John
Phillip Harless
(Alberta
Harless Myers Line, wife of James Henry Myers)
John
(or Johan) Phillip Harless, a native of the German upper Rhine Palatinate,
arrived in Philadelphia, Pa., 5 Sep 1738 with his wife on the ship "Winter
Galley" which sailed from Rotterdam, Holland with 252 passengers.
It is believed that John Phillip was born in the town of Germersheim (not far from Heidelberg). Upon arrival in America John Phillip and members of his wife's family first settled on the Shenandoah River, near what is now McGaheysville, Virginia and in the vicinity of Peaked Mountain Church.
In
about 1750 he acquired land on Tom's Creek near what is now known as the German
New River Settlement and by 1762 he had a patent to land on Cow Pasture River,
4 miles from Natural Bridge where he moved his family. This land was southwest
of what is now Lexington, Virginia.
John
Phillip and his wife Anna Margaretha Price had seven children that survived to
adulthood, five sons: Martin, John Phillip, Jr., David, Henry and E. Emanuel,
and two daughters: Mary Dorthy, and Margaretha. John Phillip Harless, Jr. and
his wife Hannah Boscher Harless are also interred in this cemetery.
SOURCE:
Ancestory.com
