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- Name Suffix: Senior
1779 tax list, Windsor Twp
1778-1780 tax list, Augusta, $296.13.0 (non-resident)
1784 tax list, Windsor, 170A, 2H, 2C, 2 people
1785 tax list, Mahanoy, 150A, $7.9
1786 tax list, Mahanoy, 150A, $9.5
1787 tax list, Mahanoy, 250A, 1H, 1C, $9.8
1787 tax list, Augusta, $1.0
1800 census, Mahanoy, 10011-10001
single sp -> 1770, Adam Nungesser and Catharine (atMoselem)
Johannes and Maria:
Maria Magdalena 1773, sp Michael Rensler and wf (at Windsor Ziegels)
sp -> 1786, Christopher Dunkelberger and wf (at Himmel)
sp -> 1787, Jacob Hill and Christina (at Windsor Ziegels)
and Elisabeth:
sp -> 1804, George Schweinhard and Barbara
see also death notice in Nordwestliche Post, issue of 4 Dec 1818 (says died last week, he
was of Upper MahanoyTwp)
From Floyd's History of Northumberland County, pg 49:
John Dunkelberger, grandson of Clement, was born in Windsor
township, near Hamburg, in 1740.He married there and had two sons by
that marriage, in 1780 (at which time hewas a widower) moving with his
son George to the northern part of the MahanoyValley, in Northumberland
county - that part of Mahanoy now embraced in Little Mahanoy township.
He received from the State, a warrant for more than two hundred acres of
land, located north of Line Mountain and between that and Mahanoy creek.
The Indians were his neighbors, and were friendly to him, but during the
terrible Indian disturbances his family on several occasions had to flee
for safety. There he built a stone grist mill and stone dwelling house.
In 1814 he is credited with a grist and saw mill on Mahanoy creek which
mill is said to have been the first in that section. He built the mill
several years after locating in that district. On the John Dunkelberger
homestead still stands a large stone house, 45 by 35 feet in dimensions,
and two and a half stories high, which was built in 1818, the year in
which this pioneer died. Large, well-selected stones were used in its
construction and the wall is exceptionally strong.
After settling here John Dunkelberger married again and had two
sons by his, second wife, Solomon and Jonathan, from whom most of the
Dunkelbergers arc descended. These pioneers are buried on their own
farm on an elevation below a piece of pine woods, about fifty feet
northeast from a public road. Their graves are marked by marble
tombstones, inscribed as follows:
Hier ruhet
Johanes Dunkelberger
Gabo. den 28 Sept.
1745
Storb den 27 Novem
1818
Alt 73 yahr 2 mo
1 Tag
Text I Buch Moses
48 Capitd 21 V"
''Hier ruen die
gebine von Elizabeth
Dunkelberger war
Eine geborne Kahwel
war geboren den 20ten
Marz, 1761, und starb
den 3ten September, 1827
Ist alt worden 66
Yahr 5 monot und
12 tag. Text Heob.
17, Capitel den 11,ver. 5''
and again on page 123
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1745 - 1818 (73 years)