1702/1710 George Kunkel was born. Different dates have been suggested. [1] [2]
c 1715 Anna Margaretha Shuster was born in Flörsbach, Gelnhausen, Hessen, Germany. [3]
1750 On 12 September, George Kunkel immigrated to Philadelphia at age 40. [4] [5]
1754 George Kunkel had settled and farmed in Albany Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania where he had a large farm on the upper end of Stony Run. [6] [7] [8]
1756-67 George Kunkel paid taxes in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1756, 1759, 1760, 1764, 1766, and 1767. In 1767 he was assessed five pounds for 100 acres of land, two horses, two cattle and two sheep. [9] [10] [11] [12]
George Kunkel was buried at Wessnerville. [13] His death record has also been reported as unknown. [14]
Research Notes: (To do)
Records of Rev'd. Daniel Schumacher, are found in the LDS Library in SLC, Utah, film #940443 - #7. The KUNCKEL families were recorded as being from the areas of Lynn Township, Weissenburg, and the Allemangel Area. Other Baptism records are found on the LDS film #20348, item #1.
Bio Sketches are found in History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, - published 1898, pages 304 - 307 and pages 509 - 510.
"Genealogical and Biographical Records records of Berks County, Pennsylvania," published in 1909, Vol. II, page 794 - 795.
"History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania," Vol. II, published 1914.
Some of the above Biographical Sketches, was reprinted in the Spindle family newsletter, Volume II, No. 1, Jan. 1996, page 16 to 19.
Family records were researched during 1994 by, Heinrich P. GÖBEL, of Steingarten--3, D63584, Grundau-Breitenborn, Germany, at the Parish Register in Kempfenbrunn, Germany.
[1] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 13, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].
[2] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-60.
[3] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-61.
[4] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-60.
[5] Jane Adams Clarke, "Emigrants from Hesse, Germany, Who Left One After Another for Pennsylvania 1748-1766," Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean (2000), 151-, at 152, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 794, [HathiTrust].
[7] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 1394, [HathiTrust].
[8] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-60.
[9] Charles Rhoads Roberts, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas Krick, and William Dietrich, History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of its Families, Volume 2 (Allentown, PA: 1914), 755-758, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[10] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 794, [HathiTrust].
[11] Israel Daniel Rupp, Von Gail Hamilton, History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon (1844), 122, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[12] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-61.
[13] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 794, [HathiTrust].
[14] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), II-61.