Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bernville, Pennsylvania" in English language version.
In the spring of 1723, thirty-three families of Germans, having been sorely oppressed and wronged, first by the Dutch and then by the English, and finally deprived of their lands and other possessions in the Schoharie, New York, came to Pennsylvania via the Susquehanna and Swatara, and settled near the Tulpehocken, about 15 miles west of the Schuylkill.These settlers established the Zion or Reed's Lutheran church.
Another congregation, which Boehm organized in 1727, was Tulpehocken. It had been settled by Palatines coming from the State of New York in 1723. Conrad Weiser describes its origin as follows: 'The people got news of the land on the Swatara and Tulpehocken in Pennsylvania. Many of them united and cut a road from Schoharie [N. Y.] to the Susquehanna River, carried their goods there, made canoes and floated them down the river to the mouth of the Swatara creek [where Middletown is situated at present], and drove their cattle over land. This happened in the spring of the year 1723. From there they came to Tulpehocken, and this was the beginning of the Tulpehocken settlement'.
Around the year 1723 Lutheran immigrants were found along the Tulpehocken and the twin Northkill Creeks. As early as 1729 Rev. John Casper Stoever gathered them into a congregation. The services were held in homes and in barns.
Around the year 1723 Lutheran immigrants were found along the Tulpehocken and the twin Northkill Creeks. As early as 1729 Rev. John Casper Stoever gathered them into a congregation. The services were held in homes and in barns.
