>From: "Flower Child" <mlkintner@enter.net> >To: PABUCKS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PABUCKS-L] Kintner >Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:39:16 -0500 > >Hi Everyone, >I am looking for more information on the George Kintner/Gintner family of >Kintnersville. I have seen the History Of Bucks Co. article pg 43. It >states George Gintner came from Germany before the Revolution, landing in >Philadelphia 2 September 1789 and serving as a captain. That's a great >article the only problem is the Revolution was the years 1775-1783. He had >3 children Joseph, Jacob, Mary. >Jacob married a Sarah ? >Any help is most appreciated. >Thanks Lily > I didn't find the article you're referring to, but perhaps he went back to Germany and made a return trip to America on 1789. Here's what I found: KINTNERSVILLE_Largest community in the township. Jacob Froelich of Bethlehem was the first owner of land in the village. He purchased 101 acres in 1743 from Thomas and Richard Penn. In 1749 George Gintner (Kintner) settled in the hills of Nockamixon Township. After serving in the Revolutionary War he entered the pottery business. He sold supplies to the Durham Iron Furnace until it blew up in 1792, after which he left the area. His son Jacob moved back to Bucks County in 1812. Jacob purchased the property where Kintnersville now sits from Jacob Froelich Jr. for $26.75. Kintnersville was the site of the first gas station in Upper Bucks County and the first telephone was installed in 1910. www.masthof.com/pages/backissues5.html The German Origin of Immigrants George and Michael Kintner (Kintner) The family name of KINTNER was originally GINTNER.. George Gintner, the grandfather of Hugh Kintner, came from Wurtemberg, Germany, before the Revolution and settled in Nockamixon. He served throughout the war as acaptain of cavalry, and at its close he turned his Continental money intohollow-ware at the Durham iron works, which he exchanged for a farm in Monroe county near the Delaware Water Gap. He lived there the remainder of his life, and was drowned the Delaware while driving the river for fish. He left two sons, Joseph, who died young, and Jacob the father of Hugh, who lived and died in Bucks county, and who was elected sheriff in 1824, and a daughter, Mary who married a Smith and settled in Walpack, Sussex county, New Jersey. Jacob was bound out among strangers when young, and the spelling of the name was changed from Gintner to Kintner. This change defeated his effort to recover the pension due his father for his Revolutionary services. www.geocities.com/Heartland/6508/EARLY1.HTM _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp