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- The following is from Steve Coulter:
PETER GANDER, father of our grandmother Mary Gander Muck, was born about 1740
(or earlier), either in Lancaster Co., PA, or in the Germanic alpine slopes
of northern Switzerland. The Germanic pronounciation of Gander resulted in
it often being spelled Gaunder by English county clerks in Shenandoah County,
Virginia, where Peter died in Jan 1808. His estate details cattle, sheep,
hogs, farming tools, spinning wheels (both wool & flax), a churn, a blue
cupboard, a walnut table, bedsteads, & "some old pewter." On 9 June 1788,
Peter purchased 200 acres in southern Shenandoah Co., VA, for one pound
sterling. This hilly land lies seven to ten miles west of the town of
Edinburg on the present Valley Pike (U.S. route 11). On 29 June 1789, Peter
moved down the Shenandoah Valley to southern Frederick Co., VA, where for
"five shillings sterling", he purchased 33 acres near Strasburg and along
Cedar Creek---which marks the boundary between Shenandoah & Frederick
counties. Much later, this land was the site of the bloody battle of Cedar
Creek during the Civil War. Peter Gander married, probably about 1760 in
Lancaster Co., PA, to Barbara Weber/Weaver, dau of Jacob Weber/Weaver & Anna
Bauman (below). Peter Gander & Barbara Weber had at least 6 children: Samuel
Gander, b. 1761; Jacob; Nancy; John; Magdalena; & MARY (see above for Mary
Gander Muck's family)
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Our Family History
1740 - 1808 (68 years)
(Age 71 years)