1760 Conrad Nicodemus, son of Adam Nicodemus, and Anna Maria, daughter of Bernard Pfeifer, were married on April 15 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [1]
1761 Joh. Bernard Nicodemus, son of Conrad and Anna Maria Nicodemus, was born on January 21 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was baptized on February 1, 1761 with sponsors Bernhard Pfeiffer and wife Maria Margretha. [2]
1769 Connroth Nicodemus, danner [Tanner?] with no land, was taxed in Lebanon Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [3]
1770 Conrad Nicodemus was taxed in Lebanon Twp, Lancaster County. [4]
1771 Conrad Nicodemus, taner, was taxed with a house, no land, in Lebanon Twp, Lancaster County. [5] [6]
1786 Conrad Nicodemus was a juror at the Orphans Court of Washington County, Maryland. [7]
1818 Valentine and Conrad Nicodemus, both of Washington County, Maryland, were executors for the will of Conrad Nicodemus, late of Washington Twp [Franklin County, Pennsylvania]. They sold land to Henry Nicodemus, of Washington Twp, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The will of Conrad Nicodemus, deceased, was dated on August 18, 1804 and was on record in Chambersburg. [8]
1818 A personal account by Squire John H. Nicodemus of Martinsburg, son of John Nicodemus, son of Conrad Nicodemus [perhaps a son of this Conrad Nicodemus], reported [9]:
My father, John Nicodemus, on May 18, 1818, bought from his father, Conrad Nicodemus, the 250 acre tract of land, which since then has been known as the Klepser Mill property. He paid $6,000, on the terms of $1,000 down and an annual payment of $200 or $250.
Long before the obligation had been paid off, some of the neighbors advised father to build a grist mill. Father demurred, because he still was in debt for the farm. 'Don't let that stop you' they said, 'We'll give you the money.'
Without further preamble they put up the money and father built the mill. There were already six or seven mills along Clover Creek - the Rhodes mill on the present Frank Shriver place; the Brumbaugh mill at Fredericksburg; Sorrick's at Larke and others.
Research Notes:
See [10]
[1] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 6 (Egypt) (1907), 244, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 6 (Egypt) (1907), 185, citing records of Rev. John Waldschmidt, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[4] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[5] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[6] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[7] Maryland, Washington County, Orphan's Court records, 1786-1918, [FamilySearchImage].
[8] Franklin County, Pennsylvania Deed 10-783, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[9] Ella M. Snowberger, Recollections of Bygone Day in the Cove Vol. 2 (Morrisons Cove Herald, 1934), 45, of 44-47.
[10] Ivan J Nicodemus, Nicodemus Notes in America (Texas: self-published, 1995), 4, [FHLBook].