Person:Josiah Weydemeyer (1)

!IGI: !Batch #: 452087, Source Call #: Data downloaded from IGI, 1993 edition: 29 Sep 1993.

!ADM LTRS: Be it remembered that on the 15th day of September AD, 1868, Letters of Administraton to the Estate of Josiah Weidemeyer late of the Township of Bedminster deceased, were in due form of law granted unto Samuel Weidemyer [4 words illegible] according to law and having been duly sworn that as the Administrator of the estate of the said Josiah Weidemyer deceased [1 word illegible] well and truly administer the goods and chattels, rights and credits of said deceased, according to law, and also will diligently and faithfully regard and well and truly comply with the provisions of the law relating to Collateral Inheritance and the estate will not exceed $1000.

   [deputy register's signature illegible.] 

Know all Men by these Presents, that we: Samuel Weidemyer, John A. Loux. Samuel Atherholt are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the sum of $300. Lawful Silver Money of the United States of America, to be paid to the said Commonwealth for the use thereof to the which payment well and truly to be made. We bind ourselves for and in the whole [7 words illegible] and Administrators [11 words illegible] dated the fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight. The condition of this obligation is, that if the above bouden Samuel Weidemyer, Administrator of all and singular, goods, chattels and credits of Josiah Weidemyer late of the Township of Bedminster deceased [3 words illegible] to make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and [1 word illegible] of the said deceased, which have come or shall come to the hands possesion or knowledge of the said Samuel Weidemyer [other names illegible - probably John A. Loux and Samuel Atherholt]. [Rest of page mostly illegible]

   /s/ by the Deputy Register, name illegible 
       Samuel Weidemyer 
       John A. Loux 
       Samuel Atherholt 

Source: ADM BOOK 12, page 69; copies received from Bucks Co. Courthouse, Doylestown, PA 30 Oct. 1993.

!CENSUS: 1850 Census, Bedminster twp., Bucks Co. PA; page 253; dated 16/17 Aug. 1850. 205 222 Samuel Weidemeyer, age 39, blacksmith, real estate=1272, born PA.

         Susanna                23                                      PA. 
         Jonas                  10*                                     PA. 
         Anna Leah               8*                                     PA. 
         Josiah                  4*                                     PA. 
         Mack Worthington       20, blacksmith                          PA. 
         Henry Pratt (?)        18, laborer                             PA. 
         Maria Heely (?)        17                                      PA. 
 *attended school within the year. 

1860 Census, Bedminster Twp., Post office = Bedminster; Bucks Co., PA; page 53, dated 29 June 1860. 378 418 Samuel Weidenmyer, age 52, farmer, widower, real estate 5000,

                                    personal estate 1000, born PA. 
         Jonas              age 21, farm laborer, born PA. 
         Anna Leah          age 17, domestic, born PA. 
         Josiah             age 14, attended school within the yr., born PA. 

!BIRTH: DEATH: Josiah Weidemayer born March 21, 1846 died July 13, 1868. Source: High German Evang. Reformed Congregation, Tinicum Twp., Bucks, PA; SLC Film 1294883, item 12, page 203.

!BIRTH: DEATH: BURIED: Josiah Weidemeyer born 21 Mar. 1846, died 13 July 1868; aged 22-3-23; typhoid fever; Tinicum; Text: Psalm 89:47; English service; $5.00. Source: Nockamixon Reformed Church; births/deaths; 1859/1892. SLC Film 1294883, item 6.

!BIRTH: DEATH: Single. Source: "A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Stauffer and Other Stauffer Pioneers", by Rev. A. J. Fretz, Milton, NJ; published by The Harleysville News, Harleysville, PA, 1899.