Notes for Hans Jacob LUPFER
Source: Pedigree #2334, World Family Tree Disk 16
HANS JACOB LUPFER WAS THE FIRST OF THE LUPFER FAMILY TO COME TO AMERICA. HE IS LISTED AS A PASSENGER ON THE SHIP PHOENIX, ARRIVING NOVEMBER 22, 1752. HE TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO KING GEORGE II THE SAME DAY. HIS NATURALIZATION PAPER, DATED AT PHILADELPHIA ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1765, SHOWS HIS RESIDENCE AS RICHMOND TWP., BERKS COUNTY, PA. HIS OWN LETTER WRITTEN BACK TO BIRMENSDORF, KT. ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, AND RECORDED IN THE CHURCH RECORDS, STATES THAT HE IS IN RICHMOND TWP. IN BERKS COUNTY, 12 MILES FROM READING, IN THE YEAR 1768, AND THAT HE IS MARRIED AND HAS FOUR CHILDREN. THE CHURCH RECORD STATES THAT HE WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 30, 1725 AND WAS CONFIRMED IN 1743.
AFTER RESIDING FOR A WHILE IN BERKS COUNTY, HANS JACOB AND HIS FAMILY WERE ATTRACTED BY CONDITIONS AT THE PRESENT SITE OF NEW BLOOMFIELD, PERRY COUNTY, PA, AND SETTLED THERE IN 1776 AND PURCHASED 100 ACRES OF LAND IN CENTRE TWP ( AT THAT TIME RYE TWP ). ON AUGUST 4, 1787 HE RECEIVED A WARRANT FOR AN ADDITIONAL 294 ACRES ADJOINING HIS OTHER PROPERTY, OF WHICH WEST NEW BLOOMFIELD IS NOW A PART.
TRADITION HAS IT THAT JACOB LUPFER SR., HAVING HAD MILITARY SERVICE IN EUROPE, TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN HELPING TO TRAIN THE RAW RECRUITS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION. HIS OWN SONS, CASPER, JOHN AND JACOB JR. WERE AMONG THOSE HE HELPED TO TRAIN. HE TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE DANIEL ROTHERMEL IN BERKS COUNTY.
JACOB LUPFER SR. SERVED AS TAX COLLECTOR FOR RYE TWP., CUMBERLAND COUNTY FROM JUNE 27, 1778 TO JUNE 9, 1795. RYE TWP COMPRISED ABOUT ONE THIRD OF WHAT IS NOW PERRY COUNTY AND WAS THE THIRD TOWNSHIP FORMED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY. THREE MEN, JACOB LUPFER, MARTIN BERNHEISEL AND MICHAEL LOY, WERE FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN BERKS COUNTY AND MIGRATED TO CUMBERLAND COUNTY AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME. JACOB LUPFER BELONGED TO THE GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH. WHEN HE DIED ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1803, HE LEFT A GOODLY ESTATE AND A GOOD NAME TO BE HONORED BY HIS DESCENDANTS.
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