Jacob Danner

Bef 1728 - 1799  (> 70 years)

• Name	Jacob Danner  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 10 May 1728	, Lancaster, PA   [2]
  Christening	10 May 1728	St. Matthews, Hanover, York, PA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1799	Brownsville, , MD   [2]
  Burial	Brownsville, Washington County, Maryland, United States of America   [2]
  Person ID	I7585	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Michael Danner,   b. Bef 7 May 1696, Grand Duchy Of Baden, Mannheim, DEU d. 19 Apr 1782, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, United States of America (Age > 85 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anna Bend,   b. 1696, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 1783, York County, Pennsylvania, United States of America (Age 87 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1726	Lancaster, Lancaster, British Colonial America, Pennsylvania, USA   [3]
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F1382	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Boechtel,   b. 1731, Germany d. 21 Apr 1768, United States of America (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	2 Oct 1750
  Family ID	F1374	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Jacob came with his family to America as a small child in 1733. He became a minister in Cordorus Church, York Co, PA in 1742 and was considered one of the outstanding early colonial clergyman. He was also a surveryor by trade. He tooke group of settlers from York Co, PA to Frederick Co., MD in 1760 where they settled near present day Woodsboro, MD on Indian Creek. The majority of these settlers eventually moved south on the Linganore Creek area. This creeks flows into the Monacy River. Jacob, himself, moved from Codorus to settle on the Linganor in 1770. He is listed as an Elder of the Pipe Creek Church in that year. In "The Church in the Valley" by H. Austin Cooper, c. 1993, it states "no person of that day had influenced more people of Pennsylvania to migrate south into Maryland than Elder Jacob Danner". He was likely the Jacob Danner who attended the 1789 Annual Meeting of the "Brethren" in York Co., Pennsylvania He was buried in the Old Cemetery, Brownsville Church with the simple initials J.D. on the top of a Marble stone marker. (CL-526)

  
  

• Sources

  [S558] Perry, Virginia, Email dated 2000 from vperry@midwest.net. [S21] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31820712/jacob-danner [S25] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;).