USA > Pennsylvania > Lehigh County > History of the counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Pt. 1 > Part 7
USA > Pennsylvania > Carbon County > History of the counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Pt. 1 > Part 7
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95
ROLL OF CAPT. JOHN F. RUIIE'S COMPANY.
A completo mnster-roll of the Fifth (Capt. Ruhe's) Company of the Second Regiment Volunteer Light Infantry, under the command of Col. Lonis Bache, under tho order of the commandor-in-chief of the com- monwealth of Pennsylvania of 27th August, toil, and attached to the Flat Brigade, Second Division, Pennsyivanla Militla.
Captain.
Ruhe, John F.
First Lieutenant.
Blumer, Jacob.
Ensign.
FatuInger, Solomon.
Sergeants.
Miller, Wiliinm. Dobbins, William.
Kauffman, George. Gangwere, Isaac.
Corporals.
Mofır, Joim. Gangwore, Andrew.
Swander, Daniel. Miller, John.
Drummer.
Kuiper, George.
Kiotz, Joim.
Privates.
Rasor, Benjamin.
Mickley, Jacob.1
Stattler, John.
Biery, Peter. Ilorn, Samnel.
Keichline, Peter
Keiper, Daniel.
Nagle, Leonard.
Derr, Abraham. Balliott, Barthold.
Wcal, John.
. Klotz, Andrew. Mohr, Jacob.
Houck, David.
Stattler, Henry. Keichline, William.
Elmer, Henry.
Ilonck, Jacob.
Gndekunst, Adam.
Spinner, George.
lluber, David.
Hutter, Charles L.
Kciper, William.
Gossler, Jacob.
Ruhe, Charles A.
Wilson, John.
Mertz, Georgo.
Weaver, Charles.
Swenk, Mathias.
Gross, Ileury.
Ilaveracher, George.
Wagner, John.
Keiper, Peter.
Ginkinger, William.
Seip, Jacob.
Reep, Jolın.
Good, Julin.
Reichard, Ilenry.
CAMP MARCUS IlOOK, November 29, 1814.
I do hereby certify, npon honor, that the above is a just and true muster-roll of Capt. Ruhe's company.
JACOB BLUMER, First Lieutenant.
LOUIS BACHE, Colonel First Regiment P. V. I.
ROLL OF CAPT. ABRAHAM GANGWERE'S COMPANY.
Pay-roll of the First Company of riflemen, commanded by Capt. Abra- ham Gangwere, attached to the First Brigade, Second Division, Pennsyl- vania Militia, In the service of the United States, under the command of Brig .- Gen. II. Sporing, Maj .- Gon. Shitz commanding.
Captain.
Gangwere, Abraham.
First Lieutenant.
Moyer, Daniel.
Second Lieutenant.
Newhart, Jacob.
Third Lieutenant.
Stoin, Jacob.
Ensign.
Keller, Adauı.
Sergeants,
Duli, John.
Beidlemen, Abraham. Quear, Jacob.
Quear, Daniel.
Corporals.
Keiper, Abraham.
Bickle, Daniel.
Long, Josephi. Nagel, Joseph.
Keiper, Jacob,
Queur, Daniel.
Privates.
Poyer, Jolın.
Kuntz, Philip.
Daniel, Daniel C.
Hilman, Daniel.
Rose, Joseph.
Ilany, Charles.
Swonk, Jacob.
Kinkinger, James.
Frain, John.
Iloff'nın, l'eter.
Keik, Daniel.
Brobst, Ilenry.
Moyer, Nicholas.
Ilartman, llonry.
Keider, Josoph.
Amthiser, Ilenry.
Rhoads, Danlel.
Fisher, Georgo.
Brobst, Solomon.
Floats, Georgo. Good, Ilenry.
Ott, Jacob,
Moyer, Abraham.
Kentz, George.
Rhoads, John.
Long, Jacob,
Yundt, Jamos. Eline, Mathias.
Litzenberger, George.
Kummerer, llenry.
Shoemaker, Benjamin.
Londenslager, Potor.
I Jacob Mickley is the only one of this company now living. lle re- Bides in Whitehall
Seip, Christian.
Weaver, William.
Fifer.
Musicians,
Minor, Pitkin.
22
HISTORY OF LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Loudenslager, John.
Snider, Henry.
Doll, Charles.
Lower, Michael.
Foght, Gollib.
Minich, Peter.
Kloeckner, Solomon.
Swander, Henry, Fetzer, Daniel.
Gangwere, Thomas. IInbenstine, David.
Rice, Henry.
Shoudt, Michael.
Shaffer, George. Billig, John. Eschenbach, Daniel.
Acker, Henry. Besh, George.
Breder, George. Ebenrider, l'eter.
Shivry, Jacob.
Trexler, Israel.
Denl, John.
Koch, Jacob.
Mensch, Adam.
Steinberger, Jacob.
Shriver, William.
Caldwell, Jolin.
Ilartzel, Andrew.
Spangler, Jones.
Beslı, John.
Erich, Jacob,
Diffenderfer, Jonathan.
Shuurrer, Adam.
Woodring, Gabriel.
Futzinger, Henry.
Deily, Jacob.
Bachman, Jacob.
Good, Michnel.
Keifer, Elias.
Flexer, Jolin.
Erhard, John,
Reichenbach, Jacob.
Hower, Jacob.
Ifamor, Jacob.
Herwig, Henry.
Druckemiller, Michael.
Ott, Jonathan.
Miller, John.
Flower, Jolin.
Ilorlocher, George.
Mausch, Peter.
Nerfer, John.
Snider, John.
Frack, Jacob.
Mushlitz, Jacob.
Kunckel, Lewis.
Moll, l'eter.
Beidelman, Jacob. Coock, Peter (enlisted in the army
Hicker, Adam. of the United States Oct, 2, 1814).
We do certify that the within list is a true statement, on honor, this 13th day of November, 1814.
ABRAHAM RINKER, Captain. THOMAS HUMPHREY, Colonel First R. P. V. R.
CAPT. PETER RUCH'S LIGHT-HORSE.
This company was formed almost entirely in the territory now embraced in Whitehall and North and South Whitehall townships, and went to Philadelphia about the same time as the other Lehigh County troops, subsequently going into camp at Red Bank, N. J. The muster-roll has not been preserved, and we are able to give only a partial list of names of those who were members of this cavalry organization :
Captain.
Peter Ruch.
First Lieutenant.
Willinm Boas.
Privates.
Peter Good. Michael Frack.
Jnmes Seagns.
John Swartz.
Peter Troxell. Jacob Schreiver. Daniel Leisenring. Solomon Steckel. Peter Leisenring.
John Deichman.
Peter Burkholter.
ROLL OF CAPT. JOHN DORNBLASER'S COMPANY.1
Muster-roll of Capt. Jolm Dornblaser's company, belonging to a de- tachmont of Northampton, Lehigh, and Pike County militia, commanded by Lieut .- Col. Christopher JJ. lutter.
Captain.
Dorublaser, John.
First Lieutenant.
Bush, John V.
Second Lieutenant.
Winters, John.
Third Lieutenant.
Fonner, Frederic (elected IOth October, 1814).
Ensign.
Smith, David.
Sergeants.
Morrison, Jolin W. Hurtzell, John. Fenner, Frederick, promoted.
Corporals.
Teel, Nicholas. Barret, Henry.
Stocker, Samuel. Brady, William,
Bower, Henry. Siegfried, Daniel. Hertzel, Henry. Mayer, George. Smith, Adam. Hurtzel, Jacob. Reinbold, John.
Sergeants.
Knonse, Peter. Lehir, Peter.
Marck, Jacob. Strouse, John.
Corporals.
Shiffert, Jolin.
Stoer, or Starr, Conrad. Keck, Jolın.
Musician.
Wotring, Ferdinand.
Privates.
Lucas, Solomon. Stronse, George. Yohe, Jacob. Deily, Christian. Hartzel, Admm. Steinberger, l'eter. Kersliner, Conrad.
Whiteman, John.
Henry, George.
Herner, George.
Seip, Poter.
Nnnemacker, Henry.
Keck, David.
Lehr, Michinel. Lehr, Adam.
Bortz, George. Newhard, Frederick.
Yost, Nathaniel. Rou, or Ran, John (qnit the cont- pany Sept. 23, 1814). Whiteman, Jacob.
Moritz, George. Klotz, Peter (quit the company Hantzel, Solomon. Sept. 23, 1814). Gordon, Jacob. Ealer, Jolm.
Good, Adam.
Frantz, Henry.
Nagel, Jacob.
Poe, Michael.
Shantz, John.
Sentle, Michael.
Miller, John, Jr.
Lehr, George.
Guishler, John.
Nagel, Philip.
Rinebolt, Cornealius.
Rau, Conrod.
Hill, George.
Weil, Conrod.
Sloufer, William.
Luckenbach, Abraham.
Frymon, Michael.
Ilillegas, Jacob.
Rider, Fredorick.
Shoutz, Jacob.
Rownolt, Solomon.
Shontz, Henry.
Kuntz, l'eter.
Heller, Jeremiah.
Highleageor, Adam.
Wetsel, George.
Rish, fleury.
Good, Solomon.
Heller, Frederick.
The above statemont commences from the 23d day of September, 1814, to the 31st day of Octobor, 1814, making one month and eight days complete.
I certify, upon honor, that this muster-roll exhibits a true statement of the number of men in my company, attached to One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, First Brigade, Seventh Division, Pennsylvania Militia, in the service of the United States.
ABRAHAM GANGWERE, Captain.
I believe the above to be correct.
CHRISTOPHER J. HUTTER, Lieutenant- Colonel Commanding.
I certify that the company commanded by Capt. Abraham Gangwere is now in the service of the United States, under order of Brig .- Gen. HI. Spearing, commandant militia district,
THOMAS J. ROGERS, Brigade Major.
MARCUS HOOK CAMP, Oct. 23, 1814.
ROLL OF CAPT. ABRAHAM RINKER'S COMPANY. Came Duroxy, Nov. 13, Ist1.
A true list of Capt. Abraham Rinker's company of the Eighteenth Section of Riflemen, commanded by Col. Thomas Humphrey.
Nunemacher, George.
Ilartzell, Jacob,
1 The names in this roster are not exclusively those of Lehigh County soldiers, but as it is tonud impossible to effect n thorongh separation, the entire roll is here presented.
23
THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS.
Saylor, Isaac.
llock man, Jonas.
Privates.
Dietz., John.
Miller, Henry. Morris, Obed.
Vanllorn, Cornelius.
Barr, Adam.
Ostertack, John. Young, John. Shafer, Joseph. Nolf, George.
Clark, John.
Bureau, William.
Arndt, Jacob. Smell, Samuel.
Erie (or Ihrie), Conrad. Gower, Jolın.
Yonng, Adamı. Stocker, David.
Myer, llenry.
Willower, George.
Serfas, George.
Serfas, John.
Fisher, Dewald.
Crisman, Jacob.
Klinetrup, John.
Mack, John.
Posty, Thomas.
Miller, George (disch. Oct. 17, 1814). Swenk, John.
Brewer, James.
Smith, Christopher.
Merwine, Jacob.
Huston, John.
Rinker, George. Rees, Samuel.
MeGammon, Alexander.
Halın, Peter.
Strunk, Peter.
Hahn, George.
Myer, George.
Coolbaugh, Garret.
Schick, Peter.
Keyser, Jacob.
Geres, Frederick.
Place, Jacob.
Swartwood, Jacob.
Adams, John.
HIorman, Frederick.
Winans, Sammuel.
Kincaid, Sylvester.
Vandemark, Peter.
Vanetter, Anthony.
llowe, John.
Impson, Robert.
Stine, John.
Vansickle, William.
Barr, James.
Steel, Isaac.
Kester, Philip.
Kester, Leonard.
Courtwright, Levi. Watson, George.
CAMP MARCUS HOOK, October 21, 1814.
I certify, on honor, that this muster or pay-roll exhibits a true state ot the company . Regiment, l'unsylvania militia, now it service of the United States, and the remachesel opposite the names are accurate and just, to the best of my knowledge.
JOHN PORNDLASER, Captain.
I believe the above to be a correct master or pay-roll.
CHRIST. J. HUTTER, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding.
CHAPTER VI.
THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS.
Their llistory, Character, Customs, Language, Literature, and Religion.1
FULLY three-fourths of the population of Lehigh County, and a large proportion of that of Carbon, are Pennsylvania Germans or their descendants. A his-
tory of these counties would remain far from being complete without giving at least a brief aecount of this people, their language, habits, eustoms, and other characteristics. Since the preponderance of the pop- ulation of the counties of Pennsylvania cast of the Susquehanna, with the exception of the southeastern extremities, is of the same nationality, what is said of this class of people, as they are found in Lehigh and Carbon, applies with equal force to those of the eastern and central part of the State.
Their History .- The German tongue belongs to the great Aryan family of languages, and in times very remote was spoken on the highlands of Central Asia. From this part of the world the Germans swarmed westward, and took possession of Central and Northern Europe. Five hundred years before Christ, the historian Herodotus makes mention of the Germans as " Shouters in battle." They were fully es- tablished in Europe when history begins. In the second eentury before Christ, two thousand years ago, Papi- rius Carbo, a Roman eonsul appointed to fight with the Celts, eanie upon this people, and found the men of huge strength and fierce courage, and the women scarcely less formidable. For five centuries from the time of Julius Caesar, as we go down through the ages, Ariovistus, Arminius, Maroboduus, Alaric, Chnodo- mar, and Theodoric are the confronting Goths who vanquished the Romans, and took up the sceptre. Taei- tus, the great Roman historian, who wrote in the first century after Christ, holds up the Germans to his people as purer than themselves. Christian churches were established among the Germans before the mi- gration of the races in the fourth and fifth centuries. Ulfilas, the Moeso-Goth, made a translation of the Bible at the end of the fourth century, the earliest memorial in any Teutonic speech. When Ulfilas died the Goths carried the Bible with them to Italy and Spain. This Bible translation is the foundation- stone of German literature. This was A.D. 388. Charlemagne, one thousand years ago, crossed and recrossed the Main at Frankfort ( Frank-furt) with his Franks, exterminated the youth of the land and exiled multitudes. In the year 800 he was crowned emperor of Germany, France, and most of Italy and Spain. His great problem to solve was to give the Christian religion and free schools to the people. The various tribes settled in the present regions after the migration,-namely, the Hessians, Palatinians, Ala- manians, Suevians, and Alsatians. For eight centu- ries longer the Germans shifted about in their coun- try till, in 1682, by the invitation of William Penn, their emigration began to the New World.
Several thousand Germans had entered Pennsylva- nia prior to 1689. From this year on a steady stream of immigration set in. In 1742 their number was given at one hundred thousand, and in 1783 at two hundred and eighty thousand. They settled in that part of the State which is now included in Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Carbon, Berks, parts of Bucks,
Drummer.
Fifer.
Rape, George. Snyder, l'eter. Ward, John.
Cooper, Joseph. Davis, William.
Iloffert, Samuel. Bunstein, Jacob. Walter, Conrad.
Miller, Abraham. Wimmer, Joseph. Price, Freeman. Keller, Leonard. Hutmacher, J. (disch. Oct. 17, 1814). Keller, Daniel.
Wineland, Christian.
Stoufer, John. Stocker, Jacob. Gangwehr, Jacob.
Holman, Jeremiah R.
Nye, Lawrence. Nye, Andrew (disch. Oct. 20, 1814). Steiner, Joseph. Miller, Daniel.
Faulk, John.
Jayne, l'eter. Bonnel, Barnet.
Winner, John. Fisher, Philip. Crawford, John. Beard, John. Shepperd, David. Lowman, John. Evans, David.
1 By A. R. Horne, D.D.
-
HISTORY OF LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Montgomery, Lebanon, Lancaster, York, Dauphin, Schuylkill, Northumberland, Snyder, Union, Cohim- bia, Centre, and other counties, ultimately extending even into Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio. They came from Rhenish Bavaria, Baden, Alsace, Wirtem- berg, Switzerland, and Darmstadt.
The names of many of the townships of Lehigh are evidences of the fact that the early settlers of this section of the country were Germans, who named them in honor of their native places, or that their English neighbors gave names to these localities to designate thereby from what countries the German settlers had come. Such are the names Hanover, Salzburg, Weissenberg, and Heidelberg. The early German settlers were farmers, and while lands were cheap they purchased extensive tracts, always select- ing the best. To this day it is a well-known fact that all the best lands in the eastern part of the State are owned by the Germans and their descendants, and that frequently the English settlers are displaced by the steady encroachment of the Germans upon them. Thus, entire townships which originally were Eng- lish, as their names indicated and their early history substantiated, have become entirely Germanized under the progressive and aggressive eneroachment of the Germans. Illustrations of this are afforded in the names of Lowhill, Whitehall, Milford, and Lynn, names of undoubted English origin, but which are now townships so intensely German that English sounds are only heard exceptionally in families within their limits.
Their Language .- It is sometimes taken for granted by ignorant persons that the Pennsylvania Germans have no language of their own, that they speak a putois, that their language is an admixture of English, or that it is Dutch. Hence it may not be out of place to give the origin of the language.
Martin Luther, in the early part of the sixteenth century, by his Bible translations, hymns, and exten- sive writings in High German, caused that dialect to become the standard language of German literature. Hence to this day the High German is employed in literary productions as well as in discourse. But there were also other dialects spoken through all the centuries in different parts of Germany. In the southern portion-whence the greater part of the Germans who settled in Pennsylvania came-a dialect akin to that which prevails in the German conntics of Pennsylvania was spoken, and has continued to be used to a certain extent to this day. This is the origin of the Pennsylvania German. It is as old as the High German, possibly older, and frequently more expressive. It has never been extensively used in print, because the High German was adopted for this end. As a spoken language, however, it has pre- vailed from time immemorial in the South German dialects. The ancestors of many of the Pennsylvania Germans came from the Palatinate or Pfalz, now included iu Badeu, Bavaria, and Darmstadt, where a
language resembling that of the Pennsylvania Ger- man very closely, is still spoken. It also has a number of Swiss and Alsatian characteristics.
Many of the Pennsylvania German words can be traced back to older roots, and they are often more expressive than their High German synonyms. Goul, the Pennsylvania German word for " horse," is older and more purely German than Pferd, the High Ger- man, which is derived from the Latin ceredus ; Hutsch, "colt," and Hutschli, "little colt," from the Suabian hutschel, hutschele, Westerwald husz, Lusatian huszche, is more purely German and more expressive than Füllen, the High German, which is derived from the Greek and the Latin. Hutschli and hutschla is an imitation of the sound made by young colts, and, there- fore, as that large class of words which are the oldest in all languages, it must come down from the historic age when the names of objects were first invented.
Homeli, " little calf," can be traced back through the Swiss ummeli and mammeli to the language of nature, which gives us mamma, the labial sound made in imi- tation of the mother, when the child observes her lips move in talking to it while she is bending over the cradle,-a word conimon to all languages.
The Pennsylvania German for pig, sou, with its hus son and wuts, are striking illustrations of the anti- quity of this language, when it is remembered that these words are derived from the sound made in imi- tation of the pig, words belonging to the common lan- guage of nature, from which the Latin sus, the Greek is (hus), the English sow, the Dutch soe, etc., are derived. Schwein, the High German, is of much more recent origin, it being a derivative of son, from the Saxon sein and su. The Pennsylvania German grum- beer, potato, is much more expressive and original, meaning a crooked pear, or grundbeer, ground pear, than the High German kartoffel, derived from Erd- apfel, an artichoke.
The Pennsylvania German trop, crow, schpel, pin, schtreel, comb, schtruwlich, stroobly, ponhars, scrabble, bitwi, a young chicken, mullakup, tadpole, blech, tin- cup, botser, a tailles- chicken, Luftich, stumpy, are vastly more expressive and original than their Eng- lish or High German equivalents.
It may be added also that the Pennsylvania Ger- mans use the language in their conversation with con- siderable accuracy. They make but very few mistakes in gender, case, or syntax; and this is the more re- markable from the fact that their language, like the High German, has all the inflections of number, gen- der, and case, which make it so difficult to construct sentences properly. The definite article the, for ex- ample, has the same form in all cases and genders, while the Pennsylvania German equivalent has at least eight different forms, thus :
Masc.
Fem.
Neut.
Nom.
der,
de,
des.
Gen.
dem sei,
dara er,
dem sei.
Dat.
dem,
dara,
dem.
Acc.
den,
de,
des.
.
5
THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS.
25
All these difficult inflections and agreements are given substantially correct by the Pennsylvania Ger- mans in their conversational language, though there is no grammar of the language, and it is not taught iu families or schools.
Their Sayings and Songs .- The proverbs, adages, songs, and sayings of a people are, to a great extent, an index of their character. The proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans, which are handed down from generation to generation, are very expressive and original. The following, among many others, are proverbs so common among them that, by their fre- quent repetition, they have made impressions upon them sufficiently strong to influence lite and char- acter. They are the household sayings of every family, familiar to young and old.
Kumt mer iwwer der hund so kumt mer iwwer der Schwonz. "If one can climb over the dog, he can also get over the tail." By this is meant that when the most difficult part of an undertaking can be man- aged, the less difficult can be easily accomplished.
Wie mers mocht so hut mers. " As one makes it, so he has it." That is, a person must expect results in accordance with his actions or deportment.
Der obbel folt net weit fom schtomm. "The apple does not fall far from the stem of the trec." Usually applied to children when they have the faults of their parents.
Wer net haert muss fichla. "Who will not hear must feel." A person who will not listen to good advice must suffer the consequences.
Wer lauert an der wond, hacrt sei egne schont. "He that listens by the wall licars his own disgrace." Eavesdroppers hear their own faults descanted on.
Der heeler is so schlecht wie der schtehler. "The concealer is as bad as the stealer."
Uf en grwwwar bluck g'hert en gramwear keidel. " A rough wedge is required for a rough block." A rough, boorish fellow must be handled without gloves.
De kinner un dei norra sega die mohret. "Chil- dren and fools tell the truth."
Wer wwhalt g'iriunt. " He that perseveres will gain the victory."
Frisch gerogt is halver grunna. "That which is zealously entered upon is half achieved."
Mer muss sich nach der deck schtrecka. "Stretch yourself according to the cover." That is, venture out only as far as your means will allow ; do not ven- ture too far out.
Was mer net im kup hat, but mer in da fees. " What one has not in the head he has in the feet." If your thoughts are not collected, you must make up for it in extra labor. Frequently applied when anything is forgotten, and a person is obliged to return for it.
Förs denka könn em niemand henka. "No one can be hanged for his thoughts." A person is allowed to think as he pleases.
Lushdich wer nuch leddig is, drourich wer ferseh- prucha is. "Jolly who is single, sad who is engaged."
Frequently used by persons who have no prospect of getting married.
Was grewwar is wie dreck, geht selærer week. " What is coarser than dirt removes itself." Applied by persons while sweeping when any one is in their way.
Wir net kommt zu rechter zeit muss nehme dus in- werich bleibt. " He that does not come in season must take what is left." Used when persons are belated in coming to meals.
Gros gekrisch un wennig wroll. " A big noise and little wool." Applied where a great ado is made about anything which is of little importance.
Gut g'wetst is halver g'meht. " Well whetted is half mowed." Keep your tools in good condition if you would work with ease, especially applicable to mowing with the German seythe, which had to be well hammered and frequently whetted.
Was en dorn warra will schpitst sich in der zeit. "The thorn prepares in season to sharpen its point." That is, it is early noticeable when a youth is prepar- ing for a bad ending.
El che is die owner werth. "One honor is worth another." Signifying that one favor deserves another.
De mad wo peifa un de hinkel wo grach mus mer bei zeit der hols rum dreha. "Girls who whistle and hens that crow must have their neeks wrung in good time." It is as much out of place for women to whistle as it is unusual for hens to crow.
Es kunant net af die graes auch, sunscht kennt en kuh en hairs fonga. "It does not depend on the size, otherwise a cow could catch a rabbit." A small per- son can often accomplish as much as a large one.
Körtsa hor sin glei geberscht. "Short hairs are soon brushed." This is applied to doing a small job, traveling a short distance, seeing a small place, etc.
Wer em onnera en grub grawelt follt schrer nei. "Whosoever digs a pit for another falls into it him- self."
Wer awhalt gewinnt. "Whoever perseveres suc- ceeds."
Wer en buck schtehlt is ken schof dich. " Whoever steals a ram is no sheep-thief." That is, a person may be accused of a deed of which he is not guilty, when he has committed another of a similar character.
Mer mus ken kotz im sock kauft. " Do not buy a cat in a bag."
Won mer der esel nennt kommt er gareant. "When the ass is named he comes trotting along." When a person is named in conversation he often comes.
Wer sich nehra will mit fisha und yorga mus feris- send hussa drawga. " He that would live by fishing and hunting must wear torn breeches." Fishing and hunting are poor occupations.
Mer hut nix une druwiel. "Nothing without trouble."
Wonn mer der hund dreft bloft er. "The dog barks when he is hit." When a person is guilty, he speaks out when allusion is made to him.
Sourtrout un schpeck dreibt olle sorga week. "Sonr-
26
HISTORY OF LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
crout and bacon drive care away." A good, substan- tial meal is a corrective of dull care.
Wonn de meis sott sin, is es mehl bitter. "When the mice are done eating, the meal is bitter." When any one has a surfeit, he does not relish his victuals any longer.
De morga schtund hut gold im mund. "The morning hour has its month filled with gold." "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise." "The carly bird catches the worm."
Besser en lous im krout os gawor ken flersch. " A louse in the cabbage is better than no meat." It is better to have a little of a good thing, even if not extra good, than to dispense with it entirely.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.