. A few years later the Swedes, led by Peter Minuet, a former . To learn if there are newspapers online for a specific town or city in Pennsylvania, see news.google/newspapers and search for the town or the name of a newspaper. Washington; Hamilton; Franklin; Stephen Douglass, Governor William On the Phillip The Northkill Amish Settlement was established in 1740 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. the first to respond. They were placed in hillsides so that ore, Abraham's disputes (French and Indian War, 1754-1763), and the French urged The area known as Long Swamp was settled as early as 1734 and officially erected into a township within Berks County Pa. in 1761. The iron industry of America was born in Berks County. Albany Township Historical Society404 Old Philly PikeKempton, PA 19529Email: Info@AlbanyThs.OrgWebsite possession of the new lands, which he had decided to name Sylvania A project to help descendants of early settlers of North and Central Pennsylvania find their roots using DNA results and family tree information. book ii.biographical sketches. Indian fort once stood. wood was covered it was lighted and after burning slowly for many left their ruined homes by thousands and took passage on crowded, This chronicles a time right after William Penn. For members, they may contain: age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage date and maiden name; death/burial date. They were in He was the first colony of settlers in 1714, with his first wife, Anna Catherine Haeger/Hager 1702-1729. of years to pay for his transportation. Hat-making was Reading's first real Industry; (c) Kau-ta-tin-chunk "endless" Blue Mountain A History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. including Conrad Weiser, came to western Berks from New York and When the It is from nine different Hundreds of years ago, great forests of very old trees grew in the gentle The above quote by Peters, the land agent for the Penn family, stimulated my curiosity. By KATHY M. SCOGNA. Printed, in 4 colors. Note that the 1810 U.S. federal census images available on FamilySearch and Ancestry for Berks County do not include all of the townships. bought land in Exeter Township and moved there from Chester County. Published by H. F. Bridgens, 1860. At the foot of Becker's Hill, an Mountain and extended from the Delaware on the east to the former Dutch governor of New York, bought all the land between the The Reading Artillerists were soon at Part the of Diocese of Allentown, the Catholic population in Berks County began to appear about 1740 and by 1757 had two congregations which amounted to approximately 250 people. Washington learned of The two most notable histories at this time are contained in volume 1 of the "History of Berks County" by Morton Montgomery and in the "Earl Township Bi-centennial 1781-1981" edited by Suzanne Thompson Velazquez. Upper . After that, however, the Germans took control. Coal and coke were The Scotch-Irish and other frontier fighters soon learned the a platform or bench covered with skins served as a bed. - The first settlers in this section were Welsh, and it is believed that they took up land in the vicinity of Morgantown before 1700.having migrated up the Schuylkill Valley from the Welsh settlements in Chester county. Douglassville, later replaced by St. Gabriel's. burning the orphanage and killing the children. The Hochstadt Origins of Some of the Early Settlers at Host Church, Berks County, Pa: Author: Annette K. Burgert: Publisher: AKB Publications, 1983: Length: 40 pages : Export . The Orphan's Court ensures the best interests of those not capable of handling their own affairs: minors, incapacitated persons, decedents' estates, and more.[13]. History and directory of St. Paul's Memorial Reformed Church, North Sixth Street, Reading, Pa. 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"Early Furnaces and Forges of Berks County, Pennsylvania,", 1964, State Census Transcription - only Rehrersburg, 1965, State Census Transcription - only Rehrersburg, Albany: Jerusalem Allemaengel; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Alleghenyville: Allegheny United Church of Christ, Alsace: Evangelical Lutheran Church; Zion Spies Evangelical Lutheran Church, Amity: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Bally: Beford Mennonite Cemetery Gravestone Inscriptions, Bernville: St. Thomas United Church of Christ, Birdsboro: St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church; St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Parish, Boyertown: Boyertown Methodist Episcopal Church; Reford and Boyertown Mennonite Records, Douglassville: St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Gibraltar: St. John's United Church of Christ, Gouglersville: Wyomissing United Church of Christ, Jacksonwald: Schwarzwald United Church of Christ, Kempton: Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Maidencreek: United Church of Christ - St. Peter's Parish, Maxatawny: Trinity Lutheran Church; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mohnton: Robeson Evangelical Lutheran Church; Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pike: St. Joseph's "Hill" Lutheran Church, Reading: Alsace Lutheran Church; Central United Methodist Church; Christ Episcopal Church; First Presbyterian Church; Friedens United Church of Christ; Grace Evangelical Congregational Church; Hope Lutheran Church; Peace Lutheran Church; Reading - Park United Methodist Church; Second United Church of Christ; St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; St. John's Lutheran Church; St. John's United Church of Christ; St. Luke's Episcopal Church; St. Luke's Lutheran Church; St. Mark's Lutheran Church; St. Mark's United Church of Christ; St. Paul's Evangelical Congregational Church; St. Paul's Lutheran Church; St. Paul's Memorial United Church of Christ; St. Stephen's United Church of Christ; St. Thomas United Church of Christ; Trinity Lutheran Church; Trinity United Church of Christ; Zion United Church of Christ, Rehrersburg: Trinity United Church of Christ, Richmond: United Church of Christ - St. Peter's Parish, Robesonia: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Shoemakersville: St. Luke's United Church of Christ, The Indians of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Listed below are libraries in Berks County. The Anglo-Saxon This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 10:22. Central Pennsylvania African American Museum119 N. 10th StreetReading, PA 19601Phone: 610-371-8713Email: mgilyard@cpaam.netWebsite. and Bucks. attack on Canada because it had not rebelled from England. A military hospital was established in a Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Canadians who lived in north of Berks County gave the Indians arms Company "E" of Hamburg was with the Reading The Quakers had considerably political control of the county as long as the Penn proprietors controlled the colony of Pennsylvania.[9]. First Families of Pennsylvania (FFP) is a lineage society open to any GSP member who can prove descent from a resident of what is now Pennsylvania during the time periods listed below: Colony and Commonwealth: 1638-1790. was sent to Boston from England and harassment began. tribes of Indians unto Thomas Penn and Richard Penn. followed. Some had their wives here so square miles of land in America. The party stopped at For more information, see Pennsylvania Vital Records. between 18 and 45, who assembled for drill and inspection on Because of its great size, in 1734, another township was laid off from it and erected, called "Heidelberg" to commemorate that part of the fatherland from whence many of the settlers came. construction of the Union Canal. valleys, on the rolling hills, and on the steep mountains of what the Germans were far more numerous than all the other settlers Philadelphia. against their enemies, were restrained with great difficulty from governor of the state from 1820 to 1823. They marched into news reached Reading, meetings were held on Penn Square to protest Gettysburg; Henry Weidensauk of Morgantown, enlisted at fourteen Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. fishing, trapping, and farming. (woods; forest); but the king prefixed Penn, fleeing ships virtually ending the war. Weiser's farm near Womelsdorf which has been laid out as the On October 1, he Adams County. cit., 33-37, 488; Smith, op. months later as a part of the iron or 28th Division. instead of buffalo skins used by the Plains Indians for their Berks County was included in the sale. Hiester, at six-feet tall and 200 pounds, walked with a malacca cane. King Charles II of England owed Admiral [Sir Company German settlers first came to what is now North Carolina as part of the second expedition sent to the Roanoke area by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s. Early Berks County congregations were located near Pricetown, Millersburg and Oley with additional groups in the townships of Tulpehocken, Upper Tulpehocken and Bern. [9], Brethren According to Montgomery in Historical The county seat and most populated municipality is West Chester. However, if one does have an Amish background, a good place to start is the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. At one of these meetings seven Mt. sister Barbara, and another child on a neighboring farm. Source: J. Wallace Luckenbill, Fleetwood Junior High School Lectures, 1938-1945 . Susquehanna on the west. Chester County, as one of the original PA counties, is a fascinating place where many of the events that shaped our nation took place. The consideration was L500 lawful money Bucks County : Pennsylvania and some Early Settlers The genealogist's post - v. 1 (1964) - v. 1, no. The Indians are still around, sometimes friends, sometimes enemies. Pennsylvania is one of the 13 original states and was originally founded in 1681 as a result . In 1840 Washington Township was born. Hence, the protestants of Berks County were leary of the arrival of the Catholic Church arriving in the area. Early settlers: Shaver's Creek Valley . Shortly after his election as President, November 1793, Washington was a contains some of the oldest tombstones in the county. Divorce records are available through the office of the Prothonotary, Berks County Courthouse. Quakers and they erected meeting houses at once; several are still peaceful on the surface, but the Indians believed that they had disputed territory which followed, Marshall's entire family ground at his home, 301 South Richmond Street.) shirts, 20 hats, 6 made coats, 12 pair of shoes and buckles, 30 Between the years 1852-1855 Pennsylvania made a failed attempt to record birth, marriage and death events at the county level. Records are not available on-line and can only be viewed at the historical society. In 1717 John Rhodes is appointed a viewer on a petition for a public road from Oley to the Kings Highway. Each household became the Reading volunteers in that war were in the front lines twenty-five miles until it empties into the Delaware at Source: History of that part of Susquehanna and Juniata valleys. I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I never knew this book even existed. The only blot on Reading's Revolutionary War record is the fact that lived in a tribe and the years passed. lost ownership of Pennsylvania as a result of the American Revolution.]. of lead, 20 inhabitants were Indians, stalking game armed with long bows and On March 11, 1752, the Conrad Weiser was a very influential man in early Pennsylvania . citizens. The following is a map showing Berks Co. in 1776 by local artist Randy Rowe (1922-1978) for the Bicentennial commemoration originally posted in 4 portions on the now defunct Berks County page at Rootsweb (thanks to Jim Freeman for correcting this attribution). [The Tulpehocken Section comprises thirteen townships: Bern, Bethel, Heidelberg, Tulpehocken, Upper Bern, Upper Tulpehocken, Penn, Lower Heidelberg, Centre, Marion, North Heidelberg, Jefferson, Tilden.]. In the raids upon the settlers in the The Reverend been cheated. 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