Person:Johann Joerger (1)

Johan Isaac Klein from Berks Co. was naturalized on 9 Jan 1729/30 (as was George Järger), according to the book 30,000 Names etc, on page 435.

"A Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French Immigrants in Pennsylvania From 1727 to 1776..." by I. Daniel Rupp, Leary, Stuart Co., Philadalphia, 1927, lists the two as "Johan Isaac Klein" and "Georg Jäger" on page 435. [NOTE: not Järger as shown above.]

Johann Geo Jorger 1732 PA Foreigner who took the oath of Allegiance of Pennsylvania

From Pennsylvania In American History by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, 1910. (digitized online as a PDF at Google.com "books" site)

An article called The Dutch Patroons of Pennsylvania starting on p. 226 has on p. 243 a description of some Indian conflicts in the spring of 1728.

On 29 April 1728 a communication and petition was sent to the Governor of Philadelphia by a number of people living on, what was then the frontier, informing him of the troubles. A few days later there was a confrontation with several Indians which resulted in several injuries from gunfire. "It was widely reported that there was a general uprising of the savages, that this band was only the advance guard of the host with which the forests were filled, and that already several of the German settlers at Tulpehocken and elsewhere had been killed."

On the 10th of May inhabitants of "Van Bebbers Township and ye Adjacencies Belongs" petitioned the governor. The region of the petitioners appears to have been northwest of Philidelphia in what is now Montgomery county.

"We think it fit to address your Excellency for Relief for your Excellency must know that we have suffered and is like to sufer by the Ingians they have fell upon ye back inhabitors about falkner's Swamp & New Coshahopin. Therefore we the humble petitioners with our poor wives and children do humbly beg of your Excellency to take it into consideration and relieve us the petitioners hereof whos lives lies at stake with us and our poor wives and children that is more to us than life."

Seventy-seven names were attached although the writer is supposed to have supplied forty-four of them. The 12th name is George Poger and the 18th is John Isaac Klein. The author surmises that this is probably a fairly complete list of the residents at that time. I (EWH) recognize many names as being just that. However I have never come across a "Poger" surname. I wonder if this could be "Jorger" or "Jarger" mostly because of the association with John Isaac Klein.

In any case, the governor supplied mostly only moral support. He did journey to the area and found the settlers "gathered together at a mill near New Hanover township in order to defend themselves." One of the mills in the vicinity was reported to be the "Yelger Mill." "Yelger" is another surname with which I am not familiar. Perhaps this was a "Yerger Mill?"

The author reports that the band of Indians were reported to be "Shawanese" and that altogether five of the settlers and several of the Indians had been wounded more or less seriously, but notwithstanding the wild rumors, none were killed. It is interesting as the only engagement with the savages which ever occurred in the vicinity of Philadelphia."

From this account 182 years after the fact one might conclude that the Yarger family did not lose members to an Indian fight unless it was further from Philadelphia. Whether the eventual site of Reading is sufficient to qualify as not "in the vicinity of Philadelphia" is not clear to me.

From other documents of this time period it appears that Hans George Jarger and John Isaac Klein were inhabitants of the area at this time. These two appear to be 6G Grandfathers of ours. This is one of the earliest (1729) accounts to mention them.

Frederic Stoner and Debora Op de Graf, servants of Mr. Brooks in New Hanover, who had previously trangressed the 6th commandmant, were married in the presence of Mr. George Jüeger, Andreas Kebner, Jüg Beck, Heinrich Krebs and Mr. Brooks. Recorded in the records of the Augustus Evangelical Luthern Church, Trappe, Montgomery Co., PA.

(The entry is between entries dated 20 Dec 1753 and 10 Jan 1754. Johann George Jörger (the immigrant) is the only George Jörger in the area at this time known to me. - EWH)

From J. J. Kline's "A History of The Lutheran Church in New Hanover, Montgomery County, Penna." 1910 and the baptism records therein:

Johannes Jörger b. 14 Jan 1755 bap. 4 Feb 1755 to Johannes and Sibilla sp. by Joh, Nicholas Miller and wife Johann George Joerger b. 23 Jun 1758 bap 23 Jul 1758 to Johannes and Sibilla sp. by George Ioerger and Elisabeth

i.e., George and Elisabeth sponsored their grandson Johann George Joerger at his baptism.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Judy Hull. Re: George Yerger/Yarger.
2. ↑ Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance of Pennsylvania. (Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co.).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Clinton Yeager. Re: Yeager question.
4. ↑ Georg Jörger.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Samuel W. Pennypacker. Hendrick Pannebecker. (Philadelphia, PA).
6. ↑ Scott McKently <[email protected]>. Re: Yerger family.
7. ↑ Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker. Pennsylvania in American History. (William J. Campbell).
8. ↑ Daniel Wunderlich Nead. THe Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryland. (Lancaster, PA).
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3} The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801. (Clarence M. Busch, State printer of Pennsylvania, 1897).
10.   Judith Hull. Three Generations of Johns (Johannes).
11.   Charlotte Meldrum. Marriage and Deaths of Montgomery County Pennsylvania 1685-1800. (Willow Bend Books, Westminster, MD).
12.   George Jörger Will 5 May 1769.
13. ↑ perhaps if George Poger is he.
14. ↑ name listed as George Jager
15. ↑ name listed as Hans George Jarger
16. ↑ George Yerger certified to origin of land under the Falkner's Sw