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Catherine Bartolet, b. June 30, 1834; d. January 25, 1911; m. John Fegan, d., Lyons, Iowa. Children: Daniel B., engineman, Lyons, Iowa; Joseph, machinist, St. Paul, Minn .; John, machinist, Missouri Valley, Iowa; Caroline Johnstone, Lyons, Iowa; Thomas, telegrapher, Dallas, Texas.
Louisa Bartolet, b. January 7, 1836; d. November 25, 1913; unmar- ried.
Charles Bartolet, b. December 12, 1837; d. October 24, 1905; m. Chris- tiana Neuer, of Harrisburg, Pa., d. Children: George W., inspector,
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Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, N. Y .; Sara Margaret Wagner, Trenton, N. J .; Wilhelmina Catherine, teacher in public schools, Cressona; Anna Eliza- beth Breininger, Cressona; Herndon Lewis, High Springs, Fla.
Caroline Bartolet, b. November 17, 1839; m. Samuel A. Mertz; resides in Lehighton, Pa .; no children. Adopted Charles A. Snyder, a great- nephew. He keeps a general store.
Amos Bartolet, b. February 10, 1842; assessor and supervisor; m. Rebecca Berger, d .; resides in Cressona, Pa. Children: Beata Davis, Cressona; Bard Bartolet, Cressona, clerk in C. & I. Co. office, Pottsville.
Richard Bartolet, b. December 1, 1843, Jersey City, N. J .; engine- man; married Martha Wiggan. Children: Roberta, stenographer, etc., Jersey City; Howard, clerk for P. R. R. Co., Jersey City.
Emma Rebecca Bartolet, b. August 31, 1845; d. April 16, 1911; m. Jeremiah J. Kline, d .; resided in Ashley, Pa. Children: Charles Daniel, expressman, Ashley, Pa .; Harry Benjamin, d.
John Bartolet, b. May 5, 1847; d. January 8, 1911; engineman, Sioux City, Iowa; first wife, Ellen Forrer, d., Cressona; second wife, Josephine Heffner, Mitchell, Dakota. Children : four deceased, Ida Moyer, Or- wigsburg, Pa.
Daniel Bartolet and his two wives, Catharine and Sarah, daughters of Michael and Elizabeth Merkle, had 17 children, all living to maturity.
1816, January 20, Daniel Bartolet, m. Catherine Merkle, Rev. George Mennig. 1823, December 25, Daniel Bartolet m. Sarah Merkle, Rev. Phillip Meyer. Daniel Bartolet and wives are buried in New Jerusalem cemetery, Spring Garden.
Joseph Bartolet, b. March 10, 1849; engineman in Mexico, now in San Antonio, Texas; unmarried.
Benjamin Bartolet, b. October 28, 1851; engineman L. V. R. R., Lehigh- ton; m. Francis Shuman, of Mainville, Pa. Children: Sara, clerk, Lehigh- ton, Pa .; Clay, d .; Howard, Prof. of Mathematics in Collegiate Institute, York, Pa .; Rena, stenographer, Lehighton; Florence, stenographer, Le- highton.
Isaac Strauch, secretary of the New Jerusalem church, had possession of the records when the split occurred, and which were never found. He kept the toll gate when the turnpike ran to the left side from Schuylkill Haven through a covered bridge and thence on the lower road through Mt. Carbon to Pottsville. When the Reading railway was built, the bridge was removed and the turnpike kept on the right side of the river and canal.
Michael Merkle, of Minersville, (Phillip, Michael and Elizabethi), b. near Cressona, 1823. He began life early as a driver on the old horse railway, of the Mine Hill Railway, to Schuylkill Haven, subsequently becoming stationary en- gineer for Richard Kear, Wolf Creek mines. He was one of
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a quartette of Minersville men who operated the mines upon the lands of the Forrest Improvement Company. In 1868, under the firm name of Lawrence, Merkle and Company, they leased coal lands at Mahanoy Plane and Frackville, now leased by the Madeira, Hill Company, which were very pro- ductive for a time. Mr. Merkle was engaged in the coal bus- iness up to his death, which occurred from an accidental dis- charge of a pistol. Mr. Merkle was a self made man and one of the foremost citizens of Minersville. Adam Confehr, mar- ried to a sister of his, was engaged with him in the Forest Coal Company.
Michael Merkle was twice married. First wife, Ann Bender, of Chester County. Their children were: Phillip, wf. Eliza Hadesty, sister of George Hadesty, division superintendent of the Reading C. & I. Co .; one son killed on railroad; Phillip, a soldier in the Civil War, is spending his declining years at the Erie Soldiers' Home.
Emma, m. Praull Boyer, brother of Col. Zaccur Praull Boyer, both deceased; lived in Port Carbon. One son, Claude, m .; several children. Clara, d., m. George Ellis, druggist. Children: Madge, m. Will. Harris, plumber; Sadie, bookkeeper in office of Oak Hill colliery, Min- ersville. One in the West.
J. Harry Merkle, the eldest, wf., Margaret E. Lewis. They had seven children, of whom three are living, George A., a rising young physician, of Minersville, and May and Blanche, at home. Mr. Merkle was a mer- chant of Frackville, but removed to Minersville about twenty-five years ago, where he has since been in the same business. Dr. George Merkle, m. E. K. Balliet, of Minersville.
George F. Merkle, wf., Annie, da. of the late Henry and Sarah Graeff Hammer, for many years in charge of the Thomas Shollenberger store, of Minersville. Mr. Merkle is the manager of the Frank Law- rence general store of Minersville. Their children were: one daughter, m. Will. Flail, blacksmith at Reading shops, Pottsville. One son, Louis, a very promising young man, mechanical engineer, d. at the age of twenty-six years, of typhoid pneumonia.
Michael Merkle's second wf. was Margaret Heilner, with whom he had three children: Horace, a physician, m., died in Montana, no children. William, single, died in Jefferson Hospital, Phila .; Ida, d., single, in Norristown. Mrs. Mary Brady, Norristown.
Gideon Merkel, d., lumber merchant, Minersville; came from near Hamburg; da's, Mrs. Mary Bedford and Mrs. Sue Ansty. Gideon Merkle was a descendant of the Merkles of the Trappe, Montgomery Co.
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HISTORY OF THE MUENCHS
The name Münch, as originally spelled means monk or friar. It was derived from an estate, purchased from an order of monks in France.
(The diaeresis or "umlaud" over the name Münch has the effect of u e. Muench.) The name since has been vari- ously spelled Minch, Minck, Minnich, Minick, Minnick, Ming, Mennegh, Mennig, Mynich, Minock, etc., but it is from the same origin.
Penna. Archives, 2d Series, Vol. XVII, and Rupp's 30,000 Immigrants have the following as settling in Penna. Ship Lists:
John Christopher Meng, August 24, 1728.
John Adam Meng, August 15, 1750.
Michael Meng, October 20, 1752. John Minck (sick) and Christ. Ludwig Muench, November 3, 1752. John Minnich (sick), November 7, 1754.
John Philip Menick, October 6, 1767. Peter Meng, on November 15, 1802.
Hans Heinrich Muench, September 15, 1752.
Hans George "Manig", October 2, 1749.
Lorentz, "Manig," August 27, 1739, aged 40.
Wendel "Manig," September 5, 1751.
Conrad Muench, see pasport on another page.
Phillip Muench, October 26, 1768.
Tobias Manich (Rupp's, p. 22), October 17, 1749.
Simon Minch, November 3, 1750.
The early Münchs were Catholics. During the reign of Louis XIV, in France, a Baron Münch, who had embraced the Calvanistic religion and was a powerful factor in the Huguenot political party, was stripped of all his possessions, his chateau burned and he was among those massacred. His kinsmen, after the dissolution of the title, fled to Germany after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685. Some of the younger men joined the armies at war with France and others, when the opportunity opened later, united with the Palatines and came to America, with their families.
(Dr. Julius F. Sachse, Librarian, Masonic Library, Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, has the illustration and its heraldic emblazonment of the Muench coat of arms, a little figure of a monk with the superscription "der Muench" above it.)
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One of the first Münchs to arrive in America was Hans "Minigh," on the ship Thistle, of Glasgow, Calvin Dunlap. master, from Rotterdam, August 29, 1730.1 He is described as a "newcomer from Holland, whose children are all at servi- tude," doubtless to pay his and their passage.
February 7, 1755, administration was granted George Lambert, of Albany Township, Berks County; Michael Brobst, Linn Township, North- ampton County, friends of this John Minnich, late of Albany Township. (B. 21, p. 401.)
A Johannes Minnich settled in Pinegrove Township, Berks County, 1754, where his son Johannes was born, August 8, 1757. Leonard, brother of Johannes, came to this township from Bern Township, 1767. (State and Proprietary Tax Lists, 1779 to 1785.) He had surveyed 200 to 250 acres of land.
Johannes2, d., April 27, 1823. Johannes and Leonard, with their wives, Christina and Magdelena, are on Jacob's church records as having communed there, November, 1799. Adam and Bernhard, their sons, bap- tized children in this church. A daughter, Magdelena, m. Jacob Heim. Letters of administration for Leonard Muench, Pinegrove Township, were taken out by Baltzer Hautz, 1802.
Peter Münch and Simon Münch came to America on the ship Samuel, Hugh Percy, Master, from Rotterdam, qualified at Philadelphia, August 30, 1737.1
They located in Tulpehocken Township, Lancaster County afterward Berks County. Peter was 39 years and Simon 37 years of age.
The two men were brothers, and Gottfried Münch, of Mechtersheim, near Speyer, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, was doubtless a brother and a third son of a son, or direct kins- man of the Huguenot Baron of France. The two lines, the Berks County contingent and the descendants of the Phila- delphia line are unknown to each other and claim no rela- tionship; yet their ancestral traditions are identical. The same family names occur with little variation through the first and second generations in this country. The letters, too, which follow tell of a misunderstanding between two branches of the Münchs in this country ; whether this refers
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, 2d Series, Vol. 17, p. 20.)
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, Second Series, Vol. 17, p. 133.)
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to Gottfried and Conrad, brothers, of Phila., and sons of Gott- fried, of Mechtersheim, or as between them and their uncles, (supposedly) Peter and Simon, of Berks County, is not clear ; but the two lines were close connections, the proof of it is unquestionable.
(Note-Cut of original patent found elsewhere in this issue.)
Peter Münch settled in Bethel Township, then Lancas- ter County, now in Lebanon, Berks and Dauphin, where he took up a tract of land. Peter's grandson, Simon, son of Si- mon, afterward purchased this tract. March 23, 1750, Peter Minnich took up 300 acres of land in Pinegrove Township, Lancaster County, afterward Berks, now Schuylkill County. The tract included land on both sides of the Schuylkill river, and, as a fac simile of the original patent in our possession, found elsewhere, shows, was the original site of the "Seven Stars" hotel in Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, where he built a log house afterward burned by the Indians.1
Peter Münch was twice married. First wife, Christina Barbara, by whom he had the following children :
Simon, York County, Pa., yeoman, b. August 25, 1728, d. 1795. Jacob. York County, Pa., yeoman.
Henry, wife of Catharine, Botecourt (Bashtourt County, Va., yeoman.) John Michael, Dauphin County, Pa., yeoman; b. January 2, 1738; bap- tized January 24, sponsors, John Michael Becker and wf. (Stoever's R.) Another child, name not given (probably Peter), and
John Conrad Muench, b. November 28, 1740; bap., January 21, 1741, sponsors, Conrad Scharff and wf. Appolonia, Little Tulpehocken church, (Stoever's records.)
Peter Münch's second wife, with whom he had no issue, was Eva Catharine, widow of John Ritzman. Münch was a taxable in Pinegrove Township, Berks County, in 1754, and in Maxatawny Township, 1759. An old map of Governor Mifflin's time shows "Peter's mountain," "Minnich's Gap" and "Minnich's Mill"; and the Rehersburg church records show him to have stood sponsor, with his wife Catharine, for
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children, from 1748 to '51, of prominent parents in that locality ; one of these God-children, John Peter Filbert, was afterward the first Mayor of Reading.
August 18, 1751, da. of Albrecht Strauss (Northkill) ;
March 6, 1748, da. of Philip Heiliger (Northkill);
August 31, 1746, and May 28, 1749, for a son and da. of Samuel Fil- bert (Northkill);
December 9, 1750, da. of George Schaetterle (Tulpehocken);
March 8, 1751, for son of Dr. John George Trippner and wife Anna Elizabeth (Tulpehocken) ;
August 25, 1754, for da. of George Muench, Bern.
Among the Warrantees of Land, Lancaster County, Pa., published in Vol. XXIV, 3d Series, Penna. Archives, there is shown a warrant for 50 acres to Peter Menig, dated March 23, 1750, but there is no record of a survey having been returned on that warrant.
Peter Münch mn. Eva Maria Ritzman, May 30, 1756. He died 1766. His widow, from Atolhoe, near Rehersburg, tak- ing out letters of administration ; she being described as "the widow of Peter Minnich, late of the part of Berks County, which lies over the Blue Mountains, in Pinegrove Township.1
The first four sons, October 15, 1787, disposed of their interest in the tract in Bethel Township to Simon, grandson of Peter Münch and son of Simon. The other two children are not mentioned in the document. The signatures were proven October 25, 1790, by George and Peter Minnich and two others. The one child, probably a daughter, may have taken her share and John Conrad Minnich having taken out a warrant for 100 acres of the land, in Pinegrove Township, on both sides of the Schuylkill River, settled by his father in 1750. (See map accompanying deed.) The patent shows that he paid the interest and quit rent on this tract from March 7, 1760, acquiring title subsequently, by purchase, to most of the original patent of 300 acres in that vicinity and to lands adjoining it. Just when
CAPTAIN CONRAD MINNICH
settled permanently on the site of the Seven Stars Hotel, Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, is not definite, but
(Note 1-Vol. 2, p. 148.)
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it was not later than 1768, the year he was married. He may have come there and taken possession, 1760, when he took up the original patent for 100 acres of the land, signed by John Penn and upon which his father settled and the family lived, 1751, being driven from there as the patent states "by the burning of their log house and other buildings by the Indians," and then returned to Heidelberg Township, where he appears on the tax lists as "Yeoman," 1767 and 1768.
Francis Parvin took up by warrant, 56 acres of land, June 1, 1751. His executors sold this land to Ellis Hughes, October 9. Neither lived upon the tract but Ellis Hughes, who lived in Exeter Township, operated a saw mill upon it. He granted three tracts of land to John Gerber, August I, 1775.
The 174 acre tract was surveyed by warrant, April 12, 1770, granted to George Gardner, who, February 5, 1762, granted the same to Isaiah Willets, who, September 15, 1766, granted the same to Ellis Hughes. On this tract stood the saw mill. The 174 acre tract was surveyed in pursuance of Thomas Hughes' application, who by his deed dated Decem- ber 10, 1767, granted the same to Ellis Hughes, who conveyed it, August 1, 1771, to John Gerber, miller of Cumru Township.
.Conrad Minnich, it appears from the following, lived upon part of this land during these transfers.
The Berks County Deed Book says: "John Gerber, of Cumru Township, sold August 18, 1775, to Conrad Minnich, of Brunswick Township, for 600 pounds, a certain messuage water saw mill and three tracts of land, now in the said Con- rad Minnich's actual possession, being situated adjoining land late of Francis Parvin and Balthazer Neyfung and thence up the Schuylkill River, containing 174 acres; one other of them, adjoining land now or late of Ellis Hughes and Joseph Berger, in the forks of the Schuylkill, containing 114 acres and the other of them bounded on the northeast by the east
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branch of the Schuylkill River and on the southeast by land of James Boone and on the southwest and northwest now vacant, containing 56 acres."
A reasonable conclusion to arrive at, is that as Ellis Hughes was a non-resident, Conrad Minnich ran his saw mill for him and boarded the men at the road house (as in the case of Neyman, who operated Baltzer Gehr's saw mill on the site of Pottsville), and afterward came into full pos- session of the tract upon which he lived with his father's family, 1750.
Christopher Stump patented a tract of 200 acres of land February 25, 1755; 100 acres of this land he and his wife Margaret granted to Nicholas Miller, March 25, 1755. Au- gust 30, 1778, Christopher Balti and Susanna, his wife, sold to Conrad Minnich and Henry Deckert, of Brunswig Town- ship, for 580 pounds, 100 acres and allowances of land, ad- joining Adam Miller's and part of the land of the aforesaid Christopher Stump.
Nicholas Miller and Eva Catharine, his wife, sold the said 100 acres to Peter Merkle and Catharine, his wife, April 17, 1765. Peter Merkle, April 4, 1778, granted the same to Christopher Balti. (Book 9, p. 121.)
Nicholas Miller removed to Shamokin Township, North- umberland County, where he is noted on the tax list, 1788, and also appears on the tax list of Augusta Township, 1771.
September 5. 1782, Henry Deckert and Elizabeth granted their half in this tract to Conrad Minnich. (Book 9, p. 123.)
Peter Filbert, Sheriff of Berks County, sold to Conrad Minnich, Setember 5, 1785, 230 acres of land, the property of Jacob Gemmerling (Kemmerling), Brunswick Township. adjoining lands of Henry Dieter, Martin Dreibelbis and oth- ers, (Book 9, p. 400.)
November 1, 1791, Conrad Minnich and Elizabeth, his wife, of Manheim Township, sold to Asa Jones, 200 acres of
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land, "at the mouth of Tumbling Run, over the Blue Moun- tain," late in Manheim Township. (B. 12, p. 431.) Bought it from Paul Feger, February 14, 1782. (B. 12, p. 437.)
"Mortgage by Asa Jones, Manheim Township, to John Moyer, Hamburg, November 22, 1791, for eleven pounds, in gold or silver, on the two hereinafter named tracts of land : The one thereof situate on Tumbling Run, including the mouth thereof, containing about 200 acres. It being the same tract which Conrad Minnich and Elizabeth, his wife, did, on November 1, 1791, grant unto Asa Jones. The other tract of 176 acres, on the other side of the Schuylkill from the first tract." Conrad Minnich and Peter Minnich were the wit- nesses to the mortgage. (Book 9, p. 154.) This land was af- terward located as in Norwegian Township. The above Peter Minnich is doubtless the Peter who settled in Northumber- land County with Conrad, Jr. He was a son of Simon.
Thouron's addition to Pottsville, (Norwegian Town- ship,) was laid out on land patented to Conrad Minnich and Jacob Zoll, July 10, 1792-September 5. 1794.1-2
(See Fisher's, 1831 Map, Schuylkill County, Commis- sioners' office.)
Conrad Minnich, as aforesaid, came with his father, Pe- ter, 1750, when ten years of age, to Pinegrove, Manheim Township, returning to Bethel, 1755, and again returning north about 1760-1768, where he lived during his lifetime upon the same land, although the name of the Township changed several times during his occupancy.
In these transfers of land, noted above, Conrad Min- nich is mentioned as "Yeoman," "Miller" and as "Church Warden," of Zion's Lutheran church, (Red church), of Brunswick Township. He at one time having bought land and holding the deed in trust for the church. His wife is
(Note 1-One of the original tracts constituting the boundaries of Pottsville, so described in Deed Book, Schuylkill Co. C. H.)
(Note 2-James Wilson, signer of Declaration of Independence, bought part of a tract of land adjoining the above, 1790, from Jacob Zoll.)
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named in the deeds as Elisabeth, daughter of George Peter Zerbe, late of Tulpehocken Township. He was a taxpayer, Pinegrove Township, Berks County, 1772, and the first col- lector of taxes in Manheim Township, 1791. The Proprie- tary State Tax Lists, Berks County, show Conrad Minnich to have paid taxes on a saw and grist mill and from 300 to 500 acres; from 1779 to 1784 his family consisted of eight persons.
CONRAD MINNICH'S HOTEL
now known as the "Seven Stars," was the first public house in (Schuylkill) this county. When rebuilt after its destruc- tion by the Indians, 1755, it was partially constructed of stone ; these walls in the rear are still standing, but the front was a low log building. Ellis Hughes' saw mill stool sev- eral hundred yards south of the hostelry, which was sur- rounded by a dense pine forest and as a road house on the state road, laid out 1770, afforded entertainment and lodg- ing for the patrons of the stage coach from Philadelphia and Reading to Fort Augusta (Sunbury) and the few wood cut- ters and wayfarers thereabouts. It is mentioned as, "Capt. Conrad Minnich's, Brunswick Township, near the Schuyl- kill, several miles south of the Sharp Mountain," and as, "being then the 'Frontier'", August 27, 1777.1
Conrad Minnich was a captain of the second company in the third battalion of Berks County militia, May 16, 1777, in the Revolutionary War. One of the three com- panies partially organized from this side of the Blue Moun- tains, in the part of Berks County, now included in Schuyl- kill County. 2 (For military history see Berks and Schuyl- kill in the Revolutionary War on previous page.)
There is no record of Conrad Minnich's marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of George Peter Zerbe. of Tulpehocken
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, 3d Series, Vol. 14, p. 265, Indian Forts, Vol. 1.)
(Note 2-Penna. Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 5, pp. 128-135-190-201.)
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Township, Berks County. The records of Christ Lutheran church, Stouchsburg. Marion Township, Berks County, for which her father, George Peter Zerbe, was a signer, 1743, are well kept and in a remarkable state of preservation from 1748 to 1760, under the various pastors, when Rev. John Nicholas Kurtz and his brother, William Kurtz, took charge. They had charges at St. Michael's, Germantown, Phila., and were itinerants, serving the Red church and others, in that part of Berks, now Schuylkill County, and serving privately the offices of the church to many individuals and families dur- ing the ten years of their itinerancy. To these men is at- tributed, more than to any others, the difficulty experienced by genealogists in this locality, of obtaining official regis- trations of family records. There are no marriages recorded in Christ Church, from 1760 to 1771. Nor are their records to be found in the church archives, as the following attests :
Krauth Memorial Library, Lutheran Theological Semi- nary, Mt. Airy, Phila.
Rev. Luther D. Reed, Director.
September 8, 1913.
Dear Madam :- After consultation with the Dean of the Seminary, I regret to inform you that the Kurtz records and papers are not in our possession, nor have we any informa- tion in regard to them.
Yours truly,
M. E. KAIGHN, Librarian.
Elizabeth Zerbe, b. 1740; confirmed, 1760; da. of George Peter Zerbe, 19 years and 6 months. (Christ church records.)
Conrad Minnich and Elizabeth Zerbe were married about 1768.
1761, September 21, Conrad Minnich and Elizabeth Zerbe, sponsors for Anna Elizabeth, da. of George Minnich. (Reli- ersburg church records) ; and June 19, 1768, sponsors for a
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son, Conrad, of George Yeakley, Conrad Minnich and wife. (Daniel's Corner church records, Robesonia.)
October 22, 1783, Conrad Minnich, et al., grantor to Peter Zerbey, Jr., son of George Peter Zerbe, deceased, tract of land in Tulpehocken Township. (Recorder's office, B. 8, V. I, p. 103.) The heirs sold their interests to Peter, Jr., and signed their names, spelled, Zerbe.
The first census, 1790, gives Conrad Minnich as having two sons over sixteen years, two under sixteen and four daughters. The baptismal records of the Red church, of which he was Warden, gives only two of these children, the others doubtless being among the Kurtz records.
Conrad Münch and wf. Elizabeth-Christina, b. May 16, 1779.
May Susanna, da. of Conrad and Elizabeth Münch, b. April, bap. 1781.
The other children were: Conrad, Jacob, Joseph, Fred- eric, Elizabeth ; one died in infancy.
CONRAD MINNICH, SECOND
Conrad3 Minnich (Conrad2, Peter1), b. 1770; d. in Sun- bury, Northumberland County, 1809; will. 1809; issue : Henry and Elizabeth, wife of Adam and Christina Sunday. The latter removed to Centre County, 1800, where Adam Sunday died at George's Valley, April 24, 1855, the widow surviving. The warrantees for Northumberland County give Adam Son- tag, Conrad Minnich and Henry, Benjamin and Peter Min- nich as having taken up 400 acres of land each, November 18. 1793. Conrad2 Minnich was a taxable in Manheim Township, Berks County, 1802, later Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, and is mentioned in land transactions, also, at what is now West Woods, Schuylkill County. The land of Adam Sontag and Conrad Minnich is now included in Mifflin and Catawissa Townships, Columbia County.
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