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 Michael KauffmanBorn 1 Oct 1620 at Steffisburg, Thun, Bern, Switzerland, died 1711 at Erlenbach im Simmental, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Bern, Switzerland, age 90 or 91 years
Married/ Related to:  Anna BrendliBorn 1625 at Erlenbach im Simmental, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Bern, Switzerland, died 1721 at Erlenbach im Simmental, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Bern, Switzerland, age 95 or 96 years
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Isaac KauffmanBorn 20 Nov 1653 at Erlenbach im Simmental, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Bern, Switzerland, died 1715 at Steffisburg, Thun, Bern, Switzerland, age 61 or 62 years. Occupation: Anabaptist minister Was an Anabaptist Minister. Jailed in Thun, Switzerland, in 1685. Later moved to Alsace, France, where he joined the Amish when they got started in the 1690s. Note: Occupation: Tauferlehrer - Exiled Taufer preacher Note: Descended from the Kaufmanns in the vicinity of Thun and the neighborhood of Steffisburg, Heimber, and Homberg. (Kauff p.1) He became a Mennonite teacher by 1680, and was constantly on the move to avoid arrest. In 1694 he was said to be living in some Alp pasture near Schangnau; in 1699 he was a Mennonite teacher of Homberg, District of Thun, and was sent to Berne, where the authorities desired to banish him to Amsterdam for deportation to the East Indies; in 1700 he had returned to Berne, and was again hunted; he was at Steffisburg in 1701; and in 1709 he was still being pursued by the authorities, now at Grindelwald, Canton or Berne. Married Feb. 18, 1676.@S244@S244@S244@ | |||