Rev. Samuel S. Eby^{[1, 2]}

1772 - 1849  (76 years)

• Name	Samuel S. Eby
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	20 Feb 1772	, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81744071
  Land	Bef 1831	Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 001NW, Waterloo County, Ontario   [6]
  Land	Bef 1831	Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 018, Waterloo County, Ontario   [6]
  Name	Indian Sam
  Eby ID Number	00031-2543
  Died	10 Feb 1849	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  	Cause: heart attack
  Buried	First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Person ID	I21462	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	George Eby,   b. 11 Dec 1748,   d. 10 Jun 1800, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania  (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Barbara Sensenig,   b. Jan 1750,   d. 24 Apr 1787  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	17 Sep 1769  [1]
  Family ID	F5171	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Magdalena Erb,   b. 2 Feb 1777, Warwick Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 26 Dec 1864, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 87 years)
  Children	1. Moses Eby,   b. 10 Mar 1799, , Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 8 Mar 1854, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 54 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F5243	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Samuel Eby, "(known as "Indian Sam") the second son of George Eby, was born February 20th, 1772, and died February 10th, 1840. He was married to Magdalena Erb who was born February 2nd, 1777, and died December 26th, 1864. In company with his brother, George, and a few others he left Pennsylvania in the spring of 1804 and moved to Canada. He took up north-west part of lot No. 1, German Company's Tract, in the township and county of Waterloo, Ontario. At that time there were but few white settlers in this beautiful county and the Indians were his next neighbors. He spent much of his time among the Indians and taught them many good things, in fact he was their law-giver, minister, interpreter and peace-maker. He had a family of one son" 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.]. _____________ "Mennonite entrepreneur "Indian Sam" Eby, for instance, established a distillery in 1804 at a crossroads where he traded whisky in exchange for the Mississaugas' furs. Fellow settlers in 1808 then complained to the provincial legislature that Eby's actions had caused the Mississaugas "to get drunk and lie about and not follow their hunting, and [to leave] their young ones starving and begging for food." The Mississaugas eventually reacted by converting to Methodism and giving up the use of liquor. The Mississaugas also strove to become exemplary models of middle-class culture, leading one German immigrant to Waterloo in 1833 to remark that the Aboriginals he had met were "the most peaceable people, a large number of them Christians." UW Gazette, October 25, 1995 _______________ INDIAN SAM EBY Samuel Eby of Lot No. 18 was called "Indian Sam" because he was the Indians' minister, interpreter and lawgiver, says Ezra Eby. In a vacant log house on his clearing the first school in the settlement was opened in 1808, with John Beatty as teacher. He taught only in the winter months and parents who sent their children to school paid him for his services. The rate is unknown, but in the early eighteen-forties Benjamin Burkholder, a Waterloo teacher, charged a child two dollars for three months' instruction, with two terms during a winter. In addition every pupil had to contribute a share of the firewood to heat the schoolroom. A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 582. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 12 Jan 1865. 25 Dec 1864 in Wilmot, widow of Simon Sr., 88 yrs. [S47] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - First Mennonite CC#4507 Internet link First Mennonite Cemetery online. Zum Andenken von/ Samuel Eby/ geboren/ den 20sten Februar/ 1772/ gestorben den 10 then Febraur/ 1849 76 Jahre 11 Monate/ und 20 Tage Alt. [eroded, July 2010] [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 16 Feb 1849 Page 7. Samuel Eby Died 10 Feb 1849 Heart attack. 76y, 11m, 21d. [S844] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1861, Sect. 8 Page 47. [S1322] Land - Founding Families of Waterloo Township 1800-1830, 23.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 20 Feb 1772 - , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Died - Cause: heart attack - 10 Feb 1849 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth