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- Name Suffix: Senior
1772 tax list, Chestnuthill, $2.9.4, farmer, saw mill (these are probably Jr)
1785 tax list, $1.3
1742, sp Christopher Stetteler, Johannes Shuster, Catharine Dorr (Jordan Luth)
1744, sp Tobias Moser, Maria Elisabeth Fischer, Catharina Barbara Obel
This whole list of Christman'sis very speculative - just matching up names
and generations in placeholders for now.
will of 9/3/1768 in Chestnut Hill Twp mentions:
Christopher
Elisabeth (Weyand)
Catharina
Magdalena
Margaret
Sophia (one of two youngest) [Borger]
Henry (one of two youngest)
At Old Goshenhoppen, Henrich and M Elisabeth had a "Johan Sophia" baptized
1755. (Upper Salford, Montgomery Co) (in index, but I can't find it!)
See also PA German Folklore Society, Vol I, fororigins.
In the Christopher Sower newspapers in Germantown, October 16, 1750, there is still
further information relative to Heinrich Christman:
"Heinrich Christman, linenweaver, from a place two hours from Taerbach aus dem
Callenninger Kirchapiel, arrived in this country 8 or 9 years ago with his family.
This year his sister Maria Margaret and her husband Anthoni Graeber, a smith,
arrived in Conestago where they are with Johan Nickel Zerrfass, near Ephrata
Cloister, and they seek news of Heinrich.
In the Staatsbote, Philadelphia newspaper, dated December 13, 1774, there is
further mention of the family:
"Johannes Dieter on Christopher Christman's plantations behind the Blue Mountains".
Mentioned in Letters of Captain Wetterholt, Northampton County, 5 Aug 1763,
(letter from Christopher Truby, Ensign)
Petition, 3 Sep 1763, of "persons over the mountains" to Northampton County,
signed Heinrich Christman
Petition to Court of General Quarter Sessions, 18 Sep 1766, pg 243, for a
road by"Henry Christman's saw mill..." by inhabitants behind the Blue Mountains
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Is Henry Christmanin Berks the same one?
Although the name is the same, it seems Henry was still in Monroe
County at the same time and wrote his will there.
In Rev. Schumacher records,
Henrich Christmann and Anna had Henrich, 6 Dec 1764, sp RudolffBosserth
and Philippina (at home in Greenwich Twp, Berks on 7 Jul 1765)
AtDunkel's Reformed:
John son of Henry Christman and Anna, 30 Feb 1768, bap 27 Apr. Sp John
Dunkel and wf Anna Margaret
John Frederick son of Henry Christman and Anna, bapt 8 Oct 1769, 5 weeks old, sp
Frederick Leiby and Susanna
Patent ES-3302, Henry Christman, 17 May 1768 for 40A in Greenwich, Berks Co,
by John Dunkle/Martin Epler/Conrad Reiff. Signed Heinrich Christman.
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