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Northkill Amish. The Northkill Amish Settlement was established in 1740 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. As the first identifiable Amish community in the new world, [1] it was the foundation of Amish settlement in the Americas. By the 1780s it had become the largest Amish settlement, but declined as families moved elsewhere.
The Hochstetler massacre was an attack on a farmstead at the Northkill Amish Settlement in September or October 1757, in which three Amish settlers were killed and three others taken into captivity. The attack was one of many assaults by French-allied Native American warriors on Pennsylvania settlements during the French and Indian War .
In 1736, several Amish families purchased land along Northkill Creek. The Northkill Amish Settlement was the first organized Amish congregation in the U.S. The Hochstetlers , Yoders , Hetzlers and Millers were joined by Zugs, Jotters, Glicks , Kauffmans , and Bishop Jacob Hartzler, and eventually included more than 150 residents.
[1] [6] [11]: xix The Spatz family and other settlers were killed at a spring near modern-day Strausstown, probably Little Northkill Creek (sometimes called Degler Spring, [12] a tributary of Northkill Creek), causing the water to run red with the blood of the family. [1] [13]: 90 An application was made to Conrad Weiser in Reading for help.
Abraham Lincoln, Early Settlement, Government & Politics 18th Century, Houses & Homesteads Northkill Amish: June 26, 1959: Old U.S. 22, 1 mile W of Shartlesville: Roadside Early Settlement, Native American, Religion Oley Moravians: August 28, 1948
In 1723, thirty-three Palatine families from Schoharie, New York, moved to the confluences of the Tulpehocken and Northkill Creeks. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] By 1735, a saw and grist mill was located three and a half miles up the Tulpehocken river from Bernville.
Northkill may refer to the following in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Northkill Amish Settlement , in Berks County Northkill Creek , a tributary of Tulpehocken Creek
The Somerset Amish Settlement, which is located in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, is the second oldest Amish settlement that still exists. It was founded in 1772 by Amish from the Northkill Amish Settlement in Berks County, Pennsylvania .