1732 Son John Michael was born 30 October and baptized 3 December, Records of the Warwick Ev Lutheran congregation. [1] [2]
1733 Michael Kitch received a warrant for land on Cocalico Creek on January 30 in Pennsylvania. [3]
1734 Daughter Maria Elizabetha was born 19 April and baptized 12 May, with Zeug (witnesses?) Jacob Weiss and Maria Elizabeth Wolfin (Maria Catharina's parents). [4]
1734 John Berger received a warrant for land on February 27 in Erie Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [5]
1750 Michael Ketch, son of Michael Ketch deceased, being upwards of seventeen years, comes into (Lancaster Orphan's ) court and chuses George Michael Weis to be his guardian. Elizabeth Ketch, one of the daughters of Michael Ketch, chuses Jacob Weis (brother to Michael's wife, Maria Catharina) guardian. George Michael Weis and Jacob Weis appointed guardians over Sophia and Martin Ketch, minor and orphan children of Michael Ketch. [6]
1754 At the Orphans' Court held at Lancaster for the County of Lancaster, the third day of September 1754. [7] [8] [9]
Upon the Petition of Jacob Wise, eldest Son of Jacob Wise, deceased (who died intestate) to this court praying that he may be admitted to hold the and enjoy a certain tract of land late of the said Jacob Wise, deceased, situate in the Township of Cocalico in the said County containing 140 acres, and allowance upon, his paying or securing to be paid the respective shares of the widow and the other children of the said decedent according to the valuation made thereof by Martin Weidman, Michael Feasor, Valentine Herclerot and John Shutz, the persons appointed by all the parties interested according to the Act of the General Assembly of ths Province in such cases made and provided and he the said Jacob Wise the petitioner producing to this Court the said appointment and also the valuation made by the said Martin Weidman, Michael Feasor, Valentine Hercelrot and John Shultz, in pursuance thereof, Whereby it appears that they have valued the said tract of land at the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, It is therefore considered by the Court and Ordered and Adjudged that the said Jacob Wise the petitioner upon paying or securing to be paid unto Barbara Wise the widow and relict of the said intestate, George Michael Wise, the other son of the said intestate, Martin Weidel and Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters of the said intestate, Susan Weise another of the daughters of the said intestate and to the children of Catherine another daughter of the said intestate now deceased, by her two husbands Michael Kitsch and John Burger, that is to say Michael, Elizabeth, Sophia, and Martin Kitsch and Anna, Barbara, Leonora, Margaret and Catherine Berger or to their guardian their several and respective shares according to the said valuation do hold and enjoy the said tract of land according to the directions of said Act.
Emanuel Carpenter, Esq. is appointed guardian over the … minor children of Catherine … during their minority.
1756 Michael Citsh (no land) was taxed in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. [10]
1758 Michael Kitch, shoemaker, was taxed in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. Michael Weis was taxed for 100 acres in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. [11]
1768 The will of John Berger was dated February 11. The will was proved on February 11 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. [12]
[1] J. H. Schantz, "History of the Brickerville Congregation in Lancaster County," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 3 (1899), 57-99, at 60, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[2] Muddy Creek Lutheran Church Records, Cocalico, Lancaster County part of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, 00425, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] J. H. Schantz, "History of the Brickerville Congregation in Lancaster County," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 3 (1899), 57-99, at 60, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[5] Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Pennsylvania Vital Records From the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 1 (1983), 339.
[7] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Miscellaneous Book 1754-14, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[8] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (1983), 390, of 390-91.
[9] Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, [AncestryImage].
[10] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[11] Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Tax List, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[12] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].