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SPRING, 1969

VOLUME XVI

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No. 4

The Historical Society of Montgomery County

OFFICERS

Hon. Alfred L. Taxis, President

Robert B. Brunner, Esq., Vice President

J. A. Peter Strassburger, Vice President

Hon. Robert W. Honeyman, Vice President

Howard W. Gross, Treasurer

Eva G. Davis, Recording Secretary

Mrs. Earl W. Johnson, Corresponding Secretary

Mrs. LeRoy Burris, Financial Secretary

TRUSTEES

Herbert T. Ballard, Jr.

Merrill A. Bean

Kirke Bryan, Esq.

Norris D. Davis

Mrs. Andrew Y. Drysdale

Donald A. Gallager, Esq.

Hon. David E. Groshens

Howard W. Gross

Kenneth H. Hallman

Arthur H. Jenkins

Ellwood C. Parry, Jr.

Willum S. Pettit

John F. Reed

Hon. Alfred L. Taxis

Mrs. Franklin B. Wildman

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BENJAMIN EASTBURN'S SURVEY IN UPPER MERION TOWN

SHIP NOTING AN ERROR IN AN EARLIER SURVEY OF MOUNT

JOY MANOR.

(See article for interpretive map.)

Courtesy Historical Society of Pennsylvania

THE BULLETIN

of the

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Published Semi-Annmlly—Spring and Fall

Volume XVI Spring, 1969 No. 4

CONTENTS

Editorial 259

Traitors by Choice or Chance (concluded)Ellwood C. Parry, Jr. 261

A Palatine Boor, A Short Comprehensive History of theLife of Christopher Sauer I Herbert Harley 286

Benjamin Eastbum John F. Reed 298

The United States Census of 1850,

Montgomery County Edited by Jane K. BurrisNew Hanover Township 313Whitemarsh Township 383

Reports

John F. Beed, Editor

PUBLICATION COMMITTEEThe Editpr, Chairman

Mrs. Leroy Burris William T. Parsons Mrs. Earl W. JohnsonMrs. William H. Smith

Copyright, 1969, by The Historical Society of Montgomery County

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EDITORIAL

In order to celebrate the nation's bicentennial in 1976 the

first assurance that Americans must have is that they stillhave a country in which and for which to celebrate. The presentexternal and internal forces that are attempting to tear thenation apart in all too frequent cases are determined that, despite all our planning, there will be no anniversary to celebrate ; that there will no longer be a "home of the free and thebrave" on this distracted planet. These sinister forces aredaily taking action, both overtly and covertly, to destroy thevery liberties the bicentennialists wish to celebrate, the veryliberties that permit dissent, the liberties that are the hopeof thinking mankind.

Their actions should enlighten patriots not only to thedestructive aims of this dissident minority, but also to theonly effective countermeasure that can be employed to combatthis political destructiveness—ACTION BY THE PATRIOTICMAJORITY. Let patriots say, "We the American people milnot let anarchy and destruction rule us!'* If the subversive element depends on action for publicity and threat, why not morepublic action on the part of the multitudes of patriots to defeatthe enemy's sinister purposes? Not action outside the law, butmore action unthin the law—^more expressions of patriotismand love of country, more support of freedom, more show ofmajority strength via patriotic meetings and oratory, morepersonal consideration of what the nation and human freedomstand for and less consideration of self-satisfaction and selfish

ends. Has patriotism become such a "dirty word" that Americans are willing to surrender their sacred liberties in order toavoid saying it?

Extract from a speech by THE EDITOR at Freedoms Foundation atValley Forge, October SI, 1968.

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(Concluded)

By Ellwood C. Parry, Jr.

No matter how endless the winter of 1777-78 seemed to thenaked and hungry Continental soldiers at Valley Forge, themonths which followed must have seemed even longer and moreperilous to their countrymen who actively aided the British inand around Philadelphia. There was no Montgomery Countythen, but the townships which formed our county after the Revolution contributed about 50 persons to the "Black List" ofthose attainted of treason and thereby threatened with confiscation of all their property and possible hanging.

In the preceding issue of this Bulletin are recounted theslow and often uncertain steps taken by the Continental Congress and the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania toidentify, apprehend, and punish those "who went over to theenemy." Also in that article are the names and misdeeds ofseveral men of Cheltenham, Horsham, Moreland, and AbingtonTownships who carried their Toryism beyond the bounds offorgiveness by their Whig neighbors. Those bounds were considerably more elastic, despite many isolated acts of persecution, than can easily be imagined today. A letter from the Supreme Executive Council, two years after the Declaration ofIndependence, complains:

... As to 'concealed enemies,' it is the duty of every goodcitizen to make diligent enquiry after them, and to reportwhat they know of them and of their effects to the Magistrates and Commissioners: but it is too evident that thereis a great unwillingness in the people of the city to givethe necessary information against the disaffected. Thissubjects both the Council and the Chief Justice to verygreat difficulties.

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At the end of the article mentioned above is recorded thefact tiiat John Knight's farm in Abington was confiscated "forthe use of the University," and that the price was ^41,000. Twopoints here need further clarification, since they apply toseveral other properties of attainted persons.

The charter of the Academy and College of Philadelphia(founded by Franklin) provided that its trustees take an oathof allegiance to the King of Great Britain. After the warbegan some of the trustees, particularly Provost Dr. WilliamSmith, took seriously the obligations of that oath and weremore than a little vocal in the British cause. Peter Cress, aSadler and harness maker, in a deposition of March 20, 1779,is quoted as saying:

... That on the day on which the attack was made by theVigilant on the fortification at Mud Island, Doctor William Smith,... with a number of other people of the cityof Philadelphia, was on the banks near the mouth of theriver Schuylkill, viewing the attack with a large Spy-Glass or Telescope. That after the firing from the Roundtops of the Vigilant began and was returned from thefort he the said Peter Cress was standing behind andveiy near the said Doctor Smith, and heard him the saidDoctor say, that if they, the men in the fort meaning, donot surrender they ought every man of them to be putto the Sword, or words to this effect.

By July of 1779 Council began to concern itself with theadministration of the college, called for its Book of Records,and referred its charter to the Attorney General for his opinionas to its compatability with the laws of Pennsylvania. In September Joseph Reed, president of Council, in an address tothe General Assembly, observed:

... it might well have been presumed they [the trusteesof the college] would have sought the aid of Governmentfor an establishment consistent with the revolution andconformable to the great changes of Policy and Government ... The influence of a seat of learning upon the

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peace and good order of Government, have, we think,been too fully exemplified in the country from which wehave separated, to permit any well regulated State toneglect or overlook it.

The Assembly forthwith annulled the Academy's charterand created The University of Pennsylvania to take its place.It further authorized Council "to reserve such and so many ofthe Confiscated Estates as maybe necessary to Create a fund forthe support of the Provost [no longer Dr. Smith], and otherofficers of such University of the State." Accordingly, beginning in 1780 all such outright sales included a 25% reservefor the university, and in John Knight's case the entire property was turned over to the University of Pennsylvania. In otherwords, purchasers acquired title by paying three-fourths ofthe sale price and agreeing to pay an annual return (like amortgage interest) on the other quarter. This proved to be aningenious way of endowing the university without taxing thecitizens of the state directly. The university, in most instances,took its income in the form of bushels of wheat—a more stablecommodiiy than the rapidly depreciating Continental currency.

John F. Watson, in his Annals, presents a scale of depreciation prepared by an old Philadelphia merchant. It showsmonth-by-month from January 1777 to February 1781 how thepaper money declined from nearly par with specie to 75 to 1.Later it became completely worthless. In August 1780, whenKnight's farm brought £ 41,000, the rate was 70 to 1, or about£ 588 ($2,800) in "hard money"—a much more realistic figurefor 107 acres in those days. Canny purchasers of these properties often delayed making payment until the currency depreciated still further.

After the Knight brothers, the only other Abington linkto so-called treason is a brief note in the Pennsylvania Archives: "James Stevenson, late of Abington township, Practitioner in Physick; Charged on Oath of Matthias Bush & Jacob S.Miller with Treasonable Practices," supposedly for havinggone to join the enemy on the frontiers. A Philadelphia baker,named James Stevens, or Stevenson, was accused, surrendered.

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and was acquitted. It may have been the same man. A week afterthe proclamation was issued, Dennis O'Neal, of McAllestersTown, wrote to Council President Wharton:

The traitor who is noticed in your Proclamation bythe name of James Stevenson, late baker, should have beencalled James Stevens, late baker. I know the man well, hewas, I think, one of our Money Signers, if I mistake notwas appointed by a supplementary Act to ye $150,000 LoanOffice Act, to expedite as a Signer the Gompleating of thatEmission. As the Tory has property, he should have in afuture day no hole to creep out by saying that the name advertized was not his. . . N.B., It will be the more necessaryto make the alteratiun, as there is one or more James Stevenson in Philad'a.

In Upper Dublin Township were Nathan Carver, a wheelwright on Horsham Boad, Israel Evans, and another JohnRoberts, both blacksmiths, all attainted on May 21, 1778.Little is known about them, except that Carver was a privateSecond Class in the Militia in 1777, although he apparentlypreferred paying his muster and substitute fines to actuallyserving.

An excellent article in the Bulletin of this Society in tiieSpring of 1965, by John F. Reed, relates the tribulations ofHenry Juncken (or Younken), of Springfield. Juncken's offense seems to have been largely verbal. An immigrant fromGermany, he built up a substantial property as shopkeeperin Philadelphia and farmer on the Germantown Road inSpringfield, but was much too outspoken in his Lojralist convictions. In his letters he declared that he did not betray hisown conscience—"Neither Whig nor Tory did that," he said,"except for the weak and comparative few to whom self-preservation exceeded conscience." This did not save him,however, from arrest, the abuse of his neighbors, and eventualconfiscation of his personal property and real estate, includingvaluable furniture and household items he had left during thewinter of 1776-77 with various friends, including Jacob Funk

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in Cheltenham and Samuel Emlen in Second Street. By 1779the agents for the State began to discover the goods thatFunk and the others had concealed, though they probably neverdid find all of them. In January 1781, for example:

Charles Eller, of Germantown, labourer, being examined on oath, having declared that Catharine, the wife ofJohn Sneider, some time last winter, shewed him bondsand other eifects, to wit: a bed and a clock, belonging asshe said to Henry Younken: A warrant was issued to theSheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia to makesearch in the day time for the said effects, and to makereturn thereof to this Council forthwith.

Juncken and his wife went from Philadelphia to New Yorkto London, where he sought £2,725 (sterling) indemnity fromthe British for his losses here. Later he migrated again, thistime to Quebec. After his death there in 1803, his widow returned to live out her remaining years in Springfield (andprobably also to reclaim various possessions not discoveredduring the traitor-hunting years).

In nearby Whitemarsh were the Robeson brothers, Peterand Jonathan, Jr., millers on the Wissahickon Creek at ValleyGreen Road, near the Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown. The mill,built by their father, was a local landmark. Early Germansettlers in Salford and Franconia Townships had brought theirgrain there for grinding before they had mills of their own.Jonathan, Jr., was a large landowner and an executor of theextensive estate of his father-in-law, Edward Farmar, descendant of the first family in the area. Among his 11 children,one son, also named Jonathan, was a lieutenant in the FirstCity Troop and was ordered on duty during the Whisky Rebellion. The records show that Peter surrendered to the state

authorities and was acquitted of treason. Since there is nomention of the seizure of Jonathan's considerable property,it may be assumed that he, too, was exonerated. However,some suppositions concerning the Robesons and their mill maybe drawn from this petition of John Moore and 17 others toCouncil in February 1779:

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... to let your Honours know the Distress of our Countryin Regard of Bread, is as follows, viz.: there isWheat plenty, But there is so many disaffected people thatwill not sell their grain without hard money, and it chieflylays in the Hands of such People, Especially in the township of Whitemarsh. There is great plenty of wheat, butnot a handfull to be sold for Continental money, so we,your humble petitioners. Beg the favours of your honoursto take our Lamentable Case into searious Consideration,as our Case is Lamentable. Our Wives and Children must

starve unless your Honours will Be pleased to grant yourfaithfull subjects some Relief.. . To set a Reasonable priceon wheat, pr. bushels, as we, your faithfull subjects, canlive, and we shall Ever bless your Honours.

John Robeson, a cordwainer (shoemaker) in Whitpain,was another whose estate (like that of Daniel Jeans, of More-land) was "a wasting very fast" before he was proclaimed atraitor on June 22, 1779. His 75 acres included "a good house.Barn, stone spring House, and sundry out Buildings, a wellplanted orchard, some good meadow, and wood land whereonis some Timber," but there were these encumbrances: "JohnRobeson, Junr., to keep on said place, 1 horae, 3 cows and 6sheep, to give £4 pr. an. in Cash and a house to his Grantmother during life. And to his step-mother £2 pr. an. duringthe grandmother's life and £4 during her own life afterwards,Also a legacy to his Sister of ^50 due 3 years ago." The publicsale was held at the Court House in Philadelphia (the countyseat) on May 30, 1781. The State, as usual, paid for liquorconsumed at the sale, but whether this was intended to wet thewhistle of the auctioneer or to overcome inhibition on the partof the bidders is not clear. Edward Milne acquired the property for £715, subject to the Supreme Court decree allowing"Sarah Robinson [sic], widow, the additional stone buildingadjoining the Log dwelling house built by John Robinson theson during her widowhood, also the keeping of a horse, twocows & six sheep during her widowhood, [and] subject toa yearly ground rent of twenty-one bushels and nine-twenti-

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eths part of a bushel of good merchantable wheat, payableto the trustees of the University of this state—^three fourthsof which sum the said Edward Milne has paid to the agentsof said county, the remaining one-fourth being reserved forthe purpose aforesaid."

Whitpain had two others on the list, both yeomen. StephenSteyer, named in the proclamation of June 15, 1778, was laterdischarged by proclamation. Isaac Taylor had his "One Moietyof 100 Acres of Land in Whippen Township" seized and soldto the University for £20,000 in November 1780. The Hon.Jones Detwiler, in an article in the first volume of HistoricalSketches of Montgomery County, states that at a meeting ofCouncil held at Philadelphia in January 1778 (this should,of course, be 1779) Isaac Taylor was ordered arrested foraiding the enemy by joining the British army. Stephen Steyerand Isaac Taylor, Detwiler noted, "surrendered themselves, andwere discharged." If this is so, Taylor must have incurred theCouncil's wrath a second time, because he and John Robesonwere both proclaimed traitors in June 1779, and both losttheir estates.

Three of the four accused in Pljmouth Township weredischarged. They were the brothers Lisle, John and Robert,both laborers, and Nicholas Knight, limeburner. Knight, whodied in 1787 at age 69, was the son of John Nicholas Knight,described by the Hon. William H. Yeakle "as a gentleman ofwealth" whose deeply panelled headstone in the ancient graveyard adjoining the Williams School in Whitemarsh was "curiously wrought, with lettering in quite old style both in spelling and form." The stone was dated 1722.

In his Campaign to Valley Forge, John F. Reed mentions"a Quaker by the name of Parker, whom Howe had commandeered as a guide." He gave the British intimate information about Chester County before the Battle of Brandywine.It may have been John Parker, of Plymouth, a laborer aboutwhom little can be discovered except that he was proclaimeda traitor on May 21, 1778. Several Parkers belonged to Plymouth Friends Meeting.

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Of the four accused in Norriton, one, John Huntsman,miller, was acquitted, and another, William Evans, carpenter,cannot be traced in the records. It is not known whether hewas acquitted or proscribed. The brothers-in-law RobertCunard, identified as a "Major," and Enoch Supplee, farmer,are another story. The Cunard name evolved from Kundersto Gunreds to Conrad or Cunard. One of this family, aTory but not a traitor, fled from Norriton to Nova Scotia,where he married, and was the father of Sir Samuel Cunard,founder of the famous Royal Mail Steamship Line. Robert wasa cousin of Sir Samuel's father, and his sister Sarah was thewife of Enoch Supplee. Both of these men eventually led smallparties of emigrants to Kings County, New Brunswick.

The most colorful narrative I have discovered about the

traitors of our county (and it involves two of them) is contained in the Sketches of this Society where Major William H.Bean quotes notes given Col. Theodore W. Bean in 1886 byJeremiah Weber, an old resident of Norristown. It deservesre-publication:

A correct and true account of the attempt made to capture Esquire Andrew Knox as given me by Isaac Mc-Glathery himself in 1835 when I worked on his farm.

Andrew Knox lived on his farm in Whitpain townshipon the highway leading from the State road to Geisen-himer's Mill on the township line road between Norritonand Whitpain townships. The names of the men who madethe attempt to make the capture were as follows: EnochSupplee, Robert Jones, John Stuthers, Abisha Wright andWilliam Thurlow. Thurlow was wounded. It took placein January, 1778 [it was actually February]. They saidafter their capture that they had a meeting under a treenear the mill. There was a slight snowfall while they werein consultation. Stuthers was wounded and was trackedin the snow from Knox's to Thomas Livezey's in Plymouthtownship, where he was found under a hogshead in thecellar. This led to the capture of the others by Stuthersgiving their names for which he was left [sic] go free. He

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had been met by the others and they compelled him to goalong with them. Supplee and Jones escaped to the Britishlines below Barren Hill. Wright and Thurlow were captured by Isaac McGlathery, Henry Houpt, Abraham Weiers,and Peter Sterigere.

When Thurlow found that they were going to take himand Wright up to Knox's, he became stubborn and would notgo. The road that runs up to the Knox farm is oppositethe school house called Ellis School. In the field in front ofthe house stood a large walnut tree. They hanged Thurlowon a limb of this tree. When Wright saw this, he wentalong to Knox's, and Esquire Knox sent them with him tothe Provost Marshal. The officers made short work of him.They hanged him to the limb of a large white oak treethat stood near the Square (probably Penn) [but possiblyMontgomery Square], until a few years ago. Stuthers saidthe British promised each of them ten guineas for the capture of Knox and the same for Captain Curry who livedin Norriton township near what is now Jeffersonville.

The Knox house was built of stone and stood about 80

yards from the road and nearly opposite the lane leadingto McGlathery's house. The houses were about 200 yardsapart. A black girl from Knox's ran to McGlathery's foraid. Her screams alarmed the attacking party, but beforeleaving they fired five or six shots into the door.*

Additional details of the attempted kidnaping of this justice of the peace are contained in a letter written at ValleyForge by Washington's aide de camp, John Laurens, to hisfather, then President of Congress sitting at York:

This gentleman's house was surrounded early in themorning some days ago by a party of traitors, lately distinguished by the title of royal refugees; he was in bedin a lower room, and upon their demanding admittance,was going to open to them, when his son, who was above,

•This door is now on display in the headquarters of the MontgomeryCounty Historical Society, Norristown, Pa.

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and perceiving from the window fixed bayonets, call'd tohim to keep his door shut and warned him of danger. Thevillains in the mean time pressed against the door; the oldman armed himself with his cutlass, and his son descendedwith a gun. The door was at length forced half open by oneof the most enterprising; the father kept it in that positionwith his left hand and employed his right in defending thepassage. After some vigorous strokes, his cutlass broke;the bad condition of the son's fusil had prevented his firingtill this moihent. He was now prepared to salute the assailants, but the old man thinking all was iost by the failureof his weapon, called to him not to fire; upon farther examination, however, he says he found that by being shortened,it was only better adapted to close quarters, and renewedthe fight.

The villains fired seven shots through the door, one ofwhich grazed the squire's knee, which was all the damagedone. They then threw down their arms, and took to theirheels; they were pursued by the Knoxes and a party ofmilitia, and one of them who was concealed in a cellar wastaken.

The besetting of Mr. Knox's house is a matter of civilcognizance, but it appears that the prisoner has held correspondence with the enemy, and supplied them with provisions, and he will probably suffer death for those offencesby sentence of court-martial.

In the "rich man, poor man" preamble to the first part ofthis article, a thief is listed. That thief was Abijah Wright,one of the two said to have been hanged for taking part in thisvillainy. He was one of three brothers listed among six traitorsfrom Hatfield, although he was attainted for burglary, nottreason. He apparently had a record of crimes in Philadelphia,Chester, Bucks, Lancaster, and Northampton Counties. TheWrights, Abijah, John, and Jonathan, all identified as yeomen,had purchased large farms from their father in the lower partof the township, a mile from Lansdale, but had not paid forthem by the time he died. His will set a time limit for pay-


ment which the boys did not meet. Technically, therefore, Abi-jah's 94 acres, John's 50, and Jonathan's 101 did not belong tothe traitors at all, but to their father's estate. This, however,did not forestall confiscation and sale of the farms. An appealto the Supreme Court bythe father's executor thatAbijah's landshould not be taken since he was not accused of treason wasrejected. His other crimes seem to have provided sufficientjustification. When Jenkin Evans and Charles Humphreystook inventory of the brothers' personal possessions, which included one horse with the "pole-evil," they swore on the holyEvangelists, before a justice of the peace, that they had made"a just Praisment." The Wrights must have been a shiftlesstribe. Jonathan's land was described as "very poor," and theywere all "very much in debt." Among the creditors of bothJohn and Jonathan was the treasurer of the free school ofMontgomery township.

What actually happened to Abijah, however, is obscuredby conflicting evidence. Despite Jeremiah Weber's recollections(repeated with some obviously incorrect dates by Chauncey B.Knapp in the first Bulletin of this Society), Abijah was nothanged from any white oak limb near either Penn or Montgomery Square. On November 30, 1778, a transcript of theconviction of Abijah for felony and burglary was read toCouncil:

At a Court of Oyer & Terminer & General Goal deliveryheld at Philadelphia, for the County of Philadelphia, thetwentieth day of September, in the year of Our Lord OneThousand Seven hundred and Seventy-eight, it was presented, That Abijah Wright, late of the County of Philadelphia, Laborer, had with force and Arms, at Whitpain,in the County aforesaid, the dwelling house of AndrewKnox, Esq., there situated, feloniously and burglariouslydid break and enter, with an intent him, the said AndrewKnox, then and their being, feloniously to kill and murder,&ca., &ca.: It was, therefore, considered by the Court thatthe said Abijah Wright be hanged by the Neck 'til he bedead.

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^ And on deliberate consideration,Ordered, That the Sentence of the Supreme Court

against Abijah Wright, be executed against him on Saturday next [December 5, 1778], at the usual place, betweenthe hours of ten O'Clock in the forenoon and two O'Clodcin the Afternoon of the said day.

On the fourth of December, a petition by the wife, children,relatives, and neighbors of Abijah for a stay of execution wasread before the Council, but there is no indication of theirdecision. (In most such cases silence gave consent to execution.) However, two years later, Council ordered that JosephStansbury (a Tory accused but acquitted of treason after singing "God Save the King**);

... be permitted to go to New York, he giving his promiseupon honor to proceed immediately to that city, and use hisutmost endeavors to have Abijah Wright and Casper Geyer,now prisoners on Long Island, released and permitted toreturn home...

The Journal of Samuel Rowland Fisher relates that a barber who shaved prisoners in the old jail at Third and MarketStreets once called out to his neighbors in Cherry Alley "toturn out and bring their spades with them for they were tohang and bury Tories," and "had been very abusive to AbijahWright, who was hanged for being a guide to the British Armywhile they lay in the city." Fisher also mentions Stansbury'strip to New York without explanation of the apparent contradiction. Could Abijah possibly have escaped the noose by joining the Continental army?

Not too much has been discovered about the other three Hat-field miscreants: Thomas Green, yeoman or shoemaker;Thomas Silkod, yeoman; and Cornelius Toys (or Tyson), blacksmith. There is even some question where they lived, since bothBucks and Philadelphia Counties listed them. Green (if he isthe same man) was a member of the Loyal American Legion,a provincial regiment in British service which went to Virginia with Benedict Arnold, but returned -with him to New York


in 1781 "because the men had deserted so fast in Virginia theycould no longer be trusted there." This Green later died in NewBrunswick.

It is reasonably safe to guess that one or more of the Hat-field traitors took part in the kidnaping of 130 fat cattle collected in New York for the troops at Valley Forge. It was acruel loss to Washington on the night after his birthday in1778. The herd was being driven overland from the Delawareat Howell's Ferry to the Continental slaughter-house in LowerProvidence Township. General Lacey, being short (as always)of troops, provided no protection for the drovers as they tooka roundabout route through Doylestown into Hatfield Township,There a Tory informer, posing as an officer of Washington'sstaff, induced them to spend the night on a farm near Bartholomew's Tavern. Disguised as farmers, a company of Britishdragoons, accompanied by Captain Richard Hovenden, a traitorfrom Newtown, Bucks County, rode out of the city and up theBethlehem and Skippack Pikes, falling upon the cattle andtheir keepers at daybreak, capturing them all, and returningwith them triumphantly into Philadelphia.

It is a long jump, both socially and geographically, from therabble of Hatfield to the distinguished Potts family of Douglass and New Hanover Townships (before the Pottsgrove townships were formed). John Potts, founder of Pottsgrove, had13 children. The three oldest boys, Thomas, Samuel, and John,came into possession of most of his nearly 1,000 acres comprising the present borough of Pottstown. The oldest, Thomas,was an active member of the Colonial Assembly, and helped toraise and equip five companies of riflemen from the Pottsgrovearea. Samuel, the second son, made cannon at the WarwickFurnace for Washington's troops. Dr. Jonathan, another ofthe brothers, entered the Continental Army as a physician andbecame Director General of the Middle Department of theArmy. Isaac owned the Valley Forge Mills and his home became AVashington's headquarters during that fateful winter.John, Jr., however, held a commission as judge under the crownof England, and spent his winters in Philadelphia, the summers

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either at his estate on the Schuylkill, which he called "Stowe,"or at his dwelling at High and Hanover Streets. Anotherbrother, David, was also attainted, but was subsequently discharged by proclamation.

As one of the "late crown & proprietary officers" coveredin the resolution of Congress on July 31, 1777, John was ordered arrested, either "to be confined or enlarged upon parole."According to local tradition he escaped from a rear window ofhis house on High Street as a squad of Continental troops approached to arrest him. He hid for a time with relatives, and,according to Sabine (quoting from a Loyalist tract publishedin London in 1784), offered half of his property to the Whigsif they would restore the other half, which they refused to do.It may be that Potts considered his crime, if any, no worsethan misprision of treason, a serious misdemeanor for whichthe penalty was the loss of half of one's estate. It is unlikelythat a judge would have stooped to bribery if he had a legalloophole by which to escape, and this was the loophole JudgePotts hoped to employ.

On June 3, 1778, Colonel James Morgan, in Reading, wroteto Council Vice President George Bryan, in Lancaster:

There is a report here that the English have evacuatedPhila'a; it is beyond a doubt that John Potts and SamuelShewmaker Embarked on Sunday evening, but they don'tknow themselves where they are bound—^poor divels, theythink any where better than to face their injured countrymen. Thomas & Sam'l Potts are on their way to Lancaster,I suppose, for their brother David.

Because of his prominence and the fact that he joined theBritish as soon as they arrived in Philadelphia, Potts sufferedat least partial seizure of his property long before any of theother traitors of the county. A letter dated December 20, 1777,from William Antes, Sub. Lieut, and Commissioner for Loyalist estates, to John Mitchell explains:

Mr. John Potts having gone into the Enemies Army,and by that Measure and Several others, come under the


Penalty of the Law, published by the Council of Safety ofthis State and confirmed by the General Assembly, bywhich his Estate appears to be a forfeiture to the publick,and you having rented the House, Garden, Stables and Lottsbelonging to the said John Potts from his Wife for Oneyear from the 1st January next, I do hereby authorize, im-power and direct you to keep full and ample possession ofthe said House, Stables, Garden and Lott as aforesaid forthe above Term or untill the proper authority of this Stateshall dispose of the same by Publick Sale—^thisldo by Virtueof the Power and Authority invested in me by the saidCouncil of Safety and Assembly of this State.

Mrs. Margaret Potts also wrote to Mitchell, saying that "rayprincipal motive for letting you have it is that every thing maybe taken care of and not injured nor abused."

Potts, of course, accompanied the British to New York.From there he wrote: "It is very evident that unless [theBritish] Government can disengage itself from an Europeanwar and employ a greater force and more vigor in the prosecution of this, the game is certainly up and America lost."After nearly a year of separation, Mrs. Potts petitioned Council for permission to visit him in New York, with her threechildren, maid-servant, three featherbeds, and other furniture.This was granted on the condition she give security in theamount of £2,000 and "not return without leave of Council."She was also obliged to list the furniture with the commissioner of forfeited estates so that there would be no subsequentargument about its ownership. Apparently she did return toPhiladelphia County, because in April 1781 she was againgiven permission to visit her husband, who was about to embark for England. Even as late as 1783 John's son, Samuel,had to give security for his good behavior while in Pennsylvania.

John's brother, Jonathan, the physician, eventually boughtthe Stowe mansion and 235-acre farm for £20,100, while General Arthur St. Clair (pronounced Sinclair), who, to Washington's dismay, deserted Fort Ticonderoga without firing a shot

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at Burgoyne's army, but later became president of Congressbefore the Constitution was adopted, acquired the house atHigh and Hanover for £6,700 (£411 in specie). St. Clair hadhad his eye on this property for some time. On June 16, 1779,he wrote to Council Secretary Matlack:

... I observed some time ago that Notice was given thepublick that the Estates of certain attainted Persons wouldsoon be sold—^you will oblige me by letting me know whenthat of John Potts will be disposed of that I may takeMeasures in Time for the Purchase of his house whichI intend.

Some miles down the Schuylkill River in Upper Merionwere Frederick Woolf, laborer, and Jacob Richardson, carpenter. Woolfs name does not appear on the proclamations, butit does on a fragmentary list of "Persons gone with ye enemy;"while Richardson, who was duly proclaimed, forfeited hisrecognizance, presumably by flight to escape trial, althoughSabine says he surrendered himself and was discharged. Littleelse is known about either man.

One farm in Upper Merion accidentally became involved inconfiscation litigation. Joseph Dean, son of a Presbyterianminister, was a wealthy importer in Philadelphia before theRevolution. In his zeal for the cause of independence he was asigner of the non-importation resolutions against British commerce, loaned the government $60,000 at the outbreak of thewar (which he subsequently lost), served on the Committee ofSafety, and helped organize the Board of War. On June 24,1777, he signed a purchase agreement -with William Bell forthe latter's tract of 136 acres in Upper Merion, and paid £400down. Bell then moved to Newtown Township, Chester County,where he was attainted a year later, before Dean had completedpayment for the property. The "catch" was that when traitorswere attainted the law provided that what they owned on July4, 1776, or at any time thereafter, was forfeited. So, to savehis £400 and prevent seizure of the property, Dean had to petition Council. Finally, after a Supreme Court decree in 1783it was decided that Dean might keep the farm upon pajment


of the balance, "agreeable to the schedule of depreciation fromJune 25, 1777," with lawful interest, to the State Treasury. Atthe close of the war Dean bought several other estates oftraitors.

Melchior Meng, a carter and baker of Germantown, ownedfour properties, one of them in Lower Merion. Accused in May1778, Meng surrendered by the due date in July and was subsequently discharged. Meanwhile, the inventory which wastaken of his real estate listed 34 acres along the Schuylkill. Afew years before, Menghad advertised this property as having"a conveniency for a Shad Fishery." Not only shad but alsocatfish, sturgeon, herring, and rock fish came upstream ingreat numbers before the dams were built in the followingcentury. Following the Battle of Germantown the British usedMeng's house as a hospital because the large quantities of vinegar Meng made and stored there helped to stanch the flow ofblood from wounds. Meng was also noted for his gardens andhis collection of unusual trees.

Most conspicuous and tragic among the county's Loyalistswas John Roberts, miller, of Lower Merion. John was thegrandson of a 1690 settler along Mill Creek. He married JaneDowning, of Chester County, in 1743, and built the first ofhis mills in 1746 at Gulph and Mill Creek Roads. The datestonebore the initials "J.R.J." (for John and Jane). During the next30 years Roberts accumulated land, wealth, and prestige. Hisholdings grew to nearly 700 acres, and he controlled bothbanks of Mill Creek for nearly two miles; he operated grist,flour, paper, saw, and oil mills, and leased part of his creekfrontage for a gunpowder mill; there was also a shad fisheryon the river, and a landing from which he floated lumber andother mill products down the Schuylkill to Philadelphia. Hishome was a welcome stopping place for travellers, and hismill complex was both a landmark and point of reference inthe township.

In 1763 Roberts was appointed trustee to arrange the purchase of land for the Merion Friends Meeting; in 1773 he wasa commissioner for improving Schuylkill navigation; in 1774,


when word of the closing of the Port of Boston reached Philadelphia, John Roberts was named to the Committee of Correspondence which met in Carpenters Hall on July 15th to recommend that the Assembly appoint delegates to a proposed Congress. He also served on the later Committee of Correspondenceand Inspection (with Isaac Knight of Abington), and was adelegate to a convention for the suppression of the slave trade.Between his many business and social activities he liked to fishfor trout in the little creek which ran into Mill Creek betweentwo of his mills, and he molded his own bullets for hunting inthe woods on his many tracts of land.

Although many of the details of Roberts' activities for theBritish are lost, two of the charges against him were neverdenied. He joined the British when they occupied Philadelphialate in September 1777, and in December acted as a guide onone of their forays into Lower Merion. Two reasons were givenfor his "going over to the enemy." First, he was incensed bythe arrest and detention of some of his friends (the VirginiaExiles) by the Americans and hoped that the British could release them; and, second, he feared that some of his more revolutionary-minded neighbors were going to kill him for his Loyalist and Quakerly views. This fear was not exaggerated, asmany other Tories discovered when set upon by club-wieldingmobs. His other misdeed is summed up dispassionately by Reedin Campaign to Valley Forge:

[As the British approached the Black Horse Tavern,at the present City Line Avenue and the Lancaster Road]Potter's militia fired a volley and a smart skirmish ensued.In a short while the Americans, outflanked, overpowered,and having lost a half dozen men killed and wounded, fellback in confusion along Old Lancaster Road that now connects the scene of the encounter with the present Montgomery Avenue. The British followed on the militia's heelsas far as Merion Meeting where the Americans, being supported, stood another hard skirmish, then fell back again,along the Gulph Road into the Mill Creek Valley.


Cornwallis continued his pursuit, guided by a local inhabitant, John Roberts. Before quitting Philadelphia Cornwallis had commandeered Roberts, learning that he wasfamiliar with the district of the proposed operation ...

On May 8, 1778, Roberts was accused and given until the25th of June to surrender. He left Philadelphia accordingly,and on the 19th of June went before Justice of the Peace Zebu-lon Potts and posted bail for his court appearance. At thesame time he took the affirmation of allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Potts did "command all Sheriffs,Constables, &c., not to detain nor keep in Custodythe said JohnRoberts, on any Account, Cause, Action or thing, relative tothe above mentioned proscription." The pressures of publicoutrage, however, were snowballing to such an extent a warrant was issued on July 27th for his arrest for high treason byanother Justice of the Peace, James Young, based on the oathof Michael Smith and Mary, his wife. Roberts and a millernamed Fishburn were even accused of grinding glass into "murderous particles sharper than steel" and mixing it with whiteflour for Washington's troops at Valley Forge, a deed, hisaccusers said, that was providentially discovered.

At his trial before Chief Justice McKean and Justice JohnEvans it was argued that Roberts, "not having the fear of Godbefore his Eyes, but being moved & seduced by the instigationof the Devil... did falsly & traitorously, & in Warlike &hostile manner, array & dispose himself against this Commonwealth ..." His defense was almost entirely one of self-defense: first from his threatening neighbors, then from thewrath of the British if he did not guide them. His convictionwas inevitable. Part of McKean's sentence was quoted in thePennsylvania Packet of November 7, 1778:

It is in vain to plead you have not personally acted in thiswicked business, for all who countenance and assist arepartakers in the guilt. Your junction gave encouragementto the invaders of your country. Your example occasionedthe defection of others, and you exerted yourself in forward-

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ing: their arbitrary designs. It is in vain to plead that youfled to the enemy for protection against some of your neighbors who threatened your life, because they thought you aTory, for you might have applied for and obtained protection from the civil magistrate or from the army of yourcountry.

It is true, and I mention it with pleasure, that your interestwith the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army was frequently employed in acts of humanity, charity, and benevolence.

Ten of the jurors, it was said, favored acquittal, but sinceenormous pressure was being applied by the State to obtain aconviction, they agreed, with the full expectation that his lifewould be spared. Probably never before nor since in the historyof criminal trials have both judges and juries made such aforceful but vain appeal for a man's life as they did for JohnRoberts. The Grand Jurors pleaded "that Pennsylvania, if sheerr in the punishment of offenders may ever err on the side ofMercy;" the regular jury stated "that altho by the oath wehave taken, we found ourselves obliged to pronounce him Guilty,yet knowing that Juries are but fallible Men, and reflectingthat the evidence before us was of a very complicated nature,and some parts of it not reeoncileable with his general conduct,and other evidence of his good offices to many persons whowere prisoners among the enemy... we most earnestly pray...that the penal part of the said John Roberta's sentence may besuspended..." Justices McKean and Evans also recommendedpostponement of the execution. Then followed a veritable avalanche of petitions, signed by more than 1,000 of the most influential citizens of the state. Whig as well as Tory, poor aswell as rich. One hundred and forty-five names were attachedto 12 petitions certifying "That on the 11th day of December1777, when the Enemies of America, commanded by Lord Corn-wallis, with an armed force, came a plundering amongst us,the said John Roberts did use his utmost endeavours to save usfrom that Repacious hand. And when any of us were takenPrisoners he likewise used his utmost entreaty to have us lib-


erated, and to procure us satisfaction as far as in his powerfor such of our property as was taken from us by the Enemy."

Roberts and Abraham Carlisle, a Philadelphia carpenter,were sentenced to be hanged together on November 4th. JaneDowning Roberts and nine of her ten children flung themselves on their knees before Congress, beggingfor mercy. Thecoldness of Council's response to the various entreaties can befelt across nearly two centuries in their Minutes of November3d:

The Council resumed the consideration of the cases ofJohn Roberts and Abraham Carlisle; And after solemn consideration, and the Questions being put, shall a Reprievebegrantedto John Roberts and Abraham Carlisle, or eitherof them? The same was carried in the Negative.

The two men were taken out to Bush Hill, the former estateof Andrew Hamilton which extendedfrom 12th to 19th Streets,between Vine and Vinyard Lane (now Fairmount Avenue),which, during the Revolution, had deterioriated into an opencommon and hangman's ground. There, according to a letterwritten by Isaac Ogden, a witness (as quoted by Sabine), Roberts "told his audience that his conscience acquitted him ofguilt; that he suffered for doing his duty to his Sovereign[George III] ; that his blood would one day be demanded attheir hands; and then turning to his children, charged andexhorted them to remember his principles for which he died,and to adhere to them while they had breath... after which hesuffered with the resolution of a Roman." He was buried atMerion Meeting. Legends have grownlike weeds in the Roberts'garden. One of them placed the hanging in his own apple orchard, and another investedhis gray stone housewith his ghost.For years the home which had always been open to travellersbecame the "haunted house" of Lower Merion.

In an unpremeditated poetic couplet, General James Potter,in a letter to Council, wrote in 1777: "The Torreys I am toldLoock as Cain did of old, and the Whigs Begin to Rejoice."His observation was premature, but it came to pass when Roberts fell under the inflamed passions of the mob which, having

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been oppressed by the British, thirsted for blood, the bluer thebetter. Only six months after Roberts and Carlisle died theCouncil issued a reprieve for George Harding, another convicted traitor, stating that "his death (being a man of smallnote or consideration) would afford little benefit by the example." It is easy today to agree that Roberts' hanging was unjustified, yet in the context of the. times it is remarkable howfew traitors paid for their deeds with their lives, especiallywhen it is remembered that even burglars, highway robbers,and passers of counterfeit money were hanged almost withoutexception in the 18th Century.

Although Roberts' properties were sold in 1780 for morethan £271,600 (of which one-fourth was reserved for the University) , the Supreme Court must have had considerable misgivings because they issued several decrees permitting thewidow and children to retain many specific household articles,use of the mills, some of the land, and an annual pension. Oneson, Nathan, did not benefit. He was attainted in Bristol Township, now part of Philadelphia, and served the British in theBarrackmaster-General's Department. Like so many others, helater settled in New Brunswick.

A few of the more moderate Whigs recognized the absurdityof persecuting the Tories after the war was over. They arguedthat these misguided people had lost all political influence anyway. It would be better to allow them to stay in the UnitedStates than to drive them off to found an unfriendly colony tothe north. But those who argued thus, no matter how conspicuous their own service had been in the American cause, ran therisk, almost literally, of being tarred with the same stick.

The British government undertook a huge task in evacuating the Tories, giving them land and indemnifying them fortheir losses in the States. Even if the promised 200 acres offarmland for the head of each family did not always materialize, by 1790 Parliament had paid out about $16,000,000 to4,000 refugees, including some of our traitors, while othersreceived grants of crown-lands, half pay as military officers,special annuities, or civil service appointments. It seems ironic

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that our ancestors, who had so much more to be grateful for,did far less during and after the war for our ragged liberatorsthan the enemy did for the traitors in our midst.

SOUECES

Most of the material for this article was drawn from an almostpage-by-page examination of the Colonial Records, Vols. XI, XII, andXIII, and from the Pennsylvania Archives, First Series, IV, V, VI, VII;Second Series, I; Third Series, XIV; Fourth Series, III; and Sixth Series,XII and XIII. Lesser sources follow:

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Bill, A. H., Valley Forge, (N.Y., Harper, 1952).

"Black List," A List of Those Tories who took pa/rt with Great Britain,In the Revolutionary War, and were Attainted of High Treason, eom-monly called the Black List (Phila., printed for the Proprietor, 1802).

Boatner, M. M., Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (N.Y., DavidMcKay, 1966).

Buck, W. J., "A British Capture," Hist. Sketches Montg. Co., I (1895),328-32.

"The History of Mooreland from Its First Purchase and Settlement to the Present Time," BulL Hist. Soc. Montg. Co., VI, I (1947),53-63.

Conrad, H. C., Thomas Kunders and His Children, (Wilmington, Press ofW. Costa, 1891).

Detwiler, Hon. J., "Fourth and Fifth Battalions, Pennsylvania Militia,1777-1780," Hist. Sketches Montg. Co., I (1895), 336-46.

Fisher, S. R., "The Journal of Samuel Rowland Fisher," Pa. Mag. Hist.& Biog., 41 (1917).

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Harvey, Margaret B., "Something about Lower Merlon," Hist. SketchesMontg. Co., I (1895), 159-61.

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Hooker, E. W., GermanUnon: 1683-198S (Phila., priv. printed, 19SS), 121,

, "Old Time Advertisements," Hist. Sketches Montg. Co., V (1915),238-42.

Johnston, J. C., "The Tyson Lime Kilns," Bull. Old York Bd. Hist. Soc.,Ill (1939), 48.

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A Short Comprehensive Historyof the Life of Christopher Sauer I

By Hkibert Harley

"Christopher Sauer, clockmaker, (was a) noted printerand publisher of Germantown, whose labors and efforts forthe diffusion of knowledge among his countrymen form a brightchapter in the history of Pennsylvania Germans..the historian, Edward Mathews, wrote. Benjamin Franklin had something less complimentary to say about the Pennsylvania Germans, among whom was included Christopher Sauer. "Whyshould the Palatine boors," Franklin queried, "be suffered toswarm into our settlements and by herding together establishtheir language and manners to the exclusion of ours? Whyshould Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colonyof aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us,instead of our Anglifymg them?" WilliamPenn had even giventhe Germans power to make laws by which to govern themselves. These laws were written in German, and the courtsconducted in German, though the English legal system wasused, and appeals could be made to provincial courts. Nevertheless, early in life Franklin, ever the astute business man, didnot h^itate to publish a German language newspaper intendedfor sale to the "Palatine boors," as he had disparagingly calledthem. This paper, by which Franklin proposed to "Anglify"the Germans, was founded as early as June 11, 1732, but wasnot a success.

Despite Franklin's early antipathy to the Germans in general, he and Christopher Sauer had many striking similarities.Both men were printers and publishers whose productionswere widely read. Both searched, sometimes to distant places,for durable paper, or rags with which to make that paper, inorder to give better physical quality to their publications.

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Neither was a native Pennsylvanian, but had arrived in Philadelphia from a distant place. Both made eyeglasses. Both madefireplace stoves, either inventing them, as did Franklin, or improving those used in their time. Both were prolifically industrious, though even the amazing Dr. Franklin, great as he wasin numerous fields of endeavor, would have discovered it difficult to equal Sauer's record of self-taught mastery of 26 trades.Both were staunch supporters and defenders of various publiccauses. Both printed almanacs. Both printed newspapers.Neither had inhibitions about condemning folly and injustice,and employing their publications as media for condemnation,though Franklin could temper his sharp jabs with wise andwitty humor.

Conversely, Franklin and Sauer had their differences inpersonality. To begin with. Franklin was English, Sauer, German. Nevertheless Franklin was more self-contained and lesseasily disturbed; Sauer was often explosive and critical. Franklin's private life, history intimates, was sometimes rather loose(Franklin enjoyed great popularity with the ladies, especiallyin the French Court during the American Revolution); Sauerappeared rather inert to such sexual desires. Franklin wasdiplomatic; Sauer overflowing with German bluntness. Onewriter went so far as to say that Franklin "was a quack, ahypocrit, and an infidel," and sneeringly called him "Old Lightning Rod." This condemnation of Franklin, however, undoubtedly falls in the same categoryas Franklin's own condemnationof the Pennsylvania Germans—to be taken with the same proverbial "grain of salt."

While time has perhaps diminished public knowledge ofthe tremendous output of the Sauer press, none can deny thatSauer was an important and unforgettable contemporary ofFranklin. Although Sauer was a member of the German Baptist Brethren Church, now known as the Church of the Brethren, which since its founding has advocated peace and nonviolence, sharp words nevertheless occasionally found their wayinto his publications, though on most occasions he was ableto keep his personal feelings under control as far as the public


was concerned. He was ever a person to speak out for what hethought was right, and to denounce through his publicationsall unscrupulous or questionable dealings in the business, political and even religious worlds.

Many articles and short sketches concerning the life ofChristopher Sauer I (to distinguish him from his son, Christopher II) have been published. No comprehensive history ofhis full and vigorous life, however, is known to have beenwritten. The present article is an attempt to rectify, in a smallway, this deficiency.

Sometimes it takes a man numerous years to discover thework for which he is best suited —work that is not reallywork,but rather a task of love. When this discovery has been made,then neither days, years nor a lifetime seem long enough to accomplish what a man sets out to do. Thomas Carlyle said,"Blessed is the man who has found his work. Let him ask forno other blessedness." Christopher Sauer's labor of love wasprinting and publishing.

Johann Christopher Sauer, whose first name, which he seldom used, was that of his father, was born in Ladenburg, Germany, in 1695, and was baptized on February 2 of the sameyear. He was the son of the Reverend Johann Christian Sauer,previously a widower, whose first wife, Anna Elizabeth, haddied July 30, 1684 at the age of 29 years and 7 months. TheReverend Sauer was bom in 1642 in Rotenburg, on the FuldaRiver, in Hesse. His second wife was Ann Christine Meckel,widow of Johann Georg Meckel. Sauer and the Widow Meckelwere married February 24, 1685. She had been born April 22,1650, the daughter of Johann Wendelin, a Burgermeister, andhis wife Anna Maria (Zahn). The Reverend Sauer's secondwife became the mother of Christopher Sauer I, and died inLadenburg December 21, 1704 aged 52 years and 31/2 months.The Reverend Sauer died in Feudenheim, August 17, 1701.

A later Sauer descendant in Philadelphia once recalled thatChristopher Sauer I had a brother who lived in Lohne, Germany. Many of the Sauers of their generation are recorded as

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having been killed as a result of religious persecution and war,leaving only the two brothers to carry on the name and family.

In his youth Christopher Sauer attended the ReformedChurch, but later became interested in a religious group whocalled themselves The Inspired, or Separatists. He studied medicine at Halle and Marburg Universities. At the same time helearned and began following the trades of tailor and herbalist.His income from these latter occupations enabled him to continue his medical studies. As previously noted, during his lifetime he taught himself or was taught 26 trades in all. Whetherhis first trade as tailor was self-taught or not is unknown.

In 1713 Sauer was living in Schwarzenau, to which place afamous preacher named Hbcker came. Hbcker's first nameis thought to have been Heinrich. He was a good friend ofErnest Christopher Hochman von Hochenau, a religious student and preacher, who lived in Krefeld. Hoeker was marriedoutside the Brethren faith to a girl named Maria ChristinaGruber. About 1718 a controversy over this marriage and thequestion of all marriages outside the church arose, which muchaffected Hocker's health. The Reverend Peter Becker, whowould become the founder of the Brethren Church in America,sided with Hocker and attempted to comfort him. Because ofthe unsettled times in Germany, Hocker was forced to sell hisresidence, which is described as having been palatial. Thismisfortune, coupled with the religious arguments againsthis marriage, caused Hocker'shealth to worsen, so that he died.His widow, Maria Christina Gruber Hocker, was left withthree small children, two boys and a girl. Soon thereafter Christopher Sauer married the Widow Hocker, and they moved toLaasphe in 1721, where, on September 25, 1721, ChristopherSauer II was born.

Maria Christina Gruber Hocker Sauer was a daughter ofthe Reverend Eberhard Ludwig Gruber. Her brother was Jo-hann Adam Gruber, who presently would sail to America withthe Sauer family. Johann Adam Gruber, like Sauer, was amember of The Inspired. Other members were Blasius DanielMackinet, Johann Karl Gleim, Christopher Wiegner, a man

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named Schirwagen, possibly Georg Bensel, and a few more.They all would soon go to America and settle in or near Ger-mantown, Pennsylvania.

Having finally determined on this move, the group, including the Sauers, after a trip down the Rhine River which, because of numerous toll stops, lasted approximately six weeks,arrived at Rotterdam, Holland. There they boarded a shipwhose destination was the English Colonies in America. Theship is recorded as having put in at Dover, England, thoughtwo accounts differ on this point. Nicholas Wolff, one of thegroup with Sauer, said they left Amsterdam August 3, 1724,and left Deal, England, September 6 of the same year. Anotheraccount states that Sauer went to America via Bristol, England.Possibly the ship made all three stops at English ports. AtDover, Christopher Sauer is recorded as having bought hiswife a sugar bowl made of slate, which she brought to America.

Nicholas Wolff stated that the vessel that bore them ar

rived at Philadelphia October 29, 1724, and mentioned thatSauer had been very sick on the voyage. Johann Georg Kase-bier, another of Sauer's companions, wrote to Count Casimirin Germany on November 7 that Sauer had been very ill formore than a week on board ship, though Sauer himself did notmention this fact in two letters he sent back to Germany shortlyafter his arrival. Kasebier also wrote dramatically concerninga near shipwreck either off the American coast or after theship entered Delaware Bay, an event which Sauer dismissedlightly in his letters, merely mentioning that "he, Maria Christina and the children were on deck by the fire baking cakes,during the greatest storm." Kasebier had little chance to learnmuch concerning his new homeland, since he died on December 19, 1724, within two months of his arrival in America.Apparently he had suffered more than Sauer as a result ofthe hazardous trip to Philadelphia, which Nicholas Wolff notedas being a beautiful town of some 2,000 houses with streetslaid out at right angles. Christopher Sauer, too, noted the fineness of the city, its busy occupants and their productivity, andthe lushness of America. He could not speak or write enthusi-

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astically enough of the abundance of everything he saw. Hewas amazed at the soil, at the quality and quantity of the fruitsand vegetables, and at the complete civil and religious freedomthat flourished in Pennsylvania. The Sauer family soon settledin Germantown, where Sauer began to make a profitable livingas a manufacturer of button molds.

About 1725 Sauer's wife, Maria Christina, received wordthat her unmarried sister, who was coming to join MariaChristina in Pennsylvania, had died on shipboard and hadbeen buried at sea. This shock greatly affected Mrs. Sauer, whoreportedly exclaimed, "I cannot stay near this seaport city ofPhiladelphia. I feel I must get as far away from the sea andthe ships as I can. It is a cruel, monstrous and heathenish thingto have one's sister cast overboard as so much refuse." Norcould she forget the scene she had witnessed in Holland in 1717when seventy-two towns and villages had been submerged byflooding seas.

As a result of the effect incurred by the tragic death of hiswife's sister, Sauer, in 1725, moved west with his family intoa region still roamed by Indians. The further the family removed from Philadelphia, the more contented Maria Christinaseemed to become. The Sauers settled in what was then a partof old Lancaster County, where Christopher bought a 50 acrefarm from Simon Konig which was located on Mill (or Miihl-bach) Creek in Leacock Township, in what is now LebanonCounty. For his living, Sauer turned to farming, though atthe same time continuing his old trade of pharmacist, dispensing medicines to the sick. He continued these occupations forsix years. Meanwhile, having come under the influence of(Johann) Conrad Beissel, Superintendent of the Seventh DayBaptist Brethren at Ephrata, Sauer was baptized in that faithby Beissel on Whitsuntide Sunday, June 9, 1728. A so-calledLove Feast among the communicants was held in recognitionof Sauer's conversion. Later, Maria Christina Sauer, togetherwith Maria Hanselman, was also baptized by Beissel. MariaChristina, assuming the name of Sister Marcella, and MariaHanselman soon entered the Sister House, where Maria Chris-


tina remained fourteen years and became prioress. A centurylater John Greenleaf Whittier would dedicate a thirteen-versepoem to Maria Christina. The first and last verses are asfollows:

"Wake, Sisters, wake! The day star shinesAbove Ephrata's eastern pines.

The davm is breaking, cool and calm.Wake, Sisters, wake to prayer and psalm.

He cometh soon! At dawn or noon,Or set of sun. He cometh soon.

Our prayers shall meet Him on His way;Wake, Sisters, wake! Arise and pray!"

Christopher Sauer, literally deserted by his wife, sold hisfarm and returned to Germantown in 1731, taking with himhis ten year old son, Christopher II, and the three Hockerchildren of his wife's first marriage. On Sauer's arrival withthe four children in Germantown his friend, Dr. ChristopherWitt, a clockmaker who had been born in England, and who hadmade a clock for Beissel's Ephrata Society, offered to sharehis home with Sauer and the children until Sauer could buildhis own home. Gratefully Sauer accepted the offer, availinghimself of this opportunity of learning the clock-making trade,of which Sauer had had some knowledge before leaving Germany, by assisting Witt in the latter's business. In those daysit was "tedious and expensive to bring clocks from the oldcountry," and cheaper clocks were in demand. "From contemporary letters and documents, 1784-1750, it appears thatSauer's ambition in that early time was to be known as a clock-maker, and that he was known as such for a decade." The signoutside Sauer's shop, after he built his home, would read "Christopher Sauer, Clockmaker, etc." The etcetera would include thetrades of optician, apothecary and cabinet maker. The LibraryCompany of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin,owns a grandfather clock made by Sauer in 1735. Meanwhile,shortly after arriving in Germantown, Sauer began building a

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rather pretentious house, measuring 60 by 60 feet, on a sixacre plot of ground. Here he planned to continue raising hisson and the three Hocker children.

In 1733, however, Helnrich Hocker, the eldest of Sauer'sstep-children, now aged 17, having moved from the Sauer home,lived in a half a house in Germantown with Alexander Mack.Mack's brother, Valentine, lived with his wife in the other halfof the house. On March 27,1738, young Hbcker, now 22, Alexander Mack and John Reisman, stirred by the religious fervorof the time, moved to Ephrata and became members of Beissel'sSeventh Day Society. Only once, in 1745, would Hocker leavethe Community, accompanied by the Eckerlin brothers, to become briefly a trapper and hunter. Apparently this life did notsuit him, since he returned to Ephrata in the same year tospend his remaining days at The Cloisters. His record in theSociety notes that he came from a preacher family.

In 1738 Ludwig Hocker, Heinrich's younger brother, having likewise moved from the Sauer household, was to be foundliving with Stephen Koch, an early Brethren member, in acabin beside the Wissahickon Creek. In 1739 he also went toEphrata and joined the Society, and since matrimony was notprohibited, he there married Margaretta, oneof the sisterhood,and lived with his wife in the building reserved for marriedcouples. Ludwig and Margaretta parented a daughter, Maria(presumably named for her paternal grandmother, MariaChristina Sauer), who, when grown, would also join the Society. Although a continued communicant of BeisseTs Society,Ludwig Hocker, unlil:e his brother, apparently did not residepermanently at the Ephrata Cloisters, since he is recorded asteaching school at his step-father's house in Germantown. Verylittle is known of the third Hocker child, Anna Elizabeth, except that she too eventually joined the Ephrata Society wherethe records simply note that "Annalis Hocker died at theCloister in 1785."

Some time prior to 1738 Christopher Sauer, besides hisnumerous other occupations, determined to become a printerand publisher, an occupation that would make him famous. He

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constructed his own printing press, probably patterned afterthe press that the Ephrata Brethren had received from Germany, and cast his own type. The first product of Sauer's presswas a broadside titled "An Earnest Admonition to Young andOld" issued in 1738, though Felix Reichmann, in his life ofChristopher Sauer, Sr., lists "Ein ABC und Buchstabler Buch,etc." as the first printing from the Sauer press. In the sameyear the press also issued a German language almanac, andin 1739 Sauer began a newspaper which he continued to issuewith great success. Sauer's greatest printing triumph, however,would be his great German Bible, dated 1743, the first Biblein a European language printed in America. It was published39 years before Robert Aitkin of Philadelphia would issue thefirst Bible in English. British Colonial law had prohibited earlier English printings, a law canceled by the American Revolution. Between 1738 and 1758 more than 200 printed works wereissued by the Sauer press.

Concerning leadership among the Pennsylvania Germansin Sauer's time the historian Barr Ferree wrote, "Schlatter[Michael] was the leader of the Reformed" Church people."Muhlenberg [Henry Melchior] was the leader of the Lutherans in Pennsylvania and the colonies. These two men withSauer, of Germanto-wn, with his newspaper, were the threeleaders of opinion among the Germans in Colonial Pennsylvania. Sauer through his press became the great German leaderin Pennsylvania. He was a fearless exponent and critic ofwrongs.and abuses for all the colonies, and the founder of oneof the oldest publishing houses in America."

Sauer, having witnessed the frequent eruptions of war inEurope, and as a member of a church with peaceable inclinations, was, like the Quakers, unalterably opposed to the periodical conflicts between Britain and France for the mastery ofNorth America. During the French and Indian War "WhenGeneral (John) Forbes was in town, something like martiallaw was the rule. Christopher Sauer, the Germantown printerand publisher of the German Newspaper, was summoned beforethe General merely for having printed a paragraph stating

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that Tedyuscung and the Delaware Indians, who had arrivedin the city, were still attached to the interest of the English,"thereby implying that none of the other Indians were, and thatthe Delawares' allegiance was perhaps shaky. "Sauer was mistrusted as a friend of the Quakers," who refused to supportthe war, "and the paragraph" concerning the Delawares "waslooked upon as a slur on the government. Sauer maintainedthe innocence of his intentions, offered to make any correctionrequired of him, and was dismissed with a caution."

Among his many charitable works Sauer organized theLazaretto in Germantown to care for sick immigrants, oftenloaning his large house for this purpose. The following tradition is related in the Life of Dr. George de Benneville. "Onenight Christopher Sauer, a printer of Germantown, dreamedthat a vessel had arrived in Philadelphia having on board aperson who was very ill, and in his dream he was told to bringthe man to his house. He awoke, fell asleep again, whereuponthe dream was repeated. He drove to the city, 6 miles distant,and made inquiry at the wharf. The captain of the vessel informed him that he had a very sick man on board, whom Mr.Sauer at once removed to his carriage and took to his home,where" the sick man "was restored to health." This man wasGeorge de Benneville. Sauer having continued to operate hisdrugstore as well as engage in his printing activities, and deBenneville being skilled in medicine, the latter during his convalescence assisted Sauer in preparing prescriptions.

Not long after de Benneville's recovery Jean Bertolet, ofOley, Pa., paid a visit to his friend Sauer, met de Benneville,and persuaded de Benneville to accompany him back to thefrontier, where physicians were in great need. De Benneville,having settled in the then frontier of the Colony, not onlyadministered to the sick but also preached his doctrine of universal redemption, and became noted in both endeavors. In1745, at the age of 42, he married Esther, Jean Bertolet's 25year old daughter.

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fore. For years Sauer's son, Christopher 11, had pleaded withhis mother, Maria Christina Sauer, to return home from Bph-rata. De Benneville took it upon himself to add his persuasionsto those of her son. At last de Benneville succeeded, and accompanied her home to Germantown, where they arrived on June20, 1745, thereby concluding Maria Christina's separation of14 years from her husband.

Sauer, despite incurring occasional enmities because of hisoutspoken criticism in his publications, lived contentedly busyuntil his death on September 25,1758. The exact site of Christopher Sauer I's last resting place is unknown, and the generalarea known to but few persons. Townshend Ward in his book,Germantown Road, stated that Sauer lies buried in the backcomer of the garden at Sauer's home on Germantown Avenue,Germantown, but there is no marker to show the exact spot.The grave-mound was once pointed out to Abraham HarleyCassel, but as the property changed hands the mound was leveled off and all trace lost. Reportedly, the following burialstook place at this spot:

1. Maria Christina Gruber Hocker Sauer, wife of Christopher Sauer I, died December 14, 1752.

2. Maria Christina Sauer, daughter of Christopher Sauer IIand Catherine Sharpnack Sauer, born October 12, 1752,died August 13, 1753.

3. Johann Christopher Sauer I, born in Ladenburg, Germany in 1695, died September 25, 1758.

4. Catherine Sharpnack Sauer, wife of Christopher Sauer II,died January 8,1777.

Not long ago an attempt was made to locate the site ofthese burials in the garden of the former Sauer home. The taskwas fruitless, however, since all trace of the location had longbeen obliterated. A local newspaper, learning of the search,advised the searchers that the use of a metal detector mightprove effective; but after a consultation the archeologists decided that after 200 years, and since the Sauers were undoubtedly buried in the usual plain pine coffin, there would

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be nothing metallic to attract the needle of the detector. Theconsultants recommended that the attempt would be useless."Christopher Sauer," therefore, "after a long life and a well-earned rest," continues to sleep in an unmarked grave 'Tjesidethe creeper-covered garden wall"—Christopher Sauer, the manof many talents. He had been clockmaker, oculist,cabinetmaker,botanist and herbalist, turner, glazier, cast-iron stovemaker,horseshoer, veterinarian, printer, lampblackmaker, paper-maker, wire and lead drawer, bookbinder, tanner, matrixforger, toolmaker, mathematical instrument maker, tinplateworker, newspaper editor, agent for imported Bibles, distiller,surgeon, farmer, apothecary and tailor—surely more thanenough occupations for a single life-time.

BIBLIOGEAPHY

The Gentlemen's Magazine for November 1755, pub. by the PennsylvaniaFoUdore Society, Vol. 3.

Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by Benjamin Rush,

The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius P. Sachse.

History of the German Baptist Brethren, by M. G. Brumbaugh.The German-American Book Printing, by Priedrich Kapp.

Christopher Sauer, the Germantown Printer, by Gustav Mori.

History of Old Germantown, by Naaman H. Keyser.

Peter Porcupine, pen name of William Cobbett.

History of Philadelphia, by Sharp & Westcott.

Literary Activities of the Brethren, by J. S. Plory.

Christopher Sower, Sr., by Pelix Reichmann.

Germantown Road, by Townshend Ward, pub. in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Hist. Soc. Pa.)

Article by D. P. Dumbaugh, pub. in Penna. Mag. of Hist. & Biography.

European Origins of the Brethren, by D. P. Durnbaugh.

The Grave of Christopher Sauer, from a History of Germantown, by theSite and Relic Society.

Philadelphia Experience Magazine.

BENJAMIN EASTBURN

by John F. Reed

At the southeast corner of Valley Forge Road and TabakAvenue in Upper Merion Township, just outside the Bridgeport Borough line, stands a house of ancient vintage. Much ofits ancient appearance, however, has given way to modernimprovement. The roof is now slate in place of the originalwood shingles, the stone walls are plastered over, and otherchanges are evident. The house, which once stood in lonelydignity on the southeast slope of Eastburn Hill, is now crowdedby other much later dwellings. Few passers-by recognize thebuilding as of Colonial construction.

The house is correctly known as the Benjamin Eastburnhouse, though this name has long been confused with that ofthe better known Benjamin Eastburn, Surveyor-General ofPennsylvania under the Penn proprietaries from 1733 to 1741.The Benjamin Eastburn who once dwelt in this house was anephew and namesake of the Surveyor-General, and as suchwarrants no historical note. Nevertheless the elder Benjaminonce owned the land whereon the house is situated in con

junction with his brother, John, the father of the younger Benjamin. This ownership, therefore, associates the elder Benjamin Eastburn vdth Upper Merion Township and MontgomeryCounty. There were other associations too, as will be related asSurveyor-General Eastburn's story is unfolded in the followingpages.

The future Surveyor-General was born in England, July15, 1695, the eldest son of Robert and Sarah (Preston) Eaist-burn. Although the male Eastburns were probably of English-Welsh descent, their name, which means "east brook," wouldindicate the presence of Scotch blood also. The Eastburnsbelonged to the Society of Friends, a religion nearly anathemaat that time in Anglican England. As with many of their fellowQuakers, therefore, William Penn's new colony in the New

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World offered the Eastburns surcease from persecution. In1713, when young Benjamin Eastburn was 18, the family, consisting of the two parents, at least three sons, Benjamin, Samuel and John, and an unknown number of daughters, including the youngest, Elizabeth, crossed the ocean to Philadelphiaand settled in that incipient city.

Benjamin's early years were scarcely distinguished enoughto warrant contemporary recording; though it is certain thathe received an education, especially in mathematics, adequateto fit him for the profession of surveyor to which he devotedhis secular life. In this line of endeavor he would become reasonably well noted in Colonial Pennsylvania; and his association with the famous "Walking Purchase" of the Penns, andhis survey of the initial Pennsylvania-Maryland boundarytwenty-six years before Mason and Dixon finally settled theboundary quarrel between the Penns and the Lords Baltimore,would gain him a lasting place in the history of his adoptedColony.^

By 1722 Benjamin Eastburn was well enough settled inlife to be able to take as his wife Ann Thomas. The ceremonywas performed at Abington Meeting in Abington Township,old Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County. In the followingyear, 1723, Eastburn, being much of a religious mind, published his only known literary effort, which he titled Doctrineof Absolutes ... refuted (the lengthy title is here abbreviated).This tract, published by the Philadelphia printer Samuel Keim-er, was an attempt to refute, as the title indicates, the Presbyterian doctrine of absolute reprobation; but the sale of thevolume even among Eastburn's co-religionists proved disappointing, and Eastburn was urged by this disappointment tostick to his professional field of endeavor, surveying.^

In 1725 Eastburn and his wife transferred their residence

to Radnor, and attended Radnor Meeting in that part of oldChester County that is now Delaware County. In 1726 theelder Isaac Norris, for whom Norristown is named, sold East-burn several hundred acres in Norriton Township, Philadelphia County.® This tract of land included Barbadoes Island


in the Schuylkill River at the present Norristown. The landwas part of the old Williamstadt Manor which William Pennhad earlier given to his son, William, Jr., and which theyounger Penn had immediately sold to Norris. Eastburn probably bought his part of the tract on speculation, since he isnot known to have lived on it, and was not possessed of it athis death. Apparently he sold the land in the intervening years.

Commencing in 1730 and continuing through succeedingyears Eastburn surveyed Norris's remaining lands in Norri-ton. The earliest plan he drew of the area shows one dwelling,a barn, a smithy, a cooper shop and a spring house standingalong the Manatawny, or Ridge Road on the site of the presentNorristown. His second draught of this map added "the Schuylkill Mills at Norriton" which stood on the bank of the river atthe foot of the present Swede Street in Norristown. Eastburnalso draughted a plan of a proposed town west of the futureNorristown, though this plan was never implemented.^

Eastburn's work for Isaac Norris undoubtedly gave himaccess to the Proprietary Penns with whom Norris was closelyassociated. In particular, Thomas Penn, fourth son of theFounder and the second by the Founder's second wife, HannahCallowhill, became Eastburn's patron. Thomas Penn was already personally acquainted with Eastburn, having met withhim at least once, at Thomas Penn's request, on July 22, 1733at Moyamensing, probably to discuss land surveys in that area.®As a result of these acquaintanceships and the recognized excellence of his work, Eastburn was appointed Surveyor-Generalof the Colony on October 29, 1733, an office earlier held by themore famous Thomas Holme, and an office which Eastburnwould occupy until his death.

On December 13, 1734 Eastburn, with his wife, moved toPhiladelphia, the better to be near the offices of governmentwith which he was now closely associated. At about the sametime his brother, Samuel, moved to Bucks County and foundeda line of Eastbums in that area. At this time too, BenjaminEastburn consummated his first major work for the Penns bysurveying 2,000 acres for Thomas Penn "scituate on a Branch

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of the River Schuylkill called Andenlelea In the County ofPhiladelphia... By virtue of two Warrants from the Proprietaries (each for 1000 Acres) Dated at London the 12™"' Dayof May 1732 ..The warrants had been recorded at Philadelphia January 3, 1734.®

About this time too Eastburn made a re-survey of some ofthe lands sold off from Mount Joy Manor by William Aubreyand his wife Letitia Penn. Letitia, the eldest child of WilliamPenn and his first wife, Gulielma M. Springett, and full sisterof William Penn, Jr., had been given the 7,800 acres of MountJoy by her father in 1701. Subsequent to her marriage, Le-titia's greedy husband forced her to dispose of the Manorlands in 1730. The south portion of the Manor was broken upinto plots and sold to various new owners, including George,Thomas and William Rees, Henry Griffith, William George,Evan Lloyd and Rees Thomas, though there was some disputeover the latter's ownership of part of the Manor lands. Therest of the Manor passed into the hands of successive nonresident owners in England; Sir Archibald Grant, WilliamWilkinson and John Thomson; then, in 1736, reverted to thePenn family by sale to William Penn, Jr., who broke up theremaining Manor lands and sold them off.

Eastburn's re-survey of the lands which had been sold tothe Reeses, Griffith, George, Lloyd and Thomas (which landsnow form Colonial Village, the Bob White Farm developmentand the central part of King of Prussia proper) confirmed theboundary lines of these new owners, but also discovered a"Suppos'd Fraud." Apparently a line had been moved subsequent to the original survey, thereby stealing land from theremaining Manor. Eastburn noted, "a white oak Tree thatseems to have had some distinguishing & uncommon markupon it which is now defaced as also... another in like mannerdefaced."^ (See the accompanying survey map.) What theresult of this discovery was is not recorded.

In 1737 Eastburn gained his first historical note by participating in the famous "Walking Purchase" of lands from theLeni-Lenape (or Delaware) Indians. Chief Nedoaway (or


Netawatees) of the Leni-Lenape Turtle Clan agreed to sellto the Penns as much land west of the Delaware River and

north of Maryland as could be reached by a walker or walkersproceeding on a northwest tangent in one and a half days. TheIndians, familiar with the difficulties of much of the terrain,were contented that only a reasonable amount of land would beencompassed by the proposed walk.

As a result of this agreement, the Penn agents in Philadelphia advertised for the best walkers available, agreeing topay £5 per man. The walkers appointed were Edward Marshall,James Yates (or Yeates) and Solomon Jennings. These menwere noted walkers, men of hardihood, and were reasonablyfamiliar with the wilderness beyond earlier Penn purchases.Benjamin Eastburn, Sheriff Timothy Smith and Eastburn'sassistant, Nicholas Scull, were present on September 19, 1737at the start of the walk, and, mounted, followed the walkersat a more leisurely pace, though keeping reasonably close ontheir trail. Accompanied by two watch carriers, AlexanderBrown and Enoch Pearson, who would record their time ofeighteen hours actual walking, and who were also mounted,the three walkers set out at sunrise from an agreed on startingpoint at a chestnut tree standing near the Wrightstown Meeting House in Bucks County. Blazing their path through theforest by notching the trees along the route, the three menset a rapid pace. Although they were accompanied by severalIndians who were intended to oljserve their progress, the whitemen soon outdistanced their aboriginal escort and disappearedin the forest. They covered an incredible distance on the firstday.

The walkers ceased at sundown, having reached the Indiantown of Hockendocqua, where they rested for the night. Bydawn Eastburn, Scull and "another person" also reached thetown and requested its chief, Lappawingo, to appoint some ofhis men to act as guides for the walkers, who were now approaching the rough wildness of the Endless Mountains in thearea of the later-named Poconos. The chief, according to Edward Marshall, one of the walkers, aghast that the walkers had

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come so far in a single day, replied bitterly, "that they had gotall the best of the land, and they might go to the Devil for thebad" lands that lay beyond in the mountains, "and that hewould send no Indians with them."® The walkers then proceeded unescorted into the mountains, ceasing their walk at 2 p.m.on the 20th as agreed, having reached the north slope of themountains some 68 miles from the start. (Nicholas Scull latermaintained that the distance was only 55 miles, but this distance would have only taken the walkers into the edge of themountains.) The line of the walk was presently surveyed byEastburn and his two deputies, Nicholas Scull and JohnChapman.

Although most of the Indians at first seemed contentedwith the deal they had made, they presently came to a realization of the vast extent of territory they were forced to cede.They protested that they had been robbed since they claimedthat the walkers, when out of sight of the Indians, had runmost of the distance, thereby covering nearly four times thedistance that the Indians had conceived possible by merelywalking. Nicholas Scull, in 1757, refuted this argument, statingthat none of the men had run at any moment during the actual18 hours of the walk. Nevertheless the Indians were much embittered against Marshall, the principal walker, and reportedlyattempted several times to take his life. It is said, too, that hispregnant wife was captured and subsequently found deadon Broad Mountain, whether murdered or not is not recorded.®

In 1738 Eastburn received a commission from the Penns tojoin with Commissioners appointed by both Pennsylvania andMaryland to survey an at least temporary boundary line between the two Colonies. The boundary had been in dispute eversince William Penn had received his charter for Pennsylvaniafrom Charles II in 1681. Penn's charter and the earlier charterof Lord Baltimore had granted lands that considerably overlapped since little was known of the country at the time of theissuance of Penn's Charter. Lord Baltimore demanded the 40thdegree north latitude as the northern boundary of Maryland.The ownership of the three Lower Counties that were later

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Delaware was also long in dispute between the two proprietarygovernments.

Long previous to his commission Eastburn, as early as 1733,had become involved in the controversy. The immediate quarrelbetween the Proprietaries of the two Colonies in that year centered on the definition of the Great Circle drawn from New

castle as its center, which was to define the northern boundaryof the three Lower Counties of Delaware. Until the diameter

of this Circle was agreed on, no westward line between Pennsylvania and Maryland could be surveyed. The line was to bedrawn as a tangent from the point where the Circle met thewestern border of Delaware. Hugh Jones and William Rumsey"of the Province of Maryland Mathematicians" on September4, 1773 submitted to the Pennsylvania and Maryland Commissioners, "met at Newcastle" to confer on the matter, that acircumference, not a diameter, of 12 miles was meant by adecision reached in England. Therefore "The diameter" of the"Circle or Compass about is somewhat less than four miles."^®On tiie contrary, the Pennsylvanians claimed that a diameter,not a circumference, of 12 miles was meant.

In an effort to refute the Maryland contention and establishthe Penn claim, Eastburn countered the Jones-Rumsey assertion by submitting, at Thomas Penn's direction, his own opinion in the matter. "Benjamin Eastburn in the County ofPhilada. Surveyor, By Order of James Logan, Esqr."—^Loganwas the Penn representative in the Colony when none of thePenns was present—"attending on the Commissioners on thepart of Pennsylvania, at the Town of New Castle, Cravethleave to present an answer to a Question which the Commrs. onthe part of Pennsylvania obtained in Writing from the Commrs.on the part of Maryland vizt.

"All that the Town of New Castle, otherwise called Delaware, And all that Tract of Land lying within the Compass orCircle of twelve Miles about the same. ..

Query. What is the Diameter of the above described circle?

"The Surveyors employed by the Commrs. on the part ofMaryland say, The Circumference of the above described Circle


is twelve Miles which makes the Diameter thereof three Miles,two hundred sixty two perches & five foot +, By my Computation.

"To which Answer of theirs, I object..Eastburn then employed Euclid's definition of a circle to elucidate his point;then proceeded, "That the Town of New Castle is scituate inthe Center of the Circle described in the Deeds of Feoifment

(I think) none will deny."And, the Quantity of that Extension of Space from (or

about) the said Center, Is indubitably (in the said Deeds) explained to be twelve miles."^^

Lord Baltimore finally acceded to the Penns' contention inthe matter of the Great Circle, thereby permitting the initialsurvey of a boundary line dividing the two Colonies. Thisboundary, however, bore even more seeds of contention thanhad the Great Circle.

As 1738 drew near its close Eastburn, despite the unproprit-ious weather that might be expected in November, was orderedto join the Pennsylvania and Maryland Commissioners to survey the line. On November 5th Eastburn wrote from Philadelphia to his assistant, John Taylor (surveyor for Chester County) at Thornbury, "The 10th instant as I am informed is nowfixed to begin to run a West line from the South Side of thisCity in order to fix the Boundary between this Province &Maryland according to his Majesty's late Order, at wch. timeI desire thy Company and Assistance." The King (George II)had ordered the dispute settled. Eastburn added, "I hope to seethee in Town the Evening before," and noted on the addresssheet that the missive was "desired to be forwarded at allspeed" by the bearer." Time was short.

The survey began, as ordered, on November 10th, and wasto continue as far west across the Susquehanna River asfeasible. Besides Taylor, Eastburn was assisted by EdwardScull "& a Chain man wth. each of them a horse" who were

paid 10 shillings each per day, and by Patrick Burn, who carried the chain and was paid 3 shillings per day.^^ The surveywas finished on the 28th of the month, having proceeded 88

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miles westward to the "Kitochtinny" or Blue Mountains nearthe southern boundary of the present Cumberland County, Pa.The survey was forced to end at this point since the landsbeyond had not yet been purchased from the Indians by eitherPennsylvania or Maryland. The route was marked only byblazed trees, not by the more permanent stone markers such aswould be set up by Mason and Dixon in 1764-7.

On his return to Philadelphia Eastburn submitted a full report on the survey to Deputy Governor George Thomas fortransmittal to the Penns in England. The report was also signedby the Pennsylvania Commissioners, Lawrence Growden andBenjamin Peters, who had accompanied the survey from beginning to end. Although the Penns were reasonably satisfiedwith the result of the survey, Lord Baltimore was not, despitethe presence of his own Commissioners to observe the proceedings. The dispute, therefore, continued. Lord Baltimoreclaiming that the line had been laid out too far south, therebydepriving him of considerable land rightfully belonging toMaryland. The dispute continued until settled by Mason andDixon, who surveyed the finalized line some 5 miles northof Benjamin Eastbum's line.

The completion of his survey scarcely ended Eastbum'simmediate business for the Penn interests. Soon thereafter he

was required to map the "Courses and Distances" of the Lancaster Road, construction of which had begun at the MiddleFerry over the Schuylkill River at the west terminus of High(now Market) Street in Philadelphia in 1773.^^ By 1738 theroad reached well into Chester County. Beyond that point theroad was still not much more than a wildness path.

On November 16, 1739 Eastburn submitted to the Pennsylvania authorities "An Account of Lands in Pennsylvaniasurveyed for the Joint Use of the Honble Proprietaries . .. Returned into my Office" between 1732 and 1739. "In PhiladelphiaCounty On a Branch of Maiden Creek 200 A® sold to RobertJones," and "On a Branch of Neshannick [Neshaminy Creek]905." In Bucks county he had surveyed or directed his assistants to survey nine plots totaling 11,422 acres; in Chester

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County one plot of 772 acres. He also caused to be surveyed inLancaster County 51 acres "On Susquehanna River for aFerry" (probably John Harris's at the present Harrisburg)Eastbum was also continually ordering his assistants, particularly John Taylor, to survey smaller plots for individual persons other than the Proprietaries, from whom they bought theland. Frequently too Eastburn and his assistants became involved in disputes concerning these surveys. He also surveyedOley Township in the present Berks County, though that County was not organized from surrounding counties until 1752.

On September 14, 1740 Eastburn personally surveyed theMarket Square in Germantown in preparation for erectingthe Market House which was built in the following year.^® Healso, at the direction of Thomas Penn, drew a modernized planof Philadelphia "in which there is no Notice taken either ofthe Publick Squares, or the Centre square as laid down in theOld Plan" of the original Surveyor-General, Thomas Holme.^'Eastburn's map of the city also changed the street plan bynumbering Broad Street at 14th Street, as it now is, instead ofat 12th; and by numbering the proposed streets from theSchuylkill River east from one to 8, though the actual alterations had been proposed by Holme as early as 1695. Nevertheless the changes remained unmapped until Eastburn's versionbrought Holme's ideas up-to-date. (The system of numberingthe streets west of Broad Street was, of course, long ago reversed, so that the streets west of Broad are now numberedfrom 15th to 24th to the Schuylkill River.)

With the influx of new immigrants from Europe, the loadof work of necessity assumed by Eastburn became an increasing burden. In an effort to place more of this burden on hisassistants, Eastburn endeavored to divide his duties. NicholasScull was "appointed, not only Surveyr. of Philada. but ofBucks County also, for which he is obliged to B E [i.e., Benjamin Eastburn] who has taken a Great deal of pain ... ingetting him Established."^®

In 1741 Eastburn and his brother, John, jointly purchased200 acres, "part of the Manor of Mount Joy," in Upper Merion

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Township, including Eastburn Hill. The vendor was undoubt-edly'Williafn Penn, Jr., who had purchased the Manor in 1736and began breaking up the estate in 1740. Penn's agents for hisland sales were James and William Logan, since Penn himselfremained in England. James Logan had been President of theColonial Council, and acting Governor from 1736 to 1738, andwas a trusted agent for the Proprietaries in all matters thatconcerned them.

Benjamin Eastburn did not long enjoy the acquisition ofthis land, since he died intestate and childless in the sameyear (1741.) The scene of his death was probably Philadelphia.Although his widow, Ann, was appointed executrix of hisestate, she received scant solace from this appointment. By theEnglish law of primogeniture which still lingered, though already antiquated, through the I8th century, Eastburn's brother,John, inherited all the lands and appurtenances held by East-burn in Philadelphia and Upper Merion. In the settlement ofthe estate these properties were conveyed to John Eastburn bya deed dated April 21, 1742 and signed by James and WilliamLogan. Ann Eastburn inherited only the household furnishings.Nor did she long enjoy the use of these, since she died in 1744.Eastburn was succeeded as Surveyor-General by William Parsons, who held the office from August 21, 1741 to June 10,1748. On the latter date Eastburn's old protegA Nicholas Scull,received appointment to the office.

Ann Thomas Eastburn, however, did not go nearly whollyunrewarded for the nineteen years she had lived as BenjaminEastburn's wife. On December 22, 1741 in Philadelphia sheplaced her "mark" (she was apparently illiterate despite herlong marriage with a rather literate man) on the verso of adocument by which she acknowledged receipt "of Messrs.(James) Steel"—anold friend of Eastburn—"and Lardner yeSum of one hundred and ten pounds in full" which was stillowing to Eastburn for his services to the CoIony.i« This document had been drawn up by her husband shortly before hisdeath, since it was dated January 4,1741, and listed his unsettled accounts with the Penns from 1735 half-way into 1740.


"An Acct. of Services done to the Honble. THE PROPRIETARIES of Pennsylvania &c by Benja Eastbumfrom the Year 1735 inclusive to the 20th of June 1740drawn by Command of The Honble. THOMAS PENNEsqr. One of the Said PROPRIETARIES.

1735 By Wm. Shanhland Surv. of Sussex Co. [Delaware] hismeasuring the Roads in the Southern part of that County (usedin drawingthat part of Thos. Hoxons Map &c)to whom for himself, Chain men &c I paid. -6£—ByDuplicates of Maps copied from Herman Molls Copy ofa Map of MarylandBy Duplicates of Maps to explain John Taylor's affirmation of the situation of T. Cresap's Settlemt. how muchmore Northwd. than the line of the provinces accordingto the Articles of Agreement & than Philada. City, andof Lord Baltimore's line from Octoraro [Creek] Eastward.

By Duplicates of Maps of Springetsbury Mannr. on theWest side of Susquahanna shewing T. Cresap's Settlement within the same & how far North from the linesaforesaid

1736 By surveying two Tracts of Land 500® each for theHonble. Thos. Penn in the forks of Delaware Rivr. inBucks County and another Tract of 1000® for the Jointuse of the said Proprietaries

1737 By 13 days spent in fixing the bounds of the Indian purchase in Bucks County and Duplicates of Maps shew-the same besides Maps 9.16

By Duplicates of Maps of the three Counties on Delawarecontracted from Thos. Noxon's large Map and joiningDelaware Bay to the same

1738 By 4 days spent in Resurveyg. Pennsbury Mannr. inBucks County [Pennsbury Manor house was built byWilliam Penn as his intended permanent home in America, but he lived there only a short time], also a Draughtof the same 3.10By 17 days in company with the Jersey Survrs. assaying

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to fix the Temporary limits of the Jurisdictions of Pennsylvania and Maryland 17.15

1738&By 40 days spent in fixing the said Temporary limits1739 with the Commrs. appointed on behalf of each Province

By Duplicates of Maps of Pennsylvania & Counties onDelaware shewg. the said Temporary Limits 30

1740 By 8 days spent attending the Commrs. to Maryland &observing some Rivers there and part of Chesapeak Bayin order to form a Map of the same 6

1739 By 5 days spent in a journey to the Land called Cox's inChester County, & collecting an Accot. of the Setlersthereon, and drawing a Draught of the Land aforesd.being 20,000 acres 2.10In drawing the necessary Originals, and the Maps &cabove mentioned, I believe I spent about 6 Months; itsmore time than deserves to be considered —^70.10

For the Blank Services 39.10

£110.

At the foot of this document Eastburn had noted, "to pay formy own accts. for the two 500 Acre Tracts," presumably thosesurveyed for Thomas Penn in Bucks County in 1736.20 Evidently Eastburn had intended to buy these tracts from Penn inlieu of pajrment for services rendered. The fact that Ann East-burn received payment in cash, however, would indicate thatthe deal had never been consummated.

As a footnote to the story of Benjamin Eastbum's life it isinteresting to note that a younger John Eastburn (grandsonof Benjamin Eastburn's brother, John, and eventual inheritorthrough his father, the younger Benjamin Eastburn, of theEastburn lands in Upper Merion) had his own slight brush•with the history of the area, though in far less degree than hisgreat-uncle, the Surveyor-General. On September 25, 1795Brigadier General Louis Lebeque Duportail of Revolutionaryfame is recorded as having bought from "John and MargaretEastburn for the sum of fifty-five pounds lawful money of

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Pennsylvania" a piece of land "situate on the south east side ofthe road [the present DeKalb Pike] leading to Norristown;ford on Schuylkill included between and bounded by said roadthe said river and the plantation of the said Louis LebequeDuportail, containing by computation 3 acres more or less."^^

Duportail, the French Chief of Engineers in Washington'sarmy and the planner of the Valley Forge defenses, had beenappointed Minister of War in 1791 by the constitutional monarchy of France that had resulted from the initial stages ofthe French Revolution. Duportail's tenure in this office wasbrief, since with the outbreak of the French Revolution properand the overthrow of the monarchy, Duportail was forced toflee to America. He settled in what is now the Borough ofBridgeport, where he bought considerable land prior to hispurchase of the three acres from John and Margaret Eastburn.After the French Revolution had spent its force, Duportail waspermitted to return to France, but the ship bearing him homewas lost at sea with all hands. Duportail's tenure of his landsin Upper Merion was scarcely longer than that of the formerSurveyor-General of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Eastburn.

SOURCE NOTES

(Pa. Mag. = Pennaylvania Magazine of History and Biography pub. bythe Hist. Soc. of Penna., here noted as HSP.)

1. Most of the information in fliia para, from Walton, Hettie A., andReeder, Eastburn, Eaathum Family^ Doylestown, 1903.

2. Pa. Mag. LXI 373-4.

3. Walton-Reeder (see note 1.)

4. Hocker, Edward A., Isaac Norris Surveys by Benjamin Eastburn,Norristown Times-Herald, Norristown, Pa., Sept. 1, 1933.

5. HSP, Thomas Penn to Eastburn, Moore Coll., Misc. American Section 2988.

6. HSP, James Hamilton Papers No. 27 b.

7. HSP, Montgomery County Books, Norris of Fairhill MSs. 131.

8. Pa. Mag. VII 216.


9. Watson, John Fanning, and Hazard, Willis P., Amala of PkiUidel'phia, and Pennsylvania, Phila. 1898 ed., 11 100.

10. HSP, Cadwalader Coll. Box 4, Penn-Baltimore Misc. items (copy inhand of Easthurn.)

11. Ibid., Easthurn to Thomas Penn.

12. HSP, Easthurn to Taylor, (John) Taylor Papers Vol. 15 #3265.

18. Pa. Mag. XXXVIII 243.

14. Ihid. XLII 9.

15. HSP, Penn-Physick Papers Vol. 4 105.

16. Pa. Mag. VI 282.

17. Nicholas Scull to Richard Peters, Pa. Mag. XIX 421-2.

18. HSP, James Steel to John Taylor, Taylor Papers Vol. 15 #3162.

19. HSP, Penn MS. Accounts Vol. I 62.

20. Ibid.

21. Pa. Mag. LVI 350.

Free Inhabitants in New Hanover

Township in the County of Montgomery

State of PennsylvaniaAccording to the Census of 1850

Samuel H. Babtolet, Ass*tMarshal Aug. 27 — Sept. 14th1850 R.E. — value of RealEstate owned.

SCHAFFER [SHAFER] : John 39 (farmer), Mary 39, Louisa16, Sarah 14, Augustus 12, Henrietta 10, William 8, LucyAnn 6, Mary Ann 2. R.E. $3000.

MARKLEY: Andrew 61 (farmer), Elizabeth 48, James 22(blacksmith), Susanna 15, Sarah Shaner 15, John Hauck45 (farmer). R.E. $6000.

SCHNELL: Samuel H. 34 (merchant), Rachel 32, Henry 10,Daniel U. 8, Samuel 5, Samuel Hottenstine 22 (huckster),Henrietta Smith 10.

BINDER: William 36 (farmer), Esther 35, Maria 8, Amanda1, William Feathers 14, Samuel Mayberry 24.

FAGLEY: Elias 27 (farmer), Elizabeth 28, Susanna 7, Catharine 5, Esther Elmira 4, Frederick Monroe 2, Daniel Wilson 1, Mary Gebhart 26, Joseph Oser 23 (farmer). R.E.$2300.

MILLER: Solomon 38 (carpenter), Catharine 38, Mary Ann10, Rebecca 7, Emeline 3. R.E. $510.

FAGLEY: John 53, Susanna 53, Frederick 28 (farmer), Noah20 (tanner), Elizabeth 18, John Schmeirer 11, John Fag-ley Jr. 25 (tanner), Sarah 22. R.E. $5000.

BUCHER: [BUCHERT]: David 40 (farmer), Lydia 42, Rebecca 16, Mary Ann 14, Hannah 10, John 6, Conrad Milton2.

FILLMAN: David 52 (weaver), Anna 46.

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314 UNITED STATES CENSUS OF 1850, MONTGOMERY COUNTY

GEBHART: Andrew 64 (carpenter), Sarah 63, Henry 34(carpenter), Nancy 38, Andrew 22 (carpenter), Noah 7,Elias 6, John 4. R.E. $550.

DECKER: Jacob 59 (farmer), Leah 56, Ann Jane Miller 14,George Bolig 12, Malary 3. R.E. $2,000.

FEATHERS: Sarah 45, Henrietta 7.

STOFFLET: Henry 29 (carpenter), Sarah 27, Elizabeth 7,Jacob 5, Henry 3, Amanda 2.

ALTINGER [ALDINGER]: Andrew 62 (laborer), AnnaMaria 56, Angeline 18, Christopher Deal 21 (laborer).

KEELER: William 60 (stonemason). Miss Keeler 58, JesseKeeler34.

DIEGEL: John A. 44 (stonemason), Maria Magdelina 38,Gotlieb 8, John 7.

NEIMAN: Jesse R. 27 (plasterer), Hannah 22, Sarah Ann10/12, Henry Roads 9. R.E. $795.

DEAINLY: Wendel 63, Fronica 63, Margaret 28, Mary Ann7, Sophia 5. R.E. $725.

GEIST: Daniel 51 (miller), Catharine 53, Jesse 25 (farmer),Mayberry Goodman 5, Daniel Reed 30 (millwright), Lydia23, Amanda 1. R.E. (DG) $2300.

SCHWEINHART [SWEINHART]: Henry 44 (farmer),• Rachael 41, William 18 (farmer), Henry 15, Harrison 12,

John 7, Philip 3, Rufus 8/12. R.E. $2500.KALB: Daniel 51 (shoemaker), Catharine 51, Daniel 16, Levi

13, Lovina 18. R.E. $700.SMITH: Daniel S. 62 (shoemaker), Maria 55, Benjamin 14,GOLDSMITH: Frederick 52 (day laborer), Josephine 50,

Augustus 17 (farmer), Carolina 13, Elizabeth 3. R.E.$2000.

SCHNELL,: John 33 (shoemaker), Rachael 33, Jacob 5, Samuel 1, Sarah Krause 11, Jeremiah Bucher 19 (shoemaker).R.E. $1100.

PUGH: John 47 (farmer), Sarah 44, Sarah Ann 10, JohnHenry 7, Washington 5, Samuel Lane 4, Sarah Reifsnyder15, Mathias Buchert 68. • :R.E. $2500.

NEW HANOVER TOWNSHIP 3^5

FILLMAN: Israel 41 (carpenter), Catharine 39, Ephraim 14,Sarah Ann 8, Catharine 4, Mary Fillman 69. R.E.$1200. ,

ROOKSTOOL [RUCKSTOOL] : Jacob 51 (farmer), Elizabeth29, George 7, Catharine 2, John Roose 24 (taylor). R.E.$2000.

ACHE [AUCHE]: Herman 39 (day laborer), Catharine 38,Emeline 10, Elizabeth 7, Henry A. 3, Mary Ann 1. R.E.

$300.

SMITH: Dieter 38 (farmer), Sophia 36, Simon 12, Elizabeth9, Emma Matilda 5, Susanna Batz 20, John Repert 22,Daniel BishofF 35 (day laborer), Elizabeth Bishoif 31, Eve8, William 2. R.E. $4800.

ROSHON: Dieter 28 (carpenter), Sophia 26, Milton 5, SarahRebecca 2, Mary Amanda 6/12, Simon F. Wolff 11.

YERGER: John 27 (farmer), Mary Ann 20, Catharine 4/12,Reuben Mauger 14, Elizabeth Ziegenfuss 16, BarbaraKoch 62. R.E. $3000.

ROMIG: George 49 (farmer), Catharine 50, Jeremiah 20(farmer), Sophia 14. R.E. $4000.

KNETZ: Michael 64 (farmer), Catharine 55, Isaac 32 (farmer) , Mary 25. R.E. $4000.

SMITH: James 32 (laborer), Catharine 29, Samuel 2.

WEANT: Francis 39 (tavern keeper), Elizabeth 33, Henry 8,Mary 6, Elmira 1, Catharine Geyer 22, Mary Leidig 65.R.E. $2500.

SCHNEIDER; Wm. H., Esq. 39 (tanner), Mary Ann 31,Louisa Maria 13, Emeline Rhoads 6, Elizabeth Steltz 26,Henry Young 19 (farmer), Andrew W. Fillinger 21 (tanner), Jesse Nyce 12.

SCHNEIDER: Alfred 37 (tanner), Clarisa 27, Olivia C. 7,Anna M. 6, Ellen L. 3, Leanna Fagley 20, David Nester 23(tanner), Jacob K. Francis 22 (teacher), Henry Schneider 69. R.E. (HS) $6500.

SMITH: Henry 24 (farmer), Susanna 23.

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SCHEETZ: John 37 (farmer), Anna Catharine 35, JacobHenry 14, Catharine 12, George 10, John 3, Anna Elizabeth 1, Joseph Varley 60, Israel Smith 35 (farmer), MaryVanhorn 18. R.E. $7000.

KEHL: Sarah 40, Jonathan 20 (wheelwright), Margaret 17,William 13, Sarah Ann 9. R.E. $1900.

•GILBERT: David 35 (farmer), Maria Marilda 35, Milton 8,Mary Keeler 47. R.E. $2000.

SMITH: Benjamin 39 (farmer), Maria Eve 32, WashingtonHenry 10, Mary Smith 68. R.E. $2100.

SEIPERT: Samuel 49 (minister), Elizabeth 47, Maria 25(vest making), Emeline 13, Mary Cadildo 6, John J. 17(teacher), Rush G. 16, George W. 11.

BARTOLET: Henry 53 (drover), Elizabeth 46, Mary AnnKoch 8, Lovina Koch 6, John Keeley 13. R.E. $1800.

BARTOLET: A.R. 27 (huckster), Elmira 22, Henry R. 18(farmer), Catharine 20, Henry 10, Lewis Giles 17 (farmer), Martin Bemhard 37, Jacob Rosenberger 21 (huckster) .

YORGY: Peter 69, Maria 64, Elizabeth Harner 18, FrederickWolf 58 (day laborer), Elizabeth 58. R.E. $2500.

HATFIELD: Samuel 46 (farmer), Sarah 44, Louisa 14, Henrietta 13, Henry 12, Daniel Clauser 20. R.E. $3000.

KEHL: Moses 52 (innkeeper), Nathan 16 (farmer), Harrison 13, Carolina Davidheiser 20, Catharine Bickhart 54,Benjamin Roshon 41 (blacksmith), Jesse Bolig 16. R.E.$5000.

KRAUSE: Amos A. 45 (farmer), Rebecca "40, Edward 11,James 9, Joseph Wensell 17, Catharine Sheiry 30. R.E.$10,000.

SCHNEIDER: Jacob 55 (day laborer), Elizabeth 58, WilliamSchneider 25 (carpenter), Rebecca 21, Maria 17.

YOST: Isaac 39 (farmer), Mary 39, Abraham 14, Michael 12,Jacob 7, Urias Sassaman 16, Susanna Fryer 16. R.E.$5500.

KEPNER: Henry 69 (farmer), Hanna 33, Catharine 22,Samuel 18, Henry Yerger 7.

NEW HANOVER TOWNSHIP 317

KEPNER: John 25 (day laborer), Charlotte 21, Amanda 2.

HATFIELD: David 42 (tinker & farmer), Sarah 41, William19 (tinker & farmer), Milton 11, Sarah 6, Elizabeth Kep-ner 75. R.E, $2000.

LEAVENGOOD: William 45 (farmer), Sarah 42, Maria 15,Phares 8, Equilly 5, Mahlon 3, Aaron 1, Harlin Kolb 16(farmhand). R.E. $5000.

WISE: David 47 (carpenter), Hannah 46, Jonathan 20 (carpenter), Joshua 16 (carpenter), Frederick 14, Henry 11,Maria 8, David 7. R.E. $2000.

BUCHERT: Jesiah 29 (farmer), Susanna 25, Precilla 4,Ezekia 3, Lando 1, Elizabeth Berryman 18. R.E, $4500.

HAUBERGER: Peter 39 (farmer), Sophia 37, Emeline 14,Mary 12, Hiram Jonas 6, Samuel Leidig 16 (farmer).

BRENDLINGER: Frederick 41 (merchant), Mary 36, Erwin13, Emma 11, Mary 10, Lydia Ann 9, Mahlon Charles 8,James Frederick 6, Lewis Jacob 4, Rosa Elizabeth 2, PeterFranklin 3/12, Michael Koch 30 (storekeeper), AmandaRoshen 21. RE $8000.

SCHNEIDER: John 30 (farmer), Elizabeth 29, Emeline 6,Sarah Ann 3, Amanda 1, Elias Gilbert 25 (blacksmith),Rebecca 18.

ZINK: Christian Z. 34 (taylor), Catharine 34, Amandus 11,Clara Elizabeth 1, Jacob Zink 66, Elizabeth Heist 17, Christian Bickhart 15. R.E. $2000.

WIESNER: Samuel 36 (wheelwright), Sarah 31, Catharine 9,Mary 7, Henry 5, Samuel 4, Sarah Thomas 45, CarolineThomas 21, Levina 11, William Weasner 2.

KNIPE: Jacob 46 (physician), Rachael 44, Mary Ann 18,Frances 15, Sarah Jane 14, Jacob 13, Hannah 12, Septimus9, Rachael 7, Isaac Fryer 21 (hired man). R.E. $5000.

STORE [STARB]: Theodore 55 (organist), Elizabeth 50, Albert 23 (stonecutter), Carolina 21, Theodore 15, Elizabeth13, Mathias 11, Emelia 7.

BICKHART: Henry 33 (carpenter), Matilda 30, Malary 7,Milton 4. R.E. $1500.

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HOFFMAN: David 42 (day laborer), Sarah 41, William 11,Jesiah 8, Sarah 5, Fayette 2.

MILLER: Rev. Conrad 52 (minister), Hannah 55, MarksHaas 13, Christianna Minger 16.

HAUBERGER: Abraham 37 (sadler), Rebecca 35, Christianna 65. R.E. $2500.

BRENDLINGER: Jacob 80, Mary 76, Angeline Kline 21, Jacob Feathers 33 (shoemaker), Caroline Feathers 35, Hannah 10, Nathaniel 9, Hiram 4, Isaac 20 (shoemaker), Augustus Adams 24 (shoemaker). R.E. (JB) $3000 (JF)$2000.

BINDER: Moses 71, Anna C. 41, Maria Shaner 18. R.E. $1000.FEATHERS; Isaac 59 (weaver), Mary 60, Andrew Ratz 33,

Anna 33, Amanda 4, Elizabeth 2, Mahlon 6.BICKEL: Henry 58 (farmer), Henrietta 21, Milton 14, Jacob

Nathaniel 9. R.E. $6000.KRAUSE: Susanna 51 (widow), Edwin Beideman 33 (day

laborer), Rebecca 36, Amanda 11, Henry 7, Eizabeth 4,Oliver 2. R.E. (SK) $2000.

BRENDLINGER: Maria 66, Solomon 30, Maria Stichter 60,Sophia Brendlinger 25. R.E. $1000.

HOFMAN: Rev. Andrew 52 (minister), Mary Lovina 29,Amel 3, Oscar 2, Doris Eta 8/12, Anna Freyer 18, JohnGreber 17 (farmer). R.E. $400.

LEAVENGOOD: Samuel 50, Anna 49, Catharine 24, MaryAnn 20, Adam 15, Sarah 12, Michael 10, Rosanna 6.

WARTMAN: John 28 (day laborer), Maria 32, Jacob 8, Mary5.

BLYLER: Mary 63, Sophia 26, Amanda 23, Julie Ann 22.R.E. $750.

KURTZ: Mathias 58 (farmer), Sarah 55, John Decker 15.R.E. $2000.

DECKER: Susanna 54. R.E. $1100.FAGLEY: John 47 (ceedar cooper), Anna 40, R.E. $1362.

STETLER: Solomon 32 (farmer), Esther 33, Malinda 6, Mal-ary 3, Esther Brunner 13, Peter Bolig 8, Catharine Reigner64. R.E. $3000.


RUDY: William 33 (farmer), Margaret 29, Ephraim 6, William Antrim 14, Ellen Moser 17.

KURTZ: Michael 62 (farmer), Mary 55, Michael 26 (fanner),Augustus E. 14, Sarah Ann 23. R.E. $5000.

FRYER: Frederick 51 (stonemason), Elizabeth 48, Malary 8,Sophia 5. R.E. $1000.

RELLER: William 40 (miller), Hannah 36, Emelia 11, James5, Therasa 2, Peter Steltz 45 (farmer). R.E. (WR) $4000(PS) $2000.

STELTZ: Christian 72, Catharine 69, Jacob Steltz 42 (farmer), Esther 38, Malary Catharine 10, Jacob Franklin 8,Henry Mahlon 6, Erwin 3, Adam Keifreiter 16, AnnaFryer 19. R.E. (CS) $10,000 (JS) $6000.

STELTZ: William 31 (farmer), Sarah 32, Catharine 7, Peter5, Hiram 3, Pheoris 13, Catharine 68. R.E. $3200.

SPERRY: Francis H. 27 (blacksmith), Henrietta 27, Jacob5, Samuel 2, Samuel Sperry 22 (wheelwright), Jacob Sper-ry 68. R.E. $1800

BINDER: Jacob 56 (farmer), Elizabeth 40, Sarah 20, Sophia8, Elizabeth 5, Jacob 3, Mary Fryer 16, Isaac Bickel 17,Daniel Fryer 25, Elizabeth Erb 69, Elizabeth Bickel 35.R.E. $8000.

YERGER: Conrad 47 (farmer), Elizabeth 45, Samuel 22(farmer), Mary 17, Henry Machreich 23, Margaret Shuler50. R.E. $6000.

BINDER: William 31 (farmer), Henry 3, Christianna Fries38, George Daub 21 (miller), Samuel Derolf 20 (farmer),Philip Schneider 13, Jesse Binder 24 (shoemaker), AaronFryer 27 (hiredman), Maria 22. R.E. $8500.

PALSGROVE: John 56 (farmer), Mary 55, Aaron 25 (carpenter) , Christianna 24, Daniel Palsgrove 29 (carpenter),Catharine 21. R.E. (JP) $800 (DP) $800.

GROSS: Rebecca 58, John Joseph 48. R.E. $1000.

SMITH: Conrad 49 (farmer), Hannah 40, William 12, Jeremiah 10, John 9, Henry 6, Sarah 5, Joshua 2.

320 UNITED STATES CENSUS OP 1860, MONTGOMEEY COUNTY

MENSH: Peter 37 (taylor), Anna 34, William Adam 13, JohnFranklin 10, Amandas Conrad 3/12, Ablesena Elizabeth 8,Franklin Hoof 18, Jonas Hoof 15, Maria Decker 20. R.E.$2400.

FRYER: Christian 45 (carpenter), Susanna 47, Jessiah 20(carpenter), Benjamin 14. R.E. $2000.

KEHS: Joseph 85 (blacksmith), Magdelana 30, Jacob 7, John6, Elizabeth 4, Matilda 2, Franklin Vanhom 20, HenrySchweinhart 84, Catharine 69. R.E. $1700.

HOLLOBUSH: John 43 (farmer), Elizabeth 39, Mary Ann 1,Harrison Seaver 14. R.E. $3000.

ZOLLER: Elizabeth 64, Ephraim Zoller 22 (huckster). R.E.$2700.

GEIST: Samuel 46 (farmer), Elizabeth 46, Esther 19, Henry15, Samuel 13. R.E. $2000.

WARTMAN; Elizabeth 70, Susanna Bickhart 63.DENGLER: Jacob Sr. (carpenter), Margaret 54, Mary Ann

21, Elizabeth Sarah 8/12, Catharine 84. R.E. $1200.DENGLER: Jacob B. 28 (carpenter), Elizabeth 19, Nathan

iel 1.

ZOLLER: William 27 (stocking weaver), Maria 25, Henry 2.R.E. $1550.

SMITH: David 30 (farmer), Matilda 33, Mary Ann 6, Per-cival 2. R.E. $2200.

REIFSNEIDER: Isaac 44 (farmer), Rebecca 38, Sarah Stof-flet 14. R.E. $4500.

FAVINGER; Charles 33, Lydia 32, Amanda 10, Henry 7,Jesse 6, Anne 3, Albert 2.

BORNEMAN: Isaac 32 (farmer), Esther 34, Isaac 4, Elizabeth 1, Ephraim Gresh 18 (hiredman), Rachael Gresh 41,Benjamin Katz 10. R.E. $4400.

REIFSNEIDER: Jacob 54 (farmer), John 16 (farmer), Jacob10, Rebecca Moser 30. R.E. $3500.

REIFSNEIDER: Maria 39, Carolina 9, Ephraim 10, John 5,Widow Schnell 65.

CHRISTMAN: Michael 32 (showman), Catharine 39 R.E.$500.


KOLB: Henry 47 (shoemaker), Rachael 37, Samuel 14, Solomon 12, Aaron 8, Henry 7, Susanna 5, George 3, Hannah1, Jesse 15. R.E. $2200.

HILTEBEITEL [HILTEBIDLE] : Adam 37 (farmer), Sarah•31, Mark 14, Jessiah 11, Angelina 9, Augustus 7, Jacob 5,Sarah 3, Mary 1, Augustus Wunderllch 28, Hannah Dangler 61, Jacob Dengler 22 (daylaborer). R.E. $4100.

ZOLLER: George 45 (farmer), Rebecca 37, Milton 9, MaryAnn 2. R.E. $4500.

DECKER: Hannah 49, Mary Loch 75.

MOCK: Jacob 40 (shoemaker), Sophia 37, Mary 13, Sarah 5,John Brecht 18 (shoemaker), Isaac Mock 26 (shoemaker).R.E. $2000.

RITTER: Henry 36 (daylaborer), Hannah 35, Jacob 14, John12, Sarah 10, William 8, Elizabeth 6, Henry 3. R.E. $1800.

MOYER: Daniel 35 (farmer), Sarah 30, David 11, Elizabeth8, Daniel 4, Mary Ann 1, Esther Shaner 18, Ephraim Ren-inger 16 (farmer). R.E. $4000.

READS: Daniel 48 (farmer), Catharine 49, Levines 21 (sad-ler), John 17 (farmer), Jacob 12, Henry 6, Lydia 18,Mary 10. R.E. $4000.

SETZLER: John 75, Maria 63, William 22 (farmer), Sarah31, Sarah Deam 12. R.E. $1800.

GABEL: Philip 40 (organist), Lydia Stearly 35. R.E. $3000.SAYLOR: Philip 43 (farmer), Elizabeth 33, Catharine 13,

Franklin 11, Amos 9, Philip 7, Isaac 5. R.E. $3000.PENNEBECKER: Elizabeth 62, William 32 (saddler), Esther

Schlichter 15. R.E. $6000.PANNEBECKER: Charles H. 39 (innkeeper), Hannah 36,

Mary 15, Henry 14, Franklin 11, Albert 9, Samuel 7, John2, Conrad Neiman 64 (storekeeper).

KREBS: Henry 77, Hannah 77, John Shaner 12, HannahShaner 16, John Huber 26, John Bartman 16, ElizabeihSmith 22, Mary Huber 19. R.E. $10,000.

KECK: David 48 (farmer), Rachael 43, Daniel 19 (farmer),Joel 15, Rebecca 11, Judith Kolb 15. R.E. $8000.

322 IJNITED STATES CENSUS OP 1860, MONTGOUEBY COUNTY

POH: Levi 39 (carpenter), Judith 36, Marietta 12, Amanda 8,Mathilda 6, Esther 4, Levi 3. R.E. $600.

SMITH: Henry 68 (farmer), Catharine 61, Samuel 30 (farmer) , Catharine 22, Maria 24. R.E. $5000.

SAYLOR: Samuel 49 (farmer), Sarah 42, Hermina 21, Esther18, Samuel 16 (farmer), Joshua 13, Mary 12, Fayette 10,Sarah 8, Maria 6, Gidion 6, Lydia 4, Henrietta 2. R.E.$1200.

CHRISTMAN: John 67 (farmer), Catharine 62, Daniel 20(daylaborer), George 26 (daylaborer), Judith Latshaw 39,Celinda Latshaw 14, Susanna 11. R.E. $1500.

SENSENDERFER: Michael 67, Elizabeth 58, Lewis 21 (day-laborer) , Hannah 19, Elizabeth Bortzenhart 8. R.E. $800.

HOLLOBUSH: Daniel H, 40 (farmer), Mary 37, Henry 12,Philip 10, Richert 7. R.E. $1500.

ALBRIGHT: Michael 70, Susanna 68, John Schweisfort 51(farmer), Solome 42, Mary Ann 18, Esther 13, Sarah 11,Samuel 10. R.E. $4000.

BINDER: Samuel 27 (farmer), Esther 28, Sarah 3, Adeline1, Isaac Geris 16, Emma Miller 14, Hannah Binder 54.R.E. $3600.

KERCH [HERSH]: John 49 (farmer), Sarah 52, Sarah 14,Mary Ann, 23, Sarah Ann 5, B. Franklin 3, Mahlon Herch1.

GRADY: Levi 28 (daylaborer), Mary 25, James Gross 7,Catharine Linsenbigler 15, Maria Linsenbigler 18, Feyette7.

WEANT (WEAND): William 30 (butcher), Christianna 27,Melinda 2, Harrison 7, Mary Batz 16, Solomon Hoffman 18(farm hand), Catharine Weant 73, Sophia Weant 18, Mal-ary 5. R.E. $4500.

DREHS (DRACE): Nathan 26 (taylor), Esther 25, Amanda3, Albert 1, Milton Styer 19 (apprentice), Mary Binder 13.R.E. $3200.

DENGLER: George 53 (farmer), Rebecca 49, Sarah 11, Henry 3, Emeline 14. R.E. $2500.


HARTRANFT: David 60 (farmer), Christianna 52, Aaron 20(miller), Louisa 19, Malinda 17, David 14, Christianna 10.R.E. $8000.

DENGLER: George 31 (carpenter), Catharine 30, Louisa 1,R.E. $2500.

SCHENLY: Jonas 23 (carpenter), Hannah 19, Catharine 1.EHL: William 55 (farmer), Elizabeth 45, Esther 19, William

12, Caroline 11, Catharine 10, Joseph Leister 22 (hired-man). R.E. $4000.

FAGLEY: John 43 (farmer), Anna 35, Elizabeth 13, John 11,Amilie 10, Henry 8, Mary 7, Sarah 5, Esther 3, Jessia 1.R.E. $2000.

ROTH: Obediah 34 (farmer), Hannah 33, Levi 12, Catharine10, Franklin 8, William 6, Henry 4, John 1. R.E. $5000,

YERGER: Henry 48 (weaver), Rebecca 44, Rebecca 13, Henry 9, Sarah 7, George Albert 4, Sarah Dotterer 15, SarahHallman 60. R.E. (SH) $500.

KNEER: Jonathan 54 (farmer), Maria 52, Abraham 24(farmer), Mary Miller 58, Anna Miller 21, Joshua Houck27 (taylor). R.E. $3000.

HAUCK: George 29 (daylaborer), Hannah 33, John 8, Augustus Mayberry 23 (mason). R.E. $800.

DREHS: Peter 54 (taylor), Maria 53, Lydia 19, Peter 17(farmer), Mary 14, Edwin 12, Thomas Hoffman 24, Esther21, Malary 1. R.E. $2000.

FRYER: Joshua 37 (millwright), Sarah 37, Maria 15, William 10, Sarah 6, Joshua 3, Mathilda 7/12. R.E. $550.

G... .T: John 28 (farmer), Hannah 27, Milton 5, Louisa 3,Amilie 3/12. R.E. $2300.

LEISTER: David 29 (blacksmith), Susanna 28, Henry 7, Susanna 5, Emily 3, Susanna Frederick 54, Emeline Frederick 19. R.E. $1000.

BITTING: Isaac 49 (daylaborer), Mary 38, John 17, Caroline13, Emeline 6, William H. 1/12.

FRYER: Jacob 63 (farmer), Sarah 50, Caroline 13, Henry10, Jacob 7. R.E. $1800.

324 TTTF! united states census op 1850, MONTGOMERY COUNTY

MILLER: George 37 (fanner), Caroline 36, Henry 14, Susanna 9, Sarah 7, Thomas 5, Catharine 61. R.E. $2700.

BERRET: Henry 52 (no trade), Susanna 45, Erasmus 20(daylaborer), Mary Ann 11.

SMITH: John 29, Elizabeth 22.RENINGER: Reuben 30 (eeedar cooper), Henrietta 29, Eliza

beth 5, John 3, Susanna 5/12. R.E. $800.STELTZ: Reuben 35 (stocking weaver), Sarah 27, Theophilus

6, Adaline 4, Valentine 2. R.E. $700.KNETZ: Jonas 45 (farmer), Elizabeth 37, Sarahann 8, Ja

cob 5, Benjamin Keeler 13. R.E. $8000.RENINGER: Peter 52 (farmer), Anna Maria 42, Augustus

23 (farmer), Samuel 20, (farmer), Sophia 16, Peter 14,Jessia 12, Susanna 10, Maria Stauffer 60. R.E. $4500.

BINDER: Amos 33 (farmer), Maria 33, Amanda 9, Nathan5, Mary Elizabeth 1, Nathaniel Erb 14, Carolina Erb 17,Jacob Binder 74, Elizabeth Binder 67. R.E. (JB) $4000.

REIFSNIDER: Sebastian 47 (farmer), Mary 36, Catharine15, Mary 12, William 10, Milton 7, Elizabeth 5, RebeccaLucette 3. R.E. $4000,

STELTZ: Jonas 33 (farmer), Sarah 25, Mathilda 5, Catharine4, Elizabeth 5/12, Nathan Keeler 16, Sarah Fagley 18,Barbara Herpel 85, Valentine Steltz 79, Catharine 67,Samuel Steltz 51 (laborer). R.E. (VS) $8000.

YERGER: John 29 (farmer), Sophia 28, Amanda 5, Mary 3,John Strunk 12, Elizabeth Yerger 61, Lydia 16. R.E.$2000.

RICHARDS: Philip 60 (farmer), Maria 58, Sophia 24, Esther22, Magdeline 20, Samuel 18 (farmer), Jesse 16. R.E.$4000.

FAUST: Peter 55 (farmer), Margaret 43, Samuel 21 (millwright) , Jesse 19 (farmer), Margaret 17, Peter 15, Jonathan 8, Sarah 3. R.E. $1600.

BEYER: Enos 43 (farmhand), Eliza 44, Francis 9. R.E.$850.

KEISER [KEYSER]: Henry 56 (farmer), Sarah 54, Abso-lom 12. R.E. $800.


KOONS: Philip 34 (farmer), Maria 30, Malary 8, Maryann 6,Jonathan 4, Milton 2, Philip 2. R.E. $2000.

ZERN: Abraham 60 (farmer), Maria 55, Sophia 17, Henry12, Lovina 7. R.E. $900.

ZERN; George 35 (day laborer), Esther 32, John 10, Abraham 8. R.E. $500.

MOYER: Daniel 33 (farmer), Christianna 33, Esther 9,Sarah 6, William 4. R.E. $1600.

HAUCK: Peter 35 (carpenter), Sarah 28, Esther 6. R.E.$800.

ERB: George 21 (segar maker), Catharine 21, Mahlon 2,Thema 1. R.E. $500.

HAUCK: Daniel 55 (weaver), Elizabeth 50, George Moser 31(laborer), Lydia Moser 40, Maryann 15, Nathan 10, Esther 8, Levina 3. R.E. $2000.

YOST: Jacob 52 (farmer), Maria 45, Samuel 21 (stonemason), Jacob 17 (farmer), John 14, Sophia 24, Maria 8,Caroline 5. R.E. $1000.

WITMAN: Catharine 50 (widow), Susanna 12, Jessia 8,Lydia 5. R.E. $325.

GOUGLER: John 42 (shoemaker), Hannah 38, Nathainel 17(daylaborer), Levina 16, Amanda 9, Magdelina 7, Catharine 2. R.E. $800.

YONSON: Christopher 50 (farmer), Maria 56, John 28(farmer), Sophia 19, Rebecca 17, William 11. R.E.$3000.

KEELER: Elias 25 (blacksmith), Feyette 24, Henry 1.R.E. $875.

SMITH: George 52 (daylaborer), Maria 48, William 7, Maria3, Joshua 13.

GILBERT: Henry 65, Sarah 64.BOYER: William 82, Mary 67.SCHLONEKER [SLONAKER]: George 47 (carpenter),

Catharine 47, Adam 21 (carpenter), Catharine 13, Elizabeth 16, Philip 10, John Esterline 60. R.E. $700.

326 UNITED STATES CENSUS OF 1860. MONTGCMEEY COUNTY

ZINK: Lewis 55 (ceeder cooper), Michael Irabody 64 (carpenter) , Catharine Imbody 57, Jacob 20 (carpenter), Daniel16 (carpenter), David 13, Mathilda 10. R.E. $500.

GRODY: Henry A. 61, Maria 58, Sophia 18. R.E. $500.SMITH: Joseph 40 (fanner), Mary 30, John Smith 34, Wil

liam Weil 13, John Erb 32, George Cress 85 (drover),Maria Francisia 36, Paul 7, Mary Eliza 1. R.E. (JS)$2000 (GC) $500.

SMULL: Charles 50 (daylaborer), Rachael 42, Benneville 18(laborer), Mary 13, Elizabeth 11, Sarah 2/12, John Ramsay 1.

FRYER: Joseph 50 (sawmiller), Elizabeth 48, Susanna 14,Deborah 13, Levi 24 (laborer), R.E. $2200.

STYER: John 34 (laborer), Nancy 30, John 9, Mary 7, Nathaniel 4, Hannah 10/12.

SCHENKEL: Adam 30 (carpenter), Catharine 30, Augustus6, Sarah 3, Catharine 8/12.

SMITH: Simon 33 (carpenter), Catharine 33, Caroline 9,Mary Ann 7, Sarah 4, Catharine 2, Edward 1. R.E. $500.

RENINGER: Jacob 50 (farmer), Elizabeth 43, Lydiann 22,Jacob 13, Esther 10, Maryann 5. R.E. $700.

BARTMAN: John 70, Barbara 67, Jacob Bartman 27 (farmer), Sarah Bartman 23, Lucyann 2, Rebecca 3/12, Bohme(?), Yonson 13. R.E. $3000.

SWEISFORT: Peter 44 (farmer), Rebecca 35, Maria 12, Jes-sia 10, Catharine Ann 6, Albert Grimley 24 (laborer).R.E. $3000.

GROB: Jacob 50 (farmer), Catharine 49, Henry 18, Catharine11, Caroline 8. R.E. $3000.

LACHMAN: Charles 32 (stonemason), Sophia 29, Ely 8,Sarah 6, Henry 4, Ervin 2, Mary Elizabeth 6/12. R.E.$900.

MARKLEY: Benjamin 49 (farmer), Susanna 46, AugustusY. 22 (farmer), Stephen 13, Benjamin 11, Elizabeth 6,Sophia Bickhart 21. R.E. $6500.

NEIMAN: Charles 38 (weaver), Maria 34, Esther 9. R.E.$600.


KOLB: William 38 (carpenter), Anna 37, Mathilda 5, Henry14, R.E. $400.

KOLB: Philip 52 (farmer), Susanna 46, Jonas 14, Feyette 13,Mary 11, Michael 8, Susanna 4, Levisa 5/12, SusannaKolb 79. R.E. $1400.

KOLB: John 43 (wheelwright), Christianna 40, Joshua 14,Henry 11, John 8. R.E. $1000.

FRYER: George 61 (farmer), Mary 58, Franklin 21 (farmer), Susanna 24, Nathan Fryer 31 (millwright), Lucinda24, David 3, Adeline 2. R.E. $2500.

WEIANT [WEAND] : Charles 29 (coal burner), Lydiann 24,Jacob 5, Mary 2. R.E. $550.

SPICHT [SPECHT]: William 49 (Justice of the Peace),Magdelena 46, William 24 (segar maker), Levina 13, JohnGougler 15, Maria Wonsidler 16. R.E. $3000.

YERGER: Peter 51 (farmer), Sarah 49, Lydia 17, Rebecca15, Peter 13, William 7, Catharine Badman 68, ElizabethRoth 78, Esther Gougler 21. R.E. $2000.

STYER: George 54 (carpenter), Mary 49, Caroline 17, Cattilie16, Neiette 8, Maryann 21, James Styer 26 (carpenter),Sophia Styer 25, Mary 2, Franklin 7/12.

KOLB: John 60 (daylaborer), Susanna 61, Ellen 28, CharlesStyer 28 (carpenter), Eliza Styer 23, Luisanna 6, John 4,Jacob Mabrey 24 (daylaborer), Susanna Mabrey 22, Catharine Ann 2, Wilson 1, Hannah Moser 33, Hannah Moser8. R.E. $400.

BRENDLINGER: Jacob 48 (farmer), Elizabeth 46, Maryann20, Luise 18, William 15, John Badman 38 (daylaborer),Catharine Badman 36, Joseph 13, Edward 11, Henry 9,John 7, Lydia 5, William 2, Charles Zem 24 (laborer),Sarah Zern 22, Elizabeth 8/12. R.E. $2500.

NEIDIG: George 34 (augersmith), Catharine Schweinhart35, Catharine 12, Mathilda 9, Henry 7, Benjamin 4. R.E.$1200.

HAUCK: Jacob B. 33 (faimer), Elizabeth 30, Percivel 7.R.E. $700.

328 UNITED STATES CENSUS OP 1860, UONTGOMEBY COUNTY

FAUST: John 43 (daylaborer), Christianna 33, Susanna Lick5.

SCHWARTZ: Abraham 50 (farmer), Maria 46, William 8,Julyann 6, David 14, Susanna Smell 39. R.E. $800.

WEIGNER: Jacob 75, Catharine 74, George Huber 46 (farmer), Elizabeth 42, Sarah 4, William Erb 14. R,E.(GH) $2000.

JOHNSON: John 67, Catharine Mechler 65.

BICKEL: William 27 (farmer), Elmina 24, Jacob 20 (farmer), Daniel 12, Hannah 11, Amanda 9, Susanna 48, Abraham Bolig 40 (daylaborer). R.E. $3000.

ACKERMAN: John 65, Hannah 56, Franklin Thompson 15,Mathilda Ackerman 14.

KOLB: Jacob 31 (daylaborer) Mary 33, David 5, John Kolb26 (carpenter), Rebecca 30, William 2/12.

GOUGLER: Michael 41 (weaver), Elizabeth 45, Samuel 9.R.E. $300.

SCHWOYER. Jacob 27 (stonemason), Maryann 19, William 1,Jacob Beaver 10. R.E. $1340.

SMITH: John S. 34 (ceedar cooper), Sarah 35, William 6,Maryann Elizabeth 3, Elizabeth Erb 60. R.E. $770.

SCHEN [SHANE]: Henry 53 (augersmith), Mary 49, Henry11. R.E. $600.

SCHWENK: Christian 46 (daylaborer), Maria 41, Hannah11, Levina 9, John 7, Elmina 6.

SCHICK: John 45 (weaver), Catharine 45, Catharine 12,John 9.

FREED: Samuel 57 (farmer), Rebecca 59, Henry 10. R.E.$600.

SIESHOLS [SEISHOLTZ]: Henry 32 (carpenter), Elizabeth38, Maria 11, Jessia 5, Levina 3, Sophia 9/12. R.E. $800.

MILLER: Michael 38 (farmer), Maria 34, Catharine Ann 10,John 8, Christian 5, Lydia 2. R.E. $2000.

MILLER: Solomon 42 (farmer), Sarah Ann 14, Elizabeth 12,Conrad Washington 10. R.E. $600.

NACE: Adam 65, Rachael 65.


MAYBREY: Joseph 34 (wheelwright), Catharine 26, Mathias8, Casper Schaeffer 1, Mary Ann 6. R.E. $580.

ZERN: John 56 (fanner), Catharine 52, Isaac 15, Aaron Zem29 (mason), Elizabeth Zern 24, Rebecca 7, Sophia 5,R.E. $900.

DRUMBORE: George 50 (carpenter), Elizabeth 47, Theo-phelus 16, George 14, Elizabeth 12, Hillarius 10. R.E.$1000.

KOLB: Jonas 40 (stonemason), Esther 40, Daniel 11, Jonas8, Esther 6, Jacob 3, Charles 8/12. R.E. $300.

ERB: Jonas 45 (carpenter), Barbara 43, John 12, Rebecca17, Sophia 10, Susanna 7, Elizabeth Fox 59. R.E. $800.

KEIFREITER: George 23 (taylor), Lydia 22, Carolina 7/12.ZIMMERMAN: John 56 (farmer), Margaret 52. R.E.

$1800.

MALEHORN: Louisa 45, Carolina 13. R.E. $300.ADAM: Jacob 68.

HERB: David 53, Catharine 59.HOFFMAN: Andrew 30 (laborer). Lea 25, Lydia 2, Peter

Hoffman 32. R.E. $675.ZERCHNER: Paul 47 (drover), Catharine 45, Sarah Linsen-

bigler 11. R.E. $420.MILLER: Jonas 28, Lydia 28, Henry 8, George 5, Catharine

3, George Kehl 36, Lydia Kehl 36.NEITER: George 45 (farmer), Cattilie 44, Jonas 11, George

3, Barbara 2/12, Brigette 9, Eliza 7, Simon 6. R.E. $1500.ZERN: Jacob 33 (carpenter), Sophia 28, Esther 7, Jacob 5,

Mary Ann 3, Susanna 6/12. R.E. $400.STROHL [STROLE] : Michael 58 (paper packer), Mary 45,

Tillman Augustus 19 (shoemaker), Rebecca 16, William14. R.E. $450.

REIGNER: Jacob 55 (potter), Maria 60, Esther 20. R.E.$1500.

KEIFREITER: Jacob 66, Catharine 50, Nicholas 18 (day-laborer) .

SCOTT: Elizabeth 82.


STOFFLET; George 42 (carpenter), Rebecca 31, Lea 7, John9, Isaac 16 (stonemason), Sarah 14, Catharine 11, GeorgeStofflet Sr. 72, Mary 62. R.E. $500.

BADMAN: David 46, Sarah 49, William Shueck 20 (farmhand), Franklin Fox 19 (carpenter). R.E. $250.

ERB: John 59, Catharine 61, William 27 (daylaborer), Amos20 (daylaborer), James 18 (daylaborer). R.E. $1500.

SELL; Philip 62, Elizabeth 53, Philip 21, Malinda 13, Amanda11. R.E. $400.

BARRITT: John 55, Catharine 50, Sarah 20, Willoughby 12.R.E. $200.

GILBERT: Frederick 59 (farmer), Susanna 56. R.E. $700.GILBERT: Charles 34 (blacksmith), Lucyanna 31, Sophia 12,

Esther 10, Sarah Ann 5, Augustus Scheffey 16. R.E. $900.EDELMAN: George 42, Malinda 39, Edwin 9.ZERN: Henry 39 (powdercask maker), Sophia 33, Nathan 13,

Esther 11, Henry 4, Lydia 1. R.E. $650.HAUCK: George 62 (stonemason), Hannah 58, Hannah 17.EDELMAN: Jacob 49 (farmer), Rebecca 47, Thomas 22, Reu

ben 16, Hiram 11, Judith 20, Feyette 5. R.E. $1900.SMITH: Esther 47 (widow), Rebecca 22, Maryann 15, Charles

10, Amanda 7, Henry W. Harpel 27 (millwright), Julie-ann 23. R.E. $500.

FOX: Charles 35 (stonemason), Catharine 34, Ann Juline 12,Gedion 10, Lucinda 7, Susanna 7, Esther 5, Elizabeth 2.

DRASE: Reuben 32 (farmer), Sarah 32, Nathan 8, Milton 5,Jessiah 3, Sarah 1/12, Catharine Drase 68. R.E. $800.

FINK: John 49 (shoemaker), Margaret 44, Jacob Franklin17 (shoemaker), William 13, Henry 9, Maria 7, John 3,Eli Brendlinger 24 (shoemaker), R.E. $1200.

SMITH: John 58 (farmer), Elizabeth 54, Reuben 19 (stonemason), Judith 22, R.E. $1000.

LEISTER: Philip 51 (stonemason), Anna 53, Mary Ann 15,Philip 12. R.E. $2000.

LEISTER: John 22 (stonemason), Lea 24, Maryann 1.

ERB: Henry 28 (shoemaker), Rebecca 31, Susanna 4, Sarah 2,Sophia 6/12. R.E, $800,


BARNHART: John 58, Catharine 57, James 15.

ERB; Henry 60 (farmer), John 26 (gentleman), Sophia Bam-hart 18, Jonas Erb 32 (farmer), Maria Erb 30, Nathan 8,Mary 7, Charley 5, Esther 2. R.E. $2000.

DAVIDHEISER: Jacob 46 (farmer), Sarah 42, Carolina 16,Rebecca 12, Jessiah 9, William Badman 28 (hiredman).R.E. $2500.

FRYER: Isaac 30 (daylaborer), Rebecca 28, Carolina 9, Louisa 4, Susanna 1.

HOFFMAN: John 46 (sawmiller), Elizabeth 43, John 17,Jacob 22 (farmer). R.E, $2000.

ERB: George 25 (carpenter), Sarah 20, Jacob 7/12.ERB: Daniel 46 (shinglemaker), Catharine 44, Catharine Ann

9, Simon 7, Sarah 5, Angeline 1. R.E. $900.

HARPEL: Jacob 50 (millwright), Mary 50, Jacob 22 (millwright) , Daniel 18 (millwright), Mary Ann 15, Benjamin12, David 9, Peter Eshbach 20 (miller), Rebecca Smith21. R.E. $4000.

LINSENBIGLER: Paul 71 (farmer), Elizabeth 69, MathiasLinsenbigler 40 (farmer), Susanna 30. R.E. $1800.

HERBERT: Philip 51 (daylaborer), Catharine 49, CatharineRothenberger 13. R.E. $500.

ZOLLER: Samuel 37 (stocking weaver), Elizabeth 35, John 9,Mary Malinda 6, Emma Elizabeth 4. R.E. $1000.

REIGNER: Frederick 27 (daylaborer), Sophia 25, Mary 5,John 4, Lewis 1.

BITTING: Joseph 60 (carpenter), Elizabeth 56, Luisa 20,John 18 (carpenter). R.E. $1800.

BITTING: Peter 32 (carpenter), Mary Ann 25, Levina 13,John Keeler 18. R.E. $1000.

BARTOLET: Hannah 38 (widow), Charlotte 19, Elizabeth 16,Samuel 9, Sophia 4, Abraham Bartolet 77, Henry Reinert24 (hiredman), John Hoffman 16 (hiredman). R.E. $5000.

MICKERT: John V. 38 (shoemaker), Justina Frederick 46,Emmaline Maria 10, Mary 9, John 7, Catharine 4. R.E.$1150.


Whole Number of Population —1635

(Male 811, Female 824)

Attended school within the year — 395

All persons born in Pennsylvania with the following exceptions;

Bom in GERMANY

HAUCK, John

OSBR, Joseph

ALDINGER, AndrewAnna Maria

Angelina

DEAL, ChristopherDIEGBL, John A.

Maria Magdelina(jotlieb

John

DEAINLY, WendelFronica

BISHOFF, DanielElizabeth

Eve

FILLINGER, Andrew W.BERNHARD, Martin

WOLF, FrederickElizabeth

STORB, TheodoreHOFMAN, Rev. Andrew

KEIFREITER, Adam

MACHREIGH, HenrySCHNEIDER, Philip

JOSEPH, John

CHRISTMAN, Michael

WUNDERLICH, Augustus

BORTZENHART, Elizabeth

CRESS, GeorgeMaria Francisia

Paul

MALEHORN, LuisaZERCHNER, Paul

Catharine

NEITER, GeorgeCattilie

Jonas

MICKERT, John V.Justina Fredericka

Born in FRANCE

KEIFREITER, George

KEIFREITER, JacobCatharine

Nicholas

Free Inhabitants in Whitemarsh

Township in the County of MontgomeryState of Pennsylvania

According to the Census of 1850

JOSEPH KIRKNER —Ass't Marshal

Aug. 13 to Nov. 1st 1850

R.E. — value of Real Estate owned.

HANNIS: William 45 (farmer), Rosanna 55, Morris Deshong34 (farmer), Rosanna Deshong 28, Andrew Hannis 18(farmer), William 15, Louisa 12, Anna 7, MargaretSwarts 17. R.E. $5000.

BOUD; James 34 (farmer), Sarah 28, William H. 6, Margaret5, Jacob Boggs 24 (farmer). R.E. $1300.

DAGER: Charles 42 (victualler), Mariah 32, Daniel 16, Hannah 15, Martin V. 14. R.E. $3000.

HITNER, Daniel 0. 35 (marble merchant), Catharine 33,Elizabeth 11, Rebecca 8, Harry 6, Catharine 5, Ellen 1,Alexander Fulton 30 (farmer), Elizabeth Bickings 26,Ann Hiltner 15. R.E. $79,580.

MAGUIRE: Robert 35 (farmer), Harriet 28, Mary Ann 9,Margaret 4, Louisa 2, George Stevin 19 (farmer), Eliza? 19. R.E. $6500.

LUKENS: William M. Sr.: 28 (merchant), Caroline 25, Win-field L. 3, William 1.

RHOADS; Samuel, Sr.: 39 (farmer), Elizabeth 35, Margaret15, Sarah 14, Daniel 12, Henry 10, Mary 7, Samuel 4, Edwin 2, Rebecca 10/12, Francis Lukens 20 (clerk), JamesBeatty 25 (teamster). R.E. (JB) $100.

FREAS: Chas. 48 (farmer), Margaret 40, Eliza 24, Mary 22,Amanda 20, Martha Ann 18, Daniel 16, Charles 14, Emma10, Isabella 8, Harry 4, Josephine 1. R.E. $5500.

333


LYLE: Charles 41 (gate keeper), Elizabeth 40, Mary Ann 19,Elizabeth 17, Allen 15, George 12, Hannah 7, Franklin 3,Tyson 5/12.

KEX: Abraham 59 (smith), Caroline 45, Caroline 9, George 1.YEAGLE [YEAKLE]: Samuel 43 (shoemaker), Mira 33,

Isaac 12, Emilie 7.

GULP: John 47 (farmer), Mariah 42, Elizabeth 22, Deborah20, Mariah 16, Leonard 14, Sarah 11, Charles 9, Henry 5,Samuel 1, Leonard Culp 75 (farmer), Catharine 65. R.E.$4000.

DEWEESE: Daniel 46 (farmer), Mary Ann 47, Sarah Ann 20,George 18, Jacob W. 15. R.E. $6000.

DEWEESE: Henry 55 (farmer), Mary 48, Edwin 23 (farmer), Susanna 16, Anna Jane 12, Mary 8, Jacob 6, JanetBurt 30. R.E. $6000.

HART: Daniel 28 (farmer), Mary 41, Ellen Zell 17, ElizabethStaley 13, Caleb Staley 9, William Wampole 45. R.E.$5000.

SHINGLE: John 34 (cordwainer), Mary Ann 80, Henry Miller 3.

.KEELY: Rebecca 58, Caroline 24, Sarah Ann 19, Lucinda 17,Austina 14, Elizabeth 12, Mark 24. R.E. $6565.

SCHOCH: Theodore 26 (none), Mary 25, Jacob 2, Emma11/12.

MILLER: Andrew 55 (farmer), Mary 53, Susanna 23, George20, Harriet 14, Sarah Ann 11, Walton Barton 21 (none).R.E. $10,000.

MILLER: Samuel 27 (farmer), Ann Eliza 25, Chas. Morgan13, Sarah Dillman 7.

LIGHTCAP: George 48 (farmer), Elizabeth 48, Anna 19,Charles 17, George 14, Mary Ann 10, Jacob Katz 45(none). R.E. $4000.

LENTZ: Girard 42 (farmer), Margaret 32, Elizabeth 11,Henry H. 10, Fineman W. 8, Howard M. 4, William Ma-guire 29 (none), Ezra Roberts 43, Isabella McCullough14, Elizabeth Lentz 55. R.E. $7000.

WHITBMARSH TOWNSHIP 335

RAPINE: Nicholas 55 (farmer), Ann 48, Jacob 24 (none),Andrew 18, Jeremiah 13, Mary Ann Rapine 10, MargaretHartman 19. R.E. $6000.

STREEPER: Peter 55 (farmer), Mary 56, Amanda 25, Caroline 16. R.E. $9800.

BOYTON: Charles 40 (saddler), Mary Ann 32, Sarah 11, Louisa 9, Hannah 6, Richard 4, Jacob 1, Dorothy Eddleman 77.

GOSHEN: Davis Sr. 44 (cooper), Agnes 42, Anna M. 21^Sarah 19, Hannah 11, John 9, Davis 6, Emily A. 3.

CULP: George 64 (farmer), Sarah 55, Catharine 30, Angelina26, Leonard 23, Elizabeth Hartness 20, Frederick A. Culp18 (none), Ellen 15, Sarah Ann 15 (twins), Charles 10.R.E. $5000.

MARKLEY: Isaac Sr. 45 (none), Lydia 38, Sophia 12, Win-field S. 6, Abraham 3, William 11/12.

HILTNER: Andrew 40 (none), Sarah 29, Amanda 11, JohnH. 1. R.E. $1000.

THOMAS: Susan 45, Mary 16, Jane 12, Henry H, 16. R.E.$2000.

KLINE: Peter Sr. 61 (none), Heneritta 56, Eliza Cauble 15.

DAGER: John 52 (hotel & farmer), Ann 50, Sarah 23, Eliza20, Charles 15, Albert 13, Nicholas 11, Mary 9, Anna 5.R.E. $5000.

JOHNSON: Reuben 29 (carpenter), Sophia 28, William Col-flesh 19 (carpenter).

BARNHOLT: John Sr. 77 (victualler), Henry 41 (victualler),George 30 (none), Mary Fight 18.

CRESSMAN: Samuel 52 (laborer), Mary 55, Henrietta 26,.Catharine 13, Louisa 10.

EDDLEMAN: Isaac 43 (smith). Massy 38, Mary Ann 16,Rosanna 14, George 10, Peter 8, Eliza Bamett 7/12.

MAGUIRE: Esther 64,-John 42 (laborer), James 25 (stonecutter), Catharine S.. .in 20, Angeline S.. .in 16.

336 UNITED STATES CENSUS OP 1850, MONTGOMEBY COUNTY

BROOKS: Clarissa M. 39, Mary H. 21, Ellen C. 20, ElizabethM. 19, George C. 17, Emery J. 14, Arthur G. 12, Fanny C.10, Charles T. 8, Alexander C. 4, Catharine O'Conner 20,Allen R. Reeves 50 (Iron master), Hezia S. 45, Hugh Matthews 20 (laborer), Lewis Yerkes 44 (merchant), MaryHannis 70. R.E. $22,000.

BISBING; George W. 27 (none), Elizabeth H. 25.

BARNETT: Elias 29 (clerk), Sarah Kely 15, Mary E. Burnett 4.

SWEENEY: James 29 (laborer), Mary 29, Alexander 2, Susan 3/12.

WRAY: William 28 (laborer), Rachel 28, Elizabeth 5, Rachd2, Elizabeth 60, James Rankin 30 (laborer), Thomas Trig? 25 (laborer).

LAFFERTY: Solomon 26 (laborer), Mary 26, Jeremiah 2,Martha Ann 3/12.

PAUGH: Robert 27 (founderer), Margaret 22, Mary C. 3,Daniel 10/12.

ANDREWS: William 23 (laborer), Anna 33, Sarah 1, Wm.Toland 23 (laborer), David Toland 24 (laborer).

MC CLAY: James 31 (laborer), Eliza 30, Anna 8, Andrew 4.JONES: Elizabeth 62, Hiram 18.

STREEPER: Charles 40 (farmer), Elizabeth 17, Sarah 17(twins), Charles 12, Isaac 10, Jesse 7, Henry 5, Anna 2.R.E. $2000.

SHERD: John 59 (laborer), Ellen 52, John25 (laborer), Luke23 (laborer), Sarah A. 9. R.E. $500.

TOLAN [TOLAND]: Charles 35 (innkeeper), Frances 35,Reuben 12, Mary 10, George 8, Sarah 6, Pheby H... 18,Evolin Minnis 35 (laborer), Dennis Gannon 28 (laborer),James Canady 30 (laborer), Peter Ryen 23 (laborer).Marble Egle 28 (laborer), Francis Tracey 42 (laborer),Patrick Blaney 23 (laborer), Thomas Evans 38 (laborer).

WENTZ: George 45 (teamster), Margaret 26, John 11, MaryJane 7, Salena 6/12, Isabella 2. R.E. $6500.

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GRINSCIFF: Edward 43 (laborer), Ann 43, Joseph 8, Thomas4, Benjamin Green 22 (B) (none), Solomon Cujf 25 (B)(none).

MACANE: John 30 (laborer), Mary 32, Lydia 3, Margaret11/12, Bridget Macane 14.

RICHARDSON: David 34 (laborer). May 30, Ellen 11/12.

DERR: John 32 (laborer), Elizabeth 24, John 6, Catharine 4,Andrew 3, Mary Ann 2, Charles H. 6/12, George C. 6/12(twins). R.E. $400.

GRAVES: John Sr. 25 (laborer), Mary 26, William 2.CRAWFORD: John 27 (laborer), Mary Ann 28, James 3,

Anna 9/12.

SMITH: Griffith 50 (cordwainer), Mariah 43, George 6, Ema-line 2, Richard Ferman 27 (cordwainer).

HARNER: Daniel 65 (laborer), Rebecca 64, Sydney 30,Charles Lukens 24 (laborer), Rebecca Lukens 24, (leorge11/12.

THOMPSON: Benjamin 85 (laborer), Sydney 44, Alycia 10,Elizabeth 8, Irena 6, Frances Ann 4.

MC CULLOUGH: Patrick 30 (laborer), Isabella 37, Isabella 14,Margaret 12, Mary E. 8, Susan 6, Hannah 4, Edward 1.

REARDOM: Thomas 30 (laborer), Margaret 22.PUGH: Stephen 39 (wheelwright), Lydia 49, Eliza Ann 9.PARKS: George 21 (carpenter), Catharine 20, John Newel!

25 (laborer), Elizabeth Lynch 21.STREEPER: George 67 (farmer), Elizabeth 71, Charles Da-

ger 15, Caroline Streeper 40, Mariah Streeper 21, GeorgeDager 20 (none), John Dager 18 (none). R.E. $5000.

STREEPER: Jacob 36 (laborer), Jane 30, Albert 9, Clary 6,Morris 4, Emma 2. R.E. $1000.

HILTNER: Daniel 52 (laborer), Elizabeth 40, Andrew 21(laborer). R.E. $800.

OWENS: Thomas 52 (farmer), Rachel 42, Margaret 7, Samuel 5, Zachariah 1. R.E. $1500.

SPIELHOFFER: Rudolph 56 (farmer), Elizabeth 58, JacobMiller 22, Eliza Miller 18, Henry Zell 15. R.E. $5000.

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HTLiTNER: Charles 38 (smith), Margaret 36, Edwin 13, MaryM. 11. R.E. $1500.

MORRIS: William 40 (cabinetmaker & farmer), Ann E. 34,Martha E. 10, Mary 9, Ann C. 6, Sarah 5, Thomas W. 4,William J. 4 (twins), Henry 1, George Fie 19 (cabinetmaker) . R.E. $2500.

DAGER: Philip 51 (laborer), Sarah 45, William Fliger 14,Newton D. Smith 4.

DAGER: Henry 44 (victualler), Martha 38, John H. 5, Elizabeth W. Morris 35, Josephine A. Wilson 14. R.E. $3000.

MARTIN: Franldin B. 28 (physician), Anna Maria 28, Preston 5, Elizabeth J. 8/12, Henry Meon 33 (none).

SNYDER; Abraham 43 (gatekeeper), Catharine 44, Samuel 3.MORRISON: Joseph 27 (taylor), Roseanna 22, Eliza 4, Mar

garet 2.WENTZ: Jacob 64.(farmer), Catharine 57, Daniel 21, Aman

da 20, Thomas 15, John Wentz 11, John Allebach 30(none). R.E. $15,000.

NEIMAN: John 50 (farmer), Catharine 40, Sarah Ann 22,Charles 19, William 14, George 8, Catharine Carr 20, JohnAlleback 33 (laborer), Mariah 32, William 3/12.

WENTZ: Charles 43 (farmer), Mary Ann 46, George 21(none), Albert P. 17, Sarah Ann 14, John 12, Ellen 10,Hannah 6, Charles 4. R.E. $11,000.

SHEETZ: George 88 (farmer), Susanna 37, Catharine 14,Catharine Wentz 77, Elizabeth Shetinger 15, Henry Wentz18 (none).

FENEMORE: Charles 26 (miller), Hannah 21, William F. 1.SHAFFER: John 24 (farmer), Deborah 22, John 4, Mary

Lower 17. R.E. $6000.JAGO: Samuel 44 (smith), Susanna 30, George 15, Samuel

13, Thomas 8, Henry 6, John 4, Wilmina 2.

HEIST: Edward A. 27 (wheelwright), Ruth 26, Martha J. 1.NACE: Maria 46, George Sheriff 28 (farmer), Mary Ann

Jones 13. R.E. $5000,

STALEY: John 61 (laborer), Rachel 16, Priscilla 14, Louisa11, Esther 5, John 8, Charles 2, Esther Staley 45.

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BOGGS: John 65 (miller), Sarah 31, Davis 27 (school teacher) , Elizabeth 23, Emily 19, Clementine 16, Catharine 14.

HAINES: Jacob 53 (hotel & farmer), Ann 52, Janetta 23,Richard 22, Jacob 15, Susanna 12, Anna 9, Amelia Snyder22, George Shaffer 28 (none). R.E. ?15,000.

SPARE: Daniel 44 (laborer), Barbara 40, Anna E. 8, Morris6, Alephia 2, Susanna 7/12, Timothy Boyle 44 (laborer),

HOCKER: Elizabeth 60, Anna 22, Susanna Dager 57, WilliamDager 22 (none), John Dager 17.

FRIES: Adam 50 (farmer), Ann 45, Susanna 20, Solomon 18(none), Christian 14, John Benner 15, Sophia Fie 14,Lydia Fries 7, Solomon Fries 79, Susan Fries 79. R.E.$8000.

PETERMAN: Charles 48 (farmer), Mary H. 45, Jacob 26,Mary 20. R.E. $2500.

NUNGESER: Joseph 57 (farmer), Maiy 59, John 70 (none).R.E. $4000.

KATZ: John 60 (farmer), Mary 59, Mary 22, Francis 17(none), Henry Filman 8, Susan Hichline 60. R.E. $8000.

FOGLE: Joseph 30 (none), Elizabeth 40, William Katz 25(none), Catharine 20, Margaret 1.

HINAMAN: John 57 (faimer), Eliza 52, Eliza Wandall 18,Kate 2, John M. Hynaman 13. R.E. $3100.

DAGER: John 55 (farmer), Christianna 55, Frederick Marc-heimer28 (none), Mary Nicholas 21. R.E. $6000.

STOVER: Abraham 26 (saddler), Mariah 27.SHUGARD: William 45 (farmer), Mary Ann 43, Caroline 19,

George 17, Alfred 11, Franklin 8, Ephraim Dolby 30 (laborer), Samuel Hocker 58 (none), Elizabeth Lower 20.R.E. $11,000.

VAN WINKLE: Samuel 36 (victualler), Elizabeth 31, Jacob8, Mary Jane 6, Margaret 5, Samuel 3, Albert Katz 19(victualler), Thomas Hartranft 22 (victualler), SarahVan Winkle 18. R.E. $3000.

FREED: Charles 39 (wheelwright), Eliza 41, Andrew 19(wheelwright), Sarah Niblick 75.

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SORBER: Seth 30 (smith), Angeline 30, John P. 6, Charles J.Jones 22 (smith), R.E. $2500.

WELKER: Charles 31 (hotel keeper), Louisa 26, Charles W.1, Frederick Fainly 26 (none), Mary Bride 25.

LONGSTRETH: Morris 49 (farmer), Mary Elizabeth 45,George Cook 16, Joseph Cook 12, Lydia Cook 10, CharlesStahlmaker 24 (none), Edwin Stahlmaker 18, GeorgeLower 29 (none), Margaret Middleton 72, CatharineByrclin (?) 23, Catharine Marcheimer 23. R.E. $55,000,

BODEY: John 43 (farmer), Mary 40, Sarah Ann 18, Catharine 15, Daniel 30 (none), William 28, Hannah 39.

SECHLER: George 45 (limebumer), Elizabeth 36, Henry 17(none), Sarah Ann 16, Mary Ann 14, John 12, Susanna 2,John 77 (none), Rachael Staley 16, Robert Noah 24(none), Edward Freed 20 (none), Jacob Staley 18 (none).

RHOADES: Jacob 50 (none), Catharine Jones 40, HenryRhodes 12, Mariah Jones 8, Anna Rhodes 7.

LEWIS: Joseph 36 (carpenter), Mary 36, William 9, Lawrence 6, Harman 3, Henry 1, Mary 1/12.

BOOZ: Jacob 74 (weaver), Mary Goodwin 30, Charles Goodwin 45 (none), Mary Clemer 75, Benjamin F. Goodwin 1.

TRESELER [TREXLER] : John 60 (none), Mary 62, Henry35 (none), Louisa 25.

CONRAD: Albert 29 (augermaker), Martha 25, William 3,Mary E. 9/12, Catharine Roache 21, Isaac Conrad 21 (augermaker) .

BUSH: Joseph 52 (hotel keeper), Catharine 60, Eliza Ann 16.BUSH: George 28 (farmer), Sarah 21, Louisa Puff 50, Caro

line Kneeal 25, Thomas Kindy 25, Henry Sholler 54, God-fry Ablewine 26, Frederick Gnailly 26. R.E. $6500.

DAGER: Jacob 28 (none), Susan 24, Isabella 4, Samuel 2,Reuben Miller 22 (none), Elizabeth Dipple 15, ElizabethShugard 59.

HERSH: William 31 (hotel keeper), Maiy Ann 28, Emma 1,Elias 80 (none), Mary 46, Nancy Farell 23, Philip Smith24 (none), George Amey 23 (none), Harriet Amey 21,John Katz 25 (victualler), Edwin Amey 21 (victualler).

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AIMAN: Charles 28 (victualler), Sarah 26, Charles 5, Jacob2/12, Isaac Artman 50 (none), Sarah Ann Peterman 18.R.E. $5000.

EDDLEMAN: John 35 (wheelwright), Catharine 35, CharlesC. 11, Mary G. 7, George D. 6, Charles Tindell 16 (wheelwright) .

BYARD: Henry Sr. 23 (M) (none), Eliza 22 (M), Mary H. 1(M), Amelia Jackson 42 (M), Mariah Johnson 85 (M),Mary Bowen 21 (M), Henry Jackson 7 (M), ElizabethJackson 2 (M), Emma Bowser 5 (M), William Bowser 3(M), George K. Bowser 5/12 (M).

LEWIS: James 45 (B) (farmer), Caroline 28 (M), Elizabeth9 (M), John 7 (M), Mary 4 (M), James 2 (M). R.E.$1500.

COMFORT: Jeremiah 33 (farmer), Elizabeth 27, Ezra 3,Sarah 1, Martha 66, Mary Poeson 77, Michael Tally 20(none), Mary MacDonel 25, Ann King 25, William Mc-Bride 11, Ellen McBride 7, James Wilson 24 (M) (none),George Wilson 22 (M) (none). R.E. $10,000.

YOUNG: William 75 (B) (none), Jane 74 (B).VAN DYKE: Henry 50 (B) (none), Hannah 43 (M), Amelia

liewis 25 (M), Ely Wilkinson 25 (M) (none), Hannah 18(M), William Lewis 43 (M) (none). R.E. $600.

BERNARD: James Sr. 48 (carter), Mary 34, Josiah 23(none), Margaret 21, Rebecca 18, James 14, Elizabeth 10,William 12, Mary Ann 6, Matilda 4.

ROBB: Caspar F. 28 (miller), Catharine 30, William 4, Richard 2, Mary 3/12, Jesse Brey 24 (miller), Mary Meredith 23, Isaac Fetter 21 (miller).

YOUNG: Joseph 40 (miller), Sophia 55, George 6, EdwinVandyke 22 (B), William Brown 30 (school teacher),William Brown 2.

RIGHTER: John 64 (farmer), Elizabeth 54, Peter 57 (none),Louisa 25, Charles Righter 27, George 20 (none), LindleyV. 15, Margaret Dougherty 45. R.E. $20,000.

RIGHTER: Joseph 30 (farmer), Eliza 27, George L. Righter1, Makolas Meyers 7 (B).


RIGHTER: Anthony 30 (farmer), Emaline 30, Lindley 5,James 4, Mary 2.

BARNHILL; Robert 30 (none), Jane23, Emma 1, Martha 18.RIGHTER: John 28 (storekeeper), Rebecca24, Daniel 3, Hor

ace 6/12, Bridget Owens 17, Henry Cress 16.YERKES; John 25 (laborer), Jane 46, Abraham 21, Mary

• Jane 13.

KLINE: Barbara 66, Elizabeth Vetthoven 32, Louisa Gr-zy30, Emelie Kline 16.

LEWIS: Thomas 29 (hotel keeper), Elizabeth Jane 21, SarahJane 9/12, Harvey 12, Michael Gallagher 16 (none), AnnMeredith 22, Joseph Bitting 24 (mason), Thomas 0. McDowell 30 (clerk), Jesse Pawling 46 (none), RobertWalker 26 (none).

LAFFERTY: Solomon 28 (none), Mary 27, Jeremiah 3.HAMELBAGH: Francis 34 (none), Elizabeth 26, William 9,

Duncan 7, Jacob 5, Margaret 2. R.E. $100.WILKINSON: John 36 (M) (laborer), Mary Ann 33 (M),

Anna 8 (M), Henry 6 (M), John 6/12 (B). R.E. $500.FINIGAN: Patrick 49 (laborer), Mary 50, Barney 24 (none),

Patrick 22 (laborer), Lawrence 19 (none), James Finigan17 (none).

WILLIAMS: William 35 (laborer), Mary 34, David 12, Mary10, Hannah 8, Margaret 2, James Duffie 27 (laborer),Margaret Duffie 23.

KEYS: John 47 (laborer), Mary 45, Alexander 19 (none),Margaret 17, Joseph 14, Thomas 8, John 6.

McEWELL: John 48 (mason), Mary Ann 41, Ellen 17, Eliza15, Cynthia 14, Margaret 12, John 8, Emma 1.

NAGLEE [NEAGLE] : Christian 59 (baker), Mary 56, Owen16, George Nameth 28 (mason). R.E. $500.

KANOUSE: Edwin 23 (smith), Mira 23, George R. 25(smith).

TODD: Andrew 39 (carpenter), Anna 41, Ellen Keen 14.BROWN; John 40 (M) (none), Mary 35 (M), Harriet 9 (M),

Jacob 4 (M), Soloman 3 (M), Samuel 10/12 (M).


FRIES: Jeremiah 27 (laborer), Elizabeth 21, Daniel 4, AnnaK. 7/12, R.E. $650.

LEARY: Charles 40 (laborer), Ann 42, Elizabeth Graham 7,John Royer 32 (laborer).

BEYRLEY: John 45 (laborer), Lavinia 28, Elizabeth 5,Amanda 4, John 2. R.E. $800.

HOCKER: George 36 (farmer), Elizabeth 28, Fernandez 8,George 6, Christopher 4, Catharine 2. R.E. $4000.

STALBY; Jacob 48 (laborer), Harriet 40, Mary Ann 16, Isaac13, Samuel 10, Elizabeth 8, Jacob 4. R.E. $800.

STALEY: Peter 44 (laborer), Sarah Ann 43, Eliza 18, William 14, Jane 12, Amanda 10, Joseph 7, Ann Catharine 3,Emily 1. R.E. $600.

MACLANE: James 31 (laborer), Anna 29, Alexander Steel31 (laborer).

STALEY: Samuel 26 (laborer), Harriet 28, Lindley 5, Walton4, Frelan 1. R.E. $1600.

FISHER: Daniel 52 (smith), Margaret 54, Hannah 29, Har-man 24 (laborer), David 21, Stacy Haines 30 (laborer),Elizabeth Haines 23, Henry 7, Daniel 5, Margaret 3.

FREAS: Daniel 57 (farmer), Christiann 52, Mary Ann 31,Ezekiah 23, Margaret Ann 21, Susan 19, Catharine 16,Daniel 13. R.E. $5000.

FREAS: Joseph 55 (farmer), Ann 53, Joanna 26, Elizabeth24, John 21 (none), Caroline 16, Tacy A. 13. R.E. $11,000.

DETTRA: Christian 48 (laborer), Jane 45, Eliza 14, DorothyMakener 72.

ADAMSON: Jonathan 65 (toll keeper), Priscilla 64. R.E.$1000.

STOCKTON: Charles 57 (farmer), Mary 56, Sarah 17, Eliza13, George Sampson 30, Hannah Gray 30, William Meredith 8, Elizabeth Filman 12. R.E. $10,000.

FREAS: Walton 28 (laborer), Eliza 22.HILTNER: Elizabeth 53, Catharine 33, Sarah Lare 10, Henry

Kline 3, Samuel Hiltner 24 (farmer). R.E. $2500.

SHEETZ: Andrew 35 (none), Elizabeth 63, John 8, Elizabeth7, Andrew 4, Mary Deterer 36.


GUILINGER: William 39 (plasterer), Sarah 34, Sylvester 11,Edwin 8, Catharine 5, William 2/12, William Cooke 15,Clarke Davis 21 (plasterer), Jacob Boiser 30 (none), Jacob Golaver 23 (plasterer). R.E. $4800.

GUILINGER: John 67 (laborer), Elizabeth 65, Elizabeth 24,John 21 (plasterer), Andrew 15, Jeremiah 13, Elizabeth11. R.E. $1800.

RHODES: Franklin 27 (taylor), Catharine 27, Hannah 2,William 4/12.

POTTS: Jane 40, George 20 (none), Mary 18, Elwood 7, Samuel 3.

MC CLAY: Hannah 77, William 50 (carpenter), Margaret 30.R.E. $1800.

STALEY: Charles 37 (farmer), Sarah 23, Sylvester 9, Tyson7, Elwood 5, Harrison 3, Susan 2, Sabella 3/12. R.E, $5000.

RITTENHOUSE: William 27 (wheelwright), Ann C. 28, Edward 4, Abraham 2, Emma 1/12, Hiram Wolf 19 (wheelwright), Priscilla Knouse 18, Rachel Knause 21.

PRUTSMAN: Isaac 34 (smith), Catharine 29, Harrison 10,Amanda 7.

COOKE: Christian L. 30 (smith), Catharine 26, William 8,George W. 5/12.

LEVERING: John 58 (farmer), Mariah 60, Susanna 29, Amelia 17, William Wilson 14, Louisa Cressman 12, Laud. . .Styer 20 (clerk). R.E. $8000.

LANDIS: Lewis 25 (miller), Mariah 26, John 2, Catharine 1,CRESSMAN: Samuel 52 (laborer), Mary 56, Henrietta 27,

Catharine 14.

PIFER [PIPER]: John 29 (laborer), Mary 24, Samuel Fisher5, Ann Rebecca Pifer 2.

HEYDRICK: Caleb 43 (farmer), Sarah 33, Mary 2, VioletStephenson 13.

YERKES: Elizabeth 68, Mira 45, Susan 40, Martha 35, Nathaniel 31 (storekeeper), Anna 25. R.E. $6000.

RIGHTER: Morris 61 (farmer), Sarah Corson 31, Rosanna25. R.E. $1500.

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CARN: Henry 45 (limebumer), Mary 29, George 11, Samuel9, Benjamin 7, Sarah Ann 5, Mary Catharine 3, AnnaEliza 1. R.E. $800.

HARRY: Rees 28 (carpenter), Emeline 24, Cecilia 2.

GETMAN: John 28 (carpenter), Anna Mirah 28, BenjaminGrouse 22 (carpenter). R.E. $610.

MAULSBY: Rachael 51, Matthias Crotty 28 (laborer). R,E,$4000.

ELLIS: Joseph 31 (storekeeper), Susan 29, Sarah 2, MaryWood 62, Charles Thomas 66, Lawrence Egbert 20 (none).R.E. (JE) $3000 (GT) $2000.

SHAFFER: Josiah 38 (limeburner), Barbara 40, John 20(none), George 16, William 14, Catharine 12, Rachael 11,Isaac 9, Mary Ann 7, Sarah Ann 1. R.E. $500.

THOMAS: William 36 (laborer), Rebecca 37, Margaret Egbert 59, Mary Egbert 83, Elizabeth Egbert 23, Emma 18.

LUKENS: Peter 52 (storekeeper), Eliza 49, Elizabeth 22,Mary Ann 17, Martha 10, Joshua Jones 18 (clerk). R.E.$4000.

CORSON: George 47 (farmer), Martha 45, Samuel 12, El-wood 8, Ellen 3, Marcus 1, Michael Quirk 21 (laborer),Ellen Powers 18, Catharine Jago 21, Robert Corson 19(none). R.E. $15,500.

SHINGLE: William 55, Sarah 45, George 15. R.E. $1000.FULMER: John 50 (farmer), Mary 45, George 25 (teamster),

Seth 23 (plasterer), Christianna 21, Catharine 19, John14, Hiram 11, Henry 8, Hannah 1. R.E. $3500.

MCCLELLAND: John 28 (laborer), Sarah 18.CLINTON: Peter 24 (laborer), Mary 20.FIGHT: Andrew 35 (laborer), Abigail 36, John 6, Sarah 4.

R.E. $500.VANHORN: John 39 (laborer), Amelia 36, Margaret 14, Ben

jamin 9, John 6, Joseph 4, Mary 1.WOOD: Joseph 41 (laborer), Hannah 42, Charles 20 (none),

David 17.

FIGHT: Daniel 39 (laborer), Catharine 36, Catharine 35(widow), Ezekial Wood 38 (laborer). R.E. $700.

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HOLT: John 63 (farmer), Rachael 63, Hannah 28, Tacy 21,James Henry 11. II.E. $3000.

WOOD: John 28 (laborer), Phebe 28, Mary 4, George 2,SNOWDEN: Joshua 22 (shoemaker), Anna 55, Robert 17

(none).FREAS: Rachael 50, George 19 (farmer), Susanna 16, Henry

, Boyle 14. R.E. $7000. -FREAS: Thomas 29 (farmer), Mary 28, Sarah 3, William 1.FRONFIELD: Jacob 34 (laborer), Sarah Ann 25, Hiram Blee

(?) 44 (carter), Emaline Blee 23, Malvina 8, Catharine 5,Rachael 2, Rachel Wittick 28, Emma J. Wittick 1. R.E.(HB) $200.

WOOD: Septimus 56 (farmer) Elizabeth 51, Joseph 24, Sarah20, Harriet 17, John 15, Phebe 12, Charles 9. R.E. $4000.

STALEY: John 39 (laborer), Sarah 34, Albert 16 (none),Elizabeth 12, Anna 11, Caleb 9, Frederick 5, Isabella 7,Levi 2, Daniel 6/12. R.E. $1600.

STONG: William 36 (butcher), Anna Mariah 30, Ruth Ann 8,Phillip 6, Sarah 5, Abigal 3, Henry 2, Cornelia 5/12, AnnDarrah 50, Margaret Holland 16, Charles Johnson 23(butcher), William Steward 33 (none). R.E. $4000.

CLINTON: Laurence 32 (laborer), Ellen 28, Thomas 4, MaryAnn 2, Catharine 6/12.

ROBERTS: Isaac 75 (farmer), Mary 49, Isaac 34 (farmer),Hiram 33, Hannah 30. R.E. $10,000.

WOOLF: John 59 (carpenter), Susan 58, Mariah 32. R.E.$1500.

FLEMING: Robert 35 (laborer), Mary 68, Catharine 33, MaryCunningham 4, James Cunningham 2, Mathew Cunningham 40 (laborer).

CUSCADEN: John 28 (laborer), Mary 19, John J. 3/12.WOODS: James 46 (laborer), Eliza 48, Samuel 18 (moulder),

Andrew 16 (none), James Quinn 40 (laborer), DavidHenderson 30 (laborer), Samuel Stephenson 32 (laborer).

BOGGS: William 33 (laborer), Susan 35, Martha 9, Eliza 7,Mary 5, Margaret 7/12.

THOMAS: Jacob 36 (laborer), Sarah 31, Mary 11. R.E. $2500.


THOMAS: Marshall 28 (farmer), Martha 35, William 6, Mary2, Elizabeth 2/12, Solomon Gilbert 28 (weaver), EunisBugle 18, Henry Potts 22 (clerk).

WOOLF: Jonathan 32 (engineer), Margaret 27, Sarah 7,Caleb H. 4, Ghaning 1, Catharine Wcolf 77. R.E. $1500.

MAGELIGAN: Hugh 40 (laborer), Hannah 40, Patrick 7,Catharine 6, Mary 4, John 3, Ellen 6/12.

MAGELIGAN: Thomas 29, Sarah 28, Hugh 4, Catharine 2,Robert 2/12, Daniel 40 (laborer).

FAUST: Charles 62 (laborer), Sarah 54, Mary Ann 30, William 22 (carpenter), Emma Maguire 3. R.E. $1000.

MAGELEGAN: William 28 (laborer), Jane 25, John 10/12,John Macollen 33 (laborer), George McDonell 28 (laborer) .

MCDONELL: Daniel 30, Ann 24, George 3, Patrick 1.

MURPHY: William 32 (laborer), Ellen 30, Rosanna 3/12,Catharine Lukens 48, Ann 24, Mary 17, Sarah 8, SarahLukens 77, John Thompson 36 (mule driver), JeremiahThompson 21 (mule driver).

THOMAS: Ely 23 (laborer), Sarah 25, Mary Ann 1, John2/12.

YETTER: Beneval 29 (laborer), Sarah 26, Ada 3, Angelina 2.

SMITH: Christopher H. 29 (clerk), Mary W. 22, Clarence M.6/12.

LIGHTCAP: Solomon 51 (laborer), Hannah 19, Ann 10.

DETTRA: Nathan 56 (farmer), Margaret 51, Christian 25(none), John 19 (none), Jacob 16 (none), Mary Ann 12,George 10, Horace 9, Mary White 90. R.E. $2500.

TOMPKINS: Jonathan 36 (shoemaker), Ann 35, CatharineAnn 10, Elizabeth 8, Isaac 6, John 5, David 1, JonathanMarple 38 (shoemaker).

BISBING: Joseph 52 (farmer), Susan 58, William 26 (farmer), Euphemia 22, Sarah 20, Josephus 17 (none), WilliamDougherty 20 (none).

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KIRKNER; Joseph 59 (farmer), Elizabeth 52, George 22(farmer), Joseph 19 (farmer), Elizabeth 16, Daniel 12,Henry Clay 4, Chas. Taylor 30 (M) (none), Isabella De-Haven 10. R.E. 140,000.

DEWEESE: William 68 (laborer), Mary 49, William 17,Josiah 20, Mary 15, Lena 10.

VAN DYKE: John 81 (none), Mary 82, Harriet Lowery 12.R.E. $6000.

HART: John 40 (carpenter), Marira 35, Samuel 16 (none),Caroline 10, William 8, John 4, Mary 2.

GULP: Samuel 54 (hotel keeper), Catharine 49, Samuel 21(none), Mary 15, Elizabeth 13, Cadelia 11, Caroline 7,Martin 6, George Bilger 68 (none). R.E. $6000.

COOKE: Christopher 29 (smith), Catharine 27, William 2,George 3/12, Cornelia Smith 9.

MASTERSON: Elizabeth 59, Emaline 21, Alfred Phleger 17(none), Margaret Phleger 30, Mary Linebough 62, JacobLinebaugh 22 (carpenter). R.E. $1000.

HELLINGS: William 42 (farmer), Catharine 42, Elizabeth22, Margaret 19, Sarah 17, Henry 14, William 12, George8, Christopher 4. R.E. $4500.

KERPER: Levi 30 (carpenter), Mary 27, John 6, Charlotte 4,George 6/12. R.E. $1200.

FISHER: Henry 27 (carpenter), Mary Ann 33, Ann 4, John 1,Anna Bisson 65. R.E. $1200.

FREASE: Hiram 28 (smith), Elizabeth 25.FISHER: Margaret 56, Samuel 32 (carpenter), Louisa 22.

R.E. (MF) $1500 (SF) $1200.MACOY: Ellick 40 (laborer), Catharine 42, John 19 (none),

William 15, James 6, John Taylor 27 (laborer), JohnMann 20 (none), Joseph Ross 19 (none), James Christy27 (laborer), Mary Christy 30, George 7, Mary 5, John 3.

STALEY: William 42 (none), Hannah 35, Ezekiel 16 (none),Charles 15, William 13, Mary 10, Daniel 8, Augustus 5,Andrew 4, Reuben 3. R.E. $850.

FREASE: Benjamin 30 (shoemaker), Frances Ann 24, Sarah1. R.E. $850.


HAINES: Joseph 27, Mirah 26.FILLMAN: Peter 38, Mary 40, Martha 13, Henry 6,MACLAIN; Charles 30 (laborer), Eliza 30, Rachel 11/12,

John Weir 28 (laborer).ANDERSON: John 28 (laborer), Catharine 25, Ann 1, James

3/12, Robert Fulerton 22 (laborer), Dugal Fulerton 18(laborer).

STREEPER; Leonard 25 (laborer), Hannah 24.LENTZ: John 50 (farmer), Elizabeth 51, Catharine Wallace

56, Anna Wallace 54, Mary Corson 52, Sarah Mathews 26,Mary Corson 24, William Wallace 8, Charles Armstrong24 (none). R.E. (MG) $12,000.

DAVIS: John 46 (teamster), Elizabeth 44, Clarke Davis 21(plasterer), Elizabeth 17, Evan 11, Robert 6, Ezra Rode-bach 21 (teamster), Perry Filman 35 (B) (teamster).

WILLS: Michael 35 (tailor), Esther 36, Charles Deweese 25(smith).

DARRAH: John 24 (laborer), Margaret 22, William Macanel(?) 30 (laborer).

RIGIN: Martha 25 (laborer), Ann 25, Michael Delany 20(shoemaker).

FREASE: Samuel 38 (carpenter), Catharine 38, Daniel 8,Edwin 6, Allen M. 2/12. R.E. $1200.

STALEY: William 84 (none), Elizabeth 76, Daniel 26, (laborer) , Eliza Ann 18. R.E. $1000.

LOWERY: Susanna H. 43, Leod--ia W. 13, Robert H. 9, Joseph Fisher 27 (carpenter), Martha Fisher 26, George M.Dallas 4, Harrison 2, Harman Y. 9/12, Elizabeth Deweese56. R.E. $1000.

DAGER: George 41 (wheelwright), Catharine 15, William 12,Jonathan 9, Catharine Woolf 26, Sylvester Cressman 23(wheelwright), George Cressman 21 (wheelwright),George Fratt 23 (smith). R.E. $2000.

FIE: Andrew 55 (farmer), Maria 48, Phillip 28 (farmer),Susanna 23, Sophia 21. R.E. $6000.

FREASE: William 52 (farmer), Catharine 49, MargaretDavis 16, Angelina Keely 9. R.E. $7000.

350 UNITED STATES CENSUS OP 1850, MONTGtOMERY COUNTY

JOHNSON: William 45 (laborer), Mary 50, William Hillors 9.COLWELL: Alexander 32 (laborer), Rosanna 37, Ezekial 10,

Daniel 8, John 5, Arthur Farrier 55, Neal Hill 25 (laborer), John Kilpatrick 25 (laborer), Conrad Maloy 27(laborer).

ROBINSON: Daniel 30 (laborer), Ellen 25, James 1.KANE: Charles 35 (laborer), Susan 28, James 1, William

Murphy 44, Mary Murphy 35, Mary 5, James 2.MCINTIRE: Robert 36 (laborer), Emaline 33, Catharine 5,

Alexander 3, Samuel Mclntire 30 (laborer), Sarah JanePeacock 10.

TAGERT: James 40, Catharine 38, John 8, Wm. McCormick25 (laborer), Samuel Samson 22 (laborer), James Samson 20 (laborer), James Thompson 20 (laborer).

OILMAN: Samuel 34 (laborer), Mary 35, James 10, Martha 8,Henry 4.

FULERTON: James 27 (laborer), Mary 20.DULL: Sarah 69, Mary 30, Nancy 26, Harriet Collar 23, Hen

ry Coller 22 (farmer). R.E, $8000.DULL: Abraham 28 (farmer), Ann 23, Calvin J. 2. R.E. $2700.BISBING: George 59 (farmer), Sarah 59, Albertis 16, Clara

14, Isaac 12, William 10, Catharine 7, Elizabeth 5.FRACT [FRATT]: William 35 (laborer), Mary Ann 30,

Sarah 8, Henry 5, James 3.SHEPHERD; John 49 (farmer), Mariah Streeper 36, Henry

Kerper 28 (farmer), Sarah H. 26. R.E. $7000.COULSTON: Grace 43, Ann 14, Sarah 9, John Engle 40 (labor

er), James Peirce 30 (carpenter), Samuel Eddleman 20(carpenter), Hiram Detts 18 (carpenter). Job Tyson 17(carpenter). R.E. $1500.

BOLTON: Jephemiah 27 (plasterer), Belinda 24, Mary 3,Catharine 1, David Bolton 19 (plasterer), R.E. $800.

CARN: Philip 48 (lime burner), Eliza 42. R.E. $800.CARN: Joseph 50 (lime burner), Catharine 48, Margaret.

R.E. $775.

JOHNSON; Henry 27 (lime burner), Elizabeth 25, Joseph 2.R.E. $720.


BAKER: John 45 (laborer), Rebecca 40, Lydia 20, John 10,Rebecca 10 (twins), Charles 8, George 1, Joseph 18 (none).

MAGIGAN: Sarah 40, Michael Rodeback 24 (none), Mary J.23, Jane Jones 56.

GREEN: Charles 26 (tailer), Mary 26, William 7, Beulah 5,Martha 2.

GARRETSON: Isaac 40 (cordwainer), Sarah 35, Ann 2,Mary 1, Eliza Garretson 35, Mary Ann Rowland 37, JohnCoulston 32, David McFee 21 (cordwainer). R.E. $5000.

RODEBACK: Michael 60 (none), Nathan 36 (laborer), Margaret 33, Elizabeth 12, Benjamin 10, Charles 8, Catharine5, William 3, Margaret 1. R.E. $700.

JONES: Mark 37 (wheelwright), Eliza 35, Ephraim 13, RexM. 11, George E. 6, Eliza F. 3/12, Ann Deweese 15, Alexander Geary 56 (laborer). R.E. $11,000.

LARE; Joel 42 (B. Smith), Mary 42, Joseph 12, Joel 6, William Donelly 19 (B. Smith), Sarah Lare 65. R.E. $1800.

WILLS: Jeremiah 43 (tailor), Mary Ann 40, Henrietta 20,Ann Elizabeth 17, Violet 15, Adeline 9, Clarissa 7, Howard 5, Caroline 3, Alfred 14, John Ottey 40, (laborer), LukeCorson 35 (B. Smith), John Lehman 21 (mason). R.E.$1500.

HITNER: Henry S. 35 (farmer), Margaret 33, Catharine 11,Mary 9, Margaret 8, Sarah Ann 7, Aletha 5, Anna 2,Susan 2/12, Henrietta Dager 16, Edward Ryan 30 (farmer), James Thompson 23, Catharine Ryan 26, CatharineLare 18. R.E. $65,000.

CRESSON: James 43 (farmer), Mary J. 44, J. Clarence 15,Wm. L. 10, Frances C. 6, Mary 5, James C. Bradford 15,Mary O'Connor 35, Ann O'Connor 20, John Neois 26 (B),R.E. $45,000.

O'TOOL: Peter 50, Mary 49, James Kennedy 12, BridgetHoraty 19. R.E. $6000.

CORSON: Hicks 34 (Hmebumer), Emily H. 27, Henry H. 2,George 1, Cynthia Caldwell 40, Mary Caldwell 8, JamesDenny 17 (none). R.E. $4000.

READ: Andrew 39 (laborer), Elizabeth 29. R.E. $700.

352 UNITED STATES CENSUS OP 1850, MONTGOMEBY COUNTY

SANDS: Mahlon 43 (laborer), Isabella 33, Hannah 15, Charles12, Wm. 10, Mahlon 7, Samuel 1. R.E. $1475.

DAVIS: Luke 32 (carpenter), Elizabeth 34, Rebecca 6, Rebecca Davis 63. R.E. $1500.

CORSON: Allen W. 62 (surveyor), Mary 64, Patrick Kane 25(laborer). R.E. $7000.

STYER; Isaac 24 (farmer), Martha 23, David Murphy 16(none).

PHILLIPS: Catharine 45, Sarah 43. R.E. $2000.ROBERTS: Massy 34.

DEWEES: Samuel 38 (farmer), Elizabeth 34, Mary 15, Harrison 14, Elizabeth 10, Jonathan 8, Charles 4, AndrewMiller 40 (laborer). R.E. $2600.

DEWEES: Jonathan 46 (farmer), Charlotta 44, Joel 19,Samuel 18, Henry 15, Ann Eliza 5. R.E. $4000.

JOHNSON: Henry 63 (farmer), Elizabeth 65, Henry 23(none), Deborah Dewees 25. R.E. $4000.

THOMPSON: John 50 (laborer), Ann 49, Mary 14, Eliza 12,John 8. R.E. $400.

FIGHT: Catharine 75, Elizabeth 43, Sarah Bush 21, AnnBush 3, Francis Fight 39 (laborer), Eliza Ann 27. R.E.$600.

SCHLATER: Isaac 65 (laborer), Susannah 35, Louisa Body40, Daniel Body 28 (none).

FETTER: Joseph 50 (hotel keeper), Catiiarine 34, Mary Elizabeth 10, Michael Walker 28 (laborer), William Sentman30 (segarmaker), George Peterman 11.

HOUPT: Samuel 56 (mason), Isabella 66, Elizabeth Tivarts53. R.E. $24,000.

MACALESTER: John 56, Rachael 46, John 20 (none), Catharine 18, James 14, Elizabeth 10. R.E. $1400.

WILLIAMS: Charles 35 (farmer), Hannah 30, Joseph 6, Tacy4, Annie 4 (twins), Martha 1, Oliver Lockes 14, JaneTeven 13, Margaret Reed 18, Sarah A. English 18, JacobQueen 25 (M). R.E. $27,000.

WHITBIIARSH TOWNSHIP 353

WILLIAMS: Isaac 31 (fanner), Mary H. 27, Edward P. 4,Henry 1, David McCandels 23, Edward Quin 14, MaryJane Sinclair 13, Julia Ford 12. R.E. $18,000.

COULSTON: Thomas 35 (farmer), Elizabeth 72, WilliamKitler 50 (farmer), Mary Kitler 43, Adam Hofman 83(none), Thomas Rasner 21 (none), Archabald Macales-ter 22 (none), Eliza Marfit 35, Henry Steward 13.

MCCREA: James 35 (Doctor), Aim T. 34, Mary 9, James 2,Adam Sevilmaine 49 (laborer), Margaret 34, CeceliaSpare 16. R.E. $20,000.

NEIMAN: Joseph 47 (farmer), Matilda 44, Mary Ann 24,Amelia 19, Sarah Ann 17, Louisa 12, Margaret 6, JosephMalsberger 14, Joshua Myers 22 (none), William Jones 1.

DETTRA: Christian 47 (farmer), Martha Ann 42, Sarah 20,Price 18 (none), David Winkle 17 (none), Hannah Dettra14, Phebe 11, Lewis 5, James 4, Anna 2, Charles 4/12.

WATSON: Jeremiah H. 43 (B) (none), Elizabeth 28 (B),Sarah 8 (B), George Hacker 33 (B), Ann 29 (B).

CLEAVER: Silas 29 (miller), Mary 24, John 27 (miller),Hannah 22, James Barnett 20 (none). R.E. $9000.

PHIPPS: Peter 57 (farmer), Lydia 58, Joseph 21 (farmer),Samuel 19 (none), William 17 (none), Margaret 15,Lydia 16. R.E. $13,000.

YEAKLE: Samuel 35 (farmer), Charles 24 (farmer), Abraham 20 (farmer), Sabina VanWinkle 19, Mary Beacom20. R.E. $30,000.

YEAKLE: William A. 26 (farmer), Caroline 24, CatharineHallman 11, Ann Schultz 60, Salena 26, Ellen 24. R.E.$2000.

AIMAN: Samuel H. 30 (farmer), Elenor 29, Virginia 2, Josephine 1, John 13, Mariah Heist 16, John Miller 26(none), Elijah Dennis 22 (none), Edwin Aiman 21(butcher). R.E. $9000.

VAN WINKLE: Joseph 48 (laborer), Hannah 45, Joseph 6,Hannah 10, Edwin 3.

LARE: George 57 (laborer), Jane 22, George 19 (mason),Sylvester 11.


PHIPPS: Jonathan 47 (laborer), Mary 47, Hiram 18.CHILDS: James 38 (farmer), Mary 29, John 7, Jesse 3,

Chalkly 2, John Bradfield 22 (farmer), Ann McKlney 17,Nathan Holt 68.

BROOKS: Isaac 33 (carpenter), Rebecca 28, Margaret 4,Emma 2, Evan 1. R.E. $400.

BERKHEIMER: Andrew 34 (carpenter), Hannah 26, Elizabeth 3, Mary Ann 1. R.E. $2000.

WOOD: Emeline 38, Israel Clay Wood 6, John Yetter 72(none), Mary Yetter 60. R.E. $3500.

DAVIS: Jonathan 55 (carpenter), Rachael 50, Elizabeth 15,Isaac 12, Julian Rogers 5, Mary Hughs 4/12.^ R.E. $1000.

SMITH: William S. 34 (limeburner), Sarah A. 27, Elizabeth6, Emily 4/12, John Hensler 25 (none), Charles Moore27 (none), John Zigler 22 (none), Jane McClenan 18,John Glaspell 13.

COULSTON: William 53 (farmer), Hannah 22, Elizabeth 24,James 19 (none), William 12, Hannah Meredith 36,Richard Hill 15, Hannah Meredith 12, Peter Rasener 26(laborer). R.E. $9000.

JEANS: William 67 (farmer), Martha 66, Mary 40, Hannah35, Martha 28, Ruth 23, Elizabeth 18, William 21 (farmer), Martha 13, William Smith 15, Timothy Boyle 30(none), Andrew German 22 (none). R.E. $11,500.

PHIPPS: Amos 55 (farmer), Susanna 53, Thomas 21 (none),Elias H. 18 (none), Matilda 14, Latitia 14 (twins). R.E.$8000.

KILPATRICK: John 26 (laborer), Margaret 25, Rosann 6/12.SMITH: Henry 78 (laborer), Martha 67, Henry 32, (lime-

burner) , Margaret 27, Martha Jane 13, Mary 4, Camila 1.EVANS: Samuel 50 (storekeeper), Mary Ann 48, Elizabeth

Grafly 16, Margaret Evans 76, David Grafly 50 (storekeeper) . R.E. $2500.

ANSPACH: Frederick 33 (minister), Elizabeth 28, Virginia 3,John 1, Catharine Case 20, William Leidy 25 (schoolteacher). R.E. $10,000.


CORSON: Hiram 45 (Physician), Ann J. 37, Edward C. 15, Joseph 13, Caroline 11, Tacy F. 9, Charles F. 7, Susan 5,Bertha 1, Francis 8/12, Ann W. Jones 37, Isaac Shaw 40(servant). R.E. $6000.

BARNES: George 42 (farmer), Sarah 40, Edwin 14, Eliza 11,Hannah 7, George 4, William Gearhard 23 (none), RobertFuss 14, Rachael Macalester 17, George Cam 28 (blacksmith) , Susan Cam 27, Margaret 8/12, John Grant 25 (B.Smith).

DICKINSON: Henry 51 (farmer), Mariah 50, Elizabeth 30,Angeline 25, Albert 23 (farmer), Emiline 18, Henry 15,Israel 11, Thomas 8. R.E. $6000.

WENTZ: George 33 (farmer), Sarah 25, Margaret 6, Catharine 4, Jacob 2, Alexander Harrison 18. R.E. $5000.

KENDERDINE: Chalkly 45 (farmer), Ann 44, Tacy 21, Sarah17, Latitia 12, Elizabeth 10, Chalkly Bright 15, WilliamSample 26 (none).

FARINGER: Mathias 48 (shoemaker), Pamela 33, Emma 6,Joseph 4, Ann Catharine 1, Charles Faust 28 (shoemaker), William Nuss 21 (shoemaker), Elmira Smith 19,Jonathan Butler 14. R.E. $2200.

ROBINSON: Frederick B. 48 (farmer), Mary Ann 43, HannahAnn 18, Joseph 16, George Frederick 14, Mary Jane 10,Howard 6, Thomas 4, William Ryser 22 (none), CatharineSentinger 19. R.E. $10,000.

WAMPOLE: John 64 (laborer), Elizabeth 64, Mary 36, Matilda Rittenhouse 16, Carolina 9, Fannie 7, Henry Snyder 2.

GRAFLEY: Christopher 42 (farmer), Ann 34, Sarah 13,Margaret 11, David 8, Milton 5, Alicia 7/12. R.E. $2200.

KEHR: Francis 50 (farmer), Elizabeth 48, Mary 18, Charles14, Ann Catharine 12, Hannah 9, John Kehr 74 (none),Frederick Kehr 37 (laborer). R.E. $6000.

MATTHIAS: Joseph 58 (laborer), Mary 66, Ellen 27.SLINGLUFF: Henry 50 (farmer), Elizabeth 48, William 24

(carpenter), Samuel 23, (mason), Casper 22 (mason),John 18, Mariah 16, Rachael 14, Hannah 12, Margaret 5,George Creamer 15, Mary Slingluff 83.


REIFF: Frederick 85 (farmer), Collom Clime 50 (farmer),Elizabeth Clime 40, Frederick 20 (mason), Albert 18,Mary 14. R.E. $3000.

CONRAD: Rees 50 (fanner), Catharine 40, Elizabeth S. 17,David 13, Clara 4, Elizabeth Styer 73, Kate McBride 18,Harriet Pratt 12, James Hart 22, William Harts 12. R.E.$8500.

SHEETZ: George W. 47 (hotel keeper), Mary 47, ElizabethEvans 24, William F. Scheetz 22 (mason), Caroline 20,Ann Amelia IS, Joseph 15, Mary Ann 13, Theresa 11,George 8, John 5, Samuel Schlater 53 (none), Jesse Jago24, (saddler). R.E. $5000.

SMITH: William 26 (wheelwright), Mary 25, Elemina 1, JohnDewees 26 (laborer).

COOK: Henry 59 (laborer), Mary 66, George 24 (carpenter),Henry 22 (carpenter).

MCDOWELL: William 32 (laborer), Catharine 31, Emma 10,Henry 1, Margaret McDowell 70.

NUSS: Frederick 60 (farmer), Sarah 56, George 30 (carpenter), Catharine 26, Henry 24 (shoemaker), Samuel 19,Ann 14. R.E. $3000.

SCHLATER: John 48 (farmer), Hannah 43, Ann Catharine19, Francis 18, Martha Jones 15, Bartley Jones 13, JamesConner 20, John Nuss 28 (mason). R.E. $5600.

HADDEN: James 31 (farmer), Ann B. 38, Mary 6, Hannah 1,George W. Schlater 26 (farmer), Sarah Ann Schlater 23,Ulrich 82 (weaver), James Lowden 55 (laborer). R.E.$2500.

SHEAFF: George 70 (farmer), Ann Catharine 69, Frederick42 (farmer), Ann Catharine 88, Mary 34, Ellen 32, HenryM. 35, John D. 27, Catharine 16, Ellen F. 18, CatharineKeough 38, Bridget McDermot 20, Catharine Dungan 26,Ann Cassady 21, Lewis Martin 20 (B) (none). R.E.$300,000.


COAR [CORE]: Thomas 35 (farmer), Silas 6, Seth 10, Amos8, Mary 4, Thomas 2, Franklin Walker 26 (laborer), JohnWolf 43 (laborer), Jacob Eddinger 43 (laborer), JohnGhalmer 30 (gardener), William Roof 46 (laborer), Elizabeth Jago 61, Catharine Millican 36.

DAVIS: Thomas 41 (farmer), Sarah 37, Mary Ann 6, WilliamLockane 25 (laborer), Mary Speace 20.

DAVIS: Samuel 36 (farmer), Mary 30, Gleorge Rhoads 16,Elizabeth Thomas 14, Abraham D. Lukens 23 (miller),Samuel Maclaran 21 (miller), Margaret Fritzgerald 65,R.E. (AL) $800.

FERRINGER: John 54 (fanner), Mary 52, Eliza 20, Sarah B.18, Rubin 16, Mary Ann 12. R.E. $2000.

HALLOWELL: Isaac 39 (fanner), Sarah 38, Sarah Jane 17,George W. 14, Thomas 11, William 8, Ann Eliza 5.

CARN: Abraham 67 (school master), Mary 64, Abraham H.26 (schoolmaster), Sarah Hymas 24, Hannah Hursch 13.R.E. $1200.

WENTZ: Phillip.67 (laborer), Susannah 62, Samuel Henry 25,Sarah Henry 29.

VAN COURT: Charles 30, Mary 28, Benjamin 12, James 10,Emma 6, Howard 2, Thomas Magraft 17, Mary Jane Murphy 18, Morris Gorman 32. R.E. $1500.

FREASE; Jesse W. 32 (farmer), Ann Catharine 25, William2, Phebe Wood 10, Andrew Steward 22 (laborer).

HILTNER: Jacob 68 (farmer), Catharine 62, Andrew 35(farmer), Jacob Scheetz 14. R.E. $10,000.

BELL: Jonathan 53 (farmer), Martha 38, Eliza 3, Jonathan2, Elizabeth White 78, Thomas Kyley 24 (laborer), Elizabeth Kyley 22. R.E. $6000.

WILSON: John 79 (farmer), Mary Yerger 40, John Ulmer 8,Ann Virtue 2/12, Robert Thomas 48 (B) (laborer), GeorgeWilson 50 (farmer), Sarah 48, Hannah 20, Martha Ann 19,Oliver 17, Robert Lovady 40 (B) (laborer), Sarah White(B). R.E. $10,000.


CASE: Elizabeth 26, Charles 4, Bertah 1, Rubin Ellis 26(farmer), Mary Ann Ellis 25, Jesse Rush 12. R.E. (EC)$7200 (RE) $1300.

GABLE: Jacob 50 (farmer), Eliza 45, John 21 (farmer),Clementine 19, Hester P. 17, Washington 15, Mordecaih18, Isaac 6, Hiram 4, Mary 2, John Richard 20, JacobHerschberger 18. R.E. $30,000.

RICHEY: Andrew 32 (farmer), Sarah Sherman 30, PeterClarke 21 (none), Joseph Rees 14. R.E. $3500.

WALTON: Atkinson 41 (farmer), Rebecca 3, John Yeager 36(none).

COX: Rubin 31 (limebumer), Eliza Ann 27, Abel 7, Sarah 5,Daniel 3, Mary 1, Amanda Spare 18. R.E. $12,000.

SMITH: John 40 (laborer), Estie 34, Alice 11, James 4.

RODEBACH: Thomas 54 (lime dealer), Rebecca 51, George22 (mason), Sarah 17, Charles 14, John 12, Samuel 10,Aaron 7. R.E. $800.

BUTLER: Isaac 45 (laborer), Elizabeth 35, Jason 10, Mary 8,Emma 4.

VAN HORN: Joseph 39 (laborer), Susan 35, Hiram 15, William 12, Mary 7, Joel 3. R.E. $600.

JACKSON: Thomas (M) 45 (laborer), Jane 36 (M), John 1(M), Robert Hare 58 (M) (laborer), Elizabeth Hare 52(M).

HARNER: Henry 62 (farmer), Ann 60, John 26 (farmer),Ann 23, Charles 22, Sarah 17, Ann Wentz 13. R.E. $8000.

JONES; Benjamin 51 (farmer), Ann 48, John 17, George 13,Rebecca 10, Susan 8, Charles Jones 14 (B). R.E. $9000.

HARNER: Charles 26 (laborer), Mary 57.WOLF: John G. 49 (farmer), Mary 42, George 22 (farmer),

Edward 20 (farmer), Elizabeth 18, Henry 16, Ann 14, AnnTenny 11. R.E. $7000.

SHEPARD: Catharine 17, Henrietta 15, Sarah 33, Henry Ga-row 2/12.


JACKSON: Henry 60 (B) (laborer), Dianna 42 (M), Boran 7(M), James 4 (M), Hannah 1(M), Thomas Williams 19(M) (laborer), Edward Williams 13 (M), Susanna Cox 84(M).

SPARE: Peter 45 (hotel keeper), Angelina 41, Emma 18, Sylvester 22 (none), Jane 15, Charles 12, Samuel Carver 52,(laborer). R.E. $4700.

FISHER: George 56 (farmer), Mary 56, Catharine 26, Amanda 19, Susan 14, Abigal A. 12, George 9, Horatio Fegly 30(tailor), Elizabeth Fegly 24. R.E. $5000.

MILLER: William 60 (farmer), Sarah 50, Mary J. Mckee 30,Elenora Mckee 4, Sarah Mckee 3, James Dotts 17, AnnRoberts 8, Winney Glenn 20, William Gorey 39 (none),Soloman Hangen 22 (none). R.E. $30,000.

ARTHUR: Robert 27 (laborer), Elizabeth 24, Mary 3, JosephLockart 35 (laborer).

SHOEMAKER: David 28 (physician), Alicia 20, Sarah Slen-dox 40.

ROBERTS: Jonathan C. 40 (laborer), Ann 38, Rebecca 2.MC FADDEN: Andrew 23 (laborer), Mary 19, Mary 1.MARPLE: David 34 (limebumer), Edith 24, William 4, James

Culbert 30 (laborer), George Deal 28 (laborer), WilliamTolan 19 (laborer), Amelia Harner 19. R.E. $2000.

SNYDER: Charles 26 (M) (laborer), Mary A. 30 (M), Eme-line Johnson 7 (M), Ann McKenny 25, Roberts Owens 15.

FISHER: George 30 (teamster), Sarah 25, Elizabeth 3, Mary8/12, Richard Wright 22 (none), William Montgomery 19(none).

FISHER: Daniel 54 (farmer), Elizabeth 56, Jacob 26 (teamster), John 19 (farmer), Daniel 17, Sabilla 16, DanielFrease 7, John Maealester 25 (M) (none). R.E. $7000.

COMLY: Joseph 25 (miller), Martha 23, Conrad 27 (none),Benjamin Fisher 18 (miller).

REYSBR: Daniel 25 (none), Elizabeth 23, Rebecca 4, Laura 1.CRESS: Margaret 72, Margaret 28.

360 UNITED STATES CENSUS OF 1860, MONTGOMEEY COUNTY

KLINE: John 35 (farmer), Esther 42, Lydia Boyer 14, MaryKline 2, Perclval Boyer 22 (storekeeper), George Haas 41(none), Patrick Quinley 22 (none), Timothy Boyle 20(none), Eliza Queen 19.

HILTNER: Samuel 48 (cooper), Sarah 47, Elizabeth 17,Daniel 16, Samuel 13, Sarah 13 (twins), Mary Catharine7. R.E. $1500.

COLLINS: James 34 (founderer), Elizabeth 28, James 8,Mary 6, Sarah 3, Charity Vandyke 54, Elizabeth Shermer89.

Whole Number of Population — 2408(Male 1230, Female 1178)

Attended school with the year — 494

Allpersons bom in Pennsylvania with the following exceptions:Bom in IRELAND

FULTON, Alexander

O'CONNER, Catharine

MATTHEWS, HughSWEENEY, James

Mary

WRAY, WilliamRachel

RANKiN, JamesTRIG, Thomas

LAFFERTY, Solomon

PAUGH, Margaret

MC CLAY, JamesEliza

MINNIS, Evolin

GANNON, Dennis

CANADY, James

RYEN, Peter

EGLE, Marble

TRACY, Francis

BLANEY, Patrick

MACANE, JohnMaryLydia

MACANE, BridgetRICHARDSON, David

Mary

GRAVES, JohnMary

CRAWFORD, JohnMary

MC CULLOUGH, PatrickIsabella

REARDOM, ThomasMargaret

PARKS, GeorgeCatharine

NEWELL, John

LYNCH, Elizabeth

MEON, HenryBOYLE, Hmothy

WHTTEMABSH TOWNSHIP

Born in IRELAND (eont.)

ROACH, Catharine

TALLY, Michael

MACDONEL, Mary

KING, Ann

MC BRIDE, WilliamEllen

BERNARD, JamesMaryJosiah

MEREDITH, MaryDAUGHERTY, MargaretBARNHILL, Robert

Jane

Martha

OWENS, BridgetMEREDITH, AnnWALKER, RobertLAFFERTY, Solomon

MaryFINIGAN, Patrick

MaryBarneyPatrick

Lawrence

James

DUFFIE, JamesMargaret

KEYES, JohnMAGLANE, James

Anna

STEEL, AlexanderSAMPSON, GeorgeCROTTY, MatthiasQUIRK, MichaelPOWERS, Ellen

JAGO, CatharineCLINTON, Peter

Mary

CLINTON, LaurenceEllen

FLEMING, RobertMaryCatharine

CUNINGHAM, MaryMathew

CUSCADEN, JohnMary

WOODS, JamesEliza

QUIN, JamesHENDERSON, DavidSTEPHENSON, SamuelBOGGS, William

Susan

MAGILIGAN, HughHannah

MAGILIGAN, ThomasSarah

David

MAGILIGAN, WilliamJane

MACOLLEN, JohnMC DONNELL, GeorgeMC DONELL, DanielMURPHY, William

EUen

DOUGHERTY, WilliamMACOY, EUick

Catharine

John

William

TAYLOR, John

361

302 the united states census of 18S0, MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Bom in IRELAND (cent.)

MANN, John

ROSS, Joseph

CHRISTY, James

MAGLAIN, Charles

WEIR, John

ANDERSON, JohnCatharine

Ann

FULLERTON, RobertDugal

ARMSTRONG, CharlesDARRAH, John

MargaretMACANEL, WilliamRIGIN, Martha

Ann

DELANY, MichaelCOLWELL, Alexander

Rosanna

FARRIER, ArthurHILL, NealKILPATRICK, JohnMALOY, ConradROBINSON, Daniel

Ellen

KANE, CharlesSusan

MURPHY, WilliamMaryMaryJames

MC INTIRE, RobertSamuel

TAGERT, JamesCatharine

MC CORMICK, WilUam

SAMSON, SamuelJames

THOMPSON, JamesGILMOR, SamuelFULERTON, James

MaryMC FEE, DavidTHOMPSON, JamesO'CONNER, Mary

Ann

O'TOOL, PeterMary

KENNEDY, JamesHORATY, BridgetDENNY, JamesKANE, PatrickMURPHY, DavidTHOMPSON, John

Ann

MACALESTER, JohnRachael

John

Catharine

James

Elizabeth

LOCKES, OliverTEVEN, JaneREED, MargaretMC CANDELS, DavidQUIN, EdwardSINCLAIR, Mary JaneMACALESTER, ArchibaldMARFIT, ElizaBOYLE, TimothyKILPATRICK, John

Margaret

WHTTEMABSH TOWNSHIP

Bom in IRELAND (cent.)

MACALESTER, RachaelHARRISON, AlexanderSEMPLE, WilliamMC BRIDE, KateHART, JamesHARTS, WilliamCONNOR, JamesMCDERMOT, BridgetDUNCAN, CatharineCASSADY, AnnMILLICAN, CatherineLOCKENS, WilliamMAGRAFT, ThomasSTEWARD, AndrewRICHEY, AndrewCLARKE, PeterTENNEY, AnnGLENN, WinneyGOREY, WiUiamMC FADDEN, Andrew

MaryQUINLEY, PatrickBOYLE, TimothyQUEEN, Eliza

Bom in GERMANY

SWARTS, MargaretSCHOCH, MaryWALTON, BartonDERR, JohnSHAFFER, GeorgeFOGLE, JosephMARCHEIMER, FrederickFAINLY, FrederickBYRCLIN, CatherineMARCHEIMER, Catharine

SHOLLER, HenryABLEWINE, GodfreyGNAILY, FrederickDIPPLE, ElizabethSMITH, PhilipNAYGEE, ChristianBYRELEY,JohnMILLER, ^drewSEVILMAINE, Adam

Margaret

MYERS, JoshuaZIGLER, JohnGERMAN, AndrewYERGER, JohnWOLF, John G.

Bom in SCOTLAND

BEATTY, JamesWRAY, ElizabethGALLAGHER, MichaelBOYLE, HenryLOWDEN, JamesCHALMER, JohnKYLEY, Thomas

Elizabeth

Born in ENGLAND

BOYTON, CharlesANDREWS, WilliamSHERD, John

Ellen

John B.

Luke

GRINSCIFF, EdwardAnn

JosephThomas

363

864 THE UNITBD STATES CENSU8 OF 1860, MONTGOMEEY COUNTY

Bom in ENGLAND (cont.)

NACE, MariaWILLIAMS, William

MaryDavid

MaryHannah

STEPHENSON, VioletJOHNSON. William

MaryHILLORS, WilliamFUSS, RobertHADDON, JameaSCHLATER, Sarah AnnKEOUGH, Catharine

Bom in WALES

EVANS, ThomasTHOMAS, William

Rebecca

Bom in CANADA

CHRISTY, MaryGeorgeMary

Bom in WEST INDIES

WILSON, Josephine A.

Bom in DELAWARE

GREEN, BenjaminCUFF, SolomonCALDWELL, Cynthia

MaryWATSON, Jeremiah H.

Bom in MARYLAND

BURT, Janet

BAYARD, Henry,* Sr. -Eliza

JACKSON, AmeliaJOHNSON, MariahBOWEN, MaryWILSON, James

George

YOUNG, WilUamBROWN, John

MaryHarriet

POTTS, JaneGARRETSON, ElizaROWLAND, Mary AnnDONELLY, WilliamHACKER, George

Bom in NEW JERSEY

STEVIN, GeorgeREEVES, Allen R.VANDYKE, Henry

Hannah

HAINES, StacySTOCKTON, CharlesHAINES, JosephNEOIS, JohnWILLIAMS, HannahENGLISH, Sarah A.WILLIAMS, Mary H.GORMAN, MorrisJACKSON, Thomas

Jane

HARE,. RobertElizabeth

JACKSON, DiannaCOX, Susanna

WHTTEMARSH TOWNSHIP

Bom in NEW YORK

PEACOCK, Sarah Jane

FORD, Julia

JACKSON, Henry

Bom in NORTH CAROLINA

HACKER, Ann

Bora in OHIO

HOOKER, George

Bom in VIRGINIA

LEWIS, JamesCaroline

ANSPACH, ElizabethMARTIN, Lewis

365

AcquisitionsHerbert Harley: Collection of scrap books, compiled by the donor, on Isaac

Noms, Peter Becker, James Vaux, Christopher Sower, Henry Landisof Ringoes, Hans Landis, the Martyr, the Esterline Family, theWentz Family, etc. Also other items of interest.

Kent Slavin: Booklet—Eden Mermonite Church, Schwenksville, Pa., 160thAnniversary, 1818-1968.

Charles E. Childs: Charter of one of the first electric light companies inthe United States, Amoux Electric Light Company of Norristown,September 17,1883.

Montgomery County Manufacturer's Association: Handsome walnut table,stretcher base, once owned by Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart(1848-1917).

Miss Florence L. Coates: An interesting collection of account books,dockets and ledgers of Samuel Coats (1841-1923), of Borough ofBridgeport. Also a collection of early school books. Octavitis Perin-ckief, His Life of Trial andSupreme Faith, by Charles Lanman, 1879.

Mrs. Joseph F. Cottrell: Clothing, letters and mementoes of ColonelJoseph Frederick Cottrell, while a prisoner of war on Corregidor withGeneral Wainwright. Corregidor, The Saga of a Fortress, by JamesH. and William M. Belote, New York, 1967.

Miss Dorothy M. Wright: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition.Volumes V and VI, 1740-1742, and 1743-1745, in memory of herparents, Norris Delaplaine Wright and Gertrude (Miller) Wright.

Mrs. Frank B. Moore: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, VolumeVII, 1745-1748, in memoryof her mother, Mary Jane (Seltzer) Keller.

James Cheston: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, Volume VIII,1748-1750.

Mrs. R. L. Brinson: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition Volumerx, 1750-1753.

H. Durston Saylor: ThePennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition. Volume X,1753-1755.

Mrs. Henry B. Brown, Jr.,: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition,Volume XI, 1765-1757.

Judge and Mrs. Alfred L. Taxis: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, Volumes XII and XIII, 1757-1760 and 1760-1762, in memory ofMr. and Mrs. Malcolm H. Ganser and Rev. and Mrs. Alfred L. Taxis.

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Ronald E. Heaton; The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, VolumeXIV, 1762-1764. Justices Of The Supreme Court, Identified as Mas-ons, compiled by the donor, Washingrton, D. C., 1968.

Albert H. Mainwaring: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, VolumeXV, 1764-1767, in memory of his father, Isaac Mainwaring, pioneerin the development of the "Continuous Steel Process" 1890-1901, andwho left Pencoyd Iron Works, Peneoyd, Montgomery County, Pa., tobecome European Representative of the process, 1901-1904.

Hon. Richard S. Schweiker: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint editionVolume XVI, 1767-1769, in memory of his brother, Malcolm Schweiker Jr.

Mrs. Wilfred S. Rambo: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, Volume XVII, 1769-1771, in memory of her husband, Wilfred S. Rambo.An interesting assortment of books and special edition newspapers,including The History of The Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1895, anda German catechism not listed by Seidensticker in his celebratedchecklist, namely, Der Kleine Catechismus bes fel, D. Martin Luther,printed by Michael Billmeyer, Germantown, 1809.

Mrs. Andrew Y. Drysdale: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, Volume XVIII, 1771-1773, in memory of her father, William Schall.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Brunner; The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, Volume XIX, 1773-1775, in memory of Sarah Jarrett Hilles, themother of Mrs. Brunner.

Mrs. Franklin B. Wildman; The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition,Volume XX, 1775-1777, in memory of her aunt and daughter ofTheodore Weber Bean, Mary Bean Jones.

Silas H. Shoemaker: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, 1779-1780.Mrs. Rebecca Roberts Shelly: The Pennsylvania Gazette, Volume XXI,

reprint edition, 1781-1783, in memory of Rebecca Mclnnes who incollaboration with Anna Morris Holstein purchased George Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge to "Save It For The Nation."

William L. Hires: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, VolumeXXIII, 1783-1785. The Hires Family by William L. Hires, privatelyprinted, Philadelphia, 1964. Pedigree of Hires, extracted from theCollege of Arms, London, Windsor Herald, England. Pedigree ofLawson, as connected with Hires, extracted from the College of Arms,London.

Hon. David E. Groshens: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition, Vol-lume XXIV, 1786-1788.

Clarke F. Hess: The Pennsylvania Gazette, reprint edition. Volume XXV,1788-1789.

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Ellwood C. Pany, Jr.; Manuscript—"Where Did The Nineties ComeFrom?" An address at the 75th Anniversary of Calvary Church ofWyncote, November 2, 1967, compiled by the donor.

CarrollD. Hendricks; Reproduction of an iron "drippingpan" circa 1742,identified from the inventory of Rev. Philip Boehm, and cast froman original "kich eisa" (kitchen iron) dug up on the site of an earlyHendncks homestead in Lower Salford township.

L. Kepner Gottshalk: TheStory Of A Dozen GeneraUone, by 0. W. Siden-er, three volumes.

Miss Marian Burman: Original parchment deed with seal, John, Richardand Thomas Penn to Hans Reiff, 319 acres "situate on, or near thebranches of the Parkeoming Creek", bounded by lands of GabrielShouler, Jacob Hooffman, Jacob Reiff, and the vacant lands of AndrewLederach; being part of 3000 acres granted to be surveyed by DavidPowell, September 10, 1717; recorded Philadelphia Deed Book "A",August 21, 1734. Two books of fiction by Charles Heber Clark, ofConshohocken, imder the pen name of Max Adeler, Out Of The HurlyBurly, 1874, and Elbow Room, 1876. All three items from the Estateof Flora M. Jones.

Arthur Buchanan Orem: Orem Family, a collection of worksheets on thedescendants of William Orem and Rebecca Beale, as compiled by thedonor, 1968.

The Commissioners of Montgomery County, and Hon. Alfred L. Taxis,Jr.: The will of Charles Thomson, First Secretary of ContinentalCongress, dated January 29, 1822, placed in the custody of The Historical Society of Montgomery County by a Court Order of January28,1965.

Dr. David K. Bums: Case of 150 Steel Tooth Forms patented September27, 1910, and made by The Central Tool Company, Providence, R. I.,with S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co., as sole agent.

S. A. Hargrave: Ambler Family of Pennsylvania, 1688-1968, by FrankRhoades Ambler, Sr., privately printed, 300 copies, November, 1968.

Books acquired by purchase: Family of Hans Michael and Maria VeronicaHorlacher, by L. J. and Vanetta Horlacher, Lexington, Kentucky,1968. Pennsylvania, The Heritage Of A. Commonwealth, by SylvesterK. Stevens, Three volume, 1968. Early American Gunsmiths, 1650-1850, by Henry J. Kauffman, New York, 1952.

Other donors to whom we are grateful: Mrs. George W. Wood, Sr., Mr.H. C. Palm, Mr. Stanley C. Thomas, Irvin S. Rubin, Esq., Mr. J.Herbert Francis, Mrs. Vincent Godshall, Mr. Edwin M. Markel, Mr.John W. Sutch, Mr. A. S. Graham, Sr., Mr. W. R. Wonsidler, MissEmma Christian, Mrs. John A. Bown, Estate of Mrs. Horace C. Cole-man, Sr., Mr. Elroy Keller, Mr. Carl D. Bucholz, Jr., and Dr. WilliamShainlineMiddleton. JANE KEPLINGER BURRIS

The November MeetingNovember 16,1968

The regular meeting of the Historical Society of Montgomery Countywas convened at 2 P.M. at the building of the Sodety, with PresidentTaxis presiding.

The minutes of the meeting of April 27, 1968 were read and approved.

Mrs. Burris read the list of the eighteen members sponsoring volumesof the reprint edition of the early Philadelphia newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1789,

Mention was made of the Petition for Preserving Plymouth Meeting,and the members were asked to sign following the close of the meeting.

President Taxis intxoduced Mervin G. Sneath who read an interesting paper, THE RELIGION OF THE PRESIDENTS.

At the dose of the meeting the Hospitality Committee served punchand cakes.

Eva G. Davis

Recording Secretary

The February MeetingFebruary 22, 1969

The annual meeting of the Historical Society of Montgomery Countywas convened at 2 P.M. at the building of the Society, with Vice-PresidentBrunner presiding.

The minutes of the meeting of November 16, 1968 were read andapproved.

Howard Gross, Treasurer, read his report for the year 1968. Thisshowed an aTimial income of $15,839.84 and annual apenditures of$15,926.27, leaving a cash balance of $378.61. The report had been dulyaudited by Earl R. Roth and Dorothy R. Prick, and upon a motion dulyseconded and passed it was received and ordered filed.

Mrs. Johnson read the report of the Nominating Committee with thefollowing nominations:

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President

Hon. Alfred L. Tasis, Jr.

Vice-Presidemts

Robert B. Brunner, Esqaire

J. A. Peter Strassbnrger

Hon. Robert W. Honeyman

Recording Secretary

Eva G. Davis

Corresponding Secretary

Mrs. Earl W. Johnson

Financial Secretary

Mrs. LeRoy Burris

Treasurer

Howard W. Gross

Trustees

Herbert T. Ballard

Merrill A. Bean

Kirke Bryan, Esquire

Norris D. Davis

Mrs. Andrew Y. Drysdale

Donald A. Gallager, Esquire

Hon. David E. Grodiens

Howard W. Gross

Kenneth H. Hallman

Arthur H. Jenkins

Ellwood 0. Parry, Jr.

William S. Pettit

John F. Reed

Hon. Alfred L. Taxis, Jr.

Mrs. Franklin B. Wildman

There being no further nominations from the floor, it was moved andseconded that the report of the Nominatii^ Committee be adopted, andthe nominations were declared closed. Upon a motion duly seconded andpassed the Secretary was directed to cast a collective ballot for thenominees. This being done the nominee were declared duly elected for theensuing year.

Mr. Brunner introduced Dr. John L. Cotter who spoke on VALLEYFORGE AND THE FUTURE OP HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY.The talk was supplemented with colored slides.

At the close of the meeting the Hospitality Committee served tea anddainty sandwiches.

Eva G. Davis

Recording Secretary

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Report On MembershipNEW MEMBERS (Elected November 16, 1968)

Mr. & Mrs. Artiiur A. Alderfer Miss Edytiie EsbenshadeMrs. John A. Beard Eugene L. LacekRussell S. Butterweck Miss Ruth E. LowryDr. & Mrs. Robert A. Buyers Anthony Paul MarchTravis Coxe Mrs. Evelyn K. SchlegelWilliam B. Daub Mrs. N. James SimlerMrs. W. S. Detweiler, Jr. Robert M. Sullivan

LIFE MEMBERSHIPHon. Richard S. Schweiker

DEATHSDr. Russell C. Erb

Rev. Robert J. GottschallJohn H. Halford

John Neely MearsMrs. Christine Schultz Shearer

NEW MEMBERS (Elected Februaiy 22, 1969)Charles W. Barclay Miss Evelyn V. LeichthammerMr. & Mrs. George Bartleson Mr. & Mrs. William B. MatternDr. Bruce Carney Mrs. Edna Grubb McClureWilliam W. Focht Mrs. Harold J. Miller

Mrs. Allen C. Harman Mrs. Manrico A. TroncellitiMr. & Mrs. J. C. Henderson Mrs. Chase Whltaker

TRANSFERRED TO LIFE MEMBERSHIPRev. Luther F. Gerhart

DEATHSPerdval E. Foerderer

Mrs. Horace H. Francdne

Ernest E. Heim

Paul E. Shipe

PRESENT STATUS OF MEMBERSHIPLife 60Annual 611Affiliates 6Subscriptions 43

Total 723

HELEN W. M. JOHNSONGorreaponding Secretary

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Treasurer's ReportJanuary 1, 1968 to December 31, 1968

EXPENDITURES

Salaries, Wages, Tax 6,828.30Maintenance and Utilities

RECEIPTS

Montgomery CountyCommissioners

1968

appropriation $8,000.00Publication

aid 1,800.00 4,800.00Membership Dues 2,854.00Trust Funds and Interest.

J. E. Cope 701.68W. H. Reed 718.68

S. F. Jarrett 2,016.06Building Fund 473.22Permanent

Fund 624.71

M. H. Beidler 288.19 4,761.54Service Fees and Donations

Arcadia

Foundation 1,000.00PennsylvaniaGazette 720.00

Copy-Mitedonations 100.00

Service Pees,donations 281.60 2,101.60

Sales and SubscriptionsTo Societypublications 282.16

Other Sales and ReceiptsOuting 486.00Books, maps,charts, etc. 664.65 1,040.66

$ 16,839.84Balance on hand Jan. 1,

1968 465.04

Grounds

BuildingTelephoneGas, electricWater, sewer,fire pr.

728.75

395.28

130.45

834.91

57.06 2,146.45General Administration

Insurance 685.04

Equipment 658.95Supplies,postage, etc. 446.58Hancock Tomb

Care 30.00

Outing 401.04Books and

binding 1,029.90Bank Service 20.11 3,271.62

Bulletin Published

Printing,cuts, etc. 3,440.25Postage,copyrights 82.00 3,522.25

Transfer of Funds

Life

Member (PP) 100.00Microfilm advance

repaid (BP) 1,000.00To certificate

(CB&TC) 67.65 1,167.65

$ 16,926.27Balance on hand Dec. 31,

1968 378.61

$ 16,304.88

Audited and Found CorrectJaunary 30, 1969

Earl R. RothDorothy R. Frick

$ 16,304.88

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The Historical Society of Montgomery County hag for itsobject the preservation of the civil, political and religioushistory of the county, as well as the promotion of the studyof history. The building up of a library for historical researchhas been materially aided in the past by donations of family,church and graveyard records; letters diaries and other manuscript material. Valuable files of newspapers have also beencontributed. Hiis public-spirited support has been highlyappreciated and is earnestly desired for the future.

Membership in the Society is open to all interested persons,whether residents of the county or not, and all such personsare invited to have their names proposed at any meeting. Theannual dues are $5.00; life membership, $100.00. Every member is entitled to a copy of each issue of The Bulletin, free.Additional copies, $1.50 each.

Historical Building, 1654 DeKalb Street, Norristown, withits library and museum, is open for visitors each week dayfrom 10 A.M. to 12 M. and 1 to 4 P.M., except Saturday afternoon. The material in the library may be freely consulted during these hours, but no book may be taken from the building.

To Our FriendsOur Society needs funds for the furthering of its work, its expansion,

its growth and development. This can very nicely be done through bequests from members and friends in the disposition of their estate.The Society needs more funds in investments placed at interest; theincome arising therefrom would ^ve the Society an annual return tomeet its needs. Following is a form that could be used in the makingof wills:

1 HEREBY GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO THE

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY,

PENNSYLVANIA. THE SUM OF

DOLLARS r$ )

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