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DANIEL DINGMAN BRODHEAD, second son of Garret and Cornelia (Dingman) Brodhead, was born September 6, 1818, died June 3, 1905. He was a prominent merchant of Mauch Chunk in Carbon county, and for twenty years actively en- gaged in mercantile life in Philadelphia, where he founded the wholesale boot and shoe house of Brodhead & Roberts. He married, May 6, 1847, Mary Ann Broderick, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Dougherty) Broderick, both born in Ireland, their children all being of American birth. Daniel D. and Mary A. Brodhead were the parents of a family of nine. His sons: Henry C., Albert G., Robert S., are large land and mine owners in Colorado, where the town of Brodhead is located, a town founded by them in the progress of their very large enterprises. The Brodhead properties are held by an incorporated com- pany of which Henry C. Brodhead is president, Robert S. Brodhead, vice-presi- dent, and Albert G. Brodhead, secretary and general manager, with principal ot- fices at Denver, Colorado.
ANDREW JACKSON BRODHEAD, third son of Garret and Cornelia (Dingman) Brodhead, was born in Northampton (now Pike county), Pennsylvania, May 6, 1822. He received his early education in the common schools of the towns in which his parents lived, at the Dingman Academy, and a term at the Strouds- burg Academic School. He taught school one year, and in 1850 began working in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, where he removed his family in 1851. From 1851 to 1857 he was employed as clerk and bookkeeper, and for five years was in busi- ness with a partner, repairing cars used by the pioneer coal company of that region. About 1861 Mr. Brodhead began shipping coal for other producers, and in 1877 opened a general store at Hickory Run, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1883. when he returned to Mauch Chunck. In 1884 he removed to Flem- ington, New Jersey, his present home. In 1868-69 he was treasurer of Carbon county, Pennsylvania, for several years he was school director of East Mauch Chunk, and served as justice of the peace. Andrew J. Brodhead married, De- cember 31, 1845, Ophelia Easton, born May 9, 1822, in Milford, Pennsylvania, died in Flemington, New Jersey, April 26, 1904. They were the par- ents of ten children: I. Calvin Easton, born in Pike county, Pennsylvania, December 27, 1846; married (first) December 6, 1870, Laura Clewell Leisen- ring, born at Mauch Chunk, August 9, 1848, daughter of Alexander William and Ann (Ruddle) Leisenring. They had Anna Leisenring, born November
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12, 1871 ; Emily Easton, born November 3, 1872; Alexander William, January I, 1874; married (second) at Oakville, Canada, Mary Lewis, who died March 31, 1905. 2. Garret, born in Pike county, Pennsylvania, February II, 1848; mar- · ried, September 17, 1872, Annie Kocher, born in Mauch Chunk, August 25, 1849, daughter of Conrad and Catherine (Wasser) Kocher. Seven children : Conrad and Andrew Jackson (twins), born July 19, 1873; Alonzo Blakeslee, December 26, 1875; Calvin Easton and Laura Leisenring (twins), born Septem- ber 21, 1878; Ruth Randall, born March 7, 1884; and Garrett, born January 3, 1888. 3. John Romeyn, born in Pike county, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1849; mar- ried, November 13, 1882, Mary Martha Holbert, born in Chemung, New York, March 22, 1858, daughter of Joshua Sayre and Catherine Van Houton (Ryer- son) Holbert. They had Henry Holbert, born September 29, 1883, and Arthur Sayre, born November 26, 1886. 4. James Easton, born in Pike county, Penn- sylvania, February 22, 1851 ; married, May 1, 1877, Hattie Lochlin Boyd, born July II, 1852, daughter of Nathaniel and Jane (Curran) Boyd. They have Walter, born March 9, 1878; John Romeyn, born September 25, 1880; Frederick Moon, born July 31, 1883 ; and Nathaniel Boyd, born June 22, 1891. 5. Andrew Douglass, born in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1852; married Mar- garet Lewis Martin, born January 15, 1859, daughter of Moses and Sarah Au- gusta (Lewis) Martin. They have Edith Easton, born November 3, 1879; Frank Martin, born February 5, 1882; Lewis Dingman, born October 5, 1884; Andrew Jackson, born October 3, 1886. 6. Charlotte Easton, born in Mauch Chunk, December II, 1855; married, October 5, 1887, Franklin Clark Burk, born in Flemington, New Jersey, April 8, 1853, son of Peter Wilson and Clar- inda (Bellis) Burk. 7. Jean Struthers, born in Mauch Chunk, November 21, 1857; married, October 15, 1885, Charles Ashley Blakslee, born in Mauch Chunk, July 4, 1859, son of James Irwin and Caroline Jones (Ashley) Blakslee. They have Gertrude Easton, born June 21, 1887, and Ophelia Easton Blakslee, born January 9, 1895. 8. Robert Packer, see forward. 9. Emily Linderman, born in East Mauch Chunk, June 1, 1862; married Frederick Moon, born Sep- tember 30, 1851, son of Samuel and Matilda White Moon. They have Fred- erick Wiles Moon, born July 27, 1882. 10. Richard Henry, born in East Mauch Chunk, November 4, 1864; married, March 6, 1890, Jane Vanderveer Smock, born October 15, 1861, daughter of Daniel Polheim and Sarah Jane Smock. They have Estelle Smock, born November 26, 1890; Mary Ophelia, born April 2, 1892; Jean Blakslee, born July 3, 1893, died July 27, 1893, and Richard Henry.
ROBERT PACKER BRODHEAD, eighth child and sixth son of Andrew Jackson and Ophelia (Easton) Brodhead, was born in East Mauch Chunk, Pennsyl- vania, October 12, 1860. He was educated in the public schools of his native town at Wyoming Seminary, where he took a commercial course in 1879-80. He was first employed as a clerk in the lumber business at Hickory Run, below White Haven, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1882 he went to New York, where he was a lumber salesman. In 1883 he began railroad construction contract- ing, and had charge of the Vosburg tunnel, completed in 1886. In the follow- ing year he became junior partner in the contracting firm of Brodhead & Hickey, 1883-94, succeeded in the latter year by C. E. Brodhead & Brother, 1894-98, and now the Brodhead Contracting Company, of which Robert P. Brodhead is pres-
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ident. Since engaging in the contracting business he has had charge of the fol- lowing important works: Part of the Lizard Creek branch of the Lehigh rail- road ; a large part of the Lehigh Construction in New York, crossing the Genes- see river; the Rochester branch, a part of the Mountain cut off near Wilkes- Barre, all Lehigh railroad work, and Wilkes-Barre end of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley railroad (Laurel line), and rebuilt the Pittsburgh and Bes- semer railroad. He also built the stockyard of the Steel Company at Youngs- town, Ohio, the Palisade tunnel on the New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad. The other business connections of Mr. Brodhead are numerous and exceedingly weighty. He is treasurer of Paine and Company (Limited), Wholesale Meat and Oil, vice-president and director of the Kingston Deposit and Savings Bank, director of the Wilkes-Barre Deposit and Savings Bank, and has extensive lumber interests in Kentucky.
Robert Packer Brodhead married, May 22, 1889, Fanny Vaughn Loveland. Children : I. Robert Packer, born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1890, died April 10, 1900. 2. William Loveland, born in Caledonia, New York, June 10, 1891. 3. Lydia Hurlburt, born in Geneva, New York, June 11, 1893. 4. Mary Buckingham, born in Kingston, August 29, 1895. 5. Frances Loveland, born in Kingston, October 16, 1896. 6. James Easton, born in Kingston, Sep- tember 20, 1899. 7. Charles Dingman, born February 13, 1906.
PERSIFOR FRAZER SMITH
PERSIFOR FRAZER SMITH, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a lineal descendant in the fourth generation from Colonel Robert Smith, through whose distin- guished services to his country, his membership in the Patriotic Order, Sons of the Revolution, is gained. Robert Smith, the Revolutionary ancestor, was of Scotch descent. Little is known of the family prior to the emigration to Penn- sylvania further than the family name was MacDonald, and formed a part of the earliest Scottish emigration across the North Channel into Ireland in the time of James II of England. Near the end of the seventeenth century Robert Smith's grandfather lived in North Eastern Ireland. Just before the battle of the Boyne, as the soldier, King William III, was reconnoitering the locality, his horse lost a shoe. There was no farrier nearby to replace it, but MacDonald, who like many other farmers was something of a blacksmith, offered to repair the loss, shod the horse, and enabled the king to proceed. From this time his neighbors dubbed him "The Smith". He accepted the cognomen as MacDon- alds were plenty but Smiths few, and handed it down to be considered and used by his posterity as the family name.
When religious persecution (that led to the Scotch-Irish emigration to Penn- sylvania) became unbearable, among the first to come over were the parents of Robert Smith, John and Susanna, who left their home in Ireland in 1720. Dur- ing the stormy and unusually long voyage Robert was born. After landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the emigrants proceeded westward some thirty miles into Chester county, and settled in Uwchlan township in a locality long known as the "Brandywine Settlement". With her brother John came Mary Smith, who married William Fulton, from whom Robert Fulton, the famous inventor of the steamboat descended.
Nothing is remembered of the early life of Robert Smith. His father John, born 1688, died December 19, 1765, and his mother Susanna died in 1767. The elder brothers left home and the homestead fell to Robert. "Sergeant" Robert Smith is reported in the records of the time as "going to Reading to be quali- fied", when in 1757 the war between the French and English made the Indians restless and called out large bodies of militia. His next appearance is in August, 1775, when plans for the defense of Philadelphia from expected attack by wat- er, were being discussed. Robert Smith made a model of a machine for hand- ling the "Chevaux De Frise" that was to be sunk cross the channel of the Dela- ware river below Philadelphia where the channel was narrow enough to make this an effective method of defense. His plans were considered of such value that he was thanked by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania in Au- gust, 1775. In June, 1776, the Council instructed him to take charge of and properly sink the proposed defenses. He remained in charge of the work about one year. Robert Smith was a man of considerable means, great energy and extensive influence. Recognizing the necessity of organizing and disciplining the troops, Chester county was furnishing the army, the Su-
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preme Executive Council appointed him lieutenant of Chester county with the rank of colonel. Previous to this appointment, however, he was a member from Chester county of the convention, which on September 28, 1776, adopted the first State Constitution of Pennsylvania. In his capacity of lieutenant of the county, Robert Smith had charge of raising, training and provisioning the mili- tary contingent of his district, and in every way possible, preparing the troops to take the field. This was a very responsible position as ways and means must also be provided, and in enforcing collections he naturally made enemies, who caused him some trouble in later years. He was sheriff of Chester county in 1777-78. He was a justice of the peace a number of years after 1779. He held the important office of lieutenant of the county and that of justice until March 21, 1786, when he retired from all public offices except "Trustee of the State Loan Office", which he retained another year. He served one term in the State Legislature in 1785. In the latter part of 1787 he retired to his farm, after twelve years of uninterrupted public life, covering perhaps the twelve most strenuous years in our Nation's history, certainly years to test character and prove men's worth. He is remembered as a man of upright and decided char- acter, but of winning manners, respected and confided in by his fellow-citizens. He was a staunch Presbyterian, an elder and a pillar in the church. He brought ap his family in the strictest, most approved Scotch fashion.
His wife was Margaret, daughter of John Vaughn, of Red Lion, Chester county, Pennsylvania. She died in Philadelphia in 1822, aged eighty-seven years. Of their sons Jonathan was for many years connected with the First and Second United States Banks and with the Bank of Pennsylvania as cashier. John was an iron master owning Joanna Furnace. Joseph was an iron and ship- ping merchant of Philadelphia. Colonel Robert Smith was born at sea in 1740 and died at his home in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1803. The children of Robert and Margaret (Vaughn) Smith: I. Emma (Mrs. Robert Porter). 2. Susanna (Mrs. Nathan Grier). 3. John, married Elizabeth Bull. 4. Sarah, un- married. 5. Margaret (Mrs. Samuel Kennedy). 6. Jonathan, married Mary Ann Frazer (see Frazer). 7. Robert, married Esther Kennedy. 8. Joseph, see forward. 9. Isaac, died in childhood. 10. Isaac, married Margaret Fleming. II. James.
JOSEPH SMITH, son of Colonel Robert and Margaret (Vaughn) Smith, was born September 24, 1770, died at West Chester, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1845. He left home early in life, and in 1788 was clerk in a store at Pughtown, eight miles from his father's farm. In 1789 he was proprietor of a country store at Columbia, Pennsylvania, where he was appointed the first postmaster. He made a trip into Western Pennsylvania, with the engineer corps sent to lay out the town of Erie, Pennsylvania, and other towns on the then frontier. In 1796 he is found in business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, selling the product of the iron furnaces owned in the family. He later became a shipping merchant. His place of business was on the wharf, foot of Chestnut street. He was a friend of his cousin Fulton and owned an interest in the "Delaware", the steamboat Fulton built in 1816. He was very prosperous until the war of 1812-14, when his firm was unable to meet their obligations. In 1824 he retired from business and removed to his farm in Chester county. In 1840 he removed to West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he died. His wife was Mary Frazer, born January 14,
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1780, died May 23, 1862, daughter of Colonel Persifor and Mary Worrall (Tay- lor ) Frazer. Mary Frazer was a sister of Mary Ann Frazer, wife of Jonathan Smith, brother of Joseph. Joseph Smith and Mary Frazer were married February 27, 1800. Their children were: Elizabeth Wright; Emma Vaughn, married Henry A. Riley ; Marianne, married Stephen Harris; Persifor Frazer, see forward; Martha; Vaughn, married Mary Elizabeth Sheppard ; Rhoda Wright.
PERSIFOR FRAZER SMITH, eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Frazer) Smith, was born June 23, 1808, died May 25, 1882. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, finishing, what is now impossible, a college course at the age of fifteen. He studied law in the office of William H. Dillingham, and was ad- mitted to the Chester county (Pennsylvania) bar, November 3, 1829. In 1832 he was appointed state attorney for Delaware county, Pennsylvania; May 2, 1835, he was appointed clerk of the Orphans' Court for Chester county. From 1861 to 1864 he was an elected member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature. In 1866 he was appointed reporter of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and held that responsible position two terms of five years each. He was a learned and able lawyer. His thirty-two volumes of reports of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania are considered to be among the best that have ever been made in the state. Death came upon him suddenly, while arguing a case in court. He was an elder of the West Chester Presbyterian Church. He married Thomasine Susan, daughter of Dr. George A. and Thomasine (Welden) Fairlamb, of Down- ingtown, Pennsylvania. The children of this marriage are: I. Rebecca Darling- ton (Mrs. Emmett Monaghan), of West Chester, Pennsylvania. 2. Mary Fraz- er, died in childhood. 3. Martha Frazer, died in childhood. 4. Joseph, died in childhood. 5. Lydia Valentine. 6. Mary Frazer (2). 7. Martha Frazer (2), died in childhood. 8. Persifor Frazer, died in childhood. 9. Persifor Frazer (2), see forward. 10. Beaton, died in childhood. 11. Emma Vaughn, died in child- hood. 12. Frances Burean. 13. Robert, died in childhood.
PERSIFOR FRAZER SMITH, son of Persifor Frazer and Thomasine Susan (Fair- lamb) Smith, was born April 1, 1849. He was educated at Wyers Military Acad- emy, West Chester, Pennsylvania. He entered the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad as rodman in April, 1865, and remained in their service till April, 1880, having in that time reached the position of superintendent of the Bedford divi- sion. From April, 1880, till May, 1900, he was president of the Wellsville Plate and Sheet Iron Company of Wellsville, Ohio. Since the latter date he has been manager of the W. DeWees Wood department of the American Sheet Steel Company, which since January 1, 1900, has been known as the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company. Persifor F. Smith married, December 3, 1873, Laura Gilpin Wood, daughter of W. DeWees and Rosalind (Gilpin) Wood, of Pittsburgh. She is a granddaughter on her father's side of Alan Wood, of Phil- adelphia, and his wife, Ann Hunter (DeWees) Wood. On her mother's side (Gilpin) she is a granddaughter of Richard and Ann (Porter) Gilpin, of Wil- mington, Delaware. Mr. and Mrs. Persifor F. Smith have two children: I. Rosalind Wood, born September 22, 1874, and Laura Gilpin, born November 23, 1883. Rosalind Wood Smith married, January 3, 1897, Richard H. M. Robin- son and has a daughter, Rosalind, born September 1, 1902. Richard H. M. Robinson was graduated from the head of his class in the United States Naval
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Academy. He studied naval construction afterward at Edinburg, Scotland, and is now naval constructor at the United States navy yard, Brooklyn, New York.
A second line of Revolutionary descent which Mr. Smith traces is through his grandmother, Mary Frazer, who was a daughter of General Persifor Frazer. Persifor Frazer was a son of John Frazer, a Philadelphia merchant, who emi- grated from Glasslough, county Moneghan, Ireland, but was originally from Scotland. He was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1735, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1792. He had a highly distinguished ca- reer. He was a member of the Provincial Council which met in Philadelphia, January 23, 1775. He was a member of the committee of safety from Chester county in 1776. Was appointed captain of the First Company, Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Troops, Anthony Wayne, Colonel, January 5, 1776. At Ticonder- oga, September 25, 1776, he was appointed major by General Gates. On March 12, 1777, he was promoted and appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Penn- sylvania Regiment. He was with the army on Long Island, May, 1776, at Ticon- deroga, July, 1776. In 1777 was with the troops in New Jersey and at the bat- tle of Brandywine, September II, 1777. He was captured September 16, 1777, and held a prisoner of war in Philadelphia until March 17, 1778, when he es- caped. He was appointed clothier general to the army, but declined the position. April 1, 1780, he was appointed commissioner of purchase under Quartermaster General Nathaniel Greene. On May 25, 1781, he was elected one of four brigadier-generals, ranking as second. In civil affairs General Frazer held many important positions. On January 25, 1775, he was one of a committee to draft a petition to the Pennsylvania General Assembly praying for the manumission of slaves. March 22, 1781, he was appointed treasurer for Chester county, Pennsyl- vania; October 15, 1781, he was elected to represent Chester county in the Gen- eral Assembly of Pennsylvania, and October 12, 1782, was re-elected. June 16, 1786, the Supreme Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appointed him one of the justices of Chester County Court of Common Pleas. The same year he was appointed register of wills and recorder, a position he held until his death. He was a charter member of the first lodge of Free Masons organ- ized in Chester county, Pennsylvania. His wife was Mary Worrall Taylor, whom he married, October 2, 1766. She died May 23, 1862. The children of General Persifor Frazer were: 1. Sarah, born January II, 1769. 2. Robert, August 30, 1771. 3. Mary Ann, February 17, 1774 (Mrs. Jonathan Smith). 4. Persifor, February 26, 1776, died in childhood. 5. Martha, May 22, 1778, died in childhood. 6. Mary (Mrs. Joseph Smith). 7. John, December 27, 1781, died in childhood. 8. Martha, October 14, 1783 (Mrs. William Morris). 9. Elizabeth, May 17, 1786, died in childhood. 10. Elizabeth, December 17, 1788 (Mrs. Henry Myers).
GEORGE BARTLESON BENNERS
GEORGE BARTLESON BENNERS, of Philadelphia, born in that city, March 14, 1864, is a son of George Washington Benners, who was born in Philadelphia, Feb- ruary 8, 1829, died there April 11, 1870, by his wife, Anna Margaret (Baker) Benners, born in Philadelphia, January 25, 1834, died there February 9, 1908, and grandson of Captain George Benners, who was a sea captain during the War of 1812, and his wife, Sarah (Wayman) Benners.
Michael Baker, great-grandfather of Anna Margaret (Baker) Benners, born in Germany in 1720, came to Philadelphia in 1752, and soon after that date mar- ried Mary Scull. Both he and his son, Michael Baker, Jr., were soldiers in the Philadelphia Company of Artillery during the Revolution, and saw active ser- vice in the cause of American Independence.
Michael Baker, Jr., son of Michael and Mary (Scull) Baker, born in Phila- delphia, February 1, 1758, died there January 24, 1834. As above stated he was a private in the Artillery Company of Philadelphia Militia during the Rev- olution. He married Jane Nice, born July 8, 1763, died November 2, 1830, daugliter of Captain John Nice, who was born in Germantown, January 29, 1739. He was commissioned ensign in the Colonial service, May 5, 1760, and pro- moted to rank of lieutenant, October 14, 1763, and saw active service in the last conflict with the French on American soil. He was commissioned a captain in Colonel Samuel J. Atlee's Pennsylvania Battalion, Continental Line, March 15, 1776, and was taken prisoner at the disastrous battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. He, however, escaped long confinement in the loathsome prisons that was the lot of so many of the American soldiers taken at this battle, being ex- changed December 9, 1776. He participated in the organization of State Regi- ment of Foot, and served as a captain in that regiment, under Colonel Walter Stewart during 1777, and with the old Thirteenth Regiment, under which name the State Regiment of Foot was transferred to the Continental Line, took part in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. He was transferred to the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, July I, 1778, and served with that regiment until the close of the war. He died in Nicetown, Bristol township, Philadelphia county, in February, 1794. He married, in 1762, Sarah Engle, and had children : John, Jane, Mary and Ann.
Captain John Nice was a son of Anthony Nice, and a grandson of Hans de Neus who with his wife Janneke came from Holland, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and settled in what is still known as Nicetown, in what was long known as Bristol township, Philadelphia county. He was a native of France who fled to Holland to escape religious persecution, and there married a Dutch woman, and came to Pennsylvania. He died at Nicetown in 1736, and his widow Janneke died there in 1742. Anthony above mentioned was their third son.
Joseph Baker, father of Anna Margaret (Baker) Benners, was a son of Michael Baker, Jr., and his wife, Jane Nice, and was born December 30, 1797,
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died March 20, 1872. He married Anna Margaret Weaver, born June 2, 1804, died December 2, 1878.
GEORGE BARTLESON BENNERS was educated at the Episcopal Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in class of '88. He entered the law department of the Uni- versity, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of laws. In 1902 he entered the service of the Pennsylvania railroad, real estate department, where he has since held a responsible position. Mr. Benners married, November 15, 1894, Sara, daughter of Thomas F. and Susan J. (Haywood) Wright, and they have one son, Archibald Bartleson Benners, born April 12, 1897.
ANDREW FINE DERR
The Derr Family, whose name was originally spelled Dörr, is of German origin, at least twenty-five different families bearing that name having landed at Philadelphia, from emigrant ships plying from Rotterdam to that port, between the years 1727 and 1760, the heads of which were duly qualified as subjects of the British crown, in accordance with the Act of Pennsylvania Assembly passed in 1727.
JOHAN HEINRICH DORR, aged twenty-three years, landed at Philadelphia from the ship "Loyal Judith", Captain James Cowie, and took the required test oath, September 3, 1742. He evidently followed the trend of German migration, up the Schuylkill, and its eastern tributary the Perkiomen, and settled in Upper Sal- ford township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, where we find him a resident, a few years after his arrival in Pennsylvania. This was the point from which the German pioneers pushed over the line into Milford township, Bucks county, spreading thence eastward and northward, until they had settled all the northern townships of Bucks county and the adjoining parts of Northampton. This movement, beginning about the middle of the eighteen century, carried with it Johan Heinrich Dorr, and we find him a resident of Upper Milford township, now Lehigh county, which until 1752 was a part of Bucks county, when it be- came part of Northampton county, and was incorporated into Lehigh in 1813. He became an elder of the "Old Swamp Church" in that township, now known as Trinity Reformed Church, and lived and died in that section.
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