Johann Ulrich Arner ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   Another name for Johann was Hans.

  General Notes:

Arrived on the Ship Mercury, William Wilson, Master, from Rotterdam. Qualified May 29, 1735 listed as Johan Ulrick (X) Ahaner

  Burial Notes:

Their exact burial place is not known.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism Sponsor: Hans Ulrich Vogel, also listed as Johann Ulrich Vogel, 5 Dec 1699. ⁶

• Sailing Ship: They came to America with a colony of Swiss immigrants led by the Reverand Maurice Goetschy, 29 May 1735, Philadelphia Pennsylvania. ⁶ They left Windlach for America in 1734(1)[also page 81 (surname mis-transcribed as “Auer”), Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, Albert Bernhardt Faust, published by National Genealogical Society, Washington, DC, 1920]. They came to America with a colony of Swiss immigrants led by the Reverend Maurice Goetschy on the ship <u>Mercury <ref/mercury_list.jpg></u>, which sailed from Rotterdam via Cowes, Isle of Wight, England and arrived at Philadelphia on 29 May 1735. Part of the story of this group’s trip was published in “History of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge”, <i>Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings, Volume 27</i>, published in 1916 (this article is also transcribed on <b><u>Reed Wurts’ website <http://pages.prodigy.net/reed_wurts/ships/gvcustom.htm></b></u>).

Johann married Verena Eberhard, daughter of Heinrich Eberhard and Anna Gassmann, on 3 Jan 1723 in Stadel, Zurich, Switzerland.¹ (Verena Eberhard was born on 25 Sep 1701 in Kloten, , Zurich, Switzerland and died about 1762 in North Whitehall Twp, Northampton (Now Lehigh) Co, Pennsylvania ⁷.)