learned to give heed to the Word, and testified with tears that he was the greatest of sinners and knew of no other comfort and counsel than that which is in the bleeding wounds of Jesus Christ. Among other things he lamented the fact that, though he had gone to church for many years in Germany, he had nevertheless walked in blindness and darkness without ever really knowing his beloved Savior etc. He proved himself to be repentant and received the Lord's Supper with hunger and thirst. He prayed his Redeemer to shorten his sufferings, grant him release, and take him home out of this evil world to the place of safety. This prayer was answered, for a few days later he commended his wearied spirit into the faithful hands of Jesus and attained the goal of faith. At my leave-taking he wept and complained that I visited him so seldom, asking whether perhaps it was because I had a dislike for his poor, sick person. I explained to him how fortunate were most of the pastors in Germany who had their sheep living together in the towns or villages, and could, if they wished, visit every one of them several times a year. But, as he knew, my sheep were scattered over a territory thirty miles long and twenty miles wide. I was seldom at home and would hardly be able to perform even the most necessary pastoral duties if I did not make use of many a night, etc. He desired me to say farewell for him to our beloved Fathers and patrons and to express his hope that he would see them all before the throne of God."
(1a) Thought to have been John George Conser who died on January 16, 1750.
1. Joh. George Gonsor is listed in Frederick Township of "Four hundred sixty-five names of German, Dutch, and French immigrants of Philadelphia County, who owned land and paid quit-rents prior to 1734 found in Rupps, Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants in Pennsylvania, Appendix XVI, (Second Edition), page 72.
2. "Among the Landholders of Philadelphia County in 1734, under Frederick Township, and the following supposed to be settled on the Proprietor's Land, John George Gansard," in Pennsylvania Geneological Society Proceedings, Volume 1, Number 4, page . This land was purchased from Chrisopher Witmann, a neighbor of George Conser and fellow member of the Faulkner's Swamp Lutheran Church (see Will for this information).
3. The George and Anna Barbara Ganzert family attendance and burial at the Faulkner's Swamp Lutheran Church, now the New Hanover, Pennsylvania Lutheran Church can be found in the Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings, Volume 2, part 1, pp. (1), 351; Volume 20, (1896) pp. 227, 336, 346, and 426; Ibid., Volume 6, (1906) pp. 27, 426; Ibid., Volume 7, pp. 483, 525; Pennsylvania Church Records, from Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings and Addresses, Volume II, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1983), pp. 189, 292, 373; Reverand J. J. Kline Ph.D., The Lutheran Church in New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (New Hanover, Pennsylvania: 1910), pp. 342, 662.
4. Joh. Jurg Ganser's will, signed "George Conser, his mark , was written at McCall's Manor, now part of Pottstown, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1750 and was probated in the Philadelphia County, Courthouse on April 9. 1751. The original is still extant. Conrad Conser was the chief heir. Record for Will located in Pennsylvania County, Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1748-1752, Will # 250 of George Conser, LDSG.S. Microfilm Number 021724.
5. John P. Horan, The Conser Family (Puncsatawney, Pa: 1966), pp. 1-7.
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