p 28 - 1 CONRAD HESS .. His wife, Anna Dorothy Frankenfield, daughter of Simon and Eve Frankenfield, whom he married June 13, 1769, was born in Springfield Townshiip, August 15, 1751. It is said that the day following their marriage, the newley wedded couple went hay making to a relative Funk, in Springfield Twp., and omitted the wedding tour, - a custom evidently not fashionable in those days. Conrad was a shoemaker by trade, but after following the vocation for several years he took up farming, and in the year 1772 he purchased a tract of 155 1/4 acres from Arnolt Eberhard in "der Wasser-gasse," Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pa., for the sum of 260 pounds. Subsequently he purchased a farm "auf Druka-landt" (Dryland) north of Bethlehem, Pa., but on learning that the title of the property was not good, he returned it to the previous owner, and on January 28, 1783, purchased from Abraham Funk, a tract of 158 acres and 95 perches, (a part of the original Wistar, and subsequent Twining tract), adjoining the west end of the village of Springtown, Pa., for the sum of 161 pounds, "lawful money of Penna." ... (more)
p 30 - ... They raised a family of seven children, in size all fashioned after the original Hess patter: George, Elizabeth, Mary Magdalene, Joseph, Catherine, Margaret and Susanna.
