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HISTORY OF RERKS COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA.
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He has been a member of the School Board of the township in which he lives for twelve years, and was president three years and treasurer three years. In 1864 he was elected county commissioner and during his term of three years was instrumental in erecting ten county bridges, and the extension of the Berks County Prison at Reading. He was married, March 22, 1846, to Florinda Bieber. Their children are William B., now living at Kutztown, married
Since 1864 Mr. Stein has been a member of the F. and A. M. The faithful wife and loving mother died in November, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Stein joined the Reformed Church at Grimsville at an early day and he is still a consistent member.
COLONEL DANIEL B. GRIM, is the son of Jonathan Grim, whose father emigrated from Alsace, Germany. The former married Cath- erine H. Bertolett and resided in Maxatawny
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to Emma Kisler, by whom he has had three chil- dren ; Isaac B., married to Delilah Sechler, by whom he has two children (they live on the homestead) ; Sally Ann, married William D. Dietrich; and died in 1870, leaving one son ; Lewis Adam, married to Sally Ann Miller (they have two children and are now living at Kutztown ; Malara also married William D. Dietrich, and have four children (she died November, 1881); and Lenora Amanda, who died September, 1880, aged twenty-two years.
township, Berks County. Their only son, Dan- iel B., is the subject of this biographical sketch. He married, a second time, Elizabeth Snyder, and had children,-Joshua, Jonathan and Mary (Mrs. Faber). Daniel B. was born on the 17th of July, 1800, in Maxatawny town- ship, and after a common-school education re- ceived in New Jersey and elsewhere, entered the tannery of his father for the purpose of be- coming master of the trade of a tanner and currier. He continued to follow this trade, and
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in 1824 purchased the property, together with a distillery and farm adjacent to it, and conducted the business at Grimsville, Berks County, Pa. He was, in 1819, married to Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Krause, of Skippack- ville, Montgomery County. Their children are Mary (deceased), Jonathan K., Daniel P., Charles A. K., Catherine (Mrs. William Stet- ler), Amelia (Mrs. William Breinig), Charlotte (deceased), Susan (Mrs. Charles Dietrich) and Sarah. Daniel P. is engaged in the tanning business at Grimsville, Greenwich township ; Jonathan K. is a wholesale grocer at Reading ; and Charles A. K. is a farmer at Topton, Max- atawny township. Mr. Grim, after his mar- riage, engaged in various business pursuits and brought to bear in each bis accustomed sagacity and energy. He was much interested in the cause of education and one of the first to sup- port the public schools of the township when they received great opposition from citizens and tax-payers. In all efforts to advance the inter- ests of the community he was a leading spirit. In politics he was an Old-Line Whig. In early life he gave much attention to military matters, and held a commission as colonel in the State militia. He died March 6, 1883. His wife died November 24, 1882.
TULPEHOCKEN SECTION.
Tulpehocken section comprises the upper west_ ern portion of the county. It takes its name from the large stream which drains three-fourths of its territory. The name is an Indian word, which signifies " Land of Turtles."
STREAMS .- Nature could not have marked out a conrse for this stream which would have been better adapted to the territory in point of locality. It rises in Lebanon County, a short distance west of Myerstown, and enters this section very nearly at the central point of its western line; thence it flows northeastwardly about thirteen miles to a point near Bernville, where a branch, the North- kill, has its outlet, and thence southeastwardly the same distance to the Schuylkill. It flows through the central portion of Marion to the east- ern border, and thence it forms the boundary line
between Marion on the east and Heidelberg on the west, Heidelberg North on the north and Jef- ferson on the south, and Penn on the southwest, and Heidelberg Lower and Spring on the north, and Bern on the south. Its importance in this particular was naturally appreciated when the ter- ritory was subdivided. The North-kill, a branch, flows southwardly from the Blue Mountain, a length of ten miles, and forms the boundary line between Penn and Bern Upper on the west, and Jefferson and Tulpehocken Upper on the east. Through the northwestern portion the little Swa- tara flows from the Blue Mountain into Leb- anon County a length of fourteen miles, and forms the boundary line between Bethel on the south and east, Tulpehocken on the north and Tulpehocken Upper on the west. This section is thns admira- bly subdivided by the streams named into four sub- divisions, each of which was a township by itself when the county was erected.
The principal branches of the Tulpehocken are the following : Three flowing into it from the north-Mill, North-kill and Plum. North-kill de- rives its name from its locality, and Plum Creek from the numerous wild plum trees which grew along its banks; and two flowing into it from the south-Spring (which rises in a large crystal spring near Robesonia) and Cacoosing. The length of the Tulpehocken and these branches is about seventy-five miles. It is the longest stream in the county. The eastern portion of the section is drained principally by the Irish Creek (eight miles long) and Mill Creek (six miles long) into the Schuylkill. The total length of all the streams in the district is over one hundred miles.
The Blue Mountain forms the northern bound- ary line. In the interior part there is a considera- ble area of elevated land, which consists of rolling hills covered with woods. "Scull's Hill " is the only portion worthy of special mention. It extends from Centre, through Penn into Jefferson, a length of about ten miles.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS .- This district is in- tersected by numerous roads. There are three which are especially prominent. The " Berks and Dauphin Turnpike," which extends westwardly from Reading via Sinking Spring, through Heidel- berg Lower, Heidelberg and Marion, to the county
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line, a length of thirteen 1 miles. This comprises the bed. of the " Old Tulpehocken Road " which was petitioned for and laid out in 1727. Subse- quently this road to Middletown (Womelsdorf) and thence north westwardly via Godfrey Roehrer's, through Tulpehocken and Bethel, across the Blue Mountain and along the Mahanoy Creek to the Susquehanna, was established by an act of As- sembly.
The "State Road " extends across the upper por- tion several miles south of the Blue Mountain from Lebanon County line to the Schuylkill at Hamburg, a length of twenty-two miles. And the " Bernville Road " extends northwestwardly from Reading via Bernville to Millersburg, in Bethel, a length of twenty-three miles.
The Union Canal extends through the section along the upper bank of the Tulpehocken Creek from a point in Bern about a mile and a quarter above the mouth of the creek to the county line, a length of about twenty-five miles.
The Lebanon Valley Railroad extends westward- ly from Reading via Sinking Spring, through Hei delberg Lower, Heidelberg and the lower cor- ner of Marion to county line, a distance of ten 1 miles.
Before 1729 the whole section was known as Tulpehocken. At the time of the erection of the county, in 1752, it comprised four townships-Tul- pehocken, Heidelberg, Bern and Bethel. Subse- quently eight townships were erected by subdivision -Bern Upper, Tulpehocken Upper, Penn, Centre, Heidelberg Lower, Marion, Heidelberg North and Jefferson.
TULPEHOCKEN TOWNSHIP.
ERECTION OF TOWNSHIP .- The township of Tul- pehocken was a recognized district of territory be fore 1729, when it became part of Lancaster Coun- ty. It was organized whilst a portion of Chester County. Then it extended from the Schuylkill River on the east to Lebanon township (doubtless limited by the stream called Little Swatara) on the west, and from the Blue Mountain on the north to the Cacoosing Creek (possibly Wyomissing Creek)
on the south. I could not find any order of court in either Chester or Lancaster Counties establish- ing the boundary line of the township. The name of the township was taken from the stream.
In July, 1707, a French Indian trader named Nicole was arrested by order of the Governor, on account of great complaints against him at a vil- lage called Peixtan, on the Susquehanna, and ta- ken by way of Tulpehocken and Manatawny to Philadelphia. Nicole was mounted upon a horse with his legs tied under the horse's helly. This is the earliest mention of these names in the colonial records."
When Lancaster County was erected the Indi- ans still claimed this territory as a part of their possessions. In 1718 they had released their rights to a large district to Penn, but the upper bounda- ry was the Lechay Hills (South Mountain). Im- migration was, however, carried forward with such energy that the immigrants extended their move- ments and settlements beyond the limit of Penn's purchase. ' The first settlement was effected by certain Germans, about 1723. The Indians ob- served this trespass upon their lands, hut made no complaint. Five years afterward another colony of Germans entered. The Indians then (June 5, 1728), carried information of these trespasses to Philadelphia, and laid it before the Provincial Council.
In June, 1728, Sassoonan, with certain Indians, vistied Philadelphia and held a conference with the Lieutenant-Governor and the Executive Coun- cil, in the presence of a vast audience that fill d the house and all its galleries-this being in refer- ence to the extent of lands sold and released in 1718. The Indians thought that the settlers be- yond the Lechay Hills along the Tulpehocken were trespassers, and it was admitted that the Tulpe- hocken lands lay beyond the release of 1718. Sas- soonan said he could not himself believe the Chris- tians had settled on them till he came and with his own eyes saw the houses and fields they had made there. Logan said that he was sensible the Pala- tines were settled there, but without the consent or knowledge of the commissioners; and he then ex- plained how they came hither, and read the fol lowing petition, which the Palatines had addressed
1 Not including distance through Spring township.
22 Col. Rec., 405.
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to the Governor and Council, in the handwriting of the Governor's secretary. It was as follows :
"The petition of ns, the subscribers, being thirty- three families in number,-at present inhabiting Tul- paheca1 creek,-humbly sheweth,-
"That your petitioners, being natives of Germany, about fifteen years ago, were by the great goodness and royal bounty of her late majesty, Queen Anne, relieved from the hardships which they then suf- fered in Europe, and were transported into the colony of New York, where they settled. But their families increasing, and being in that government confined to the scanty allowance often acres of land to each fam- ily, whereon they could not well subsist, your peti- tioners, being informed of the kind reception which their countrymen usually met with in the Province of Pennsylvania, and hoping they might, with what sub- stance they had, acquire larger settlements in that province, did last year2 leave their settlements in New York government and came with their families into this province, where, upon their arrival, they applied themselves to his excellency, the Governor, who of his great goodness permitted them to inhabit upon Tulpahaca creek (being the farthest inhabited part of the province northwest from Philadelphia) on con- dition that they should make full satisfaction to the proprietor or his agents for such lands as should be allotted them when they were ready to receive the same. And now your petitioners, understanding that some gentlemen, agents of the proprietor, have ample powers to dispose of lands in this province, and we, your petitioners, being willing and ready to purchase, do humbly beseech your excellency and council to recommend us to the favorable usage of the proprie- tor's agent, that upon paying the usual prices for lands at such distance from Philadelphia, we may have sufficient rights and titles made to us for such lands as we shall have occasion to buy, that our chil- dren may have some settlement to depend on hereaf- ter, and that by your authority we may be freed from the demands of the Indians of that part of the coun- try, who pretend a right thereto. And we humbly beg leave to inform your excellency and council that there are fifty families more who, if they may be admitted upon the same conditions, are desirous to come and settle with us. We hope for your favorable answer to this, our humble request, and as in duty bound, shall ever pray, etc." 3
It was hoped that this explanation would be sat- isfactory. The Indians had complained and they were answered ; and they were asked not to offer the settlers any violence, but to wait till such time
as the matter could be adjusted. This proceeding, however, could not stop immigration into this ter- ritory. The Germans continued to enter and take up and improve the land. Finally, in 1732, the Indians sold the lands in the entire valley and re- moved beyond the Blue Mountain.
The following interesting details about these German first settlers in the Tulpehocken Valley are submitted in this connection :
"Of the large number of Germans who went to Eng- land in 1708 and 1709, 10,000 died for want of suste- nance, medical attendance &c., and 7000 returned to their native country, after having suffered great pri- vations, half naked and in great despondency. Some of the survivors were transported to English Colonies in America. Ten sails of vessels were freighted with upward of 4000 Germans for New York. They em- barked 25th December 1709, and arrived at New York June 14, 1710. On the inward passage, and immedi- ately upon landing, 1700 died. The survivors en- camped in tents-which they had brought with them -on Nutting [now Governor's] Island. Here they remained until late in autumn, when about 1400 re- moved to Livingston Manor, 100 miles up the Hudson River.
"Those who settled on the Hudson River were under indenture to serve Queen Anne, as grateful subjects, to manufacture tar and raise hemp, in order to repay the expenses of their transportation and cost of sub- sistence to the amount of £10,000, which had been ad- vanced by Parliamentary grant. This experiment proved a complete failure.
The Germans, having been unjustly oppressed, be- came dissatisfied with their treatment and situation. Governor Hunter resorted to violent measures to se- cure obedience to his demands, without success. One hundred and fifty families left late in the autumn of 1712-to escape the certainty of famishing-for Schoharie Valley, some 60 miles northwest of Living- ston Manor. They had no open road; no horses to carry or haul their baggage-this they loaded on rudely constructed sleds, which they tugged them- selves through a three feet deep snow ; their way was through an unbroken forest. It took them three full weeks. At Schoharie they improved the lands which Queen Anne had granted to them. They remained about ten years; then, owing to some defect in their titles, they were deprived of lands and improvements. In the spring of 1723 thirty-three families removed to Pennsylvania, and settled in Tulpehocken, some fifteen miles west of the Schuylkill River.4
"Among these families there were the following :5
Johannes Lantz.
Sebastian Pisas.
George Rieth. Peter Rieth.
1 Tulpehocken.
2 1727. Rupp says that it was in the spring of 1728.
33 Col. Rec., 318-33.
+ Rupp's " 30,000 Immigrants," p. 5.
5 Ibidem, p. 465,
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TOWNSHIPS OF COUNTY.
Gottfried Fitler.
Andreas Walborn.
Conrad Schuetz.
Johan N. Schaeffer.
Antonius Scharf.
Lorentz Zerbe.
Johannes Rieth.
Sebastian Fischer.
Joseph Saab.
Johan Peter Pacht.
Christian Lauer. Johann Adam Lesch.
George Anspach.
"In 1728 other families left Schoharie, and settled here also. Among these there were :
Leonard Anspach. Casper Hohn.
Georg Zeh.
Johannes Noecker.
Johan Jacob Holsteiner. Michael Lauer.
Andreas Kapp. Jacob Werner. Johan Philip Schneider. Jacob Katterman.
Jacob Löwengut. Heinrich Six.
Philip Theis. Conrad Scharf.
George Schmidt.
" In 1729, Conrad Weiser left Schoharie with his wife and five children [Philip, Fred'k, Anna, Madlina and Maria] and settled near the present site of Womels- dorf, one mile east of the town."
There was a Lutheran Church in this district as early as 1727 ; for in September, 1727, a petition was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions, at Philadelphia, asking for a road to be laid out from the Lutheran meeting house at Tulpehocken Creek to the high road at the Quaker meeting house, near the mill of George Boone, in Oley. Viewers were then appointed, but they laid out the road only to the Schuylkill River.1
In 1731, John Peter Miller2 became the pastor of the Reformed Church at Tulpehocken, and he preached to the Reformed people of this place for four years. [Dubbs' " History Man'l of Reformed Church," p. 176.]
During that time Conrad Beissel, a leader of the " German Baptists," visited Miller, who received him as an Angel of the Lord, was immersed and became a member of the brotherhood. Beissel made other converts here ; among them was Conrad Weiser and three elders of the Reformed Church. But Weiser soon disagreed with this denomination and withdrew from them. Miller lived for a time as a hermit in Tulpehocken and then became the most active member of this fraternity. [Dubbs' "History Refd. Ch.," p. 184.]
MANOR OF PLUMTON .- The proprietaries of Pennsylvania, on the 17th of September, 1735, by
letters patent,3 granted and conveyed to John Page a large tract of land, situated in the town- ship of Tulpehocken, which contained 5165 acres,4 and they erected the same into a " Manor," adding and providing in said patent: "And the said pro- prietaries do erect the said described tract of land into a Manor, and name it the Manor of Plumton, and they do further give and grant to the said John Page, and to his heirs and assigns, full power and authority to erect and constitute within said manor a COURT BARON with all things what- soever which to a Court Baron do belong."
Two of the adjoining land-owners were William Allen and Gulielma (Wilhelmina) Maria Fell. Most of the land surrounding was described as vacant.
In 1743, Page's attorney-in-fact conveyed a part of this manor, 347} acres, including the privileges of the Court Baron, to Conrad Weiser, Esq. The manor was not held together, and the Court Baron was not established. The entire area was sold off to sundry.settlers in Tulpehocken and Heidelberg townships.
In this township a manor was set apart for the use of the proprietaries, containing over two thou- sand acres. It was called " Tulpehocken Manor." But I could not ascertain any definite information respecting it.5
TAXABLES OF 1759 .- The following list com- prised the taxables of the township in 1759. Michael Forrer was the collector of taxes. The tax levied amounted to £143 5s. 6d. The township then included all the territory bounded on the north by Blue Mountain, on the east by the Northkill, on the southeast by the Tulpehocken, on the northwest by the Little Swatara, and on the southwest by the boundary line of Lancaster County. Subsequently three other townships were formed out of portions of this territory, namely : Tulpehocken Upper in 1820, Marion in 1843, and Jefferson in 1851. The list including the tax- ables for all this territory, no separate lists will be added for the three townships named.
1 See Marion Township -- " Churches."
2 .He came to America in 1730 under the auspices of the church authorities of Heidelberg.
8 Recorded at Philadelphia in Pat. Bk. vol. vii. p. 264.
+ Tract extended across Tulpehocken Creek into Heidel- berg township. It was surveyed in 1734.
5 The draft of this manor is with the Historical Society of Penna., at Philadelphia, in book entitled " Berks County."
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Etschberger, Jacob. 14
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Fischer, Jacob. 18
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Ginter, Michael 20
Gertner, Geo. 3 8
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Reed, Leouard, Jr. 5
Hubler, Jacob 8 Reed, Mich'l. 10
Han, John
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Harberger, Michael.
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Hlaak, Nicholas. 4
Hackmen, Peter
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Anspach, John.
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Snehely, John
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Sherman, Jacob.
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Schwartz, Ludwig.
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Schaeffer, Mich'l.
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Stupp, Martin,
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Smith, Matthias
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Keiser, Wilheln.
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Bower, Thomas
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Christ, Geo. 1
Dieffenbach, Adam 17
Diseler, Anthony 4 Lebegut, Jacob. 12
D'Hei, Charles. 4
Dundore, Jacob
10
Derr, Joet 4
Debelor, Melchior 9 Lederman, Jacob. 10
Dissler, Melchior 3
Decker, Michael 4
Laucke, Peter
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Meyer, John
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Milleigen, Jacob
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Schaeffer, John.
Fisher, Martin.
Schaeffer, Abram.
Heherling, Adam.
Heberling, Jacob.
Toner, Jolin.
Kaercher, Godfried.
Wolf, Daniel.
Knoll, Valentine.
Wann, W.
Leamor, Leonard.
Wolfart, Christopher.
Merkle, Dieter.
Weiser, .Jacob.
NEW TOWNSHIP REFUSED .- In November, 1844, a petition signed by one hundred and thirty subscribers was presented to court praying for the erection of a new township out of parts of Tulpehocken, Upper Tulpehocken and Mar ion townships; and Matthias S. Richards, Sam-
Siugle Men.
Allenbach, Daniel.
Meier, Geo.
Andes, Fred'k.
Meier, Phillp.
Albert, John.
Redebach, Henry.
Brown, Martin.
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Jordan, Adam
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Weis, John
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Zerbe, Henry
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Lenig, Thoe.
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Reed, Jacob
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Hassinger, Herman.
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Holtzman, Henry
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Heberling, John.
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Rice, Mich'!
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Rice, Mich'l & Co. 15
Reed, Peter.
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Ritzman, Peter
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Anspach, Leonard.
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Kuntz, Michi
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Kreiger, Peter
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Bortner, Jacob
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Brosine, Nicholas
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Brown, Philip, Sr
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Laucke, Abram
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Love, Jacob
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Lub, Ludwig.
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Bressler, Simon
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Reiner, Peter
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Bickler, John
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Run, John
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