. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. not definitely known, but it was before 173-I,at which time he is recorded as having paid quitrent. Prior to 1740 he erected a grist mill andbefore it a saw mill These two mills were thefirst of their kind in the Maxatawny valley. The Levan home was the stopping place forthe Moravian missionaries on their journeys tothe various German settlements in Pennsylvaniaand adjoining colonies and to the Indians, themost noted of whom were Count Zinzendorf,Bishop Augustus Gottl
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. not definitely known, but it was before 173-I,at which time he is recorded as having paid quitrent. Prior to 1740 he erected a grist mill andbefore it a saw mill These two mills were thefirst of their kind in the Maxatawny valley. The Levan home was the stopping place forthe Moravian missionaries on their journeys tothe various German settlements in Pennsylvaniaand adjoining colonies and to the Indians, themost noted of whom were Count Zinzendorf,Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenburg, BishopJohn Christopher Frederich Cammerhofi^ andReverend Leonard Schnell. In a letter dated November 17, 1747, by Cam-merhoff to Count Zinzendorf he says: [Camein the] evening to Jacob Levans in Maxatawny[Rev. Michaell Schlatter commanded by theReformed Classis of Amsterdam has crept inhere. He tried to preach then to raise f6o perannum for a Reformed clergyman solely. Rev. Leonard Schnell, who in 174,^ made amissionary journey on foot to Georgia, frec|uentlylodged with Jacob Levan. In one of his diaries. Mih, Eagi^epoint—Exterior View Prior to the erection of the grist mill the settlerslook their grain to Lcoseleys mill. In the frontpart of the mill the family lived until the massivemansion, in the style common in northern France,the ancestral home of the family, was built. Onthe inside lintel of the door leading into the greathall was carved 1740, the date of its building was razed in 1844. The cellar, con-taining a spring of water, was arched, the ma-sonry of the arch being so firm that it onlywith difficulty that it could be a pity that this splendid example of colo-nial architecture was destroyed. The hospitalityof its owners was famed far and wide, andunder its roof were entertained many noted menof the Colonial and Revolutionary periods. from the balcony of the mill that CountZinzendorf, of the Moravian
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