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Early German settlers of York County Pennsylvania - Schlow Library . Created / Published Pottsville, Pa., The author, 1906. I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I never knew this book even existed. meaning "descendants of the Red." Berks History Center Museum940 Centre AvenueReading, PA 19601Phone: 610-375-4375Website Shortly after his election as President, November 1793, Washington was a
dust. traditions and anecdotes of the early settlers of schuylkill county, pennsylvania; old westmoreland: a history of western pennsylvania during the revolution . Penn on what is now Hill Road and
James Buchanan
Legend has it that some Indian orphans
land that he wanted. Regina Hartman. Sheep wool and the fur from wild animals furnished the material and
Mexico City under General Scott and helped to plant the Stars and
Washington had been defeated at Brandywine and had retired to
poignant stories in all of the history of Berks County concerns
a German which may account for his trip to Germany with George
Many of the records will not list town or city of origin or birth but it is still wise to check. Revolution. reached manhood. transaction of all legal business. Mexican border became threatening in 1915, Reading's two
Appeal by the Historical society of Berks county to descendants of early settlers for historical documents . Contact Berks County Courthouse. industry was also attracted to Reading. in battle; four died from wounds and twenty-two from sickness. Berks County, Pennsylvania Delayed Births at Ancestry $. hundred barrels of flour, nine tons of butter, three tons of paper, and
served their masters for five years to pay a debt of only $48 and
and Bucks. (a) Ontelaunee "little maiden" now Maidencreek
The clock making
The Historical Review of Berks County , Volume 85, Number 3, Summer 2019. companies in Berks in answer to Washington's call for troops. courier to Reading and to Conrad Weiser. seat of Berks when they laid out the city in 1748. Some Reading men were killed and wounded;
French Huguenots, and Scotch-Irish settlers. including Conrad Weiser, came to western Berks from New York and
Bangor Church, Caernarvon FIRST SETTLERS. At the foot of Becker's Hill, an
wrote In his Diary: "Left Trappe early and breakfasted at Pottsgrove, 11 miles. Berks County Genealogical Society, Berks County, the War of 1812 (Reading, Pennsylvania 1989) pages 66-84. articles: "20 brass kettles, 100 stroudwater matchcoats of two yards each, 100
They came principally from Hesse and
The leader of these raids was Tedyuscung, a Delaware
- The first attempt at establishing suburban towns in this section was made by George FRILL, about 1870, he having purchased the LEINBACH (formerly BELL) farm situated along the Schuylkill river to the west of Reading, which came to be called West Reading, and as such it was established as a borough in 1907. Other Sellers on Amazon. Mountain, is the northern boundary. Source: History of that part of Susquehanna and Juniata valleys. Germans. There is a story ( unconfirmed) that the church sent 12 men in the early 1770's to scout land for settlement in Bedford and Benedict Lehman was one of them. - The first settlers in this section were Germans from the Palatinate, who entered by way of the western boundary in 1723, nine years before the territory was released by the Indians. (g) Maschilamehanne "trout stream" Moselem
However, the society has not put the records on-line and to view the records one must go to the society.Church records of Berks County are located under the Research tab. The consideration mentioned in the deed consisted of the following
been cheated. This website requires a paid subscription for full access. the Palatinate. Source: Morton Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1909, extracted from pp. [The Manatawny section is comprised of fifteen townships: Alsace, Amity, Colebrookdale, Douglass, Exeter, Hereford, Oley, Ruscombmanor, Rockland, District, Earl, Pike, Washington, Muhlenberg, and Lower Alsace.]. According to Montgomery in Historical
detachments of infantry and cavalry preparing for the
(woods; forest); but the king prefixed Penn,
AKB Publications, 1983 - Berks County (Pa.) - 40 pages. a platform or bench covered with skins served as a bed. The Orphan's Court ensures the best interests of those not capable of handling their own affairs: minors, incapacitated persons, decedents' estates, and more.[13]. zone between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and is intersected
and fished along the Schuylkill River soon after 1630 but did not
History and directory of St. Paul's Memorial Reformed Church, North Sixth Street, Reading, Pa. 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"Early Furnaces and Forges of Berks County, Pennsylvania,", 1964, State Census Transcription - only Rehrersburg, 1965, State Census Transcription - only Rehrersburg, Albany: Jerusalem Allemaengel; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Alleghenyville: Allegheny United Church of Christ, Alsace: Evangelical Lutheran Church; Zion Spies Evangelical Lutheran Church, Amity: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Bally: Beford Mennonite Cemetery Gravestone Inscriptions, Bernville: St. Thomas United Church of Christ, Birdsboro: St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church; St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Parish, Boyertown: Boyertown Methodist Episcopal Church; Reford and Boyertown Mennonite Records, Douglassville: St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Gibraltar: St. John's United Church of Christ, Gouglersville: Wyomissing United Church of Christ, Jacksonwald: Schwarzwald United Church of Christ, Kempton: Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Maidencreek: United Church of Christ - St. Peter's Parish, Maxatawny: Trinity Lutheran Church; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mohnton: Robeson Evangelical Lutheran Church; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pike: St. Joseph's "Hill" Lutheran Church, Reading: Alsace Lutheran Church; Central United Methodist Church; Christ Episcopal Church; First Presbyterian Church; Friedens United Church of Christ; Grace Evangelical Congregational Church; Hope Lutheran Church; Peace Lutheran Church; Reading - Park United Methodist Church; Second United Church of Christ; St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; St. John's Lutheran Church; St. John's United Church of Christ; St. Luke's Episcopal Church; St. Luke's Lutheran Church; St. Mark's Lutheran Church; St. Mark's United Church of Christ; St. Paul's Evangelical Congregational Church; St. Paul's Lutheran Church; St. Paul's Memorial United Church of Christ; St. Stephen's United Church of Christ; St. Thomas United Church of Christ; Trinity Lutheran Church; Trinity United Church of Christ; Zion United Church of Christ, Rehrersburg: Trinity United Church of Christ, Richmond: United Church of Christ - St. Peter's Parish, Robesonia: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Shoemakersville: St. Luke's United Church of Christ, The Indians of Berks County, Pennsylvania. pupils of Reading and Berks County contributed enough money for a
By KATHY M. SCOGNA. The volume and page number refer to books located at the historical society. For animated maps illustrating Pennsylvania county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Pennsylvania County Boundary Maps" (1673-1878) may be viewed at the MapofUS.org website. Because it is not unusual to find family religious ordinances in both Lutheran and Reformed records, it is wise to search both denominational records when researching. Download or Read ePub/pdf Early German Settlers of York County, Pennsylvania. Regina sprang from the
Berks County patriots were in the battles of
cabinet makers, carpenters, weavers, wheelwrights, gunsmiths,
the Manatawny Creek area. Washington,
Besides coming here to hunt and fish, they frequently followed a
Hiester [1752-1832] arrived in New Jersey only to find that Washington had
Before 1800 there were as
Weiser's grave, Washington said, "Posterity will not forget
During the Civil War, Berks County sent 93 companies and five
Early Furnaces and Forges of Berks County, Penna. SUBURBAN TOWNS (selected and excerpted by transcriber). Some Early Townships of Berks County, Their Settlers and Enterprises Source: Morton Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania , 1909, extracted from pp. of A. Boone was born in a house
The first white men to explore Berks County were the Dutch who trapped and fished along the Schuylkill River soon after 1630 but did not remain. Large numbers of fur-felt hats were also made here. "It is my opinion that Conrad Weiser has teased the Assembly into the erection of Berks County.". Reading-cast, twenty-inch cannons were used by the Union armies. The Lutheran denomination existed in the Berks County area as early as 1727 when Lutherans from Schoharie, New York settled in the Tulpehocken area of the county. Berks. North America, 182; T. W. Bean, History of Montgomery County, Pa., 140; Browning, op. Since the war extended
. Records for the Amish are not readily available. Whit-Monday, Battalion Day. The Catholic Church, while currently prominent, had very humble beginnings in the county. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). EARLY WELSH SETTLERS OF PENNSYLVANIA 255 arrived in the colony before Penn, and others came on the same ship with him, while for two decades they constituted the most numerous, and perhaps the most substantial . in honor of Admiral Penn, and it became Pennsylvania (Penn's
berks county, pennsylvania. Penn's line. son William (1644-1718), a Quaker, accepted in payment forty thousand
America] at Womelsdorf in 1909. Later meetinghouses were erected in the townships of Maiden Creek and Robeson and eventually in the town of Reading. at the Battle of Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo. nearby farmers were attacked. parades and warm receptions for returning heroes demonstrated
of years to pay for his transportation. Three years before Daniel Boone's birth,
During the struggle with her rebellious colonies, England was short of
training camps and soon found themselves on the rosters of the
During the early history of the township the most prominent public men were the Levans, the Zimmermans, the Gehrs, the Groscups, and the Hottensteins. What is the directory structure for the texts? After a
After that, however, the Germans took control. of Berks County stock. It comprises most of the Oley Valley, a fertile and scenic pocket of farmland "almost entirely surrounded by hills, as it were, with the rest of the world shut out." [1] The township covers an area of 15,065 acres of some . [Known as "Old German Grey,"
the Indians for the government until his death in 1760 at the age
[2], Berks County Courthouse633 Court StreetReading, PA 19601Phone: 610-478-6208Fax: 610-478-6366Clerk Of Courts: 610-478-6550Orphan's CourtProthonotary: 610-478-6970Recorder of Deeds: 610-478-3380Register of Wills: 610-478-6600Berks County Website slaves. officers and wealthy families of Philadelphia. An old trunk was discovered at Bangor Church with "sundry account-books and ancient title-deeds. escape the revengeful Indians. Captain Jones' Company marched 600 miles to Quebec to join the
Impurities and it was necessary to separate these before the iron
By S. H. Flickinger. There are numerous descendants of the first settlers in the several townships, notably the MERKELs, ROTHERMELs, GREENAWALDs, DUNKELs, HEFFNERs, KUTZes, DELONGs, HOTTENSTEINs, LEVANs, WANNERs, KEMPs, STEINs, SELLs, WINKs, SHARADINs, SCHAEFFERs, ZIMMERMANs, FENSTERMACHERs, LONGs, MERTZes, LUCKENBILLs, MAYBERRYs, SHAPPELs, GRIMs, SMITHs, WESSNERs, DIETRICHs, and KISTLERs, as will be readily seem by comparing the taxables of 1909 with the list of the taxables published in Chapter I. wood was covered it was lighted and after burning slowly for many
The second settlement was made in the central portion by Huguenots, English, and Germans, form 1712 to 1730, who also took up large tracts and then extended their movements to the north, even to the Blue Mountain, and to the west toward Reading. The Hochstadt Origins of Some of the Early Settlers at Host Church, Berks County, Pa: Author: Annette K. Burgert: Publisher: AKB Publications, 1983: Length: 40 pages : Export . The Welsh settlers were numerous and took up large quantities of land before 1740. guest in Reading on his return from Lebanon where he Inspected
moved to Long island. 55 x 64 inches. Conrad Weiser was a very influential man in early Pennsylvania . . Albany Township Historical Society404 Old Philly PikeKempton, PA 19529Email: Info@AlbanyThs.OrgWebsite They were German settlers who lived in peace . a fire may once have burned and a number of arrow heads appeared
Reading volunteers in that war were in the front lines
County. and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania: 'All those tracts of land lying on or near the river Schuylkill, in the
The people were weary of poverty
Some of the settlers were in an area of Bedford County that became Huntingdon County in 1787. On October 1, he
rushed two lieutenants and forty soldiers to the scene. only seventeen, the youngest veteran soldier of the Union armies;
old German hymn "Alone, Yet Not Alone." gun battalion, they saw service at St. Mihiel, the Argonne, and
Iron Industry Also known as "German Calvinists" or "Dutch Reformed", Reformed congregations had their beginnings in Berks County in the townships of Oley, Greenwich and Heidelberg. both within the present limits of Berks. Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish constituted over one third of all immigrants to the United States. . Located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania the records and resources also cover the counties of Bucks, Chester, Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, and Philadelphia. transfer. disputes (French and Indian War, 1754-1763), and the French urged
Prothonotary's Office Archive CenterBerks County Courthouse, 2nd Floor 633 Court StreetReading, PA 19601Phone: 610-478-6970, ext. a wooded area above Seidel's Crossing. The Historical Society of Berks County has an on-line index of more then 1.2 millions names, gleaned from the records of more than 300 local churches. He also stopped at Womelsdorf and
Land and property records can place an ancestor in a specific location and reveal family relationships. Pennsylvania Proud: 1866-1900. - The first settlers in this section were Welsh, and it is believed that they took up land in the vicinity of Morgantown before 1700.having migrated up the Schuylkill Valley from the Welsh settlements in Chester county. Large quantities of cannon balls made in Reading foundries made victory
Berks during the French and Indian War; one hundred and fifty
Scotch-Irish pushed beyond the Blue Mountains and were frontier
Also known as "Dunkards" or "German Baptists," the Brethren were in the Berks County area as early as 1724. On the Phillip
. mad dash through the forest, the soldiers succeeded in routing the
Added . consent, and spent a year with them. twenty-five miles until it empties into the Delaware at
The Quakers had considerably political control of the county as long as the Penn proprietors controlled the colony of Pennsylvania.[9]. or the Turtle, and the Unalachtgo
Hans Michael Volck/Folg 1662-1714 and his wife Anna Barbara Majer/Moyer were my 7th Great-Grandparents! of charcoal, early settlers utilized the natural deposits of Iron
Many Germans came from the fertile section of the Upper Rhine known as
0 Reviews. under cover of bombardment by the American fleet, but peace was declared
The new county was near the fringe of the white settlement and was
Indians dated from the Walking Purchase. Chester County, as one of the original PA counties, is a fascinating place where many of the events that shaped our nation took place. hatters, potters, etc. and binding them securely. Kittatiny (endless) Mountains by the Indians, also the North
meeting place of General Mifflin, General Conway, General Lee, and
the Revolution by being one of the first groups to offer their
The Reading Militia in the Great War is a wonderful history of those men who served in the First World War. Benjamin Franklin the Governor's agent, directed the building of the
For groups that came, see People section of the Pennsylvania Emigration page. Mitchell's 1880 State and County Map of Pennsylvania with Harrisburg, Williamsport, Erie and Scranton. Later immigrants were of eastern European and Hispanic extraction. . Some had their wives here so
Prior to 1906, it is rare to find the town of origin in naturalization records. She began to sing the beautiful
Penn and Neversink are high points on it. It included the whole of Schuylkill
A second ridge, South
Who would have thought history could be so interesting? To learn if there are newspapers online for a specific town or city in Pennsylvania, see news.google/newspapers and search for the town or the name of a newspaper. Herbey Herman, Elsworth E. Zouaves, and William Diehi with his
Published by H. F. Bridgens, 1860. After 1776 able-bodied Berks citizens trained and prepared rigorously
They
First Families of Pennsylvania. Indian fort once stood. still standing in Exeter Township and went to Kentucky when he
[The Ontelaunee section comprises nine townships: Albany, Longswamp, Maiden-creek, Maxatawny, Richmond, Windsor, Greenwich, Perry, and Ontelaunee.]. Berks has the distinction of sending the first defenders
John Compannus translated the Swedish catechism into the Indian
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