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From: Eugene Stackhouse <>
Subject: Germans-to-Phila General Custer's Germantown Lineage
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:55:22 -0500
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GENERAL CUSTER’S GERMANTOWN ROOTS
“The Skippack Valley: Custer’s Fulling Mill & Skippack Creek Farm” by Eva Boswell, Historial Skippack Historical Society
Published in the “Germantowne Crier”, Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1970.
The”Germantowne Crier” is a publication of the Germantown Historical Society
THE CUSTER Family has been associated for several centuries with the history of Pennsylvania, the Nation and Mennonite culture. In 1907 Pennsylvania Governor S.[Samuel] Whitaker Pennypacker, LL.D.; in one of his many historical articles, wrote: "Hermanus Custer, one of my own forefathers in the sixth generation, who is said to hark back to Peter Kuster, the (Mennonite) martyr, and Lawrence Koster, the inventor of printing in Haerlem, and forward to General George A. Custer, killed on the plains ..." In 1970, Dr. A. N. B. Garvan, Professor of American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania, in "Historical Survey of the Skippack Valley" for an ecological study by Ian McHarg Associates concluded tat Custer's Fulling Mill & Skippack Creek Farm has "significant historical associations, structures and sites".
References:
Pennypacker, S. W., “Bebber’s Township and the Dutch Patroons of Pennsylvania”. Penna. Magazine of History and Biography, Jan. 1907.
The lineage of General George Armstrong Custer from Paulus Kuster of Germantown is published in the “Germantown Crier”, Vo. 50, number 1, Spring 2000:
Paulus Kuster and Gertrude Doors had seven known children and came to Germantown between 9 March 1867 and May 1691, probably in 1688, they had seven children including Arnold, baptized at Kaldenkirchen, in what is now Germany, 9 June 1669 (OS).
Arnold married Rebecca Nuzam and they had eight children, including Nicholas Custer, born 4 December 1706 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.
Nicholas married Susanna Margaretta Hoppe/ Hoppin about 1732.
Nicholas and Susanna were members of the Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe, PA. They are buried in the cemetery there.
They had nine children, including Emanuel Kuster (Custer) born 29 September 1754.
Emanuel married Anna Marie Fedele on 17 February 1778 in Philadelphia County. They moved to Allegheny County, MD, about 1790.
Emanuel married, second, Ann Miller. Emanuel and Ann had nine children, among them was John Custer, born 26 February 1782 in Berks Co., PA, and died 16 December 1830, at Cresaptown, Allegheny County, MD. He was the grandfather of General George Armstrong Custer.
John Custer married Catharine Valentine. Their eldest son was Emanuel Henry Custer. Emanuel moved to New Rumley, Ohio and married Matilda Viers. They had three children. Matilda died in 1835.
Emanuel married, second, Maria Ward Kirkpatrick, widow if Israel. Their first two children died in infancy. Their third child was George Armstrong Custer, Civil War hero, who was killed in battle at the Little Bighorn River, Montana, June 25, 1876. ...........................

Gene Stackhouse
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