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_FIELD: TX-AUTHOR
Text: Marion J. "Jim" Laughlin and Tabitha Trimble
_FIELD: DT-PUBLICATION_DATE
Date: 1992
_FIELD: TX-TITLE
Text: Descendants of John Laughlin and Tabitha Trimble
_FIELD: TX-PUBLISHER
Text: self-published
_FIELD: TX-REFERENCE
Text: Filtingberger 4
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
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[S1433] Laughlin/Trimble Book page Filtingberger 4
Pennsylvania
1682/1792
33 Treaties and Purchases from the Indians
History records that the whole rights of the Indians within the bounds of Pennsylvania were extinguished by thirty-three treaties and purchases beginning with:
1682 July 15 Deed for lands between the Falls of Delaware and Neshammonys Creek (confirmed by William Penn 24 Oct 1682) and ending with: 1792 March 3rd.
On October 3, 1788 an Act was passed authorizing the Supreme Executive Council to draw on the State Treasurer for a sum of money for defraying the expense of purchasing from the Indians, lands on Lake Erie. It is usually called the "Purchase of the Triangle". It contained 202,187 acres.
Long before the Statue of Liberty had been contemplated or Emma Lazarus had written her immortal lines for its pedestal, Willliam Penn extended an invitation to Europe's religiously persecuted and exiled to come to Pennsylvania, where he had established a haven of religious freedom and liberty under a Grant of 1681.
Responding to the earnest solicitation, the Society of Friends (Quakers) came from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The severely persecuted Palatines came from the Rhine section, the Anabaptists (Mennonites) arrived from Germany and Switzerland. The Church of the Brethren (Dunkards) so called from their belief in triple baptism, came from Germany in 1721. The Roman Catholics from England came in 1732. The Moravians, Czech followers of John Huss came from Moravia and Bohemia, to Pennsylvania via Georgia in 1740. The so-called Dutch, who were Germans, not Hollanders, also arrived about 1740.
1787 Pennsylvania became the 2nd State
Before 1700 Philadelphia was an important city with a large port for the arrival of a large portion of our immigrant ancestors. In 1682/3 the first three counties were formed around Philadelphia - Bucks, Chester, and Philadelphia.
As the population grew and settled farther to the north and west, counties grew, expanded, and were divided into new counties. Lancaster, York, Cumberlin, Berks, and Northampton in the early 1700s became 12 by the end of the Revolutionary War. Northumberland, Cumberland, York, Franklin were places we first find evidence of our Feltenberger and related families.
Michale Feltenberger was a soldier in the Revolutionary War from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and in 1784 is found on Taxpayers Lists in Franklin County, Pa. We find the family on 1790 and 1800 census is Hamilton Township.
1790 shows:
Michael Feltenberger • 1 male over 16 4 males under 16 (John, Jacob, Samuel, unnamed Boy) 3 females (Elizabeth, Anna C., unnamed girl)
1800 census, Franklin Co. Hamilton Twp.
Mich'l Feltenberger • 1 male under 10 3 males 10/16 1 male 26/46 • 1 female under 10 1 female 16/26 1 female 26/45
next dwelling: John Feltenberger - 1 male 16/26 - 1 female 16/26
These are the only Feltenberger families in Franklin Co. Pa.
No Wills or Estate Papers are found there.
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