An American Family History

German Lutherans

Lutherans are Protestants who follow Martin Luther's religious teachings, especially the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

Church	Place
Canfield Lutheran	Canfield Township, Trumbull County (later Mahoning), Ohio
Dunkels
Heidelberg Union Church 1757	Heidelberg Township, Northampton (now Lehigh), County Pennsylvania
Heidelberg Union Church 1768
Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church or Quitophahilla.	North Annville Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Moravian	York County Pennsylvania
Mt. Pisgah	Lawrenceville, Clark County, Ohio
Scholosser's Reformed	North Whitehall Township, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania
St. Jacob's Old Stone	Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania
Towamensing	Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
1798 Towamensing Records
Zion Moselem	Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

The American Revolution was ended in 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed.

Military Unit	Place
1776 Hoover's Company
1776 Kern's Muster	Northampton, Pennsylvania
1776 McDonnel's Company
1776 Reader's Company
1782 Kessler's Company
1785 Wampler's Company


1738 The Robert and Alice
1781 Heidelberg Township
1800 Early Settlers in Germantownship
1812 Clark County Soldiers
1812 Heidelberg Township
1820 German Township
Clark County, Ohio
Mad River Township, Champaign County, Ohio
Towamensing Township

Many settlers in the Shenandoah Valley were Germans from Pennsylvania called the "Shenandoah Deitsch."

Name	Lived in
Alspach
Baker	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Luray, Page County, Virginia Clark County, Ohio
Bauman	Marlborough Township, Montgomery (was Philadelphia) County, Pennsylvania Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Beary	Rockingham County, Virginia Ward Township, Randolph County, Indiana
Bilger
Bloss	Heidelberg Township Northampton County (now Lehigh County), Pennsylvania
Bolin
Branstetter	Berks County, Pennsylvania Northampton (now) Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Dreisbach	Lehigh Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Foltz
Friermood
Gramm
Handwerk
Henkle
Hullinger
Hunsicker
Kemmerer
Kemp	Clark County and Shelby County, Ohio
Kenoyer	North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania
Kern
Kessler	North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania Rockingham County, Virginia German Township, Clark County, Ohio
Kibler
Kiblinger	Virginia Clark County, Virginia
Krum or Crum
Kunkel
Loudenback	Shenandoah, Virginia Clark & Champaign Counties, Ohio
Maggart
Myers	Clark County, Ohio
Nawman
Neff
Ohl
Pence
Peter
Printz George 1742 Gottlieb 1752 Jacob 1797	Virginia & Ohio
Rockel	Clark County, Ohio
Rust
Ryman
Sager
Sample	Clark County, Ohio
Seybert	Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Solt
Taylor	Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Fairfield, Bath Township, Greene County, Ohio Anna, Dinsmore Township, Shelby County, OhioPerry Township, Shelby County, Ohio Salem Township, Shelby County, Ohio McLean County, Illinois Somerset, Warren County, Iowa
Truby
Xander	Clark County, Ohio

The Palatinate is a region in south-western Germany. Many thousands of Palatine immigrants were driven out of Germany by war, famine, despotic rule and disease. They were attracted to Pennsylvania by the first settlers who sent back favorable reports.

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