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- Name Suffix: Senior
1780 tax, Longswamp, single (or Hereford Twp?)
1784 tax, Longswamp, joyner, 1/2 A, 1C, 1 person
1785 tax, E. District, $2.6
1788 tax, Macungie, joyner, 1H, 1C, $5.0
1790 census, Macungie, 1-2-3 (Geyst)
1800 census, Mahanoy, 20101-22010
1810 census, pg 257, Upper Mahanoy
1820 census
1830 census, pg 233, Upper Mahanoy, 0011 1000 01-0011 0001
w/Elisabeth:
sp -> 1782, Valentine Haupt and Anna M. (at Lehigh)
Johannes 1784, sp Martin Dormeyer and wf
sp - 1786, Valentine Geist and Catharine [Dormeyer]
sp -> 1789, Johann N. Koch and Maria (at Lehigh)
Susanna 1789, sp George Geist andCatharine
sp -> 1791, George Geist and Catharine (at Longswamp)
Elisabeth 1793, sp Nicolaus Hain and Anna Elisabetha (at Lehigh)
sp -> 1794, Johannes Wagner and Anna M. [Dormeyer] (at Lehigh)
w/Christina:
George 1798, Nicholaus Schneider and wf Anna Maria (at Himmel)
Anna Margaretha 1799, Michael Wagner and Barbara [Schneider]
Andreas 1801, Johannes Wagner and Anna Margaretha [Dormeyer]
Peter 1804, Peter Schneider
1791 at Longswamp Church, $15.0
US Oath, 56:205
From Floyd's History of Northumberland County, pg 551:
JOHN H. GEIST; a retired citizen of Sunbury, was born Jan. 5, 1838, at
Northumberland, Northumberland county, and is a member of an old Pennsylvania
family first settled in Berks county, being a great-grandson of Conrad Geist,
who came from Germany about 1760 and located in that county. There is also a
large family of Geists in Montgomery county, Pa., descended from one Christopher
Geist, and there were others in Chester county. In 1790 there lived in
Lancaster county the families of George and Jacob Geist, and in the same year
the families of John and Matthew Geist lived in Montgomery county. In 1790
Conrad Geist, of the borough of Reading, had three sons over sixteen years old;
two daughters; and wife. The same year there is record of George Geist, of
Longswamp township, Berks county, with one son under sixteen years of age, one
daughter, and wife; and of Valentine Geist, of Longswamp township, with one son
under sixteen, two daughters, and wife. John Geist (son of Conrad, who came from
Germany about 1760) was the grandfather of John H. Geist, of Sunbury. He and his
wife, Elizabeth (Koch), were both from Berks county, and lived in that section
of Northumberland county now. embraced in Snyder county, where he followed
farming. He spoke German. The date of his wife's death is not known, but his
occurred in theyear 1812. Among their children were: Daniel, who was a farmer
in Montour county, Pa.; Henry, who located in the West; Conrad, who died in
Dauphin county, Pa.; John; and Peggy, who married a Mr. Dentler and lived in
Chillisquaque township, this county.
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1755 - 1849 (94 years)