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Hans George HartzelAge: 61 years16861747

Name
Hans George Hartzel
Surname
Hartzel
Given names
Hans George
Birth May 30, 1686 27 22
MarriageAnna Margaretha ConradView this family
January 10, 1703 (Age 16 years)
Death of a fatherClemens Hirtzel
March 25, 1707 (Age 20 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Hans George Hartzel jr.
July 8, 1714 (Age 28 years)
Marriage of a childHans George Hartzel jr.Catherine SchmetzerView this family
1736 (Age 49 years)

Death of a motherAnna Sinter
November 13, 1738 (Age 52 years)
Death November 12, 1747 (Age 61 years)
Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: 1680
6 years
himself
Family with Anna Margaretha Conrad - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: January 10, 1703Reihen, Baden-Wurttemberg
12 years
son

Note

On April 23, 1735 Hans Georg was granted a warrant for the survey of 300 acres, on the east branch of Saucon Creek, to which he gave the name "Partnership". His [artner was Nicholas Transue and they soon split the property 150 acres each. This was vaulable farm land at the time. Today this property is covered with slag from the former Bethlehem Steel and is now owned by Connectiv energy plant. Hans Georg signed his name on the petition to the County Court of Quarter Sessions for a road to be built betweenNathanial Irish's Mill (at the mouth of the Saucon Creek on the Lehigh River) to Hilltown (Old Bethlehem Road). Hans Georg also signed the petition to Bucks County Court to request Lower Saucon become a township in 1743.

Hans Georg's daughter Anna Margaretha married Philip Schlauch in 1737. Philip baught the "Partnership" farm. It was their home on this property that the Luthern "Congregation of the Augsburg Confession in Saucon" first met. The paster John Jacob Justus Birckenstok opened the books of the church under that name in 1740. The group built a new church (log) in 1751 on neighbor Jurg Schenk's land 2 miles to the east, known now at the Lutz Franklin School.

Pastor Birckenstok listed the benefactor and the trustees of the Lutz-Franklin School members as Lutz, Ohnangst, Lawbach and Shimer. The new church became known as "Williamstown", not the same as "Ole Williams Church". While Rev. John Conrad Yeager was the paster at Williamstiwn he organized Frieden's Church in Upper Saucon in 1793. The 2 parishes were considered to be one orgainization. This explains why when the Saucon Valley School District transferrd ownership of the Lutz-Franklin schoolhouse to Lower Saucon Township in 2003, the board of Frieden's Church was required to approve the transfer as well.

When Benedict and Anna Lutz donated the acre of loand for the Lutz-Franklin school in 1783, they were donating the property to the Luthern parish of Congregation of the Augsburg Confession in Saucon. This predated the the local school distract.