Of 300 persons from "Northeastern Berks" who took the Oath of Allegiance before Charles Shoemaker between May and September 1778, almost half appear on tax and census lists in Brunswick or Pine Grove Township [now Schuylkill County PA] during the War For Independence. They are identified with the capitalized surnames; persons in italics appear in those records after the war. Many others took the oath before Henry Spyker.
Charles Shoemaker's list is presented in the date
order that the oaths were taken. Although many of the persons on
the list did not reside in what is now Schuylkill County, the complete
list is included here since some of them and their descendants moved "over
the mountain" after the war, and some may have been misidentified.
.
Since persons taking the oath - on some of the days, lived what
was then great distances from each other, Shoemaker could not have gone
to them. It seems likely that they reported to locations in Northern
Berks to take the oath.
"A List of names who have taken the Oath and Same the Affirmation of
Allegiance before me
from the 10th Day of May
[s] Charles Shoemaker
1778 May
10 John SHEFFER
18 Frederick BEYER
20 Sebastian BENDER
Mathis DORNBACH
George FAUST
Peter William
21 Dewalt Billman
22 Christ Blatter
23 Jacob Alspach
Mathias TREHER
Michael Unterkoffler
Jeremie Chappelle
25
George GRAUL John Bock
George Mertz George Marsteller
George Holebubuch John LOEB
Christian WERTZ Conrad HIX
John HUMMEL Henry HUMMEL
George TRESS PtrLINGENGFELTER
Philip BOENIG Nicholas Stam
George MINNIG John RUNCKEL
Christophel Lerch Nicholas Kirshner
Martin MEYER Christofl Breining
Jacob RUNKEL Henry RUNKEL
Peter Lutz Jacob Struss
Adam Gitting Simon MARBURGER
Philip SCHMIT Joseph SCHENEB
Geo Wm Staut John MAYER
Jost FAHL Henry Meyer
Peter CONFIR John Ditrich
Matheis Weber Christoffel Haffle
Henry Bock Jacob HUMMEL
Philip Henning David MORITZ
Paul Balde Henry Billig
Jacob Glasse Philip Straub
George Hinkel Jacob Meocel
Chn LUCKENBILL Fredk BENSINGER
Jacob Seidel Henry Alspach
George Hamoner Geo BENTZINGER
Henry TREHER Michael DEIBERT
George Shall Andreas KREAMER
Aaron Terey.... Wm BERGHEISSER
John Smith Adam SCHWEIKERT
Conrad Keichert George Brane
Peter LADIG George Lantzer
Philip Michael Hans BOLLENBACH
Abraham WETSTEIN Peter KAUB
Thomas GOTTSCHALL Christian KAUB
Frederick Bohn Andreas MILLER
Ludwig ZIMMERMAN Jacob BUSCHY
Ulrich HEISER John HEIM
Peter STALLER Casper PROCH
Henry LAUTER Mathias KREMER
Henry Meyer Frantz BREININGER
Vitus Hirt Peter PROCH
Godfried SCHMELCHER Nicholas HOLLER
Jacob Will David HOLLER
George RUNKEL Danl BENTZINGER
Martin GREINER Adam MEYER
George RAUSCH Reinhart SCHNEP
Conrad KEISER Thomas WENRICH
George Adam WAGNER Michael WAGNER
Philip Henry Simon Kreischer
27 Mich'l Hollenbach George Yoh
Jacob YOH Adam Blatt
28 Jacob HUMMEL Daniel SCHAPPEL
Rudolph HEISER Daniel Yoh
John Geshwind Matheis Kerschner
Michael Meyer Michael EMRICH
Peter Keiler Lucas Mayer
29 Andreas HUMEL Adam SCHWEIGER
Lenard Rothermel Conrad GILBERT
Paul HEIM George ORWIG
Adam DERR Jacob WAGNER
Conrad Mertz
30 Michael DAUBER Michael Renschler
William Webber John KERSHNER
Jeremias Kierschner Jacob Reichert
John MEYER Jost SCHLAPPIG
Christ Altheuss Daniel SCHLABIG
Michael Hoely Godfried ORWIG
Michael MOSSER Marx SCHWENK
John KEELY John Knoswell
Jost SCHLABIG Jost Althaus
John Rentschler Bernard Zweitzieg
Burchhard Krebs Henry Kepner
Mathes BEST Philip BAUSUM
Henry SEISAMANHAUSE
Ludwig Seeman
John Blattner Andres RUNCKEL
Conrad Jacoby Jacob Rahn
George DeWalt Mathias Krauss
John Maurer
31 George Miller Philip Miller
Jacob MILLER
June
1 Philip Rahn Jacob Rahn JR
Philip Wagner Geroge Kolp
George HEIM Philip BERGHEISSER
Frederick Mayer George BRACH
Christian HERRING John MAROLFF
Jeremiah Bacon Jacob SCHOLL
Jacob Kuhlman
2 Philip Jacob Roth Mathias Roth
Jacob Roth Jacob Lightner
Jost HECK Peter WEIMAN
Killian Freyer Nicholas RUNCKEL
Henry WETSTEIN Lorentz YUNG
Peter Bode
3 Adam Beiber Nicholas Beiber
Jacob HOFFMAN John Richart
John Tschudy Jr Jhn Adam Reichert
.
4 John Reichert George ZECHMAN
John Zechman Nicholas MEYER
George HEUNER George WAGNER
Geo Wm Wagner Michael Schock
Peter Weirly Jacob WAGNER Jr
George Munch
5 John Schwartz William Roth
Math's Bollenbach Peter KUTZ
6 Yost STRACK Daniel BRION
John GANGER Chrstffel SCHNEIDER
Michael Zuber
8 Conrad Strasser Michael Schloer
Nicholas Grett Jacob WAGNER
Stoffel Wagner Conrad FERNER
9 Christian Albrecht Nicholas Kretner
Wilhelm Christ
10 Henry WETSTEIN John BUSCHY
Lenerd Albrecht Henrt Ketterer
11 Hans George Roth Valentine Kaufman
Philip Kaufman Jost Kaufman
Abraham Bucks Michael Riehle
Christoffel WAGNER George Taeutloff
13 Philip Faust Jr Jacob Faust
George Erll
15 Peter Kirschner Lenard SCHNEP
23 Michael Unger Henry Scheirs
Conrad Yerman
27 John Klein Peter Klein
Peter Yoh John Miller
29 Kraft Volckel John Beber
Martin Mohr
July
2 John Heimbach Jacob Blatt
3 Jacob Kaufmann
4 Henry Werner Christian Keck
6 George Neu Henry ACHEN
7 Godfried PISTERER John Eberhard
Thobias Gardner
11 Zacharias Bahret
12 Daniel Miesse Jacob SCHENCK
14 James Potter Peter Wood
William Davis
20 Issac Bacon Samuel Wright
21 Jacob Roesch
23 Frederick REBER
24 Henry BOSSERT
Aug
1 Valentine Koch
10 Conrad ALLWEIN John SHOMO
18 Isaac Updegrove
19 George Prang John Connady
20 John Bacon
24 Jeremiah Bacon Jr
29 Timothy Jennings
Sep
1 John Chn KOCH Abraham Lantzer
28 Christian KAUP
"The following took the affirmation"
June
12 Philip FAUST John FAUST
July
13 Thomas Tomleson
14 Richard WILLITS James WILSON
17 Ellis Ellis
24 David Beyler
25 Wilhelm Bossler
Sep
1 Ellis HUGHES
"I do hereby Certify of the names of the
foregoing List to the number 291 have taken the oath of allegiance,
and up to the number of 300
have taken the Affirmation of allegiance before me the subscriber as
witness my hand and seal
the..th day of October A.D. 1778
Charles SShoemaker [seal]"
"Recorded, and this record and the Original Diligently Compared and
do agree exactly word for word and figure for figure
This 22nd Day of Oct'r a.d. 1778
Henry Christ, recorder"
Among the hundreds who took the oath before Peter Spycker, the following appear on contemporary tax lists in Brunswick and Pine Grove Townships:
Philip FEIT Stophel DEIBER
Henry HOLLER Leonard READ
George HUNTZINGER Geo HUNTZINGER Jr
Bernard HUNTZINGER Bern'd ZIMMERMAN
Simon BRESSLER Hannes BRAUN
Valentine SCHULLER Adam CHRIST
Samuel BOYER Jac SCHMELTZER
Stephan DIEL Jacob LEIMAN
Peter BRESSLER Jacob ULRICH
Jacob LEININGER Anreas KRAFT
Peter SCHMIDT Daniel ANGST, Jr
Philip BORDNER Daniel ZERBEN
Jacob SMITH Martin LEHMAN
Geo Adam ZERBE Christ'n STUTZMAN
Nicholas NEUFANG Jacob SCHOCK
J Valt'n SCHULLER Hannes ABFEL
Henry ABFEL Christian ZERBE
Frederick SCHAFFER Michael KEISER
Johannes ZERBE Peter BRICKLY
Christian PFAFFENBERGER
Michael BRETZ
Among others who took the Oath before Samuel Ely, Jacob Shoemaker, John Ludwig, Daniel Rothermel and other Justices, the following appear as taxpayers in what is now Schuylkill Co:
Andrew SWEINHARD John DORNBACH
William DORNBACH Philip ALSPACH
Henry ALSPACH Andrew BOLICH
Martin KARCHER Abr'm LUCKENBILL
Bernard KEPNER Nich'l SEITZINGER
Godfried DREHER Balser BOCK
Assimus BOYER Henry ORWIG
Adam HEISER Peter ZERBE
Benjamin WEBB
Other data on these individuals and their families can be found at :
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/schuylkill/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/berksp/