Home Copyright &Terms of Use Our American Immigrants Our Pennsylvanians Our Philadelphians Additional Links  Email Webmistress aaaaa History of the Populating of Philadelphia  [years 1682, 1698, 1700, 1776, 1800, 2000 and details in between ] The evolving population and description of Philadelphia is presented allowing us to imagine the Philadelphia our forebears encountered and presents the known history of our foreears wiithin the cities details .  The timelines and histories on which it depends are given in Sources, and Links and provide much more information than this page provides. Scattered within the information are comments on years of arrival to the port of our immigrants.  aaaaa aaaaa Our Surnames of Philadelphia [Presented at end of text]  Philadelphia holds great importance as an urban and governmental center in colonial and revolutionary history. But beyond this, Phily was the port into which nearly all  of  our Pennsylvania immigrants, arrived. They were recorded in Ship's lists there, took the Oath of Allegiance there, were often naturalized there, and in some instances made the town their home. Others tarried briefly, arranging the necessary , buying the right to land, gather items, doing what they must  to allow their pioneering into Pennsylvania's  frontier or to allow them  meet other members of their larger social group known in Europe and to settle amongst them in their new country. Philadelphia has relevance to both the Howard allied  and the Swope and Allied lines.  We have amongst our forebears in the Howard allied Ascendancy persons of wealth and influence arriving in the early Quaker immigration commencing 1680 and who remained significant to Philadelphia and the history of Pennsylvania itself until  about 1800 at which time our direct of the Howard allied Philadelphians removed to Virginia. Our Howard allied surnames in Philadelphia are detailed here and gateway to their own pages given.  In the Swope and Allied lines,  all our direct immigrant forebears whose date and port of entry is known arrived to the port of Philadelphia minus two  [James and Polly McCurdy   who planned to go there, but the ship went off course landing at the mouth of the James, from which they travelled north to Penna, and Otto Reincecke, the last of our German forebears, who arrived to  Baltimore in 1868 and married in America a Penna German named Ella Meals born in Adams County, Penna and with long Adams County Pertinence in both her maternal and paternal lines]. Unlike the Howard allied  in our lines, our Swope and Allied families   were part of the western migration occuring in the southernmost aspect of Pennsylvania, although a few families DID have precense in Philadelphia; The few families in the Swope allied ascendancy who remained in Philadelphia are here detailed with gateway to their own pages likewise provided.  Eventually those directs of Philadelphia are absorbed into the families who migrated west.

Image from The Virtual Museum of Surveying. Anthony Ham pages

 
• In March 1681 Penn recieved the land grant to Pennsylvania from King Charles II  " Penn assigned a commission to select a location with  suitable water frontage on the Delaware River.  ...Philadelphia is about 90 miles from the mouth of Delaware Bay on the Delaware River."  ² Penn  landed   at New Castle, Delaware and arrived at the site to establish the city,  Philadelphia, in October 1682." ²In establishing the city, Penn " planned a rectangular grid pattern on 1,200 acres between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. At this time, the plan consisted of a 22- by 8-block grid  pattern, a building and housing layout, and potential for the city to grow. His plan also  provided an innovative urban planning design of four public squares (now parks) and a town  square (now City Hall). Penn's plan would influence the future growth of Philadelphia and help set the urban planning pattern for most later cities in America."  ² "In the original plan of Philadelphia, Penn placed a square of ten acres at the intersection of Broad and  High (now Market) streets, but in the course of time the park was absorbed for building purposes, until only Penn square remained, on which the Philadelphia public buildings have long been in process of construction. These buildings were completed in 1892, and on the summit of the dome there is to be placed a colossal bronze statue of Penn, thirty-six feet high.'⁵

• "When Wm. Penn came to Phila. in 1682 there were about 100 persons in the city, most of them living in caves made in the bluff fronting the river Delaware; the next year there were 80 houses, and the population had increased to 500."¹
• In  1682 our George Emlen 1st arrived to Phily , apparantly one of  the 2,000 Quakers who accompanied Wm Penn's  in his first of two crossings, and substantially increasing its numbers.
• 1690 Philadelphia  became the third largest port on the Atlantic Seaboard in 1690.²

By 1698 much had changed. Gabriel Thomas of England, published his  "Narratives of Early Penna., & West Jersey"  1698. Of the city he remarks:  "Many fine houses  in Phila. were built of brick, of three stories high, and as many several families in each; there was also a fine Town House, Market House & Prison." He also states that "about 20 fat bullocks are killed every week, besides calves, sheep & hogs, to supply the city." .....1  On Penn's second crossing [1699] James LOGAN accompanied him .  Logan lived with Penn at the Slate House on Second Street. After Penn returned to England, James Logan continued to live there for some time.  The house is shown to the Right.    1698: Quaker meeting House built, S. W. Corner Second and High (Market) Streets,  which was pulled down in 1755, and another erected, which was demolished in  1808. 3  The first and second meeting houses are those  which James Logan  attended; The second , at 3rd and Arch Streets, was where he was buried, along with his son William, also are direct. The grave is lost, and is felt to be under a parking lot.

Image info: William L. Breton, "Slate House  of Penn in Second Street, previous to its being  altered. so called, from the Roof and Pavement in front being of slate." Watercolor, Athenæum  of Philadelphia, FromBryn Mawr Colleges  Online Collection of Breton Watercolors

 
•  1700:
• " Egle, in his 'History of Pa.' says there were 700 houses and about 4500 population in the city in 1700; the names of the streets in that section have many of them been changed since: Market was formerly High; Chestnut was Wynne; Walnut, Pool; Race was first Longhurst, then Sassafras, and finally, as it led to the race-course, it became Race; Arch was Holme, then Mulberry, and was named Arch, because of the arch over the gully at Front street (this arch was removed in 1721); Vine was Valley; Spruce was Dock; Water was King; Callowhill was named for the second wife of Wm. Penn. The cross streets were Delaware Front, Delaware Second &c. up to Twelfth street which was called Broad, and next above was Schuylkill Eleventh, Schuylkill Tenth, down to Schuylkill Front......"¹
• "Most settlers in the area now were Quakers or Friends from England, but  as the community developed into a thriving trade center, increasing numbers of German, Scottish, and Irish immigrants arrived. The community was incorporated as a city in 1701"²
• The first bridge in the city, on Front Street, was a drawbridge over Dock Creek built in 1700²
• "In the beginning, William Penn had encouraged road building in Philadelphia (PhiladelphiaRoad south to Chester and Old York Road to the north).In the 1700's the road conditions  were poor and travel grew heavier; about 30 miles per day was the limit a traveler could go." ²

 

• 1704 "First Presbyterian Church built, High Street and White Horse Alley (Market and  Bank Streets)".³ [This shows the expanding Scotch and Scotch Irish population]

• 1709/10 Direct ancestor Bishop Hans Herr arrives with his wife and family to Philadelphia. They tarry briefly, forging off into the fronteir near future Lancaster, 70 miles away, then a wilds.
• 1710 "Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, built on Second Street, above Market; replaced by the present church in 1727."³

• 1715: " A club was formed called the Bachelors' Club, situate on the Delaware shore above Gunners' Run. This was the first country club adjacent to the city.  "Bachelors' Hall," as it was commonly called, was made notorious by its  festivities."³

• 1717: Abraham Herr and his wife Ana Barr arrive Philadelphia and set out to join his father in the far west of the colony. Melchior Brenneman also arrives. He too is a mennonite, and goes off into the frontier.
• 1720: Yost Swope and family is thought to have arrived Philadelphia. He goes to what will become Lancaster County.
• 1725: John Lein arrives before 1725 when he is influential in extablishing Heller's church in Lancaster County.
• 1726: George and Veronica Dotterer are present in Phila. They are associated with with Frederick Township, Philadelphia County and their son Michael, also our direct, and his wife nee FISHER are present there also in 1726 when she bears him a son. He and she died FrederickTownship, Montgomery County, Penna [Montgomery was formed from Philadelphia]
• 1727: Casper Spangler and family arrive Phila. They forge out to settle as farmers.

• July 1731 Philadelphia Library founded.³

• 1728: John Hoke and family arrive to Phila. They settle in Lancaster where he is a weaver and minister.
• 1729: Frederick Eichelberger and wife arrive Phily. They set off to settle the banks of the Pequea in Lancaster County.
• 1732: John Bentz arrives and sets off to settle [now] West Manchester Township, York County, Penna.
• 1733: "St. Joseph's Catholic Church, in Willing's Alley, Built"³

• 1733: Peter Troxell and his wife and family arrive Phila. They first settled in  Egypt, Pa, then in Bucks County [now Lehigh
• 1735 George Emlen 2nd  [born 1695] moved into  Fifth & Chestnut streets, opposite Indep.  Hall, the family home for many years . He was a succesful brewer and member Common Council. It is not known whether he built the house near Camp Hill, Montgomery county, which, while  in the possession and occupancy of his son, George Emlen 3rd became famous as Washington's headquarters.
• 1736 Michael Quickel Arrives Phila. He died in York County.
• 1738: John Bender appears to have arrived in Philadelphia by 1738. He was a cordwaine in Philadelphia there.

 
• 1741:  "The Great Conestoga Road (Philadelphia Wagon Road) to Lancaster, nearly 70 miles away, was completed . This road was a major interior development, and by mid-century it  was the most frequently used highway in America."²

• 1741: Samuel Meals arrives with wife. He settled and died in Adams County, Penna.
• 1742: "First Moravian Church built at the S. E. Cor. Race and Bread streets" ³
• 1743: "First German Church built in Race Street Below Fourth. St. Michael's German Lutheran Church, corner of Fifth and Appletree Alley, built."³
• 1745: "April 15. The first theatrical performance given in Philadelphia, in a storehouse,  Water Street, near Vine."³

• 1748: John Humrichhausen and wife arrive on SHip Judith to Penna. Initially residing in and around York county, Penna., John Humrickhouse  moved his family to Germantown, Pa., in 1771. [Germantown is now part of Phila proper]
• 1762 first epidemic in 1762 with yellow fever.²

• By 1774, Philadelphia's importance was well established and it was the military, economic, and political center of the colonies.

 
• 1776: "By 1776, the Province of Pennsylvania had become the third largest English colony in America, though next to the last to be founded, Philadelphia had become the largest English-speaking city in the world next to London. There were originally only three counties: Philadelphia,Chester, and Bucks. By 1773 there were eleven. Westmoreland, the last new county created before the Revolution, was the first county locatedentirely west of the Allegheny Mountains. The American Revolution had urban origins, and Philadelphia was a center of ferment. Groups of artisans and mechanics, many loyal to Benjamin Franklin, formed grassroots leadership. Philadelphia was a center of resistance to the Stamp Act (1765) and moved quickly to support Boston in opposition to the Intolerable Acts, in 1774. "⁶

• September 1777 to May 1778, the British occupied Philadelphia, the capital of the new Nation, while Congress met in the town of York²

• 1782: First Hebrew Synagogue built, Cherry Street, above Third.³

• "Many roads were constructed in the city during the late 1700's, such as the Germantown and Reading roads and the Ridge Pike,  which broke through the grid pattern of the city streets. Roads that fanned out from Philadelphia in 1790 were in poor condition, with deep holes and ruts.  "²

• "1793, an epidemic of yellow fever was raging again in Philadelphia. This epidemic brought death to  a tenth of the population in one of the worst disasters to strike an American city. The disease affected not only the population but business in the city. The persistent yellow fever returned in 1794-1798, but it was not as severe as in 1793. Philadelphia immediately started programs  for improving sanitation and making the city cleaner. Because of yellow fever reoccurrence in the city, a hospital was opened in 1810 for contagious diseases."²

• 1793: First Universalist Church built in Lombard Street, above Fourth.³

 
• 1788: Steamboat navigated from Philadelphia to Burlington, New Jersey³

"A wooden bridge known as the "First Permanent Bridge" was constructed across the Schuylkill at Market Street in 1804. A newly designed bridge constructed at the Falls of Schuylkill in 1809 was known as the "The Chain Bridge." By 1810 many bridges were built throughout the city, and the major pikes had structured bridges. A railroad bridge was constructed over the Schuylkill in 1838, replacing the old Gray's Ferry."²

• 1795 The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, the first in the United States, opened.³ "The idea of a turnpike from Lancaster to Philadelphia was visualized as a road of crushed stone construction and  20 feet wide, a type of road not yet used in America. Tollgates would be used to force payment   and ensure the capital investment. Road construction was completed in 1794, and in spite of  the tollgates, the cost of moving goods decreased."²

• 1797 Yellow Fever. Deaths, August-November, 1,292.²

• 1798 Yellow Fever. Deaths, August-November, 3,637.²

• 1800: Yellow Fever. Deaths, August-November, 1,015²

• 1802 : Yellow Fever. Deaths, August-November, 835.²

• 1806: "George Sherwood, living in Phila. Pa. in 1806, says that at that time, he could count all the houses in Phila. from the hill at Second and Market Sts.⁴

• 1810 "The first steam ferry boat used to convey passengers from Philadelphia to   Camden. "Camden" Captain Zeiba Kellam. Course, lower side of Market Street   to Cooper Street. " ²

 
• 1816 "Gas as an illuminant introduced. The first private residence in the United States lighted by gas was that of William Henry, coppersmith, at No. 200 Lombard Street, near Seventh. "²

 
• By this time the Charles Logan line [our only yet remaining directs in Philadelphia ] is more firmly involved with Virginia, and Pennsylvania is becoming "the old state", although evidence of frequent travel between the two locales is evident in Quaker meeting records involving the Charles Logan family.  While it is true that siblings to our direct Charles Logan [ born in Philadelphia and emmigrant to  Virginia ] remained in Philadelphia and were influential there, our own line, whether Swope or Howard allied,  no longer has significant precense in the town. Charles Logan removed to Virginia in the 1790s, though his children are sometimes "of Philadelphia" in records after that date, including our own Harriet Logan, his daughter,  who is "of Philadelphia' in the 1805 will of her brother. She married two Virginians, and last record of her is in 1854 when she wrote through an attorney in Richmond to her sons in Texas.  4 of Charles Logan's  6  children made Virginia their permanent home, while one son was a "merchant of Penna" and died young in 1805, and another has a wife who died in Philadelphia. .  The cause of Charles'  emmigration, when he was of a family of wealth and prominence, is not known to me as yet. What does appear evident is that there is nothing in the Virginia records that indicate that he was either influential  or terribly wealthy  there. Possibilities for his removal include the persecution of the pacifist Quakers of Philadelphia causing an exile of some prominent members to Philadelphia in the time of the Revolution broadening a business climate in that locale, but this thesis is lessened by the casting out of many of his immediate family from the Quaker Meetings of Virginia.  Another possibility exists in  the Yellow fever epidemics of Philadelphia  in the years surronding Charles Logan's first precense in Virginia. The populace of Philadelphia, when wealthy enough and able, frequently retreated to country homes and estates when an epidemic hit. Perhaps it was in this climate that a young Charles Logan thought to seek more healthful existence elsewhere.
• Although without Philadelphians after this time, and with no Howard allied directs in Pennsylvania at all anylonger, our Pennsylvania precense in directs via the Swope and allied ascendancy  is robust in Lancaster, York and Adams Counties.

• 1818 Act of Legislature passed "providing for the education of poor children at the public expense in the city and county of Philadelphia, forming the "first School District of Pennsylvania."" ²

• "By 1821 Philadelphia had a network of  paved toll highways from the city to New York City, Reading, Lancaster, Harrisburg, Baltimore, and into New Jersey. "²

• 1820: Yellow Fever. Deaths, September, 67.²

• 1824 "A census taken in 1824 showed that the city contained fifty-five printing offices,  one hundred and fifty printers"²

• " After the revolution, Philadelphia had canal projects under way to reach the interior lands. The Schuylkill Canal was completed in 1825, reaching from Fairmont to Port Carbon above Reading, a total length of 108 miles. Coal and supplies were transported to and from Philadelphia. The Lehigh Coal  Canal started operating in 1827 but had downstream navigation only for 56 miles. "²

• 1832: "cholera epidemic with over 900 reported deaths".²

• 1832: "Race riots between whites and blacks at and adjacent to a flying  horse exhibition (carousel) South Street above Seventh. Three hundred special constables sworn in to quell the nightly riots."²

 
• "The Philadelphia and Columbia  Railroad first opened 20 miles of track west of Philadelphia in 1832, and by 1834 the entire  82-mile line was completed. Soon railroads such as the Philadelphia and Germantown,  Philadelphia and Trenton, Philadelphia and Erie, and Philadelphia and Reading were  completed. By 1840 the rail connection to New York and the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore to the south had been completed, which provided Philadelphia with greater access to goods and commerce.  "²

• 1835: "Riots. Houses inhabited by African-Americans, in the neighborhood of Shippen (Bainbridge) and Eighth Streets, sacked. " ²"Typhus broke out several times in the 1840's, causing over 200 deaths. Again in 1849 the cholera epidemic brought the death toll to over 1,000." ²

• 1838: "Shelter for Colored Orphans, Thirteenth Street, above Callowhill,burned by a mob. " ²

"Throughout Philadelphia a dense network of street railways existed in the 1850's, and by 1880 the city led all American cities in the length of its horse-car lines." ²
 
• 1842: "Abolition Riots. African Presbyterian Church, St. Mary's Street, and  Smith's Hall, Lombard Street, burned. "²
• 1843: "Weavers' Riots in Kensington, (Germantown Avenue and Master Street). Rioters assemble at "The Nanny Goat" Market, Washington (American)   Street north of Master. Sheriff's posse assailed and beaten. Rioters later  dispersed by General Cadwalader's brigade." ²

 
• 1844; Spring and early summer  marked by Riots in n Kensington and Southwark

• 1845 In response to Riots: "the city of Philadelphia and the incorporated districts of Spring Garden, Northern Liberties and Penn, and the township of Moyamensing are required to establish and maintain police forces of "not less  than one able-bodied man for one hundred and fifty taxable inhabitants" for the   prevention of riots and the preservation of the public peace. "²

• 1849: "May 30. Cholera commenced. Ended September 8th. Deaths, 1012."²

• 1858 "January 20. City passenger cars run for the first time in Philadelphia, over Fifth and Sixth Street Railway.

 Introduction of steam fire engines.
September 1. Atlantic Telegraph celebration."²
 
• By 1870 Philadelphia had paved over 300 miles of roads serving the city.²

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Many U.S. and State "firsts" were associated with the city of Philadelphia:

"First gas lit home in US 1816" "²
              "First public school in 1689
              State's first newspaper in 1719
              Colonies' first public library established in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin.
              First volunteer fire company in 1736
              First novel published in America, 1744
              America's first hospital in 1755
              America's first stock exchange in 1746
              First fire insurance company in 1752
              First life insurance company in 1759
              First Continental Congress in 1774
              First American flag in 1777
              First commercial bank, chartered in 1781
              America's first paved turnpike
              First World's Fair in the United States in 1876
              Pennsylvania's first commercial television station in 1941" ²

• Census 2000 shows Philadelphia's population at  1,517, 550

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Our Philadelphians Within The Vines in Order of appearance:

EMLEN, George   [HowardAllied Surname] to Philadelphia in 1682. His Granddaughter Hannah Emlen married William Logan of Philadelphia in 1740. Hannah's brother was George Emlen, whose silver salver is pictured to the right.  "the George Emlen Salver, a large silver salver byRichard Humphreys of Philadelphia with engraving attributed to JamesSmither. Circa 1775, the engraved portion features the monogram of George Emlen IV, the eldest child of George and Ann Emlen of Philadelphia, who owned several residences and whose family first arrived in Philadelphia in 1682. The present example is the largest known marked Philadelphia salver of the rococo period and is of a design comparable to two pairs engraved with the Washington crest at Mount  Vernon. Several other items were purchased from Humphreys by Emlen,all en suite with the present lot, and are included in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Emlen Salver is estimated to sell for   $200/300,000."  [Sotheby's announcement of pending auction]

CHILD, Amy    [Howard Allied Surname]
Alone Bought 500 acres from Penn, came to  America between 1681-1686 it appears. Ascendancy under research. See Bucks County and our Ancestors involved there.

REED, Charles  [Howard Allied Surname]
Said by some to be born about 1660 in Burlington NJ. Father said to be Thomas of that place. The history of Quaker occupation of Burlington and its environs seems to disallow his birth in that place, but he may have been associated with it before his marriage 1690, in Bucks County.

GARRETT , William  [Howard Allied Surname]
apparantly emmigrated to Darby , Penna. sometime before  1694.  Daughter Hannah married 1694 in Philadelphia

KIRK, Ann  [HowardAllied Surname]
apparantly emmigrated to Darby , Penna. sometime before  1694 with husband William Garrett.  Daughter Hannah married 1694 in Philadelphia. Ann's ascendancy is under research.

LOGAN, James  [Howard Allied Surname]
Arrived Phily 1699.
James Logan, a poor Quaker, emmigrated as William Penn's secretary and in company of same on Penn's second and final voyage to his Colony.  As William Penn's Secretary, this entral and most prominent of Early Pennsylvania Citizens: agent, book-keeper, steward, Surveyor and Receiver General, Councillor, and later Judge and Governor, early, and largely due to his role as Surveyor, became 'the wealthiest man in the colonies" and his book collection, the then largest in all the colonies, was often accessed by a young Ben Franklin, and was by James Logan presented to the city of Philadelphia. It is because of him, a remarkably able diplomat  on behalf of his employer with the native American population, that the Mingo Chief James Logan took that name. It is also because of him that the Delaware [Lenni Lenape] felt cheated in "the Walking Treaty" , were forced to the west, encountered the French in the Ohio Valley, and came back in the 1750s to terrorize the frontier and sparsely inhabited interior of colonial Pennsylania. He also is credited with being the inventor of the Conestoga wagon, bringing worth beyond  now understood alliance  with our other pioneering American lines. Beyond being an avid reader, he was a writer in Scientific Journals, a translator of texts from Latin, and , as a result of his guidance to Linneaus in botanical knowledge, his close friend and correspondant, "had named for  him an order of herbs and shrubs 'Loganiaceae', containing thirty genera in over three hundred and fifty species. He was a close student of scientific phenomena and contributed a number of papers, now in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, on the result of his scientific observations " [John W Jordan, L.LD, Colonial & Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania; Geneological and Personal Memoires, Vol. I]  His line does not appear, as some will claim, to align directly with the Logans of Restalrig  in which line existed the 7th Laird of Restailrig,  dug from his grave, hauled into court,  and posthumously attainted  being found guilty of conspiracy  to  kidnap James VI of Scotland, later James I , of England in the earliest years of the 17th century. That Logan line rises directly to the the protective and intimate side of the Scots Kings of the  early14th century  and  misty,  unsubstantiated claims are made that Admiral Logan of the late 14th married a [Claimed , Unlikely ,  Unproven and probably mythological Wife  and Daughter]  Stewart Princess, dtr of Robert II Scotland.
James Logan does, however,  rise through his maternal heritage into the Peerage of Scotland and some of its most notable names, including DUNDAS, DOUGLAS, HAMILTON , FRASER, De HAYA, HOME etc. See Pennsylvania and our Pennsylvanians,  and Our Peers and Royals Within the Vines.
James Logan's son William Logan, also our direct, continued service to the Penn family, acting as provincial councellor and their attorney. He married Hannah Emlen, daughter of our first Pennsylvania Immigrant, mentioned above.

DOTTERER, George Philip [Sometimes found as George Philip DUDRA]  [SwopeAllied Surname]
died 1741 Frederick Township, Philadelphia County, penna. His wife, Veronica   died 1752 Frederick Twp., Philadelphia  [no anscendancy known for her]  Surname precense to 1726: This husband and wife team came from Germany to Penna. Their son Michael died in FrederickTownship, Montgomery County, Penna. in 1786. [Montgomery County is located approximately twenty miles west of Center City Philadelphia, and the county was formed in 1784 from Philadelphia]  Michael's daughter,  our direct, Anna Sophia, was born In philadelphia in 1726. She died in Littlestown Penna in 1790.

FISHER, Anna Maria . [SwopeAllied Surname]
Present   by 1726 when she bore Anna Sophia DOTTERER in Philadelphia to her husband Michael DOTTERER, son of George Philip above.Anna Maria and her husband are said to have married in Pennsylvania.  [no anscendancy known for her]  She died 1781 in FrederickTownship, Montgomery County, Penna.
 

BENDER, Jacob [the Senior] [Penter]    [SwopeAllied Surname]
appears to have arrived in Philadelphia in 1738. He was a cordwaine in Philadelphia. His son, also named Jacob, married Catharine /Anna SCHNEIDER, and they produced our direct, sister to the Bender brothers who   founded Bendersville, Adams County Pennsylvania. Our direct likewise lived in that area. See Philadelphia and our Philadelphians.

HUMICKHAUSEN/ HUMRICKHOUSE, John  [SwopeAllied Surname]
Arrived 1748 on SHip Judith to Penna. Initially residing in and around York county, Penna., John Humrickhouse  moved his family to Germantown, Pa., in 1771. Two sons and one son in law fought in the Revolution. Germantown was , at the time of his residence, apart from Philadelphia, and is now a portion of urban Philly.

4. "An Historical Genealogical Account of Andrew Robeson"by Susan Stroud Robeson assisted by Carolin Franciscus Stroud. Compiled, Edited and Published by Kate Hamilton Osborne.  Philadelphia: J B Lippincott Company, 1916.

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