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1733, March 21, 200 acres, warranted to Charles Stout.
1734, March 30, 200 acres, warranted to Margaret Stout.
1738, September 14, 300 acres, warranted to Charles Stout.
1750, November 1, 60 acres, warranted to John Stout.
1757, April 15, 25 acres, warranted to Michacl Stout.
1751, April 15, 60 acres, warranted to George Stout.
Joseph and Samuel, (Jost, son of John Michael, and Samuel, son of Johannes2), were settlers of Bethel Township, Lancaster County, now Lebanon, formerly Dauphin, in 1751.
(Note 1-Red Church and Summer Berg church records.)
(Note 2-W. B., Vol. 9, p. 298.)
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THE MUELLERS (MILLERS)
One of the Earliest Families in Schuylkill County
The development of that part of Berks County, of which all but one-sixth now forms the component parts of Schuyl- kill County, must be conceded to the influence of the early German settlers. Brunswick Township was so called when the land it embraced belonged to Lancaster County and there were Muellers settled in it as early as 1742. They were An- dreas, Nicholas, Michael and Johannes. Andrew and Michael were probably only sojourners and lived in Bern Township, which then extended on both sides of the Blue Mountains. Johannes Miller, taxable, Brunswick, 1769; Peter, John and Adam, who were taxables in Pinegrove Township, 1754 and 1759, were doubtless sons of the pioneers, 1742. The first mentioned, with Henry, may not have been brothers but there were congenital relations between them.
Christina Mueller, b. in Brunswick Township, December II, 1742, d. July 26, 18161 ; was a daughter of one of the above, either Andreas or Nicholas.
The Red Church records begin 1755. Services were held there before that date. Johannes Miller baptized children there from 1766. There are no records kept between 1757 and 1765, the date of the Indian scare and burning of the church.
Johan Gottfried Orwig (Orbich) was born, 1720, in Nassau Wildburg Dorf, Maren-Weilburg; d. May 26, 1804. He came to Pennsylvania before 1745 and settled in Bruns- wick Township about that date. He and his wife, Gloria, baptized a number of children. Michael Teubert (Deibert), Paul Heim, Joseph Finscher, Valentine Dress and other names occur in the early Red Church records, among them :
(Note 1-Zion's, Red Church records.)
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Johannes and Magdalena Rickert, who baptized a son John, July 26, 1781.
(Note-Uncle of George Rickert, father of Col. Thomas Rickert, of Pottsville.)
Richard Rickert was the father of George Rickert. A Caspar Rickert was a settler in this vicinity, 1754, and John and Richard Rickert were probably sons of his.
The Red Church is situated in West Brunswick Township, in the southern part of Schuylkill County, one and one half miles southeast of Orwigsburg.
November 28, 1758, Michael Miller, Bern Township, administrator, to wf. Catharine, Berks Co., Vol. 1, Abstract of Wills, His. Soc., Phila.)
HENRY MILLER
Heinrich Mueller and wife Magdalena came from the Rhine Pfalz, Oderscheim, Palatinate, Europe, August 15, 1750, on the ship "Royal Union," Capt. Clement Nicholson, sailing from Rotterdam.1 He came directly to Eastern Pennsylvania to relatives in Bern Township, Lancaster County, going thence to Brunswick Township, in the same county. He settled in the valley between the Blue and Sec- ond and Sharp Mountains, ou Bear Creek, near Bear Ridge, between what is now Auburn and Jefferson, Schuylkill County. The original tract was not patented until August 12, 1774, and the parts of two other tracts were patented February 27, 1775, in the name of his son, Andreas Miller, by patent recorded2. Having transferred the patent rights of his land to his son Andreas, Heinrich Miller wrote his will, Sep- tember 22, 1775, which was probated December 15, 1778. (Abstract of Wills, Berks Co. 1752-1793, Vol. I, Penna. His. Soc., Phila. The will directs that Andreas gets every- thing and shall care for the mother, Magdalena, and that the daughter (no name mentioned) "must pay Andreas for her right to anything."
Mrs. L. T. Medlar, Pottsville, a descendant, has in her possession a flask, of fine workmanship, brought over by the couple from Germany.
(Note 1-Ship Lists, Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. XVII, p. 312.) (Note 2-Patent Book 53, p. 463, Harrisburg, Office of Internal Af- fairs. Recorded also B. A, A, Vol. 15, p. 110, Berks County C. H.)
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There is no other record as to when or where Heinrich Miller died. He is doubtless buried at the Summer Hill church, where his wife, Magdalena, is interred, his grave being among the many unnamed, the date of death being December, 1778.
Magdalena, wife of Heinrich Miller, b. in Oderscheim, Rhine Pfalz, 1726, d. April 24, 1806.1
St. Paul's church, Summer Berg, South Manheim Township, three miles from Auburn, on the S. and S. railway, the Protocol says, was built in 1782. This was the second building, a small log house having stood on or near the site where now the third building, a handsome edifice is erected. The church was for the worship of the Reformed and Lutheran congregations alternately. It gives a complete list of the ministers who served, among them Rev. Phillip Meyer, Reformed, who officiated forty- seven years.
At a meeting, March 7, 1780, to raise funds for the erec- tion, Andrew Miller is credited with having paid 6 shillings 9 pence and subsequently 8 shillings 4 pence toward the build- ing. (One of the largest subscribers to the fund is crossed off as not having paid his one pound subscribed.)
(The tax lists of Berks County were made up 1752, but were not en- forced until 1754. Heinrich Miller, taxable, north side of Blue Moun- tains, 1754.)
There were altogether less than fifty persons east of the Schuylkill River between the Blue and the Sharp Mountain, when the Indian purchase, 1749, was made, one authority says, "only twenty-seven," and when the Indian troubles be- gan. After beginning their little clearings and erecting their humble log cabins they united, 1755, in building the first log church, known as the Zion's Lutheran or Red church, which was reduced to ashes by the Indians, 1757.
Here were born the two first children of Heinrich and Magdalena Miller. Andrew, b. February 15, 1756, d. January 23, 1842, tombstone, Reformed (White) church cemetery, Or-
(Note 1-Summer Hill church records.)
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wigsburg, and Johannes, three weeks old, bap. April 21, 1757; sponsors, Johannes and Barbara Clouser.1
Of this Johannes nothing further is known, but he was probably killed by the Indians when they attacked the Miller home, or died from exposure in their flight across the moun- tains to Bern Township, where their third child, the daughter mentioned in the will was born.2
Brunswick Township, Lancaster County, was inhabited as early as 1740, but it was not erected into a township before 1768, when afterward (1810) were taken from it and Pine- grove Township, the seven townships that, with all but one- sixth, included all of the part now embraced in Schuylkill County. When in Lancaster County, Brunswick Township extended over the Blue Mountain, a small strip protruding over where Windsor and two other townships formed what was known as "Die Ecke" (the corner).
The Indian Terror broke out in this locality November 24, 1755. Up to this time the settlers had gone into hiding in the Block Houses and Forts Franklin and Lebanon and with friends across the mountain in Windsor and Bern Town- ships. In the fall of 1757 murder and rapine drove them to a refuge of safety and the Millers fled to Bern Township.3 "They remained south of the Blue Mountains until 1765, when with a scattered remnant of their neighbors, the first pioneers, they returned to their homes in Brunswick Township (Braun- schweig.) After rebuilding their homes, many having re- turned to plant and harvest their crops in the interim, they rebuilt the log church, completed 1770, the present being the fourth church of that name.4
(Note 1-"Tag Buch," Rev. Daniel Schumacher, Archives Lutheran Ministerium, Mt. Airy, Phila., Pa .; Schuylkill County Historical Society Publication, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 225.)
(Note 2-Indian Forts, Vol. 1; Indian Troubles, Part One.)
(Note 3-Miller History, Indian Troubles, Part 1.)
(Note 4-Red Church records, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 236, Schuylkill Co. His. Soc. Pub.)
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James Burd, Commissioner, 1758, directed Jacob Morgan to continue to patrol between Fort Lebanon and Allemaengle.
In 1776 Henry Miller joined Captain Michael Forrer's company, enlisted in Tulpehocken Township, eight or ten miles over the Blue Mountain, and made up of forty-two men from the northwestern section of Berks County. Captain Forrer was a resident of Pinegrove Township. His com- pany was one of four on duty during August and September, 1776, at South Amboy, N. J., at the mouth of the Raritan river opposite the southern extremity of Staten Island. They reinforced the Colonial forces during the battle of Long Is- land and belonged to the battalion of Col. John Patton. The captains were John Lesher, Michael Wolff, George Miller and Michael Forrer. The companies were collected together at Womelsdorf, Berks County, where they received their first rations and from there they marched to Perth Amboy, leaving Womelsdorf, August 11th, 1776, for their destination, 135 miles, arriving on the 22nd.1
The history of the Mueller family is involved in that of the early churches of what is now Schuylkill County. They were of the Reformed faith. The first and second Red Church congregations, with log churches built 1755 and 1765, were Lutheran. Reformed ministers and teachers visited their people, baptized their children, taught them and performed other rites of the church whose records unfortunately were not preserved. These from 1783 to 1795 were: Revs. Stoy, Lehman, Hautz, Wagner, Hartzell and others. The Reform- ed congregation was formally organized, 1795, as Christ Re- formed church, Brunswick Township. The church was built a few rods west of Zion's or the Red Church, on the opposite side of the road near the forks where the road from Landing-
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, 5th Series, Vol 5. Penna. Archives 2, p. 249. Montgomery, Berks in the Revolution, p. 107. Penna. Associates, Vol. 2, pp. 257-276. Tax List, Berks County Court House, Pinegrove Township, 1771, Michael Forrer.)
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ville joins the turnpike. The two churches united as a Union church with alternate Sundays for worship, Whit Monday, June II, 1832, and has remained as such ever since.
At the organization of Christ Reformed Church, March 19, 1795, the articles upon which it was founded were signed by fifty-five members among whom were Andreas Miller and Phillip Alspach.1
(April 16, 1808, Andrew Miller and John Hammer, of Manheim Town- ship, Berks County, witnessed the will of Phillip Alspach, b. N. Windsor Township, Berks County, 1733; d. August 26, 1808 .- Abstract of Wills, Berks County, Penna. Historical Soc., Phila.)
(Phillip Alspach (Anspach), Capt. Michael Forrer's Company, Revo- lutionary War.) .
Andrew Miller settled upon the land of his father, Hein- rich Miller, upon which he was already living. He married Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Mathias Stout, and sister of Ensign, afterward Captain John Stout, Revolutionary War, of Bern Township. No record of the date of this marriage has yet been discovered, but it occurred about 1782. Andrew Miller? stood sponsor with Elizabeth Orbich, 1774, May 8. for Maria Rebecca, daughter of Peter and Hannah Orbich." (Red Church records.)
In 1779 Andrew Miller, of Brunswig Township, Berks County, signed a remonstrance against revising the Consti- tution of Pennsylvania (Part I.) In 1797, April 27, Andrew Miller and wf. Elizabeth purchased an additional tract of land from John Graul, Pinegrove Township, Berks County, and his wf. Julianna, for eight hundred and seventy pounds in gold and silver. (The name of the township had changed from Brunswig but not the locality.) This land, 214 acres, was surveyed July 1, 1784, to John Brown and Michael For-
(Note 1-Zion Red Church records, Schuylkill Co. His. Soc. Pub., Vol 2, No. 3, p. 214.)
(Note 2-When a man stood up with a single woman for this rite, he was generally unmarried.)
(Note 3-Polly Orwig, Old Schuylkill Tales, pp. 44-46.)
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rer and was conveyed with houses, barns, meadows and build- ings. The witnesses were Peter Confehr and Dan Ludwig.1
The children of Andrew and Anna Elizabeth Miller were : John Peter Miller, wf. Salome or Sophia Schwalm; Susanna, b. 1786, wf. of George Reber (Reber History) ; Catharine, b. January 6, 1792, wf. of Wilhelm Wildermuth; Maria Elisa- beth, wf. of Christian Deibert, probably the eldest daughter, (Summit Hill church records) ; John George, bap. July, 1790, d. in infancy ; Maria Magdalena, b. November 15, 1794; there is no other record and this daughter may have been one of the first two named about whom there is a discrepancy as to their surnames, or she may have died young. The name is also recorded Maria Matilda; Andrew Miller, Jr., b. 1781, d. 1858; Hannah Miller, b. May 8, 1798, d. May 30, 1879; twice married, to Henry Zerbe and to Andrew Schwalm. Reformed church (Red) record : bap. Aug. II ; sponsors, Con- rad and Elizabeth Kerschner.
(Mathias Stout, Elizabeth Miller's father, died 1795; his wife, 1797.)
Andrew Miller, Jr., was married four times. First wife, Christina Deibert; second, Elizabeth Leiser, of Orwigsburg; third and fourth wives were western women. He removed to Wooster, Ohio, 1820, settling near that town. His second wife died after one year, leaving no issue. He had sons and daughters in that state, among them John, David, Mary and Frank. Christina Deibert d. 1811, leaving three children. Of his first wife, Peter Miller, a county commissioner in Schuylkill, in the fifties, was a son and Catharine a daughter, in. to Whiteman. David married a Miesse, related to the Miesse family, of Pottsville, and became prominent in Ohio. Mary m. Frank Weise. Left an orphan at the age of six years. Later was raised in the Wm. Wildermuth family, with whom he learned the trade of carpentering.
(Note 1-D. B. Berks County C. H., December 7, 1815; the transaction is again recorded in deed book 2, p. 40, Recorder's office, Schuylkill County)
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Peter Miller, county commissioner, b. October 5, 1805, d. March 15, 1883; wf., Catharine Seltzer, b. April 8, 1811, d. February 21, 1900. Their children were: Amanda, m. Charles Miller (not a relative) ; Catharine m. Nathan Kindt; Sarah m. Samuel Leffler; Sybilla m. L. T. Medlar, d., builder and contractor of Pottsville : Wesley m., lives at Reading ; Emma m. Abraham Long.
Andrew Miller, Jr., lived for a time on the Deibert farm (his father-in-law's), below Schuylkill Haven, now known as the Filbert farm. Here were born to him and his first wife, Christina Deibert, their three children, Peter, Elizabeth and Catharine. Peter lived in Orwigsburg on the lower street, near the Evangelical church, where he followed the furniture and undertaking business, afterward removing to a fine farm near Drehersville, which he bought and cultivated until his death.
Andrew, Jr., father of Peter, grew sick in Ohio, when his son sent for him, built him a small house on his farm and here he ended his days, having been seized with a stroke while in the Evangelical church, Drehersville, from the ef- fects of which he died. His wife returned west to her family. Andreas Miller, Jr., and wf. Christina bap. da. Elizabeth, November 6, 1808. The grandparents, Andrew and Elizabeth were sponsors.
Joseph Seltzer, brother of Catharine, wf. of Peter Miller, was married to Elizabeth, sister of Peter Miller and daughter of Andrew Miller, Jr.
Andrew Miller, Sr., signed the call twice for the building of the Reformed church, March 19, 1795, near Orwigsburg. He is noted on the Berks County tax lists in Manheim Town- ship, 1791. On May 23, 1808, Andrew Miller, Sr., and Anna Elizabeth, his wife, deeded his three tracts of land to his two sons and one son-in-law as follows: To his son Andrew Mil- ler, Jr., 151 acres 59 perches for seven hundred pounds in gold and silver. This included one whole traet which was patented
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to Andrew Miller, Sr., by patent recorded in Patent Book 53, page 463, on warrant dated August 12, 1774, in right of Henry Miller, who also had another tract patented to him February 27, 17751
To his son, Peter Miller, 81 acres and 91 perches for forty-three pounds and sixteen shillings.2
To his son-in-law, George Reber, 41 acres and 100 perches. The warrant to this was issued November 3, 1773, and patented to Henry Miller as in preceding tract. Andrew Miller received one hundred and sixty-six pounds for this tract. This land is recorded in Pinegrove Township and later in Manheim.
After dispossessing himself of his land, 1808, Andrew Miller removed to Orwigsburg, where he built the present Douglass residence, which the family occupied and where Hannah Miller was married to Henry Zerbe and where her posthumous son, Henry, was born. The house, a large, roomy red brick, old Colonial mansion, is the same as when owned and built by Andrew Miller, Mr. Douglass adding a back building. The trees planted by the Millers have attained a mature heighth and the present owners have cultivated a luxuriant growth of cultured plants and flowers in the box- bordered garden beds redolent with the beauty, perfume and luxuriance of the growth of old-fashioned flowers. These with the well kept lawn and fruit orchard in the rear form a fitting frame for the gentle, well bred and intelligent inmates of the home and their Colonial history.
This house was occupied for a time by the father of Mar- tin Sheafer and also by the Schalls, Andrew Miller vacating it about 1818. George Douglass bought it 1830.
Miss Rachel Douglass corroborates the above and says, "Andrew Miller built and owned the Douglass home, erected
(Note 1-Berks County D. B. A, A, Vol. 15, p. 110.)
(Note 2-D. B. 23, p. 27.)
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1808-'10. My father, George Douglass, bought it from An- drew Miller."
Wm. Miller, son of Peter and grandson of Andrew Mil- ler, of Bucyrus, Ohio, visited relatives hereabouts during the eighties and called upon the Misses Douglas. His father, John Peter Miller, had frequently spoken of and described this home to him. He took back with him fruit from an apple tree, planted by his father, and which had steadily borne the same luscious pippins for over three quarters of a century.
After the marriage of Hannah Miller Zerbe to Andrew Schwalm, the old couple lived with their daughter, wife of the above. Anna Elizabeth Miller, b. 1758, d. 1840, and is buried in the Evangelical cemetery. There are those living who point out the locality of her grave, but the tombstone, a large one, has disappeared. She was eighty-two years of age, her death resulted from a stroke of apoplexy. A marker to her memory has been erected near the site of her grave.
Andrew Miller, b. February 15, 1756, d. January 23, 1842. He made his home until his death with his daughter, Mrs. Hannah Schwalm; he is buried in the Reformed cemetery, Orwigsburg.
John Peter Miller, b. 1784, wf. Salome, Sophia Schwalm, bap. son William, March 1, 1808; and son, John P. Miller, March 10, 1809, Wilhelm Wildermuth, brother-in-law, spon- sor1. The other children were: Peter, Daniel, Francis, Charles, Phoebe, Eliza and Hannah.
Peter Miller left his farm to his son Daniel and he and Peter, Jr., who was a cigarmaker, remained in the vicinity of Orwigsburg, wlien Peter, Sr., with seven children moved, in 1834, to Ohio. He died in Bucyrus, that State, 1839. His son, Francis, removed to Missouri and in an argument with a fire-eating Missourian, in 1865, was shot and killed. John P. married and removed to Hopkins, Hennepin Co., Minn.
(Note 1-Christ Reformed church records.)
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He was living at the age of eighty-four years in 1893.1 He has a son, Charles D., living at the same place. Eliza Miller, b. 1827, d. 1914, m., daughter Jennie, d., married Au- gustine Wells. The daughters married and removed to other states, one living in La Grange, Ind., another in Atchison, Kan. The sons did likewise.
William4 W. Miller (Peter3, Andrew2, Heinrich1), Bucy- rus, O .; wf., Christina; c .: Mrs. Maria W. Shonert; Wilson A., railway trainman ; James K., and Mrs. Sarah Jump. Mrs. Shonert had three sons, one, Edmund M. Shonert, having great musical talent, was educated in Germany by his grand- father, William Miller, his mother being a widow. He was for years concert pianist for Reminiji, the Russian violinist, having made several foreign concert tours. He is at present playing at Madison Square Garden, New York.
Daniel Miller had several children, one a son, Charles, widower, living in Orwigsburg.
The children of Peter Miller, Jr., were: Martha, d., un- married ; Phoebe, wf. of Rufus Boyer, cigar dealer, of St. Clair, who had a number of daughters, one married Kocher, of Orwigsburg; another, a trained nurse, at Atlantic City, has a hotel or sanitarium for invalids. A son follows his father's business in St. Clair.
(Note-Miss Douglass has in her possession some very interesting Colonial relics. Her great grandfather was Col. Jacob Morgan. They had a sugar refinery and bonded ware- house at the southwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets, Philadelphia. This ground was purchased by the city and on it is erected a school house. It is a perpetual lease and the ground is entailed. The Misses Douglas draw the rent, which will be perpetuated in their heirs. They have an old receipt book of Stephen Girard, which contains a note of hand, by his clerk, Martin MacDermott, June 15, 1786, for 73
(Note 1-A letter written him about a year ago remained unanswer- ed.)
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pounds to be paid in full with 1102 pounds of coffee. Other receipts from noted Philadelphians who had transactions with the commission house, followed.)
THE REBERS, EARLY SETTLERS IN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY WHEN INCLUDED IN BERKS
There is merit in good blood in animals and the same is true of men. Johannes Bernhardt Reber and wife, Magda- lena Hahn, emigrated to this country, 1742, from Langen- selbold, Hesse Cassel, Germany. Two sons, Johannes, six years old, and Ludwig accompanied them, and three sons and several daughters were born them in the Tulpehocken dis- trict, with perhaps two more not fully proven. They settled near the big bend in Tulpehocken Creek, near Blue Marsh, where Thomas, Valentine, Peter, George and Catharine, were born. It is asserted that from Johannes Bernhardt Re- ber and his sons every person of that name in the United States is descended.
Johannes2 Reber (John1 Bernhardt), b. 1736; wf. Catharine, m. 1757; c .: John Conrad, George and John.
John3 Conrad (Johannes2, Johannes1 Bernhardt), b. 1758; m. 1778; son Conrad b. 1778, d. 1817. (Tombstone, Northkill cemetery.)
Revolutionary War record-Conrad Reber, private, Capt. George Mil- ler's Co., September 5, 1776. (Penna. Archives, 5th Ser., Vol. 5, p. 152, Part 1.)
Valentine2 Reber (John1 Bernhardt), b. 1742, d. 1818. (Tombstone record, Northkill cemetery.)
Thomas and Peter went West and had a numerous pro- geny. Ludwig settled in Berks.
John3 Conrad had other children beside Conrad, among them a George.
In Upper Tulpehocken, east of Strausstown, there was a Jacob2, who had five sons and five daughters, one of the lat- ter of whom, Catharine, was married to John Schwalm1.
(Note 1-Schwalm's History.)
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John3 Reber (John2, Bernhardt1), b. September 20, 1768, in Heidelberg Township. He had fifteen children. sons : John, Joseph, Benjamin, Jonas. Daniel, Samuel and others.
George3 Reber, b. 1770, or thereabouts, was probably a son of Johannes2. It will be noted hereinafter how the family names of his brother John were repeated in his family. There were, however, several other Georges of the third genera- tion, but all were of the grandsire, John Bernhardt, stock. George Reber came over the Blue Mountain about 1791. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew and Anna Eliza- beth Miller, by whom he had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. He is buried with his wife at Summer Hill church, but traces of their tombstones have not been found. nor are the early records of this church complete, and their children were probably baptized by an early schoolmaster or by itinerant Reformed pastors. Among the sons were: Daniel, Jonas, George, William, Benjamin, John (Jonathan), Andrew and Samuel (Jonathan and Jonas were probably the same man.) A daughter, Hannah, married Schwenk : other daughters were: Elizabeth, Catharine, ---. Of these, eight sons, are said to have been descended all the Rebers in Schuylkill County and many others who have settled else- where.
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