Abraham (of Franklin Co PA) Stauffer

Notes:

Abraham Stouffer (1747-1809), a son of Lancaster County inhabitants, moved to Stoufferstown, part of Guilford Township, Franklin County, in 1792. It was there that he built the Falling Spring Mill, where several generations of Stouffer men would live and work. Abraham's grandson, Jacob Stouffer, II was born there on March 4, 1808, one of fourteen children born to Abraham's son, Jacob (1773-1843) The younger Jacob inherited the mill one month before his father died July 3, 1843.
SOURCE: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Collection 3051, Jacob & Eliza Ryder Stouffer Journals 1843-1880 1 box, 51 volumes, 2.7 linear Feet, processed by Catherine Gaffney and Wesley Ratko, May 2004.

Birth:
Ref: Stauffer Stouffer Stover Families, Colket, pg 15.

Died:
Abraham d. in Chambersburg, PA. DAR listing for descendant Miss Bessie Rebecca Heichert.

Abraham married Barbara Hershey 1768. Barbara was born 1750; died 1795. [Group Sheet]