Person:John Kern (12)

Will Extract of John Kern

John Kern’s will (Northampton Will Book 4, page 189), which was signed 05 October 1804 and proved 14 November 1804, mentions wife Margaret, children Margaret, John, Catherine, Susana, George, Maria, Jacob and Daniel, and children of daughter Elizabeth late the wife of John Rurick.

Information on John Kern

John Kern, fifth son of Nicholas, the first, acquired 226 acres of his father's tract by release in 1770. He was assessed in 1762, 13 pounds; 1763, four pounds; 1864 three on 200 acres; in 1768 on thirty acres of cultivated and 200 of uncultivated land, two horses and two cows. He and his wife, Annie Margaret, had the following children: Annie Catharine, born January 22, 1771; Susanna Margaret, born Feb. 28, 1773; George Kern, born June 6, 1774, married in 1802, Elizabeth Sensinger and had two sons: John George, born in 1807; and Conrad, born June 2, 1808; and Daniel, who moved to Indiana in 1839." - [From: Anniversary History Of Lehigh County, Vol. II, Copyright 1914]

John Kern’s known children, possibly the first two with his first wife, the rest or all with Margaretha Arner, born in Whitehall: Margaretha Kern; John Kern; Anna Catharina Kern, born 22 January and christened 21 April 1771 (Sponsors: William Kern and Anna Catherine Arner)(3); Susanna Margaret Kern, born 28 February and christened 04 April 1773 (Sponsors: John Jacob Arner and Anna Margaret Kern [above])(3); Johann Georg Kern, born 05 June 1774(E) and christened 17 July 1775 (recorded at Chestnuthill Reformed Church in Lower Milford, Northampton (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania), died 27 April 1850, married 06 June 1802 to Maria Elizabeth Sensinger(E) who was born 03 September 1783; Elizabetha Kern, died by 1804, married to John Rehrig; Maria Kern; Jacob Kern, born 28 April and christened 02 June 1782 (Sponsors: Jacob Burger and Susanna)(3), died December 1804, married Maria ______; Daniel Kern, born 02 August and christened 17 October 1784 (Sponsors: Daniel Reber and Elizabeth Beninger)(3), married Margaret _____, moved to Indiana in 1839

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