Notes for George (Jurg) KISTLER
Collective Notes:
The first Kistlers in the Allemengel area (Albany and Lynn townships) belonged to the Jerusalem Lutheran Church which is located in Albany township, Berks County, but almost on the Lehigh County line. Locally it is called the "Red Church" to distinguish it from Friedens Church in the same area, which is called the "White Church". The "White Church" is located in the village of Stony Run and was completed in 1771. The land warrant for the property on which the Red Church stands was bought for the congregation by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, thru his father-in-law Conrad Weiser. When the congregation split and Pastor Schumacher went to the White Church, most of Johannes's family followed. HanJorg stayed with the Red Church.
The first public record of the name Kistler in the Allemengel area is in a petition to the September court in the year 1745, at Philadelphia, signed by a number of residents of Maxatawny and Allemengel, asking for a public road "from Abraham Levan's mill to Upper Hanover". Among the signers of this petition are both Johannes Kistler and Jurg Kistler. Abraham Levan's mill apparently refers to what was later the well known Levan's mill at Eagle Point near Kutztown and Upper Hanover which is the official name for part of Goshenhoppen.
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