The diaries of Peter C. Hiller, Conestoga, Pennsylvania, 1875-1898 : a reflection of the life and times in Conestoga, Pennsylvania during the late 1800s
Library's copy inscribed by Pauline Benedict Eshelman.
Summary
Peter Clinger Hiller was born in Conestoga, PA, and lived there with his wife and four daughters. He was a teacher and farmer. He also sold and repaired organs, bought and sold tobacco, was a clerk in the Internal Revenue office selling cigar stamps along with other duties, wrote deeds for the county Recorder's office, and served as Justice of the Peace. He belonged to several civic organization and had many hobbies.
v. 1. Allegheny Reformed Church, St. Gabriel's Church, Schwartzwald Church, Oley (Salem) Reformed Church, St. Paul's Church, Amityville, Robeson Church -- v. 2. Oley Hill Church, Longswamp, Exeter Monthly Meeting, Moselem Church, De Long's Reformed Church, Peter's Church, St. Paul's Congregation in Windsor Township -- v. 3. Friedens Union Church; Allemangel Lutheran Church; Blue Mountain Church (Upper Tulpehocken Township); Rosenthal, New Bethel, or Corner Church; Dunkel's Reformed Church; Windsor (Ziegal's) Church, Reed's Church; Bern Church; Tulpehocken or Christ Church (Jefferson Township); Host Church; Hains Church (Heidelberg, Cacusi, St. John's); Records of Rev. Waldschmidt -- v.4. First Reformed Congregation in Reading, Zion's or Spiess's Reformed and Lutheran Church, Selected pastoral records of John Casper Stoever, Atolheo Lutheran Church, Selected pastoral records of Rev. John Henry Helffrich, Christ Church on Bieber Creek (Mertz), Old Northkill Lutheran Church (Friedens) - v. 5. Greenwich Union (or New Bethel Zion Church), Pinegrove Township, Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading.
Book one: -- Baptisms by Rev. Dominicus Bartholomaeus of 1748-1751 -- Baptisms by Rev. William Stoy -- Baptisms by Rev. Jacob Zufall -- Book two: -- Opening entries & confirmations by Stoy -- Baptisms by Rev. Stoy & others (1754-1847) approx. 1,056 baptisms -- Marriages (1752-1760) -- Baptisms (1842-1851) -- Baptisms outside Host church (1753-1754) -- Reformed opening records (1775) -- Church account book -- Confirmations (1830-1849) -- Comminicants (1830-1857) -- Continuation of church accounting -- Baptisms of F. Herman Jr., Reformed preacher (1830-1833) -- Baptisms by Rev. Mr. Zehring (1851-1855) -- Host church cementery records (comp. 1906) -- Comprehensive surname index.
Chronology of events : history of Wirth's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1770-1815, Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pa. after 1815
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135) and index.
Summary
In 1785 Samuel Hibberd established the Mary Ann Forge along the Brandywine Creek in Uwchlan Township, Chester County. In 1801 John Dowlin purchased the forge lands from Hibberd's heirs. Operated by several generations of the Dowlin family during much of the nineteenth century, the forge supported a thriving industrial community known as Dowlin Forge. This book includes information on the Hibberd and Dowlin families as well as Dowlin's Grist Mill, Dowlin's Sawmill,and the company store.
