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Note: N112 Pennsylvania Census -- 1790, p.87 Name of head of family: Adam Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1 Free white males under 16 years: 3 Free white females, including heads of families: 3 5th Series Vol IV p548 Pa Archives ADAM CHRIST In report of the Secretary of War in Relations to Pensions Estimate of U S printed in 1835 on list of Invalid Pensions paid at Phila Agency whose residence could not be ascertained by reason of destroyed papers in War Office 1800-1814. It appears Adam Christ a Sgt in Revolutionary Army pensioned 3/4/1789 (age 40 years) under Act of 6/7/1785. No other data. Sgt Adam Christ from private wounded by ball passing through his chest at Brandywine. 9/11/1777. Adam Christ appeared at court in Sunbury in 1786 for a pension. Northumberland County Adam Christ of Buffalo twp was Sgt in Capt Anderson's Co of State Regt John Murry. Major of said Regt certifies that the said Adam Christ on 9/11/1777 in Battle of Brandywine was wounded in his breast by a musket ball. Is 40 years of age. Has a family to support. Pension granted and paid to March, 1808. First private, the sergeant in Capt Henry Christ, Jr's Company.. Col Samuel Miles Rifle Regiment. Wills and Admin's of Northumberland Co 4/29/1808 Adam Christ , Buffalo twp, wife Elizabeth. Children: Henry, Elizabeth, Eve and 7 others not named. Bro-in-law Adam Follmer. Son-in-law John Snook Annals of the Buffalo Valley, Pa 1755-1855 p231 1784: the celebrated thief, Joe Disbury, was tried. On his Jury were Adam Grove, Michael Grove, William Clark, and Adam Christ. His sentence was severe....p273: Adam Christ-Supervisor for Buffalo twp......p439 Deaths: July 1, 1817-Henry Spyker, Esquire..The Spykers, Christs, Kadermans, &c, came over with Conrad Weiser to New York, in 1710, from a place called Herrenburg, in Wurtemberg, Germany. In 1729, they all removed together to Tulpehocken, where Henry Spyker was born, 8/29/1753 Christ Update May 1994: Adam Crist, Sr came from Bavaria, Germany, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, was shot in battle, the ball passing entirely through his body, through his right lung. The wound was cleansed by pushing a silk bandana handkerchief through, with a ram rod. He recovered and lived nineteen years after. He married Elizabeth Follmer (who was born in Germany and came to America when a little girl). Their home was in, or near Lewisburg, Union County, Pa. They had 10 Children. NOTE: Adam Christ Sr. is the grandfather of Adam whom fought in the Revolutionary War. (These notes contradict each other. One says he was born in Bavaria and the other says came from New York with his parents who came in 1710) Note, his grandfather was Adam Christ. At May term, Adam Christ brought ejectment against William Speddy, tenant in possession of the George Gall tract, now Supplee's mill, in East Buffalo. Speddy's possession under his Connecticut title did not avail, and he was ousted. Hartley and Burd for Christ Stedman and Wilson for Speddy. From Charles H. Glatfelter's excellent work "Pastors and People: German Lutheran and Reformed Churches in the Pennsylvania Field, 1717-1793, Volume 1: Pastors and Congregation" (Breinigsville PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1980), Volume 13, Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, pages 448-449. It is now unfortunately out of print. The Union County Historical Society and the State Library of Pennsylvania has transcriptions of the earlier church records. "Buffalo Valley, Dreisbach These congregations in East Buffalo Township, Union County, were organized in the late 1780s. On April 7, 1788 forty-nine members of the Lutheran and Reformed congregations in Buffalo township signed an agreement to build a union church on Martin Dreisbach's land. On June 1, 1789 Martin Dreisbach sold to John Aurand, Elias Younteman (sic, Youngman), Christopher Storm, and Adam Christ five acres sixty-one perches near the head of Beaver run, 'in Trust and for the use of the united German Congregations in Buffaloe Township.' The deed refers to 'their House of Worship already erected and. . . a Buring ground.' (Northumberland County Deed O, p. 168) The 1788 agreement called for about seven and one-half acres of church land, but the deed was for about two acres less than that amount. A register was begun in 1791 or 1792. In accordance with the well-established custom, someone then entered a number of baptism which had been performed earlier. There are twenty such entries, dated between August 10, 1771 and November 29, 1775. Only about half of the fathers of these children appear on the Buffalo township tax lists for 1778-1781, suggesting that at least some of the baptisms were performed elsewhere, before the parents moved into the upper Susquehanna valley. Buffalo Valley was probably one of the five congregations which in 1790 appealed to the coetus to examine and ordain Jonathan Rahauser, 'who had already for some time supplied said five congregations with preaching and catechization.' (MC, p. 438) The first mention of the church in the minutes of the Lutheran synod occurred in 1794. Lutheran pastors included Herman Shellhard (whose name appears on the 1788 agreement to build the union church) and Christian Espich. Jonathan Rahauser served the Reformed from 1789 until 1792. The union arrangement ended in 1963, when the Reformed bought the Lutheran interest in the old church property. The Lutheran congregation is Faith, two miles west of Lewisburg on Route 45. The Reformed is Dreisbach United Church of Christ, four miles north of New Berlin. Source: Mrs. Franklin M. Earnest, 'The Dreisbach Church,' Northumberland County Historical Society, Proceedings and Addresses 11 (1939) 95-112." A drum that Adam Christ carried in Revolutionary War is in the Marion County Museum in Marion, Kansas.
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