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- Northumberland, Nicholas, 50A, land=13 Aug 1790
not in 1784 tax list
1785 tax, Augusta Twp, $10.0 single
1786 tax, Augusta Twp, $10.0 single
1787 tax, Augusta Twp, $10.0 single
1790 census, Augusta Twp, 1-0-1
1800 census, Augusta Twp, 10110-00010
1810 census, Sunbury, pg 217
1820
1830 census, Meadville Boro, pg 002 (John N.)
1818 tax, Mead Twp, 1house and lot $500, 10 as. outlot $150, 1H $40, 1C $12
1824 tax, Mead, 10A island $100
1835 tax, Mead, 5A
Nicholas and Magdalena sold their land in Sunbury in 1814 (deed S:318).
It mentions Jacob land, lots 255 and 256 on the north side of Hurtleberry St.
Mentions Nicholas and Mary, but signed by Nicholas and Magdalena.
Jacob Stainbrook of Crawford County gave Letter of Attorney to Nicholas Conrad
in 1812/13, deed Q:831.
Is this the Nicholas who also moved to Crawford County?
Deed A1:506, 13 Mar 1803, Nicholas Conrod, innkeeper of Crawford Co
buys a lot in Meadville
Deed E1:211, 8 Jul 1813, Nicholas Conrod of Meadville buys
land on island opposite Meadville (along the bank of French Creek)
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The following is from an affadavit
Nicholas Conrad made on behalf of Mary Magdalena (Schaefer) Peiffer, 16 March 1838,
pension file #R.8078, John George Peiffer):
Also came John Nicholas Conrad, who, on his solemn oath duly administerd, says he
was born on the 15th, of October 1764, that in the fall of 1773, his father moved
from near Reading Pennsylvania to Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County
Pennsylvania, and that soon after, deponent became acquainted with Mary M.
Shaffer, now Mrs Peiffer, the within applicant and daughter of John Shaffer who
then resided in said Township about six miles distant from deponents fathers. That
about the year 1776 he became acquainted with George Peiffer, who also resided
in said Township, about 13 miles from deponents, and that the said George Peiffer and
Mary M. Shaffer were intermarried, as deponent belives, in the forepart of the year
1781 - that he knows of the said Peiffer'smarching as a volunteer and militia man
from Mahanoy Township in the spring of 1777, for the neighborhood of Philadelphia
and as deponent understood at thetime, was to join this regiment, or men under
the command of Col. Potter of Pennsylvania, and afterwards learnt, that the
said Peiffer had been in the battle of Germantown, but deponent cannot now say
how long he was out in ervice, but is of the belief it was six months. After the
marriage of the said Peifferin the summer of 1782, deponent with many others in
Mahanoy Township, was called upon to
march against the Indians, he went to Sunbury, the place of rondezvous, when he
saw Peiffer on duty ready to march, but in a different company to that in which
deponent was.- he marched up the West branch and Peiffer up the North Branch, but
how long said Peiffer was out deponent cannot say. Afterdeponent moved to
Meadville Penna. in the year 1802, when he has continued toresided ever since,
with an interval from 1807 to 1814 - the said Peiffer also moved to the said County
about the year 1803. It was always understood in Mahanoy that Peiffer had been
out at different times on duty against the British and Indians, but how often and
when from the great lapse of time and failureof memory, deponent cannot now tell
except as above stated. He always considered him, as well as his wife, as
credible persons, and in whose word full reliance could be placed.
Sworn in open court. March 1838. "Jo han Nich laus Conrath"
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Died 17 August 1841, age 77 (or per Crawford Statesman, 19 Aug. 1841)
I would guess that Nicholas wasreally born in 1763, not 1764 as from the
statement above. That would match his death being at age 77, and that he
wouldn't have been born on the boat (!).
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1763 - 1841 (77 years)