Other Events:

• _UID: 4A242081E4AB4FC6A0789BFA3F1892A1EAF3

Notes:

last name based on baptism associations (!)

Lydia married Christian KRÄMER Abt 1821, Northumberland Co, PA. Christian (son of Johann Gotfried KRÄMER and Maria Apollonia HILDEBRAND) was born 27 Oct 1799, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA; died 22 Dec 1872, Cameron Twp, Northumberland Co, PA; was buried St. Peter's Cemetery, West Cameron Twp, Northumberland Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 29 Jul 1770, Dunkel's Reformed Church, Greenwich Twp, Berks Co, PA
• _UID: 056A48A17E0E4F43848FBE84158F36EC9100

Notes:

1800 census, pg 714, Mahanoy, 10020-20100 (Weary)
1810 census, pg 262, Upper Mahanoy, 41010-30010
1820 census, pg 032, Little Mahanoy, 110301-30012

in Nordwestliche Post paper of 26 Nov 1819, Polly Wehry, d/o Anthony Wehry
of Little Mahanoy married John Merz 1 Oct.

Estate accounting in books 8:106, 125, 127, 129-39, and 143-59.
8:106 lists widow Catharine and 7 children: George, Mary w/o John Martz,
Samuel, Lydia w/o Christian Kramer, Benjamin, Daniel, and Catharine, 2/o Jacob Startzel
(1 Apr 1836)

John married Catharina HOWERTER Abt 1795, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA. Catharina (daughter of Johan Adam HOWERTER and Catharine KROHN) was born 29 Mar 1775, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA; died Aft 1836, Little Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 7 May 1775, Longswamp Reformed Church, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA
• _UID: 82981DB3EC614902AC97676CCD7ADB00BA3B

Notes:

single sp ->1791, Friedrich Reiner and Maria (at Lehigh)

George 1796, sp Johannes Wehry and wf Maria Elisabeth (?vs Susanna) (at Himmel)
M Magdalena 1798, sp Peter Howerter and Magdalena Wehry
Peter 1803, sp Jacob Wehry and Christina [Howerter]
sp -> 1803, Johannes Wehry and Susanna [Howerter]
Sarah 1811, sp Johannes Wagner and Sarah Howerter
sp -> 1815, Johannes Derr and Magdalena
Elisabeth 1817, sp Michael Wehry and Anna [Kramer]
sp -> 1821, Christian Kramer and Lydia [Wehry]

Other Events:

• Baptism: Dunkel's Reformed Church, Greenwich Twp, Berks Co, PA
• Unknown: Bef 1796, Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA; Migrated
• Probate: 30 Mar 1799, Northumberland Co, PA
• Will: 25 Apr 1798, Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA
• _UID: 3F4FEAFF598743839297D0DFCB6785B86491

Notes:

will 1:211
Land draft, (Sunbury), Lot 207, 1 Apr 1775 (PAA 3:25,340)

1790 census?

sp - 1770 John Anthony Muller and Eva Maria
sp - 1774 Michael Unterkoffler and Susanna Wehry singles
(Gertraut) sp -> 1814 Jacob Wehry and Christina [Howerter]

Note: I have my doubts that Christian's wife is a Baum. I think
more substantial data is needed to make that leap...

I note that Christian Baum was single in the 1752 census of Greenwich (see internet listing)

John married Gertraut UNKNOWN Bef 1770, Greenwich Twp, Berks Co, PA. Gertraut was born Abt 1750; died Aft 1814, Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _UID: 47E4FF2BD5A9465C88D2DEEE7C9C421A0F5E

Other Events:

• Baptism: 3 Oct 1742, Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, Trappe, New Providence Twp, Montgomery Co, PA
• Unknown: 5 May 1778, Macungie Twp, Lehigh Co, PA; US Oath
• Unknown: 10 May 1780, Ens, Rev War, 1St Bn, 8Th Co, Berks Co Militia (Paa 5:5, 168); Military
• Unknown: 1784, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA (21 A, 56 P, Deed 11:75); Bought_land
• Unknown: 1784, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA (51 A, 40 P, Deed 11:75); Bought_land
• Unknown: 16 Jan 1784, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA (95 A, 141 P, Deed 11:73); Bought_land
• Unknown: 3 Mar 1792, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA (84 A, 98 P, Deed 12:321?); Sold_land
• Unknown: 23 Mar 1792, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA (Deed 12:468); Land_agreement
• Unknown: Abt 1795, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA; Migrated
• Unknown: 3 Apr 1795, Longswamp Twp, Berks Co, PA (14 A, Deed 14:293 And 15:199); Sold_land
• Unknown: 10 Apr 1795, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA (Deed 2:171); Bought_land
• Unknown: 6 Apr 1812, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA (Deed R:99); Sold_land
• Occupation: Farmer, cordwainer (shoemaker), grist miller, saw miller
• Probate: 27 Dec 1819, Northumberland Co, PA
• Will: 29 Nov 1819, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA
• _UID: 3546E48E2C334A43983CCDC84DDBD079B390

Notes:

Name Suffix: Senior
will 2:367

1st Bn Berks County Militia, 8th Co, Ensign (PAA 5:5,168)
10 May 1780

1767 tax list, Longswamp, $15 single
1768tax list, Longswamp, 1C, $1
1779 tax list, Longswamp, 30A, 1H, 3C, $84
1780 tax list, Longswamp, 42A, 1H, 4C, $7.12.6
1781 tax list, Longswamp, 42A, 1H, 4C, $1.12.6
1784 tax list, Longswamp,100A, 1H, 3C, $9
1785 tax list, Longswamp, $3.19.0

1790 Census, Longswamp Twp, 2-1-5 (why not 7 women?)

1800 Census, pg 707, Mahanoy Twp, 10101-11101

1810 Census, pg 258, Upper Mahanoy Twp,00001-01001, farmer

see also Vol 6, PA German Society.

1794, contributed$3.9 to Longswamp Church

missing in church records from 1767 to 1775 (8 years)

sp - 1775 George Knappenberger and Catharine (Hittel) (Longswamp)
sp -> 1775 Johann Oerter and Anna Maria
sp - 1776 Josua Henrich Miller and Maria Catharina Lang single
sp - 1778 George Braun and Maria Elisabeth
sp - 1782 Henrich Egner and Susanna [Romig, d/o Fred, buried Zion Luth]
sp - 1783 Michael Lang and Levina Mayer
sp - 1786 Johannes Weiler and Margaretha (Lehigh Church)
sp -> 1794 Frederick Reinert and Maria Elisabeth
sp -> 1794 Heinrich Howerterand Barbara, Lehigh Church

sp -> 1799 Jacob Hederich and Margaretha, HimmelChurch
sp -> 1801 Michael Paul and wf [Elisabeth Geiss]
sp -> 1801 ChristianRieth and wf
sp -> 1802 Leonhart Kerstetter and Susanna
sp -> 1806 Jacob Bauer and wf Philippina
sp -> 1807 Michael Druckenmiller and wf Barbara
sp -> 1807 Jonas Wolfgang and wf Maria Elisabeth

US Oath, 56:212
DAR application 761461 (via son Henrich)

Note: Floyd's History of Northumberland County mentions children:
3 daughters married brothers named Wary
one married a Spiece
one married a DeTurk
one of the Wary's is buried at Mahanoy and one at Herb's Church.
(says the ancestor was a Hession soldier - nah!)
(note: missing Sarah Yoder and Salome Bastress Walp)

I found notes at the Lehigh County HistoricalSociety and also Northumberland County
Historical Society showing other Howerter researchers uncovered Sarah Howerter
as another daughter of Adam. (see myother notes under her name).

Adam's will mentions "all my children" withoutnames. Also "Elizabeth or her children
shall have her share and that shall also be divided amongst them in equal shares.
she has yet to receive $28.0.6 till she has received one hundred Pounds" Not sure
what that means - was she sick and dying? Also mentions sons Adam and Peter.

The tombstone says born inChester County. There's no reason to think that it's
false since the Trappe Church is across the river from Chester County.

The text of the article in Floyd's History of Northumberland County, pg 846:
HOWERTER. Adam Howerter, the first known ancestor of a family numerously
represented in Berks and Northumberland counties, Pa., was born Sept. 2, 1742,
and died in what is now Upper Mahanoy township, Northumberland Co., Pa., near
Howerters Church, Dec. 6, 1819. The inscription on his tombstone says "born in
Chester county," but family tradition has it that he was one of the Hessian
soldiers brought here by the English government during the Revolutionary war,
after which he settled in Chester county, Pa. About 1786 he located in Longswamp
township, Berks county, where in 1790 the Federal Census Report records him as
the head of a family of three sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Henry,
was already married in that year, but at that time had no children. He is said
to have remained in Berkscounty, but Adam and his other children, sons Johan
Adam and Johan Peter and four daughters, came to the Mahantango Valley, settling
in that district now embraced in Upper Mahanoy township, where the father took
up a large tract of land, some of which he cleared, erecting the first set of
buildings thereon.

He and his wife Catharine, who according to the tombstone
inscription was born in Europe Dec. 28, 1748, and died April 23, 1819

Johan married Catharine KROHN 30 Apr 1767, Christ (Mertz) Church, Rockland Twp, Berks Co, PA. Catharine was born 23 Dec 1748, Europe; died 23 Apr 1819, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA; was buried Howerter's Church, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _UID: 1B785DA5852343A39FA258B7ED01FE369537

Notes:

1760/1, Catharine and Barbara Cron, single sponsors at Lehigh Church (Cronin)
(at age 12?)

1767, Adam Howerter, single in Longswamp

1767, married at Mertz Church in Rockland Twp (Krohnin)


at Lehigh Church
note: a Catharina Cronin, single sp 1760 -> George Dutt and Barbara
also a Barbara Cronin, single sp 1761 -> George Dutt and Christina

more on George Dutt and Christina:
sp 1754 -> Christian Ludwig Hartman and Maria Catharina (single?)
John George 1761, sp Johan George Rohrbach and Barbara Cron

George and Barbara:
Christina 1757, sp Johan George and Christina [Moser?] Rohrbach
Catharina 1760, sp Anthony Maul and Catharine Cron

George Dutt 9 Dec 1723 - Oct 1790, Upper Milford
married Barbara c1756, Salisbury
immigrated 16 Oct 1751


ALSO NOTE: a book on the Howerter family at the Northumberland Co Historical
Society speculates that Catharine is a daughter of Peter Long of Colebrookdale
(or another Long)

the Palatine Immigrant group's newsletter, March 2000, pg 72, shows Catharine
as a daugther of Martin Krohn. I've seen this several times. It seemsto rely on the
idea that folks were wrong about Catharine being born in Europe, that the family
broke up early, and Catharine was one of the kids. Still, I've seen no direct evidance
or even an indirect link between this Catharine and any other Krohn member.

Other Events:

• Unknown: 3 May 1768, Greenwich Twp, Berks Co, PA; ES-3267
• Immigration: 26 Sep 1737, PA ("St. Andrew Galley")
• Occupation: Farmer
• _UID: 9996FFB9A05D45EB94A23FC19E4CD3282F9C

Notes:

Name Suffix: Senior

2nd Bn Berks County Militia, 6th Co, 3rd Class

1752 tax list, Greenwich (see internet)
1754 tax list, Greenwich, $20.5.0
1756 tax list, Greenwich (John Wary, see Rupps)
1767 tax list, Greenwich, 100A, 2H, 2C, $3
1768 tax list, Greenwich, 100A, 2C, 2S, $3
1779 tax list, Greenwich, 100A, 2H, 1C, $940 (also Jacob Wyry single)

other records listed now under Jacob Jr

sp - 1748 John Christbaum (Christ. Baum? see Rev Schumacher 12 Dec 1755)
sp - 1751 Jacob Bossert and wf (as Jeffry, but probably Wehry!)
sp - 1755 John Frederick Leiby and Susanna Bossert
sp - 1757 Johann Christian Rubsahmen and Anna Elisabeth (immig 1753) (wf=Barbara)
sp - 1760 Johann Conrad Heuser and Anna Margaretha (wf=Elisabeth!)


Note on Jacob Bossert. Berks Deed V104:pg 369 names Philip Lenhart and
Anna, George Loy and Rebecca, Henry Kalbach and Susanna, and Elizabeth Bossert
and Rudolph Bosser as his only children - see Pioneers and Patriots Over the Blue
Mountains, pg 53.

Regarding theJacob Wehry who supposedly came from a family in Germany - I've
looked at theevidance and found it wanting. The version I've seen includes

-"immigrantsrecorded on the Saint Andrew Galley were males 16 years of age
or over and this Jacob was 13"
- "Johann Jacob was born 9 December 1724"
- "no record of Johann Jacob leaving Germany has been found"
-"left for Carolina"

I think forinconsistancies found, rather compelling evidance would be required to
overcome these difficulties. Basically, I don't see a reason to doubt that if the ship
list says Jacob was 16 and over, that we should discount that. I propose amore
likely birth year of about 1717. I think we should continue the search for Jacob's parents.

The documentation suggesting connections between the Wehry's and some other
families should also continue to be investigated, but I've found the Baum connection
to also be wanting of evidance as the above.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/wehry/
http://eitniear_cherry.tripod.com/eitniearandalliedfamilies/id14.html

Jacob married Barbara UNKNOWN Bef 1748, PA. Barbara was born Abt 1728; died Aft 1757, Greenwich Twp, Berks Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _UID: 20D0C0E7E04C45B18964DA2740F42F9CA6D3

Other Events:

• Immigration: 12 Oct 1741, PA ("Friendship")
• Occupation: Baker
• _UID: DE0DB952D75448FFB3EFD34F480BB7528801

Notes:

Name Suffix: Senior

sp - 1742 John Adam Kunzel and Anna Dorothea Widrigin
sp - 1744 Philip Setzler and wf
sp - 1746 parents
sp - 1748 Matthias Roth's wf Elisabeth

http://genforum.genealogy.com/howerter/
http://home.earthlink.net/~hovarter/hovarter/d69.html#P73

Valetin resided in Heimestelle Pfalz Kaiserlautern Germany although it has not
been documented, the records, his marriage and taufsheins, (baptismal records) of
their children were all included in the archives of the Lutheran church at Speyer
Germany. These records state that he was the local baker and his wife was the
daughter of Lorentz Huttenmeyer, the high Count of Neuenstein in the
Hohenlohischen district.

John married Anna Christina HUTTENMEYER 18 Oct 1735, Thaleischweiler, Zweibrucken, Germany. Anna (daughter of Lorentz HUTTENMEYER) was born Abt 1710, Germany; died Aft 1760, PA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Immigration: 12 Oct 1741, PA ("Friendship")
• _UID: 606109F398B94BE39D9CB84DF3834375A8CD

Notes:

this last name was in Meiser's burial records

widow Christina listed in 1760 confirmation record.