. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . heManatawny is one dated in 1712 toJohn le Dee Isaac de Turck and In this same region several miles dis-tant Hans Keim located in the foreston the borders of the spring of one ofthe upper tributaries of the Manatawnyin 1708. There was born in his rudecabin of logs and sod, in the same year,his first child, Katarina, who, in herearly womanhood, became the wife ofJohann-es Heinrich Schneider, son ofthe warrantee, Hans Schneider, of aplantation about five miles distantthrough the silent savage-haunted for-est on the head
. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . heManatawny is one dated in 1712 toJohn le Dee Isaac de Turck and In this same region several miles dis-tant Hans Keim located in the foreston the borders of the spring of one ofthe upper tributaries of the Manatawnyin 1708. There was born in his rudecabin of logs and sod, in the same year,his first child, Katarina, who, in herearly womanhood, became the wife ofJohann-es Heinrich Schneider, son ofthe warrantee, Hans Schneider, of aplantation about five miles distantthrough the silent savage-haunted for-est on the head waters of the with the earlySwedes near the mouth and Hans Keimamong the fountain sources of theManatawny toward the Hills there weredoubtless other squatters in thisweird and wonderful region, although,as with Johann-es Keim, until a fewyears later the archives of the Proprie-tary land office of those incipient daysof Proprietary government have norecord of their names, locations, or areas. THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. 41. THE HOME OF JOHANNES KEIM THE FOUNDER. The original homestead was a log cabin built in 1708 in the savage wilderness between the present vil-lages of Eobachsville and Pleasantville, Berks county, 15 miles east of Reading, Pa. The stone house in thepicture was built in 1730, the year before his second marriage. The six children of his first wife were bornin the cabin. The ten children of his second wife in the house represented, and in which he died in house is still covered with red tiles made by himself from clay dug in the present orchard. The rooflaths being of oak are well preserved. The house, rapidly going to decay, is used as a farm workshop. Thegreat fireplace and other marks of the interior arrangements are still visible. The oak floor has disap-peared. The present large stone farm house was built the beginning of the present centu^. See pp. 9 and11, No. 1, vol. 1, K. & A. F. The valley of the Mahanatawny orllana
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