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- Three brothers, Felix, Jacob and John, immigrated from Mannheim to PA in 1717. Felix and Jacob stayed in Lancaster Co, PA, but John moved to Bucks Co.
1730 - Signed a petition to form the township of Richland from M ilford Township.
1730 - Signed a petition for a road in Richland, Penn. (Bucks C o. website)
1734 - Petitioned for naturalization in Bucks County
1743, Dec 21 - Bought 125 acres in Richland Twp. from Wm. Alle n next to Jacob Musselman.*
1747, Sept. 26 - Wrote will Probated May 1, 1751 (Phila. Co., W ill Book 1:397, File #255).
*"Allen acquired his land holdings in many different ways. Afte r his return from England in 1725, young Allen purchased ten-tho usand acres of land from William Penn, the son of the founder o f Pennsylvania, for £741.15. [40] These lands, located above t he forks of the Delaware at Easton, had not as yet been purchas ed from the Indians. [41] James Logan, the proprietary secreta ry, objected to the sale. He believed that once the Indians fou nd out that Allen had claimed the area, they would raise the pur chase price. Penn had wasted the colony's money in order to rew ard Allen with prime real estate without any competition from ot her colonists, since the colony did not even own the land yet. Allen profited quickly from the sale, surveying the land, the n dividing and selling it in small lots. [42] "William Allen an d the Search for Economic Security in Eighteenth Century Pennsyl vania" by Augustine Nigro. http://earlyamerica.com/review/2001
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Abt 1673 - Abt 1745 (~ 72 years)