Person:John Mickley (1)

Among the German settlers in Bedminster near the close of the last century, was John Peter Mickley, son of John Jacob, who landed at Philadelphia, 1733, and settled in White Hall township, then in Bucks county, now in Lehigh county, and a descendant of a Huguenot ancestor driven from France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. John Peter Mickley came to Bedminster, 1784, and had a family of ten children, eight daughters and two sons. The daughters were long-lived, one dying at 92, another at 90, two at 81, one at 89, and one other at 79. There are but few, if any, Mickleys living in the county, the last male member of the Bedminster family being Josiah Mickley, sometime deceased. He left one daughter who married Dr. William Nicholas, a veterinary surgeon of Bedminster. She is also deceased, leaving one child. The history of the Mickley family is authority for our saying that John Jacob Mickley drove the team that conveyed the old Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Bethlehem prior to the British troops occupying that city, 1777. John and Eva were married by Rev Abraham Blumer, Lehigh Co, PA

October 8, 1763, Peter age 11, was chestnutting with his brother, Henry, age 9, and his sister, Barbara, age 7, on Laurel Hill near Spring Mill in Lehigh County, when they were attacked by Indians. Peter narrowly escapted by hiding between two trees in the woods, but Henry and Barbara were both scalped.

He was in the military service against the Indians and served throughout the Revolutionary War as a fifer. He was in the battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777. John Peter married Eva Keck of Bucks County at the close of the war and about 1784 settled in Bedminster Township. They had two sons and eight daughters.

He settled in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania about the year 1784

1. ↑ John Peter Mickley, in Find A Grave.