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English Pages 195 [393] Year 1901
Perkiomen Past and Present.
EDITED BY
HENRY
S.
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DOTTERER.
VOL.
I^OUXI> COPIES,
III.
TWO DOEEARS.
Phiiadetpliia
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Swamp.
in Falconer
records: “We went to Pay’d the Quit Rent, oth, 21131 returned home. Paid £72 for
March
of
Swamp. Tract,
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years.”
the
conferences
Pkilkner
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rent on
Tlie quit
the
(Ireat
or (4erman Tract, granted to the
had remaine«4 un-
F'rankfort Coiiipany,
Ituibtless paid all these many }'ears. about this time the agents of tlie Proprietaries made urgent demand for the back
David Shultze,
rents.
Xew York
as a
man
of ex-
Flxact investigators are finding out tliat
who came to our Provwhose descondaiits are popularly designated “Pennsylvania - Germans,” were in large part of nationalities other than German. Huguenot blood, and Swiss, and Dutoli, coursed through the ince,
quoted.
In the (’ash Book of the Proprietaries’ agent in Philadelphia, the consummation of this busimost weighty to the owners of land ne.ss is concisely and of the (ierman Tract Shuitze’s journal
ais
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corrobiiratively stated, thus:
3 IMarch, 17o2.
A Comp> Fpper A
Receivetl of
Renry Antis
(Fiiitrent
Octob’'
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To tiieR(U’man Com-
panv
(.'d years in full to liu' P’ Inst:) or ]"rankfort Comp-'' £o.3 17 9. 3:14 C'l (’nrrencv, £71 17 0
Space will not pinniit a r('[jciitioii day by day of tlu- event.« of the year. A Ithongh a fascinating work, their n'citnl in the
verbatim transcript
number must
anothei; part
in
sntlice.
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Revoiutiortion of t!u‘
a
early settlers ot Fayettt*
vanians,
Town
March
and add greatly
hi'^ftwical sketch.
Thomas
Leiper, Licnte'uant of Light Horse. Patriot and 1‘knnncier in thhia,
and engaged
in
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PA8T AND PRESENT. busim'Sf^.
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this interesting personality
ingly (kvscrihed
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Smyth,
is
work charm-
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into the sgra})iis l>y AVilliam II. Ivicliardson, are an attractive addition to the work; their subjects are: Site of Thomas Leiper’s Railway, ISn!'); Tite Lock Tender’s 1 louse, L('i[)ervil]e; Thomas Lr“i['K^r Lock, 18‘_\S, at Carey’s Brook. ])aper a gnait
The Alumni
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1728.
Anna Margaretha Antes was
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Born, in Freinsheim, July IJ; 1701. Died, in Frederick torn, in Pennsylvania, al)Out 1702. Died tetober o, 17S2.
ied, in T.oiulon, in 1794. t),
Husband, Rev. Benjamin
I.a Trol)e.
Born. Died, at Fidnec, Yorkshins
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Wife, (first.) in England, Miss lydia Seilon, C’hildix^n:
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L\dia Mellon
IN Hfsevelt. 2. Henry Latrob/e,
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August 4.
3,
in
1,
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1 leury LatwU'. Latrobe, iKun in 1808,
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Anna
Hemy
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Donaliy
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John F rede lick
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M'illiatii Foster,
4.
Louisa Foster,
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died
7, 1ied in Knssia, 1S4H.
A\dfe, Alvina, Baroness Staekelix'Vg. pM>rn 17'27.
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John HazleliUrst Boneval
Anna
TroUe
La Trolxe
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Afargaretha Antesk
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Benjamin
Homy
Henry Antes",
Latroj»eL Fred-
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Wife, (first,) Children:
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ist der Jaeol) Selineider ans Oall.'••estoiLen wtatis about
20 years.
i;-ei)reeht.
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Noven d>er
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at \\daid(4s apjn’aisment made'.
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Wdait to Justici^ Owcai Evans. Wrote for M'as at Smiths.
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John Sell. At home. 10. ,u-int
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On Hereford Townshi]>
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des
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in
Germanton
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to lay out.
At Bornt Kunsers Land Surveyd.
England of a malignant wldeh earreyd him olf in
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Fishier et Moll.
a tew Days.
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