Early HISTORY of Montgomery Co., PA, (1680-1780)

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
Surnames/tags: Montgomery_County_PA JACOBS Pannebecker

Information concerning the early settlers of the area that comprises Montgomery County, PA. To be used to better source and understand these ancestors. Three main free-pages include:

1. Early HISTORY of Montgomery Co., PA, (1680-1780)
2. PEOPLES (Known settlers of this era)
3. DOCUMENTS (A collection of documents, referencing the early settlers)

Contents 1 Basic Timeline 2 Web Links 2.1 General 2.2 History 2.3 Lists of Sources 3 Sources

Basic Timeline

The Perkiomen Valley was first inhabited by the Lenni-Lenape Tribe. ^[1]

1643: First colonized by the Dutch

1680, on, June 24, William Penn asks the crown for land in the Americas

1681, On March 24, a grant was given him for "a tract 390 miles by 160 of extreem fertility, mineral wealth and richness of all kinds."... the future Pennsylvania.

1683, On October 8, the Manor of Gilberts was set aside by William Penn for himself, as the Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania. The Manor, initially 60,000 acres, was located on the along the left (northeastern) bank of the Schuylkill River, extending above and below the Perkiomen Creek. The tract was named after his paternal grandmother Joanne (Gilbert) Penn's family. It ranged from below Pottstown (i.e. Limerick Township) down through what is now Norristown. ^[2]

On 6 October, Germantown was formed. The "Original Thirteen Families", from Krefeld, Germany, arrived on the ship Concord. ^[3]

1687 The Manor had shrunk to 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land. Then the Manor just included all of present day Upper and Lower Providence Townships, the Burroughs of Trappe and Collegeville, and portions of Perkiomen; Skippack; and Worcester Townships ^[2]

The vast majority of settlers were German. They were of Lutheran and German reformed faith.

1784, Montgomery County was formed with land that was previously owned by the city of Philadelphia. ^[1]

1729, Providence Township formed. The Manor name was abandoned. ^[2]

1767, Zachariah E. RICE (1731-1811) built the Rice–Pennebecker Farm on Clover Mill Rd, West Pikeland Township, Chester Co. It is still standing today. (Wikipedia)

1789, The Pikeland Land Foreclosure of 1789, in which the Rice–Pennebecker Farm was lost. The RICE familly moved to Perry Co. as well as the Peter JACOB family

1805, Division of the former Providence Township into Upper and Lower Providence along the Perkiomen Creek

1886, the Skippack and Perkiomen Townships split into Skippack Township and Perkiomen Township. The Perkiomen Township later split into two different townships called Lower Perkiomen Township and Upper Perkiomen Township. Collegeville and Trappe are two towns in Montgomery County that were purchased by Ursinus College in 1869 and were later included in Upper Providence Township in 1896. In 1903, the Schwenksville Borough was incorporated into the Perkiomen Township.^[1]

Web Links

General

• WikiTree Library
• Wikitree List_of_Lists
• Wikipedia-Skippack_Township

History

• Wikipedia: History of Pennsylvania
• Jordan, John W. , Colonial Families of Philadelphia Vol I & II
• Jordan, John W., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania Vol I to III
• Bean, Theodore Weber, History_of_Montgomery_County (READ Orig.)

Lists of Sources

• Sources-Pennsylvania
• Early Pennsylvania Settlers - Sources

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} wikipedia/Perkiomen Township https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkiomen_Township,_Pennsylvania
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} wikipedia/Manor of Gilbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Gilberts
3. ↑ wikipedia/Germantown Township https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown_Township,_Pennsylvania