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Note: --Marriage date was around 1720-1725.
--He was deeded his father's land on 80 acres in Towamencin and conveyed land for the Mennonite Church there.
--Source of information: Harry ADAMS (Bedminster, PA);
He was the youngest son of Jacob the immigrant and was assumed to have been born in Goch in the late 1690's and shortly before the family emigrated to Pennsylvania. He was married twice, but all of his children are thought to be issue of his first wife Agnes, probably the daughter of Claus (Nichlaus) Johnson or Janson, whom he married between 1720 and 1725. Agnes Godshalk died between 1744 and 1756. Herman Godshalk then married Barbara (maiden name unknown). Barbara Godshalk is probably buried under the stone marker in the Towamencin Mennonite Cemetery, marked "B.G. 1771". In 1772 he sold the last of his land and his wife's name was not listed in the conveyance.
Herman inherited the plantation on which his father, Jacob lived most of his life. He also purchased land in Towamencin shortly after reaching his majority and probably about the time of his marriage to Agnes. On 20 December 1720, he bought about 150 acres bordering to the southeast of his father's farm, from James and Martha STEEL of Philadelphia. On 5 July 1727, Herman and Agnes sold 58 acres and 35 perches to his sister Magdalena and her husband William NASH. On 12 October 1744, he sold the balance of about 100 acres in the tract to Isaac KRALL and it is assumed that he moved to his father's farm.
He received a patent for a narrow strip of land (181.5' x 3506.25') containing 13 acres and 125 perches from the Penns. It extended northwest from present-day Kulpsville between Jacob Godshalk's farm and Sumneytown Pike. The Towamencin Meetinghouse stands on this land. Herman and his second wife, Barbara sold half of this tract to Isaac KRALL on 9 June 1756 and sold the other half to his sister-in-law Eve GODSHALK, widow of Godshalk Godshalk, by 1764.
--Source of information: (http://www.gendex.com/users/geiser/kidron/d0032/g0000063.html#I38655);
BIRTH: ABT 1698, Gath, Germany DEATH: 1785, Doylestown, PA REFN: RNG35380 Father: Jacob GAETSHALCKS Mother: Aeltien HERMANS Spouse: Agnes JOHNSON MARRIAGE: ABT 1720 Child: Samuel GODSHALK --Source of information: Todd GOTTSHALL (Lebanon, PA)<Dasisgut@@aol.com>; Lists his birth year as 1707.
--Source of information: Carl H. GOTTSHALL <gottshal@@ix.netcom.com><167 Rose Valley Rd. Pottstown, PA 19464>; Lists only 6 children for Herman ... one of these children is probably the missing Mr_#1 GODSHALK. He lived in Towamencin, PA & New Britian, PA
--Source of information: Lil Miller <misslil@@erols.com ; http://www.erols.com/misslil/genlist/godshall/>; GODSHALK, Herman (1698-1785) married Agnes JANSEN/JOHNSON. They lived in Germantown and then Skippack, PA. After Agnes' death in 1746 Herman married a second time to a Barbara. Her last name is unknown. By Agnes, Herman was father of Samuel J., Jacob J., Nicholas J., Henry J., John Johnson, and at least one unknown son who was father to a William, Samuel, and Jacob.
--Source of information: Donna (REITZ) WARNER <drw13@@atl.mindspring.com>; Joel D. Alderfer, "New Discoveries in Godshalk-Godshall-Gottschall Family Research," MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA NEWSLETTER, Vol 10, No 2, May 1983, pp 14:
Herman immigrated with his parents in 1701, when he was but three years old. He left a record in land bought and sold -- bought 150 acres in 1720, sold 58 acres, 35 perches in 1727, 100 acres in 1744. He may have lived with his father, since he inherited 122 1/2 acres when Jacob died in 1763. In 1764 he sold 35 acres, 58 perches to his son John for 114 lbs 18 s. In August he granted 82 perches to the trustees of the Towamencin Mennonite Church for a graveyard. The land, which had probably been a cemetery since the 1730s, was called the Herman Godschalk Cemetery on the petition for the Forty Foot Road in 1749. There were small land transactions in 1766, and Herman sold the rest of his farm (89 acres, 120 perches) on May 26, 1772. There are no other records, which may mean he moved in with one of his children, possibly John, who not only is the one child who can be definitively traced to Herman, but who also seems to have been his favored child. Herman left no will, probably because he had already settled his estate. Unfortunately, this leaves the identity of all his children (except John, who was identified in a deed) unresolved.
After Agnes died, probably between 1744 and 1756, Herman married Barbara , who may have died in 1771. Although Heman lived most of his life in Towamencin Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he died in New Britain Township in Bucks County. His grave in the Doylestown Mennonite Cemetery is marked HG-1785.
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