Perkiomen Region Past And Present PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...held at Brandywine to the hospital at Bethlehem. The grave of Samuel Bertolet, at Bertolet's Mennonite meeting house, is marked by a stone bearing these words: Hier ruhet der Leib des verstorbenen SAMUEL BERTOLET Er wurde gebohren deu 14 September 174.'! und Endet Sein Leben den Iter January 1805 Seines alters 61 Jahr: ! Monat und 16 Tag. Sub-Lieutenant Peter Richards. A BATCH OF VOUCHER FOR DISBURSEMENTS MADE BY HIM IN SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND ERiHTY-ONE. The following receipts given by actors in the Revolutionary struggle bring vividly to view the heartiness with which the leading men of the Perkiomen country supported the cause of freedom for America. Receiv" January the 3rt A. D. 1781 of Peter Richards Sub Lieu' the sum of Eighty Pounds which is for four Days attending at the Court of Appeal. I say receiv." JN. RICHARDS. 80. Received January 9"1 1781 of Peter Richards one of the Sub L' Couny of Philad" Two hundred it fifty Dollars for 5 days in Making the Return of the Inhabitants of my Comp1 District and Notifying y' 5th 6th "lh and 8, h Classes of mv Company and Likewise Six hundred Dollars for mv Drum & _ ife for last Sumer. FREDERICK BEITENMAN, 850 Dr." Capt. Received January 12, h 1781 of Peter Richards Sub L' Philadelphia County the sum of six hundred Dollars for the Drum & Fife of my Company for the Year 1780. and Two hundred Dollars for four days Service in making a Class Return & Notifying the Class's of iuv Companv. $ HENRICH BEYER, 300. Capt. Jan" 13" 1781. Received of Peter Richards one of the Sub 1" County of Philad" the sum of Six hundred Dollars in full for 10 days Service for the Drumer & Fifer of mv Company for the Sumer last past. f ISAIAH DAVIS, ...