Johannes EBY

  General Notes:

We have not clearly established the date or place of birth for John Eby(2), but we believe it to be around 1685, Emmenthal, Berne, Switzerland. After the death of Durst Eby(1), John Eby(2) purchased from Martin Kendig and Hans Herr the rights for the 307 acre land tract which was surveyed for his father on October 24, 1734, and made other improvements which allowed him to apply for a patent.

In 1739, his brother-in-law, Henry Bare passed away and he was appointed executor of his estate and while he was preparing an inventory of this estate and before the patent he had applied for was issued, John Eby(2), died and was probably buried in the family burial plot next to his father Durst Eby(1).

John Eby(2), died INTESTATE AND UNMARRIED. There is nothing on any document we have found or know of that suggests that John Eby(2), had any children as Ezra Eby and numerous other Eby historians have reported. His estate was filed by a bond dated Dec. 28, 1745/6 before Samuel Blundson, Susan Wright, and Rheda Paterson by Peter Eby(2), Christian Eby(2), and Martin Groff, the father of Peter Eby(2)'s second wife Barbara Groff. His inventory, which was taken by Peter Soomey, Wolf Nicomer, Martin Grove (Groff) and Samuel Evans, tells us that he was engaged in a good sized milling business.

The listing of Johannes (John) Eby(2), is essentially as we have reported it in the first volume of "The Eby Report" with the exception being the correction of a few dates - Groff (1978)


The History of the Eby Family states that Johannes left four daughters but it has since been proven he was unmarried, and that information by Ezra E. Eby was in error.
Millwright
Unmarried

  Noted events in his life were:

• Note: Alt. Death, 21 Feb 1745.