1715 Map (extract) Baden, Germany.
Saalbach (middle-left), Rottenburg (top-right), and Wornitz (bottom-right). [7]
1703 Martin Weigel, son of Valentin and Maria Weigel of Saalbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany was baptized on November 11 in the Evangelical church at Wiesenbach with sponsor Hans Neben(?). Saalbach and Wiesenbach were at that time part of the Brandenburg Onolzbach territory and are now part of the town of Blaufelden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Attempted transcription of German script: Martinus, Valentin Weigels einas bauern Zu Saalbach und s[eine]. e[heliche frau]. Maria, Sohn D. 11 9br. Z[eugen]. Hannß Neben(?) ricsthner(?) in Lhunanbretta.
c 1724 A burial record for Martin Weigle [recorded in America] indicates that he went to Wörnitz, near the ancient city of Rothenburg, where he learned the carpenter's trade. However, note that Wörnitz is south of Rotenburg and both Wörnitz and Saalbach are about 20 km away from Rothenburg. [5] He later lived in the area of Helmstadt-Bargen and Hoffenheim near Sinsheim. [6]
Martin Weigel moved west, to the area of Sinsheim and Helmstadt-Bargen, which are about 100 kilometers west of Saalbach.
1729 Johann Martin Weigel, carpenter and son of Valentin Weigel of Saalbach, and Anna Dorothea Friedlin, daughter of the late Niclaß Freidel (master miller), were married in July. The churchbooks at both Hoffenheim and Wiesenbach have a record of this marriage. Their first child was baptized at Helmstadt in November. Both marriage records are reproduced below, with attempts at transcription. We seek help in transcribing these records. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
[attempted transcription Hoffenheim-Sinsheim Mischbuch]
D iith Julÿ sein nach besheher 3 mahlig proclama'onn of(?) (?)
werd Martin Weigel zimmer Gesell, Veltin Weigels Onoltzbach? Unter?-
aus in Orth Saalbach sohn; und Anna Dorothea Friedlin, Weÿl[and]
Niclaß friedel gewesen Mullermeisters allhier nachgelassenn tochtor.
NB. ?r achtet friedelin mit bebendig [trembling?] kind shwanger gange,
? hat ? Oster … shir?kopff in friny? (?)
? proclamations, stein : Denn olfe brambte dainu? dis Pro-
clamations … Zu (?)
dachte? friedlin ? vedari ?ß ist auf
? mit dn Frantz ? in die kirche gang; ?
(?) Zu (?) ein (?) inquiry, (?) examin ? best?
nach (?) nach (?) Evangl Kirch (?) und (?) (?)
? nach ? actius inquisitioner et
examinationer, ? Freyburg?
gar? übr' allde solte (?) werd
Georg Kasner
[attempted transcription Blaufelden-Wiesenbach Kirchbook]
Martin Weigel, des Valentin Wei-
gel baur das zu Saalbach ehelich
(?). Vierter (fourth) sohn, ein zimmer
Geselle und Mauir(?) a?gafauder?
burge? in Stadt-Helmst (perhaps east of Mechesheim) einen
? in den chur
? liegand?, und
Anna Dorothea friedlin, weil
Nicolai friedel gewessen und
versterbenen? Müllers zu Gotheid
als in einen dortß? acher(?) (?)
budy(?) geherig(?), ehelelich für?
und nach ledige tochtor, zind
alhier auch 3 mal procla-
mirt und zu Stadt Helmst
wadirel? (?) 7 Julÿ.
1730 Johann Sebastian, son of Martin Weigel, carpenter Von brÿfitzer(?), and Anna Dorothea, born Frideli, was born on November 12. Sebastian was baptized on November 14 with sponsor Johann Sebastian Hauck, son of Hans George Hauck, burger, V[on] Metzgers allhier at Helmstadt Lutheran Church. Helmstadt-Bargen is 13 km north-east of Sinsheim. [16] [17] [18]
1732 Martin Weigel and family sailed for America from Rotterdam via Cowes, England on the ship Samuel.
1732 Martin Weigell, age 24 [22], and Dorothea Weigell, age 20 [23], arrived in at Philadelphia, on August 11. They had embarked in June, 1732 on the ship Samuel with 279 German emigrants. Leaving Rotterdam, the ship proceeded to Cowes on the south coast of England, and then to America. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] Their oldest son Sebastian was not named on the ship list.
1732 Mardin Weigall took the oath of fidelity at the Philadelphia courthouse and was listed, on August 11, in the Philadelphia Council minutes, among Palatines who came on the ship Samuel. [29]
c 1733 Martin Weigel likely settled immediately in York County, very soon after his arrival in America. [31]
1733 Marie Juliana Weigle, daughter of Martin Weichel was born on October 22. [33] She was baptized on November 11 at Christ Lutheran Church in York. Sponsors were Peter Balspach and wife Anna Margaretha. [34] The Church has various names in different reports. [35] [36] [37] [38] [39]
1734 A land warrant, dated April 4, was granted to Martin Wigel for 69 acres of land in Dover Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. [40] The warrant described the land with an improvement purchased of Thomas Butler, adjoining Mathias Myer and Wendel Witman in Dover township. [41] A survey, dated 1754, showed that Vendal Witman/Mitman owned an adjacent lot. [42]
1734 Johann Martin belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church on the Codorus (later Christ Luthran Church) with Pastor Stoever. The church initially met in member's homes but moved after 1741 to a log building of South George Street in the town of York on land granted to the Lutherans by heirs of William Penn. [43]
1735 Joh. Martin Weigel, son of Martin Weigel, was born on September 11. [44] He was baptized on October 10 with sponsor Leonhardt Immel, based on records of Christ Lutheran church in York and of the Trinity Lutheran church in Lancaster County. [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51]
1736 Martin Weigel was granted land near Kreutz Creek, but the grant was disputed by the governor of Maryland.
1736 John Martin Weigel [Wyngall] was one of the victims of the "Chester County Plot" whereby certain of Lord Baltimore's sympathizers wished to drive the Germans out of the Kreutz Creek settlement. The Germans signed a letter dated on August 31, which stated [52] [53]:
Sir: The oppression and ill Usage We have met with from the government of Maryland, or at least from such Persons who have been empowered thereby and their proceedings connived at, has been a treatment (as we are well informed) very different from that which the Tenants of your Government have generally met with, which, with many other cogent Reasons, give us good Cause to conclude the Governor and Magistrates of that Province do not themselves believe us settled with the real bounds of his Lordship's Dominions, but We have been seduced and made us of, first by fair promises and afterwards by threats and punishments, to answer purposes which are at present unjustified, and will if pursued then to our Utter Ruin. We therefore, the subscribers, with many Others, Our Neighbors, being come at last truly sensible of the wrong We have done the Proprieters of Pensilvania in settling of their lands without paying obedience to their Government, do resolve to return our Duty, and live under the Laws and Government of Pensilvania [sic], in which Province we believe ourselves seated...
1736 Lord Baltimore of Maryland issued warrants on October 21, for arrest of all 54 signers of this letter on grounds "for contriving and signing and publishing a seditious paper and writing against his lordship and government". The state of Maryland put a bounty of 10 pounds for the arrest of many of those Germans who signed the letter quoted above, among whom was Martin Wyngall. [54]
1736 Mardin Weigall [Martin Weigle] was listed, as one of 49 [or 48] German families evicted from land near Kreutz Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania, by Maryland sympathizers, as part of the "Chester County Plot". [55] [56]
1736 A warrant for 200 acres was granted to Martin Weigle on October 30, by Samuel Blunston, a magistrate of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. The tract was deeded to Martin Weigle by the heirs of Bastian Weigle on 27 April 1802. [57] [58] [59] The tract was in Springetsbury Manor. [60]
1738 Maria Elisabetha, daughter of Martin Weigel, was born on January 31. She was baptized on April 22 with records at Christ Lutheran church in York and of the Trinity Lutheran church in Lancaster County. Peter Gartner and wife Maria Elisabetha were sponsors. [61] [62] [63]
1738 Martin Weigel moved to near Weigelstown and he built what may have been the second mill west of the Susquehanna on the Little Conewago, near the present Carlisle road from York to Dover. [64]
An Historic Old Mill Site: The mill on the road from York to Dover is a very old structure. To the right of the road, on the Little Conewago, and 400 yards northeast from the present old building, was built, about 1738, one of the very first mills in York County, by Martin Weigle, who, only a few years before, had emigrated from Germany. He had tried first to build a mill on the Codorus, near York, but found that stream too large for his pioneer adventure. The Indians, who were his neighbors, came to view this encroachment upon their territory with weird astonishment. The ingenious German gave them a draught of whisky. They soon became lively, and then went to work to assist in digging the mill race. For a considerable time that was the only mill west of York.
Some of the children of Martin Weigle were baptized at the Lutheran Church in York City, near the Codorus River, York County, Pennsylvania. [65]
Following the earliest settlements in the area and his treaty with the Native Americans, William Penn made the boundary of his land the Susquehanna River. No white settlers were permitted to cross the river and settle on the Western side until 1729. The first authorized settlement was in that year and was primarily comprised of Germans from the Palatinate. …
By 1732 there were 400 taxpayers in the area and a pastor from Lancaster would cross on the river on occasion to baptize, marry and administer the sacrament. One of these pastors was John Casper Stoever who had come to America from Germany in 1728 and had begun to organize congregations in what are now Berks and Lancaster counties.
On September 23, 1733 Pastor Stoever gathered 24 heads of families in Yorktown to form a congregation called "Der Evangelische Lutherische Germind on der Kathores" (The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation on the Codorus.) On that day Pastor Stoever baptized a little girl Maria Catharina Beyer and entered her name in a record book along with the names of the 24 heads of household. … Pastor Stoever visited the congregation regularly over the next ten years … Meanwhile the school master continued to care for the congregation in between times.
In 1741 the land around the Cordorus was surveyed and lots were laid out for what is now the City of York. The heirs of William Penn donated lots 61 and 62 for a church on what was then known as "Goose Hill." …
The first church building was constructed in 1743 and was a log cabin. It also served as a schoolhouse and thus became the first schoolhouse west of the Susquehanna. The congregation worshipped in the log church until 1760 when the new Stone Church was built.
1743 John Leonard Weigel, son of Martin Weigel, was born on April 2. [66]He was baptized on April 28 at Christ Lutheran Church, York, York County, Pennsylvania. [67] [68] [69]
c 1743 Martin Weigel was named among members of the congregation of John Casper Stoever. [70]
1747 Heinrich Weigel, son of Martin and Anna Dorothy Weigel, was born on October 18. He was baptized on May 22, 1748, at the Christ Evangelical Lutheran church in York County. [71] [72] [73]
1750 Margaret Weigel, daughter of Martin and Anna Dorothy Weigel, was born on on April 8. She was baptized on May 13, 1750, at the Christ Evangelical Lutheran church in York County. [74] [75] [76] Philip and Margaret Endler were sponsors. [77]
1750 Martin Weigel, of York County, sold a house and lot 49, in the town of York, on August 8, to Frederick Shingle (Shindel), of Lancaster County. Witnessed by Daniel Kenley and Philip Rothrock. [78]
1754 A land survey was made for Martin Wigel of 69.8 acres in Dover Twp, York County adjacent to land of Vendal Mitman. [79] This is the land cited in the 1734 land warrant.
1756 Jacob Bushing granted land to Martin Wigle in York County on April 25. [80] Perhaps this was son-in-law Jacob Bushong.
1758 Martin Weigle had a contract regarding wagons for the Forbes Expedition which was mentioned in the settlement of his estate in 1760.
The Forbes Expedition built a road from the Susquehanna River at Harris Ferry, Carlisle, Cumberland County, to the Forks of the Ohio as part of the French and Indian war (1754-1763). General Braddock had previously attempted to capture Fort Duquesne, at Pittsburgh using a road constructed in 1755. General Braddock was defeated and killed and the frontier flamed with violent confrontations between Native Americans and European settlers. In 1758, a second expedition was formed under Brigadier John Forbes, with Colonel George Washington in assistance. The Forbes expedition to recapture Fort Duquesne involved a controversy over which route to take: the old Braddock Road up from Cumberland, Maryland, or a new road through central Pennsylvania. The latter was chosen, over the protests of Virginian George Washington. Forbes's Army left Philadelphia on the Old Wagon Road going west. The Road went through Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and York, Pennsylvania, to the frontier settlements of Gettysburg and Waynesboro. From Gettysburg, Forbes Road went to the Susquehanna River at Harris Ferry. Forbes Road became a major route for settlers and later became the route of U.S. 30.
1759 Martin Weigle dated his will on January 29, in York County. The will was in probate court on February 3, 1759. Martin Wigol signed with a mark X, Executors: Deeter Ulor (Uhler?) and Martin Eichelberger, Wife: Dorothy, Children: Bastian, Martin, Jacob, Leonard, Peter, Henry, Julianna and Elizabeth. Witnesses included Michael Sprenkel (likely the husband or father-in-law of daughter Elizabeth) and Adam Rupert, who also was paid for the "crying vendue" of estate goods (likely related to Margaretha Ruppert, the wife of son John Jacob). A transcription follows [83]:
In the Name of God Amen, the twenty ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine. I Martin Wigol of York County in the Province of Pennsylvania, being very sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God, therefore, calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is Appointed for all man once to Dye do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament: that is to Say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul unto the Hands of God that gave it; and for my Body, I recommend it to the Earth, to be Buried in a Christian like and decent manner, at the discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the almighty power of God, And as touching such workly estates wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give divise and dispose of the same in the following manner and Form. Imprimis. It is my Will and I do Order, That in the first place all of my Just Debts and Funeral charges be paid and Satisfied. Item, I give and bequeath unto Dorothy my dear and well beloved Wife the sum of Fifty Pounds of Good and Lawfull Money of Pennsylvania, to be levied out of my estate and if it should happen She Should Marry then the Said Fifty Pounds to be Equaly Divided Among my Children. Otherwise if she remains a Widow, she may dispose of the S. Fifty Pound at her Death as she thinks Proper, and Likewise She is to ? on the place as ong as she keeps Single an to be Maintaind In a Decent Manner, out of my estate. Item, I give and bequeath all the Rest of my Estate Both Real and Personal to be Equally Divided Among my Children Bastian, Martin, Jacob, Leonard, Peter, Henry, Juliana and Elizabeth. And I do Constitute, Make, and Ordain Peter Ulor and Martin Eykolbergor my Only and Sole Executors of this my last will and Testament. And I do hereby Utterly disallow, revoke, and Disanul all and Every Other former Testaments, Wills, Loquacios, and Executors by me in Any ways Before this now Named, Willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this, and no Other, to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, the Day and Year above written. Sign'd Seal'd and Delivered In the Presence of Us: Johannes Bens, Adam Rupert, Michael Sprinkel. Martin (X, Mark) Wigol.
1759 John Martin Weigel died on January 31, at the age of 55 years, 2 months, 19 days. He was buried on February 2, at the churchyard in York County. [84] [85]
1759 Jacob Weigle (age 19) and Leonard Weigle (age 15), orphans of Martin Weigle, asked that George Kuntz, of York Town, tavernkeeper be their guardian. Dorothea, widow of Martin Weigle of Manchester, deceased, prayed the court to appoint guardians for Peter and Henry Weigle, minor orphan sons of Martin, under age 14. Baltzer Spengler was appointed to be their guardian. Dated March 28 at the York County Orphans' Court. [86]
1760 George Bentz, guardian of Leonard Weikle (age 18 on 2 April last), orphan of Martin Weikle, asked that Philip Fishburn of York Town joyner be appointed guardian. Leonard was bound as an apprentice until age 21. Dated March 28 at the York Orphans' Court. [87]
1760 Anna Barbara Dorothea Weiglerin was a sponsor with Gerg Meyer at the baptisms by Reverend Lischy of grand daughter twins Anna Margareth and Maria Elisabeth Springle, daughters of Maria Elisabeth.
1760 Deeter Uhler and Martin Eichelberger produced the account of the estate of Martin Weigle with value £65.18. Dated August 26 at the York County Orphans' Court. The estate was divided among widow Dorothea and the children. [88]
1760 D. Uhler and M. Eykelberger settled Martin Weigel's estate on November 29. An inventory valued goods at £507.16.10 with sale of goods bringing an additional £36.15.0. There was a "wagon contract from the town in Forbes Expedition" (see 1758 entry above) valued at £72.6.0 for a total of £616.17.10. George Thompson Esqr. was paid 10 shillings for settling the wagon account. Debts and expenses were £239.2.6 (debt bonds were paid to about 10 named persons, including Martin Weigle Jr, and expenses to about 30 named persons, including Jacob Obb and Bastien Wigle), the plantation was £300.0.0, land in Dover was £10.0.0, another debt was £1.17.4, and the distribution according to the will was £65.18.0, for a total of £616.17.10.
1761 Bastien Wigle, son of Martin Weigle late of Manchester Township, deceased, Jacob and wife Juliana Bushong, and Michael and wife Elizabeth Sprinkle, both daughters of the deceased, assigned their interest in their father's plantation in Manchester and Dover townships to Martin, another son, for 114 pounds. The land adjoined lands of Ludwick Ripple, Valentine Ham, John Bens, Martin Bower, Philip Hare, and John Bensit. Dated August 29. [89]
1762 Baltzer Spengler, guardian of Peter Wykel, a minor orphan son of Martin Wykel late of Manchester Twp, yeoman, deceased, aged 18 on 23 April last, prayed that Peter might be bound an apprentice of Martin Frey of York Twp, locksmith. Dated December 1 at the York County Orphans' Court. [90]
1765 Son Sebastian Weigell of York was naturalized in Philadelphia in October. [91]
Several of Martin's sons served in the Revolutionary War. Peter, Martin, and Leonard captured some British deserters and took them to the prisoner of war stockade at Security Camp in York County. Sebastian was fined several times for non-perfomance of duty. [92]
Martin Weigle is listed as one of the earliest settlers in York County, Pennsylvania. [93]
Research Notes:
A biosketch reports [94]:
Johann Martin Weigel, a child of Valentin Weigel, was born on 11 November 1703 in the village of Saalbach, near Heidelberg, Germany. In 1724 he started to learn the carpenter's trade at Wörnitz, a village in western Bavaria, between Saalbach and Ansbach. At the age of 26 (on ll July 1730), Johann Martin married Dorothea Friedel in the village church of Hoffenheim (located 15 miles southeast of Heidelberg). Johann Martin and Dorothea had one child (Johann Sebastian) before they emigrated to America, On 11 August 1732 (at the age of 28), Johann Martin and his family arrived in the port of Philadelphia on the ship Samuel. Records indicate that Johann Martin belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church on the Codorus (later Christ Lutheran Church), as early as 1734. During the initial years religious services were held in the houses of the members, but soon after the town of York was founded in 1741 the heirs of William Penn granted these early Lutherans two lots on South George Street upon which the first house of worship (a log building) was erected in 1743. Johann Martin initially tried to build a mill on the Codorus near the village of York, but found the stream too strong for his enterprise. While residing near the village of York, the second child of Johann Martin and Dorothea Weigel was born: Martin Weigel. In 1738, Johann Martin Weigel moved his family near present-day Weigelstown. On the Little Conewago Creek (about 400 yards northeast of where it crosses Carlisle Road), Johann Martin built a mill—that for a considerable time was the only mill west of York. Years later (prior to the Revolutionary War), a more permanent stone mill was built on the other side of Carlisle Road. Johann Martin Weigel died 31 January 1759 at the age of 55; it is not known when his wife died. Many of the early Weigel family members were buried in the graveyard of Christ Lutheran Church near the square in York. When the City of York acquired the land on which the second (and present) court house was to be erected, the bodies were moved to several other area cemeteries. Most of the Weigels were moved to the old Shiloh Church Cemetery, which is likely the burial location of Johann Martin and Dorothea Weigel.
A church record reports [95]:
John Martin Weigel, son of Valetnine Weigel of Saalbach in Brandenburg; born N 11 1703. In 1724 he learned the carpenter's trade at Wörnitz, near Rothenburg. He married in 1729 Dorothea, daughter of Nicholas Triddel, and in 1730 came with her to America. They had eleven children, of whom six sons and two daughters survive. He died at sunset, Ja 31, 1759, and was buried in plot F 2 in the churchyard in York.
Martin Weigel and wife Juliana [not Dorothy] were named as sponsors in the two records below, of John Caspar Stoever [Stöver] at the Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Some of those records were annotated as appearing in the York register.
1737 Martin Weigel and wife Juliana were sponsors at the baptism of Johannes, son of John Birdman on 20 June. [96]
1737 Martin Weigel and wife Maria Juliana were sponsors at the baptism of Catarina, daughter of Peter Gartner on 1 August. [97]
According to Taylor/Hammon Family History (contact Christine Ence): Birth record is found in Protestant Parish Register, Weisenbach, Württemberg, Germany Film 1 528624, it. 2-3. Death date from Death record in Christ Lutheran Church of York, PA. Marriage to Ana Dorothea Friedelin is found in Lutheran Church Records Hoffenheim, Baden, Germany Film 1189197 p. 518. It said 11 Jul 1730 Martin Weigel son of Veltin Weigel of Onoltzbach and Anna Dorothea Friedelin, father miller (here) dead Nicolas Friedel. Anna Dorothea was already pregnant. [98]
See also: [99]
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[2] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (1983), 387-388.
[3] F. J. C. Hertzog, York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Records of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York, York County, Pennsylvania, [AncestryRecord].
[4] website for Martin Weigel, [URL].
[5] Genealogical notes on the descendants of John Martin Weigel: who was born 1703 in Saalbach, Bradenburg, Prussia and came to America in 1730, 154, [FHLCatalog].
[6] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (1983), 388.
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[10] F. J. C. Hertzog, York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Records of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York, York County, Pennsylvania, [AncestryRecord].
[11] Gladys A. Ingram, This our heritage: the ancestral history of Charles and Cora (Beard) Ingram (1978), 117, reports the name Triddel, [GoogleBooks].
[12] Genealogical notes on the descendants of John Martin Weigel: who was born 1703 in Saalbach, Bradenburg, Prussia and came to America in 1730, citing Church records in York County, which report marriage in 1729, [FHLCatalog].
[13] Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929, [AncestryRecord].
[14] Germany, Baden, Hoffenheim, Mischbuch 1717-1761, image 142, [ArchionImage].
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[28] Gladys A. Ingram, This our heritage: the ancestral history of Charles and Cora (Beard) Ingram (1978), 117, [GoogleBooks].
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[34] F. J. C. Hertzog, York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, [AncestryRecord].
[35] Debra D. Smith and Frederick S. Weiser, Trinity Lutheran Church Records Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, 1730-1767 (Closson Press, 1995), 10.
[36] Henry James Young, Evidence of the Weigel Families of York County before the year 1850 (1940, Historical Society of York County, Vol. 23), 145-190, at 147, citing Vital Records of Christ Lutheran Church of York, Pennsylvania.
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[39] Frederick S. Weiser, The Earliest Records of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1730-1744 (Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, Vol. 14, 1980), 403, York Register, [GoogleBooks].
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[41] Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[42] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D40-221, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].
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