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Note: !SOURCES: Auszug aus den Kierrchenburchern der evan. Pffarei Frommer
Note: n - LDS Seelenregister 1748 Taufregister 5 Nov 1730 - Godparents: Caspar Zimmerman (Vogt) Martin Hummel Agnes, Christian Strobels Weib. Strassburger and Hinke, "Penna. German Pioneers", List 223 B !Lubold, Daniel G., "Lubold, Lupold, Leopold and related Families" p.4 "He remained single making his home with the old folks and taking care of them until they died. He also was employed for some years by John Potts, serving one year as a teamster and coachman. He bought the homestead and added other tracts of adjoining land until he had a farm of 54 acres. He married and took his wife to Douglas Twp., where they lived during the Revolution. In the year 785 when Dauphin Co. was organized, he sold his property and moved to the Lykens Valley in the upper end of that county. There is no doubt that he made this change because his father-in-law moved his family there at the same time. It was a big adventure as few settlers were in the Valley, and between it and Berks Co. were many miles of mountains. Martin bought a tract of 120 acres on the west side of the peninsula formed by Wiconisco Creek, directly across the creek from Burkhart Bechtel's tract and about a mile from the west end of Short Mountain.Only a small clearing had been made on the place. On the higher parts it was a forest of pine and mixed trees, while the bottom lands along the creek were covered by large white oaks. This forest they cleared, changed into a fertile farm and lived there until his death in 1810. They were members of St. John's Lutheran Church near the present site of Berrysburg, he having been an official of the church a few years after it was organized; and there buried."
!Pa. Archives, 3rd Series XIV p. 585 taxed 1779 with brother John Leopolt, Douglas Township, Montgomery Co., Pa.
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