Person:Bernhardt Follweiler (1)

Source:Berks of old : the history and genealogy of Berks County, Pennsylvania, vol. 2, No. 4, Feb. 1985, Will Abstracts, Berks County, Will Book 1 gives the following will which appears to be Bernhardt's father:

CASPAR FOLLWIELER of Reading Town. "The will being in the German language can not be recorded." Translation located in Book Z, page 40. Wife: Anna Maria. Children: Heinrich (eldest), Anna Maria HOLDER, Johannes, and Berhard. Stepson: William Will, and William's widow and children (not named).

"Roll of Ancestors of PA Society of the Sons of the Revolution" lists the following service during the Revolutionary War in the Northampton Co. militia:

• 1778 private, 1st co., 3rd batt.
• 1780 private, 1st co., 6th batt.

Source:History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a genealogical and biographical record of its families, p. 1832: Bernhardt Follweiler was on building committee and one of founders of Jacob's Church at Jacksonville.

1.   First Swiss Settlements in America, in Lehigh County Historical Society (Allentown, Pennsylvania). Proceedings of the Lehigh County Historical Society. (Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Society)
   7:13.

   Lists Bernhardt Follweiler's immigration from Switzerland as 1740.

2.   Roberts, Charles R. (Charles Rhoads). History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a genealogical and biographical record of its families. (Allentown, Pennsylvania: Lehigh Valley Pub. Co., c1914)
   2:373.

   Bernhardt Follweiler came from Switzerland before 1750.

3. ↑ Ancestors of PA Sons of Revolution gives the death of Bernhardt Follweiler as August 1791. Suggesting this might be valid, he appears in the 1790 US Census, but not on tax lists of 1798.