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  1. John Keim: Birth: 6 JUL 1749 in Oley Township, Berks Co, PA. Death: 10 FEB 1819 in Reading, PA �6

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a. Note:   this is copied information that was published in: The Keim Family volume CS71 K27 or CS41 K27, from the Jefferson Room of The Congressional Library. From "Colonial Families of the United States of America" Volume 4, edited by Goerge Norbury Mackenzie. The Seaforth Press, Baltimore, Md.ca 1907. JOHN NICHOLAS (HANS NICKEL) KEIM was b. in Oley Township, Philadelphia (now Berks County, Pennsylvania), 2d April, 1719; d. 2d August, 1802;was engaged in farming for a number of years; in
 November, 1755, was one of the founders of Reading, the county seat and metropolis of Berks County; the father of Reading, may be said to have been the celebrated Conrad Weiser, Indian interpreter and agent of the Province, and one of the most
 interesting characters in early colonial history;Nicholas Keim, in 1769, the first merchant of Reading, purchased the Weiser trading post later known as Keims Old White Store; he subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance during the revolution to the
 new State Government,1777; was Member of Capt. Peter Grubb's Company, of Associators, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1775, when he was fifty-six years, although he was a Quaker; m. 24th March, 1746, Barbara Schneider, b.
 in Oley Township, October 1727, d. in Reading, 8th June, 1788, Dau. of Hans and Catherine Schneider; Nicholas and Barbara Keim are buried in the Schneider-Keim plot on present Gheer farm, Oley near Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.


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