When Lorentz Fissel was born on 15 January 1741, in Essenheim, Mainz, People's State of Hesse, Germany, his father, Johann Kilian Fissel Jr., was 41 and his mother, Anna Christiana Scheib, was 47. He died in January 1778, in Springfield Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 37.
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Historical Boundaries: 1749: York, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: York, Pennsylvania, United States
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German: unexplained.
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