Blue Book of Schuylkill County

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Surnames/tags: Zerbey Schwalm Miller

Contents 1 Blue Book of Schuylkill County 1.1 Available online at these locations: 1.2 Table of Contents 1.3 WikiTree Syntax

Blue Book of Schuylkill County

who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : History of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families

• by Ella Zerbey Elliott, 1869 - 1953
• published by Press of Pottsville, Pa,, "Republican", Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1916

• WikiTree Profiles that use this source

Available online at these locations:

• https://archive.org/details/bluebookofschuylk1916elli

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651687

• https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/517987-blue-book-of-schuylkill-county-who-was-who-and-why-in-interior-eastern-pennsylvania-in-colonial-days-the-huguenots-and-palatines-their-service-in-queen-anne-s-french-and-indian-and-revolutionary-wars-history-of-zerbey-schwalm-miller-merkle-minnich-staudt-and-many-other-representative-families

• https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/12959/

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Frontispiece — Road Petition, Year 1727

Martin Zerbe's Homestead

Pioneer Homestead Map, 1723

Early Church, built 1727

Conrad Weiser's Signature

Patent from John Penn to Seven Stars (Minnich) Property, 1750

Land of Early Settlers on Tulpehocken

Schuylkill County Erected

Site of Mill John(4) Zerbe, Tulpehocken

Mardin Zarvas Run, 1723, Wm. Penn Grant

Rear of Homestead of Martin Zerbe's Land

Map George Zerbe Land, Schuylkill Haven

George Zerbe Homestead, near Orwigsburg, Pa

Water Right Agreement Johannes Zerbe, 1747

Site of John Zerbe's Old Mill

Conrad Minnich Map, Land Deed

Stout Homestead, Settled 1736

Ancient Schwalm Castle

Andrew Schwalm Homestead, Orwigsburg, Pa

PART I.

Translation of Road Petition

Title Page

Foreword

Prologue

Huguenots and Palatines

Settlers in Interior Eastern Pennsylvania, 1750-1752; 1730-1780

German Immigration

Huguenots and Palatines

Come to London

Invitation to America

Sail for New York

Who Settlers Were

Settle in New York

Queen Anne's War

Huguenots and Palatines, Continued

Soldiers in War, 1711

Company Lists

Their Lands Resold

Pennsylvania Pioneers of 1723:

The Thirty-Three Families

Settlers Petition Governor

First Church Built, 1727

Petition for Roads, 1727

Tulpehocken Confusion

Province of Pennsylvania

Organization of Pennsylvania Counties to 1811

Petition for New County

Remonstrate Against Revising Constitution

• Failed

Constitution Amended

Indian Troubles in Pennsylvania:

Indian Troubles

• Policy
• Forts

First Fort Dupui

Fort Augusta

Blue Mountain Forts

Forts Lebanon and Franklin

Chain of Forts

Friendly Indians

Indian Atrocities

The Finschers and Millers

John Penn Patent to Seven Stars (Minnich) Property, 1750

Neyman and Other Massacres

Indian Stories

War of the Revolution:

War of the Revolution

Oath of Allegiance

Recruits From Schuylkill (Berks) Co

Zerbes, Grubers, Rebers, Stouts, Swartzs, Merkles, Rieths, etc., in the Early Wars

Family Traditions

War of 1812-1814:

Soldiers From Schuylkill County

Mexican War:

Schuylkill County Represented

The Early Settlers:

Early Notable Settlers

Conrad Weiser's Diary

Governor Schulze Story

Baltzar Gehr, Jacob Morgan, Douglass Family, etc

Schuylkill County Erected From Berks

Who Was Who

First Settlers of Schuylkill County

Neuferts, Whetstones, Potts

Klocks, Christs, Bresslers

Potts, Helms, Hessers

The Morris'

Boyers, Guldins, Colemans

Bocks, DeTurks, Mortimers

John R. and Benjamin B. Bannan

Lindemuths. Matzs, Roseberrys

Braun-Brown Family

Filberts, Weidmans, Krebs, Tysons

Spohns, Bechtels, Palmers

Kaerchers, Kepners, Shippens

Hobarts, Bairds, Pattersons

Zellers, Rahns, Seitzingers

PART II.

Genealogical Records:

Origin of the Zerbeys

Zerbeys in America

First Generation

The Manors

Second Generation

(Martin Zerbe's Line)

John Jacob Zerbe

John Zerbe

Heinrich Boyer

Albrecht and John Philip Strauss

George Peter Zerbe

Third Generation

Peter, Jr., Elizabeth, Valentine

Michael

John George Zerbe

(John) George and Anna Barbara Zerbe's Children.

Hon. Daniel Zerbe

Herring Family Tradition

Daniel Zerbe, Cressona

Henry Zerbe, Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa

John Adam Miller

Fourth Generation

George Zerbe

Children

Rev. Frank Ellsworth Graeff, D. D

Wm. Merkle Zerbey

John F. Zerbey Family

Heber S. Zerbey Family

Joseph Henry Zerbey Family

"Pottsville Republican"

Robert A. Zerbey Family

Genealogical Records, Fourth Genration (sic), Continued

Frederic E. Zerbey Family

"Schuylkill Weekly Republican"

Charles D. Elliott

Ella Zerbey Elliott

Adelia E. Zerbey Family

Sara Frances Zerbey Family

Rieths or Reeds

War Records

Ship Lists

Zerfass, Serf as, Surber, Sarvar, Sevir, Sarvas

Unclassified Zerbes

British Oath of Allegiance

Penna. Oath of Allegiance

Taxables in Berks County,

Early Churches in Schuylkill County

The First Census

Grubers Intermarried

Sontag Family

(Lorentz Zerbe Line)

First Generation

Lorentz Zerbe Family

Second Generation

John Zerbe, the Miller, Family

Blue Mountain Lands

Tulpehocken Confusion

Second and Third Generations

Dr. Samuel and Maria Isles

Leonard Zerbe

Valentine Zerbe

Christian Zerbe

Benton H. Zerbe

John Zerbe's Law Suit

Nathan Zerbe

John Zerbe, Cumru Township

Third and Fourth Generations

Jonathan and David Zerbe

Rev. John W. Zerbe

George Adam Zerbe, Land and Family

George Zerbe, Tulpehocken, and Family

Tyrone and Altoona Zerbes

Reading, Pa., Zerbes

Unclassified Zerbes

Location of Land, Early Settlers

Host's Church

The Jacob Zerbes

Joel Zerbe Children

Philip Zerbe, of Washington Twp., Schuylkill Co

Descendants

Centre County Zerbes

Northumberland County Zerbes

Old Church, and Tombstone Records

PART III.

Allied Families

Merkles

Church Records

Taxables

In Wars

Wills and Records

Michael and Elizabeth, Children

Daniel Bartolet's Descendants

Isaac Strauch

Michael Merkle Family

Minnich, Muench History

Capt. Conrad Minnich

Hotel

Conrad Minnich, Second

Graves of Men Marked

Minnich, Minnig Genealogy

Phila. Branch Muenchs

Staudts. Stoudts, Stouts

Miller, Filbert, Kershner, Lerch, Ebling, Snyder, Maurer, Wagner and other Families

Marriages, Land Warrants

Muellers (Millers)

Henry Miller

Family History

Andrew and Elizabeth Miller, Descendants

History of the Reber Family

Conrad Reber Descendants

The Wildermuth Family

Origin of the Schwalms

First Schwalms in America

Caspar Phillips' Children

Baptismal Records

Andrew Schwalm, Sr., Family

Andrew and Hannah Schwalm Family

Frederic and Catharine Haeseler Family

Haeseler's Ancestry

William E. Boyer Family

Dr. Francis W. Boyer Family

James A. Medlar Family

Edmund S. Boyer

Boyer Ancestry

John Andrew Schwalm Family

Dr. Thomas W. Swalm

Allen H. Swalm

Henry A. Swalm

Joseph M. Schwalm Family

Sarah L. Schwalm

Thomas Clouse and Amanda Schwalm Family

Thomas K. Wagner and Susan J. Schwalm Family

Hegins Valley Schwalms

Hubley Township Schwalms

Pottsville Erected

Great Road or King's Highway

Turnpike Roads, Canal, Railways, Stages, etc

Discovery of Coal

Settlers of Norwegian Township

Pottsville Erected

Pottsville's First Houses and First Settlers

Old Time Stories

Hessian Ancestors

Wills Probated Before

WikiTree Syntax

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