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"A few years later Daniel, Christian, Maria ans Salmena were presemt at the first public act of record in the county - civil wedding of mary Carpenter and Daniel Fiere(ferree) at Postlthwaites Tavern. The Hostelry was on the Conestoga Trail.
One impelling incentive in the search for the Daniel Herman's homrstead is the hope of redisconering a stone with the following crude inscription: It marked the new house - very close to Daniel's log cabin - which Daniel's son no doubt built for his second wife, Elizabeth Carpenter. Knowledgr of the inscription is preserved, unfortunately, in a single paragraph od a rambling report on local stones which was presented to the Lancaster County historical Society in 1905. It Reads:
"On the Benjamin Miller farm, in East Lampeter township, stands an old stone building known as the Espenshade house, built about 1750, and believed to have at one time been used as a meeting house, with a stone bearing the following inscription, which displays sever symbols, apparemtly a saw and a wheel, which mat denote the occupation of the builders." Ref Journal of the Lancaster Historical Society. Vol 9.pp279-280.
Deciphering the inscription:
Daniels name in larger letters at the top of the list might merely indicate that he was chief builder but, more likely, that it was his house built with the help of friends and neighbors, such as JOHN HAIR, obviously HERR. This young man was the s/o EMANUEL HERR, who was one of four HERR brothers in the Pequea colony and owner of a nearby mill. Recently he had bought four acres of HERMAN land on the bank of the stream for a millrace extension. John's sister MARY HERR, married DANIEL CARPENTER, s/o APALONIA HERMAN. It is possible that this JOHN HAIR is the same who built a large house one mile west of Strasburg in 1740, containing a large room on the top floor which served as a Mennonite meeting place until a church was erected closer to Strasburg in 1804
DANIEL LEFEVRE, next on the list, wqas DANIEL JRS brother-in-law, reputedly the first white baby born in the Pequea settlement in 1713. ESTHER LEFEVRE, his sister, was DANIELS first wife, born on May 5, 1717. Whether or not the new house was actually planned for her, Esther never lived to enjoy it. Esther was the daughter of ISAAC LEFEVRE, whose marriage to CATHERINE FIERE(Ferree) united two notable Huguenot families.
The last name on the inscription is probably that of MARTIN MYLIN, the second in a long succession of men of thet name. He was not a close neighbor but a man of many skills who is reputed to have produced the first tile and brick in the country, which may have been why his name is on the list. Ref:"Martin Mylin", Mennonite Research Journal.
I hope everyone enjoyed this. I certainly did. Mr. Herman did a lot of digging to find the Herman farm.
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