The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-09-18
GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
Data Of Historical Interest to the Read.
ers Of the Post.
FORRER.

Johannes Forrer came from Europ,
to America in the ship "Friendship
OF Bristol, John Davies, Master, from
Rotterdam and qualified Oct. Is, 1927
Johannes Forrer, (perhaps another
man though it might be the same one)
arrived IN the ship "Brothers", Capt,
VIM. Muir from Rotterdam and quail.
fled Sept. 80, l754.
Hans (John) Forrer, a single free
man resided in Tulpehocken township
Berks county as early as 1867. Mich
ael FOrrl was assessed in the same
township, l767-s, 1779, l7SO-l-4 with
1l9 acres surveyed in Berks county Ju-
ly IS, 17S5.
John Forrer and George Forrer were
assessed In Tulpehocken township in
l7S5. George was assessed in lT79 with
$50 acres, 4 horses and cows; l7SO and
1871 with horses and cows. John
was assessed in 17S0 and 1871 with ISL
acres, 9 horses and 3 cows.
About 1910 John Forrer probably
the son of the last named John, came
to Snyder county and settled near
Richfield, in the present limits of Sny-
der county. He was fuller and after
ward lived near Kantz and later, on
one of Col. H. c. Eyer's farms below
Selinsgrove, now owned by DR.. Nip
pie. John Forrer was born March %,
1905, died Jan. 2, 1865. He had fam.
lily Of is children and the Tulpehocken
Forrers above named are probably the
ancestors Of John. A large number OF
the descendants now reside in Snyder
county.
ORwIG.
The first person to bring this name
to America was Gottfried Orwig, born,
1t is supposed in Brunswick, Germany
August "a, l7l9 and arrived ut Phila.
tel ,,llis.' where he took the oath of al.
legiance Oct 2, 174l, at the age of g
years. He remained in America few
years, then returned to Germany for a
visit and brought back with him his
wife, who was Clara Lampert. Dur
ing the Revolutionary War u company
old men was organized, Germans,
eighty in all. 1t was called the Old
Mems company. Their captain was
nearly 100 years old, the drummer "a,
the youngest nearly seventy.
Gottfried and his wife settled in l743
at Maiden Creek, near Reading, on
lands purchased from the Iroquois In
dians, but afterwards moyed to Sculp
Hill, one mile south of the present
town of Orwigsburg, Schuylkill coun-
ty. He and his wife were buried in
the Old Lutheran church yard at the
foot Of Sculp Hill, opposite the old red
church. The inscription of the tomb
stones are in German. In English
they are:
"Here rests Gottfried Orwig born
Aug. "a, l7l9, died May 2G, 1904, aged
S5 years less . months"
"lIere rests Clara Orwig, wife Of
Gottfried Orwig, born Jan. 26, l7lG,
died Jan. 8, 17SS, aged - years, less 3
weeks.n
They had six children as follows:
|. Catherine born Dec. H. 1854.
>. Peter, born at Maiden Creek,
July s, 1850.
3. Maria, born Dec. 10, l75l.
4. Henry, born at Maiden Creek,
Dec. 6, 1853.
5. Elizabeth, born Oct. s, 1856.
6. George, born Mar. II, 1853.
Gottfried and his sons founded the
town of Orwigsburg in 1896. The rec
ords reveal the following:
Godfried Orwig had surveyed SO
acres in Lacks county June 6, 1747 and
the SAM amount i'm Berks county
April 9, l754.
J. PETER, married Hannah Webb,
and they had a family of eleven chill
dren. Land was surveyed for him as
follows:
300 acres, Berks Co., April |, 1871.
$50 acres, Berks Co., June II, 1892.
40Oacres, Nth'bpd Co., Nov. IS, 1898.
0Oacres, Huntington Co., April 10,
1874.
In the assessment list of Brunswig
township, Berks county in 1779, we
find him assessed with so acres, 8 horses
and 8 cows. In 1850 with saw mill,
a tavern, 500 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows.
1871 with one-half of q saw mill, 500
acres, 4 horses, 3 cows. 1854, $50 acres,
2 horses, 2 cows, sheep and persons.
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