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Revolutionary War soldier, PA Militia: PA Archives, 5th Series, Vol 8, p. 234 (1778) & p. 449 (Oct 26, 1780), [Third Battalion, Fifth Company, Fourth Class, Northampton Co. Militia]; p. 496 (May 25, 1782), Third Class, Sixth Battallion, Northampton Co. Militia.; Vol. 4, p. 658 (Rangers on the Frontier); 3rd Series, Vol 23, p 295,;
On 1762 tax list for Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co..
Warrantee for 55 acres, Jan. 30 1769; 77 acres, Apr. 24, 1775.
On 1781 tax list for Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co..
Kids in will from eldest: Maria, Katherine, George, Rudolph, Jacob & Joseph.
Arr. Ship Phoenix, Sept. 25, 1751, Philadelphia.
Warrenties of Land in the Several Counties of PA 1730-1788, William H. Egle, ed., 1899: Northampton Co., Christ'n Langenuhr, 25 acres, Feb. 14, 1754 (p. 116); Christian Lauchener, 50 acres, April 24, 1775 (p. 117).
History of Lehigh Co., Charles R. Roberts, et. al., 1914,
p.718: Warrenties of Land in Heidelberg Twp.: Christian Lanahner, 77 acres, April 24, 1775; Christian Langenohr, 55 acres, Jan. 30, 1769; p. 719, Tax List, 1762: Christian Lauchenohr, 6;
p. 725, "The Indian massacres, which from 1755 to 1758 devastated all the settlements across the Lehigh, at Gnadenh"utten (now Lehighton) and in Lynn, both on the right and left of the Heidelberg settlement, passed by this congregation almost without leaving a trace. Scarcely a single murder took place. Nevertheless the members were prepared to render each other prompt assistance. Fathers Longenour, Kemmerer, and others went to Gnadenh"utten and assisted in burying the murdered...";
p. 730, "Powder Mill--On property in the township, near the eastern line, which was included with the furnace, now owned by Henry Blose, a man by the name of Babb carried on the manufacture of powder during and before the time of the rifle-barrel factory. Two Indians were killed in the vicinity of this mill, not far from where the Kemmerer school-building is now situated, one by Christian Lauchner (grandfather of David, who is now 82 years old and resides in the northern-most dwelling of the township)."
SAR yearbook gives birth date as 1714.
History of the Lehigh Valley, Past and Present, Charles R. Roberts, ed., 1943, p.551: " Christian Lauchnor, born about 1740, died 1799, was here in 1762. His children were: Rudolph, married Christina Gable; Jacob, Georg Peter, Mrs. Mary Kitsch, Mrs. Catharine Siegman; and Joseph, born 1787, died 1866, married Mary Handwerk."
Listed as Christian Laufner in OneWorldTree at Ancestry.Com
Source: Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. I: 1727-1775, by Ralph Beaver
Strassburger & William John Hinke, Pennsylvania German Society, 1934.
p. 469-472
[List 173 C] At the Court House at Philadelphia, on Wednesday, the 25th Day
of September 1751.
Present: The Worshipful, the Mayor.
The Foreigners whose names are underwritten, imported in the Ship Phoenix,
Capt. Spurrier, from Rotterdam & Portsmouth, were this day Qualified &
subscribed the Oaths. No 180. Whole freights 412. Messrs. Shoemaker.
Christian (X) Laufanor
The numerous race of the Loughners, one branch of which is represented by Solomon Loughner, of Penn Station, was founded in this country by Christopher Loughner, a native of Germany. His son Rudolph was by occupation a farmer and gunsmith. He bought the Bush Creek Valley farm at Jeannette in 1806, and lived there until his death, which occurred in 1833. The estate consisted of three hundred acres. History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume 3, 1906, p.512-513
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;)
Database online.
Record for Christian Laughner
- ↑ Hollenback, Raymond E. History of Heidelberg Union Church. (Name: 1977;)
229.
Communion List October 19, 1776: 'Christian Lauchenor, and wife Margaretha Lauchenor and sons Georg Peter Lauchenor and Rudolph Lauchenor'.
- ↑ Hollenback, Raymond E. History of Heidelberg Union Church. (Name: 1977;)
233.
Communion list for Mar 3, 1778: "Christian Lauchenor and wife Margaretha"
- ↑ Hollenback, Raymond E. History of Heidelberg Union Church. (Name: 1977;)
233.
Trinity, 1779: 'Christian Lauchenor and wife Margaretha Lauchenor'.
- 1790 United States Federal Census.
Christian Loughenore
[Christian Laughner or Lauchner]
[Christian Soughmone]
Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Heidelberg, Northampton, Pennsylvania
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females: 2
Number of Household Members: 5
- National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.
Name: Christain Laughner
[Christian Laughner]
SAR Membership: 49355
Role: Ancestor
Application Date: 27 Nov 1943
Spouse: Margaret Laughner
Children: Rudolph Laughner
- FamilySearch Family Tree.
Christian Wilhelm Lauchnor
1727–1799 • LDB3-1DV
Marriage: 1759
Northampton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
Maria Margaretha Brisch
1743–Deceased • KL6X-6SB
Children of Maria Margaretha Brisch and Christian Wilhelm Lauchnor (9)
Anna Maria Loughner
1759–1796 • K8V6-6RF
Wilhelm Lauchnor
1759–1799 • KHDZ-Z6H
Katharina Sabina Lauchnor
1762–Deceased • 9HLG-WYR
Georg Peter Laughner
1763–1830 • KJPJ-JDY
Rudolph Lauchnor
1763–1833 • KJPJ-N7Q
Christian Lauchnor
1769–1840 • LTR4-J7R
Eva Lauchnor
1780–Deceased • 27SJ-17K
Johan Jacob Lauchnor
1785–1870 • KLJJ-L19
Joseph Lauchnor
1787–1866 • 27SJ-1XD
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDB3-1DV
- Revolutionary record of Christian Laugenour.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORD of
CHRISTIAN LAUGENOUR, alias dictus CHRISTIAN LAUHENOR, alias dictus CHRISTIAN LAUONOHR, alias dictus CHRISTIAN LAUCHNER, alias dictus CHRISTIAN LAUGHNER.
A general class roll of the Sixth Batallion of Northampton County Militia. Commanded by Lt. Col. Henry Geiger, October ye 26th 1780. 5th Company Capt. Reader, Lt. Adam Kunkell.
4th Class. CHRISTIAN LAUCHENOR.
Pa. Archives 5th Ser. Vol. 8 pg. 449.
.A General Muster Roll of the Third Batallion of Northampton County Militia 1778. Col. Michael. 5th Company Capt. Conrad Ritter.
4th Class. CHRISTIAN LAUONOHR.
Pa. Archives §th Ser. Vol. 3 pa. 234.
Muster Roll of Capt. Adam Stahler's Militia Co. in the 3rd Class of the 6th Batallion Northampton County under the Command of Lt. Col. Philip Beam in the service of the U. S. on the Frontiers of said County for two month service. Said Class called to turn out and meed together at John Martin Herters the 25th day of May 1782. May 25 to July 20.
CHRISTIAN LAUCHNER.
Pa, Archives 5th Ser. Vol. 8 pg. 496,
Rangers on the Frontiers 1778-1783. Northampton County, Pa.
CHRISTIAN LAUGHNER.
Pa. Archives 3rd Ser. Vol. 23 pg. 295.
Thanks to Mark Tarby
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/165136944/person/422144066685/media/9807163a-9a19-4587-ad06-86b9448a112a
- En Leenich Graabe, in The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
p.7, 20 Jan 1940.
|Concerning the authenticity of the Indian grave described in the above poem, the author, the Reverend J.J. Reitz, has furnished the editor of the ECK with the following interesting data:
In the History of Lehigh County, Vol. I. p. 730, ‘the historian simply states that “an Indian was killed by Christian Lauchnor not far from where Kemmerer's school-building is now situated in Heidelberg Township.”
Christian Lauchnor, an early settler in Heidelberg Township, came to Philadelphia. Sept. 25, 1751 in the Ship PHOENIX, Capt. John Spurrier (See Pa. Arch, 2nd Series, Vol. XVII, p. 343).
Christian Lauchnor Warrant for Land Northampton Co., (Lehigh was then a part of Northampton Co.) Feb. 14, 1755, 25 acres (Pa. Arch.,3rd Series. Vol. XXVI, p. 116). This was in Heidelberg, where he lived and where he took out other Land Warrants and also purchased from Peter Missimer. 103 a. 140 p., and from others until he had over 300 acres.
The name of Christian Lauchnor is entered in the tax list of Heidelberg Township for 1762, 1772, 1785. 1788. etc. (Pa. Arch. 3rd Series, Vol XIX).
Christian Lauchnor was a soldier in the American Revolution (Pa. Arch. 5th Series, Vol. VIII, p. 449,.96).
Christian Lauchnor made his will March 12, 1796; probated Jan. 14, 1799. (It is in the Easton Courthouse).
Tom Jones (Thomas R. Jones) b. April 17, 1853, a grandson of Joseph Lauchnor. who was the son of Christian Lauchnor, the pioneer settler lives on the old Christian Lauchnor homestead, and he states that in his boyhood days he often heard his grandfather Joseph Lauchnor relate how his father killed the Indian with an ax in self defense while plowing. He also states that he often heard Jacob Lauchnor relate the same story about the Indian. Jacob was another son of Christian and lived on the adjoining farm.
The grave of the Indian is in a field which has been cultivated for the past quarter of a century, but Mr. Jones states he can point out the spot where the Indian is buried, and that the unfertile subsoil thrown up out of the grave still shows. He also states that the Indian lived there at a little creek.
Right near Tom Jones’ farm lived the Hess people who a gun factory, making guns for the patriots of the American Revolution. Mr. Jones says he heard the same tale about the Indian and Christian Lauchnor from the old Hess people.
This incident was often related by the descendants of Christian Lauchnor. It was a family tradition.
The writer is himself related to the Lauchnor folks. His grandmother Margaret Lauchnor married John Philips and lived near New Tripoli. She was a daughter of Jacob Lauchnor, the son of Christian Lauchnor, and was reared only a few hundred yards away from the spot where the Indian was buried. When I was a boy I often listened to the tales about the Indian activities and cruelties which my mother and my grandfather John Philips related. Only yesterday I visited Tom Jones and he showed me again where the Indian is buried, where he lived and where the log house stood, which I myself saw years ago.
---Preston A. Barba, editor [who is NOT related]
- Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania
v.4, p.38, 1939.
His [William Jenkins Loughner] paternal ancestor, Christian Laughner, variously spelled in the Pennsylvania Archives, Laugenour, Lauchner, Leuchner, and Longnor, came to America from Germany in 1751 and settled in Heidelburg Township, Northampton County, which is now a part of Lehigh County. He had four sons: George Peter, Rudolph, Jacob, and Joseph, and by his will, dated March 12, 1796, and probated January 14, 1799, he appointed his wife, Margaret, as executor, and devised the farm of three hundred acres to his two sons, Jacob and Joseph. The other children received bequests of money, but the farm remained in the family even down to the seventh generation and is now occupied by them.
Christian Laughner, the pioneer, and his two sons, George Peter and Rudolph, served in the Northampton County Associators and Militia during the Revolution. Northampton County was the scene of many Indian massacres, and when, in 1755, they burned the Moravian town of Gnaddenhutten, up the Lehigh River, Christian Laughner was one of a company of neighbors who went to Gnaddenhutten to bury the dead.
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