Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Peter Reist

Male 1700 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Peter Reist 
    Born CA 1700  , Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Eby ID Number 00090-5156 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I15406  Generations
    Last Modified 30 Sep 2024 

    Family Anna Clara Boyer,   b. Abt 1700, Of, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 1723  Palatinate, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
     1. Abraham Reist,   b. 1737, Of, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 1 Oct 2024 
    Family ID F4129  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [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.

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