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fEDE JJGBAXON NKW6, LEBANOH, I1STORY OF KREIDER FAMILY FROM PEN OF THE REV. J. G. FRANCIS Scholarly Discourse On One of Oldest and Most Prominent Clans in County- Two Installments in Daily News Will Appear Weekly. Sept.

It, 1736, and went to In Heidelberg township, Jactfb I Coneatoga, Lancaster, the home of Croyder, received a warrant for 100 Jacob, who came to America about acres, May 30, 1749. Martin and his three sons; First of all. perhaps, we had bet- I have came jver on a visit ter identify these people. The trm- ar.d back to Kurope again for dition seems to be practically unani- aught the writer We are mous that two brothers came to our retty sure that none of them ever present Lebanon county. Who can doubt that the John and the Jacob above are The two brothers.

They came to Lebanon county. Smith, the Mennonite historian, sayp that. Jacub Kreidur oamc into received tlieir land warrants on the I the Conestoga settlement about 1715 jsame day for land in the same town- I o- 1717. Certain it that he-wasjship and for pretty nearly the same ja taxable when Conestoga township amounts. was formed in 1718.

It is not un- The tradition is that when' they likely that Martin was a brother of I came up over the South Mountain I Jufob. i to their that they brought an The Pequea colony of Mennonites ax along, nnd cut off the "sprouts" was the first colony of whites to set- as they came through the woods. who a wtrrturt NOT. 1753, and for an- MAT ti, to tie 8d. plan- other 50 aeret May Bishop or Tntet of land Cammerhoff in the winter of 10r in any apertainlnc or passed through the Lebanon Valley on his way to -the Indian settlement at Shamokin (Sunbury).

On the night of January 8th he stopped with withall used, occupied or Reported parcel thereof to bare" aad to heii forerer. which Sd. plantation at (To be continued next Monday) CHARTER NO. 8344. of the suffer! REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE HIGHLAND NATIONAL family).

The bishop in his notes pf BANK, AT RICHLAND, IN THE STATE OF AT tie in Lancaster county. On October 10. 1710. the men or some of the men received a warrant for 10,000 making a sort of path, so they could find their way back and through the primeval forest. the way the German at the bottom signs in his own script.

You see in those clays 'they were not endorsing checks. I wonder if our absolute exactness even in modern business may not sometimes defeat jus- The Kreider Family By REV. J. G. FRANCES.

B.D. When we investigate the history Of our Kreider family, we enter deep into the heart of Lebanon coun- a7 you ty. They must have been a right- Ree jn wriling Gerraan na the eons people, the Kreiders, for the EngUah scrjbe naci lo do tne best he Lord has blessed them and multi- could and oftentimes he did not do plied them exceedingly. We know verv that they honor their fathers, keep green their memories; and their days have been long in the land which the Lord their God gave unto them. In large measure they today occupy the lands in our Valley on which their ancestors first settled.

It is a forth They acres of north of Pequea Creek can)e to the Snitz Creek, and the in what is now Lancaster county. lands they took up extended to I The names of the warrantees are: jUeorge Steitz's out lots of Lebanon, spelled altogether differently fro.n John Rudolph Bundely, Martin Ken- We hare already stated that we dig. Jacob Muller. Hans Graff. Hans Herr; Christian Herr.

Martin Ober- believe that, the Jacob who came to Lebanon township was the Jacob holts, Hans Funk. Michael Ober- 'ho bought land later forming a holtz. and Weyndel Bowman, "Swit- of the southern end of the town xers. lately arrived in the province." of.Lancaster. The Lancaster county Martin Kendig the next year brought 'historian states that all of the old a goodly number of his MenuonSto Pioneer settlers of the Pequea col- brethren.

By 1715 the founders 0 i ir -A name- Jacob Kreider January 9. says: "Dismounted at- Peter Kucher's in Quittapahilla! (Sweet Home, east of Lebanon), and after loading our horses with 'oats for their use at Shamokin. rode on five miles to Henry Zaunders, where we passed the night." Saunders lived near Sporting Hill, his property joining the Long property there, as we have seen. More of Saunder later. The foregoing legal paper makes I very clear who were the children of Jacob Kreider the original settler on Snitz Creek.

Jacob Kreider, the settler, likely died before May 14. 174r. without the land for which he had a-warrant being surveyed to him. for to his widow was surveyed land on the' foregoing date, and other land was purveyed to her, certainly contiguous land, on June 15. pleasure to hearken to the Kreiders tell their family traditions.

But the Kreiders not only liked their ancestors, they liked each other. It seems they thought that nobody was quite, so nice as a Kreider: so they married each other and married each other and married each other. Often you find a Kreider who married a Kreider. His wife died and he married her sister; or if she didn't have a sister to marry he married her cousin. Why, you can find Kreiders with a Kreider for a wife, with a Kreider for a mother, with a Kreider for a grandmother, and perhaps with a great- grandmother; and.

of course, on the male side it was a Kreider back and back and back, till the first one The name Kreider is said to come from the German word Grcit. mean- I settlement, Hnstetter. more, of our Lebanon one of them, had disd by 1750. families had arrived. During the Perhaps the historian was saying next two years were added either "wo than he could prove.

But this from Europe or the G.vmaiitown I Jacob had died before 3750. and his It T- 1 1 THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON MAY 12: 1919: and discounts. Including rediscounts tl40.iM.3t U. other than Liberty but Including S. certificates otf C.

S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par V. S. bonds and of Indebtedness pledged as collateral for State or other deposits or bills payable. War Loan Deposit Account 8,000.09 U.

S. bonds and certificates of indebtedness owned md unpledged 22.500.00 Lou Boada: Liberty IXMII Ponds. and per cent, unpledged etc. (other than U. Securities other than bonds (not Including owned unpledged 70.SM.5S Stocks, other than Federal Reserve- Bank stock JflO.Ofl of Federal Reserve Bank (JO per cent of 1.200.09 Value of banking house, owned and unencumbered K.ltO.O/) and flxturps tvful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank '3fh in vault and net amounts due from national banks Ce- amounts duo' from banks, bankers, and trust companies than aiove S4 Total of items -above JS3.S73.77 on located outside of city or totcp of reporting other cafh iteriis M7.98 ion fund with U.

S. Treasurer and due S. 1,250.00 eumed but not N'otec and Bllla making "infers all 5S5- acres. She is not past due "Mary Kreiterin alias Kreider." jr vin Certificates and Thrift. actually ll TV) HCt Tvt 4 1 onrned ing "chalk." So Greiter.

Greider. is a chalker, one who marks with chalk, a writer. The name is said to have had its origin in the days of the bow and arrow in Switzerland, when the hardy mountaineers met together to Kreider; Hans Graff. Benedictus Veneric.K? Jacob Roehm, Hanrf Faber. Theodorus E-by.

Heinrich Zimmerman and others. widow. Mary Kreider, had remarried by I7ol. As to RPV. Isaac Kreider's claim that John Jacob Kreider.

son of (Martin, who arrived in 1732, was In March, 1730, James Hamilton who settled on Snitz Creek, wo laid out the town of Lancaster a county at for the new o.ounty, have to say: His John Jacob was born in 171 and died in 1779. We of' improve their marksmanship, that formed only the year previous. know that the Jacob who settled on their arrows might have telling ef-j town was laid out'two miles oquare: Sni'z Creek died before 1751. So feot upon the invading foe. It takes anr the main street? Ijiifi out I John -Jacob could not have, been the us hack to William Tell.

north and 1 south, and east and Jacob: Could he have been the They kept tally. They strove to I The survey had been made by John Jone? Feb. 172ft. Thn land I The John who came to Snitz owners on the. plot were 'ho i Creek in 1741 took up acres of ing-: to the north John Funk land, rather a nig slice for a.

young Michael Moyer. Roody Mover and man of 2fi: yet it might have been. Henry Funk: to the east was Toris And the next year John took up 200 Eby, and to the south wore Micha-1 'acres more. Rut John, who took up Bachman, "now" John M.oyer. Rey-Uhe 'and on Snitz Creek had a son excel.

A good shot was not permitted to go unnoticed. Its inspiration was handed abroad and was perpetuated. man wanted a record of his hits. The one to whom the task fell of keeping the score was the Greiter. It must have been on the side of Switzerland toward i nold Young.

Jacob Gritor (Kreider) Jacob, likply not his oldest son. who Germany, not toward France, for the word is German. To keep score in those days must and Jacob Hostetter. We are told that the Brnhakers, r7 more tTan ordinarv ewh cr nd Burkholder settled alons LitUe Con- knowledge. The score keeper must got his name from making chalk have bcen a sort umpjre a ick estoga and some of their land ran marks on the Alpine rocks.

flure KooA judgment and this we do not wish you to fearless decision eThe abnitv Infer that the Kreider's Carried make a rh alk 'line was an accom- closer kin than did other families. They did not. It, was a common thing in days gone by. They read their Bibles for light on all subjects. They discussed the question: Who Cain's wife? And they knew Abraham, the father of the faithful, went it only half point better than Cain, for Abraham confessed of Sarah his wife: "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the plishment.

So the Greiders are said to have been an intelligent" tribe, with high, broad foreheads arid noble bearing: of comrha'nding appearance', whose decision was not open to question. They are said to have been tall; but many we meet, today are short, and of sturdy build. Why the Pet I to town. Shank and Bare were in the southern part, of the town. In the same year (1717) Hostetter and Greider took up several hundred acres adjoining Shank and Bare.

See of Lancaster County by Kills and-Evans, p. 3 60. It is said that many of these parties neglected to take out patents for their land, "a fact discovered by James Hamilton, who afterward took advantage of the they came daughter of my father, but. not thei the but. when they daughter of my mother; and she to he broad Lebanon Valley" where became my wife" (Gen.

But they had of plhnw fhpv erhaps in the Alpine to profit." Whether Jacob Krei- shot up high to get toi der lost nis lands in this way Lan' the of Moses came jn and for- badevery close marriages; and the Kreiders with the other Me-nnonites respected the law. but they did noi add anything to it. Again, the Mennonites remembered that Abraham sent his servant they had plenty of elbow room, they took to spreading out. For valuable hints concerning the Kreiders in Switzerland, we are indebted to Mr. John Bomberger.

a farmer a short distance north of the power house of the E. and L. trolley line. From Rev. Kreider.

of to get a wife for Isaac from i Ceiuer County through John Krei- among his, own people. Isaac a'nd. Rebecca were midway between first and cousins; (what were they?) and Jacob, the sup- planter, who got the blessing, did he not marry his first cousins? And then.the Mennonites did not want to marry the daughters of the Canaan- ites round about them. Of course not. A Mennonite should marry a Mennonite.

By marrying in the family, they kept the religion pure, and also perhaps kept the money from being scattered. And money has its value. Sure! They did not seem to realize that the money some other maiden had might buy as many acres, and that the religion in some other homes might also have come from heaven. The scarcity of inhabitants in colonial days might have justified somewhat these closer, marriages. They intensified, made exclusive, built up walls and shut out sympathy.

Perhaps a peep over the garden wall would have been a good thing for a young Mennonite. But then the Mennonites -not the only people who married first cousins. Let's be fair. But the frequent intermarriages among the Kreiders makes the writing of their history exceedingly difficult Many -who have tried to trace the history iof the family have become involved in a maze from which they were unable to extricate themselves. We intend to go into inmost depths of the labyrinth, but shall ever endeavor to keep hold of the thread.

You will be somewhere. Follow us closely or you may miss yourself, which would be the great misfortune. Now. before we take up -the his- der, of South Xinth street, we are indebted for knowledge of The Kreiders Coming Over Rev. Isaac Kreider on a sheet which he has printed says: "Our ancestors lived along the river Rhine in Switzerland, where at the present time, the merchants are Greid- ers.

They use a in writing their name. "France being protectorate to Switzerland attempted to make all unite with the Roman Catholic Church. (Be it here said in justice, 'not Roman Catholics Our ancestors being Mennonites. refused, and therefore had to flee to Germany, their property being confiscated. Holding much in common with the Quakers, Penn invited them to come to his land in America." At the head of his sheet Rev.

caster we know not. but wo regard him as the Jacob Croyder who received a warrant June 3, 1741. for 250 acres of land in Lebanon township and who was father to four Kreider brothers who settled alorg i he Snitz Creek." But more of t.his later: we must not get out- of Lancaster county too quickly. In Conestoga in Jacob Greider. doubtless the one already mentioned.

John Greider and Greider. These may all have been brothers. Tradition there were four brothers. The other then likely was Martin, who Rev. Kreider says came in 1736.

Rev. Kreider says Michael came Aug. 11, 1732. but records indicate that he was here already in 1724. Perhaps he went home on a visit and persuaded Martin to come, returning in 1732.

Henry Kreider. 013 Chestnut street, aged SO years, says his father used to say there were six Kreiders that, came over. Michael Greider purchased 250 acres at the mouth or Conestoga on the Manor side. One of his sons moved to Chike's Creek, at John Moore's mill. The descendants of Michael Greider are said to be numerous and to be scattered over Lancaster and adjoining coun- tory of the Kreiders let us consider came afterward but where thev set The Name Kreider tied.

cannot tell, perhaps in the In consulting the early records west, along with 'those who went we find the name spelled in many from (toi Huntingdon Co Michael We find Crider. Cryder. from Lancaster built a mill 2 Croyder, Creytei. Croyter, Cryter, west of Huntingdon in 1771 Crytor, Kriter, Kryter, Kreiter, "Wilhelm. b.

1723 came Sen- "0 Kreider, Grider, Griter. Gryder. 11743; Bartholomew came i a CLU. juiui i-u Kreider gives the names of four ties We have not as vet placed our Kreiders: Martin, born in 1681: Jo-I hand" seph, born in 1-712; John born 1715. died 1779, "buried in cemetery on Frederick, born 1719.

"These four, father and 3 sons, came to Sept. 16. 1736, went, to Conestoga. Lancaster, the home of Jacob, who came to America about 1712 and received from Wm. Penn SOO acres near Lancaster city.

Michael who came over on Aug. 11. 1732, also lived there. The 3 sons and George received from Perni's sons 5SO acres in Lebanon township Snitz 4 years later their father, being a blacksmith, joined them, receiving ISO acres of their land. Patent of original recorded in Phila." Rev.

Kreider continues at the bottom of his sheet: "The following Gryter, perhaps even more forms i 1751: John Martin came Sept might be found: but at least 11751; Geo. Martin c-im'e one of the two original settlers in Same year came Ste the Lebanon Valley signed his name phen, b. 172S. John 'n There are some of the Jacob, 1 7 and'C 1 descendants who still name in this waV. write their on any in Lebanon county.

Safe Harbor is built upon the Greider tract, at the mouth of Conestoga By 1751 we are told that every one of the early Swiss Mennonite settlers who came before 1720 had gone to his long home. Jacob Greider is mentioned among these. Among males between 16 and 50 years in Lancaster county in 1776 were Jacob Greider. Martin Greider. Michael Greider.

Henry Greider. Hans Greider and Jacob Greider. Lebanon, township in 1776 was yet, in Lancaster county and nearly all in the above may have belonged to our county. We had Kreiders by all of the names here. Jacob Hostetter who came to Conestoga in 1717 with Jacob Greider.

Jacob's great-grnndson. John S. Kreider. of Snitz Creek, says he understands died aged SO years. Jacob made his will in 1S05.

There is an old tombstone in the Laudermilch farm cemetery with K. May 31. 1729, SI years." A man born in 1729 and dying aged SI years, would have died in 1810'-. just about the. time that Jacob did die.

This is no doubt the grave of Jacob Kreider. the son of John the settler. Now Rev, Isaac's John Jacob, son of Martin, was born fn 17in. Would you expect him to have a son born in 1729. and that one likely 'not.

the oldest of several children? John, the settler on Snitz Creek, was surely an older man than Rev. Isaac's John Jacob, which John Jacob we say without hesitation never i settled, on the Snitz Creek. If the i John who settled on Suit.z Creek RPV. Ispac's John Jarob. son of then the two who settled on Snitz Creek, Jacob and John, wprr.

not brothers, as the traditions say. it. is a serious mat- ter to contradict a descendant and an aged one and one so conscien- tious as a minister of the Gospel, which, however, is our calling also, but the facts we have in hand we believe justify us. But Rev. Isaac i is against family tradition, and in I error on other points, as we shall show later.

The Family of Jacob the Settler Perhaps the best way to take hold I of this subject is to quote some, old legal papers: "Whereas Jacob Cryter, late of the county of Lancaster. "Yeoman. Dyed Intestate, possessed of a real and personal Estate and left Isaac behind him Eight Sons, to wit. John. Christian.

Francis, Martin, Tobias, George, Henry and Jacob Oryter. jshe must have been married to Saun-J ders after June 15. 1748. Now we hope you will not be wearied by reading another legal paper. "Know all men" by these Presents that I.

Mary Crytnr of Lancaster County and Province of Pennsyl- i v'ania for and in consideration jthe Sum of Two hundred Forty! Pounds Current Money of Sd. Prov- fince. to me in hand paid, the Re- ceipt whereof I do acknowledge and my Self therewith fully satisfied I have bargained Sold and Confirmed land do by these presents bargain, Sell an'd Confirm unto Christian, Cryter, Martin Cryter." Tobias' Cry- i ter and George Cryter of Same. Coun- ty and province of Pennsylvania all I that Tract or tracts, parcel or of Land being and situate in County of Lancaster and Province 1 of Pennsylvania, and Township of Lebanon and on which I.formerly lived granted unto me by the proprietary Warrant, and adjoining George Slits and John Cryter 'and Henerich Krain (Klein), Containing in and about Six Hundred Acres together with all and singular the Houses. Edifices, Buildings, or- I chards, gardens.

Pastures. Woods, woodland, water, water cour- ses. mines, minerals, profits. Corn- Total LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in 21,900.00 Surplus fund 1 IS.MO.frO profit? S12.496.14 current intTpst. and taxes pa.id S.485.J3 S.009.S1 Interest discount or rrfdited.

in advance of maturity nr.d rot earned (approximate 1 1,309.27 Ciw'? 1 in? notes ouu-tamling M.000.00 outstanding l.ll^.l'S Cashier's cho.rks on awn bank -outstanding 4.6S7.14 Tr'anl of item? aJinvp Dcniana deponitB (other -than Saak to Individual deposits subject to check 1S8.1T2.TI OrtificHtep of deposit due in less than 3n (other than for money torrowed requiring notice "but than 30 days 27.02S.04 unpaid 5.0'C OtVr demand deposits 4,834,7.4" Tota.l of deposits (other than bank subject to Reserve Time depoilts Brrvbject to Reserve 30 days, or subject in 30 dayr; or morp notice, and postal Ovtifioafs of deposit cottier than for money Ot'Tir ti.me de-posits 8.075.2S Total of time to Reserve States deposits (6ther than postal savings): loan df.poffit ace-cunt othc-r than those above stated 78.1+0.0.9 Total Mao.124.95 of Pennsylvania. County of Lebanon, T. M. TJ. M.

B.ATDORFT, Cashier of the a.bov-nanr'd bank, do solr.mnlr affirm that the above mtnt is true to best my knowledge and M. D. BATDOR.TT. Cashier. Subscribed and affirmed to before me this 1Pth day of May, SATJjTE KEGKRREIS.

Notary Public. My cwnmissinn expires April 1st, tltfrt: T. F. TT. FOCHT, The American and one daughter, which' sd.

Francis to wit, Ann marryed Mary Tollinger and he is now dead and the sd. Mary, his widow is now mar- ryed to. George Moss also Mary his Widow, and ftelict And Whereas Letters of Administration of all and singular the Goods and Chattels, Riglits and Credits of the said Intestate was Granted and the said Mary the Widow, who is now marryed to Henry Saunders. NOW KNOW all men by these pres- ents that We, the said Henry Saun- i ders and Mary his wife in Consider- atlon 01 the Sura of Two Hundred and forty pounds and fifteen lings t.o us paid (or cause to be at or before the Execution hereof the Receipt arid payment whereof we do hereby acknowledge. Have and each of us Hath Granted.

Remised, released and confirmed, and by these Do and each of us Doth Grant, Remise. Release and Confirm unto the said John Cryter, Christian II Cryter. Martin Cryter. Tobias Cry-i had a daughter Margaret who mar-I ler George Crytor. Henry Crytor.

More and more'young men.are etting off the side lines and stepping into the game. They're developing: their bodies, 'not their The war produced the NEW AMERICAN and the fellows who built up. these powerful physiques want to hang on'to We anticipated this development and prepared models, to fit them They drape without a wrinkle over broad shoulders, down to the These athletic models a delicate application of style niceties upon a rugged frame. Jacob Cryror. George Moss and Mary and Ann Cryter.

all our ried a Greider. We have now said something, not i very much, about the Kreiders in land! each of our Estate. Right. Title. Lancaster county.

You will now property, claim and Demand wtiat.so- permit us to pass over South Moun- ever of. In and to all or any the Real tain and hunt up the lands on which land personal Estate whatsoever of! the early Kreiders settled within our own present county of Lebanon. per. "Philip ram Sept 1754: Tobias camo Oct. 26.

14 think he lived near Petersburg had ritnio Oct. AUK. L'7. 1 There is no profound reason for these different ways of spelling! 7 sons'; Philip Oct proper names of Germans in colonial John Jacob Pennsylvania. The English scribe Adam came Bimply wrote the name the wyy it Those comings over arc sounded to him as pronounced by from oflicia! rei-ords the Germans themselves.

of I ipu'titly these early Germans could not write Kreidrr departs their names, could not spe.ak Knc- lish, did not. know the Krcirler SoMlers in Lebanon Township We say township, for that was Jacob Cryter. and) all our pnrt and Share thereof and thereto TO HAVE AXD TO HOLD! the same unto the said John Crytor. Christian Crytor. Martin Crytor, To- jj bias Crytor.

George Crytor. Henry rot "in soon as 'roiii he falls Wo ronoTrirri in following lr phabet. much less the English, and Krc-idc-r's who won; to of course could not tell the Knglirn- of country and never man how to spell 'he name. So the Lebanon county. English scribe, no doubt very in knnw'inc gave up all attempts to be' When the German did sign came, he signed with German script, which was Greek to the Englishman.

Often find deeds with the of Germans in the body of the deed wo in- who are 'ho camp Leh- of hose county. Kroirters- in Crranty Rev. Kreider Martin Kreider with hi? font, Joseph, Jacob and came to Phila- al! there was of it in those days, i Crytor. Jacob Crytor. George Moss i There was no Lebanon county till! nd Mary his wife and Ann Crytor.

ISIS. Lebanon township covered a Heirs. Executors. Adms. and Surge part the ground.

To and for their only Wo find that the following Kroi-i pr Tse and Renr-fit forever. IN WIT- early day received from N'ESS whereof We have hereunto set T'enns warrants for land in Lob- i Hand and Seal the second Day Copyright 1919 Hart Sc COME the swell new shades of Green, Blue, Tan and Brown Flannels received this morning. They certainly are beauties. $25, $30, $35 to $50 annn township: Jacob Croyder. Jarob acres Juno 1741.

John Croyter. 200 acres. Auc i 1742. i John Creyte'r. 100 June 1' 17M.

Francif- Kryter, SO acres. April 4 Mary acres, June IS. iof October one Thousand Seven 00 acres. June Hundred and rtftv-one. HEINRICH SANDER.

The'mark of Iohl 175S. Kreiter 0 acres, Oct. IS, MARY SAUNDEK. and Dplivered in fhe presence of ns. CHAS.

MORSE. JACOB ROEHM. Henry founders fhe namp Xander 1 a warrant for ISO acre? of land in Lebanon Mftrrh 1J43 nr 44: and PANAMA HATS Extra values, $4.00 and $6.00 is also likely the Henry Sanders CLOTHIER EMERY SHIRTS The Shirts That Buy Now..