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Hans Hage
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Member of the large body of persecuted Christians of Berne and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, who, about the year 1672, took up their abode in Alsace, above Strassburg, on the Rhine, where he remained until 1709. In that year he, in the company of Madame Ferree, and other Huegenots, Swiss and German, took passage in a ship carrying numerous Palatines bound for England. They are reported to have sailed from London and to have reached New York late in the year 1709 or in 1710.
Hans Hage, as well as many of this group of immigrants, resided for a while in New York in the Huguenot colony of Esopus, now Kingston, on the west bank of the Hudson river. But on becoming dissatisfied because of land titles and church differences, he and other zealous Calvinists united with their brethren at Wicacoa in the vicinity of Philadelphia. He finally settled in Pequea Valley, in Lancaster County, the Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he may have died. Tradition is that he married one of the daughters of Madame Ferree.
(extracted from the "The Hagey Families in America" by King Albert Hagey)
