Hi Diana: Your Straub website is truly amazing!! I don't think I have written to you for a couple of years, but my you have made progress. Who found the German records for the two Peter Straubs? I do not see the film number, but I will have to order that film and get copies of the records. But I also see that you are not quite happy with my Mary Straub who m. Stephen Smith as a dau of Peter II. What are the real problems that you have with her? I'll get back on your website and check out more, but I would love to talk to you about this family. Gwen Boyer Bjorkman gwenbj@seanet.com Notes for Stephen and Mary Straub Smith 1778 taxed in Penn Twp, Northumberland Co, PA. 1780 served as Pvt.. in Lieut. Jacob Bard's Co, Northumberland Co Militia, Penn. Archives, 5th series, VIII: 678. 1784 son John Peter baptized at the old Zion Lutheran Ch, Freeburg. 1787 taxed in Penn Twp, Northumberland Co, PA with 100 acres. 1790 census Northumberland Co, PA, p. 192. 1 3 4. 1800 census Northumberland Co, PA, p. 503. 4 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1. 1801 Henry Kephart, Peter Smith, Stephen Smith, William Smith in Potter twp, Centre Co. John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1883) p. 42. 1803 Stephen Smith, tavern keeper at the fort, died. History of Centre County, Pennsylvania, p. 227. Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania (Clearfield County Section), p. 844. John Smith: Name of first known ancestor, came to America at an early date, name of wife or wives unknown. Names of children unknown except that of Stephen Smith. Stephen Smith was born in Pa. in the year 1730 and died in Penn's Valley, Centre Co, Pa. in 1803. Stephan and Maria (Troup) Smith were married 1767. Maria Troup was born in Union County, Pa. in the year 1750 and died in Penn's Valley, Centre Co, Pa. in 1807. Stephen and Maria (Troup) Smith moved from Union County to Penn's Valley in 1792. Stephen Smith was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. He served as private in Lieut. Jacob Bard's Company, Northumberland County Militia in the year 1780.. . Charles H. Glatfelter, Pastors and People: German Lutheran and Reformed Churches in the Pennsylvania Field, 1717 - 1793, (Breinigsville, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1980) p. 453. Mohr's, Zion. These congregations, located in Washington twp, Snyder Co, date from the 1770's. On April 12, 1774 the proprietors granted Andrew More, Peter Stroup and Casper Roush a warrant for fifty acres in Penns Twp, Northumberland Co. "in trust for a Lutheran Church and School House." A survey of 42 acres was made on 27 April 1774. (Northumberland Warrant M-223 and Copied Survey C-143, p. 40, BLR.) The register opened in 1781 included 70 baptisms performed through 1793. . 1790 census Northumberland Co, PA, p. 191-192. Charles Stroup Jun 1 . 3, David Smith 1 1 2, John Troup 1 2 4, Peter Stroup 2 2 2, Peter Stroup 1 1 1, Andw Shetterley 1 1 2, Adam Stroup 1 3 6, Peter Stroup 1 1 1, Charles Stroup 2 3 4, Stephen Smith 1 3 4; . 1800 census, p. 744, Peter Stroup . . . . 1 . 1 . . 1. . J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (J. A. Caldwell, 1879), p. 482, Franklin Twp. David Smith, Sr. The fifth of fifteen children born to Stephen and Maria Smith nee Troup, was born near Trouptown, Union county, Pa., on the 23d of December, 1781. His grandfather, John Smith, was a native of France, and came to Philadelphia with Stephen Girard. He died over 90 years of age. David's father was a Revolutionary soldier. He too, died at an advanced age in 1802. His wife's family came to America at the time of the Hessian importation. She died in 1807, about fifty-six years of age. The family removed to Centre county in 1792. Our subject remembered driving the cattle to the county. He located in Rockland township, Venango county in 1818. Gwen Boyer Bjorkman gwenbj@seanet.com

Hi Gwen! Yes, it's been awhile. No, I have no problem with your Stephen and Mary. I'm just TERRIBLY behind on getting the web site up to date. There is a great deal of material that has been sent, not just recently, but in past months, too, that I need to incorporate. Please don't hesitate to pester me. I will keep working at getting it online. If you don't mind me quoting you at length and verbatim, I could attach the info you just sent to the Sources of Mary's page. Would that be OK? (With due credit to you, of course.) Diana Gwen Boyer Bjorkman wrote: > > Hi Diana: Your Straub website is truly amazing!! I don't think I have > written to you for a couple of years, but my you have made progress. Who > found the German records for the two Peter Straubs? I do not see the film > number, but I will have to order that film and get copies of the records. > But I also see that you are not quite happy with my Mary Straub who m. > Stephen Smith as a dau of Peter II. What are the real problems that you > have with her? I'll get back on your website and check out more, but I > would love to talk to you about this family. > > Gwen Boyer Bjorkman > gwenbj@seanet.com