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Topic: Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

	Our Family
		Catherine SIEGFRIED was born in 1719 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
		SIEGFRIED was born in 1723 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
		Magdalena SIEGFRIED was born in 1720 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
	members.tripod.com /Braselton/d112.htm (671 words)

	Berks County-Pennsylvania Dutch History, Genealogy and Culture
		Berks County undoubtedly profited from the overall attractiveness of the Commonwealth, for it is noteworthy that William Penn found it attractive for settlement.
		Counties in Pennsylvania are clasified on the basis of population for purposes of legislation and regulation of their affairs.
		Berks County became a third-class county on January 1, 1952, after the United States Census showed the County to have a population in excess of 250,000.
	www.horseshoe.cc /pennadutch/places/pennsylvania/berksco/berks.htm (10123 words)

	History of Berks County, Pennsylvania
		The county lies in the lower central portion of the North Temperate zone between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and is intersected by 76 degrees west longitude.
		Berks County patriots were in the battles of Saratoga and Trenton where many of the Hessians were captured.
		Berks soldiers were sent to Camp Meade and other training camps and soon found themselves on the rosters of the great armies of France and Belgium.
	www.timevoyagers.com /bookstore/penna/berkshist.htm (4881 words)

	Berks County, Pennsylvania
		Berks County is an urban area of 373,638 persons (2000 Census), situated in southeastern Pennsylvania.
		The county seat, which is the city of Reading, is 56 miles northwest of Philadelphia and the heart of the Delaware Valley region, which is one of the leading industrial and trade complexes in the nation.
		Schuylkill County borders the County on the north, on the west by Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, on the east by Lehigh County, and on the south by Chester and Montgomery Counties.
	www.livingplaces.com /PA/Berks_County.html (995 words)

	Richmond township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) Detailed Profile
		Back to: Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA), All US cities.
		70% of Richmond township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
		Housing units in Richmond township with a mortgage: 506 (23 second mortgage, 102 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
	www.city-data.com /township/Richmond-Berks-PA.html (468 words)

	Historical Society of Berks County - Historical Review of Berks County
		A builder of churches and schools, Weiser was the founder of Reading and Berks County and has been named Man of the Year in 2002, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Berks County.
		After 1740, when Lancaster County was erected and encompassed lands west of the Schuylkill River, those residents in the townships of Cumru, Bethel, Brecknock, Heidelberg and Tulpehocken traveled south to the county seat in Lancaster for court matters and farmers markets.
		As portions were carved from three counties, surveyors were appointed to mark the bounds: Nicholas Scull from Philadelphia County, Benjamin Lightfoot of Chester County, and Thomas Cookson from Lancaster County.
	www.berkshistory.org /articles/berks1752.html (2262 words)

	Berks County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berks County is part of the Reading, PA metropolitan statistical area and as of 2005, is also considered part of the Philadelphia combined statistical area.
		Historically there was a large Pennsylvania Dutch population and it is known as a part of Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
		Under Pennsylvania law, there are four types of incorporated municipalities: cities, boroughs, townships, and, in at most two cases, towns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berks_County,_Pennsylvania (683 words)

	The life of
		In 1808 he was sent to organize a new circuit in York County, Pennsylvania but owing to an indiscretion he was obliged to retire from the work.
		Jacob Fry was in the 1830 Census of Sandusky County, Ohio.
		In Pennsylvania, A. Frey was assigned the Somerset circuit.
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	Research Tools, Tips and Tricks
		The archives for all the county and state pages are all on one server so it is easy to navigate from one to the other if you enter from any point.
		If we have data that is specific to a township, town or burough, then inside the county folder, we would create a new folder for that division and place the data there if we have enough data on that division to warrant a seperate folder.
		If the township or county is not known, then save the data in the lowest applicable folder that is known.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com /~mysong/tips.htm (17106 words)

	Berks County 1800 Septennial Census Slave Data (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most county enumerators listed only those slaves born before March 1780, they being considered "Slaves for Life." Children of slaves born after that date were to be freed upon their 28th birthday, according to the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780.
		Many of the Berks County townships included slaves under 20 years old, which was unusual as most townships in most counties excluded those slaves because their status was considered to be that of an indentured servant rather than a slave.
		Oldest slaves enumerated: Sam beau, a male slave in Heidelberg Township, and Robert, a male slave held by George Ege in Tulpehocken Township.
	www.afrolumens.org /slavery/ber1800.html (356 words)

	Available Now...Berks County Warrantee Atlas
		A number of Township Warrantee Maps of Berks County were platted by the state from the original warrants and surveys in the 1950s.
		All map images shown in the atlas had to be reduced to fit the pages of the book, but the full-size images (some of which are up to 6 feet in width) are available on a companion CD.
		Berks County Genealogical Society resources: For Articles regarding early residents and history of Berks County, see the Historical Society of Berks County site.
	ancestortracks.com /berks_blurb.html (476 words)

	BerksWeb's Berks County Tax Page
		In Pennsylvania there is a 3.1% income tax levied on earned and unearned income.
		In Berks County Pennsylvania there is a 1% income tax levied on earned income.
		In Berks County Pennsylvania the real estate taxes are based on 100% of the assessed value of the property.
	berksweb.com /taxes (206 words)

	Michael Rugh Sr. of Alsace & Pennsylvania
		Michael and his parents are known to have settled in Whitehall Township which was once part of Bucks, then Northampton,and now present-day Lehigh County Pennsylvania.
		Michael was one of five individuals then chosen by the Governor of Pennsylvania to "purchase and take assurance" land for the creation of yet another county town.
		He appeared on a 1789 county tax listing for Hempfield Township and is in the nations first official census of 1790 as the head of his household within Hempfield.
	home.earthlink.net /~pknox/mich-sr.html (721 words)

	Molltown, PA And The Moll Family of Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
		Richmond Township had accepted the Public School Act in 1854, while the parish school, connected with St. Peter's, served as a community school from a much earlier date.
		Michael Moll was born in the vicinity of Upper Hanover Township and was baptized at New Goshenhoppen reformed church in 1744.
		At the time that Claus was negotiating (1809) for Richmond Bower, Johan Moll and his father, Michael, owned the adjacent land, where the village of Molltown was to later spring up.
	www.angelfire.com /pa5/mollpa/molltown2.html (1812 words)

	Richmond, Pennsylvania PA, township profile (Crawford County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Pennsylvania > All counties > Crawford County > Richmond
		Richmond is a township in Crawford County, in the Meadville metro area.
		· Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=276466 (692 words)

	Berks County - OrlandoSentinel.com
		A post office in a small town in Berks County that made big headlines in May when an employee alerted authorities to a scratching noise inside a box that led to the discovery of gigantic Asian beetles will be in the spotlight again.
		A 31-year-old central Pennsylvania man was arraigned this afternoon on charges of robbing the PNC Bank in Lower Macungie on Friday the 13th earlier this month.
		Reading-area mortgage broker Wesley A. Snyder, who pleaded guilty to defrauding hundreds of Pennsylvania families of millions in life savings, is asking a federal court for leniency, saying that a significant jail term would be ''tantamount to a life...
	www.orlandosentinel.com /topic/us/pennsylvania/berks-county-PLGEO100101002000000.topic (577 words)

	petercastner - pafg01.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Peter Ruch alone was sponsor 1 Apr 1783, in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, of the baptism by Baltzer Meyer of Peter and Magdalena's daughter, Christina.
		Mary Magdalena Castner was born on 20 Mar 1780 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
		William was born on 10 Jan 1775 in Pennsylvania.
	my.execpc.com /~slc/petercastner/pafg01.htm (962 words)

	Berks County Warrantee Atlas
		The newest volume of county atlases in the "Early Landowners of PA" series, this Berks County atlas contains all of the Township Warrantee Maps which are on file at the Pennsylvania Archives in Harrisburg, thus pinpointing the location of the earliest landowners.
		The maps show precise outlines in metes and bounds of each original tract and all surrounding tracts in the township, giving the names of the warrantee and patentee; dates of the warrant, survey, and patent; and the patent and survey books and page of the recorded patent.
		We are also posting images from Map of Berks County from Actual Surveys published by H.S. Bridgens in 1860 which can be used in conjunction with the 1860 census to help pinpoint your ancestors.
	ancestortracks.com /Berks_Co_blurb.html (544 words)

	Westmoreland County ,PA Migration
		Upon arrival in Westmoreland County, Peter purchased from Ralph Nailor a 250 acre Proprietary government land grant known as Urania, which today is the south side of Greensburg, extending south along and either side of present US 119.
		Philip Hoff was born in Germany in 1762 and died in Wayne County, Milton Twp., Ohio in 1844.
		Berks Co. PA of about 14 children who were still living at the time of Johannes Shirey's death around the year 1787.
	www.mcn.org /2/noel/Westmoreland/Migration.htm (6438 words)

	Our Family
		Anna Margaret ROTHERMEL was born on 28 Jan 1745 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
		Barbara ROTHERMEL was born on 4 Jan 1755 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
		Daniel H ROTHERMEL was born on 21 Mar 1741 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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	Berks County Pennsylvania History and Genealogy
		Reading developed during the 1740s and the northern inhabitants of Lancaster County sent several petitions requesting that a separate county be established.
		With the help of Conrad Weiser, the county was formed on March 11, 1752 from parts of Chester County, Lancaster County, and Philadelphia County and named after William Penn's family home of Berkshire, England.
		The northwestern parts of the county went to the founding of Northumberland County in 1772 and Schuylkill County in 1811, when it reached its current size.
	genealogytrails.com /penn/berks (195 words)

	Press: The Attorney General's Press Office - Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
		According to the Attorney General's lawsuit, the Richmond Township Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance in August 2000 to define and regulate "intensive agriculture," placing a series of restrictions on mushroom, poultry and livestock production.
		According to the Attorney General's lawsuit, the Locust Township Board of Supervisors amended the township's zoning ordinance in August 2001 to define and regulate "intensive animal agriculture," placing a series of restrictions on the housing, raising, feeding, production and maintenance of livestock or poultry.
		According to the Attorney General's lawsuit, Heidelberg Township, North Heidelberg Township, Robesonia Borough and Womelsdorf Borough adopted a joint zoning ordinance in January 2004 to define and regulate the "intensive raising of livestock or poultry," placing a series of restrictions on the raising and keeping of livestock and poultry.
	www.attorneygeneral.gov /press.aspx?id=1339 (817 words)

	FR Doc E6-6124
		While this represents an increase in allocation to the Richland Township Water Authority, it does not represent an increase in withdrawals from the watershed since both the Melody Lakes project allocation and the existing Richland Township Water Authority allocation are located in the Tohickon Creek Watershed.
		An application to expand the applicant's existing IWTP from 0.35 mgd to 0.95 mgd and to increase the discharge to Swiftwater Creek from 0.35 mgd to 0.55 mgd.
		The application is for a discharge of 0.55 mgd to Swiftwater Creek, a tributary to the Brodhead Creek.
	edocket.access.gpo.gov /2006/E6-6124.htm (1979 words)

	The Paper Trail
		Raynham in The County of Bristol in New England
		To the Sheriff of Baltimore County, State of Maryland, to arrest David DeForest, to answer to Daniel James, Administrator of estate of Harden Keys for trespass.
		To the Sheriff of Baltimore County, State of Maryland, to arrest David Wilson to answer to Alexander Mitchell for trespass.
	paper-trail.blogspot.com (539 words)

	Securing Berks - Reading Eagle Newspaper
		Berks County, PA - With its Mennonite farms and horse-and-buggy traffic, bucolic Richmond Township appears to be an unlikely target for terrorists.
		Municipalities and emergency response organizations apply directly to the department for most of those grants, though the Berks EMA accepts requests for two of the programs, then passes them along to the regional panel and eventually the state for approval.
		In Berks, homeland security grants have been used to buy equipment used regularly by emergency responders — from breathing devices for firefighters to laptop computers for police cars, and even a $185,000 robot meant to be used by the Reading Police Bomb Squad to handle potentially explosive devices throughout the county.
	www.readingeagle.com /article.aspx?id=38621 (1056 words)

	BerksWeb's Berks County Tax Page
		In Pennsylvania there is a 3.07% income tax levied on earned and unearned income.
		In Berks County Pennsylvania there is a 1% income tax levied on earned income.
		In Berks County Pennsylvania the real estate taxes are based on 100% of the assessed value of the property.
	www.berksweb.com /taxes (194 words)

	Preserved farmland hits milestone in Berks - Reading Eagle Newspaper
		Berks County, PA - Benjamin Scheffler said Friday morning that one of his proudest moments was when he made his first $2,000 selling eggs in 1977.
		Berks, which started preserving farmland in 1990, ranks second in the state and third in the nation in farmland preservation.
		With 72,831 acres preserved, Lancaster County is first in the state and the nation.
	www.readingeagle.com /article.aspx?id=64640 (573 words)

	Christian Ruch/Rugh - son of Michael Ruch/Rugh Sr.
		He was born in Moselem Springs, Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania on December 30, 1748.
		His parents are indicated in the record as "Michael Ruch and Francina nee Merklin".
		He and his possible descendants may well have retained "Ruch" rather than converting to the variation "Rugh" as did his brothers later in Westmoreland County.
	home.earthlink.net /~pknox/christan.html (99 words)

	Pennsylvania History & Genealogy Blog
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	Donna's Berks County Genealogy Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oath of allegiance 1778 in Northern Berks County
		In the 1850-1860 schedules, slave owners are listed along with the age, sex, and color of each slave but not the name.
		From 1850-1900, the schedules include the name, age and state, territory or county of birth of each free person in the household.
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