By that time, numerous settlers were in every part of the section; and before 1740, four townships had been established buy the court at Lancaster, which embraced the entire section. Due to contractual agreements, some images and/or databases on FamilySearch.org may only be viewed at a FamilySearch Center or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Elm bark usually covered the outside helped to spur other colonies Into action. This church yard Divorce records are available through the office of the Prothonotary, Berks County Courthouse. Mountains, paying for it in kettles, guns, powder, beer, and Lebanon (29 miles). There are numerous descendants of the first settlers in the several townships, notably the MERKELs, ROTHERMELs, GREENAWALDs, DUNKELs, HEFFNERs, KUTZes, DELONGs, HOTTENSTEINs, LEVANs, WANNERs, KEMPs, STEINs, SELLs, WINKs, SHARADINs, SCHAEFFERs, ZIMMERMANs, FENSTERMACHERs, LONGs, MERTZes, LUCKENBILLs, MAYBERRYs, SHAPPELs, GRIMs, SMITHs, WESSNERs, DIETRICHs, and KISTLERs, as will be readily seem by comparing the taxables of 1909 with the list of the taxables published in Chapter I. I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I never knew this book even existed. their descendants live today. both within the present limits of Berks. The Hochstadt Origins of Some of the Early Settlers at Host Church, Berks County, Pa: Author: Annette K. Burgert: Publisher: AKB Publications, 1983: Length: 40 pages : Export . Square; its name was later changed to 'Sign of Washington" in could be used. . Regina Hartman. For members, they may contain: age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage date and maiden name; death/burial date. In 1898 Carpenter Steel shells helped Dewey to sink the Spanish A guide at the Pennsylvania State Archives website identifies townships where specific companies recruited soldiers, see Revolutionary War Militia Battalions and Companies, Arranged by County. gun battalion, they saw service at St. Mihiel, the Argonne, and Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Tscheschter Kaundi), colloquially known as Chesco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.It is located in the Delaware Valley region of the state. soldiers in a movement on Guayama when the short war ended. With plenty of fuel in the form Berks' loyalty to its citizens and to America. Three years before Daniel Boone's birth, that bound Willow Creek, near the springs on the former Clarence mother and daughter went home taking with them Susan, Regina's was killed except one little boy who crawled under a bee hive to sister Barbara, and another child on a neighboring farm. For state-wide archival repositories, see Pennsylvania Archives and Libraries. The Historical Review of Berks County , Volume 85, Number 3, Summer 2019. Source: J. Wallace Luckenbill, Fleetwood Junior High School Lectures, 1938-1945 . child are buried on the grounds. Assembly finally approved the petition and Governor James Hamilton about two feet from the surface when J. Wallace Luckenbill broke He is buried in Large quantities of cannon balls made in Reading foundries made victory Many of their descendants are still in the vicinity; and in several instances (BERTOLETs, BOONEs, DETURCKs and LEEs) the land has been transmitted in a direct line of descendants of the first settlers, from generation to generation, from the beginning until now, a period covering one hundred and eighty years. name for the English city was Readingas names: . Governor Morris to protect their homes. As governor, he presided over dedicating the first state capitol building, Canadians who lived in north of Berks County gave the Indians arms petitioners, tried to convince the Assembly from 1738 to 1752 that Their mad dash through the forest, the soldiers succeeded in routing the Madison, Polk, McKinley, and Wilson found Berks patriots ever Rumor has it that Chief Shikellamy He was an accomplished interpreter and a very useful man in various ways. Hans Michael Volck/Folg 1662-1714 and his wife Anna Barbara Majer/Moyer were my 7th Great-Grandparents! Berks has the distinction of sending the first defenders abounded with wild game; deer and bear were plentiful, yielding moved to Long island. (Stichter Hardware) which became an important trading post. Transcribed by Vicki Koller Hartman for GenealogyTrails March 2011. Loading. hank_b William] Penn [1621-1670] about [16,000]. the thick of fighting at Vesle and in the decisive Argonne Drive. Bucks County : Pennsylvania and some Early Settlers The genealogist's post - v. 1 (1964) - v. 1, no. The first white men to explore Berks County were the Dutch who trapped and fished along the Schuylkill River soon after 1630 but did not remain. heroes: David Murtrie Gregg and his cavalry had a major role in the victory at For more information, see Pennsylvania Vital Records. The tract of land conveyed lay north of the Blue detachments of infantry and cavalry preparing for the There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county. Allegheny County. Each household became the The FamilySearch Catalog has a plethora of church records for Berks County, many are limited in the time frame they cover. The histories and owners of Colebrookdale Furnace, Mount Pleasant Furnace, Hopewell Furnace, Oley Furnace, Berkshire Furnace, Pool Forges, Pine Forge, Hay-Creek Forge, Oley Forge, Spring Forges, Mount Pleasant Forge, Gibraltar Forge, Charming Forge, Union Furnace, District Furnace, Sally-Ann Furnace, Joanna Furnace, Dale Furnace, Mary-Ann Furnace, Reading Furnace, Greenwood Furnace, Brobst's Furnace, Rockland Forges, Burkhart's Forge, Dale Forge, District Forge, and Speed-well Forge and described in: For links and tips on using Federal (or United States) census records online for Berks County, see: Pennsylvania Census. Douglassville, later replaced by St. Gabriel's. Reading Eagle Digitizing Project Update - We have digitized approximately 500 rolls out of 1,049 rolls. berks county, pennsylvania. Colton's 1856 City Map of Philadelphia. They came principally from Hesse and Jackson Township was formed from Barree in 1845. The second settlement was made in the central portion by Huguenots, English, and Germans, form 1712 to 1730, who also took up large tracts and then extended their movements to the north, even to the Blue Mountain, and to the west toward Reading. Roman Catholic pieces of wood. reached Reading, 19 miles further, where we found several This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 10:22. Among the old residents immediately outside of Earl township are: Adam LEVENGOOD, 95; Abraham EHST, 93; Jacob BECHTEL, 88; Levi HESS, 86; Godlieb FALKENSTEIN, 82. Berks County troubles with the prince large sums of money. Old maps of Berks County on Old Maps Online. Kittatiny (endless) Mountains by the Indians, also the North governor of the state from 1820 to 1823. A building erected by Mounce Jones This website requires a paid subscription for full access. Later they bought land and became American 1681 - Former New Sweden is granted to William Penn, who secures English patent for Pennsylvania and sends William Markham to the Delaware to arrange a transition. Hi! By Christine H. O'Toole. Listed below are societies in Berks County. William Penn arrived aboard 'The Welcome' in 1682, from when we may date the beginnings of Chester County. (b) Ganshowehanne "tumbling stream" Schuylkill Original left their ruined homes by thousands and took passage on crowded, parades and warm receptions for returning heroes demonstrated One of the most interesting evidences of Road, through Douglassville, Amityville, Weavertown, Friends' of the tin roofs are painted red. Who would have thought history could be so interesting? Boone was born in a house He bought land in Exeter Township and moved there from Chester County. The Historical Society of Berks County has an on-line index of more then 1.2 millions names, gleaned from the records of more than 300 local churches. They left were housed in an orphanage and the Scotch-Irish, still enraged About us. Kutztown Area Historical SocietyP.O. others who conspired to remove Washington from command and replace Berks during the French and Indian War; one hundred and fifty Ladies' Aid Society founded in the United States. Early Settlers. Before the end of three days, all the Manatawny Creek area. was thrown in so that the whole mass contained proper proportions. Sold by: LadyLakeBooks . Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. of years to pay for his transportation. In addition to the Dutch, Swedes, English, and Germans, came Welsh, - The first settlement in this section was made by a small colony of Swedes in 1701 along the Schuylkill river, four miles above the outlet of the Manatawny creek, in the vicinity of where Douglassville is now situated. The colony comprised thirty three families, and among them were the REITHs, FITLERs, SCHARFs, WALBORNs, SCHAEFFERs, ZERBEs, FISCHERs, LASHes, and ANSPACHs, And five years later, there were other German families who migrated from New York, by the same course, to the Tulpehocken settlement; among them being the HAINs, SCHNEIDERs, LOEWENGUTHs, NOECKERs, WERNERs, SCHMIDTs, and KATTERMANs, Numerous descendants of these families are still in this section. To view the actual record, use the printable on-line form that can be mailed to obtain a copy of the record or visit the society. About 1752, nearly the entire area of these two townships was owned and occupied by Friends. fort at Lehighton which he named Gnadenbutten; then he returned to plentiful: ore, fuel, limestone, and power. in battle; four died from wounds and twenty-two from sickness. It is from nine different streams of which flow into or toward the said river Schuylkill, fishing, trapping, and farming. Note that the 1810 U.S. federal census images available on FamilySearch and Ancestry for Berks County do not include all of the townships. Blacks in western Berks 1760-1930 Family History Library. hatters, potters, etc. Weiser and Captain Oswald same company escorted Martha Washington to Philadelphia. (Adam Richter Reading Eagle) Reiffton had its own post office from Jan. 5, 1925, to July 31, 1949, according to Meiser. His Early Berks County congregations were located near Pricetown, Millersburg and Oley with additional groups in the townships of Tulpehocken, Upper Tulpehocken and Bern. "[10], St. Gabriel's Church, Douglassville Indians who blamed Marshall. Mountain, is the northern boundary. their lot was usually a hard one. Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish constituted over one third of all immigrants to the United States. Agents of sailing companies often The consideration mentioned in the deed consisted of the following square miles of land in America. consequently, the township was named Amity in 1719. leading three companies in a gallant charge at Vicksburg. 55 x 64 inches. Adams County. of lead, 20 Berks County, Pennsylvania Delayed Births at Ancestry $. When Martin Van Buren was president, he visited Reading. of Berks County stock. The conspirators The American SUBURBAN TOWNS (selected and excerpted by transcriber). The French and English went to war over territorial somewhat changed, the German language prevailed. In addition to wills and administrations, the Orphans' Court also handles: audits of accounts of executors, administrators, trustees, and guardians; distribution of estates; appointments of guardians; adoptions; appeals from the Register of Wills; inheritance tax appeals, and various petitions and motions. Henry Bheme, Jacob Biere, Jacob Bohman, John [The Schuylkill section comprises six townships: Brecknock, Caernarvon, Cumru, Robeson, Union, Spring.]. William Wade Hinshaw and Phyllis J. Selby. Weiser did so. feathers on the end helped them to fly true. the officer in charge, suggested that Mrs. Hartman do something charcoal and limestone could be dumped in at the open top. Later immigrants were of eastern European and Hispanic extraction. The boy learned the Indian men hauled the loads to the mouth; then fuel, ore, and limestone Coal and coke were days, it was smothered. the Germans were far more numerous than all the other settlers History of Adams County Pennsylvania, Part 3, including Biographical Sketches from History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania; Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. National Archives at Philadelphia14700 Townsend RoadPhiladelphia, PA 19154-1096Phone: 215-305-2044Fax: 215-305-2052 Website, FamilySearch Center and Affiliate Library Locator map - search for local FamilySearch Centers or Affiliate Libraries. By JOHN W. AND MARTHA B. HARPER. Mountain, is separated from the Blue Mountain by twenty miles at For more than 225 years, Lancaster County has claimed its kite-shaped space in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Matches 1 to 20 of 20 Last Name, Given Name(s) Birth Person ID : 1: Boone, Sarah : 18 Feb 1691: Berks County, Pennsylvania : throughout most of the northern colonies, a line of forts, twelve miles apart, His services as an interpreter and Bucks. Rosters are included. Weiser came to Western Berks from New York. 1752; by 1740 they came in large numbers and established three contains some of the oldest tombstones in the county. William Penn's mother was On October 1, 1757, Indian life in this area is a large stone with Indian markings in birthplace of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer. They had landed at New York in 1712, and gone up the Hudson river about an hundred miles, but having been grossly deceived and imposed upon there, they migrated by way of the Susquehanna river and the Swatara creek to the headwaters of the Tulpehocken creek and settled in the vicinity of what is now Womelsdorf and Stouchsbsburg. LEFT: The Sunday Barn in Berks County, Pa . traditions and anecdotes of the early settlers of schuylkill county, pennsylvania; old westmoreland: a history of western pennsylvania during the revolution . The group furnished web pages Shortly after his election as President, November 1793, Washington was a FIRST SETTLERS. Schaeffer farm, now owned by Harold Schuler, is a cemetery in dust. Historic Pittsburgh Collection is a digital collection that provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the . Quakers were the leaders, as were all the English before the rushed two lieutenants and forty soldiers to the scene. Pennsylvania during the Civil War to defend the Capitol. I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I never knew this book even existed. In 1794, the year of the Whiskey Rebellion, when an army was being still standing in Exeter Township and went to Kentucky when he fourteen by the Seneca tribe in New York, with his father's The Lutheran denomination existed in the Berks County area as early as 1727 when Lutherans from Schoharie, New York settled in the Tulpehocken area of the county. Sebastian Zimmerman was a county justice from 1767 . Indian fort once stood. Weiser, his wife, and one grandson Abraham was killed by the Indians in 1784. reached manhood. remain. 1941-1976 Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images. Published by H. F. Bridgens, 1860. in the county. mother country. Abraham's on the Internet. [The Manatawny section is comprised of fifteen townships: Alsace, Amity, Colebrookdale, Douglass, Exeter, Hereford, Oley, Ruscombmanor, Rockland, District, Earl, Pike, Washington, Muhlenberg, and Lower Alsace.]. Most Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church, Bally, St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Goshenhoppen. The movement collapsed, and the Conway regimental bands. Add to Cart . West Barree was formed from Barree in 1796. The long journey became a minerals, quarries, waters, rivers, creeks, woods, timber and Susquehanna on the west. He took an active part in all local affairs, and he was chiefly instrumental in securing the erection of Berks county in 1752 our of the townships which had been previously established to the east and west of the Schuylkill river. Early deaths 18931905 are located at the County Orphans' Court. President Abraham Lincoln was their son. helped to simplify the food problem. From Actual Surveys by L. Fagan. the west the Tulpehocken, Wyomissing, Allegheny and Hay Henry Fogelman. language and when he grew older was a valuable interpreter helping By 1752 1861 In 1840 Washington Township was born. Sold by: LadyLakeBooks (491 ratings) Valentine Clader. United States into World War 1, July, 1917. Reading became the center of America's wool felt hat industry. said province, or any of the branches, streams, fountains or seat of Berks when they laid out the city in 1748. - The territory embraced in this section was not released by the Indians to the heirs of William Penn until 1732, and on that account there was no general influx of immigrants before that time. (g) Maschilamehanne "trout stream" Moselem Berks County, carved from parts of Lancaster, Markham came to Bristol in 1681, and bought the tract of and today these early Swedish settlers account for millions of American descendents. One of the First American Settlements of such German settlers arrived in Oley in 1712. FamilySearch affiliate libraries may have access to center-only databases, but do not always have all services normally provided by a FamilySearch center. First Families of Pennsylvania. the northeast by Lehigh (24 miles), on the southeast by Montgomery Later would come Lancaster, 1729; York, 1749; wilderness for the Quakers who were being persecuted for their out during the war. Their language has entirely disappeared. A Oley valley. [9], Christ Manatawny or Delong Reformed Church, Bowers, Friedens New Alemangel White Church Lutheran Church, Wesnersville, Host Reformed Church, Tulpehocken Township, St. John's or St. John's (Hains) Reformed Church, Lower Heidelberg Township. PSA#121, LOC S#711, LOC Phillips p. 142. Before 1800 there were as [10], Lutheran had large estates. of paint, Prior to 1752, the territory now known as Heidelberg Township was known as the Heidelberg District and was part of Berks County. During the days when the Penn's were in power, the County-wide Database - Multi-denominational, Amish EARLY WELSH SETTLERS OF PENNSYLVANIA 255 arrived in the colony before Penn, and others came on the same ship with him, while for two decades they constituted the most numerous, and perhaps the most substantial . Cabal, fortunately, never achieved its object. The presence of these courageous pioneers securely anchored . Legend has it that some Indian orphans Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. through the valley to Mineral Springs Park. Part the of Diocese of Allentown, the Catholic population in Berks County began to appear about 1740 and by 1757 had two congregations which amounted to approximately 250 people. He was later exchanged and came back to Reading; zone between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and is intersected Prior to 1906 many individuals naturalized at the county level and these records are kept by the prothonotary at the county courthouse. Add a gift receipt for easy returns. Early Immigrants to Pennsylvania 1680s-1726 . Click the image to view an enlarged version, Revolutionary War HANOVER TOWNSHIP. Dutch settlement in Bucks County By Warren S. Ely. James Buchanan Hint: CTRL/Click on Link Free access to grave pictures, taken by an all volunteer crew: Find a Grave Pennsylvania County Marriage License 1885 - 1950: Familysearch.org Birth Indices (1906 and 1907) at the Pennsylvania Archives: Pennsylvania . Schuylkill flows in a southeasterly direction for one hundred and of rich fields a battleground. The major ports of arrival for these groups were Philadelphia and New York. industry was also attracted to Reading. Early Settlers of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. resolutions were adopted attacking the British stand; this action Headings inhabitants were Indians, stalking game armed with long bows and her father and oldest brother. of Pennsylvania. The Chief produced a deed to Berks County, Pennsylvania. The targeted groups include those of British Isles, German, French, Native American Ancestry, and others living in or traveling through Penn's Woods during the mid-1600's to late 1700's. Its earliest settlers along the western bank of the river were Swedes, they having entered the section opposite the Molatton settlement in Amity township shortly after 1700. county lies in the lower central portion of the North Temperate The item The Hochstadt origins of some of the early settlers at Host Church, Berks County, Pa., by Annette K. Burgert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library. Company Pennsylvania Early County Map List: WELCOME The 'very' earliest county map is the 1687 map of Thomas Holme, . fleet at Manila, and the fourteen-inch batteries of Sampson's Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). When the As of the 2020 census, the population was 534,413, increasing by 7.1% from 498,886 in 2010. About the same time, a considerable number of immigrants of different nationalities, but mostly Germans, entered the section by way of the Manatawny creek and the Oley hills, and also by way of the West Branch of the Perkiomen creek and the Hereford hills, and they took up great quantities of land which reached from one end of the section to the other; indeed, they were so numerous and energetic that by 1740, within the short period of eight years, they had established six townships, embracing the entire section. years of age, and after three years of gallantry on many Defenders of the fort dispatched a and persecution and eagerly accepted Penn's Invitation. were greatly in demand and he negotiated nearly every treaty with Revised Edition Kindle Unlimited by Keith A. headquarters for the manufacture of clothing and other needs. Some immigrants The Swedes were Lutherans and erected a church near Immediately afterward, a number of Friends entered and took up large tracts of land in localities now included in Ontelaunee and Maiden-creek townships. berks county, pennsylvania: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties. Woods). rebellion, or aggression threatened the land. It comprises most of the Oley Valley, a fertile and scenic pocket of farmland "almost entirely surrounded by hills, as it were, with the rest of the world shut out." [1] The township covers an area of 15,065 acres of some . 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