Person:Peter Finck (15)

In 1914 a published history on Lehigh County, Pennsylvania mentioned Maria E. Fink: "The first of the Fink family were Peter Fink and Daniel Fink, who arrived at Philadelphia on the Ship Patience on September 19, 1749, and Michael Fink, who arrived on the Ship Janet on October 7, 1751. Peter Fink settled in Upper Milford township, where his name occurs in the tax list of 1762. Michael Fink settled in Salisbury township and in 1764 was taxed three pounds on 190 acres of land in that township. Michael Fink had a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1767. He died prior to 1782. In 1785 his widow was taxed upon 188 acres of land in Salisbury township. She died November 18, 1794, aged 58 years, 2 months and 28 days. Peter Fink and his wife, Anna Maria, had children: John Jacob, born in 1767; Maria E., born June 12, 1779; John, born November 3, 1786; Michael, born May 30, 1788; Solomon, born May 25, 1792, and Lydia, born Mary 12, 1794. In 1788 Peter Fink was taxed in Salisbury township on 150 acres of land. Jacob Fink was born in 1767 and in 1785 his name appears in the tax list as a single man in Allentown. He was a blue dyer by trade and had a factory and machines to make woolen goods. He owned what was later known as the Gabriel Woolen Mills, located on the Little Lehigh, at the foot of Water Street. He was a good businessman, reliable and punctual. He was a member of the Reformed Church and in politics was an old time Whig. He married Catharine Miller and had eight children: Joshua, born December 13, 1807; settled in Illinois, where he died. He was in the woolen business and had a large family; Jacob, born December 10, 1818; Marianna, born October 21, 1809. She married Alexander Miller, a printer of Allentown; Reuben, who settled in Lycoming county and was also in the woolen business; Sarah, wife of Thomas Mast of near Bethelem; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Wise, a tailor; Mrs. John Albright, and Edwin, a soldier in the Civil War, who was killed in the Red River Expedition. Jacob Fink and his wife are buried in the Allentown Cemetery." [The chapter contains information about many more members of the Fink family.].15

1. ↑ GenForum - Message board posting. (World wide web)
   http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?hannah::fink::207.html.
2. ↑ BCaretti. Caretti Family Tree 1. (ancestry.com).
3. ↑ GenForum - Message board posting. (World wide web).