Names of Berks Countians Who Were Naturalized in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1765 and 1766

[At a Supreme Court held at Philadelphia Before William Allen, William Coleman and Alexander Stedman, Esquires, Judges of the said Court, the tenth Day of April, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-five, between the Hours of nine and Twelve of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same Day, the following Persons being Foreigners:]

Name Township Sacrament Taken
Geo. Fred'k. Scheffer Rockland 1 April 1765
Matthias Bastian Hereford 7 April 1765
Abraham Kisler Heidleberg 7 April 1765
Bartholomew Ziebach Tulpehocken 7 March 1765
Jacob Spees Bethel 7 March 1765
Charles Bomberger Tulpehocken 7 March 1765
Jacob Seltzer Heidleberg 7 April 1765
George Cresh Douglass 7 April 1765


The Persons hereafter named, being Foreigners, and of the People called Quakers and others who conscientiously scruple the taking an Oath, severally took the Affirmations, and did make & repeat the Declaration according to the Directions of the Act of the Thirteenth of George the Second, entitled "An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned as are settled or shall settle in any of his Majesty's Colonies in America," and of an Act of General Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania made in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-Two:

Valentine Kime, Maiden Creek
Wyrick Selser, Tulpehocken


[At a Supreme Court held at Philadelphia, for the Province of Pennsylvania, before William Allen, William Coleman and Alexander Stedman, Esquires, Judges of the same Court, the tenth Day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, between the hours of nine and twelve of the Clock in the forenoon of the same Day, the following persons being foreigners:]

Name Township Sacrament Taken
Peter Huett Exeter 10 April 1766


[At a Supreme Court held at Philadelphia, Before William Allen, William Coleman and Alexander Stedman, Esquires, Judges of the said Court, on the twenty-fourth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, between the Hours of nine and twelve of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same Day, the following Persons, being Foreigners:]

Name Township Sacrament Taken
Philip Kramer Reading 21 September 1766
Frederick Ulrick Raclin 16 September 1766
Leonard Keplinger Cumry 22 September 1766
Jacob Kiesling Bern 22 September 1766
George Kiesling Bern 22 September 1766
George Dannahower Robinson 21 September 1766



Source: Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 2, "Persons Naturalized in the Province of Pennsylvania." Edited by John B. Linn and Wm. H. Egle. Harrisburg: B.F. Meyers, State Printer, 1876, pp. 460-465.

Submitted by: Nancy.

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