. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. ed in his first house and barn he built oflogs. It is said that the door of thehouse was large enough to drag logsthrough with a horse, into the greatfireplace. The buildings stood on thebank of the little creek in the extremesouthern end of Coventry was about ten miles from there tothe Valley Forge, and Gerhard wasaccustomed to carry his plough-ironson horseback to the latter place to getthem sharpened. Gerhar
. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. ed in his first house and barn he built oflogs. It is said that the door of thehouse was large enough to drag logsthrough with a horse, into the greatfireplace. The buildings stood on thebank of the little creek in the extremesouthern end of Coventry was about ten miles from there tothe Valley Forge, and Gerhard wasaccustomed to carry his plough-ironson horseback to the latter place to getthem sharpened. Gerhard must have been a leadingand popular settler in his is described as a merry Germanwho accumulated considerable means.*He lived along a much-traveled high-way called Niltts Road, and was oftenbeset by travelers for meals and lodg-ing. Therefore in 1736 he sent in auetition :o His Majestys Justices torthe privilege of conducting aHouse on the ground that he \frequently oppressed by travelerswhom he was obliged to that there was no Public Hwithin twenty miles below, nor !hi omiles above his house, on the Great —_. :._ ? V ... ?. - ?XI, | •If fcj ?? VS i I - - • I i , __ THE GERHARD BRUMBACH FAMILY 161 Road which leads from Philadelphia toihe Iron Works, and from thence toConestoga. This Petition was datedMay 25, 1736. and was signed bytwenty - six of his neighbors andfriends, who testified that Gerhard was3 man of good-repute, and was bestqualified for such an was the first public house in Cov-entry township, and was among thefirst in the county,—the first was es-tablished at Downing; town in 1717. to his memory, was the part he tookin the founding of a German Reformedchurch, which now bears his name. Brownbacks Reformed church wasthe first Reformed church in Chestercounty. The date of its organizationis given as May 19th, 1743. At thattime the Discipline was adopted andsigned by thirty-six men. among ivhomwas Gerhard Brumbach. B
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