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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:47:04 -0800


*GEBERTS AND TAUFSCHEIN: Johannes KNEPPER son of Jacob and Magdalena
Knepper , was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania on February 25, 1813,
at 5 in the morning. He was baptized on May 21, 1813. The document was
created by Martin BRECHALL who was a teacher in Lebanon County, PA. He
served as a soldier (in his early teens!) in the Revolutionary war and
died in 1831. The price on this is out of sight (right now almost $1500
-- and it looks like the reserve might be around five thousand??), but
it's worth a look.
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*BOOK: "History of the INdians of Berks County, Penna." Reprinted copy
of the rare (and usually in poor condition) book by David B. Brunner.
Subtitled "Being a Summary of All the Tangible Records of the Aborigines
of Berks County, with Cuts and Descriptions of the Varieties of Relics
Found Within the County," this is a reprint "in its original and
complete form" of the 2nd revised edition from 1887. Courier Press,
Reading, PA, 214 pages.
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BOOK: Parish record of the Womelsdorf Parish, published in 1933 with
24 pages. It has a softcover with very little wear. It is an activities
directory for Womelsdorf Lutheran Parish in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania.
You will find ads from merchants from towns in Pennsylvania:
Wernersville, Reading, Bernville, Robesonia, Weiser Park, and many more.
These ads from "the good old days" alone are worth a look. There is a
Parish Schedule along with minutes, baptisms, funerals, confirmations,
weddings, and treasurer's report. The history of this parish is recorded
here. The pastor was Rev. Harry P. Miller.
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*GENEALOGY CD: Rural free delivery (RFD) directory of Berks County,
Pa., covering 62 routes. Author: unknown. Originally published in
Kutztown, Pa., 1908. 400 pages, reproduction of the original edition on
CD-Rom, will need Acrobat Reader to view.
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*BOOK: "Trinity Lutheran Church of Reading ," Part 2 by: Schuylkill
Roots c. 1991, New 8 1/2 x 11 softcover, indexed 123 pages. Baptisms
1790-1812. Part of a series, this section includes an estimated 1800
baptisms (sponsors included). All parts translated from the original
records by Rev. J. W. Early ca 1906. A typical entry: Johannes b. Sept
16, 1807; bp July 3, 1808. Wilhelm Scherer & Catharina; parents,
Elisabeth Kraemer; sponsor .
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*DIPLOMA: 1913 Boyertown High School diploma awarded to Wayne W. BROWN.

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*BOOK: "Sesqui-Centennial Commemorative Book, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
1815-1965." By Ruth E. Bonner; illus. by Dr. Elizabeth Adams Hurwitz.
Kutztown Sesqui-Centennial Association, 1965. 4to, stiff illus. paper
wraps. FIRST EDITION, limited to 4,000 copies. 209 pp., well illustrated
w/ vintage b&w photographs, drawings. Condition is Near Fine, showing
slight lean w/ light spine creasing, firm binding, as new interior.
Historical volume celebrating 150 years of the Borough of Kutztown,
officially established in 1815 though settled, along with surrounding
Maxatawny Township, by the early 1730s, principally by German
Lutheran/Reformed and French Huguenot settlers migrating over the South
Mountain range from the Oley into the East Penn Valley, including such
local names as Hottenstein, Levan, DeTurk, Bieber, DeLong, Sharadin,
Kutz, Siegfried, Wentz, etc. Kutztown Area Historical Society, Normal
Ave. & South Whiteoak St., Kutztown, Berks County, Pennsylvania. All
proceeds from this auction will be donated directly to the society for
the restoration and maintenance of its museum & headquarters in the 1892
Public School Building in Kutztown.
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*GENEALOGY CD: "Historical and Biographical annals of Berks County,
Pennsylvania, embracing a concise history of the county and a
genealogical and biographical record of representative families."
Author: Morton Montgomery
Originally published in Chicago, 1909.1930 pages, reproduced on CD-Rom,
requires Acrobat Reader to view.
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*BOOK: Title: 71 Years of Marriage: The Ancestors, Descendents and
Relations of George and Alice KNORR of Reading, PA. Just published in
limited quantities.
Format - softcover - perfect binding with black and white photos. 8 1/2
by 11
Perhaps the most comprehensive genealogical compilation of the
Mahantango Valley in Schuylkill, Northumberland and Dauphin Cos in
Pennsylvania. Also - substantial references to early Berks County
families. This is a 3 volume set - 1787 pages in all.
See the site for a comprehensive list of the contents and the families
included in this genealogy.
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BOOK; Berks County Pennsylvania 1790 Head of Household Census. NEW 31
Page Book reprinted from sections of the original 1908 Government
Printing Office Federal Census Publication. There are 5,254 households
listed in this county!
Containing heads of households for the townships of Albany, Alsace,
Amity, Bern, Bethel, Brecknock, Brunswick and Manheim, Caernarvon,
Colebrookdale, Cumru, Douglas, Earl, East District, Exeter, Greenwich,
Heidelberg, Hereford, Longswamp, Maiden Creek, Manheim, Maxatany, Oley,
Pinegrove, Reading Borough, Richmond, Robeson, Rockland, Ruscomb,
Tulpehocken, Union, and Windsor.
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*JOURNALS: Ten issues of "Pennsylvania Genealogy," published by the
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Soft Cover, 7 by
10 inches, total of 926 pages!!! Among the many articles is this:
"Finding George LORAH: An Exercise in Genealogy" (41 pages!!!) Regarding
the LORAH family of Berks County, Pennsylvaia. Surnames:…LORAH, LORA,
BORSTLER, ADAM, RHOADS, BAHM, DOTTERER, BARTOLET, KNABB .
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*BOOK: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 1. 1967
(publ. 1968). Hardcover, 8vo, royal blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. 407 pp.,
illus. w/ color fraktur plates. 1) The Four Gospels Translated into the
Pennsylvania German Dialect, by Ralph Charles Wood. Dialect translation
of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, of especial interest to
linguists and those fluent in reading the dialect.
2) Daniel SHUMACHER's Baptismal Register, trans., intro. by Frederick S.
Weiser. Schumacher's register is of principal interest to genealogists,
representing one of the earliest and most comprehensive Pastoral
Registers for southeastern PA in the 18th century. Register spans March
1754 through December 1757, with some later entries into 1770, serving
the congregations (all Berks County except as noted) of Trinity at
Reading, Alsace in Alsace Township, Schwarzwald in Exeter Twp. (east of
Reading), St. Paul's/Smoke (east of Hamburg, Windsor Twp.), Zion (Red
Church) just south of Orwigsburg in West Brunswick Twp. in Schuylkill
(then still part of Berks) County, Jerusalem (Red) Church east of
Kempton at Stony Run (then Wessnersville, Albany Twp.), Bern Church
(southeast of Bernville, Bern Twp.), with visits also to Maxatawny,
Kutztown (St. John's), Greenwich Twp.. (possibly New Jerusalem/Dunkel's
or, more likely, New Bethel-Zion at Grimsville). Additional entries for
Egypt & Lowhill Twp., Salisbury, Weisenberg, Ziegel, Macungie (all then
Northampton, later Lehigh County), Indianland (Lehigh Twp.), Allemangel
(Albany Twp.), Ontelaunee (near Leesport, Tilden Twp., Berks), and other
locations in what are now Berks, Schuylkill, Lehigh, and Northampton
Counties. Primarily baptisms, giving dates, names of parents, location,
also confirmations. Scans show title page, decorated page of
Schumacher's baptismal register, also an illuminated page from the
Friedens Church record (Berks Co.).
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*INDENTURE: 1843 Berks County Indenture between James NORMAND of
Reading, and John BOAS, also of Reading. Three hundred dollars for a
lot on the west side of North 8th st. An acre and three perches.
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*BOOKS: Both of these books are written by the illustrious author
Alliene Saeger DECHANT and one book is signed by the Author. The first
book is written by Dechant about a local industrialist and artisan John
Z. HARNER and the second book is written by Dechant about her own life;
this book is signed by the Author. Published by the Kutztown
Publishing Company in 1957.
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*PAINTINGS: Again up for auction are the portraits from the
JAEGER/HUNTER family of Oley Twp, Berks. These are fine portraits.
Interesting to see, if not to buy. One is of Sarah Ann FISHER HUNTER,
and the second is of George D. CRAMER, a descendant of the Jaegers.
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*BOOK: "Early Pennsylvania Births, 1675-1875," compiled by Charles A.
Fisher.
Published by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1979.
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*BOOK: "Eighteenth Century Emigrants, Volume II: The Western
Palatinate." Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 19
(1985). By Annette Kunselman Burgert. Hardcover, 8vo, natural buckram.
FIRST EDITION. 405 pp., illus. w/ color fraktur frontis., maps, b&w
photographs, etc. NOTE as to Provenance: Copy from the library of Albert
George STAHL of Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA, relative of Thomas & Isaac
STAHL of the Stahl Pottery of Powder Valley (near Old Zionsville),
Lehigh County, among the most well-known 20th-century PA German redware
potteries.
This is the second volume of genealogical data from Burgert, published
independently of her volume on the Northern Kraichgau (see my other
auctions). This survey takes up the western Palatinate, original
homeland to so many families who took up residence in Berks, Lehigh,
Lebanon, York, Lancaster, and Northampton Counties.
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*BOOK: 'The Dutch Country: Folks and Treasures in The Red Hills of
Pennsylvania," By Cornelius Weygandt. Appleton-Century, 1939. Hardcover,
8vo, , 352 pp., illus. w/ color frontis. + approx. 25 b&w photographs.
.. Weygandt, of course, remains among the most repected of PA
antiquarians, and here he devotes an entire volume to the folk cultures
and folk arts of the rural PA Germans who settled primarily in upper
Bucks & Montgomery, Lehigh, Berks, Lancaster, and York Counties, though
his coverage also includes Chester, Schuylkill, Northampton, and a few
other counties. Topics include Jacob EICHHOLTZ(early portraitist,
compared by some to Gilbert Stuart); tollware (aka toleware, painted
tin); Jacob MEDINGER (early potter of northern Montgomery County, near
Pottstown) & Medinger Pottery; Fractur/Fraktur & Fraktur-schriften
(illuminated writing, account books, Taufscheine, etc.);powwowing &
prayer books, veterinary arts & receipts books; Ephrata Cloister; rural
& peasant traditions; farm cats; ... German influence in colonial PA;
dinner horns & bells; basket making; schapps & Stiegel glass; painted
tin; apple lore; embroidery & colonial samplers; ... zitters [zithers] &
stringed instruments; German hymnology; sectarians (Amish, Mennonite,
Brethren); harvest time; Germantown; folk painter & antiques dealer
Hattie BRUNNER; much more.
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*GENEALOGY MICROFICHE: Early Pennsylvania Births-1675-1875(Microfiche)
by Dr. Charles A. Fisher, F.I.A.G., pub. 1947. Contents:
1- Row’s Lutheran and Reformed Baptisms 1774-1832 (Snyder County), 2-
Zion Lutheran Baptisms 1781-1808 (Snyder County),
3- Grubb’s Lutheran and Reformed Baptisms 1792-1875 (Snyder),
4- Dreisbach’s Lutheran and Reformed Baptisms 1774-1822 (Union County),
5- St. Elias Lutheran Baptisms 1796-1826 (Union County),
6- Himmel’s Lutheran Baptisms 1774-1787 (Northumberland County),
7- Stone Valley Lutheran Baptisms 1774-1806 (Northumberland County),
8- Zion Lutheran Baptisms (not complete) (Berks County),
9- Christ Lutheran Baptisms (not complete) (Berks County).
10- Fishers Ferry Cemetery, Northumberland County,
11- St. Paul’s Cemetery, Juniata County,
12- Graybill Cemetery, Snyder County,
13- Trinity Reformed Cemetery, Millardsville, PA,
14- Births in Eastern Pennsylvania,
15- Births in Susquehanna Valley (Southern and Middle section.)
 This record has 107 pages on 2 microfiche.
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BOOK: "The Story of the Palantines, An Episode in Colonial History,"
by: Sanford H. Cobb. This volume provides a fascinating history of the
Palatine immigration to America—the remarkable story of a people who had
been decimated by brutal wars and religious oppression, sought religious
and political freedom elsewhere, were often used and manipulated by
their alleged rescuers, but finally succeeded in their quest. This book
presents a history of the Palatinate communities along the Rhine River
in Germany and of the turmoil which led to the emigration. There is an
account of their great exodus to the American colonies in the early
1700s and of their settlement in the Carolinas, Virginia, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and New York. The author presents a very detailed history
of the Palatines in New York where he was pastor of High-Dutch churches
in Schoharie and Saugerties. He gives briefer accounts of the
settlements around Berks County, Pennsylvania and in the other colonies.

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*CIVIL WAR JOURNAL: Hand-written battle accounts by Jacob RITTER, a
Pennsylvania cabinetmaker from Berks County., written around 1907.
Contains approx. 26 manuscript pages composed in pencil describing the
fighting around Hagerstown, MD + several other pages with newspapers
clippings. Worn, pages toned. Legible. According to an accompanying
photocopy of Ritter's obituary, Ritter "was one of the best known
cabinetmakers in Berks county in his time and was for a number of years
a prominent Penn street business man, conducting a large furniture
store." It also goes on to mention that "he devoted much time in his
early days to experimenting with inventions. At the Philadelphia
Centennial, held in 1876, he was awarded a medal for a hydraulic
hoisting apparatus exhibited by him." He was also a member of "one of
the oldest families in Berks county, being a descendant in the sixth
generation from Ferdinand Ritter, who was one of the earliest settlers
in Berks. During the Civil war Ritter served in the Pennsylvania Militia
during the first invasion of Pennsylvania in September 1862, and was a
private in Company E, in the 11th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia.
In this small journal Ritter provides an account of his involvement in
the war.
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*DEED: Land Deed Dated 2 April 1822 Alsace Township, Berks County,
Pennsylvania. Deed is recorded in Book A Vol. 24 page 163. Seller:
Michael & Elizabeth MADEIRA Buyer: Clayton EARL.
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*PHOTO: Nice looking young man identified as Edward WILKINSON, taken in
Reading about 1865-70.
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*DEED: Deed, dated 1858, titled M. H. LOCHER and wife to Heramima
HARDER in the city of Lancaster, Pa, two lots on Strawberry Street,
bordered by an alley, a property of William GRIFFITHS, and a propety of
Greenberry R. APPLEBY
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*DEED: Deed, dated 1864, titled Lucas BRESCH And Wife Bertha To Jacob
WOLFER in the city of Lancaster, Pa, Strawberry Street and Joseph
Street. On one blank area there is a hand drawn map of where the
property is located. Fully open it measures 17 1/2" x 22 1/2", it is of
a purchase of land for 362.00 with a two story brick Tavern Stand, frame
shop and other improvements therein, adjoining property of A. N.
BRENEMAN on the South and Francis SHITE [this is what it looks like]. It
lists Catharine HESS, Christian WETTIG and Anne Wettig as owning it
before Lucas BRESCH in 1863..
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*DEED: Deed, dated 1858, titled Deed Of Conveyance, William GRIFFITH To
Hieronimus HARDER; For A Lot Of Ground on the South Side of Strawberry
Street in the City of Lancaster.
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*DEED: Deed, dated 1864, titled Deed, Catharine HESS and Christian
WETTIG and Annie Wettig his wife to Lucas BRESCH, for a Brick Tavern
House and a Lot of Ground fronting on Strawberry Street in the City of
Lancaster.
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That's it for now. Many interesting things this week.

Bonnie Blau
Researching in Berks: ALSTADT, BAER/BHAER, BOOS, BOSSERT, BOSSLER,
BOYER, BUCKS, DeTURCK, ECKEL/EAGLE, FOCHT, HEFFNER, HIMMELBERGER,
JACOBY, KREISCHER, LEISER, LEVAN, LOY, MILLER, NOECKER, PETER,
REESER/RIESER, RICK, ROBITZER, SODER/SAUTER, SPATZ, SPECHT, STAUDT,
UNGER, WEIMAR, WILLIAMS, WINTER, ZELLER and THE AERIAL LLOYDS, an
acrobatic quartet from Reading who performed in vaudeville around
1910-15.





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