Names of Berks Countians Who Were Naturalized in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1767 and 1768

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

The Persons hereafter named, being Foreigners, and of the People called Quakers, and other Protestants who conscientiously scruple to take an Oath, severally took the Affirmation, and made and repeated the Declaration according to the Directions of the act of the thirteenth of King 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:

Edw. Shippen, Jr., prot.

Michael Bower, Amity
Adam Shyer, Exeter
Henry Wacks, Alsace
Peter Wacks, Bern

[At a Supreme Court held at Philadelphia, for the Province of Pennsylvania, before William Allen, William Coleman, John Lawrence and Thomas Willing, Esquires, Judges of the said Court, on the twenty-fourth & twenty-fifth days of September and fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, between the Hours of nine and twelve of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same Day, the following Persons, being Foreigners:]

The Persons hereafter named, being Foreigners, & of the People called Quakers, & other Protestants, who conscientiously scruple to take an Oath, severally took the Affirmation, & made & repeated the Declaration according to the Directions of the act of the thirteenth of King 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 fifty-two [sic]:

Wendel Seibert, Bethel
Stophel Knebbel, Bethel
Stophel Reyer, Bethel

[At a Nisi Prius Court, held at Reading, for the County of Berks, on the thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, between the Hours of nine and twelve of the Clock in the forenoon of the same Day, before William Allen, John Lawrence and Thomas Willing, Esquires, Judges of the Supream Court of the Province of Pennsylvania, the following Persons, to wit:]

Foreigners' names who were naturalized at Reading, 12th May, 1768:

Jacob Kurtz, hereafter named, being a foreign Protestant, who conscientiously scruples to take an Oath, on the aforesaid thirteenth day of May, before the said Judges of the Supream Court at Reading, in Berks County, aforesaid, took the affirmation, and made and repeated the Declaration according to the Directions of the act of the thirteenth of King 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:

Jacob Kurtz, Cumru

[At a Supreme Court held at Philadelphia for the Province of Pennsylvania, Before William Allen, John Lawrence and Thomas Willing, Esquires, Judges of the said Court, the twenty-fourth & twenty-ninth days of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, between the Hours of nine and twelve of the Clock in the forenoon of the same day, the following Persons being Foreigners:]

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. 466-471.

Submitted by: Nancy.