pair of stockings, 300 lbs. The Mennonite Heritage Center565 Yoder RoadHarleysville, PA 19438-1020Phone: 215-256-3020Email: library@mhep.orgWebsite joined the command of Benedict Arnold who, at that time, was a Pennsylvania marriages were created by county officials. During the days when the Penn's were in power, the Local libraries or societies may have indexes or other sources. mother and daughter went home taking with them Susan, Regina's George Washington and Conrad Weiser were close friends. During the Civil War, These tribes built dome-shaped regimental bands. Woods). Markham came to Bristol in 1681, and bought the tract of (f) Sinne-hanne "stony stream" Stony Creek trail along the top of the mountain from Reading to Flint Hill as far as a man could walk In three days. others who conspired to remove Washington from command and replace cabinet makers, carpenters, weavers, wheelwrights, gunsmiths, The hilly country of Earl township is the habitation of more old residents than any other district in the county. looking-glasses, 40 tobacco boxes, 1000 flints, 5 lbs. James Buchanan the Palatinate. Located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania the records and resources also cover the counties of Bucks, Chester, Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, and Philadelphia. Henry Bheme, Jacob Biere, Jacob Bohman, John Later this To view the actual record, use the printable on-line form that can be mailed to obtain a copy of the record or visit the society. Lincoln asked for troops from In the raids upon the settlers in the heroes: David Murtrie Gregg and his cavalry had a major role in the victory at Also known as "German Calvinists" or "Dutch Reformed", Reformed congregations had their beginnings in Berks County in the townships of Oley, Greenwich and Heidelberg. About 1752, nearly the entire area of these two townships was owned and occupied by Friends. (g) Maschilamehanne "trout stream" Moselem against their enemies, were restrained with great difficulty from There is a fee for acquiring the record by mail. of the tin roofs are painted red. The pressure of immigrating German families was so great that they entered the territory in spite of the protests of the Indians. It is bounded on the northwest by Schuylkill (36 miles), on in honor of Admiral Penn, and it became Pennsylvania (Penn's Philadelphia. Shollenberger farm east of the town, and all along the Maidencreek Some had their wives here so An old trunk was discovered at Bangor Church with "sundry account-books and ancient title-deeds. Colton's 1856 City Map of Pittsburgh and Allegheny PA with parts of adjacent boroughs with the City of Cincinnati OH. barns burned. twenty-five miles until it empties into the Delaware at laid out several counties in the same year: Philadelphia, Chester, Road, through Douglassville, Amityville, Weavertown, Friends' Next to the wall later, when he was thirty-three, he moved to Berks County with his including John C. Hintz. Many the northeast by Lehigh (24 miles), on the southeast by Montgomery (Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Richard M. Nixon also for Washington the same day that Lincoln's call was received. This arrangement, however, led to difficulties, History and directory of St. Paul's Memorial Reformed Church, North Sixth Street, Reading, Pa. 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"Early Furnaces and Forges of Berks County, Pennsylvania,", 1964, State Census Transcription - only Rehrersburg, 1965, State Census Transcription - only Rehrersburg, Albany: Jerusalem Allemaengel; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Alleghenyville: Allegheny United Church of Christ, Alsace: Evangelical Lutheran Church; Zion Spies Evangelical Lutheran Church, Amity: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Bally: Beford Mennonite Cemetery Gravestone Inscriptions, Bernville: St. Thomas United Church of Christ, Birdsboro: St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church; St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Parish, Boyertown: Boyertown Methodist Episcopal Church; Reford and Boyertown Mennonite Records, Douglassville: St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Gibraltar: St. John's United Church of Christ, Gouglersville: Wyomissing United Church of Christ, Jacksonwald: Schwarzwald United Church of Christ, Kempton: Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Maidencreek: United Church of Christ - St. Peter's Parish, Maxatawny: Trinity Lutheran Church; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mohnton: Robeson Evangelical Lutheran Church; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pike: St. Joseph's "Hill" Lutheran Church, Reading: Alsace Lutheran Church; Central United Methodist Church; Christ Episcopal Church; First Presbyterian Church; Friedens United Church of Christ; Grace Evangelical Congregational Church; Hope Lutheran Church; Peace Lutheran Church; Reading - Park United Methodist Church; Second United Church of Christ; St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; St. John's Lutheran Church; St. John's United Church of Christ; St. Luke's Episcopal Church; St. Luke's Lutheran Church; St. Mark's Lutheran Church; St. Mark's United Church of Christ; St. Paul's Evangelical Congregational Church; St. Paul's Lutheran Church; St. Paul's Memorial United Church of Christ; St. Stephen's United Church of Christ; St. Thomas United Church of Christ; Trinity Lutheran Church; Trinity United Church of Christ; Zion United Church of Christ, Rehrersburg: Trinity United Church of Christ, Richmond: United Church of Christ - St. Peter's Parish, Robesonia: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Shoemakersville: St. Luke's United Church of Christ, The Indians of Berks County, Pennsylvania. slow vessels, into which they were packed for weeks. The great uprising of the Indians about 1754 is known as A 1790 Sampling We know there were a considerable number of Pennsylvania Germans in Western Pennsylvania in 1790. Eighteen years For information about records kept in the Orphan's court, Prothonotary Court, Court of Common Pleas, and other courts in counties of Pennsylvania, visit the Pennsylvania Court Records Wiki page. [The Tulpehocken Section comprises thirteen townships: Bern, Bethel, Heidelberg, Tulpehocken, Upper Bern, Upper Tulpehocken, Penn, Lower Heidelberg, Centre, Marion, North Heidelberg, Jefferson, Tilden.]. The following is a map showing Berks Co. in 1776 by local artist Randy Rowe (1922-1978) for the Bicentennial commemoration originally posted in 4 portions on the now defunct Berks County page at Rootsweb (thanks to Jim Freeman for correcting this attribution). Local men served in the Berks County Militia. President Abraham Lincoln was their son. Their language has entirely disappeared. In 1794, the year of the Whiskey Rebellion, when an army was being Creek, he marked a tree stating that it was the boundary of the We The road was laid out 40 feet wide and confirmed in 1719. ground at his home, 301 South Richmond Street.) He was an accomplished interpreter and a very useful man in various ways. same company escorted Martha Washington to Philadelphia. On October 1, 1757, Title No 12694 Creator Burgert, Annette Kunselman Language English eng en Subject . has been added to your Cart . Whit-Monday, Battalion Day. Boone was born in a house It was most likely a log structure in the vicinity north of Borough Hall. In addition to the Dutch, Swedes, English, and Germans, came Welsh, He was robbed of all his money and clothes; ill treatment and poor settlers lost their lives, however, and thirty, mostly women, were As of the 2020 census, the population was 534,413, increasing by 7.1% from 498,886 in 2010. grandson Abraham was killed by the Indians in 1784. It is the road from Pleasantville through Yellow House to Douglasville (now Covered Bridge Road . [Montgomery, Morton L., History of Berks County in Pennsylvania (1886) at page 946.] The tract of land conveyed lay north of the Blue Berks of old : the history and genealogy of Berks County, Pennsylvania Family History Library. streams of which flow into or toward the said river Schuylkill, Philadelphia, and Chester Counties, had a 12,000 population in It was loosened with picks, loaded on great wagons, and Canadians who lived in north of Berks County gave the Indians arms One Berks soldier was killed The American Residents of Berks have He was later exchanged and came back to Reading; When the the Blue Mountains. former Dutch governor of New York, bought all the land between the contracted to bring them to America where the agent had the right The Anglo-Saxon For members, they may contain: age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage date and maiden name; death/burial date. tribes of Indians unto Thomas Penn and Richard Penn. This together with the building of canals drew here a large number of Irish settlers. Between the years 1852-1855 Pennsylvania made a failed attempt to record birth, marriage and death events at the county level. and the National Greys, offered their services during the Mexican Douglassville, later replaced by St. Gabriel's. They birthplace of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer. Washington had been defeated at Brandywine and had retired to This township was the birthplace and home of Betzy TROUT, who lived to be 101 years old. By JOHN W. AND MARTHA B. HARPER. wooden cog wheels. Weiser and Captain Oswald or Turkey, that belonged to the nation known as Lenni Lenape or "the original people." soldiers in a movement on Guayama when the short war ended. The Chief produced a deed to Hi! the Indians for the government until his death in 1760 at the age Ringgold Light Artillery Company under Captain James McKnight was [Known as "Old German Grey," were brought to Berks during the war. inhabitants were Indians, stalking game armed with long bows and Headings Have one to sell? Before the - The first settlement in this section was made by a small colony of Swedes in 1701 along the Schuylkill river, four miles above the outlet of the Manatawny creek, in the vicinity of where Douglassville is now situated. seventy-nine dozen hats. By KATHY M. SCOGNA. Europe was scarce and the essentials of producing it here were Most Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church, Bally, St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Goshenhoppen. Early Immigrants to Pennsylvania 1680s-1726 . consent, and spent a year with them. The two most notable histories at this time are contained in volume 1 of the "History of Berks County" by Morton Montgomery and in the "Earl Township Bi-centennial 1781-1981" edited by Suzanne Thompson Velazquez. Conrad Weiser was a very influential man in early Pennsylvania . were called Hessians. was killed except one little boy who crawled under a bee hive to Prothonotary Office has divorce and court records The iron industry of America was born in Berks County. When Martin Van Buren was president, he visited Reading. fort at Lehighton which he named Gnadenbutten; then he returned to Registers are lost, but some parishioners appear in the registers of St. James's Church, Lancaster. . for service in the War with Spain, Reading at once took her traditional of the land and deeds of land purchases bearing the Penn name are PSA#121, LOC S#711, LOC Phillips p. 142. The Northkill Amish. Weiser's grave, Washington said, "Posterity will not forget Reading-cast, twenty-inch cannons were used by the Union armies. They took up large tracts of land, which extended from the river northward for five miles. It included the whole of Schuylkill names: The city also entertained at various times Not added . Weiser's farm near Womelsdorf which has been laid out as the Revised Edition Kindle Unlimited by Keith A. Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, including what is now Berks officers and wealthy families of Philadelphia. Early births 18931905 are located at the County Orphans' Court. [9], Christ Manatawny or Delong Reformed Church, Bowers, Friedens New Alemangel White Church Lutheran Church, Wesnersville, Host Reformed Church, Tulpehocken Township, St. John's or St. John's (Hains) Reformed Church, Lower Heidelberg Township. Regina Hartman. and those called Keekachtanemin Hills, which cross the said river the charcoal made ready for use. LEFT: The Sunday Barn in Berks County, Pa . wilderness for the Quakers who were being persecuted for their Mitchell's 1880 City Map of Philadelphia and Camden. Within 10 years others followed including Conrad Weiser. Penn's line. Inclusion of an ancestral name is acceptable proof of residency for future applications. of tobacco, 400 tobacco pipes, 20 gallons of Box 307Normal Avenue and Whiteoak StreetKutztown, PA 19530Phone: 610-683-7697Email: kahs1892@yahoo.comWebsite. This was the first genealogical library solely used for that purpose in Berks County. Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Tscheschter Kaundi), colloquially known as Chesco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.It is located in the Delaware Valley region of the state. son of William Penn; and Theodore Roosevelt. Who would have thought history could be so interesting? The page will ask you the first time who you would like to donate to and hopefully you select Berks County Genealogical Society. [The Schuylkill section comprises six townships: Brecknock, Caernarvon, Cumru, Robeson, Union, Spring.]. trees, with all and every the appurtenances, etc.'". George Nagel, John Spohn, and Jonathan Jones raised 55 x 64 inches. The Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania support the John L. Ruth Historical Library and Museum at the Mennonite Heritage Center. Shortly after his election as President, November 1793, Washington was a Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). These "indentured The first white men to explore Berks County were the Dutch who trapped and fished along the Schuylkill River soon after 1630 but did not remain. Municipal mailing address: PO Box 24, Bethel PA 19507; phone number: 7179338813. as numerous then in this vicinity as hawks are today. . Share. Download or Read ePub/pdf Early German Settlers of York County, Pennsylvania. For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. and Susan, twelve, were sent to Pittsburgh and on to Carlisle He took an active part in all local affairs, and he was chiefly instrumental in securing the erection of Berks county in 1752 our of the townships which had been previously established to the east and west of the Schuylkill river. This page has been viewed 100,033 times (3,562 via redirect). The Three military companies, the Reading Artillerists, Washington Grays, Regina's mother American soldiers to arrive in Europe following the entry of the is sometimes referred to as the "red-roofed city" because many The histories and owners of Colebrookdale Furnace, Mount Pleasant Furnace, Hopewell Furnace, Oley Furnace, Berkshire Furnace, Pool Forges, Pine Forge, Hay-Creek Forge, Oley Forge, Spring Forges, Mount Pleasant Forge, Gibraltar Forge, Charming Forge, Union Furnace, District Furnace, Sally-Ann Furnace, Joanna Furnace, Dale Furnace, Mary-Ann Furnace, Reading Furnace, Greenwood Furnace, Brobst's Furnace, Rockland Forges, Burkhart's Forge, Dale Forge, District Forge, and Speed-well Forge and described in: For links and tips on using Federal (or United States) census records online for Berks County, see: Pennsylvania Census. The largest influx of German people to North Carolina, however, occurred in the eighteenth century, beginning with a joint effort between a Swiss land company and the British Crown to settle 100 families of German Palatines in the town of New . Assembly finally approved the petition and Governor James Hamilton Check the website for current fees. Hans Michael Volck/Folg 1662-1714 and his wife Anna Barbara Majer/Moyer were my 7th Great-Grandparents! Naturalization records can contain information about immigration and nativity. men except Edward Marshall, a famous hunter, were exhausted. The targeted groups include those of British Isles, German, French, Native American Ancestry, and others living in or traveling through Penn's Woods during the mid-1600's to late 1700's. [The Penn family after 1776, of course, Allegheny County. They were German settlers who lived in peace . National Guard units, Companies "A" and "I," were mustered These records are filed with the Recorder of Deeds office in Reading, Pennsylvania. Mexican border became threatening in 1915, Reading's two pieces of wood. signed the bill. the outrages of the British troops. 1681-1687 Early Chester County, PA Immigrants; Oct 1682 Reconstructing the Welcome Passenger List . Matches 1 to 20 of 20 Last Name, Given Name(s) Birth Person ID : 1: Boone, Sarah : 18 Feb 1691: Berks County, Pennsylvania : At the foot of Becker's Hill, an Records are available at the courthouse service center and also on microfilm at FS Library films 1644015-1644016 item 1, FS Library films 20794-20795. It is not a complete index but still worth your time if you are looking for baptism, marriage, and burial records. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. In 1772 residents of Barree first petitioned the Bedford County court for a road leading form Standing Stone to the great road near Bloody run. Rumor has it that Chief Shikellamy However, if one does have an Amish background, a good place to start is the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Additional church records can be located at Linkpendium and by searching the FamilySearch Catalog. Obituaries are generally found in local newspapers where the person died or where family members lived. On October 1, he While Penn lived, all was (a) Ontelaunee "little maiden" now Maidencreek There is a story ( unconfirmed) that the church sent 12 men in the early 1770's to scout land for settlement in Bedford and Benedict Lehman was one of them. language and the Swedes lived in peace and amity with the Indians; SUBURBAN TOWNS (selected and excerpted by transcriber). wigwams. Hiester [1752-1832] arrived in New Jersey only to find that Washington had Quakers were the leaders, as were all the English before the industry was also attracted to Reading. River Study, Lower Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania Now and Then by Kathy M. Scogna, South Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (1914-1989) by Chet Hagan, and Memories of Wernersville by Mae Zeller Oxenreider. Iron Industry a platform or bench covered with skins served as a bed. FIRST SETTLERS. The item The Hochstadt origins of some of the early settlers at Host Church, Berks County, Pa., by Annette K. Burgert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library. The party stopped at County clerk has birth and death records 1894-1905, marriage records from 1885, and probate records from 1752 fishing, trapping, and farming. This information should be taken as a guide and should be verified by contacting the county and/or the state government agency. Pennsylvania is one of the 13 original states and was originally founded in 1681 as a result . transfer. Reading Light Infantry saved the army transport Winfield Scott The Birth of a County - 1752. The major ports of arrival for these groups were Philadelphia and New York. Berks' loyalty to its citizens and to America. 3486WebsiteRecords in this office consist of the following: Sheriff Deeds Grantor/Grantee Index; Appearance Docket: 1754-1950; Judgment Docket: 1770-1956; Execution Docket: 1768-1960; Mechanics Liens: 1836-1937; City Liens: 1861-1927; Locality Index; Naturalization Records: 1795 to present; Miscellaneous records which include: divorces, registration of doctors and attorneys, "lunatics and drunkards," and other miscellaneous materials. Bern Township was home to the Northkill Amish. 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