Hi Pat and all... RE: The Cration , Founding and Early Settlers of BEBBER'sTWP, Phila CO., Province of PA Origianally date on cover says 1702 this is now Skippack Twp Mong CO. PA The Information on Page 8 is regarding a Terrible Indian uprising which Promted John ROBERTS to write a letter to the GOVENOR ( Who did nothing) "We think IT fit to address your Exelency for Releif for your Exelency must Know That we have Suffered and is Like to Sufer By the Ingains they have fell upon ye Back Inhabitors about falkner's Swamp & New Coshahopin[sic]. therefore We the Humble Petitioners With out poor wives and Children DO humbly beg of your Exelency TO TAKE it into Consideration and Relieve us the Petitioners hereof whos Lives Lie at Sake with us Poor Wives and Children that IS more to us than LIFE" <SNIP> info added The First Signiture to the paper is that of John ROBERTS, second John PAWLINGS, who lived on the east bank of Perkiomen about a mile below Pennypacker's Mills, and was the warden of St. James Episcopel Church, the third Hendrick Panneybecker, the fourth William LANE, who gave forty ( 40) acres of Glebe land still retained to that church, and then follows;---- John JACOBS Isaac DUBIOS Isreal MORRIS Benjamin FRY Jacob OPdenGRAEFF Johannes SCHOLL <----anyone have this family?? Richard ADAMS George POGER Adam SELLEN Deilman KOLB Martin KOLB Gabriel SHOULER Anthony HALMAN John Issac KLEIN Hans DETWIELER William BITTS Heinrich RUTH HUPERT KASSEL <----is this CASSELL CATTELL? Henry TEULINGER Christian WEBER Gerhard In de FOFFEN Lorentz BINGAMAN Richard JACOB Hermanus KUSTER Peter BUN Jacob ENGERS Hans WEIERMAN Conrad CUSTER Jacob MARIEKE Christian NUESAWANGER Conrad FIEFF Jacob KOLB Hans Ulrich BERGEY John MEYER, Heinrich KOLB John FRIED Paul FRIED William SMITH Peter RAMBO David YOUNG Christopher SCHMIDT Garrett CLEMENS Johannes REICHARDT Matthias TYSON, Peter JOHNSON Ulrich HEFFELFINGER Nicolas HALDEMNN Michael ZIEGLER Christian STONER [sic] Probable STOEVER varient Johannes GARBER John HALDEMNN Claus JANSEN Nicholas HICKS Johannes LEISHER Jacob SHEIMER Michael KRAUSE Peter REIFF George REIFF George MEYER Bastian SMITH Edward In de HOFFEN Christian KROLL Jacob STAUFFER and Paul FREIDT Jr.* (source note 2) pg 37#2 endnotes *#2 This Petition in the PA archives Vol 1 is given a Mistaken Heading and Misprinted.. DOES NOT state WHY continue.. 44 of the 77 names were written by Roberts himself and it's Probably a fairly complete list of Residents of the time.. Hope this Helps.. it was not Family history.. it was a LETTER of Petition... Book Available through ADAMS APPLE PRESS P.O.Box E. Bedminster, PA 18910 phone : (215) 795-2149 ASK for a Catolog of the books they have.. Very good deals. The Letter is as Followed Word for word.. [sic] May 10, 1728 John Roberts Rights Cali's German PA, Genealogy http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Falls/3610 I will be putting an updated page at rootsweb soon..There are some errors in the first page I need to remove, or fix.. Thanks,Cali {{{HUGS}}}} ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.