. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. schemevyas in disfavor, and his new friends soonrewarded him by promoting him from the were to be cut from ISerks. The bill, how-ever, was promptly tabled. \arious otherefforts were made until, in November 1849,the |)eo]3le of Hamburg caught the feverand wanted their town to be the count\seat, and in March 1852, the folks of Bern-ville demanded the same for their the agitation 6o CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN LAYING OUT OF KUTZTOWN jMention has
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. schemevyas in disfavor, and his new friends soonrewarded him by promoting him from the were to be cut from ISerks. The bill, how-ever, was promptly tabled. \arious otherefforts were made until, in November 1849,the |)eo]3le of Hamburg caught the feverand wanted their town to be the count\seat, and in March 1852, the folks of Bern-ville demanded the same for their the agitation 6o CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN LAYING OUT OF KUTZTOWN jMention has already been made (p. 20)of the laying out of the town in 1779, byGeorge Kutz, who had purchased on June16, 1755, a tract of 130 acres of land alongthe Saucony from the heirs of the originalpatents. As the story of the Easton Roadhas probably led the reader to conclude,Kutz recognized the advantageousness ofthe crossing of the Saucony as a town , as the Schultz map shows, therewere no houses on the site of Kutztownin 1755, there were evidently some, per-haps a number at the time Kutz laid outhis purchase. Why Kutz waited for twenty-four years before laying out this town can-not now be told. Perhaps the develop- Dietrich, and six in-lots and eleven out-lots to Henry Schweier, the the same time seventy-fonr acresand one hundred perches (of the one hund-red and thirty acres bought by George Kutzfrom Jacob Wentz, June 16, 1755) passedinto the hands of George Kutz, Jr. Short-ly before 1800 the
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