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Waterloo Region Generations
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Peter Reist
1700 - Yes, date unknown-
Name Peter Reist Born CA 1700 , Switzerland 
[1] Gender Male Eby ID Number 00090-5156 Died Yes, date unknown Person ID I15406 Generations Last Modified 12 May 2024
Family Anna Clara Boyer, b. Abt 1700, Of, Pennsylvania , d. Yes, date unknown Married 1723 Palatinate, Germany [2] Children 1. Abraham Reist, b. 1737, Of, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania , d. Yes, date unknownLast Modified 13 May 2024 Family ID F4129 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Peter Reist, "the pioneer of this numerous family, was born in Switzerland about the year 1700. During the early days of his boyhood, religious persecutions were carried on most severely against all nonconformists. When twenty years of age he fled to the Palatinate for shelter. Here he remained three years, working at his trade (linen weaving). While at the Palatinate he formed an acquaintance with Anna Clara Boyer whom he married in 1723. Soon after their marriage they emigrated to America and settled in Penn Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he built for himself and wife a small cabin near Kissel Hill, but the land on which it was built was claimed by one named Witmer. He relinquished possession of this and went about two miles north-west where he took possession of six hundred acres of land; two hundred acres of this tract are still in possession of John and Jacob Reist, great-great-grandsons of the first old settler. Mr. Reist's family consisted of seven children"
Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].
- Peter Reist, "the pioneer of this numerous family, was born in Switzerland about the year 1700. During the early days of his boyhood, religious persecutions were carried on most severely against all nonconformists. When twenty years of age he fled to the Palatinate for shelter. Here he remained three years, working at his trade (linen weaving). While at the Palatinate he formed an acquaintance with Anna Clara Boyer whom he married in 1723. Soon after their marriage they emigrated to America and settled in Penn Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he built for himself and wife a small cabin near Kissel Hill, but the land on which it was built was claimed by one named Witmer. He relinquished possession of this and went about two miles north-west where he took possession of six hundred acres of land; two hundred acres of this tract are still in possession of John and Jacob Reist, great-great-grandsons of the first old settler. Mr. Reist's family consisted of seven children"
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Sources - [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 161.
- [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 162.
- [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 161.
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Born - CA 1700 - , Switzerland 
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