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Twenty years or more before his death he laid the foundations of the town named in his honor. The earliest mention of the hamlet which has grown into the city of Allentown is under date of 1761. In De- cember of that year a petition was presented to the court of Northampton County for " a road from Jacob Collier's ( Kohler's) mill to Philadelphia, to begin at said mill; thence to Gottfried Knows'; thence through the new Town which is built on Mr. Allen's lund ; thence to Upper Saneon, to the King's Road." It is probable that the merest embryo of the town was then in existence. The next mention in the old records is ! slightly contradictory to the first. It occurs also in a petition regarding a road, and is under date of March, 1762. Divers inhabitants of Whitehall township "set forth that the petitioners are in great need of a road to lead from Jacob Collier's mill to a new town to be erected on part of a traet of land belonging to the Ilonorable William Allen, and thence the nearest and best way to the King's Highway leading from Phila- delphia to Bethlehem," and asked the court to appoint viewers. Under date of June 22, 1762, a report was made by a committee appointed in the preceding
March, in which they said, "We, the subseribers, do hereby certify that, in pursuance of an order of this court of March term last past, we did view and ly out a certain road leading from Whitehall town- ship to the new town called Northampton, and from thence by a marked black-oak sapling standing by the road that leads from Salisbury to Upper Saucon township, close by the line of said township. Begin- ning at a road that leads from Trueker's mill to Phil- adelphia; thenee south . . . to George Knows'; thence south to Jordan Creek ; thence sonth . . . down said ereek ; thence south . . . across said creek ; thence east to Northampton town ; thence down Allen Street ; . . . thence north . : . to a corner; thence south . . .; thence south to Little Lehi," crossing that stream and Tront Creek, and so on to the terminus already men- tioned. In this we have the first mention of the town by name, and the first mention of a street laid out.
James Allen platted that part of the present town between Fourth and Tenth Streets, and an equal dis- tance north from the Little Lehigh. Hamilton Street was doubtless named after Governor Andrew Hamil- ton, one of whose daughters, as we have shown, was James Allen's mother. What is now Seventh Street was originally Allen. Linden was then Andrew, Walnut was John, Fourth was Tilghman, Fifth was Margaret, Sixth was William, Eighth was James, Ninth was Anne, and Tenth was Jefferson. Turner was doubtless named after Joseph Turner, the original owner of one of the Allen tracts of land. The town plat was interseeted by two roads of common travel, the first of which was the road from Easton to Reading. a link in the old-time New York and Pittsburgh route, now Union and Jackson Streets, and a road from Bake-Oven Knob, past Helfrich's Springs, forming what are now Seventh and Allen Streets.
It does not appear that the proprietor ever became a resident of the town which he laid out, nor were his descendants (daughters) among the first settlers. However, they lived here later for quite a number of years, and for the sake of convenience we speak of them in this connection. Ann Penn Allen (Nancy) married James Greenleaf, an Englishman resident in Washington, and a land surveyor. She resided here, and died at the house upon the southeast corner of Hamilton and Fifth Streets. Margaret Elizabeth Allen married William Tilghman, whose great popu- larity is attested by the number of children named after him from fifty to seventy years ago. Mrs. Tilgh- man died here in her twenty-seventh year, and is buried under the German Lutheran Church. Mary, youngest daughter of James Allen, married Ilenry Walter Livingston, and was the mother of Walter C. Livingston, who took a prominent part in the affairs of the town for many years, but removed from here to Philadelphia more than a quarter-century since. James, the only son of the founder of the town, died in his minority before 1798.
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to the Allentown, or rather Northampton, of 1762, we can find but little to say of the infant settlement. It is probable that not more than a half-dozen houses were built during that year. The season was one of great drought. From May to September no rain fell. The grass was withered in August, and the grain withered so that it scarcely yielded as much as had been put into the ground. Rye was harvested in June and corn in August, as life was gone and it was useless to wait longer.' It is not to be wondered at that the prosperity of the new village should be slight during a season of universal want in the surrounding country.
One of the causes of the slow growth of the new town was doubtless the alarmed state of what were practically the frontier settlements on account of Indian hostilities. Murders were committed in Whitehall in 1763, and the greatest uneasiness was felt throughout the country. The state of feeling in Allentown was such that on one Sunday, as Rev. Joseph Roth was preaching, he ceased, and a military company was organized, largely through his efforts.2
There was no attack made upon the town, and no harm came to any of the people in its immediate neighborhood. This same year (1763) the few people who were in the place showed their enterprising spirit by making great exertions to have the seat.of justice removed here. The cause of their failure was doubt- less the fact that Easton was the private property of the Penns, and their superior interest retained it.
The first notice of Northampton in the assessment list oceurs in 1764, when the taxable inhabitants numbered twelve, as follows : Leonard Able, laborer; Simon Brenner, carpenter; David Deshler, shop- keeper and beer-shop; Martin Derr, wheelwright; Martin Fraclich, George Leyendecker, George Lauer, Daniel Nonnemacher, Abraham Rinker, Peter Schwab, George Wolf, tavern-keeper. In 1765 six names were added, viz .: Tobias Titus, baker; Lorentz Hauch, butcher; Frantz Kuper, cooper; Philip Kugler, ma- son ; Philip Klingenschmidt, and Frederick Schach- ler, who united the avocations of shoemaker and in- keeper.
In 1766 the families numbered thirty three. Among the new-comers was Dr. Gottfried Bolzins, the first physician of the town. His practice of medicine was ' doubtless insufficient for his support, or at least did not ocenpy all of his time, for he purchased David Deshler's shop and beer-house. Governor James Hamilton lived here for a time about this period to get cured of a cancer, and he was doubtless Dr. Bolzius' most distinguished patient.
Most prominent among the settlers whom we have mentioned was David Deshler, son of Adam Deshler, who had settled about 1733 in Whitehall township. Soon after he came here he purchased the mill prop-
erty on the Little Lehigh from Michael Rothrock, and in 1782 he owned four houses and lots in Allen- town. In 1780, when slavery was abolished in Penn- sylvania, he owned two negroes. He was undoubtedly the richest man of his time in the village, and he was one of the most influential. On Oct. 17, 1763, at the time of the Indian troubles, Col. James Burd, who was then here, wrote that there were but four guns in the town, and three of them were umfit for nse ; pre- sumably that one belonged to Deshler. He became during the Revolutionary war one of the most promi- nent characters in Northampton County. He acted as commissary of supplies for the army, and with John Arndt, Esq., also a commissary, advanced money out of his private means in 1780, when the United States treasury as well as that of the State of Penn- sylvania was empty. The latter part of his life was passed at Biery's Bridge (now Catasauqua), where he lived in a double stone house. He owned a large property, including the land on which a large part of the borough has been built. He had several sons, among them Adam, commonly called Han Adam, who settled at Easton and raised a family, including David W. and George Deshler. His daughters were Mrs. Christian Mickley and Mrs. John Wagner.
Another family here among the very earliest set- tlers was that of the Rinkers. Abraham Rinker was the first keeper of the ferry over the Lehigh, estab- lished soon after 1753. He was a lieutenant in the force raised in 1763 to resist Indian encroachments and barbarities, and he became a captain in the Revo- lutionary army. He was a representative of Northamp- ton County in the Legislature and also sheriff. His son Abraham was in the war of 1812, and was the representative of Lehigh County in 1816. He died Oct. 29, 1820, aged sixty-five years. Christian Rinker, probably the father of Abraham (1st), was elected one of the commissioners of Northampton County in 1753.
A third family among the first settlers of which some information is attainable, as descendants -till live here, was that of the Nonnemachers. Daniel Nonnemacher appears on the assessment list of fot. He was pre- sumably the father of Heury, a weaver, whose son- were Henry, John, and George. The second son, John, who died in 1850, was the father of John Non- neniacher, who now lives on Lehigh Street. Many representatives of this family now reside in Allen- town.
The Rhoads (or Roth) family was also here as early as 1768, though they are not mentioned in the assess- ment list. Several members of this family attained distinction locally, The first of the family in Lehigh County, who spelled his name Roth, was a Swiss, and came to Whitehall township about 1735. Before the family had proenred a home he died, under a large oak-tree near the Jordan, by what is now known as the Mauch Chunk road. He left, two sons, -Daniel, twelve years old ( whose descendants still live in White-
1 Reminiscences of an early resident in The Friedensbote, July 7, 1831. " See Chapter 11. for an account of this proceeding.
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hall), and Peter, born on the day of his father's death. There were at that time two shop-keepers, George Graff and Philip Boehm; one potter, Abraham Albert; one mason, James Preston ; one doctor, Gottfried Bolzius; one hatter, Peter Berger; one wheelwright, Joseph Derr ; one smith, Martin Froe- lich ; three shoemakers, Henry Gross, Philip Klotz, and George Schreiber; three tailors, Andrew Gang- were, Peter Miller, and Abraham Savitz; one tobae- conist, Peter Keiper; one saddler, Peter Linn; one gunsmith, John Moll; four carpenters, Jacob New- hart, Jacob Nonnemacher, John Miller, Jr., and Dewalt Miller; and one butcher, Michael Nagel. Some of these men were the founders locally of prominent families, of which there are still repre- sentatives in the city. Peter was reared among the Quakers, where he learned tailoring, obtained a good English edneation, and was induced to change the spelling of his name to Rhoads. He removed to Northampton, and in 1784 built the stone house still standing on Seventh Street, north of the Pennsylvania Hotel. He was elected justice of the peace and of the courts of Northampton County in 1784, and associate judge in 1791, 1806, and 1809, and was chosen to the same office in Lehigh County. He had also been a member of the Legis- Jature from Northampton County in 1777-79. He died there in 1814. His eldest son, George ( who died in Allentown in 1851), had a son, Josiah, who kept a hotel here for many years. Some of his descendants now reside in this city. Peter (second son of Peter) was an associate judge of Northampton County, and was the first burgess of Allentown, in 1811, and the first president of the Northampton Bank, in 1814. He died here in 1836. His sons were Stephen, Edward, and Augustus, all now dead. Two daughters still live in Allentown, and also some of Stephen's children. The third son of Peter Rhoads, Sr., was John, who also lived in Allentown until 1812. He then removed to the banks of the Jordan, near where his grand- father died, and lived there till 1887. He moved then to a farm near Egypt Church, where he died in 1851. His sons were George, now deceased; Daniel J., of Coplay ; Mahlon, a resident of Allentown; and Owen, of Upper Milford. The sons of Daniel J. are Erastus D., who lives in North Whitehall ; Walter B., in Al- . term of Sheriff Kleutz, who died, and in 1817, '18, '19, lentown ; and Robert, in Whitehall.
Jaeob Newhard, whose avocation is put down as that of a carpenter, was the father of Peter Newhard, one of the most distinguished men in the county. Jacob and his wife Mary (Kohler) were both born in North Whitehall township in 1752, and they mar- ried and settled in Allentown in 1773. Their first son, Abraham, was born in 1777, and died in Allen- town, Feb. 28, 1863, aged eighty-six years. Some of his grandchildren now reside here. Peter, who was the second son, was born July 26, 1783, and appren- ticed to a cabinet-maker. Learning the trade, he followed it many years, though later in life he car- ried on the hardware business. He married Sarah Romig in 1810. In 1815 he was elected coroner, sub- sequently served one year as sheriff, filling out the and 1824, '25, '26, '27, 728, '29, he was a member of the State Legislature. Ile was elected State Senator in 1833, and served till 1839, represent- ties. Ile was elected to Congress in 1838, and again in 1810. His death occurred Feb. 19. 1860, He left a son and daughter, the well-known citizen of Allen- town, Edmund R. Newhard (a merchant for many
It is a tradition in the Keiper family that the first of their name here was a settler of 1768; and, doubt- less, the tradition is well founded, though the name |ing Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, and Wayne Coun- does not appear in the assessment list of 17644. John : Keiper, who came here in 1763, lived where Franklin ; Good now resides (on Seventh Street), and was a tobaceonist. He died July 4, 1833. His sons were John, Peter, Daniel, David, and George. Augustus, , years subsequent to 1846, postmaster, and officer of a son of Jolm, and Catharine ( Keck ) and Anna (Seip), | the Fifty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1861-65), and Amanda A. (Mrs, W. C. Smith). daughters of Daniel, now reside in the city. Sarah, the oldest daughter of John Keiper (first), married a' Massey ; Nancy was the wife of John Wagner, a soldier of the war of 1812; Catharine married Capt. John F. Ruhe; and another daughter was the wife of John Haines. Henry Keiper, a brother of John (Ist), was ! in the Revolutionary army, fought at the battle of Germantown, and after the war settled in Allentown. HIe lived on Walnut Street, near Sixth. One of his daughters, Catharine, married Peter Good, and was the mother of Tilghman Good; another, Elizabeth, married Jacob Hagenbuch. John, a son of Henry Keiper, is now represented by a son, Gabriel, who lives in Allentown.
The Hagenbuch family was also represented here as early as 1778, Henry Hagenbuch being licensed in that year to keep a tavern. He was succeeded by Jacob, who was either a son or brother, and he by Jacob (2d), whose sons, Benjamin J. and Charles II., carried on the same house-the "Cross Keys"-in later years. This house was conducted by members of the family for nearly one hundred years. The elder Jacob Hagenbuch died in 1818 and the younger in 1870. Four children of the latter are living,- Benjamin J. and Margneretta ( wife of Rev. Fritzinger) in Allentown, and Charles H. and George in Kansas. Mary (Mrs. John Morey), another daughter, is de- ceased.
In 1776 the number of houses in the town was fifty-four, six of which were taverns, kept by Henry Hagenbueh, Michael Klechner, Nicholas Fuchs, The John Moll who is mentioned as a gunsmith Michael Schroeder, George Weiss, and Philip Klotz. . built the shop on Seventh Street, near the Lafayette
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Honses.
Peter Heitz, Inborer
Lawrence lanek, laborer ......
Peter Horbach, laborer. 1
Henry Hagenbneh, jun-keeper ... 1 Matthew Ringel, smith. 1
Peter Hanek, shormaker .... 1 Abraham Rinker, hatter
1 Christian Shick, laborer
1 George Shreiber (and 25 acres of 1
land
Henry Shade.
Michael Shrader Z
Richard Steer, skin- dresser .. 1
John Spade, laborer .. 7
Joseph Smith, shoemaker. 1
George Weiss, inn-keeper.
Jacob Weiss, lailor.
Joseph Wartiuton, tailor ..
1 Conrad Wormao, 200 acres of
Tand
Frederick Winsch, laborer.
Caspar Weaver, ferry and 80 acres of land ....
Conrad Zettle (200 neres of land and 1 grist-mill)
Jacob Newbard, joiner ..
Yost Dorublaeser, laborer.
Leonard Nagle, laborer.
Elizabeth Allen ... 1
Nicholas Ott, mason
Isune Greenleaf (200acres of land) ..
Philip Killer, laborer.
1.
Adam Turney (90 acres of land) ..
Single Men.
John Widder.
Dawall Young.
Henry Heisser.
John Moor.
Jacob Fink.
Caspar Smith.
George Ad. Blank. Indolph Smith.
John Reesomer. Samuel Greter.
John Gabel. Jacob Kuauss.
Bernhard Kline.
John Smith.
Nearly every family seems to have owned a cow, the enumeration showing one hundred and two, while of horses there were but eight owned in the town.
This list contains the names of some settlers of whom we have not heretofore made any mention. Nicholas Ott, mason, in 1783 bought lot No. 147, on the east side of Margaret (now Fifth) Street, and in 1795 sold it to John Horn, hatter, who was also here in 1782.
Leonard Nagel, mentioned in the list as the owner of two houses, has descendants now residing in Allen- town. His sons were George, Leonard, and John. His daughter, Rebecca, married James Ginkinger. Christiana married Caspar Newhard. She was born in 1790, and died in 1871. Her children were Joseph F. Newhard, the well-known ex-sheriff of Lehigh County, and popular merchant and landlord of Allen- town, William H., Charles, James J., and Solomon P. Nowhard, the two last now residing respectively in Lebanon and Philadelphia.
Conrad Worman, who is mentioned as the owner of two hundred aeres of land, came here from Mont- gomery County shortly prior to 1782, and bought the property including Crystal Springs, from which the city obtains its water-supply. He built a house near the spring, which was in later years occupied by his son Abraham. This son has descendants still in Allentown,-Abraham and Mary (widow of Peter Huber). The other sons of Conrad Worman were Jacob, Henry, Conrad, John, and Andreas. He also had two daughters. Henry Worman married Mary, a daughter of Henry Gross, who settled here prior to 1812. Their son, William, aged seventy-three, lives in Allentown. John is a resident of Emans, and Abra- ham of Whitehall township.
Honses.
Ilanses.
Abraham Albert, potter 1
Martin Frolich
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John Bishop, tailor,
Nichidas Fox, inn-keeper .. 1 George Brenier, shoemaker.
George Gangwere.
Jacob Buchtnau, laborer. 1
Williaut Gall.
George Blank, tailor 1
George Golf.
1
James Preston, mnsou .. 1
Jacob Gows, laborer.
1
Gottfried Bolzins, doctor. 1
Audrew Gnugwere, tailor.
1
Christian Bemper, shoemaker.
1
Frederick Gabel, carpenter. 1
Henry Gross, inn-keeper. E John Dyler, laborer. 1
David Deshler, grist- and saw- mill and 75 neres of latel 1
wright
Barthol Huber, tanner. 1
Michael Erhard, shoemaker
John Horn, hutter
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1 Recorded in Northnumupton Recorder's Office, Book C, vol. i. page 337.
2 For an account of affairs in Allentown during the Revolution, sco Chapter 111., devoted to incidents of the war.
Peter Rhoads, shop-keeper .. 1
George Reeser, laborer ...
Andrew Keel, inn-keeper ... 1
Abraham Henry, skin-dresser. Jacob Huber, shoemaker ....
1
Widow Krumbach, inn-keeper ... Philip Klotz, shoemaker.
Courad Krimibach (and 50 acres of land ) ..
1
Michael Kuntz, joinr.
1
John Keiper, tobacconist ..
Andrew Young, shoemaker. 1 1
Jacob Yeohl.
John Moll, tailor.
Joli Miller, joiner.
1
Peter Miller, tailor.
John Murphy, watch- maker 1
Thomas Mewhorter, tanner.
Henry Nonnemacher, weaver (and 23 acres of land ) ..
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1
Honses. 1
Hotel, where his son, John Moll, died, at the age of ighty seven years, in the summer of 1883, and in which his grandson now carries on the same trade that was established there before the Revolution. The father of John Moll ( Ist), whose name was Wil- liam, was also a gunsmith, and plied his trade as carly as 1747. His great-grandson, William, has an heirloom descended from him, a device for cutting threads on screws, neatly made of iron, and bearing in plainly legible characters the inscription, " April 10, 1747-W. M."
James Allen received ground-rent in 1776 on sey- enty-one lots at nine shillings sterling each. He owned six hundred acres of land, valued at eight pounds per one hundred acres, and his taxes in the aggregate were £9 6s ( provincial).
It seems that James Allen had, as late as 1769, owned a much larger amount of land than he was taxed with in 1776, and had promised to convey to the lot-holders one thousand acres of land in trust, and for some reason, which does not appear, they re- leased him from the obligation, as the following document shows :
"Know all men that we the subscribers proprietors of Lots in the Town of Northampton do hereby certify that Mr. James Allen huth de- clared to us his intention of conveying in Trust for the Inhabitants of this Town a thousand Actes of band called Barreus as an open free commou in pursuance of u promise made by his father William Allen Esqr Now we do hereby certify and make kuown that we the present Freeholders of the said Town do refuse to necept of such couveyance from him and do discharge him and his said father William Allen Esquire from any promise made by either of them to ns to that purpose and we do hereby release to the sind William Allen and James Allen any right or claim that we have or may have to the said common or any demand from them on that account Witness our hands and seals this first day of May 1769 Henry Kookin, Martin Derr, George Shreiber, Peter Miller, Lawrence Hanek, Martin Frolich, Bartle Huber, Simon Brenner, Margairt Brang, Peter Bischoff, George Shap, Abraham Albert, Leonard Abel, Jobaun Miller, Tobias Dibber, Frederick Sheckler, Ma- thias Wagner, Henry Hagenbach, Philip Kugler, David Deshler, Jacob Mohr, and Daniel Nunnemacher, Acknowledgment Taken before Henry Kookin one of the dnstices of the Peace of Northampton Connty May 1st 1769."1
After the Revolution.2-In 1781 the total amount of tax on the inhabitants of Allentown was C73 198. 9d., of which David Deshler paid seven pounds, Barthol Huber three pounds, Thomas Mewhorter two pounds, and all of the others one pound each, or less. The town was then embraced in Salisbury township. In 1782 there were fifty-nine houses here, the ownership of which is indicated in the following assessment list :
Matthew Gangwere, wheel-
Charles Deshler, shop-keeper.
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Barthot Heide, inn-keeper
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Barthol (Bartholomew) Huber, who appears in the list of 1782 as a house-owner and by occupation a tanner, was the grandfather of Peter Huber, for many years one of its most active business men. Huber came from Germany, and lived for a time in Macungie township. His son, Conrad, was born there, and came to Allentown at an early day, living here until his death, at the age of eighty-five. Hle was a saddler, as were also several of his sons. His wife was Margaret Bender. Their sons, Jacob and David, are deceased. Peter, whom we have already mentioned, married as his first wife Anna, a daughter of Abraham Worman, and his second wife, still living, was her sister, Mary. Mr. Huber was heavily engaged in the grain and liquor trade and in transportation prior to 1848, but in the early part of 1884. His sons are among the had five daughters,-Susan ( Mrs. George Kauffman), Elizabeth ( Mrs. Jonathan Schwartz), Christiana ( wife of' Dr. Charles Martin), Mary (wife of Levi Wood- ring), and Hannah.
John Frederick Ruhe was a distinguished arrival of 1796. He was a native of Germany, but for twenty years was a resident of England, and was in the estab- lishment of the king's apothecary. Ile came to America in 1789, the years intervening between that date and 1794 being spent in New York and Phila- delphia. Ile was a physician and a druggist, and ; ocenpied a place of influence in the community. He was a somewhat conspicuous figure from the fact that he always wore "small-clothes,"-the old-fashioned knee-breeches and silk hose. He died here abont 1836, at the age of ninety-seven, and his wife, Hen- rietta Elizabeth (Mackenroth), died at the age of eighty-seven. Their children were John F. Ruhe, George (who died in Philadelphia), Charles A. (who) has sons and daughters now living in Allentown), Catharine Elizabeth (who died unmarried), and Jo- anna Louisa (wife of Henry Ebner). The oldest son, John F. Ruhe, was a captain in the war of 1812 (" Northampton Blues"), cashier of the Northampton Bank, burgess, alderman, associate judge, etc., and es- tablished the tobacco business. He died in 1862. His first wife was Catharine Keiper, and his second Eliz- abeth Kramer. He was the father of twenty-three children, of whom his first wife was the mother of twelve and his second of eleven. Those who attained 1
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