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Johann Wilhelm "William" METZGER
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Samuel was a cooper, farmer & distiller. When his parents died theOrphan Court (Book A. p 177) bound Samuel out to Jacob Scheip of Yorktown - Cooper, until the age of 21. Scheip promised in addition toteaching him the art of being a cooper, to read the Bible, to write andto do arithmatic as far as the rule of three direct and to furnish meat,drink, apparel, washing and lodging. At then end of the apprenticeship,he would furnish 2 suits of apparel, one to be new and worth 6 pounds orthe money to buy it, and 5 pounds to buy a set of tools.
Samuel was listed in the York Co Militia for 1776-83 as were hisbrother Dewalt, Jr. and Michael Melhorn the father of his futuredaughter-in-law. He was on the Manchester Tax lists for those years with150-200 acres of farmland.
Samuel was the last of the children to sell his share of his father'sland to George Metzger, his brother-in-law. He began acquiring his ownland about that time - 1776, although the first documented proof wasabout 1785. That land was 59 acres from George Ernest Meyer and is atthe present juncture of Mancester St. and Canal Rd. Samuels' home andbarn with an 1806 plaque are still in use. His land extended to theoxbow bend i teh Little Conewago Creek. He gave a large tract of landnear Admire Rd. in Dover to his first son George. His son's Daniel,Samuel Jr. and John were given parts of the land near their grandfatherTheobald's original tract of land. This is also the land that Daniel'sson Benjamin later owned. Michael Gross a cousin of Benjamin's owned itafter that and it descended to Marian Gross Hewitt through John W. Grossand his son, Edward S. Gross. The home and farm are described in detail,with a slightly different history of ownership in an article published inthe Sunday News of York PA on May 28, 1978.
Near Samuel's gravestone are 2 stones of George and MagdaleneEisenhour who arrived in America with the Simon & Theobald Gross in 1741on the Europa. They were the ancestors of President Ike Eisenhauer.
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