The Rhoad or Roth family was also here as early as 1763. The first of the family in Lehigh County, who spelled the name Roth, was a Swiss, and came to Whitehall township about 1735. Before the family had a procured a home he died under a large oak tree near the Jordan, by what is know as the Mauch Chunk road. He left two sons, Daniel, aged 12 and Peter who was born the day his father died.. Peter was readed among the Quakers. He was a Judge of Northampton. Chosen to the same office in Lehigh County. Member of the Legislature from Northampton. His eldest son, George (who died in Allentown in 1851), he had a son named Josiah, kept a hotel for many years. Peter, the second son of Peter was an associate judge of Northampton County, and the first burgess of Allentown, in 1811, and the first president of the Northampton Bank, he died in 1836. The 3rd son of Peter Rhoads Sr., was John who also lived in Allentown until 1812. He moved to the banks of the Jordan. He then moved to a farm near the Egypt Chruch where he died in 1851. His sons where George, Daniel J., of Coplay, Mahlon, of Allentown, and Owen. The sons of Daniel J., are Erastus D., of North Whitehall township, Walter of Allentown. Robert of Whitehall. John Keiper came here in 1763, lived on 7th St. and he was a tobacconist. He died July 4, 1833. His sons were Peter, John, David, Daniel, George. Sarah the oldest daughter of John 1st, married a Massey. Nancy was the wife of John Wagner, a soldier in the War of 1812. Catharine married Capt. John Ruhe, another daughter was the wife of John Haines. Henry Keiper, a brother of John 1st was in the Rev. After the war he settled in Allentown. He lived on Walnut Street near 6th. On of his daughters, Catharine married Peter Good, and was the mother of Tilghman Good. Another, Elizabeth married Jacob Hagenbach. Living in Allentown in 1776, Henry Hagenbuch, Michael Klechner, Nicholas Fuchs, Michael Schroeder, George Weiss, Philip Klotz. There were shopkeeper, George Graff, and Philip Boehm. One potter, Abraham Albert, one mason, James Preston, one doctor, Gottfried Bolzius, one hatter, Peter Berger, one wheelwright, Joseph Derr, one smith, Martin Froelich, three shoemakers, Henry Gross, Philip Klotz, and George Schreiber, three tailors, Andrew Gangwere, Peter Miller and Abraham Savitz. One tobacconist, Peter Keiper, one saddler, Peter Linn, one gunsmith, John Moll, four carpenters, John Newhart, Jacob Nonnemacher, John Miller Jr., and Dewalt Miller, one butcher, Michael Nagel. Best Wishes, Geri