1692 Germantown Fry-Levering marriage certificate, Hans Petter Umstatt appears to have signed his own name, whereas his son Johannes signed with a mark.

1880 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. IV, #1, 1880, gives the same information as SWP's SETTLEMENT OF GERMANTOWN, which was published later in book form (1899).

1886 THE HISTORY OF HARLEYSVILLE and LOWER SALFORD TOWNSHIP, James Y Heckler, (reprinted 1993 by Adams Apple Press) say this about Johannes on page 8: "In 1741, when the township was divided into Upper and Lower, a small portion of this trace was cut off into Lower Salford. John Umstead [Johannes] appears to have been an old man, and therefore transferred his land to his son, Jacob Umstead, who, in 1735, obtained a reconfirmatory patent for it, and afterwards he and his wife, Ann sold it to John Isaac Klein."

1908 Marion Dexter Learned, THE LIFE OF FRANCIS DANIEL PASTORIUS, THE FOUNDER OF GERMANTOWN, William J Campbell, Philadelphia, 1908.

1911 JORDAN, BROTHER-IN-LAW STATEMENT

1947 Cushman, Mrs Palmer H, "Justice & Umstead Families of Frederick County Maryland 1685-1947," reprinted by Mr Harry M Ball, 1979, Montgomery County Historical Society, Inc, from SLC film Q929.273J984c

1948 Cook UMSTAT OF GERMANTOWN AND OF SKIPPACK, PHILADELPHIA CO, PA, complied by Lewis D. Cook, 1300 Locust St, Philadelphia, for Mr Heath T. Coburn of Fontana, CA

1967 PERSONS NATURALIZED IN THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA 1740 - 1773, Excerpted and Reprinted from Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Volume II, for Clearfield Company, by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1968. John Omstadt.

1986 (ca) Alice Morrison, Genealogist

1994 Germantown Crier, Volume 42, #4, Fall, 1994 Johannes witnesses two land transactions in 1697.

2002 Pannebakker Familie Nieus, Vol 1, #8, December 2002 has an article about the Skippack Road, taken from the notes about Heinrich Pannebecker found in the genealogy of Samuel W. Pennypacker.

http://www.skippack.org/skippackroad.htm
The Skippack website lists Johannes Umstat as one of the men signing a petition for a road in 1713, and another in 1725 for the new Township of Skippack and Perkiomen. Eve's husband, "Henry Pannebecker" is also mentioned. Good map on this site.

See also Hans Peter Bibliography. Many of the sources listed show Johannes as son of Hans Peter.

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