circa 1820 Map of Reading, Pennsylvania with lot numbers [2]
1765 Samuel Weiser sold, to Anthony Fricker, lot 130 between Erle and Duke streets. The lot had been patented by Gallus Fricker and was inherited by sons John and Anthony and daughters Francesca married to John Shorp (shopkeeper) and Anna Maria since married to Joseph Shuma (shopkeeper). Dated July 12. [1]
1768 Anthony Fricker, shopkeeper, was taxed in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [3]
1769 Catharine M Fricker, daughter of Anthony and Margaret Fricker was born August 15, 1769 and was baptized in Reading, October 8, with sponsors, Joseph and M Catharine Chaumont. [4]
1769 Anthony (shopkeeper) and Margaret Fricker sold lot 130 on Penn Street, between Penn and Richard, and between Duke and Earle, Reading, Pennsylvania to Michael Schmoll. Dated June 29. The lot had been patented (Patent A18-18) by Gallus Fricker (Charles Freaker) on February 11, 1752. Gallus died leaving four children John Fricker, Anthony Fricker (party hereto), Francisca married to John Schorb, and Anna Maria married to Joseph Schomo. [5]
1771 John Frederic Fricker, son of Antony Fricker and his wife Margaret, was born on Good Friday April 29 1771 [sic]. He was baptized at Reading on April 14 with sponsors Frederic Haffner and his wife Catharine. [6]
1773 Thomas Fricker, son of Anthony Fricker and his wife Margaret, was born on his patron saint's day [i. e. December 21]. He was baptized January 9, in Anthony Fricker's house with sponsors Frederic Haffner and M. Theresa Fricker. [7]
1768-93 Anthony Fricker was named on tax lists in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
1790 Anthony Fricker lived in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in a household with 2 males under age 16, 1 males age 16 and over, and 4 females. [18]
[1] Berks County, Pennsylvania, Deed A4-224, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[2] H[enry] M. Richards, C.F. Engelman, Engraver, Ground Plan of Reading. Map of Berks County Surveyed By H.M. Richards, Image courtesy of Boston Rare Maps, Southampton, Mass. (Reading, Pennsylvania?: ca. 1825-1828), [Boston_Rare_Maps].
[3] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Thomas C. Middleton, "The Goshenhoppen Registers, (Second Series) 1765-1785," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 3 (Philadelphia: 1891), 295-398, at 316, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[5] Berks County, Pennsylvania, Deed 6-99, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[6] Thomas C. Middleton, "The Goshenhoppen Registers, (Second Series) 1765-1785," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 3 (Philadelphia: 1891), 295-398, at 319, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[7] Thomas C. Middleton, "The Goshenhoppen Registers, (Second Series) 1765-1785," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 3 (Philadelphia: 1891), 295-398, at 327, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[8] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, 1768, shopkeeper, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1779, Septennial, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, 1781, innkeeper, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, 1785, innkeeper, [AncestryRecord].
[13] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, 1786, innkeeper, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[14] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1786, Septennial, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[15] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, 1788, [AncestryRecord].
[16] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, 1789, [AncestryRecord].
[17] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1793, Septennial, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[18] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryRecord].