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Hans Jacob Neuferdt came to America from Wurtem- burg on the ship Nancy, September 27, 1752, and took the oath of allegiance at Philadelphia. His son, Johan Jacob, born 1765, came to Rush Township, Schuylkill County, 1797,
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then Northampton County. He had a son, John Jacob, whose sons were: Peter, George and John. They were of the earli- est settlers in Rush Township.
The Whetstones were other early settlers of Schuylkill County. Isaac Whetstone (Whetstine) was a Captain in the Revolutionary army. He was the progenitor of the Whet- stones, of Tamaqua, and came to America from Wurtemburg, Germany. (Revolutionary War. second part.) He was one of the earliest settlers and original owners of land near Mc- Keansburg.
John George Huntsinger came from Rotterdam, 1743, to Berks County, immigrating to Hegins Township, then Pine- grove Township, about 1780. He was the grandfather of Prof. Emanuel Huntsinger, of Hartford, Conn., and has a numerous line of descendants in Hegins, all prosperous and well known.
D. B. Green was born in Reading. His parents were John and Catharine Bright Green. He was admitted to the Bar and began practice in Schuylkill County, where he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 1871, and elected Additional Law Judge, 1881. He died in 1892. Wil- liam Green, grandfather of Judge D. B. Green, 1810, owned a tract of land near McKeansburg, where he lived for a time subsequently removing to Orwigsburg, where he kept the Rising Sun Hotel in the big square, and removed from there to Reading.
JOHN R. AND BENJAMIN B. BANNAN
Benjamin1 Bannan, born near Belfast, Ireland, March 17, 1770, died near Molatton, Pa., October. 1816. He was a far- mer in summer and taught school in winter. The old Swede church was used as a school house and here Francis Rawn Shunk, Governor, 1845-'48, of Pennsylvania, also taught school. His wife was Sarah -, born April 12, 1762; died
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November 20, 1825. Both are buried in the Episcopal ceme- tery, Douglassville. Their children were: Abraham, a school teacher in Union Township, Berks County, who studied law and removed to Orwigsburg, where he practised for a time. Benjamin2 Bannan (Benjamin1), also taught school before he learned the trade of printer with former Congressman Getz, at Reading, on the Reading "Gazette." Benjamin2 Bannan purchased the Pottsville "Miner's Journal," 1829. He was thrice married and left two daughters. A daughter of Ben- jamin1 was married to Dr. George Douglass, of Orwigsburg.
John2 R. Bannan (Benjamin1), born September 19, 1796, located at Orwigsburg and was admitted to the Schuylkill County Bar, 1818. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He made a study of the land laws, acquiring title to valuable coal lands. He removed with his family to Pottsville about 1850, from the large red brick mansion, in the big square, Orwigs- burg, now owned by Solomon Moyer, to his newly erected old colonial mansion, Cloud Home, on Sharp Moun- tain, still occupied by members of the family, where he died May 3, 1868. He made the plans for the Orwigsburg Acad- emy, completed 1813, and supervised its erection and pre- sented the ground to the Borough on which was erected the Henry Clay Monument. He married Sarah Ann Ridg- way, born December 31, 1806, who died November, 1879. Their children were: Thomas R. and Douglass R., both graduates of Yale College, the former a prominent lawyer, wf., Alice Johnson; the latter entered the U. S. navy ; Zelia R., Francis B., Mary J. and Martha R., all deceased with the exception of the latter and Francis B. Bannan, who married Mary T., daughter of George Reppelier, an individual coal operator, of Pottsville. They had six children, four of whom are living.
Daniel Yoder was born in Oley, Berks County, 1789. His father, Peter Yoder, was an early settler. The former removed to Pottsville before it was erected as a borough and
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lived on the brow of the hill, now the corner of East Nor- wegian and Wolf Streets. He was an inventive genius and took out a patent upon a pump which had a large sale before hydrants came into general use. William L. Yoder, of Maha- noy City, deceased, who removed to Virginia, was a grandson of Peter Yoder and son of Daniel. George Yoder settled in Eldred Township prior to 1809. He had a son William and his sons were Abraham and Nathan. George Yoder came from Olcy, Berks County.
Dr. George K. Binkley, of Orwigsburg, was born in Berks County, where his father, Benneville, was born, 1818. His grandfather, Henry, was an early Sheriff of Berks County.
EARLY SETTLERS, WHO THEY WERE
Peter Dreher came to this county with the earliest settlers. He was the great grandfather of Dr. C. B. Dreher, of Tamaqua. Drehersville was named for him and the de- scendants of that family. He was a native of Austria and on coming to this country served in the Revolutionary War and was wounded at the battle of Brandywine. Mrs. Arthur Shay, wife of a late Judge of the Schuylkill Courts, is a descendant.
John R. Diehm, deceased, was of Revolutionary stock. His great great grandfather settled in the Shenandoah Val- ley, Virginia, with the early Palatines. His son, William, was born there, 1764. The family removed to Reading, 1780, where William was appointed Sheriff.
John Springer was the maternal great grandfather of the late Jesse Turner, of Port Carbon. He served three years in the Revolutionary War and was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown. The family lived in Delaware.
Alexander S. Faust, deceased, was the son of Samuel Faust, of Bern Township. His great grandfather came to this country, 1776. He was a soldier for the British crown. He became a prosperous farmer and had a numerous progeny.
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Henry Bast came to Manheim Township from Berks County, where he was born, 1818. Jeremiah F. is a son and the third generation are now living in Schuylkill County and are prosperous citizens.
Michael Hoppes was born, 1752, in West Penn Township, when it was a part of Northampton County. He was a Revo- lutionary soldier and lived, died and is buried there. A large number of descendants from his son, Christian, are settled in that county.
John W. Roseberry, Sr., was admitted to the Berks County Bar in 1811. He removed to Orwigsburg, where his son, John, Jr., was born and where after his death his widow conducted a private school for girls. The latter, John W. Roseberry, was admitted to the Schuylkill County Bar and was a prominent citizen of Pottsville.
The Matz's were of the earliest settlers in Brunswick Township. William Matz, a Sheriff of Schuylkill Coun- ty, in 1855, was born 1801. William J. Matz was born in 1838, the latter was elected Sheriff in 1877. There were five generations of this family in this locality, near McKeansburg. Mrs. Thomas Walker, Mrs. Sarah Bartholomew, Mrs. Kate Bender, d., Mrs. Jesse Drumheller and others, of Pottsville, are of the family from Brunswick. George Matz, an ancestor, was in the Revolutionary War.
LINDEMUTH
Michael Lindemuth and brother, Wolfe, came from the German Palatinate to Berks County, September 22, 1752, lo- cating in Windsor Township. Colonel Lindemuth is known on his tombstone and in the Pennsylvania Archives as, John Michael, and as Michael, in the Revolutionary War records.
Michael Lindemuth married Marie Eva Noecker, June 17, 1760.
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(Stoever's records :- Martin Noecker's will1, says : "To the children of my deceased daughter, Eve, wife of Michael Lindemuth, I give and bequeath," etc. (These children were the two sons of Colonel Michael Lindemuth referred to as drummer boys in the Revolutionary War.2)
Michael Lindemuth was married three times. His second wife was Catharine Gerschwein (Geschwein.) The will of Margaret, widow of Eberhardt "Geschweid," of Bern Township, as recorded says : "I give and bequeath my daugh- ter, Catharine, wife of Michael Lindemuth."
There are no children mentioned in Michael Linde- muth's will, probated October 25, 1785, by his only brother, Wolfe Lindemuth, of Bern Township, the widow Anna Maria, renouncing.
The will of Wolfe Lindemuth shows he had no issue.
Colonel Michael Lindemuth3 died suddenly while enroute to the seat of government to collect a claim he held against it for a large sum of money ad- vanced to the commissary department for supplies for the men in his command. His mysterious death is a matter of history. Jacob Lindemuth, deceased, landlord of the Exchange and other Pottsville hotels, frequently related "how his great grandfather was found dead beside his faithful horse, who stood watch over him and that his saddle bags had been rifled of these claims by unknown persons." Michael Lindemuth died October, 1785.
(Note 1-Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, Book 365, p. 521.)
'(Note 2-Revolutionary War Records, Part 1.)
(Note 3-Revolutionary War Record, Part 1.)
(Note-The figures above the surname denote the number of the generation .. The abbreviations commonly used in genealogical tables are: da., daughter; bap., baptized; g. f. grandfather; m., married; rec., rec- ords; g. g. f., great grandfather; wf., wife; spon., sponsor; g. g. g. f., great, great grandfather.
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The two sons of Michael Lindemuth, above referred to as drummer boys, lived in Bern Township; their records, however, have not been discovered in the old Bernville church but are doubtless in one of the Windsor Township churches where Michael first settled. John Jacob removed to Hamburg, the other son remained in Bern Township.
John2 Jacob Lindemuth (Michael,1 wife Maria Eva Noecker), born 1766, died 1839; wife Catharine Boyer, born 1768, died 1851. He was one of the drummer boys referred to in the Revolutionary War records. He settled at Ham- burg, where he followed farming, and raised a family of sixteen children : George, Henry, Daniel, Joseph, Thomas, William, other sons and a number of daughters, Mrs. Jane Davis, Lewistown, Mifflin County (no issue), Mrs. Catharine Crosland, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Hannah Kepner, Mrs. Sarah Jennings, Mrs. Susan Gager, of Pottsville, deceased, were descendants of a son of this man who lived near Tamaqua.
William3 Lindemuth, (John2 Jacob, Michael1, wife Elizabeth Cake), issue: Susan, married Spangler ; Romanus; Matilda, married I. Wolfe; Caroline, married J. Valentine; and William. He lived at Hamburg and followed the occupation of shoemaker and locktender.
William4 Lindemuth, settled at Stouchsburg, Berks County ; born March 22, 1820; died October 10, 1887; wife Mary Brendle, born April 10, 1824; died July 4, 1857 ; children : Clara, Charles I., Elizabeth, William Johan, Edward and Samuel. Charles I. Lindemuth and brothers are cigar mak- ers and work at the factory established by Reilly Zerbe, retired. Charles is an antiquarian and has a large collection of antiques at his home in that place. He and Samuel are unmarried. Charles Lindemuth is the maker of the map of the early settlers of 1723, in this volume. One of the sons married a Rieth (Reed) and has several children. She belongs to
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the historical family, whose heads came over 1710, and settled at Stouchsburg.
2 Lindemuth (second son of Michael Lindemuth and wife Eve Noecker ; drummer boy in Revolutionary war) ; children : William, Samuel, Jacob and Maria.
William3 Lindemuth, (-2, Michael1), born at Bernville, 1799; wife Rachael of Scotch descent; children : Susan, William J. (formerly of Minersville, a merchant), Hen- rietta, James, Zacharia, Samuel, Mary and Jerome. Mary died in Philadelphia, aged 85 years, as did also Henrietta. They lived at 1427 North 57th Street.
Rev. Jerome+ Lindemuth, (William3, - _2 Linde- muth, Michael1) a Methodist minister ; born June 7, 1831, at Stouchsburg, Berks County ; wife Caroline Holmes Stuart, daughter of George Stuart, of Ireland; children: Carrie S. Mitchell, Glenolden, Pa .; Mary F. Hewes, Chester, Pa .; Wil- liam Holmes.
Rev. William5 H. Lindemuth, D. D., pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, Pottsville, Pa .; born at Reading and reared at Lebanon, (Jerome4, William3, -2 Linde- muth, Michael1) ; wife Emma Thomas Karcher; children : Emma K., Caroline S., deceased ; Edmund K., George H.
Jacob+ Lindemuth, a former landlord of the Exchange and other hotels of Pottsville, deceased, was born near Wom- elsdorf, Berks County. (-, Jolın2 Jacob, Michael1.) His father settled in Northumberland County, from where the family removed to near New Castle where they kept hotel. The children of Jacob and Eleanor Lindemuth were: Elea- nor, widow of Samuel Keiter; Anna G. and Clara A., a son and daughter, deceased. Mary, wife of George Moll, of Potts- ville, daughter of Ella and Samuel Keiter, has one son.
Joseph+ Lindenmuth, (Daniel3, John Jacob2, Mich- ael1) ; born June 4, 1816; died April 16, 1901; wife Re- becca Heisler, of Lewistown (Tuyful's Loch) ; born November
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4, 1818; died January 22, 1878. She was the daughter of Jacob and Susanna Heisler. Joseph Lindenmuth was a teamster and owned his own teams doing hauling for contractors and working about the mines. He removed to Pottsville about 1845, where they raised a large family ; children : Sarah and Ella, deceased ; William, Charles, Sybilla and Annie.
Wm. Lindenmuth, wife Rebecca Speacht; children : Theodore, Howard, a daughter deceased, and William, Jr., who married Rachael Jenkins; children: Edward, Louise, Anna, Eleanora, single.
Charles Lindenmuth, wife Levina Jenkins; children : Mamie, single; Warren, deceased, and Gertrude, wife of James Mullen, one child, Dorothy.
Sybilla Lindenmuth, wife of Valentine Glassmire; first husband, George Rogers; children of the latter: George, sin- gle ; Lillian, wife of Lyde Garnet. The children of Valentine Glassmire: Verna.
Annie Lindenmuth, wife of Lehman Walters; children : Harry, married to Mary Evans; children: Harry, James, Kenneth, Ellsworth and Anna, single; Lulu, married to Roy Yeager, no children.
Howard (William Sr.), wife Katie Collins; children : Conrad and George.
Theodore (William Sr.), wife Mary Weiss; children : Florence, May, Frances, Dora.
Florence (Theodore), wife of Charles Pettit ; children : Newton.
The ship records also show that three other Lindemuths came to Berks County, Pa., 1749. Hans, William and, per- haps, a Jacob or Michael, but no trace of these men has been found.
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THE BRAUN-BROWN FAMILY
John Brown (Braun), wife Catharine, came from the Palatinate, Germany, to this country, October 20, 1752, on the ship Duke, Daniel Montpelier, Captain, (Ship Lists). He settled in Berks County, north of the Blue Mountain, in one of the fertile valleys between what is now the Summit and Auburn, Schuylkill County.
He was a veterinary surgeon. He had three sons: John, John Adam and John George. His signature to a deed to this land, 1804, is recorded in the Berks County court house. The Black Horse Hotel, Wayne Township, which has been in possession of the Brown family for several generations, stands upon part of the original tract. There is no record of the date of his death. His name appears on the original list of subscribers to the St. Paul's Lutheran and Reformed Church, South Manheim Township, (Summer Berg), as hav- ing given ten shillings to the erection of this church, 1782, and he and his wife are buried here among the many unmarked and unknown graves.
The Brauns were Huguenots and left Alsace and Lor- raine after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. They were of the Reformed faith.
The father, John1 and two sons, John2 and John2 Adam were in the Revolutionary War. On his return John Adam brought with him a twelve pound cannon ball which is a relic in the Brown family today.
Jacob's church records, near Pinegrove, show Johann Braun to have stood sponsor with his wife Catharine, June 24, 1804. Other records are :
(Note-A Phillip Braun came to New York 1709-1710. He and his wife were sponsors, in Schoharie, for Conrad Weiser's first child and son, September 7, 1722. He settled in Berks County, 1723. Phillip Braun (Pioneer Homesteads,
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map), one of the signers for the road, 1727, came to Tulpe- hocken Township, 1723. When Conrad Weiser came (1729) he took up a tract of land adjoining Braun's.)
Braun-Margaretha, baptized April 14, 1805. Parents Johann and Elizabeth. They buried a son, born January 14, 1819, aged I month, 25 days. Another child of the same par- ents was baptized December 25, 1808.
Johann1 Braun is supposed to have died 1804.
Johann2 Braun, born November 12, 1756, died De- cember 13, 1838. He is buried in the Dreisbach cemetery, Union County, Pennsylvania.
Prof. Robert Braun, of Pottsville, of the Braun School of Music, of Pottsville and Reading, is a descendant of Johann2 Braun ; Robert Braun ; (Charles+ Theodore, Charles3, Johann2, Johann1.)
John2 Adam Brown, born February 2, 1759; died Au- gust 3, 1837, and is buried in St. Paul's Summer Hill ceme- tery. His son, Valentine, born February 8, 1783 ; died August 26, 1857. He was the owner of the Black Horse Hotel and to him is attributed the founding of a public school in Wayne and South Manheim Townships.
In 1829 a young teacher, Christian Meyer, from Stras- burg, Germany, came to the hotel and stated his vocation to the proprietor, Valentine Brown. There was then no school in that section of the county and Mr. Brown said: "I will give you board and lodging free in my house if you stay here and open a school." The young man accepted the offer, Mr. Brown went to see his neighbors and the result was a little log school house on Summer Hill, four miles south of Brown's, and an equal distance west from the Summit, where a small private school was opened. George Brown, brother of Valentine, donated the ground, on the crest of Summer Hill, and also donated material for the building. Christian Meyers taught school in these townships, public
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and private, for forty-one years. He was the organist of the Summer Hill Church and also followed the occupation of farmer.
W.4 W. Brown, a prominent citizen of that part of Schuylkill County, and an elder of St. Paul's Church, married a daughter of Christian Meyers, who died October 25, 1910, leaving no issue. W.4 W. Brown, (Valentine3, John2 Adam, John1.)
FILBERT FAMILY
John Samuel Philbert, born January 8, 1710; died Sep- tember 25, 1786. His name occurs on the ship lists, ship Samuel, from Rotterdam, August 30, 1737, from Wittenberg, Saxony1; wife Susanna, born March 10, 1704, died Jan- uary 4, 1771. He had five sons and three daughters: John Thomas, born February 1, 1737; died November 8, 1784; married Catharine Potteiker ; Maria Caterina, married to John Heinrich Ache; Anne Elizabeth, married to John Heinrich Weber; (tombstone inscription at Host's, John Heinrich Weber, b. November 28, 1735, in Hochstadt, Germany; d. April 10, 1815; Elizabetlı Weber, geborn Filbert, December 6, 1741, d. February 7, 1813. Captain in Revolutionary War.)
John Phillip Filbert, born December 7, 1743, (Captain in the War of the Revolution), married to Anna Maria Meyer; died August 30, 1817. John Peter, born August 22, 1746; married Polly Ludwig; Maria Christina, married Jost Ruth.
Captain John2 Phillip Filbert, (John1 Samuel), who kept an old Bernville, had three children: Samuel, born 1770, died 1795; John Filbert and a daughter, Catharine, married to William Machimer. John Filbert was the progenitor of the Womelsdorf branch and his son, Samuel, was the father of P. K. Filbert, D. D. S., of Pottsville.
(Note 1-Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. 17, pp. 131, 133.)
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Samuel3 Filbert, ancestor of the Pinegrove branch, had two children: Joseph, and Peter Filbert, born 1794, wife Elizabeth Staudt, daughter of Phillip Staudt. Peter's children were : Samuel P., Edward T., Peter A., William H., of Pine- grove; John A., of Schuylkill Haven; daughters, Leah, wife of Dr. John Kitzmiller; Sarah, wife of Richard Musser, and Rebecca, wife of F. W. Conrad, editor for many years of the "Lutheran Observer." J. H. Filbert, attorney-at-law, of Pottsville, is a son of John A., and a great great grandson of Captain Phillip Filbert.
WEIDMANS, KREBS, TYSONS
Major John Weidman was born in Lancaster County, 1756. He served in the Continental line in the Revolutionary War. Dr. Murray Weidman, of Reading ; Judge Mason Weid- man and Barge Weidman, of Pottsville, all deceased, were de- scendants.
Jacob Krebs was born in Long Swamp, Berks County, and came to Manheim Township before 1800. He owned part of the farm upon which the Schuylkill County Almshouse now stands. The family attended church at Zion's (Red Church) and it is related that it being the nearest and about five miles distant, the family repaired thither on the Sabbath in a cart drawn by oxen. This was no uncommon occurrence. Many of the roads were nothing more than bridle paths through the forests and horse back riding was not possible to the infirm or aged. As late as 1860 lumber hauling in some parts of Schuylkill County was done by oxen teams. The Krebs, of Schuylkill County are descendants of this family.
The Medlars are of Huguenot stock and settled in Berks County about 1760. Daniel Medlar came to Ilamburg before 1800. He is supposed to have been a son of George Medlar (Revolutionary War Record.) Dr. S. Medlar, of Orwigsburg, was an early settler. The Medlars, of McKeansburg, Drehers-
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ville, Pottsville and Mahanoy City are all of this branch. James A. Medlar, Vice President of the Schuylkill Trust Com- pany, Pottsville, is a descendant.
Henry Auman came to this country as a British soldier, for the British crown. He was taken prisoner by General Washington at Trenton, New Jersey, and after the Revolu- tionary War settled in Amity Township, Berks County. He was the great grandfather of the late Samuel and Lieutenant William Auman, of Pottsville, the latter of the United States army, retired and living in New York.
Daniel Dreibelbeis came from Hammesthal, Germany, 1740, settling in Richmond Township. His sons were Daniel, Abraham, Jacob and Martin. The latter came from Moselem, Berks County, to what is now Schuylkill Haven and was its first permanent settler. One of the sons was married to Catharine "Markel," daughter of George Merkle, a leading pioneer in Richmond Township, who settled there about the above date and took out a patent for one thousand acres of land.
Cornelius Tyson came from England, about 1683, and was one of the first settlers of Germantown. He belonged to the Society of Friends. His tombstone, the oldest in Ger- mantown, gives his age as sixty-three years and the date of his death as 1716.
Another branch of the family name came from the Rhine Palatinate, they were German Menonites and neither line en- gaged in the early wars, their religious principles forbidding it.
Cornelius and Hannah Smith Tyson's marriage is re- corded, March 30, 1751. They lived in Montgomery County, then Chester, where Joseph Tyson was born, February 16, 1751. Dr. Henry Tyson, of Reading, was born 1815. He was a Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, Phila- delphia. Henry Tyson had a brother Cornelius, who died at the age of twenty-five years. Captain Tyson was an Arctic
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explorer. The large Berks County family of this name, and Cornelius Tyson, deceased, of Pottsville, are descended from Cornelius and Hannah Tyson. The Tyson homestead, near the Oley, Exeter and Amity Township lines, is still maintained by a member of the family name.
Eli5 L. Heisler, (George Jacob, Joseph3, George2, George1 Jacob Heisler.) The latter came from the Austrian border to Berks County about 1770, removing to Montgomery County. A branch of the family lived at Lewistown, Schuylkill Coun- ty. George Jacob Heisler was a paymaster in the Revolu- tionary War and carried a rifle in the battle of Stony Point. Marshall Heisler, who did good service in the Reading Com- pany Coal and Iron Police, Minersville, during the Mollie Maguire troubles, was a lineal descendant. George Jacob, father of Eli Heisler, of Pottsville, while papering and paint- ing a house in Montgomery County, after the Civil War, found behind a washboard, a record of the oath of allegi- ance taken by Melchoir Fritz, 1763, to the British crown, in London, where he took the communion in the Church of England before coming to this country. He settled in Robe- son Township, Berks County. This paper Mr. Heisler pre- sented to Ezekiah J. Fritz, of Pottsville, a lineal descendant.
THE SPOHN FAMILY
Henry2 Spohn, (Joseph1), born in Cumru Township, Berks County, March 10, 1720; died January 21, 18131. His wife, Catharine -, born March 12, 1736, died January 25, 1810. They had sons: Adam, b. January 25, d. January 18, 1831 ; Phillip, a Revolutionary soldier ; - John, Captain in the Revolutionary War; and several daughters. Trinity Church records, Reading, show Henry Spohn. and wife, Catharine, to have stood sponsors eight times at baptisms from 1768 to '93, which show the date and also the family names of friends and relatives.
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