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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE !!
Commenced.
Commenced.
Peter Snyder. April 14, 18-40) David Follweiter .... April 11, 1865
Jacob S. Kistler ..... 14, 1819
Daniel 11. Creitz. ...
11, 1865
Jouns Haas .....
15, 1815
Alvin F. Creitz ... ... 11, 1 68
Peter Snyder ........ 15, 1815 David Follweiler ... 8, 1870
Jonas Hans ... 9. Isbn Alvin F. Creitz ...... ..
David FAlweiler ...
9. 1511 Wilham F. Kranss, March 13, IST
l'eter Snyder.
William M. Kistler.
10, 1555 Uvin E. Crett ... 24, 1% 10, 1855 William F. Kranse. @ 30. 1>>0
William M. Kistler. 10, 1560 Alvin F'. Croitz ....... April 6, 15$3 =
Daniel U. Creilz ...... = 10, 1860 .
Schools .- The history of the Lutheran and German Reformed Churches of the township includes the ac- count of the early educational institutions. The first action of the people of the township, except in con- nection with the churches, was at what in 1812 was called Saegersville, later New Tripoli. A society was formed in that year for the erection of an Eng- lish school-house, in which all instruction was to be in English. Daniel Saeger was the most influential ! in the movement. The school-house was built on
1 Prior lo 18-10 the juslices having jurisdiction over this territory were elecled in district, nud their names will be found in The civil list of the general history.
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what later in the town plot were lots 70-71, each sixty-six feet wide on Decatur Street, and one hun- dred and seventy-seven and a half' feet deep. It was called the Saegersville English school-house, and school was regularly kept there from that time till the township accepted the school law. A copy of the rules and regulations is here given :
" RULES AND REGULATIONS OF SAEGERSVILLE ENGLISH SCHOOL. SOCIETY. " At an Election held at the House of George Tryne, Innkeeper, on the twenty-seventh Day of March, A.D. 1812, Jacob Mosser & Daniel Saeger, Esq., were Duly Elected a committee to establish Rules and Regulations, as follows, to wit :
" Ist. That there shall be five Trustees and One Treasurer Chosen an- nually by ballot, and the Elections to be held on the second Saturday of April at the School-Room, and the said Trustees and the successors shall be elected in manner and form as is hereinafter Described, to have the name & title 'Saegersville English School Society.'
"2d. That the said Trustees, after each annual election, shall elect from among their own members a President and Secretary, and in all cases Two- Thirds of the Trustees shall constitute a quorum to transact any business.
"3d. That ull elections to be held in Pursnauce of this Rule Shall be conducted by two members of the society, who shall be appointed in- spectors at the same time & Place where the Trustees are to be elected as af'ordered by the Electors then assembled, and the inspectors so chosen shall appoint one suitable person as a clerk.
"4th. That the Secretary of the Society shall make ont and furnish the Inspectors of every election with a fair, true, and correct list of all members of the said Society & the number of shares set opposite their Respective names.
"5th. That in all elections to be held in pursuance of these Rules, every person of the age of twenty-one years who lins subscribed for any number of shares in Said Stock of Said society, shall be entitled to a vote for each and every Respective Share.
" 6th. That in case any vacancy happens by Death, resignation, re- moval, or otherwise, a majority of the Trustees assembled shall appoint special election for sujedying such vacancies, and every special election shall be held and Conducted as is directed for the annual Election, and the Persons so legally chosen shall hold said office for the remainder of the time in whose place he was elected.
. "7th. That it shall be the Duty of the Trustees yearly and every year to get a School- Master who is by them judged competent for Busi- ness, and agree with Inm for his salary for Three months, to commence frem the first day of December, or as near that time as conveniently may be, and defray the said salary. Each subscriber of the said Eng- lish School Society shall pay quarterly the shin of two Dollars, and every month if not mounts to a quarter the sum of eighty cents, and every non-subscriber shall pay quarterly the sum of three Dollars, & every month if not amounts to a quarter, the sinn of one Dollar & twenty conts; and if it should happen that it would not be money enough to pay said salary, and no money in the Treasury, then every Subscriber Shall pay his proportionable part according to the number of shares anlocritod, & it money lett, then to remain in the Treasury for any use the gold Trustees shall direct.
"Sth. That after the said quarterly school is expired, and any umunker of said Anleeribers is Dosirons of having School for any time before the then next quarterly school, they shall apply to the Trustees, who shall grant them Leave for any time for getting a School-Master competent for Business to have u school nl said School-house at the expense of the Company applying for said school.
" 9th. That in cuse the Teacher or employees should think themselves aggrieved, they are to make known their complaint to any one of the Trustees, who can at any time call a meeling of the Board of Directors in all cases.
" Itth. That the Trustees take particular Notice that Sufficiency of wood be provided for the stove during the quarterly school mentioned in the 7th article, for the comfort of the Teacher and Scholars.
"Ilth. That thu suid Trustees & their successins shall he Impowered to keep the school-house & appartenances whatsoever therenuto belong- ing, all in good order and Repair, and to Draw the Money from the Treasury of said society found to defray the expenses of all warrants or orders on the Treasury which shall be signed by tho President of the Society.
" 12th. That the present Trustees und their Successors shall pormit
und suffer all Persons of Lawful age who shall offer to subscribe in their own name or the name of any other person who shall Only authorize the same for any number of Shares in the Stock of said Society, and the Shares in Said Stock shall be Ten Dollars each, and that each and every subscriber shall have and to hold the several and respectivo shares for which subscribed for themselves, their Heirs, or Assigne, & the warrants or titles for said shares or Share shall be signed by the President of Said Society.
" 13th. That a book to be kept by the Trustees and their proceedings recorded therein.
" In witness whereof we, the said Committee, have herennto get our hands the twentyeth Day of August, in the Year of our Lord pho Thousand Eight Hundred and Twelve,
"JACOB MOSER, " DAN. SARGER."
A paper was circulated, a copy of which is here given :
" We, whose names are herennto subscribed, do promise to pay to the managers or trustees of the Saegersville English School Society the sum of Ten Dollars for every share of stock in said society or company set oppesite to our respective names, in such manier and proportion, and ut Buch time as shall be determined by the Trustees of the said society, and the said sums of money to be applied for the use of the aforesaid English school, as witness our hand this 20th day of August, v.D. 1812. .
Natnes of Subscribers.
Number of Shares
Jacob Moser .. $20
Daniel Saeger 2 20
Henry Mantz.
20
George Tryne.
2
20
Christian Holben.
20)
John hishler
John Sittler ...
2
Georgr Sittler.
20
David Moser ..
2
20
Samuel Ely, Jr.
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On the 2d of April, 1813, an election was held at the school-house, and the following persons were elected trustees : David Mosser, George Sittler, John Sittler, George Tryne, and Henry Mantz. These trustees chose George Tryne president, and Henry Mantz secretary.
From the old minutes from which the above facts are derived it is learned that the school-house cast .085 38. 544.
Teachers were employed, and the school was well conducted until 1838. Robert M. Blair was the last of the teachers under the old system.
This school-house at New Tripoli (Saegersville English school-house) was occupied until the town- ship accepted the school law in 1828. At that time there were in the township three hundred and seventy-tive persons liable to taxation for school pur- poses ; $242.78 was received from the State for schools. Jesse Hermany was chosen president of the board of school directors, J. S. Kistler secretary, and Daniel Brobst treasurer. Slowly under the new law schonls began to be kept, log and frame houses were erreted. In 1855 there were thirteen in the township, and there were six hundred and four pupils.
There are at present (1884) fifteen schools in the township, as follows :
Jacksonville,-At this place was created about 1839- 40 a log house, which was used until the present brick house was erected about 1856.
Federal .- The present house, the first at the place, was built of brick in 1860.
Burckhardt Moser
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Donnot .- The present house, built of stone, was erected about 1845.
Steinville .- About 1862 a school was started in a room rented in Odd-Fellows' Hall, which is still used.
New Tripoli .- The old Saegersville school-house was in use by the board of directors from 1838 till 1857, when the present two-story brick edifice was erected.
Other honses are at Lieby's, Fenstermacher's, Sny- der's, Baush's, Lynnville, Weaver's, two at Lynnport, Camp's, Kistler's, and Jacob Kistler's.
New Tripoli .- The land on which this village is located was prior to 1811 part of the farm of Henry Mantz, who, on the 29th of July, in that year, sold the water-privilege of the Antalaunee Creek to Daniel Saeger. Ile built the stone grist-mill soon after, and a stone house in which he kept a store. In 1812 a few people had gathered near there, and the place took the name of Saegersville, and in 1812 a society was formed to erect a school-house in which the English language and English studies should be taught. A full account of the school will be found in the history of the schools of the township.
Soon after the establishment of the school, Daniel Saeger, who was a brother of Nicholas and Jaeob Saeger, late of Allentown (deceased), moved to Allen- town, and he and Jacob then built the flour-mill, now of Pretz, Weinsheimer & Co. He soon afterward sold the same to Dr. John Romig's father. After that Daniel Saeger lived on the farm where the Allentown Furnace is situated, and afterward bought a farm on Cedar Creek, near the Lehigh Poor-House. After he had resided there several years, he then (about 1822) moved to Crawford County, Pa., to the place now called Saegerstown, which town he laid ont and named. In 1836 he was a member of the Constitu- tional Convention, and soon after he had returned from said convention he died.
Daniel Saeger sold the mill property and store to Samuel Ely, Jr., on the 11th of March, 1813. He was a miller, and kept the mill, store, and tavern. The tavern has a stone in its wall with " 1771" engraved upon it. In 1816, Samuel Ely, Jr., proprietor of the place, engaged James Price, surveyor, to lay ont lots, streets, and alleys, which was done in July, 1816, and named " New Tripoli," in honor of the success of the United States navy at Tripoli, and on the 28th of July the lots were offered for public sale at the house of Samuel Ely, Jr. The first one was bought by Peter Haas, No. 31, for twenty-one dollars, fronting on Wayne Street.
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The streets and alleys running north and south were named Washington Street, Apple Alley, Frank- lin Street, Mantz Street, Butchers' Alley, Madison Street, Market Alley, and Water Street. The streets and alleys running east and west were called Pump- kin Street, Egg Alley, Bridge Street, Farmers' Alley, Jefferson Street, Brewers' Alley, Perry Street, Jack-
son Alley, Wayne Street, Cherry Alley, Market Street, Hueksters' Alley, Decatur Street, Merchant Street, and Drovers' Alley. From No. 1 to 284 regularly- numbered lots are laid out.
The following is a list of names of men who bought lots at New Tripoli in 1816-17 :
Peter Haas, Nos. 31, 42, 13, 64, 65, 81, 82.
Christian Kuntz, No. 115.
Jacob Fenstermacher, Nos. 10, 14, 61, 62, 72-77.
Abraham Smith, Nos. 39, 40, 80, 87.
John Straub, Jr., Nos. 31, 67, 68.
John Schoenberger, No. 88
Henry Weaver, Nos. 89, 90, 91.
Jacob Schmeck, Nos. 10, 13.
Philip Everett, No. 86.
Isaac Miller, No. 85. Henry Rubrecht, Nos. 83, 129, 130.
John Schmeck, Nos. 11, 12.
Andrew Kunkel, No. 20.
Andrew Straub, Nos. 66, 125, 126.
George Lock, Nos. 29, 30.
Henry Meyer, No. 103.
John Settler, No. 102. Michael Krum, No. 116. John Kresley, No. 131.
Solomon Kistler, Nos. 118, 119.
Abraham Miller, No. 63.
Jacob Linn, Nos. 133, 134.
John Reitz, Nos. 127, 128.
Daniel Marburger, No. 115.
George Tryne, No. 48.
Daniel Shaeffer, No. 16.
Christian Biery, Nos. 7, 8, 15-18.
William Wuchter, No. 132.
John Bier, No. 9.
John Mantz, No. 69.
Henry Falmer, of Bucks County, Nos. 32-38.
Adam Heckman, No. 43.
Diedrich Hiesler, Nos. 44-47.
Daniel O'Daniel, Nos. 17, 122.
Andrew Krause, No. 49.
Andrew Shifferstine, No. 50.
Samnel Mary, No. 21.
Daniel Koch, Nos. 18, 109.
Isaac Frober, No. 37.
Henry Rossman, of Berks County, Nos. 19, 36, 39-42, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 73, 71, 79, 80.
Solomon Hartman, Nos. 14, 123, 124.
Samnel Ely, Nos. 4-6, 61.
Conrad Hartman, No. 78.
Jacob Moyer, Nos. 11, 12.
John Kistler, No. 5.1. Daniel Kern, Nos. 100, 101.
Morris Ancona, No. 66.
Jacob Hlillegas, No. 157.
Maria Hiller, Nos, 120, 121.
Jacob Grim, No. 22.
lohn Derr, No. 79. Conrad German, Nos. 52, 105.
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Daniel Dorward, Nos. 104, 167.
John Mohr, Nos. 58, 59, 99.
At the time of this sale Samuel Ely, Jr., kept the hotel, and Daniel Saeger the store. He (Saeger) soon after moved to Allentown, and Peter Haas moved from Lynnville to New Tripoli, and purchased the store. In the year 1819, Samuel Camp, who had married Esther Tryne, danghter of George Tryne, came to town and entered the store of Peter Haas, and in a few years became a partner. Later, the in- terest of Mr. Haas was purchased by Mr. Camp, who carried on a prosperous business many years, and sold the store to his son Edwin, who continued the busi- ness till 1866, when he sold to James & W. P. Krum, who carried on the business for a year, when W. P. Krum sold to James Krum, who continued till April, 1868, when he sold to Jonas German, in whose pos- session the store and hotel now are, he having built a new store and hotel building at the corner of Madison and Decatur Streets.
The post-office was established at New Tripoli in 1823, and Samuel Camp was the postmaster, and re- mained many years. He was succeeded by Silas Camp and Edwin Camp, and in 1866, James Krum was appointed, and served till 1869, when Jonas Ger- man beeame postmaster, and served till 1872. W. F. Krause succeeded to the position, and served ten years, and in 1882, Elias K. Giltner, the present in- cumbent, was appointed.
Samuel Camp, who came to the place in 1819, mar- ried Esther, the danghter of George Tryne, who lived near here. Mr. Camp was a member of Legislature in 1862. His son, Silas, was recorder of Lehigh County from 1868 to 1874, and now resides in Allen- town. Edwin, who was in business in New Tripoli for several years, resides in Tannersville. Franklin, another son, resides in New Tripoli.
The mill property was owned by Mr. Ely from 1813 to Dec. 12, 1820, when it was conveyed to Henry Weber, who, in September of the next year, sold it to Jacob Grim. He continued the business till his death, in 1833, when it was sold by his executor to ! Jonathan Shoemaker. Feb, 26, 1834. It passed, in 1888, to George Blank, in 1839 to George Blook, in 1843 to Thomas Tryne. The property is now owned by Reuben Sherman, having been purchased of Joseph Rieker in 1867.
W. II. Krause, in 1858, came to New Tripoli, and entered the store of Samuel Camp, and later became landlord, merchant, postmaster, and justice of the peace. He is now engaged in grain, coal, and lum- ber, and also interested in slate-quarries near the village.
The Ebenezer Church.'-This church is also known by the name of the Lyun Township Church, and in earlier times was called the "Orgel Kirche," or "Organ Church," being the only church in that
region which had an organ. The church stands at New Tripoli, in Lynn township. The limits of the congregation extended to the Blue Mountains on the north, to the limits of the Heidelberg congregation on the east, to those of the Jacksonville on the west, and to those of the Weissenberg on the south. The jurisdiction of the church comprises a territory lying between the Blue Mountains and the Schochary Mountain, three or four miles in width, with low hills and short valleys, from which the Antalaunee, and, more toward the east, the west branch of the Jordan arise. The church has always been a " union" church, although it takes its origin properly from the Reformed.
The settlement was made by-a portion of the Alle- mangel colony ; it was the northern, as the Weissen- berg settlement was the eastern, limit of that colony. While Kistler's Valley was settled properly by Alle- mängel immigrants, principally of the Lutheran faith, those of the Reformed Church settled here more par- tieularly. The slopes of the Schochary were occupied before Kistler's Valley was settled. The earliest pioneers were Christian Weber, Georg Ludwig Schüt, Heinrich Oswald, Philipp Gabriel Fogel (Vogel) with his two sons, Conrath and Johannes, the latter of whom moved back with the remainder of the family and founded Fogelsville ; Valentine Schnider, Jacob Lynn, and others, all of whom came here about 1735. They were all Palatines, Swiss, and Huguenots. Soon others followed, and moved farther into the valley, and quickly took possession of the good tracts, especially those along the sides of the Antalaunee, where there were excellent woods and fine meadows inviting the settlers. The following heads of families generally pass for the first settlers, but of these many eame later, and some may even belong to the succeed- ing generation :
Peter Scholl.
Philipp Mosser.
Peler Beisel.
Philipp Wertmann.
Mathias Schutz.
Philipp Antoni.
Wilhelm Mayer.
Martin Schuck.
Heinrich Widerstein.
Dietrich Siltler.
Borthard Schneider.
Melchior Diet.
Aaron Hattell.
Jacob Manz.
Jacob Hoffman.
Joseph Holder.
Jacob Lynn.
Erhard Zeislon,
Christian Müller.
Jacob Grünewald,
Joseph Gerber.
Michnel Fenstermacher.
Johannes Schmidt.
Jacob Oswald.
Burkhard Mosser.
Heinrich Hauss.
Michnel Boek.
Conrath Billmann,
Michael Häftinger. Johann Adam Kressly.
Peler Kirschner. Andrens SIranb.
Stephen Gross,
Thomas Everitl.
Abraham Schellhammer.
Heinrich Konig.
Philipp Schumann.
Georg Kistler.
Murtin Grentler.
Abraham Offenbach.
Sylvester Holten.
Adam Armit.
Michel Habbes.
Jacob Donatt.
Adam Brentz.
Friederich lless.
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Georg Brenner,
The foundation of the congregation dates from about the year 1740. Where the road from Lynnville to the Blue Mountain crosses the Antalaunee there stands,
! By The Rev. W. A. Hellfrich.
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a couple of hundred paees on the other side of the creek and on this side of Kistler's mill, an old weath- erboarded log house, in which for many years Peter Snyder, Esq., of Lynn, resided. This old house wit- nessed the origin and beginning of the Ebenezer Church. About the beginning of the decade between 1740 and 1750 it was the residence of Peter Scholl, one of the prominent and most active of the founders of the ehmreh. The settlement contained at that time a very talented teacher by the name of Andrew Steiger, who kept the winter school. In response to the solicitations of his neighbors he held the first divine service, with reading of sermons, prayer, and praise. The house in which Peter Scholl lived being the most appropriate for the purpose in the vicinity, these services were held in it until after the church building' was erected. It was also the place of refuge in the time of the Indian troubles for the - neighbors when threatened with danger. The walls under the weatherboarding, as we were informed by Squire Snyder, are pierced with loopholes for protec- I be attacked by the savages.
tion of those within. It was at the same time a store, which was kept by Scholl, who transported the ne- cessaries of life from Philadelphia and sold them to his neighbors.
About the year 1745 the neighborhood agreed to build a church. The construction languished, how- ever, for fifteen years. All that was done was the ex- tending of invitations to Revs. Philipp J. Michael and Melchior Muhlenberg to preach and to found the church. Both of these pastors preached here ; dwellings whose construction dates back to the earliest onee, and then apparently delivered the further charge of the congregation to the schoolmaster.
In 1760 the congregation purchased from Jacob Hoffinan the piece of ground which still forms its church and school lands. It lies near Scholl's house, above referred to. The brethren who accomplished the purchase were : Peter Scholl, Bernhard Schneider, Aaron Hartel, Jacob Hoffmann, Peter Beisel, Hein- rich Widerstein, Philipp Wertmann, Philipp Mosser, Dietrich Sittler, Martin Schuck, Jacob Lynn, and Jacob Oswald.
In the year 101 the building was created. The building had been planned as early as 1750, but the Indians, who had a village in the vicinity, becoming; troublesome and burning down more than one-half of ; the dwellings of the settlers, the construction was ; old writings concerning the first church are entirely wanting; and many family histories, containing accounts of the first settlements and their early cir- cumstances, were destroyed by fire during the Indian wars.
postponed from year to year until they believed them- selves safe from further attacks of the savages. The building here, as everywhere else, was of logs ; there" was neither flooring nor any side-boarding. An ordi- nary table served for the altar, the pulpit was con- structed of rough boards, and a small organ (from which the church became known as the Orgel Kirche, or Organ Church ) stood on one side. Where this came from or who brought it there no one can tell. Rev." Michael, and one of Rev. Muhlenberg's assistants --- undoubtedly Rev. Schellhardt-dedicated the church.
No community suffered more during the Indian
wars than this one. They occupied the extreme bounds of the settlements of the whites, and before the Indians could attack those farther in they must first overcome these. Here, therefore, the massacres and the burnings began. Right through the middle of the settlements ran one of the principal Indian paths, leading to the southern regions. Conflagra- tions were a common oceurrenee in Lynn, and fre- quently the entire population fled to the settlement lying farther south. Upon the southern slope of the Schochary Mountain, above Lynnville, in a small hollow on the left hand side of the present road, dwelt the Zeistoff family, who were overtaken in their flight by the Indians, and butchered without mercy. And yet nearly all the settlers returned and erected their log houses again, and strove anew to maintain possession of the ground. The old fathers used to relate that every night they would place the loaded guns and their well-sharpened axes within easy reach from their bed, not knowing when they might
There are few communities which have remained so entirely secluded from public intercourse during the whole of the last century down to the middle of the present as this one of Lynn. This accounts also for the preservation of the ancient customs and ways in their primitive simplicity. It accounts, likewise, for their want of advance or development. This is the case in worldly as well as churchly affairs. Even now along the sides of the Blue Mountains can be found
times. The ground naturally is more suited to agri- culture than farther south, and that upon the Weissen- berg and Lowhill hills; but the conveyance of lime to Lynn used to be a ditheult matter, and so frequently remained undone, and the erops, consequently, became poorer than in the country farther south. But since the construction of the Berks County Railroad an un- usually rapid advance has been made; the harvests testify to the use of linte, and new residences and immense Swiss barns have everywhere been erected; and the people enjoy prosperity and wealth. Espe- cially is this the case since the slate quarries of Lynn have been bringing their excellent products to the notice of the public markets.
The church records begin with the year 1764. The
Between 1790 and 1800 the congregation owned a parsonage in common with the Jacobs' and the Bethel congregations.
The community carly erveted a school-house, and for the most part had able preachers.
The Second Church was built in the year 1798. A storm had ahuost entirely destroyed the old building. The organ, too, lay in ruins (and, by the way, did not
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