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(The following is extracted from notes and letters of Benton H. Zerbe) :
"August Zerbi went from Graz and Vienna, Austria, to Italy with the Austrian army, where he married the daughter of Chevalier Ughetti, of Verona. Taking the name of his wife he became a prominent merchant trading with vessels on the Mediterranean and high seas. His descendants are still living and use the name "Zerbi" among their surnames. The last male descendant bore the name of his grandfather, Att- gustine Zerbi Ughetti. A public square in Verona is named for the latter.
(Note-January 13, 1915, the Servian legation in London addressed a letter to the press and public, urging the adoption of the spelling "Zer- bian" and "Serbia" instead of "Servian" and "Servia" which is gradu- ally being accepted.)
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Christian Zarva settled in Mecklenburg, a territory of North Germany, between the Baltic, Prussian Dominions, West Hanover and Luebeck, before it was divided into the Grand Duchies of Schwerin and Strelitz. He had two sons, George and John, the latter an officer in the Hanoverian army.
George? Zarva, Zerbi, (Christian) had three sons, George, Wilhelm and John Phillip. Wilhelm, is said, "to have settled in Spain, where he married the daughter of Count De Luna, of Toledo, 'the city of swords', and where he took the family name. Marquis de Aspiroz, was a colonel of ar- tillery in the Spanish army, 1875. His wife was the daughter of Count de Valle, Director General of Artillery. Marquis de Aspiroz claimed direct descent from Wilhelm Zerbi, of Mecklenburg." (Benton H. Zerbe, Genealogical Record, Part 2.)
(Benton Zerbe, a foreign powder agent from this coun- try, who met many prominent heads of the military while in the pursuance of his business, met Marquis de Aspiroz with the above result, as related.)
John Phillip Sevier, Zerbi, Zarva was the head of the American branches. He settled in France and came from Paris where some of his children were born, to Alsace, near Stras- burg, where it is supposed that his brother George and his father George lived, the Seviers and Serviers, as the name was spelled in France, being numerous in Alsace and Lorraine.
John Phillip Sevier (Servier) after the revocation of the edict of Nantes fled with his wife and eight sons to Switzer- land and from there to London, England. Valentine Sevier, one of these eight sons, was the father of John Sevier, the great commonwealth builder.
Another son, John Phillip, was the father of the three immigrants, John Phillip, Mardin, and Lorenz, 1710, who came to America in the same vessel with Conrad Weiser.
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settling in New York and subsequently in Pennsylvania. The name on the ship lists was spelled according to the Swiss method, "Zarva, Savar, or Sarvar."
(Note :- Alsace, a province bordering on the Rhine, belonged to Germany until 1648, when part was ceded to France. Louis XIV took Strasburg, 1681, and the city, with the remainder of the Province, was secured for France, 1697, where it remained until 1871, when it was ceded to Prussia, the surrender being made September 27, 1870.)
(Strasburg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, two miles west of the Rhine on the river Il1. Before the present war it had a population of 150,000.)
HISTORY OF ZERBES IN AMERICA
The name Zerbe affords an interesting etymological study and is spelled in sixteen or more different ways, according to the nomenclature of the country in Europe from which the claimant hailed, or, as Dr. Egle, State Historian, says of the 30,000 immigrants, that, "their names appeared on the ship rolls according to the intelligence of the ship masters." These Swedish ship masters did not speak English and were phonetic spellers, hence the many changes from the original Sevier, Servier, of France, and the Serfas, Serfass, Sarva, Zar- var, of Switzerland and Sweden, to Serwe, Surfass, Serwes, Serwies, Zarva, Zerwe, Serb, Serbe, Serwitz, Zerb, Surface, Zerver, (the "e" having the sound of "ah"). All these varia- tions in spelling are not important, they are all from the same origin, "Servi" (Sar-ve) and are all of the same name.
(Note :- When one of the Sevier, Zarva, families died they sent a mortuary notice to the representative families of that name throughout the United States, a Huguenot custom brought with them from the old world.)
The Sevier (e, as in ah) and Zarvar, Zarva, being the nearest phonetically and best translations of the original name. The Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee branch adhered
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to the French name Sevier, while those of Pennsylvania and their descendants in other states adopted the Swiss spelling. The Zerbes of Berks County and the southern part of Schuyl- kill County were, until a decade or two ago, known as "Zarvas," the present generation adopting the anglicized "Zerbe," or changing the spelling of the latter according to taste.
The history of the Zerbes in the United States begins with that of the three immigrants, John Phillip, Mardin and Lorenz, who sailed from Rotterdam the day before Christ- mas, 1709, for the Province of New York, in the English colonies, of North America. They came on the same vessel with John Conrad Weiser.
(The history of the Zerbe colonists is involved in the preceding chapters, Part I.)
John Phillip Zarva (Zerbe) joined one of the four companies of 300 men who were part of the expedition in 17II against Montreal under General Nichols and the de- fense of Albany against the French, only one year after his arrival in his adopted country. John Phillip Zerbe was of the village of Annesburg, on the east side of the Hudson river, New York. (State of New York, Report of the State Historian, Colonial Series, Vol. I, p 442.) (Part I.)
There is no record to be found of his having come to Pennsylvania, and it is believed that he remained in New York for a time, subsequently removing with the German colonists under Samuel Waldo, 1732, to Broad Bay, Maine, and founding that branch of the Zerbes, now numerous in that state and the Canadas.
(Henry Cady, Secretary, H. F. Kingsley, President, of the Genealogical and Biographical Society, of Schoharie, N. Y., writes the author thus :)
"The church records of Albany County go back only to 1737. There was a Zeibert and a Ziebel but no Zerbe, in this county. I have the records of all of the old families."
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Moravian Historical Society, Vol. IV, sketch of the Moravian Settlement at Broad Bay, Maine, by John W. Jordan, President of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, gives a succinct and interesting account of the perils and hardships endured by these colonists from the above date to .1769, when they scattered to North Carolina, other states and the Canadas.
In 1863 when Andrew G. Curtin, the great war governor, was a candidate for a second term in the gubernatorial chair of the State of Pennsylvania, Hannibal Hamlin, Vice Presi- dent of the United States during the first term of the Abra- ham Lincoln administration, was one of the speakers at a political gathering at Harrisburg. After the meeting was over a reception was held at the capitol in honor of the distinguished guest. Charles A. Zerbe, deceased, a promi- nent citizen, of Lewistown, Mifflin County, was among those presented to the speaker, who said, as he took Mr. Zerbe by the hand :- "Zerbe, that is a familiar name to me, we have many Zerbes in the State of Maine."
FIRST. GENERATION
Martin1 Zerbe, Martin Zarva, (Sevier), Huguenot, was of the more than 1000 German and French who came to New York from Europe, June 13. 1710, leaving Rotterdam before Christmas, 1709, and settling in Livingstone Manor and the Schoharie Valley, that State. (The history of the immigrants is found upon a previous page, Part I.) Martin Zerbe joined the expedition against Canada, July 16, 1711, in Queen Anne's war. Both he and his brother, John Phillip, were enlisted as volunteers from the village of Annesburg, New York, in Captain Hartman Windecker's company." (State of New York. Report of the State His- torian, Colonial Series, Vol. I, p. 442, Part I.) He came to the region of the Tulpehocken, Chester County, Penn-
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sylvania, with the thirty-three families who settled in the Schoharie Valley, 1713, coming overland to this state, 1723, from New York. (Part I.)
The University of the State of New York, Albany, 22 May, 1915. Mrs. Ella Zerbey Elliott.
Dear Madam :-- Your letter of the 19th to the Custodian of Public Records has been referred to the State Library which has the records referred to. The roll of the Palatine volunteers from Annsburg in the expedition against Canada, in 1711, has been printed. The records in our keeping give no additional information in regard to John Phillip and Martin Zerbe, and there is no necessity therefore of any certificate. The facts as they appear on the printed roll are sufficient.
Yours very truly,
PETER NELSON, Assistant Archivist.
(The names of Martin, John Phillip and Lorenz Zerbe are found in the state papers, Astor Library, New York, Co- lonial Series, and in D. Rupp's 30,000 Immigrants.1)
Martin Zerbe, (Zarva, Sevier) was born in Alsace, near Strasburg, France, about 1685. There is no record of where in Switzerland and subsequently the Palatinates, his father fled to with his family from Alsace. Martin was already married and had one or more children, upon landing in New York, 1710. His death occurred between 1739 and 1750. "Baptized Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Albrecht Strauss and wife Maria Margaretha Zerbe; Sponsors, Martin Zerbe and wife Anna Elizabeth, March 25, 1739.2"
Death records of Christ Lutheran church, Stouchsburg, Pa .: "July 22, 1750. Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Zerbe, wife of Mar- tin Zerbe."
No trace or record of Martin Zerbe's tomb has been found. He may be buried in a private burying ground on or near the old homestead, at Host's, Jefferson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, or his grave is doubtless among the many unidentified mounds in Christ church cemetery with that of his wife.
(Note 1-Rupp's 30,000 Immigrants says, "that of the names given on the ship lists, the men on landing were each over 21 years of age.)
(Note 2 -- Records of Rev. John Caspar Stoever from 1730 to 1779.)
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Martin Zerbe settled, 1723, on Fell's Manor, Chester County, now Host's Postoffice, Berks County, Pennsylvania, and known as "Schaffner's". Owing to the Indian difficul- ties the authorities were not authorized to survey lands to the early settlers and it was not until the Indian settlement for lands with the Penn heirs was ratified, 1730-'32, that deeds could be obtained for them. Martin Zerbe lived upon this tract during his life time, being already an old man when the deed was vested in the name of his eldest son, George Peter Zerbe.
No warrants could be obtained for this land until after the Indian purchase of 1728 and final release, October 12, 1730, when Fell's Manor was transferred from Chester to Lancaster County, erected 1729. George Peter Zerbe, eldest son of Martin Zerbe, received a Warrant Proprietary for 153 acres, January 2, 1735. Book D, Vol. 2, p. 148. Deed Book, Recorder's office, Chester County, Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. I, pp. 400-405. Colonial Records. Original deed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
In addition to this tract, 100 acres were surveyed and purchased from Caspar Wistar, agent for the Penns, and the Commonwealth, by George Peter Zerbe, warranted, November 12, 1737, returned, 92 acres 120 perches by George Ege, May 29, 1789. (Deed Book, Recorder's office, Lancaster court house.) This tract is also found as having been surveyed, January 2, 1777, to Andrew Aulenbach, but never patented.
In a copy of a deed for the settlement of lands on Fell's Manor, Martin "Sharvas" (Zarva's) Creek is mentioned in the survey.1
Martin Sharva's (Zarva's) Run, (as shown on the map on another page), sometimes called the Muhlbach, (Mill Creek), survey of Fell's Manor, 1727, is the
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, Series 3.)
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branch of the Tulpehocken emptying into that stream near what is now known as Krick's Mill Post Office, or the Cross Keys Hotel, midway between Sunday's mill and the site of John Zerbe, the miller's, early mill. Other surveys and maps designate this branch as the Mill Creek and as "Serby's Run." It is a remarkably fine stream of rapid running water, and runs through the land on which Martin Zerbe located, 1723.
In addition to the two tracts of Zerbe lands recorded as above in 1735 and 1737, there was another and third tract north of Fell's Manor and west of the first tract, which was warranted December 3, 1737, and surveyed, December 16, 1765, to Peter Zerbe, Jr., son of George Peter Zerbe, in right of Frederick Arnold.
The map of Pioneer Homesteads, 1723, by C. I. Linde- muth, of Stouchsburg, Berks County, in this volume, contains the greater part of Fell's Manor. (George) Peter Zerbe's land is found in the northeast corner and Peter Zerbe, Jr.'s as de- scribed.
(Note :- In the early surveys there were allowed for roads, etc., six acres to every hundred acres, the area men- tioned in surveys being proportionately less owing to these measurements.)
"Mardin Zarben" was among the signers to a petition to the court of Quarter Sessions, Philadelphia, September, 1727, for a road from the Lutheran Church, in the Tulpehocken, now Zion's church, Stouchsburg, Berks County, to the Quaker Meeting House, in Oley Township (a certified copy of original petition and cut on another page, Part I.)
The children of Martin and Anna Elizabeth Zerbe were:
George Peter Zerbe, born 1710; died between 1780-'82; married Christina Loucks, 1732.
Elizabeth Maria, born 1712; married Heinrich Boyer (Bayer), May 31, 1730. (Stoever's Records.)
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John Jacob, born 1714; married Susanna - - 1735. John Jacob and wife stood sponsors for his brother, John Zerbe and wife Catharine Stupps' daughter Maria Caterina, April 14, 1745. (Stoever's Records.)
Maria Margaretta, born 1716; married Albrecht Strauss, 1734. (Stoever's records.)
John, born 1722; married Caterina Stupp, 1749.
Barbara, born 1720; married George Meyer, April 4, 1738. Stood sponsor with George Graf, Jr., November 16, 1735, for child of Albrecht and Margaretta Strauss. (Stoever's records.)
Elizabeth, born June 10, 1729; wife of - Rieth ; buried in Rieth's cemetery, Stouchsburg, Pa.
There were three men of the first generation of immi- grants, 1710, Martin, John Phillip and Lorenz Zerbe. Of the male children of Martin and Lorenz, who settled in Berks County, as far as known, there were nine men of the second generation.
THE MANORS, WHERE SITUATED
There were four Manors surveyed in the land grants in Tulpehocken, warranted and patented from 1731 to 1735.
The Manor of Plumpton, known as John Page's land, contained 5165 acres ; surveyed April 27, 1733, to John Page by a warrant, October 19, 1731, and patented September 17, 1735. Part of it, about 1000 acres, was originally devised to Letitia, daughter of William Penn, and wife of William Au- brey.
Fell's Manor, also known as Gulielma Maria Fell's land, adjoined the Plumpton Manor on the west, two miles beyond Myerstown, Lebanon County, beginning at the Tulpehocken Creek, at Rieth's church, Stouchsburg, and extending in a straight line, three miles in length, to Host's Post Office. Martin Zerbe, as aforesaid, settled on the tract of Fell's Manor, 1723.
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The survey of Fell's Manor was made November 2, 1727. The tract contained 10,000 acres. Gulielma Maria, daughter of William Penn, Jr., and granddaughter of William Penn, was the wife of Charles Fell. In the indentures, lease and release made in London, England, October 11, 12, 1730, it was stipulated, that, whereas, "Gulielma Maria Fell, her hus- band and her children are all settled and do reside altogether in Great Britain and have no intention to go or to settle in the Province of Pennsylvania and whereas: Some good and advantageous offers made by sundry persons of the said province to buy the said lands ; the said Gulielma Maria Fell, granddaughter of Wm. Penn, and the said Charles Fell, her husband, have judged it to be for her and her children's in- terest to sell parts of said land when opportunity offers. The Fells, with Wm. Penn, of London, send greeting to Jolin, Thomas and Richard Penn and empower Thomas Penn, as their attorney, to sell the land 'away' until the same 10,000 acres shall be all sold." Then follows how the monies should be invested for the benefit of the heirs.
A draft of a tract of land situate on the branches of Tulpehocken Creek, in Chester County, surveyed for Gulielma Maria Fell (wife of Charles Fell, of London) the second day of November, Anno Domini 1727.
"Beginning at a corner, marked black oak, standing on the Top of a Hill, on the south side of the Main Branch of the said Tulpehocken Creek, on the East side of a Run called Hans Moore's Run, thence north 30 degrees easterly crossing the said branch, 872 perches to a white oak, thence west by North 130 perches to a black oak, thence North, 32 degrees west, crossing a Run called MARTIN SHARVAS RUN, 200 perches to a post by a marked white oak, then south 80 degrees westerly 2140 perches to a Hickory, thence south west 286 perches to a small black oak, thence south crossing the afore- said main branch, 370 perches to a white oak, thence east by
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south, 256 perches to a Hickory, thence east 470 perches to a white oak, thence north 65 degrees easterly, 320 perches to a Hickory, thence east by north 214 perches to a white oak, thence north 70 degrees easterly, 240 perches to a small white oak, thence east by south, 480 perches to a white oak, thence south 55 degrees easterly, 235 perches to the place of begin- ning ; containing TEN THOUSAND ACRES."
Richard Penn's Manor, on the Swatara, Bethel and Tul- pehocken Townships, 5,000 acres, surveyed in five warrants of 1,000 acres each, extending north to the Blue Mountains, September 27, 1733. The village of Rehersburg is slightly east of the centre of this Manor.
Thomas Freame's land or Freame's Manor, adjoining Richard Penn's Manor, 1,000 acres, September 27, 1733. It was surveyed in 10 warrants, each for 1,000 acres, dated Lon- don, May 12, 1732.
William Allen's land, adjoining the Manor of Plumpton, October 20, 1730. This tract contained 2794 acres. It ad- joined the Manor of Plumpton, on the east, and was in what is now Heidelberg, North Heidelberg and lower Heidelberg Townships.1
SECOND GENERATION-JOHN JACOB ZERBE
Prominent among the Zerbes of the second generation was John2 Jacob (Martin1), b. 1714; m. Susanna -, 1735. Their children were:
1735, John, wf. Catharine;
1736, December 25, bap. Jan. 2, '37, Anna Christina. Sponsors, George Peter Zerbe and wf. (Little Tulpehocken church records.)
1738, April 20, bap. April 30, Michael.
1741, June 24, bap. July 6, Valentine.
1743, Peter.
George Peter Zerbe is mentioned as having stood sponsor 1737, May 5, with his wife, for John Jacob, son of Albrecht Strauss and wf. Maria Margaretta.
(Note 1-Colonial Records, Penna. Archives, Vol. 1, pp. 400-405.)
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Jacob Zerbe bought a tract of land in Bethel Township from John Heberling, January 2, 1753. Jacob and Susanna sold it, March 13, 1764, to Michael and Valentine, their sons. Michael Zerbe and wf. Anna Mary, and Valentine and wf. Barbara, November 14, 1768, sold it to John Zerbe, their eldest brother, and wf. Catharine. The will of Jacob Zerbe, probated March 19, 1782, was written August 15, 1776, and mentions John Zerbe as his eldest son, to whom he bequeathed one shilling as his birthright. John3 Zerbe (John Jacob2, Martin1) became a prosperous man and kept this shilling until his death. Jacob Zerbe et al. also sold tract of land to Michael Zerbe, September 14, 1768.1
John3 Zerbe was the first son and child of John2 Jacob (Martin1). He died before November 8, 1776, in Upper Tul- pehocken Township, leaving widow, Catharine, and four chil- dren under age, Margaret over 14, Barbara, John and Daniel under 14 years. March 15, 1785, these children of John, who bought the land from Michael and Valentine, deeded this land to Christian Zerbe. They were:
John Zerbe, single; Daniel, single; Barbara, spinster; Jacob and Elizabeth Souder, of West Penn's, Borough Township, Cumberland County, and George and Margaret Reber, of Tulpehocken Twp. (Berks Co. C. H.)
John2 Jacob Zerbe and wf. Susanna stood sponsors for their granddaughter, child of John3 Zerbe and wf. Catharine, April 8, 1745; bap. April 14. He was a taxable in Bethel Township, 17542.
Jacob Zerbe was executor to John and Catharine, 1782, (Will Book, Vol. 4, p. 277.) Jacob Zerbe died about March I, his will being probated March 19, 1782. Leonard Zerbe (John2 the m., Lorenz1) was a witness, Nicholas Gaucker, sole executor.3
(Note 1-B. 3, Vol. 1, p. 337.)
(Note 2-John Zerbe et al., Bethel Township, Grantor, September 28, 1791, to Christian "Zerby," tract of land. (D. B. 12, pp. 275, 277. Chris- tian Zerby, Grantee, April 18, 1807, Jacob Wagoner. Bill of Sale.)
(Note 3-Will Book, A. pp. 40-3, p. 23.)
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Valentine3 Zerbe, (John2 Jacob, Martin1), b. June 24, bap. July 6, 1741, he with his brother, Michael, bought a tract of land in Bethel Township, Berks County, from their parents, March 13, 1764. He went to Bedford County with his brother, John, 1780, where he settled. The children of John Jacob Zerbe were: John Michael, b. 1738; John Val- entine, 1741 ; John Peter, b. 1743, wf. Elizabeth ; and Jacob, Jr., who married Annie Spiess, of Rehersburg. Among the cate- chumens confirmed May, 1761, at the Little Tulpehocken church were Michael and Valentine Zerbe; the above Jona- than, son of Valentine, b. about 1763, m. Margaret Weiser, May I, 17951.
Peter3 Zerbe, (John2 Jacob, Martin1), b. 1743. d. Feb. 19, 1796, wf. Elizabeth.
Michael3 Zerbe, (John2 Jacob, Martin1), b. April 20; bap. April 30, 1738; m. Elizabeth Weil. (Rehersburg c. rec.)
Children :
B. 1765, December 5, John;
B. 1767, July, Michael;
B. 1768, January 9, Anna Maria;
B. 1772, December 25, Margarena.
Jacob Zerbe et al., grantor to Michael3 Zerbe, September 14, 1768, land in Bethel Township. When Bethel Township was divided Frederick and Michael3 Zerbe were taxpayers in the Dauphin County Division, 1786. Michael3 and his brother, Valentine3, were those of that name and date im- plicated in land transactions in Lancaster County, (see rec- ords.)
Michael4 deeded to John, eldest son of Michael3.
(Berks County Deed Book, 3-5, p. 337.)
(John2 Jacob, Martin1) Bethel Township, January 25, 1840, tract of land. Deed Book 16, p. 100.)
(Michael4 Zerbe, see elsewhere.) Revolutionary War Record Part 1, (Zerbes in the Revolution.) Michael3 Zerbe Account of Captain Weaver's company, from Bethel Township)
(Note 1-Christ church records.)
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Michael+ Zerbe removed to Cumberland County.
(Abstract of Jacob Zerbe's will, (Genealogical Society, Philadelphia), probated in Berks County, January 23, 1825, says : "Jacob owned land partly in Bethel Township and part- ly in Tulpehocken.")
SECOND GENERATION-JOHN ZERBE
John2 Zerbe (Martin1), b. 1722. He was the son of Mar- tin and Elizabeth Zerbe. He m. Caterina Stupp, June 4, 1743 (Stoever's), and lived in Tulpehocken Township. He was a signer for Christ Church, 1743, and was a taxable in Berks County, 1754, the first tax list taken in that county, and signed the oath of allegiance. They had the following chil- dren :
(Rev. John Caspar Stoever Rec.)
B. 1745, April 8; bap. April 14, Maria Caterina. Sponsors, Jacob Zerbe and wife.
B. 1748, March 23; bap. April 3, Johanres. Sponsors, John Oberle and Catharine Heck.
B. 1750, December 25; bap. February 3, 1801, Christian. Sponsors, Christian Gruber and wife.
B. 1751, October 3; bap. October 21, Anna Elizabeth.
B. 1756, February 10; bap. March 7, Anna Christina. Sponsors, Mar- tin Stupp, wf. Christina.
B. 1759, February 4; bap. February 10, Caterina Elizabeth. Sponsors, John George Rieth and wife.
B. 1761, May 6; bap. May 24, Maria Margaretha. Sponsors, Albrecht Strauss and wife.
Martin Stupp was of the thirty-three families who came to the Tul- pehocken, Chester County, 1723. The map in this edition shows his land as located on both sides of a branch of the Northkill. His wf. was Su- sanna Catharine Schultz. Children, Frederic and Abraham and eight daughters. Of the latter only two are mentioned by name in his will, probated March 19, 1755. (Abstract of Wills, Penna. Historical Society, Philadelphia.) Catharine Zerbe and Anna Kunigunda Gruber. The chil- dren to have equal shares. Conrad Weiser was a witness. A daughter, Margaretta, married Dietrich Snyder, of Bethel Township.
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