Person:Christian Rinker (1)

Bucks County, PA founded 1682 Northampton County, PA formed 1752 from Bucks County

1753-PA Gazette 1748-1755, Abstracts 1753, pg 254; Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600s-1800s: Elected for Northampton Co. - representative, William Parsons; Sheriffs, Jacob Bachman, Nicholas Scull; coroners, Joseph Scull, John Traxler; commissioner, Christian Rinker; assessors, John Walker, Frederick Shull, George Rex, George Custard, Joseph Everhart, Robert Lisle (4 Oct.)

1755- First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware; The First German Settlers, pg 7; Pennsylvania Biographies and Genealogies, 1600s-1800s: .....Of these bibles, one is still in the possession of the "First Reformed Church of Easton." And as for the schools - it is recorded that, in order to make effectual Easton's portion of the Schlatter School Fund, on the 31st day of July, 1755, the following "do hereby engage and agree to and with William Parsons, James Martin, Peter Trexler, Esqr., John Lefebre, Lewis Gordon and Peter Kichline, deputy trustees, mentioned and appointed by the trustees general of the said charitable scheme, that each of us will pay the sum of money, and do and perform the work, labor, and service, in building and erecting a school-house, which may occasionally be made use of as a Church for any Protestant Minister, to our names hereunto respectively set down and affixed" - "William Smith, in behalf of the Proprietor and Trustees - £30; William Parsons, £5; Nicolas Scull, £3; Nathaniel Vernon, £3; Peter Kichline, £3; Christian Rinker, £1; Jacob Bachman, £1; Jacob Miner, £1; Adam Yobe, £1; Lewis Knaus, 10s; Lewis Kotz, 10s; Henry Becker, 7s; George Michael Schurtz, 15s; John Levitz, 15s; Anthony Esser, 15s; George Reichart, 15s; John Wagle (Nagle?) £1; George Ernest Becker, £1; John Rinker, 10s; N. N. 7s; Daniel Gies, 5s; Jeremiah C. Russell, £1; Paul Miller, £1.5s; John Fricker, £1.6s; Meyer Hart, 20 lb. nails; Paul Reeser, 1,000 shingles; Jacob Minor 12 days work; Stephen Horn, 1 week's work; Henry Alshouse, 5 days work; John Finley, 6 days work; John Nicholas Reeder, 6 days work; Bartholomew Hoffman, 5 days mason's work; Robert Miller, 4 days work; John Henry Bush, 5 days carpenters work; Jacob Krotz, 5 days carpenters work; James Fuller, 5 days stone digging; John Chapman, 3 days cutting stone; Henry Rinker, 30 bushels lime; Henry Bush and John Weidman, 30 wagons stone and digging; Thomas Harris, 50 sash lights.".....

1766-18 Mar 1766 Christian Rinker Petitions for a tavern in Easton, PA taken from: Miscellaneous manuscript records of Northampton Co., PA, 1727-1851; FHL US/CAN Film (21680 Item 1) To The Honourable Justies of the Peace/holding a court of Quarter Sessions at Eston for the/County fo Northampton the 18th day of March Anno/Domine 1766/The Petition of Christian Rinker of upper/Saucon in the said County Humble hereweth/That your Petionioner intents to move Next April to Allen/Town to the ferry, on a road leading from Easton to Reding/& from Bethlehem to Allens Town, which his house will/then be a convenient Stage for Travellers on the said/Ferry & roads, Who often repair thither for Enter/tainment, Which your Petitioner Will then find much/Expencive & disadvantageous to him, Not having Licence/to keep Publick Entertainment & your Petitioner has/A family to Maintain & is Not Able to do any Business/or Work either on Plantation or elsewhere to Maintain/his said Family,.....Therefore the Humble/Request of your Petiontioner is that your Honours Would/be pleased, to Grant him a Recommendation to the/Honourable governor in order to his obtaining a licence/To Sell Liquor & other accommodations to Travellers by/Retail.....And We the Subcribers begg Leave to/Recommend the said Petitioner Christian Rinker/to the Court as a fit person & Commodiously Situated/for the purpose Above Mentioned./And your Petitioner shall as in Duty bound Pray/Christian Rinker

I find a Christian Rinker in the 1800 census - Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Milford Township. I would judge our Christian Rinker to have been born about 1700, if his son John was born in 1724. Therefore, in 1800 our Christian would be 100 years old - I think this is not our Christian Rinker in this census and I assume that he was probably dead by the 1790 census.