ID: I17156
Name: Christopher Newhard 1
Sex: M
Birth: 1729 in Rumbach, Pfalz, Germany 2
Death: 26 AUG 1776 in Long Island, NY of Killed in the Battle of Long Island.
Occupation: Farmer
Military Service: 14 APR 1776 Enlisted in Revolutionary War
Event:
Issue 1 child
Note: from Charles Rhodes Roberts' "History of Lehigh County":
...a farmer who in 1761 lived on the Jennings farm along the Lehigh and 1762, removed to Mount Bethel Township where he had 250 acres of land.
from Charles Rhodes Roberts' "History of the Newhard Family of PA" 1915, page 2:
Christopher Newhard, the eldest son, was a farmer, and in 1761 lived on the Jennings Farm along the Lehigh. In 1762 he removed to Mount Bethel township where he secured 250 acres of land. He enlisted in Col. Samuel Miles' Regiment of Riflemen on April 14, 1776, in the Revolution, and was killed at the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776. His estate, amounting to £60, was administered by the court on July 1, 1777. He had one child, Elizabeth, who married George Schick.
Father: George Frederick Newhard b: 4 JUL 1699 in Zweibruecken, Germany
Mother: Maria Margaretha Frauhiger b: 4 AUG 1707 in Katzenthal, Alsace, France
Marriage 1
Elizabeth Hauser b: ABT 1739
- Married:
2 MAY 1758
in Lehigh Co., PA 2
- Event:
Minister
in Rev. John E. Hecker
Children
 Elizabeth Newhard b: 1763- Salome Newhard b: 14 FEB 1761
Sources:
- Title: Kern's Family Genealogy Database, Mike
Author: Mike97@enter.net
Publication: http://www.enter.net/~stenlake/names.html
Repository:
Note: Whitehall, PA
Media: Electronic
- Title: Neuhart Chronicle, Volume 4
Author: Kastens, Dennis Allen
Publication: R & R Printing, Cahokia, IL, copyright 1988 by Dennis A. Kastens
Note: www.kastensinc.com/neuhart/index.htm
Repository:
Media: Book
Page: page 19
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