Hans Georg Hertzel, Pioneer of Northampton County and His Family

Hans Georg Hertzel Pioneer of Northampton County and His Family HANNAH BENNER ROACH, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. P ATRICK GORDON, Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, informed his Council on 14 September 1727, "that here is lately arrived from Holland a Ship with four hundred Palatines, as 'tis said, and that he had information they will be very soon followed by a much greater Number, who design to settle in the back parts of this province." Immigrants such as these, he went on, for years had been transporting themselves without any leave obtained from the Crown of Great Britain. Ignorant of the language and laws of the province, they tended to settle close together on untaken up lands in the back country without any kind of permission. If such numbers of strangers continued to pour in, they would threaten the peace and security of the province unless some proper measures were taken to prevent them from continuing as "a distinct people from his Majesties Subjects." In view of their increasing numbers, Gordon's Provincial Council now concluded that until some proper remedy could be obtained from England, the masters of vessels importing these strangers should furnish lists of the names of those they imported, stating their occupations, their places of origin, and reasons for emigration. Furthermore, it was advisable the immigrants be required to sign a document declaring their allegiance and subjection to the King of Great Britain, fidelity to the Proprietary of the province, and obedience to its laws and the laws of Pennsylvania.' As a result of this directive on 18 September 1727, a list was presented to the Council containing the names of 109 Palatines, 51 of whom signed the required declarations on 21 September.' These Palatines and their families—in all some 300 persons — had arrived on the Ship William El Mary, William Hill, Master, from Rotterdam. Heading the list Mintiles of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania From the Organization to the Termination of the Proprktary Government (Philadelphia, 1852), III, 282, hereinafter cited as Colonial Records. William J. 1-linke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers (Norristown, Pa., 1934). I, 7-10, Lists I-A-B. 151 152 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine of passengers was the name of George Michael Weiss, a young, recently ordained minister who came with the group of immigrants as their pastor. Only the previous May he had been ordainEd a minister of the Reformed Church at Heidelberg where he had matriculated at the University nine years before. "He had conceived the plan with some of his fellow-citizens and other friends, well known to him, to undertake a journey to the transatlantic parts of the world," where, if it should please Divine Providence, he would undertake the "leadership of a congregational flock, to teach and to guide them." a Born in Eppingen in the Upper Palatinate between the Neckar and the Rhine about fifty miles southeast of Heidelberg, Weiss's fellow passengers included some who came from the same general neighborhood. At least two were natives of Reihen, a village due north of Eppingen some twenty miles down the Elsenz, the little tributary of the Neckar which flowed through both that town and the village of Reihen. They were the brothers Hans Georg and Hans Ulrich Hirtzel, two of the sons of Clemens Hirtzel and his wife Anna Sinter.' The Hirtzel family had lived in Reihen since about 1652, when Hans Heinrich Hirtzel and his wife Maria Steiner moved there from the parish of Pf afficon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. Their youngest son Clemens was born in Reihen 20 2m 1659, his sponsor at baptism being Clemens Hirtzel, pastor of the congregations at Reihen, Steinsfurt, Kirchardt and Stebbach. The younger Clemens Hirtzel had married at Reihen 23 llrn 1680, Anna Sinter, born in Reihen 20 3m 1664, daughter of Hans Sinter and his wife Margaretha Mayer. The Hirtzels had ten children, of whom Hans Georg, born 30 5m 1686, was the second, and Hans Ulrich, born 21 8m 1705, was the youngest. Until his untimely death on 25 3m 1707, in his 47th year, Clemens Hirtzel, a subject of the von Vennigen family, was their administrator or bailiff.' His widow, for many years the midwife of the community, died in Reihen 13 Ilm 1738. For this colony led by Weiss, see William J. Hinke, A History of the Gosbershoppen Reformed Charge (Lancaster, Pa., 1920), 19 et seq. Biographical data on Won in this account stam he was b. 23 Jan. 1700, at Epping, Wurttemberg. • The identification of the Hirtael families in Reihen was undertaken in 1961 for Mr. Charles H. Nice, Jr, of Telford, N. The registers of the Reihen Evangelical Church in the State Archives at Karlsruhe were searched for him by Pastor Henry Schuclunan. His findings were then collated and arranged in family groups by Dv Fritz Braun of Kaiserslautern for Mr. Price The European ancestry given in the present teat is based on Dr. Braun's report, a copy of which is in the author's possession through the courtesy of Mr. Price and Dr. Braun. Mr. Prices interest is with the Hemel family who were founding members of rim Christ Reformed (Indian Creek) Church in Franconia Twp., Montgomery Co. 0 In Dr. Brames report, Clemens Hirtael is described or Vemsiagenscher [Interims sosd des Geriebts RAhen, Venniogenseher, Verwalter. According to Dr Karl Friedrich von Frank, the von Venningen family had jurisdiction over a part of the village of Rrihen, the Electorate Palatinate over elm rest. Dates taken from Dr. Braun's report have not been transposed: they are presumed to be new style, i.e., according to the present Gregorian Calendar. Hans Georg Hertzel 153 It seems probable that her youngest son Hans Ulrich Hirtzel, or Hertzel as the name was usually spelled in Pennsylvania, had been in Pennsylvania before 1727: on the list presented to the Provincial Council the notation "Skipach" following his name indicates a prior residence in the province. If so, it would appear that he had returned to Europe, probably to find a wife, and was now returning with her: the list shows there were only two persons in his party. No Reihen marriage record has been found for him, but when his will was written, his wife's name was Anna Margaret. They settled in Upper Salford Township, Philadelphia (later Montgomery) County, where he took up 150 acres of land along Rich Valley Creek by virtue of a warrant dated 20 February 1734. He died there testate in 1771.° With Hans Ulrich came his brother Hans Georg Hertzel, nineteen years his elder, who was the pioneer of Northampton County. The following outline of his family and some of his descendants is the outgrowth of a search to identify the parents of one Maria Gross of Northampton County who married in 1782 one John Santee. As the search led to the Hertzel family, the data gathered on other Hertzels began to fall into place and a fairly complete, hitherto unstudied family record emerged. The record is not definitive, however, since relatively few civil records, such as deeds, original assessment lists or estate proceedings, were examined in detail except for the line from which Maria Gross descended. The other lines are based mainly on available church records and the evaluation of relationships indicated in them. The study of this family is presented here as a suggested guide for others who might be interested in developing more fully the less detailed family lines. HANS GEORG HERTZEL with his brother Ulrich, George Michael Weiss, and forty-nine others had appeared before the Council on 21 September 1727, and there solemnly promised to "be faithful to the Proprietor of the Province," to "demean ourselves peaceably to all His said Majesties Subjects, and strictly observe & conform to the Laws of England and of this Province to the utmost of our Power and best of our understanding." He signed his name "hans Jerg hertzel" to the declaration.' 'Although Ulrich Hertxel W23 an original member of Weise. Goshenhoppen Chore, the baptism of only one of his children, John. George, was entered %LI the church register. Si, sons were confirmed between 17481758, but only four survived him: Jacob of Rocklaill Twp., Ulrich of U. Salford Twp., Henry of Springfield Twp., Bucks Co., and George of U. Salford Twp. Marx, a fifth so, was buried the same day as his father. Two surviving daughters were Barbara, w. of Adam Smith, and Margaret, for mention of whom see Montgomery Co. Deed Book 6, 450 , 7 May 1773, Jacob Hemel et al. to George Hemel. For the survey of Ulrich Herwere land, see Nicholas Scull Notebook 6, 59, Am.1319, MS, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HOP) ; for date of the warrant, Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, =V, 19; for ios subsequent sale, Philadelphia Deed Book 1-17, 155' 7 July 1779, George Hemel to John Nyc, For Ulricles will see Philadelphia Will Book P, 7, #49:1771; see also Philadelphia Orphans Court Book 10, 110, 165. ?Catania Records, m, 283, cited in Note 1 above; for the signature, see Pennsylvania German Pianetes, II, 1. Lirt I-B. 154 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine On the captain's list presented to the Council, where the clerk wrote his name as "Hans Jerg. Herzels," the notation there were four persons in his party was added Who the three were in addition to himself is still undetermined. He had married at Reihen on 10 1 m 1703, ANNA MARGAREtHA CONRAD, daughter of Jacob Conrad, a citizen of Ittlingen, a mile or so south of Reihen up the Elsenz. She is reported to be the mother of his five children, though the first birth recorded in the Reihen registers was not until eleven years after their marriage. If she accompanied Hans Georg Hertzel on the voyage across the Atlantic, she may have died en route; if so, the three others in his party would have been some of his children. The whereabouts of these Hertzels during the next seven years is still undetermined. But on 23 April 1735, he was granted a warrant for the survey of 300 acres which he took up on the east branch of Saucon Creek, and to which he gave the name "Partnership." Lying a mile south of the Lehigh River on the north side of the present road from Hellertown to Easton, the tract was not officially surveyed by Nicholas Scull until 24 December 1737. Two weeks before, 200 acres adjoining it on the northwest, and extending across what is now called Applebutter Road on geodetic surveys, had been surveyed for his son George Hertzel, Jr.' Watered both by the east branch of Saucon Creek and a stream flowing southward into the creek, when the elder Hertzel's 300 acres were laid out they were surrounded by vacant, hilly land on the north, east and south. Other than his son George's land, the only other adjoining surveyed tract was that of George Kerman (German) on his southwest line which had been surveyed at the same time as his son's.' West of and adjoining these, in the valley of Saucon Creek, was a large tract surveyed the previous October for Nathaniel Irish, formerly from the Island of Montserrat. On his land, embracing the mouth of the Saucon, he proposed building a mill on the flats near the creek's mouth, and opening a quarry nearby. The "George Hatzell" survey is on record in Survey Book C-76, 32, Lmd Office, Deputment of In231, is altered in Nicholas Scull Notebook ternal Affairs, Harrisburg, N. His son's survey, in ibid., 5, under date of 10 Dec. 1737, HSP, but not his father's. Surveys in the valley of the Saucon which Scull made early in December, 1737, and are entered in this notebook were for Matthias Riegel (warranted 7 Nov. 1737), on 7 December; for Frederick Scholl (warranted 11 June 1734), for Frmcis Plum (warranted 11 June 1734), and for Henry Jacobs (warranted 19 Oct. 1737), all on 8 December. C-78, 9 The slimy of the Kerman tract, entered as for George "Gormm" under date of 10 Dec. 1737, is also in Scull's Notebook 1. KC1111112 had abandoned his land by 1749 when a new warrant wan issued to Gratzius Lergh (Pancratius Lerch), for which see Poem Book A-17, 562: 8 January 1755, Patent to Gratzius Lergh, Land Office, Harrisburg. Therein the date of his warrant is incorrectly given as 20 Sept. 1727, rather than 1737, as cited in Pennsylvania Arebives, 3rd Series, XXIV, 138. Today, the land taken up by the Hertzels and Gmrge Kerman prawn a desolate picture, completely covered as it is by the slag dump of the Bethlehem Steel Company. The east branch of Saucon Cork,, barely visible. Hans Georg Hertzel CHORUS HERTZ LA. 155 A.4 24 Dee 00 A. GEORG RTZEL N. IRISH 5.12 San I737 300.4. SOLO TO CRUI/l SHANK FR ANTE SLUM -.. "Tr1761%-; SURVEYS AT SAUCON CREEK THE "UPPER PART" OF BUCKS COUNTY 1737 5Nowiao vie PIONEER itsarzas. TaAcrs scaLs 0.0E. 156 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Irish is said to have acquired at least part of his land as a result of the lottery the Proprietors, in the spring of 1735, had proposed holding; 100,000 acres would be thrown open for settlement to the purchasers of lucky tickets. One account says Irish bought three tickets in the lottery, and when it was postponed in February 1736, and then abandoned and never drawn, he and others holding tickets were allowed to locate the land called for by their tickets." Whether or not the notation "Ticket sent per P. Miller" at the bottom of Hans Georg Hertzel's survey indicates he, too, had bought a ticket, has not been established. Late in September 1737, before these surveys were made, the line to establish and confirm the bounds of the old 1686 purchase of Indian lands had been run. The area along the south bank of the Lehigh, both west and east of this so-called "Walking Purchase," " was still called the "upper part" of Bucks County and as yet was undivided into townships. Though the line, touching Nathaniel Irish's southwest corner and only about a mile and a half from the Hertzers, divided that part of the county in half, and though the Hertzels themselves had few near neighbors, there were enough settlers in the entire area to want and need roads leading down to the more settled parts lower in the county. By the end of May 1738, they had gotten together and drawn up the following petition to present to the Bucks County Court of Quarter Sessions: Your Humble Petitioners make bold to Advertise you that there is a Great Number of People Settled in the upper parts of this County whereof some of them has been Settled a Considerable time so that it is now much Inhabited and what Roads has been made by the Settlers is very often put about to the Disadvantage of the Inhabitants as well as Trawilers. Therefore your Petitioners humbly begg the fawour you would please to take into Consideration that there might be a Road laid out ower Tohickon beginning at the Recorded Road Ott Thomas Morris fence in Hill Town & from thence to Nathaniel Irish 10 For the date of Irish's survey, ea ibid., 136. For a draft of hi, land on Northampton County Miscellaneous Documents, 1749-1838, Microfilm Reel 701, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP), the originals of which are in HSP. Irish sold part of this land to George Cruikshank in 1743, for which no Bucks Co. Deed Book 7, 33: 15 Oct. 1743, Nathaniel Isiah to George Cruikshank, and removed to Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon Co., N. J., when he died in 1748. For abstract of his will, no "Calendar of Wills (1730-1730), II," New Jersey Archive', In Senn, 1001, 259. Therein he directed he wished to be buried one his "brother" George Cruikshank at "Sauchon,. and named among others, his nephew William Irish, niece Sarah huh, inet Elizabeth Lee of the Island of Montserrat and her daughters; his =turd daughter Am, born of Ann Santee, to whom he devised the plantation on which she lived called "Private Neck . on the west bank of the Delaware and part of the plantation at the mouth of &neon Creek reserved wlwa he sold the balance to Groikshank; end his natural son Johnny, than living with him. Craikshank was dead by 1748 when his will was mural in Philadelphia AdnunistratMn Book P, 131, after the death of Nathaniel Irish, whom he had named one of his executors and guardian of his son James Cruikshank; for abstract see Publications of the Genrelogin! Soriety of Pennsylvania (POOP) V. 177. For notion of the projected lottery, see Pennsylvania Gazette, f June, 7 Aug., 18 Dec. 1735, 1 Feb. 1735/6, and W. W. H. Davis, The History at Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Prows the Discovery of the Dehnvare to the' Present Time (Doylestown, Pa., 1876). 318. 1 X For an S0001112I of doe Walking Purchase, no ibid., 484-498. Hans Georg Hertzel 157 mill att the mouth of Sough Coung [Saucon] which would be a great Ease to the Dwellers about and for the publick Good." Presented to the court in June 1738, this petition for what eventually came to be called the Old Bethlehem Road, running through Applebachsville, was signed by George Hertzel, Jr. and "Divers Inhabitants about Great Swamp, Sawcony Etc." Because of the hilly terrain through which it ran, however, neither this road, as first laid out from Thomas Morris' plantation in Perkasie to Irish's mill at the mouth of "Sawcony," or others that followed satisfied everyone. During the next few years numerous petitions came before the court praying for changes in routes in the hope the roads might be laid out more conveniently for adjacent landholders, or in less circuitous fashion around the hills. Surviving petitions in the Sessions files at Doylestown show that Hans Georg Hertzel and his older sons all joined in signing their names to a number of them." By writing their names and not making their marks, it is obvious each had acquired a certain amount of schooling. In June 1742, settlers "on and near Sawcum being desirous to have a Township laid out to be called by the name of Sawcum had accordingly got the Surveyour to lay out the same which they humbly pray this Court would be pleased to confirm." A constable, George Masseler (Marsteler) was appointed for the township the following September, and in March 1743, the draught of the township presented to the court by the inhabitants of Lower Saucon was confirmed by the court." Lower Saucon was still within the bounds of Bucks County when on 12 November 1747, Hans Georg Hertzel, the immigrant pioneer, now aged sixty-one, conveyed the southern half of his "Partnership" land to his son-in-law Philip Schlauch, and at an undisclosed date but probably about the same time, assigned the other half "by a deed in the German 1,2 Quarter Sessions Court Raords, File 45, 1738, Bucks County Court House, Doylestown, Pa. These Bucks Co. Sessions records are confusing to work in. The early court records have been bound together in one volume entitled Sessions Docket, 1715-1753. Most of the early road petitions also have been bound in one volume, labelled Petitions for Roads, 1722-1801. Other original papers including some petitIons and returns of surveys, are Sled chronologically and given file slumbers. Consequently all these three sources must be etamined in the search for original data, signatures, etc., and even then, it a not always possible to locate particular document. Records for the upper part of Bucks Co., prior to 1702 when Northampton Co. was separated from Bucks, are especially hard to locate and correlate whm found. One example is in Petitions for Roads, 1722-1801, 71 (File 58), under date of March 1743. This petition prayed for alteration in the road from Irish's mill to Abraham Wilderness's. The elder George Hermers signature shown above is from this petition. Bucks Co. Sessions Docket, 1715-1753, 253, 260, 307. Ti,, draft has not been located. 158 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine language" to Nicholas Transue," presumably the man with whom Hertzel had taken up the land originally. Thus at the end of his life Hans Georg Hertzel had no estate to be probated and there are no proceedings on record in either Bucks or Northampton County, not erected until 1752. Neither the date of his death nor place of burial are known. Issue of Hans Georg Hertzel:" 1. i. HANS GEORGE HERTZEL, b. in Reihen 8 7m 1714; drowned at Easton 21 January 1762, of whom further. 2. ii. HANS JACOB HERTZEL, bapt. at Reihen 16 2m 1716; d. 1 February 1781, of whom further. 3. iii. ANNA MARGARETHA HERTZEL, bapt. at Reihen 17 2m 1719; d. after 1781, of whom further. iv. JOHANN DIETRICH HERTZEL, bapt. at Reihen 31 8m 1722; deceased by 16 November 1779, when CATHARINA, widow of Johann Dietrich "Hertsell" m. the widower Gorg Balsser Lehner.. When Dietrich Henze! communed at St. Paul's Lutheran (Blue) Church, Upper Saucon Township (now Lehigh County), in November 1753, it was noted in the record that he was blind." With wife Catharina he presented two children for baptism at Tohickon Reformed Church: I. GEORGE HniarzEL, b. I April, bapt. 16 April 1758, sp. George Hickman and wife. 2. EVA CATHARINE Hmerzul., b. 13 December 1760, bapt. 20 March 1761, sp. John Hickman and wife." v. JOHANN LEONHARD HERTZEL, hope. at Reihen 29 9m 1726. He is not to be confused with the Hans Leonhart Hormel, aged 24, who qualified 21 September 1732, at Philadelphia, after arriving on the Pink Plaisaxce with his father Heinrich,. eldest brother of the Ulrich and Hans George Hertzel of this account. Hans Georg Hertzers , son Leonard m. 6 April 1747, ANNA MARIA FRANTZ, daughter of Paul Frantz, according to the published rec10 No records identifying Nicholas Trans= have been found, but the assignment is recited in Patent Book AA-11, 344: 15 June 1770, Patent to Jacob Slough, Land Office, Harrisburg. What relation Trannw had, if any, to Abraham Transue from Mutterstadt, immigrant of 1710 on the Ship Thistle of Glasgow, to Salisbury Twp., Lehigh Co., is not known. 10 The Ram birth end baptismal dates of these children are as given in the record furnished by Dr. Braun. 11 "Marriages by Rev. John Waldschmidt," Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, W, 228. For translated records of St. Paul's (Blue) Church, see Microfilm Reel Cl, Rrauth Memorial Libruy, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. 10 Poe Tohickon records are William J. Hinke, "History of the Tohickon Union Church, Bedminster Township, Bucks County," Pennsylvania-German Society Publications, XXXI, PAWM, cited in the text hereinafter as Tohickon Rdormed. (.According to Dr. Brasn's report, Heinrich Hirtzel, Sohn des Clemens Hirtsel, was b. in Reihen 25 9m 1681, and m. at Reihen 3 2m 1705, Anna Barbara, daughter of Rudolph Umberger. Their children were Anna Christina, b. 20 12m 1705; Hans Leonard, b. 5 7m 1707; Maria Catharine, b. 29 10m 1710; Hans Georg, b. 25 5. 1713; Jacobins, baps. 31 1m 1717; Johann Philips, bapt. 4 6111 1724. Of these, Christina, Leonhard and Jacobin, accompanied their parents to Puinsylvania on the Pink Plaisance; see Pennrylvania German Pioneers, I, 78-85, Li,,, 23-A-B-C Hans Georg Hertzel 159 ords of the Old Williams Township Church?' Issue entered in those records: 1. Mmuw SUSANNA HERTZEL, b. 2 December 1747, bapt. 25 January 1748, sp. Paul Frantz and wife Anna Maria (the grandparents) , 2. SARAH HERTZEL, b. 12 May, bapt. 23 July 1749, sp. Jacob Hertzel (the child's uncle) and wife Barbaro 1. HANS GEORGE HERTZEL, JR., born in Reihen 8 7m 1714, eldest child of Hans Georg Hertzel, the immigrant of 1727, presumably accom- panied his father to Pennsylvania. No record of his marriage has been found, but by 1737, he had taken to wife one CATHAIUNE, born about 3 March 1713. One month after their first child was born in August 1737, George, Jr., obtained the warrant, dated 20 September, for the 200 acres surveyed the following December adjoining his father's "Partnership" plantation. As with his father, only a few records of his life survive. During the Supreme Court session of 25-27 September 1740, as a foreigner, George "Hartsell" of Bucks County, having "inhabited and resided the space of seven years and upwards in his Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been absent out of the said Colonies for a longer space than two months, at any one time, during the said seven years," and having produced a certificate showing he had "taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in some Protestant or Reformed Congregation in this Province" on 22 September 1740, swore to and signed the prescribed oaths and declarations entitling him to the benefits of natural born subjects of Great Britain." H "Records of the Williams Township Congregation," Perron!verde-Gum. Society Publications, 65, cited 0 sin blIt hereinafter as Old Williams. These translated records must be used with caution, as pointed out by W. J. Heller is, Tbe Pennsylvania-German, XI (N. 3, March 1910), 138, and by Preston (Kutztown, 1926), A. Laury in The History of the Anne:own Conference of the hfinisterinm of Pennsylvania 76-86, 91. According to than, the congregation now known at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in William. Twp., Northampton Co., appears to be the outgrowth of two earlier Lutheran congregations, one in Saucon at Philip Schlauch's, the other "on the Delaware" in the vicinity of South Easton. When these congregations fell apart about 1756 a new one under the tide of "The Congregation of Williamstown and Sauconna" (now St. Luke's) was formed. The records of the two eulier congregations were transferred to this near church, an east of the Saucon-Williams township line, about two miles east of the Hemel properties. That these two separate congregational records unfortunately were lumped together when they were translated and published in Volume XVIII by the Pennsylvarna.German Society, is quite obvious when the published record is examined. In the early yean baptisms do not follow in orderly chronological sequence as they would if enured by one pastor of me congregation. Since a number of baptisms of children whose parmts are known to have been Reformed were entered in the record book of the Saucon Lutheran congregation, it seems likely that book may also have been used for a time by the Reformed congregation. Books were scarce, and initially the two groups would have had no thought of denonUnational differences. See Aso W. j. Heller's "The RL1C and Decline of the First Lutheran Congregation at the Forks of thc Delaware" in The Pennsylvania-Germen, cued above. The baptisms of children of both Leonhard Hertrels appear in the published Williams records, but while Heinrich Hirturs son Leonard settled in Williams 'fwp. and appears to have died there about 1787, Leonard Hemel of L. Samon, Hans Georg's son, in 1753 made his brother-in-law Nicholas Frantz his attorney to recover and receive all monies, debts and credits due him, indicating a probable removal front the neighborhood. His further history has not bun seuched for this record. Sec Northampton Co. Deed Book A-1, 10: 21 May 1711, Leonhard Hemel to Nicholas Pratt,, and Will Book I, 15, #112:1766, will of Paul Frantz. Pennsylvania Archives, Ind Series, II, 295-296- The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 160 ( 7•: 1/.4 c7on, - *WV 1/47, 1-4 ) • Ver .•,-7,4"' ',...:70;,”..../K:a-r` 7b. C., y enc., 2 4.471,.., 1,1 • .0_ . 53, /?,-t„).6;;:/;; ,7 ,,,„ ••••:' :X. , n4 1 14 ; PETITION TO CONFIRM THE ERECTION OF LOWER SALMON TOWNSHIP Hans Georg Hertzel 161 Quarter Sessions Court records of Bucks County show that in addition to signing various road petitions, he and his brother Leonard "being called upon their several recognizances" in March 1743, "did not appear but made default," whereupon the court ordered their bonds forfeited. No record as to why they were to appear in court has been found." Members of the Reformed Church living in the Saucon area and parts adjacent along the Lehigh were described in 1734 by John Philip Boehm, George Michael Weiss's predecessor in Pennsylvania, as "the poor sheep at the end of the wilderness" having no settled pastor to minister to them and no money to support one. In Pennsylvania since 1720, Boehm, certainly familiar with this remote area, had obtained a warrant 4 May 1734, for 200 acres for his son which were laid out in the Saucon area south of Nathaniel Irish's plantation. So inaccessible was this corner of Bucks County that it was visited in these early years only at rare intervals by the few pastors from the more settled parts near Philadelphia; in 1739 Boehm reported again to his superiors in Holland the urgent need for at least a reader at Saucon Creek who could catechize the children of the neighborhood. "It is a somewhat out-of-the-way place," he wrote, "and many Reformed people live there." " By the next year, 1740, a congregation of sorts was in existence at "Sakon-krik," and though there still was no resident pastor, four elders had been elected. Boehm reported that in the name of the congregation they had promised to pay if toward the salary of a minister as soon as a regular one should be sent them." One of the elders, George Best (Bast) , had arrived with his wife Anna Maria and nearly grown son Johannes in 1732 as fellow passengers on the Pink Plaisance with George Hertzel's brother Hans Heinrich Hertzel and his family. Another elder, Frederick Scholl, had lived for a time in Philadelphia County after his arrival in 1728, then moved to Saucon and lived only a mile or so south of the Hertzels. In 1750 George Hertzel and his wife stood sponsors at Tohickon at the baptism of their youngest son John George." In 1747, however, the congregation in Saucon was meeting at "Herzel's," presumably at the dwelling of George Hertzel, Jr." But since it uck, Co. Quarter Sessions Docket, 1715-1755, 309, cited in Note 12 above. Minsaes and Letters of the Coetas of the German Reformed Congregation in Pennsylvania, 1747-1792 (Philadelphia, 1903), 2, 10. 26 William J. hlinke, ed., Lift and Leiters of the Rev. lob. Philip Boehm (Philadelphia, 191.6), 287, 293, 298. 20 Bast's son John and wife Susanna Catharine presemed children for baptism 1740-1753, entered in the Old Waliams published records. For an account of Frederick Scholl and his family see Perkionsen Region, I (No. 5, Aug. 1922), 90-91. Fran= Blum (Plum) arrived Sept. 1730, on the Ake -ander 0 Anne. The land surveyed for him by Nicholas Scull adjoined the Irish plantation on the south. 27 Minnie, and Letters of the Coda:, 33, 37, cited in No 24 above. 162 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine had been supplied only occasionally over these years by the student Henry Goetschy (between 1736 and 1739), by the Reverend Peter Henry Dorsius (1740), pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church at Neshaminy, and by Goetschy's brother-in-law, John Conrad Wirtz (1745) , who for a short time had been schoolmaster at Goshenhoppen," it is not surprising that there are records of the baptism of only two of George Hertzel's children, one in 1741, and the other in 1743. Who administered these two is uncertain; possibly it was John Justus Jacob Birckenstock, the Lutheran minister who opened the books for the Lutheran congregation "of the Augsburg Confession" which met at Philip Schlauch's, George's brother-in-law." It was not until 1756, when John Egidius Hecker, pastor of the Reformed congregation in Lower Saucon, opened those church books, that George Hertzel had the names and births of all his children entered in the registers. On 1 January 1761, as a member of the Lower Saucon Reformed congregation's consistory, George Hertzel signed the church accounts." Just over a year later on 21 January 1762, George Hertzel and George Heckman were both drowned at Easton, probably as they were attempting to cross the Lehigh River. The accident must have been witnessed by local residents and the bodies recovered quickly, for both men were buried by the Reverend Hecker three days later on 23 January." George Hertzel's will, written in German 21 February 1757, when he had been "sick and weak," was proved at Easton 3 February 1762, two weeks after his burial. Since at the time it was written he did not know when it would please God to take him from "this Troublesom world," he "taught it be Just Before I depart" to set down his wishes regarding his worldly estate. His "True 8z beloved wife Catharina Heartzel [was] to have the full maneging power of all my Real & ptirsonal Estate to keeped in her hands to manege . . as God the Almighty Give her Sences According to her proper Desire, So Long as she doth no get married again. But if it should be or happen for another presentation of mange or to Contract a new Mange, then she shall not have any longer power to manege with the said Estate till the youngest Child is of Age." His chil" For biographical notices of these three, see William J. Mae, Ministers of the German Reformed Congregations in Pennsylvania . • in the Eighteenth Century (Lancasmr, Pa., 1951), //mink .5 See the published Williams records, 3, cited .na Note 21 above. "For the translated L. Suwon Reformed Church records, see Microfilm Reel 134 - 5, GSP, cimd in the text hereinafter as Lower Saucon Reformed. Tohickon Church Retotdr, 267, referred to ho Note 19 above. Heckman', tame is variously spelled Hickman and Rodman. He and his wife Eva Catharine had two sons whose baptisms are of record: George Adam, bap, at Tohickon 19 Sept. 1756, and Fick (George) Ulrich, 22 April 1759, entered in the published Whams record. Hans Georg Hertzei 163 dren "which is left with there Mother shall be obedient and secure her in Every helpful Thing." If it should happen that the mother should marry before the children came to full age, "then they Shall be Taken from her if they are fit to Learn a Trade." None of the children were to have after his death "no more one as the other, But they shall go an Equal Share Together." It was witnessed by John Egidius Hecker and Jacob Shymer." Cut off at the age of forty-eight, the inventory of his estate, taken 15 February 1762, by Jacob Shymer and Rudolphus Oberle, a neighbor, reveals the degree of prosperity his industry had achieved. He owned a herd of eight cows, four heiffers, two sucking calves, two bulls and a steer, four horses and a mare, a dozen sheep and eight swine. In a quarter century of farming he had accumulated a hand saw, auger, crosscut saw, drawing knife and two axes, three plows and irons, valued at £1 10s., an iron tooth harrow, grubbing hoes and scythes, dung hooks and dungfork, a windmill, a waggon and its equipment, valued at £5 5s., with "horse Gears at £3 55." In the house his wearing apparel was valued at £8, a walnut table at 12s., two beds at £1 10s. and three other beds each at £2 10s., a dresser "and the clothing on it" at £2, "some Books" at £1, a Ianthorn and tankard, wooden stools, a looking glass and tea cups, two spinning wheels, assorted iron and earthen pots, kettles and pans, casks and tubs, a man's hackney saddle, and a pair of wool cards and "Bela." Three bonds due the estate, fourteen bills, and his "improvement" brought the total to £493 15s. 9d. A vendue held 28 April 1762, probably to bring in cash to pay debts and funeral expenses, brought in £24 14s. 10d. His son-in-law Jacob Gross bought tobacco, a little tub, a jacket and a "body jacket," while neighbors bought other pieces of his clothing: a leather jacket and three pairs of leather breeches, a linsey jacket and two other jackets. Adam Edelman, to whom he had sold fifteen acres back in 1758, bought a "pair of quilers" and a box. His son-in-law Philip "Stewfer" (Stuber) bought three of the sheep and an auger, while three more sheep and two cows went to neighbors. Christopher Santee acquired a "sithe," a churn and a big spinning wheel. The family continued to live on the farm for another six years until the youngest children were married. Then on 1 February 1769, seven years after George's death, Jacob Gross, his eldest son-in-law, agreed to .2 Northampton Co. Will Book 32, 165, #298:1762, will of George Hemel. A contemporary translation of it is in the original docket. Hereinafter all estate records, deeds, and similar civil records cited are Northampton Co. records, unless otherwise identified. For biographical note on Jacob Sheimer William T. Blair, TB. Michael Shoemaker Book (Scranton, Pa., 1924), 1-9. 164 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine take the plantation for £401, paying to the other heirs their shares." Two months later a final vendue of the personal estate was held, bringing in another £161 18s. 2d. At this sale John Hertzel, the eldest son, bought most of the farming equipment, including the wagon, four horses, a cow and three heifers, as well as the kitchen dresser, for a total of £77. Jacob Gross bought £10 worth of goods, including a young mare, a sheep, and a table, while Philip "Stewfer" took only a few small items such as a hog, two beehives, an old plane and a bell. MatthiasMig, another son-inlaw, bought a mare, an old ax and auger, a swingle tree and a couple of rubs. When the final accounting was rendered 10 August 1769, the total estate had come to £638 7s. 4d." Probably the widow Catharina Hertzel continued to live on the farm with her son-in-law Jacob Gross. She died 20 September 1796, at the advanced age of 83 years, 6 months and 17 days, and was buried in the Lower Saucon Reformed Church Cemetery.' Issue of 1. Hans George Hertzel, Jr. by his wife Catharine:" i. MAGDALENA HERTZEL, b. 26 August 1737; d. (or bur.) Plainfield Township 8 January 1817, ae. 79-4-25; m. ca. 1755, JOHANN JACOB GROSS, b. 7 June 1734; d. 7 December 1792, bur. Lower Saucon Reformed Cemetery." Probably the immigrant of the Ship John of Elizabeth, who qualified at Philadelphia 7 November 1754," he was of Bethlehem Township when he acquired his father-in-law's plantation in Lower Saucon. He removed to it and as 1772 applied for a resurvey and patent for the land which he now called "Grosstone." The application was caveated by Adam Edelman, and it was not until 1782 that the patent was granted." Issue: 1. PH11.,1P GROSS, b. $ June 1756; of 2 Novem82 Deed Book C-2, 311: 1 Feb. 1769, Catharine Hemel earl, to Jacob Gross. Original assessment line for L Saucon Twp. show the 'Widow Hemel assessed through 1768. In 1766 she was rated on 103 acres cultivated, 60 acres uncultivated. Her eldest son John appears to have been running the farm for her. 88 The inventory and vendues are in the original docket at Eamon, under estate of George "Hartzell." 00 Burials, L. Sa1C012 Reformed Church records, Microfilm Reel 154-5, GSP. 00 Their birth dates are as given in the translated L. Saucon records, cited above. 8, The death or burial of Magdalena "Gem" is given in Henry Martyn Kieffer, Some of the First Set- tlers of "The Forks of the Delaware" . . . A Translation . . . of the Record Books of The First Reformed Church of Easton, Penna. (Eaton, 1902), 310, hereinafter cited as Kieffer, First Reformed Church, Easton. Jacob Grosa.s dates are from John Eyerman, Old Graveyards of Northampton and Adjacent Counties (Easton, 1899), I, 12. The inscriptions this record must be used with caution; am al are aconratel7 teanscribed. Mat ages at death given in the text are feorn Kieffer's First Reformed Church, Easton. Penwylvardo German Pionars, 5, 667.671, Liam 231-A-B-C. Philip Christian Grose, who ucompartied Jacob, settled in L. Salmon also. Born 28 Jan. 1729, he d. I Om. 1795. and is bur. in I.. Salmon Reformed Cemetery. 88 For the caveat see Pennsylvania Virchives, 3rd Series, II, 490. Patent Book P-1, 143: 10 February 1782, Patent to Jacob Gross, Land Office, Harrisburg, recites his payment of List Bs. into the ReceiverGeneral's office, "being the amount of purchase money and interest due and payable," and that Adam Edelman had sold back to Jacob Grose IS acres George Hemel, Jr. had sold Edelman. The subsequent history of Ibis Hertzel-Gross land has not been traced for this study. Hans Georg Hertzel 165 bee 1818, bur. Salem Lutheran Church, Churchville, Forks Township." 2. JoMANN GEORGE GROSS, b. 30 December 1757, baps. Tohickon Reformed 8 Jan.. uary 1758, sp. George Hanel and wife (the grandparents). 3. JoHAbin GROSS, b. 1 August, Inapt. Tohickon Reformed 14 October 1759, sp. John Hertzel (the child's uncle). 4. ANNA CHRISTINA GROSS, b. 17 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran Church 41 7 April 1765, sp. Matthias K.8nig and wife Anna Christina (the child's aunt). 5. JoHANN JAcon GROSS, b. 10 March, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 22 March 1767, sp. Jacob Hertzel (the mother's uncle) and wife Barbara. 6. JOHANN FADE/RICK GROSS, b. 11 January, bapt. Lower Saucon Reformed 20 August 1769, sp. John Frederick and Rosina Knecht; d. 1 December 1810; m. CATHARINE ALBERT, b. 1769; d. 1847, both bur. Lower Sanwa Cemetery. 7. MATTHIAS GROSS. 8. CONRAD Gauss. 9. SUSANNA GROSS." 10' MARIA SARAH GROSS, b. 20 September 1778, bapt. Lower Saucon Reformed 4 March 1779, sp. Reichardt Laubach and wife Margaret. ANNA CHRISTINA HERTZEL, b. 28 January 1739; living in Mt. Pleasant Township, 'Westmoreland County, Pa., 1807. Confirmed at St. Paul's (Blue) Church 11 November 1753, as wife of MATTFIIAS KoNIG (King), b. ca. 1734, immigrant of the Ship Janet, who qualified 7 October 1751. He was dec'd by 31 July 1810, when his German will was proved at Greensburg, Pa." Before moving to 'Westmoreland County they lived in that pan of Bethlehem Township which became Lower Nazareth. Issue: I. MARIA MAGDALENA Koran, In. 21 March, bapt. Old Williams 24 March 1754, sp. Jacob Konig and Maria Magdalena Hertzel (the mother's sister), both single; m. NICHOLAS 'WEITZEL. 2. JOHN JONATHAN KONIG, b. 31 October, baps. Tohickon Reformed 27 November 1757, sp. John Hertzel (the child's uncle) and Catharina Schlauch. 3. SUSANNA (Catharine?) Kobnc," b. 12 September, Inapt. Tohickon Reformed 14 October 1759, sp. Jacob Breucker and wife. 4. Eva CHRISTINA Kobnc, b. 23 May, bapt. Sc, Paul's (Blue) Church, 1 June 1761, sp. Melchior Stecher and wife Christina; d. 1842; m. 1778, JACOB WOLP, b. 4 April 1756; d. 1838." Eyermsn, Old Graveyards, I, 61. Prn Premmed Rife lolurins -Julians. b. 24 Mara 1760, is Irak at Easton Cemetery, according to ibid., U, Part 5, 42. 41 Trinity Union Church at liecktown, L. Nazareth Top. was originally known as Dryland Church; for a brief history of the early Lachman congregation see Laury, Allentown Conference History, 207-211, cited in Note 21 above. The trmslated records are on Microfilm Reel 131-6, GOP. In these the Lutheran baptisms appear first, filen Reformed. These mord, have special interest in this study since most of the arty members of the family eventually appear in them. "Matthias, Conrad and Susanna Grms are included among the children assigned without dates to Jacob Goon in Eyerman, Old Graveyard., 1, 52, cited In Note 37 above. Frederick Gross' birth date therein is given as 10 July 1769, m are hi. wiles name and dues. . 8 The approximate birth dam of Matthias Kilnig is Irons Floyd T. Hmenstine, comp., The 1915 You Book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Rnolation (1956), 510, hereinafter cited m 195I Tar Book, OAR. Therein his wife's name is given as Eva Christina, and the marriage incorrectly phced in 1764. For his arrival, am Pennsylvania German Pioneers, I, 474, Lirt 175-C. Abstract of his will, dated 12 Fels. 1007, and entered in Westmoreland Co. Will Book 1, 252, is in PGSA VI, lit in it he mimes his sow, daughters and their husbands as presented in the text abovk 44 In Romig's will no mention is made of • daughter Susanna; his daughter Catharine married John Spielman. 48 .1acob Wolf's dates are from the 1951 Year Book, OAR, 499. given in dm lineage book. No places are cited or documentation 166 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 5. A daughter, d. 1 February 1764, bur. Dryland Cemetery. 6. GEORGE ADAM Kamo, b. 11 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 17 February 1765, sp. Jacob Gross and wife Magdalena (the child's aunt). 7. A child (Regina?), b. 21 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 15 March 1767, sp. Georg Hormel (an uncle) and Regina Hertzel; prob. m. ISAAC TOWNSON. 8. JOHANNES KoNIG, b. 26 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 2$ March 1770, sp. Job. Schweitzer and wife Catharina. 9. GEORGE DAVID KoNIG, b. 1 October, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 24 October 1773, sp. Jonas Hertzel (a cousin) and wife Catharina; d. 10. GEORGE DAVID KoNIG (2nd), b. 14 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 27 January 1776, sp. George Dorrhammer and wife Susanna (the child's aunt). 11. HENRY KoNIG, named in his father's will. JOHN HERTZEL, b. 29 September 1741," confirmed at "Lohr Sacconheim" at Pentecost 1757, according to Tohickon records; d. intestate in Allen Township, Northampton County, in 1777; m. BARBARA HITTEL, daughter of Michael 1-little, Sr. and wife Anna Maria of Salisbury Township.. A shoemaker by trade, John Herm( appears to have moved first to Salisbury Township after the sale of his father's plantation and was assessed there in 1772 "for the land he lives on." Two years af ter his death four of his five surviving children were under 14 years of age. By 1783 his widow had m. George Knoppenberger. Issue of John Hertzel. 1. arzanwrx HERTZEL, b. ca. 1764; over 14 in 1779 when she chose Matthias King (Konig) as guardian. 2. GEORGE ADAM HERTZEL, b. ca. 1767; under 14 in 1779. 3. MARIA LEAH HERTZEL, b. 12 March, bapt. Lower Saucon Reformed 2 April 1769, sp. the parents. 4. MARY HERTZEL, b. ca. 1771; under 14 in 1779. 5. SUSANNA HERTZEL, b. ca. 1773; under 14 in 1779. 6. JOHN PHILIP IinurzEr, b. 26 December 1776, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 30 March 1777, sp. Philip Stuber and wife Margaret (the child's aunt); dec'd by 24 June 1779, on which date Adam Edelman was named guardian for the surviving children under age." iv. ANNA MARIA MARGARETHA HERTZEL, b. 27 April 1743;" deed by December 1819; m. ca. 1761, JOHANN PHILIP STUBER (Stuver), b. Offenbach am Glass, Rhenish Palatinate, 16 June 1736, son of Johann Wilhelm Stuber and wife Maria Amalia Romer, bapt. Offenbach Lutheran 17 June following, sp. Wilhelm ottinger of Alben, Philip Fritz of Kirweiler, Maria Catharina Stud, widow of Jacob Stud of Capplen, and Maria Catharina Stuber, daughter of George Stuber of Offenbach." Philip Stuber arrived with his parents and brothers and sister on the Ship Richard el Mary, qualifyIng at Philadelphia 26 September u, The published records of Old Williams, 4, cited in Note 21 above, give his birth as 27 Feb., bapt. 19 Oct. 1740, sp. Rudolph Illick and wife Magdalena, MvIchior Stecher and wife Christina. 4, See Will Book 1, 432, #402:1786, for will of Michael Hittel, Sr. in which he names his daughter Barbara and her Hemel children, and son-in-law George Knoppenberger. Papers relating to the estate of Jolm Hemel are us Administration Docket #743:1777. 40 Except for John Philip, these children are named in Michael HittePs will, dated 15 Nov. 1783, and Orph.re Court Book D, 301, entry for 24 June 1779. 05 014 Williams published records, 6, give her birth as 20 April, bapt. I May 1743, sp. Philip Schlauch and wife AMU Margaretha (the child's aunt). 00 Data on skis Stuber family was supplied by Dr von Frank for the author, and includes transcripts of the pertinent records and translations made by him. The village of Offenbach on the Glan, a tributary of the Nthe, is ohm 15 miles northwest of Kaiserslautern. Hans Georg Hertzel 167 1752... The family had settled in Lower Saucon where the father was an elder in the Old Williams Lutheran Church; he died subsequent to 28 May 1780. On 30 October 1765, Philip Stuber purchased 150 acres in Allen Township from George Santee. In 1803 he bought a small tract of five acres in Lower Nazareth Township to which he removed and where he died between 24 May 1815, when his will was written, and 10 August 1816, when it was probated." During the Revolution he was enrolled in the Northampton County militia. Issue: 1. JACOB STUBER, b. 3 April 1762; d. 26 August 1831; m. ca. 1786, ELIZABETH, b. 5 September 1761; d. 14 March 1845; both bur. Schoenersville Christ Reformed Cemetery, Lehigh County." 2. CATHARINE STUBER, living in 1815. 1. JoHANN GEORGE STUBER, 17. 23 November, bap;. Dryland Lutheran 25 December 1770, sp. Johann George Stuher (the child's uncle) and Magdalena Kreter, 4. Joriuml J./icon STUDER, b. 19 September, hap;. Dryland Lutheran 22 November 1772, sp. Jacob Fees (Pubs) and Magdalena Meter; d. intestate 16 July 1855; m. ca. 1805, ELIZABETH BAUER, b. 14 December 1786; d. 25 February 1870; both bur. St. Thomas' Lutheran Church, Altonah, Pa." 6. JOHANN ADAM STWIER, b. 28 May, kept. Dryland Reformed 30 July 1774, sp. Adam Hertzel (the child's uncle) and wife Eleanora; d. 22 January 1845; m. SARAH FOGEL, b. 1784; d. 21 July 1869; both bur. Dryland Cemetery. 7. MAIUA MAOARETHA Smiley., b. 8 October, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 23 November 1777, sp. Philip Haman and Margaret. 8. MAIUA CHRISTINA STUDER, b. 4 May, bapt. at Schoenersville Christ Reformed Church, 5 May 1792, sp. George Henrich Hertzel and wife Maria Christina. FRIEDRICH HERTZEL, b. 2 April 1745. When he was a party to the release of v. his father's plantation on I February 1769, to his brother-in-law Jacob Gross, he was of Lower Saucon, In 1774, when he cook a mortgage on Philip Stuber's property in Allen Township, he was living in that township. No further definite record has been found of him, but he may have been the man of this name assessed in Salisbury Township in 1786 and 1788, having no land, and the man in Menallen Township, York County, ha 1790 having 2 males over 16,2 males under 16, and 3 females in his family." vi. JOHANN ADAM HERTZEL, b. 24 April 1747; d. Me. Pleasant Township, West.. Johann William Stuber's next younger brother, Johann Peter Stuber, a mocking weaver by trade, had preceded his brother to Pennsylvania in 1739. He settled in Philadelphia where he vu a member of St. Michael's Lutheran Church (later St. Michael's and Zion): For the arrival of Philip Stuber and his parents and brothers, see Pennsylvania German Pioneers, I, 488, List 158-C. In addition to ho brothers John Frederick, John George and John Michael Adam Stuber, a sister, Sin MIDI Maria, accompanied them. She m. by 1766, Valentme Raub who d. in 1786. For his will see Will Book 1, 419, #11751786. 02055 recital in Deed Book C-1, 119: 1 Nov. 1774, Mortgage of Philip Shams to Frederick Hartrel; recital in Deed Book 0.4, 310: 21 March 1820, Jacob &ober to Ulrich Lichty; Will Book 4, 619, #9072' Isis, will of Philip Scuba.. . For translation of Christ Reformed Church records, Schoenenville, see MICIOfilla Reel 1511, GSP. A transcript of the St. Thome Cemetery imeriptions is m the Genealogical Department of the Bethlehem, Pa. Public Library. The imcription in this record states Johann 5 Sourer was married 49 yeses and had 9 sons and 3 daughters, but original estate papers in Orphans Court File #6430 list only7 sons, a number which agrees with an account written by one of his granddaughters in the author's possanon. .."Northampton County Assessment Lists," Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIX, 210, 511; Heads of Families al the First Census . . . 1790. Pennsylvania (Washington, D. C, 1908) , 289, hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania 1790 168 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine moreland County, Pa. January 1824; m. ca. 1768, ANNA MARIA CLARA SCHLAUCH (?), b. 1746; d. 1820." He was assessed in Bethlehem Township in 1772, and during the Revolution was enrolled in the Northampton County militia. By 1783 he had removed to Forks Township where in 1790 he had 3 males under 16 and 5 females in his family. Subsequently he removed to Westmoreland County possibly at the same time as his brother-in-law Matthias Konig. Issue: 1. CATHARINE HERTZEL, b. 3 June, bapt. Dryland Reformed 24 June 1769, sp. Catharine Hertzel (the grandmother?). 2. ANNA MARIA HERTZEL, bapt. Dryland Reformed 3 March 1771, sp. Anna Maria Knecht and John Knecht. 3. ANNA HEttrzEL, b. 11 December 1772, bapt. Dryland Reformed 1 January 1773, sp. John George Hertzel (the child's uncle) and wife Hannah. 4. JOHN HERTZEL, b. 3 September, bapt. Dryland Reformed 25 September 1774, sp. John Wolf and Maria Margaret Knecht. 5. SARAH HERTZEL, b. 18 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 18 February 1776, sp. Philip Wolff and wife Elizabeth; bur. Dryland Cemetery 14 April 1790. 6. MARIA MARGARET HERTZEL, b. 25 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 12 April 1778, sp. Martin Gross and wife Maria Margaret. 7. ADAM HERTZEL, b. 4 September, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 24 September 1780, sp. John Ulrich Schleppi and wife Anna Maria. 8. JONATHAN HERTZEL, b. 25 May, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 4 June 1782, sp. the parents. 9. LEONARD HmtirzEL, b. 26 November, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 28 December 1783, sp. Leonard Knecht and wife Margaret (the child's aunt). 10. JOHN GEORGE HERTZEL, b. 9 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 4 February 1787, sp. Ulrich Knecht and wife Eva. 11. BALLI (Polly, Maria) HERTZEL, b. 7 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 26 April 1789, sp. John Rambach and wife Balli; bur. Dryland Cemetery 23 August 1789, ae. 0-6-14. 12. Eva Cumsrmit HERTZEL, b. 6 October, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 28 November 1790, sp. Matthias Konig and wife Christina (the child's aunt). vii. JOHANN GEORGE HERTZEL, b. 8 February 1749; m. ca. 1768, HANNAH PHILITZ (sic) KREILING. Since their children were all baptized at the Dryland Church, it seems probable he was the George Hertzel, shoemaker, who was living in Bethlehem Township through 1788, but was not listed in the 1790 Census." Issue: I. Cilium-NA HERTZEL, b. 11 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 25 July 1769, sp. Philip Hertzel (son of 2. Jacob Hertzel) and wife Christina (the child's aunt). 2. MATTHEW HERTZEL, b. 31 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 12 August 1770, sp. Matthew Konig and Christina (the child's aunt). 3. JOHN GEORGE HE,RTZEL, bapt. Dryland Reformed 11 January 1772, sp. Adam Hertzel and wife Anna Clara (the child's uncle and aunt). 4. JOHN PHILIP HERTZEL, twin of above, bapt. Dryland Reformed Ii January 1772, sp. John Philip Hertzel (son of 2 - Jacob Hertzel) and wife Anna Christina. 5, CATHERINE HoerzEr, b. 8 May, bapt. Dryland Reformed 21 May 1775, sp. Cath80 Adam Hertael's death notice is from Della Reagan Fischer, comp., Marriage and Death Notices from Weekly Newspapers, 1818-1865, Westmoreland Co., Pa., 55, GSP, issue of 9 Jan. 1824, We shnoreland publican, which reporu he d. 'Wednesday last," aged 77. His wife's dates are from 1955 Year Book, SAR, 358. The translated baptismal records of their children give her nune also as Gloria and Anna Myil Eleanore. She may have been a daughter of Jmob Schlmch, brother of Philip Schlauch who m. 5. Margaret Henkel, for whom see the teat below. 57 Penutylvania Archives, led Series, XIX, 24, 134, 202, 361. Hannah Phil= Reeding stood sponsor 27 July 1767, for a child of Martin Kreidler, according to Dryland Lutheran Records, Microfilm Reel 1556, GSP. The later history of this family has not been searched for tIM record, Hans Georg Hertzel 169 erne Hertzel, the grandmother. 6. LEONARD HERTZEL, b. 6 September, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 15 September 1776, sp. Leonard Knecht and wife Margaret (daughter of 3. Anna Margaretha Hertzel Schlauch). 7. SARAH HERTZEL, b. 10 March, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 12 April 1778, sp. Adam Braun and wife Juliana. 8. JOHN HERTZEL, b. 1 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 1 August 1779, sp. John Sweitzer and wife Cathatina. viii. SUSANNA CATHARINA HERTZEL, b. 18 January 1751; m. ca. 1768, GEORGE THURHEIMER (Derhammer), b. ca. 1740; d. 20 July 1803, or. 63-3-0, bur. Drylmd Cemetery. He first appeared as a single man in Bethlehem Township in 1764. In 1788 he was assessed there as an "inmate," presumably living with some of his wife's relatives. By 1790 he was resident in that part of Bethlehem Township which had become Nazareth Township." Issue: 1, ANNA CATHARINE Doss" HAMMER, b. 8 June, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 16 July 1769, sp. Frederick Hertzel (the child's uncle) and Anna Catharine Konig (possibly meant for Anna Christina Komg, the child's aunt). 2. MARIA MARGARET DERHAMMER, bapt. Dryland Reformed 23 December 1770, sp. Philip Stuber and wife Margaret (the child's aunt). 3. GEORGE MICHAEL DERHAMMER, b. 2 August, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 18 August 1776, sp. Michael Wolf and Chris" tina Konig (the child's aunt), bur. Dryland Cemetery 17 June 1830, oar. 54-9-0-" 4. JOHN DERHAMMER, b. 6 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 25 July 1781, sp. John Hertzel (son of 2. Jacob) and Margaretha Gross (the child's great-aunt, 3. Anna Margaretha Schlauch Gross). 5. GEORGE ADAM DERHAMMER, b. 7 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 10 March 1784, sp. the parents. 6. ABRAHAM DERHAMMER, b. 19 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 16 April 1786, sp. John Gross and wife Maria. 7. ISAAC DERFIAMMER, b. 8 Deoember, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 25 December 1787, sp. George Beck and Christina. 8. Jommi DERHAMMER, b. 21 June, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 4 September 1790, sp. Frederick Kreidler and wife Barbara; m. First Reformed, Easton, 2 June 1811, RACHAEL DOLL. 2. HANS JAC083 HERTZEL, second son of the pioneer Hans Georg Hertzel, according to the Reihen Church registers was baptized 16 February 1714." He was thirteen at the time his father emigrated in 1727, and of full age in 1735, when his father obtained the warrant for the Saucon land. Apparently kept busy clearing land with his father and elder brother George during the following years, it was not until about 1743 that he married BARBARA, born 26 April 1721, probably the "Barbel" Ritter who, with her reputed elder brothers and sisters arrived in September 1732, on the Pennsylvania Packet." Paul Ritter, born about 1713, and 58 George Derhammees name appean in various forms: Thurhammen Diirhamer, Turhammer, etc. His burial is noted in Kieffer, First Reformed Church, Easton, 296, cited in Note 17 above. He is identified as Susanna's husband in the patent to Jamb Gross, cited in the same note. See also Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, XIX, 133, 202, 366; Pennsylvania 1790 Census, 177. Kieffer, First Reformed Church, Easton, 326. SO One transcript of his tombstone gives his birth date incorrectly as 29 February 1716. See Dryland Cemetery Inscriptions, N7A, GSP. 55 Pennsylvania German Pioneers, I, 66. 70. Lists 20-A-B-C. 170 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine presumed to be the eldest of the group, took up land by a warrant dated 2 December 1737, on the "Hossasack" Creek in what is now Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County, but was then in Bucks County. By 1752 he had transferred the land to Caspar Ritter and removed to Colebrookdale Township in the newly erected Berks County. There he died testate in 1799." Caspar Ritter, his presumed younger brother, had the Milford tract resurveyed in 1752 and patented, but sold it in 1758, having purchased 200 acres in Bethlehem Township in 1755." Contact between these Ritters and the Hertzels of Saucon appears to have been made through Jacob Hertzel's sister 3. Margaret Hertzel, by 1738 the wife of Philip Schlauch who also had taken up land in Milford. Like the Ritters, he was a Lutheran. Both Caspar Ritter and Jacob Hertzel settled in Bethlehem Township about the same time. Jacob and his wife had apparently lived on the homestead in Saucon until the death of his father, certainly until 1747, when the "Partnership" plantation was sold to his brother-in-law Philip Schlauch. Then on 13 May 1749, Jacob obtained a warrant for fifty acres "adjoining the land of George Hartzell, Jr. [his brother] and Leonard Hartzell" believed also to have been his brother." As laid out, Jacob's land adjoined his brother George's on the north and east, and his father's original "Partnership" land on the north. By 1761 Jacob Hertzel had removed to Bethlehem Township on the west side of the road from Bethlehem to Nazareth where the road from Daniel Craig's to Easton crossed it. Probably he was the Jacob Hartzell who with John Sandy (Santee) signed articles of association for defense against the Indians in the fall of 1763, under Jacob Arndt, captain of Easton's militia company.' Listed as an innkeeper in 1766 when he was assessed on an estate rated at £20, Jacob Hertzel had 50 acres cleared and 110 acres uncultivated. By 1772 he had turned the inn over to his son Jonas to operate and confined his activities to farming. OS For the survey for Paul "Rutter" see Survey Book E, 102, and for the patent to Caspar Ritter, Patent Book A-lf, 330, both in the Lmd Office, Harrisburg. Paul Ritter's will, dated 6 May 1798, and proved 29 March 1799, reorded ho Berk, Co. Will Book B, 554, names his wife Maria Elisabeth, SOU Matthias, daughter Anna Maria, wife of Charles Eckhard, son Henry, and daughter Cuban, wife of Frederick Lesmback. Baptisms and confirmations of some of these children are entered in the New Hanover Lutheran records, for which see Pennsylvania-German Society Publications, XX, 302, 352. The biographical accounts of these Ritter, in Charles R. Roberts, et el., eds. History of Lehigh County and a Genealogical and BiogroPbical Record of Its Families (Allentown, Pa., 1914), II, 1054-1062, is not wholly correct. 00 Caspar Ritter's purchase of hod in Bethlehem Twp. is recited in Deed Book A-1, 481 9 Jan. 1715. Mortgage, Caspar Ritter to Jesse Fallmer. 0. Survey Book C-204, 130, Land Office, Harrisburg. 0 S Kieffer, First Reformed Church, Rastas, 9, cited in Note 37 above. Hans Georg Hertzel 171 On 3 January 1781, being then weak in body, he had his will drawn up. To his wife Barbara he left his messuage and 260 acres "more or less" in Bethlehem Township and all his "mufebles" for her life or widowhood. After her death or remarriage the estate was to be divided among his eight surviving children: sons Jonas, Philip, Jacob and John Hertzel, and daughters Regina, Christina, Elisabeth and Molly. His wife Barbara and son Jonas he named joint executors. He died a month later on 11 February 1781, and his will was proved the following 6 April." His widow Barbara died 7 December 1807, aged 86 years, 7 months and 19 days." Both are buried in Dryland Cemetery. Issue of 2. Jacob Hertzel by his wife Barbara: i. JOHANN PHILIP HERTZEL, b. 20 April, bapt. Old Williams 1 May 1743, sp. Philip Schlauch and wife Anna Margaretha (the child's aunt); confirmed at "Sacconheim" (Lower Saucon) on Easter 1760, according to Tohickon records; m. 30 April 1765, by the Dryland Reformed pastor, CHRISTINA BARBARA KREILING, daughter of Eberhard and Catherine Kreiling. They were living in Bethlehem Township in 1772. By 1781 they probably had removed to Cumberland Township, York County, where in 1783 Philip Herczel had eight inhabitants in his household, and in 1790, one male under 16 and five females." Issue noted in the Dryland records: 1. ABRAHAM HERTZEL, b. 23 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 24 February 1771, sp. Martin Gross and wife Margaret. 2. MARIA MARGARET HERTZEL, b. 8 May, bapt. Dryland Reformed 23 May 1773, sp. Martin Gross and wife Margaret. 3. ELIZABETH HERTZEL, b. 17 August, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 13 September 1778, sp. Philip Faas and wife Elizabeth. ii. JONAS HERTZEL, b. 1 February 1744, according to one transcript of his tombstone; confirmed at "Loin Sacconheim" on Pentecost, 1757, according to Tohickon records; d. testate in Allentown in 1824;" m. 1st ca. 1763, CATHARINA SENDI (Santee), b. 7 March 1746, sp. at baptism (1.) George Herseel and wife Catharine; confirmed Reformed; d. 9 May 1804, ae. 58-2-2, bur. II May in Dryland Cemetery. The notice entered in Isis records by the Rev. Thomas Pomp also states she was the daughter of Valentin Sends and his wife Maria, that she "lived in matrimony 40 years; had 8 children: 2 sons and 6 daughters," one of whom predeceased her, and was survived by 27 grandchildren." Her husband, probably the most conspicuous member of the Hertzel " Will Book I, 263. #943:1781, will of Jacob Hemel. Dryland Cemetery Inscriptions, N7A, 01ve his date of death as 1 Feb. 1781. 288. " Kieffer, First Reformed Church, East., 300, wherein the doe of her burial is given n to Dec. 1807. 0 . Penruylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIX, 24; ibid., XXI, 392, 627, 737. Pennsylvania 1790 CeT5117, Cumberland Twp. is now in Adams Co. The transcript of inscriptions at St. Peter's Cemetery, Plainfield Corp., when Jonas is buried beside ha 2nd wife, eves his death date as 17671 For his will, dated 29 Sept. 1820, and proved 10 June 1824, no Lehigh Co. Will Book 2, 417, #368:1824. In it he namm his present wife Susanna and 6 children: daughter Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Kreidlers eldest son Isaac; son Jonas, deed; eldest daughmr Regina, deed, wife of Philip Knecht; daughter Molly, wife of John Knecht; daughter Peggy, wife of George Krodler, and his own brother John Hemel. Transcript of the Rev. Thomas Pornp's private pastoral record is in the Genealogical Department, &did= Pnblio Librarp 172 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine family in Northampton County, rose to political prominence first as a member of the Committee of Correspondence in the county in 1776. He was elected sheriff in 1779, and to the Assembly in 17812-3. In 1789 he was elected to the Supreme Executive Council, was again sheriff in 1790, and served as a justice of the peace in the county. Issue all by 1st wife: I. ISAAC HERTZEL, b. 8 July, hope. Dryland Lutheran 22 July 1764, sp. Matthew Kon g and Christina (daughter of 1. George Hertzel). 2. REGINA HEitrzEL, b. 22 October, bapt. Dryland Reformed 23 November 1766, sp. Frederick Kreidler and Regina , Hertzel (the child's aunt); d. 25 February 1815; m. PHILIP KNECHT, a cousin, b. 6 June 1768; el. 9 July 1850, both bur. Dryland Cemetery. 3. JONAS HERTZEL, b. 3 January, bapt. Dryland Reformed 19 February 1769, sp. Jacob Hemel and Bar bare (the grandparents); dec'd by 1820. 4. SARAH HERTZEL, b. 19 June 1771; d. 19 December 1790, bur. Dryland Cemetery. 5. Euzaorrx HERTZEL, b. 13 August, hope. Dryland Reformed 26 September 1773, sp. Philip Hertzel (the child's uncle) and wife Christina. 6. JACOB HERTZEL, b. ca. 1775, confirmed on Pentecost 1791, se. 16, at Tohickon; dec'd by 1820. 7. MARIA CATSIARINA HERTZEL, b. 21 December 1775, hops. Dryland Lutheran 18 February 1776, sp. Philip Slough (Schlauch) and wife Maria Catharine, 8. CATHARINA ELIZABETH HEM-LEL, b. 2 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 19 July 1778, sp. George Pfeiffer and wife Elizabeth. 9. MARGARET HERTZEL, b. 4 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 10 March 1784, sp. the parents." Jonas Hertzel apparently m. 2nd, MARGARET GRTJBE, b. 20 November 1747; d. 22 April 1817, bur. 24 April in St. Peter's Cemetery where he is also buried; m. 3rd, SUSANNA, who survived him. iii. REGINA HERTZEL, b. 17 December 1747; d. 5 October 1823; probably m. as his 2nd wife ca. 1763, JOHANNES SENDI (Santee), b. 20 October 1730; d. testate 28 April 1807, both bur. Dryland Cemetery." He first appears in Lower Saucon Township on the assessment roles in 1761; by 1763 he was in that part of Bethlehem Township which became Lower Nazareth. That year with his presumed father-in-law 2. Jacob Hertzel he was a member of the Easton militia company along with Valentine Sandy." In September 1776, John Santee was commissioned a captam in the Northampton County Associators, and in December was ordered to march to the Flying Camp with his company." Under the Mil- ■ On 1 May 1827, Daniel Kreider (Kreidler/ ) and Maria his wife, daughter of Jonas Hamel, Esq., use of the Borough of Northampton, petitioned the Lehigh Co. Orphans Court foe an accounting of his estate. Which daughter this was has not been established for this Account. See Lehigh Co. Orphans Court Book 2, 42. Other marriages, entered in the Furst Reformed Church, Easton, records, which presumably refer to other daughters of Jonas Hemel arm 12 March 1801, George Kradler and Margaret 1Peggy/1 Herreel; 14 Nov. 1802, Jacob Kreidler and Elisabeth Hemel. t2 Who John Santee's first wife relight have been remains unknown. No indication of her name is given in the confused account in the Germalogy of the Santee Family in Antrim by Ellis M. Santee (Cortland, N. V. 1899): in the 7927 Edition of the same work, it is given as Catharine Smith (p. 121, #1), No mention of Regina is made in either edition, and no daughters are mentioned. In John Santee', will Regina is named, but only two sons, Leonard and George, whom he named his ezecmors, are mentioned by name. So Will Book 4, 276. 78 This Valentine Santee may have been she man reported to have signed a petition in 1753 in Warwick Twp., Bucks Co., for which see Davis, History of Bneks Canny, 118, coed in Note 10 above. He may have bon the father of John Santee, probably he and wife Maria were the poems of C.atharine, b. 7 March 1746, wife of Jonas Heard. T. Set Pennsylvania Archival, 2nd Series, XIV, 617 , 618. Hans Georg Hertzel 173 itia Act of 1777, he served as captain in the Sixth Battalion, and later in the Second Battalion of the county militia. His final residence was on the west side of the Bethlehem-Nazareth Road on land adjoining Jonas Hertzel's." Issue by Regina Hertzeh 1. VALENTINE SANTEE, b. 3 May 1764, confirmed at Dryland Reformed 18 May 1782, at. 17; d. 7 January 1812, bur. Dryland Cemetery; reported to have m. CHRISTIANA PAINTER." 2. MAGDALENA SANTEE, b. CO. 1766, confirmed at Dryland Reformed 18 May 1782, Or. 16. 3. LEONARD SANTEE, b. 14 October, baps. Dryland Reformed 27 November 1768, sp. Leonard Knecht and wife Margaret. 4. ELIZABETH RANTER, b. CO. 1771, confirmed Dryland Reformed 27 April 1788. 5. SARAH SANTEE, b. 5 July, bapt. Dryland Reformed 1 August 1773, sp. Philip Hertzel and Christina (aunt and uncle of the child). 6. GEORGE SANTEE, b. 23 January 1776; d. 11 January 1850." 7. REGINA SANTEE, b. 3 August, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 27 August 1780, sp. Philip Faas and wife Elizbeth. 8. CHRISTINA SANTEE, b. 24 November, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 15 December 1782, sp. Jonas Herrn! and Catherine (uncle and aunt of the child). 9. MARGARET siacrer, b. ca. 1786, confirmed Dryland Reformed 18 April 1801, or. 15. iv. JACOB HERTZEL, named in his father's will and possibly the Jacob, Jr. assessed in Bethlehem Township in 1772. He appears to have died testate in Unity Township, 'Westmoreland County in June 1818;" m. ca. 1770, CATHARINE, dec'd after 1818. He may have removed first to York County, possibly with his brother Philip, and was the man who with wife Catharine was sponsoring children for 'William Momeyer in 1792 at Christ Lutheran Church, York." Issue noted in Dryland Lutheran Church records: 1. ANNA CATHARINE HERTZEL, bapt. 16 June 1771, sp. Maria Catharine Klein and Jacob Kuhn. 2. LEAH flzwrzEL, b. 16 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 1 August 1773, sp. Matthias Konig and Christina. v. CHRISTINA HERTZEL, confirmed at Tohickon Reformed 1766. vi. ELIZABETH HERTZEL, b. 9 September, hops. Tohickon Reformed 10 October 1758, sp. Henry Ritter and wife (probably uncle and aunt of the child). vii. ANNA MARIA HERTZEL, twin of above, b. 9 September, bapt. Tohickon Reformed 10 October 1758, sp. Casper Ritter and wife (probably uncle and aunt), confirmed Tohickon Reformed on Easter 1773. viii. JOHN HERTZEL, probably b. 21 August 1762; d. testate 6 March 1847; m. 1781, CATHARINE SCHNEIDER, b. 2 March 1764; d. 8 January 1830, bur. 11 05$,, Map I fs A. Lk Chidsey, Jr., The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware (Easton, 1937), hereinafter cited as Chickey, Penn Patents, for location of Ohm tracts. 733 Santee Genealogy (1899), 10, (#10), gives his death as 1809, but see Deed Book A-4, 410: II Apr. 1814, Christiana Santee, adm'x of Valentine Santee, to George Schaeffer. "Santee Genealogy (11399), 55, (#105, states he m. 12 Nov. 1799, Margaret Shoerer. No baptism or confirmatton for him has been found, but he was named one of the executors of his father's will. See Abstracts of Westmoreland County Wills, 1815-1819, '67,2A, GSP. for will of Jacob Hame), recorded in 'Westmoreland Co. Will Book 2, 438. In it are named his wife Catharine and 5 children: Leah Chambers, John Hemel, Eve Frieze, Catharine Cline and Freny Walters. His wife Catharine and friend Michael Sickfriet were named executors. t5 Sae abstracts of Records of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York, Pa., II, 167, 201, GSP 174 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine January following, at% 65-9-17, both at Dryland Cemetery." In 1785 he had 160 acres in Bethlehem Township on the east side of the Bethlehem-Nazareth Road opposite the Santees." Issue: 1. ELIZABETH HERTZEL, b. 2 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 25 January 1784, sp. Philip Fahs and wife Elizabeth. 2. MARIA MAGDALENA HERTZEL, la. 14 December, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 15 December 1782 (sic), sp. Maria Elizabeth Schneider. 3. Jwcon HERTZEL, b. 13 June, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 9 July 1786, sp. John Lewis (5) and wife Elizabeth. 4. JOHN HERTZEL, b. 13 April, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 22 May 1790, sp. John Schneider and wife Margaret; dec'd by 1845. 5. JONAS HERTZEL, b. 23 January, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 24 March 1793, sp. Jonas Hertzel and wife Catharine (the child's uncle and aunt). 6. Istukc HERTZEL, named in his father's will. 7. SARAH HricrzEt., named in her father's will; m. GEORGE RISHEL. 8. GEORGE FIEwrzEL, named in his father's will; m. First Reformed, Easton, 20 April 1817, Suswm4a. GEORGE. 9. CATHARINE FIERTZEL, named as dec'd in her father's will; m. First Reformed, Easton, 18 October 1829, CHRISTIAN GEORGE, 3. ANNA MARGARETHA HERTZEL, born in Reihen 17 12m 1719, daughter of the pioneer Hans Georg Hertzel, married about 1737, PHILip SCHLAUCH, immigrant of the Ship Dragon, who qualified at Philadelphia 30 September 1732." Under a warrant issued 6 December 1734, he took up 150 acres "near New Cowissioppin" in Bucks County adjoining the Richland Manor line. This was a tract which, like Caspar Ritter's, was actually in what is now Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County. On 3 November 1739, he obtained a second warrant for 100 acres which he appears to have made over to his wife's brother Leonard Hertzel by 15 October 1751, when it was surveyed "in right of Philip Shlough." Meanwhile he sold the Milford tract to Abraham Faust on 10 December 1741, and in 1747 bought half of his father-in-law's "Partnership" farm in Saucon, as noted above." Precisely when the (Lutheran) "Congregation of the Augsburg Confession in Saucon at Philip Schlauch's, not far from the Big Lehigh and the Forks of the Delaware" first met, or how long it continued to gather at Schlauch's is yet to be established. Although by 1737, when John Casper Stoever entered in his private records the baptism of John Michael, son of John Lerch "of Saucon," it is clear that Lutheranism was estabJana FlertzePs dates are from Dryland Cemetery Inscriptions, FDA, GOP; his wife's burial is given in Kieffer, First Reformed Church, Easton, 525. His will is recorded in Will Book 6, 554, #7523:1847. In it he names his son Isaac, daughter Polly, daughter Sarah, wife of George Rishel, sons Jacob, Jonas, George, dec'd, daughter Catherine, wife of Christian George, and dec'd son John. 8 . See Map 5, Chidsey, Penn Patents, cited in Note 75 above, for location of his land. 82 Pennsylvania German Pioneers, I, 96-98, Lou 26-AB-C. At the same time Andreas &Mauch qualified, but what his relationship was to Philip Schlauch has not been established. 88 For the survey of Schlauch's Milford tract, see Survey Book A-8, 27; for the Salmon tract, Survey Book C- 209, 129, both in the Land Office, Harrisburg. The sale to Faust is recited in Patent Book A-17, 241. Patent to Ab1,112111 F2115t. Hans Georg Hertzel 175 lished in the area, its remoteness, the poor roads and want of ordained ministers precluded in these years regular visitations. Too, the missionary zeal of the Moravians after their arrival in 1740 across the Lehigh, and the start of their settlement at Bethlehem, tended to confuse and mitigate the endeavors of such orthodox ministers, both Lutheran and Reformed, as did reach the area." An independent Lutheran minister, John Jacob Justus Birckenstock, seems to have been the man who, after Stoever, first performed ministerial acts for the scattered Lutheran inhabitants of Saucon and adjacent Williams Township, gathering them into loosely organized congregations. Certainly he was the person who opened the church registers about 1740 for the Lutheran "Congregation of the Augsburg Confession in Saucon at Philip Schlauch's." " But while he opened the books, and in 1741 and 1743 entered therein the baptisms of two of Philip Schlauch's children, no baptism of any of his later children was recorded until 1753. Then the following year when Philip Schlauch and his wife stood sponsor at the baptism of John Philip, son of Philip Daniel Gross and his wife Leonora, newcomers to the neighborhood, the occasion was entered in the records. But neither the Schlauch baptism of 1753, nor the Gross baptism of 1754, was entered by Birckenstock who had returned to Europe and there died in 1751. Why, in the ten years between 1743 and 1753, no other Schlauch baptisms were entered is yet to be explained. And perhaps it is only coincidence that in 1756, a year after Schlauch's death, the book which had been opened for else congregation which originally had met at his house, was thenceforth "used in the new church on jurg Schenck's land" in Williams Township, two miles to the east." Philip Schlauch died without making a will some time in the early months of 1755. On 5 April, his neighbor Christian Laubach and Anthony Lerch inventoried his estate, arriving at a total of £294 12s. The household effects included a looking glass, five spinning wheels, a weaver's loom and gears — indicating his probable trade — two tables and chairs, a cradle, two beds, a cupboard which held a pewter tankard, plates and dishes as well as earthenware, an iron stove, two chests, six books, churns and carpenter's tools. Livestock included six cows, four heifers and six calves, one bull, three hogs, a "stone" horse, a grey horse and white mare, 86 At least one Moravian, Gottlieb Demuth, in 1741 had asked for and obtained a warrant for 100 acres "at 5ICC011 Greek adjoining or neu Philip Slough," for which see Microfilm Reel 703, GSP, cited in Note ID above. 81 See references cited in Note 21 above, for histoncal sketches of this congregation. .6 The pastor who made this entry was Johann Andreas Friederichs (Frederici) who was also serving the Ii. Saucon (Blue) Church. Sr, Laury, Allentown Conference History, 83, coed in No. 2 1 above, and the published Williams Township Church records cited in the same .0. 176 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine a black and a bay mare, two colts, and seven beehives. A waggon, grindstones, axes, grubbing hoes, pitchforks, an old saw, a timber chain, two plows, barrels of buckwheat, flaxseed, 15 bushels of rye, two bushels of wheat, rye meal and 20 acres of green corn, all bespoke the industrious farmer. The improvement or plantation itself was valued at £170. Twenty days after the inventory was made, on 25 Apra 1755, letters of administration were granted the widow Margaretha Schlauch and her brother 1. George Hertzel. They posted a bond in the sum of £300. John Melchior and Peter Reeser, cordwainer, furnished additional secur- ity. 87 Issue of 3. Margaret Hertzel by her 1st husband Philip Schlauch: i. GEORGE SCHLAUCH, b. before 1738, was of age in 1719 when his mother petitioned the Orphans Court for guardians for her younger children, d. unmarried before 1769 when his next younger brother Jacob petitioned the court for division of the estate." ii. MARGARET SCHLAUCH, b. 9 May 1739; d. 20 April 1810, ele. 71; sn. 1 January 1760, by the Tohickon Reformed pastor, John Egidius Hecker, HANS LEONARD KNECHT, b. 18 January, bapt. New Goshenhoppen Reformed 11 April 1737; sp. Hans Leonard Hertzel and Anna Gelman; bur. 13 October 1789, at Dryland Cemetery where his wife was also interred. Leonard Knecht was the son of George Peter Knecht, shoemaker, ae. 31, who had arrived on the Pink Plaisance in September 1732, with additional members of the Hertzel family from Reihen, among than the immigrant 1. George HertzePs brother Heinrich Hertzel, his wife Barbara, and three of their children, Anna Christina, whom George Peter Knecht married in 1736 at New Goshenhoppen, her brother Hans Leonard Hertzel, and sister Jacobina Hertzel." The Knechts all settled in Lower Saucon where Leonard and his wife lived at first, but by 1764 he had moved to Bethlehem with other members of his wife's family." Lnuet 1. Kum. MARGARET KNECHT, b. 17 November, bapt. Tohick= Reformed 21 December 1760, sp. Philip Gross and wife (the child's grandmother and her 2nd husband). 2. CHRISTINE KNECHT, b. 28 January, bapt. Dryland Reformed 17 February 1765, sp. Peter Knecht and Christine (the grandparents). 3. CLARA CATI-1ARINE KNECHT, b. 2 August, bapt. Dryland Reformed 30 August 1767, sp. John George Hertzel M Inventory and bond are among the original papers, estate of Philip Schlauch, Administration Docket #511755. "Entrim in Orphans Court Book B (1758-1762), 9, 11, 12, give the childmn of Philip SchLurch: George, the eldest, Margaret, Catharine, Jacob, Clara, Rosin, and Philip ''Sclough." 86 See Kieffer, Pint Monne' Chinch, FAU1018, 222, 303, for the burials of Muguet and Leonard Knecht, also Dryland Cemetery Inscription., N7A, GOP. For the arrival of George Peter Knecht and the Hermeb, see Note 20 above. in the Reihen records furnished by D. Braun, Anna Kraal, daughter of Hans Heinrich Hirmel from Pfifficon, m. at Reihen in 1676, Peter Knecht, • schoolmaster. It seems likely that the Hans Peter Knecht and his wife Christina Hormel, daughter of Heinrich Hemel of the Pink Planta, were therefore 2nd cousins. 80 Northempton Co. assessment lima for 1761 (Microfilm Reel 702, GSP). show Peter Knecht with estate rated at 48, Leonard Knecht, no estate, a John Knecht with estate eased., 96. In 1766 the lisu show Leonard in Bethldwan Tsp. with estate rated at no. Hans Georg Hertzel 177 (the child's cousin) and Clara Catharine Schlauch. 4. SARAH KNECHT, b. 24 June, bapt. Dryland Reformed 23 July 1769, sp. Ulrich Knecht (the child's uncle) and his wife Catharine (the mother's sister). 5. JOHN FREDERICK KNECHT, b. 8 October, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 10 November 1776, sp. John Dieter Heller and wife Barbara (sister of Leonard Knecht). 9. 6. ANNA DonOTHEA KNECHT, b. 6 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 29 August 1779, sp. Conrad Hess and wife Anna Dorothea. in. MARIA CATHARINA SCHLAUCH, b. 13 February, bapt. Old Williams 5 April 1741, sp. Ludwig Schiitz and Anna Catharina Hertzel (wife of 2. George Hertzel); d. 27 July 1781; m. 17 July 1759, by the Rev. Hecker of Tolickon, ULRICH KNECHT, brother of Leonard, b. 18 February 1738; d. 26 February, bur. 1 March 1818, ae. 82-0-8, both at Dryland Cemetery. He m. 2nd by 1784, EVA. Ulrich Knecht and his lot wife lived in Forks Township near Adam Hertzel, her cousin, but he appears to have removed to Lower Nazareth Township sometime after 1790. Issue by lot wife: 1. MARIA MARGARET KNECHT, b. 3 June, bapt. Tohickon Reformed 6 July 1760, sp. Leonard Knecht and wife (the child's uncle and aunt). 2. BARBARA KNECHT, b. 12 December 1761, bapt. Tohickon Reformed 5 January 1762, sp. Dedrich Heller and wife (the child's aunt). 5. CATHARINA KNECHT, probably m. First Reformed, Easton, 18 December 1787, MICHAEL STUBER (brother of John Philip Stuber who had m. Anna Maria Margaretha Henze', daughter of I. George Hertzel).. 4, PHILIP DANIEL KNECHT, b. 6 June, bapt. Dryland Reformed 17 July 1768, sp. Philip GLOSS and Margaret (the child's grandmother); d. 9 July 1850; M. REGINA HERTZEL, daughter of Jonas Hertzel, noted above, b. 22 October 1766; d. 25 February 1815, both bur. Dryland Cemetery. 5. JOHN KNECHT, bapt. Dryland Reformed 30 September 1770, sp. John Baier and Clara Schlauch. 6. ELIZABETH KNECHT, b. 2 November, bapt. Dryland Reformed 20 December 1772, sp. Philip Schlauch (the child's uncle) and Elizabeth Hertzel; m. lot Reformed Church, Easton, 9 January 1794, ADAM WILLAUER, 7. JOHN GEORGE KNECHT, b. 11 August, bapt. Dryland Reformed 11 September 1774, sp. George Daniel Gross and Maria Magdalena Stocker. 8. JONATHAN KNECHT, b. 6 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 4 August 1777, sp. Matthew Konig and Christina; d. 30 December 1834, se. 57'1-24, bur. I January 1835, Plainfield Cemetery; probably tn. First Reformed Church, Easton, 20 November 1805, MARGARETHA HAUSER." 9. CHRISTIAN KNECHT, b. 24 May, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 20 July 1780, sp. Leonard Knecht and Maria Margaret (the child's uncle and aunt). iv. JOHANN JACOB SCHLAUCH, b. 14 February, bapt. Old Williams 6 March 1743, sp. (1.) George Hertzel and Catharina. In 1769 Jacob Schlauch petitioned the Orphans Court for a division of his father's plantation of 175 acres among the surviving heirs. Since it could not be divided without "imperilling" 05 Diedrich Heller and Barbara Knecht were m. at To/nckon 5 Jan. sor for Ulrich Knecht's daughter Barbua. 1762, the same day they stood spon- .2 1n Kieffer, First Reformed Church, Easton, 344, Michael Stuber's name is given as Stuker. A shoemaker by trade, he lived in L. Salmon where be d. intestate 2 Dec. 1831, ae. 82 - 95, according to his tombstone in L. Saucon Reformed Cemetery. He may have rn. 2nd, Catharine Reich, who d. 16 July 1828, ae. 69 - 3 - 19, bur. L. Saucon Cemetery. He had no issue by either wife. See Administration #4145, and Orphans Court Book II, 468. as This record is in Kiefer, First Reformed Cburch, Easton, 333- 178 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine the whole, he agreed to take it for the £260 valuation set on it, paying to the other heirs their shares." He was assessed on 170 acres in Lower Saucon through 1786, then disappeared from the assessment lists." He may have been the Jacob Schlauch, who with wife ANNA MARIA, had a daughter _aug_ter — RIA MAGDALENA, b. 24 January, bapt. Lower Saucon Reformed 21 March 1784, sp. Jacob Gross and Magdalena. v. CLARA SCHLAUCH, b. ca. 1746, confirmed on Easter 1760, at "Suconhism," according to Tohickon records. Presumably m, her cousin ADAM HERTZEL, for whom see above, vi. ROSINA SCHLAUCH, under age in 1769 when her brother Jacob petitioned for the division of their father's estate. No further record noted. vii. PHILIP SCHLAUCH, confirmed at Old Williams 22 May 1768. 00 The following year, when he was over 14 but under 21 years of age, he chose Christopher Wagner as guardian prior to the settlement of his father's estate. He m. 1st, apparently under age, ROSINA, who d. between 1773-1776. A blacksmith by trade, they lived in Forks Township. After her death he appears to have moved to Bethlehem Township (later Nuareth) where in 1790 has family included beside himself, one male over 16, two males sander 16, and three females." Issue by 1st wife: I. ANNA ROSINA S.-MAUCH, b. II March, hops. Dryland Lutheran 27 March 1768, sp. Leonard Schlauch and Rosins Knecht, single. 2. SUSANNA SCHLAUCH, 13. 1 August, bapc. Dryland Reformed 1 October 1769, sp. Jacob Schlauch and Susanna Abel. 3. JoHN Jacoa SmiLazimi, b. 2 June, baps. Dryland Lutheran 23 June 1771, sp. Jacob Schlauch and wife Catharina (probably the child's aunt and uncle). 4. MARIA MAGDALENA SCHLAUCH, b. 12 November, bapt. Dryland Reformed 5 December 1773, sp. Philip Henritzi (8) and Maria Magdalena. Philip Schlauch m. 2nd, MARIA CATHARINA, and had issue noted: 5. JOHN GEORGE SCHLAUCH, b. 23 April, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 19 May 1777, sp. Anthony Ross and Christina. 6. JOHN SCHLAUCH, b. 24 July, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 22 August 1784, sp. John Schweitzer and Cathr arine. 7. ANNA MARGARET SCHLAUCH, b. 9 February, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 28 February 1787, sp. Leonard Knecht and Maria Margaret (the child's aunt and her husband). 3. MARGARET (HERTZEL) SGHLAUCH did not remain a widow long. In 1754, a year before her husband's death, she and he had stood . sponsors at the baptism of the infant son of Philip Daniel Gross and his wife Leonora. Gross, born about 1727, had arrived on the Ship Eastern 94 orphans Court Book D, 70, 85; Patent Book AA-11, 344. cited in Note II above. The will of a Jacob Slough of Strabane Twp., York Co., dated 21 Muria 1788, and proved 24 Jan. 1789, noted in Abstracts of York Co. Wins, 486, GSP, names children Susanna, Ehzebeth, Margaret, Catharine and Rosanna, and appointed James Pucks and George Hensel executors. .A MS record of the 'Williams Top. Church records, possibly by Preston Laney, in GSPs gives she birch of "Phillipus" Schlauch as 17 June, bros. g July 1751. In the published records of Old Williams (p. 11) these dates ere given for Maria Schlauch, daughter of Philip, sp. Christophel Wagner and wife Merin. Inasmuch as no Maria Schlmch is mentioned in the Orphans Court proceedings, it seems probable this is another example of the errors evident in the published records of the congregation. 5, Pennsylvania 1790 Census 177. Set Map 5• Clasey, Penn Patents, cited in Note 75, for his land in Nazareth Twp. Hans Georg Hertzel 179 Branch, James Nevin, Master, and had qualified at Philadelphia 3 Octo- ber 1753." The following year his younger brother Johann Jacob Gross had arrived in Pennsylvania, and shortly afterwards married Margaret Schlauch's niece, Magdalena Hertzel, as previously noted. By 1756 Philip Gross's wife Leonora and infant son were both dead, and though he was eight years younger than she, on 29 June 1756, he was united in marriage with the widow Margaret (Hertzel) Schlauch by John Egidius Hecker, pastor of the Tohickon Reformed Church." He moved into his wife's home in Lower Saucon, and on 20 March 1759, after her eldest son George Schlauch had come of age, joined with her in presenting to the Orphans Court at Easton her accounts as administratrix of Philip Schlauch's estate, praying also for distribution of the balance remaining in her hands of £.180 14s. 11d, among the children: George, Margaret, Catharine, Jacob, Clara, Rosina and Philip Schlauch, all of whom were under age except George. Anthony Lerch, Jacob Morey and Stophel Waggoner (Christopher Wagner) were appointed to audit the accounts.'" The next day in Court Margaret and Catharine Schlauch, minors over fourteen, chose their neighbor Rudolph Oberle " 1 as guardian, while Jacob Schlauch, also over fourteen, chose his step-father Philip Gross. For Clara, Rosina and Philip, all under fourteen, the court appointed "George Heartswell, brother of Margaret Gross and uncle to said Minors" their guardian. At the same session George Schlauch, the eldest son, preferred his petition for an inquest upon the plantation in order to divide it among the heirs. George Shule (Scholl), Christian Rincker, Stophel Waggoner and George "Heartswell," directed by the Court to view and value it, returned the valuation at £170. According to the accounting approved by the Court there was Due to Margaret Grace out of movebels out of the real estate Due to George Sclough [eldest son] for movebels out of real estate 6 56 3 s. d. 4 8 13 4 2 6 26 6 8 It Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1, 585-588, Lists 213-A-B-C. Tohickon Church Records. 213. cited in Note 19 above. 800 See Orphans Court Book B, 9, I I, 12, 28. 1.01- Rudolph Oberle, b. 8 June 1712; d. 17 Feb. 1780, bur. L. Sutton Reformed Cemetery, on 2 December 1747' obtained a warrant for 200 acres which was patented to him 5 Jan. 1705. Called `Wow. Hartzell," the tract originally had been warranted 16 May 1739. to Hans Leonard Heartsell and surveyed for him 16 May 1739, but vacated some time before 1747. This Lmnard Hemel may have been the emigrant of the Pink Plaisance. See Tohickon Church Records, 84; Survey Book A-82. 13, ibid., A-51, 244; Patent Book 7-51, 86., 20 May 1803, Patent to Jacob Overly, Land Office, Harrisburg. Rudolph Oberle arrived by 1742 when he was sponsor at the baptism of a child of the Moravian,, Gottlieb and Eva Demuth, at Old Williams. 180 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Due to Margaret, Catrina, Jacob, Clara, Philip and Retina, out of movebels, each • • • • out of real estate, each .. • . 1 14 11 3 3 4 Tohickon Reformed Church records show that in 1760 Philip Gross and his wife Margaret were sponsors at the baptism of her daughter Margaret Knecht's first child. The following year, with her brother 1. George Hertzel and his wife Catharina, Margaret and Philip Gross were sponsors at the baptism of Catharina Margaret, daughter of the Reformed pastor, John Egidius Hecker and his wife Catharina. hi 1768 they were sponsors for another of Margaret's grandchildren, Philip Daniel Knecht, son of Ulrich Knecht. During these years Margaret's eldest son, George Schlauch, died unmarried and without issue, and in June 1769, her second son Jacob Schlauch applied to the Orphans Court for a reappraisal and division of the real estate of his deceased father. In the twenty-two years since his father Philip had purchased half of the original "Partnership" plantation the other half had passed through half a dozen hands. Before 1750 Martin Conrad, followed by Jacob Arndt and Conrad Dotterer, had followed Nicholas Transue as owners.'" On 16 July 1750, Arndt and Dotterer had sold it to George Massimer. He passed it on in November 1751, to John Reeshwick who perhaps lived here with his wife Margaret until 18 January 1759, when they sold it to Christian Laubach and removed to Upper Milford where Reeshwick died in 1787, aged 77. Laubach held the property only a year and on 8 February 1760, sold it to Reinhart Laubach.'" Now Jacob Schlauch had a mind to reunite the two halves into one plantation. However, Philip Gross may have had some objection to his stepson's plans, for Jacob Schlauch brought an action against him in Common Pleas Court. Whatever the nature of the suit, the estate was the loser in the end. "Common Please & Bench fees in Orphans Court," "Sheriff & Jury fees," and "Attorneys fees" amounting to over £10 were deducted from the valuation of the estate. On 20 March 1770, nine . 2 Martin Conrad may have been a cousin of George Hertzel, his mother Anna Margaretha Hemel having been a daughmr of Jacob Conrad of Ittlingen. Martin d. 11 March 1769, and n bur. at Indianfield Lutheran Cemetery in Franconia Tarp., Montgomery Co. Both he and Conrad Dottere, settled in Franconia. Conrad was a no of Johann Ludwig Deduce, immigrant of the Ship Molly, who qualified JO Sept. 1727 (Pennsylvania Germ. Pioneen, I, 13, List 3-B). Jacob Arndt (Arendt), reputed to be the son of Bernhard Arendt, settled in Forks Two. 10. George Massimer (Mesmer) d. 20 March 1761, and was bur ill Tohicken Reformed Church Cem- ■ etery. The death of John Reethwick (Reiswig), a member of the Great Swamp Reformed Congregation in U. Milford Tarp., is entered in Goshenhoppen Reformed Church records. Chint an Laubach (Labach) had emigrated in 1738; Reinhart may have been his brother The sales to these men are recited in Patent Book AA-11, 344, cited in Note If above. Hans Georg Hertzel 181 months after Jacob's original petition to the Orphans Court, the estate was valued at £260, and since the plantation could not be divided without damaging the whole, Jacob Schlauch agreed to take it. Offering Gratius Lerch, now the owner of the adjacent Kerman farm, and (2.) Jacob Hertzel, his uncle, as securities, Jacob Schlauch agreed to pay his mother her widow's thirds amounting to £82 7s. 9d., and out of the balance of £164 1s. 6d., to each of the heirs £23 10s. 9/2d., he himself taking a double share as eldest surviving son."' Relations must have been strained between the Grosses and the Schlauch children, now all grown and most of them married, during the past nine months, for the Grosses had moved down to Germantown by the time this adjudication was reached. There on 19 March 1770, Philip Gross wrote his will. Naming as executors his "Loving brother Jacob Gross and Valentine Opp, both in Northampton County and in Lower Saucon Township," he directed that his estate be appraised, advertised and sold at public vendue. The proceeds, after debts were paid, were to be divided one third to his wife, "she to have her bread from the grain which is threshed and lying in the House until next Harvest 1770," and sufficient more as the executors thought proper. The remaining two-thirds was to be divided equally between his two children by her, George Daniel and Mary Magdalena Gross, their guardians to be his executors. He died about six weeks later and was buried 6 May 1770, in St. Michael's Lutheran Cemetery in Germantown, aged forty-two years and seven months "more or less." " 6 His will was proved at Easton on 12 June 1770, and on the following 30 July, Michael Heller and Henry Schaeffer inventoried the estate. Livestock included one "black brown" cow, two red cows and four black heiffers, a mare, a horse, two hogs and five "bigs," four lambs, two ewes and four beehives. Among the household furnishings were a table and dough "troffe," another table, four chairs, a looking glass, a spinning wheel, a kitchen cupboard holding sixteen pewter plates, a pewter tankard, four pewter dishes, seventeen pewter spoons, four pairs of teacups and a "baked Bodle and tea poet." There was one bedstead and its furnishings and an old chest holding a bushel of apples, "hoggs fat" and pots of honey, a smooth bore rifle, a side saddle, carpenter's tools, 400 feet of board and blanks, and three iron stove plates. A large Bible, sermon book and more than half a dozen other books testified to Gross's literacy. The 1769 petition 0.i 1770 accounting are in Orphans Court Book D, 70, 85. 100 Philip Gross's will is recorded in Will Book 1, 67, #0201770. His burial, as "Philip Gros aus L. Samosa," is in Absuacts of the Reginer of St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germantown, GSP. No stone marks his gran. 182 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Book debts amounted to £91 8s. in addition to several outstanding bonds, one of which was for i15 owed by Philip Stuber who had married Anna Maria Margaretha Hertzel, daughter of 1. George Hertzel• The total inventory came to £257 6s. At the vendue, held 4 August 1770, which brought in 010 10s. 6d., the widow bought the sheep, a cow, a hog, the horse and side saddle, a lamp, the baking "trofe," a book, tablecloth, the bedstead and its furnishings, the spinning wheel and reel, and assorted iron and earthenware pots. Her son Jacob Schlauch acquired Gross's leather breeches for El, and bought a chest, while her daughter Clara Schlauch took the looking glass and a pepper-mill. The Bible went to Michael Bayer for £1, and Frederick Hertzel, the widow's nephew and son of 1. George Hertzel, bought Gross's best coat for £2 10s. 6d, Four of the pewter plates went to Philip Stuber for 6s. 2d.3" Two days after Gross's will had been proved, Reinhardt Laubach sold to Jacob Schlauch the other half of the "Partnership" land, uniting It once more in one ownership. On 15 June 1770, after paying £46 10s. to the authorities, Schlauch was granted a patent for the entire 300 acres.' Following the vendue and sale of the farm to her son Jacob, the Widow Gross and her two young children by Philip probably moved to Bethlehem Township to make their borne with her brother 2. Jacob Hertzel and his wife Barbara. Jacob's son John in later years reported he was brought up together with the Widow Gross's daughter Maria Magdalena. In 1781, when she was sixty-two, the widow was a sponsor with her nephew John Hertzel at the baptism of a son of George and Susanna Derhammer at Dryland Lutheran Church. How long she lived after that remains undetermined; no record of her death or burial has been found."' Issue of 3. Margaret Hertzel by her 2nd husband Philip Daniel Gross: viii. GEORGE DANIEL GROSS, b. 26 March, bapt. Tohickon Reformed 11 April 1757, sp. (1.) George Hertzel and wife (the child's uncle and aunt) ; d. 16 March 1803, bur. Christ Lutheran (Stone) Church, Upper Mt. Bethel Township, Northampton County; m. ca. 1784, CATHARINE." He is probably the George Items from the inventory and vendue Cr, found in the original papers in the docket. Recited in Patent Book AA-I 344, cited in Note If above, Tohirkon Reformed Church Records, 276, note the burial of a Widow Gross 3 Feb. 1807, with no age given. If this is meant for Margaret (Hemel) Sehlauch Gross, she was then 88 years old, and it should have been entered, as under similar circumstancu, as "old" Widow Gross. 10 . Christ Lutheran (Stone) Church raords (Microfilm 147, GSP), give George Grm's Inc. as 27 March 1757, but no data on his wife. She may have been Catharine, b. 23 July, bap,. Dryland Luther. 7 Aug. 1 763, daughter of Christi. Braun rod wife Anna Maria, who stood sponsors for several of George Gross's children. Hans Georg Hertzel 183 Gross (Groce), blacksmith of Bethlehem (later Nazareth) Township, who was assessed on seven acres of land in 1781, and in 1790, when he had in his household beside himself one male under 16 and two females, was listed in the census immediately after John Santee, Jr., his presumed brother-in-law..° Issue by wife Catharine, as noted in Dryland Lutheran Church baptisms: 1. PHILIP CHRISTIAN GROSS, It. 2 October, hops. 16 October 1785, sp. Christian Braun and wife Anna Maria; d. 19 June 1827, am 41-8-11; m. ELIZABETH, b. Pa, 1788; d. 10 July 1842, both bur. Christ Lutheran Church, Centreville, Upper Mt. Bethel Township. 2. MARIA MAGDALENA GROSS, b. 19 September, bapt. 6 October 1787, sp. John Sendy (Santee) and Maria Magdalena (the child's anut)• 3. JOHN GEORGE GROSS, b. 28 October, bapt. 28 November 1790, sp. Christian Braun and Anna Maria. 4. ELIZABETH GROSS, b. 29 January, bapt. 24 March 1793, sp. John Braun and wife Barbara. 5. SEBASTIAN Gitoss, b. 11 April, bapt. 4 May 1799, sp. Christian Braun and wife. ix. MARIA MAGDALENA GROSS, b. 1 July, bapt. Tohickon Reformed 17 July 1759, sp. Jacob Gross and wife (daughter of 1. George Hertzel); d. 27 November 1848, in Lower Nazareth Township; rn. Shrove Tuesday (19 February) 1782, JOHN SANTEE, b. 8 August 1757; d. 5 March 1840, bur. 7 March Dryland Cemetery. Known as John Santee, Jr., he was a carpenter by trade, and probably the son of John Santee, Sr. by a 1st wife,.. the 2nd wife being Regina Hertzel, daughter of 2. Jacob Hertzel. John Santee, Jr. for his service in Northampton County militia during the Revolution was granted a pension... After his death, in his widow's application for its continuance she deposed that her "old father-in-law the father of my deceased husband" asked the Rev. Mr. Frederick (Frederici) to stop on his way between the congregations he served to perform her marriage. This he did before "a large company of neighbors and relations," all of whom were then (1844) dead or removed out of the neighborhood except "her old friend John Hartzell, Esquire" who was still living m the neighborhood. Hartzel, then (1844) "a man nearly eighty-two years of age," deposed in her behalf that he and she "were brought up as children together" and that he was present at her wedding which took place "about one year after the said deponent's marriage . . . in the year A.D. 1781." Northampton County assessment lists for 1763 through 1782 show John Santee (Sr.) as the only adult Santee living in Bethlehem Township, leading to the conclusion that 110 Pennsylvania Archives, Ird Series, XIX, 134, 202, 362; Pennsylvania 1790 Census, 177. HI For this possible 1st wife, see Note 72 above. Early primary records of the Santee family are distressingly sparse. Data recovered to date suggests that Valentine Santee and wife Maria were the progenitors of the Northampton Co. family. Their children may have been Am Santee who had a natural daughter, and possibly a natural mu John by Nathaniel Irish, for which see Note 10 above; John Santee (b. 20 Oct. 1730) who m. 2nd, Regina Hemel! Sarah Santee (b. 26 Jan. 1733; d. Is Oct. 1807) who m. Joseph Reichardt (Richards) according to the 1953 Tear Book, OAR, 524; Christopher Santee, wife Sarah, whose son Christopher was baps. 4 May 1765, at Drylands Lutheran; George Santee who ro. by 1763. Mary Karr, daughter of David Karr of Plainfield Twp., as per his will recorded Will Book 1, 53, #69517721 Valentine Santee, said to have m. Margaret Funston; and Catharine Sant., b. 7 March 1746, who m. Jonas Hertael of the present record. 11. Kieffer, First Reformed Church, Easton, 340, gives the age of John Santee as 81-6-27, obviously incorrect. He was 82 when he died. When he applied for his pension in 1535 he stated he was aged "near Seventy Eight years." See Revolutionary War Pennon papers of John Santee, Jr., File W1462. National Archives, Washington, D. C 113 The pension application papers of M27/2 Magdalena Sans, are included in her husband's 1,884ann file. 184 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine he could be the father of John Santee, Jr. Issue: I. SUSANNA SANTEE, b. 29 June, bapt. Dryland Reformed 11 July 1784, sp. Isaac Hertzel and Susanna Knecht, single. 2. GEORGE DANIEL SANTEE, b. 1 March, bat% Dryland Lutheran 14 March 1787, sp. George Gross (the child's uncle) and wife Catharine. 3. JOSEPH SANTEE, b. 21 October 1788, according to his deposition in 1844 when his mother applied for her pension; d. testate 28 September 1861; m. 1st, 11 January 1811, ANNA MARIA RITTER, b. 28 August 1792; d. 11 January 1829, bur. Dryland Cemetertn' By her he had a daughter Anna Maria Santee who m. Charles Steiner, grandson of Philip Stuber and his wife Anna Maria Margaretha Hertzel, daughter of 1. George Hertzel, among the maternal ancestors of the author. 4. JoHN SANTEE, b. 21 September, hope. Dryland Lutheran 28 November 1790, sp. Leonard Sendy (Santee) and Margaret Knecht. 5. MARIA CATHARINA SANTEE, b. 18 May, bapt. Dryland Lutheran 14 June 1795, sp. Philip Schlauch and wife Catharine, (the mother's half-brother and his 2nd wife). 6. DAVID SANTEE, b. 3 April, bapt. Christ Reformed Church, Schoenersville, Hanover Township (Lehigh County) 24 April 1797; sp. Peter Schneider and wife Maria Margaret. 7. ELIZABETH SANTEE, b. 26 December 1798, bapt. at same church as above 24 February 1799, sp. Jacob Keiper and wife Margaretha. 8. SARAH SANTEE, named by Joseph Santee in his 1844 deposition as one of his sisters. 1 ., Their marriage is given in Santee Genealogy (1599), SS (#24). For his will, see Will Book 7, 445, #71747.1861; therein he named and wife, Sarah. His 1st wife was the daughmr of Daniel Ritter. a son of Caspar Ritter and his wife Anna Maria, by his wife Elizabeth Rohn, daughter of Henry Rohn of Bethlehem Top. and his wife Anna Regina Hartman, daughter of Peter Hartman of Salisbury Twp, and his wife Anna Margaret. Valentin Steinmetz announces that he will discontinue collecting money for the erection of a stone church in Saucon, as a wooden meeting house is to be built six miles away under the direction of Valentin Steinmetz, Johann Georg Reinhart, Johannes Appel, Henrich Croszman, Conrad Walla, Johann Andreas Erdman, Johann Peter Marstaeller, Mathias Oder, Johann Georg Boned, Michel Seider, Christian Kaubt, Balthasar Boil, Frantz Ruse and Michel Schmitt. 16 March 1745 PensylvaxisciN Geschict-Schreiber