PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN PIONEERS : A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 By Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LLD, President of the Pennsylvania German Society Edited by William John Hinke, PhD, D.D Second Printing Vol 1 1727 - 1775 Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc 1980
Page 539
List 203A - A List of Men Passengers Names, lately arrived in the Port of Phila from Rotterdam in the Ship NEPTUNE, John Mason, Master, in the Year 1753 (24 Sept 1753)
Andreas Bolk
Adam Hauk
Johan Bolig - Pg 540

Pg 540
List 203B - A list of Men Passengers Names lately arrived in the Port of philadelphia from Rotterdam in the ship NEPTUNE, John Mason,Master. Anno Domini 1753. Qualified 24 Sept 1753 (MONDAY)

Andreas Balch - Pg 541 continues list from pg 540
Adam Hauck Pg 541
Johan Atam Bolch - Pg 542 continues list from pg 541

Pg 542
List 203C - At the Court House at Philadephia, Monday, the 24th September, 1753. Present: Thomas Lawrence, Esq. The Foreigners whose names are underwritten, imported in the ship NEPTUNE, John Mason, Master, from Rotterdam and last from Cowes, did this day take the usual Qualifications. No. 106
Andreas Bolch - Pg 543 continues from pg 542
Adam Hauck Pg 543
Johan Adam Bolch - pg 544 continues list from pg 543

Sept 23 1753 Sir, According to direction we have carfully examined the State of Health of the mariners and passengers on board the Ship NEPTUNE, Cap Mason, from Roterdam and found nothing amongst them which we apprehend can be injurious to the Health of the inhabitants of the City.

Tho. Graeme
Th. Bond
To his Honour The Governour (Endorsed) Doctors certificate relating to the ship NEPTUNE 23 Sept 1753.

Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading Pennsylvania
in the house at Schwarzwald (small community southeast of Reading in Exeter twp, known today as Jacksonwald)
Baptisms by Rev Daniel Schumacher
Johan Adam Bolich February 8, 1755 (4 weeks old) sponsor Johannes Rau & Maria Ursula (NEE Kleinbuch)
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bierhaus&id=I12936

Johan Caspar Bolich February 16, 1757 (7 weeks old) sponor Casper Roeder

List of Taxable Exeter twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania 1757
Adam Bolich

List of Taxables Oley twp, Berks Co, Pensylvania 1758

Title: File No. 86, Adam Bolick Parent Records:
State Records
Secretary of State Record Group
Land Office: Land Warrants, Plats of Survey, and Related Records
Burke County
Years: 1778, 1779 Call Number: S.108.541; Frames:395-399 Site: Archives Search Room (Raleigh) MARS Id: 12.14.36.87 (Folder) Genres / Forms: Warrants, Plats Index Terms:
Geographic Names:
Elk Creek
Personal Names:
Bolick, Adam
Bolick, Bostion
Land Grant Info:
Acres: 320
Grant Number: 86
Issued: Sept. 20, 1779
Entry Number: 80
Entered: Sept. 10, 1778
Book, Page: 28:86
Location: On Elk Creek joining the land now in possession of Bostion Bolick

Title: File No. 505, Adam Bolick Parent Records:
State Records
Secretary of State Record Group
Land Office: Land Warrants, Plats of Survey, and Related Records
Burke County
Years: 1778, 1782 Call Number: S.108.542; Frames:1113-1117 Site: Archives Search Room (Raleigh) MARS Id: 12.14.36.507 (Folder) Genres / Forms: Warrants, Plats Index Terms:
Geographic Names:
McLin Creek
Personal Names:
Bolick, Adam
Land Grant Info:
Acres: 640
Grant Number: 507
Issued: Oct. 28, 1782
Entry Number: 1152
Entered: Dec. 11, 1778
Book, Page: 44:231
Location: On Mukling Creek

Title: File No. 549, Adam Bolick Parent Records:
State Records
Secretary of State Record Group
Land Office: Land Warrants, Plats of Survey, and Related Records
Burke County
Years: 1778, 1783 Call Number: S.108.542; Frames:1331-1335 Site: Archives Search Room (Raleigh) MARS Id: 12.14.36.551 (Folder) Genres / Forms: Warrants, Plats Index Terms:
Geographic Names:
Lyle CReek
Personal Names:
Bolick, Adam
Land Grant Info:
Acres: 400
Grant Number: 551
Issued: Oct. 11, 1783
Entry Number: 1153
Entered: Dec. 11, 1778
Book, Page: 50:194
Location: On both sides of Lyles Creek

Adam Bolick from Frederick Hafner
April 15, 1788, Deed Book 3, page 345, 347
A certain piece tract or parcel of land lying and being in Lincoln County and State of North Carolina on the waters of Moyer branch of Lyles Creek beginning at a red oak Jacob Moyers old line thence with said line east 168 poles to a black oak Rinck's line thence south 30 deg.(?) the (?) 132 poles to a stake on Gallraith (?) Falls old line thence with said line (to 70 ?) 106 poles to a post oak, thence N. 90 poles to a hickory Benfields corner thence with said line to the beginning containing one hundred acres of land as by original states grant to the said Frederick Hafner dated August 7, 1787.

Lincoln Co NC deed book 17 pg 176, 22 Aug 1788
Henry Smith & wife Christina (Mecklenburg Co) to Adam Bolek Sr (Lincoln Co); for 27 pds NC money sold 400 acres on SOUTH BRANCH OF LYLES CREE; border: PHILP ADAMS and "THE" WAGON ROAD, INCLUDES A SHOAL AND HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT, granted 21 July 1774 to HENRY SMITH
signed HENRY SMIT & CHRISTINA SMIDIN'S (SIC) marks
Witness Nelilhalin ? Diehl (german) & Jacob Diehl (german)
recorded Jan 1795 Book 17 pg 167

NOTES FOR FUTURE REFERENCE:
http://genforum.com/bost/messages/454.html
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Estate Papers Estate papers of Johannes BAST (John BOST) deceased, 1778. Johannes BOST died in 1777. "An account what each of theears boat (heirs bought) of the eastet (estate) at the sale of movable goods on May 12,1778."List of the"ears" (heirs): Widow BOST, Goarge Mi REIDLING, Goarge BOAST, Yecob BOAST, Christina BOAST, Margreat BOAST, Michael MOAR, Peter STEARNS, Elias BOAST,John PETREE, William BOAST, Mark HOWS, Goarge SMITH, John BOAST. Executor:Mark HOUS.

1790 LINCOLN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA FEDERAL CENSUS
Fields:
NAME -- Head of the household
1 -- Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families
2 -- Free white males under 16 years
3 -- Free white females including heads of familes
4 -- All other free persons5 -- Slaves
Order of entry -- Order in which the names were transcribed
"BOLICK, Adam" 1 0 4 0 0 0349
"BOLICK, Gasper" 1 1 4 0 0 0419
"BOLICK, Godfrey" 2 3 4 0 0 0402
"BOLICK, Jacob" 1 4 3 0 0 0420

WILL OF JOHAN ADAM BOLCH - RECORDED AT LINCOLNTON, LINCOLN CO.NORTH CAROLINA IN 1794.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2953/will.html
In the name of God, Amen. I, Adam Bolch of Lincoln County in the State of North Carolina, Shoemaker, being very sick and weak in body but a perfect mind and memory, THANKS BE TO GOD, calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that itis appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to day principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried at the direction of my Executors, hereinafter named, northing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive same again by the mighty Power of God. And touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

First I give and bequeath unto Christina my dearly beloved wife, my dwelling house I now live in to be freely enjoyed by her during the time of her life, and at the expiration of her natural life the same shall be deemed the real property of my son Gottfried, and also my garden to be freely possessed and enjoyed by her, to her only proper use during the time of her natural life and after her death to be the absolute property of my son Gottfried. I also give her the following effects to be and reamin her absolute property forver, to wit: my feather bed, and bed-stead and furniture, one iron cot, one Sermon book, one Hymn book, one frying pan, one milk cow and all the cash I have with me, besides one third of all m movables. I give to her my linen chest, and all thelinens and other goods therein, to tedious mentioned, to be her absolute property forever; and wheras all my children are in possession of land which I have provided for them, and my son JASPER hath received from me all the purchase money for same my absolute will is that eachof my children shall be liable to pay yearly on the first day of October, every year unto said wife two bushels ofauthentic good and lawful well cleaned what; one quarter of a hundred pounds good meat, half pork and half beef; three pounds of well cleaned picketed flax, and in total they shall find and provide for her every year one pair of good shoes.

The oldest shall do it first, then the next shall find and provide for the said shoes and the following year and so on in order to the youngest, then if death not happens, to begin in the same order with the eldest as aforesaid, and to prevent confusion or errors that might happen in the whole I say all and every articles above mentioned to be paid unto my dearly beloved wife onthe first day of October every year after my decease, expressly by each and every one of my children. I see just cause to name them all in particuar. 1) JACOB my son, 2) SEBASTIAN, my son, 3) ADAM, my son, 4) JASPER, my son, 5) GODFREY my sone, 6) CHRISTINA, my daughter, 7) ELIZABETH my daughter.

And wheras they altogether holdland as aforesaid my absolute will is that each of them shall be liable to pay said described articles per annum on the limited time, and in case that any of my children should happen to die before my wife, that in this case their heirs or heirs of them or any of them whoever shall hold land or lands of the deceased shall be liable to the aforesaid duties, for the maintenance of my wife during the time of her natural life, but any longer; and my son GODFREY shall provide food and all necessities for her milk cow aforementioned likewife for an ewe which I do give hereby; and in case I should happen to die in a short or a long time my will is that my sons shall divide my apparel and clothes among them in equal portions, and after the death of my wife my daughters shall divide her apparels and clothes amongthst them in said order as in said of my sons. And whereas I have declared that my son GODFREY shall keep the said milk cow and ewe to the only use of my wife at his own proper cost and that in recompense of which I bequeath hereby and in virtue of this, my folio Bible, printed in Nurenberg, unto him, the said GODFREY hereby forewarning all the rest of my children, their heirs, executors or administrators, from all claims of the same by any lawful pretense whatsover.

I give and bequeath unto my son JACOB the sum of twenty shillings to be paid out of my money by my executors, besides purchase money I have given him before to pay for his land and this shall be his portion which he hath already received before.

I give and bequeath unto my son SEBASTIAN, all that portion or parcel of land lying and situate ont he Western or Nothern side of Lyle's Creek, adjoin the land of George Adam Schmitt and on other track of my own land, being part of a large tract that I bought of Henry Schmitt by virtue of ROYAL GRANT (PATENT) BEARING DATE OF TWENTY FIRST OF JULY, 1774 as the said patent will more fully and clearly appear, to have and to hold the said tract on said creek, which shall set a limit between him and his brother JASPER (CASPER) unto my son SEBASTIAN BOLCH, his heirs, executors, and assigns forever; and further,

I give and bequeath unto my sone JASPER all the remainder of the said described tract I bought of the aforesaid Henry Schmitt that is situation in the Eastern or South side of this LYLE'S CREEK which shall set limits between him and his brother, SEBASTIAN, adjoining Philip Adam and Philip Giger, to have and to hold the said tract being part of the aforesaid larger tract unto the said JASPER BOLCH and his heirs, executors and assigns forever.

Also I give unto my son ADAM all that tract of piece or parcel of land situate on the Eastern side of a division line laid off by JOSEPH RANKIN in a line of a larger tract at the North of a branch on Macklings Creek running North 15 West to a post oak then 10 corner from beginning in the lines of the said larger tract of the PLANTATION I live on, to have and to hold the said describe3d tract piece or parcel of land being part of a larger tract granted to me by virtue of a states grant bearing the date of 20 day of October 1782. Where the limits will be more fully and largely appear unto the said ADAM BOLCH his heirs, executors and assigns forever;

and further I give also unto my son GODFREY, the reaminder of the said tract bound by the line aforesaid described which shall set limits between him and his brother ADAM, and is situate on the Western side of said Rankin line, to have and to hold the said land as part of the larger tract unto the said GODFREY BOLCH, his heirs, executors and assigns (except that before excepted for the dowry) forever.

Further I give unto my daughter Christina the lawful wife of Fredrick Trefflested one hundred sixty acres of land adjoining the land of SEBASTIAN being part of the larger tract granted me by virtue of states grant bearing the date September 20, 1779, situate on both sides of Eke Creek to be divided by a line beginning across the said creek in the middle of the whole tract, setting limits between her and her sister, dividing the whole tract into divisions and parellel parts.

I give unto my daughter ELIZABETH the other half or remaining 160 acres of the afroesaid tract, being the upper or Western part thereof adjoining the land of JACOB MITCHELL, to have and to hold the same premises unto the said Christina and Elizabeth, ther lawful heirs, executors and assigns forever, and finally, and all the remainder of my effects not willed herein, my will is it shall be divided among all my children in equal proprtion without regard to sex or age, but selling thereof to strangers either by private or public slae I do hereby prohibit.

P.S. I give my iron pot, called a dutch oven, two pewter basins, one half dozen of ditto (probably pewter) spoons, unto my wife to use during life, but after her death to be considered part of my movables to be divided among my childrne in manner and form above directed.

Lastly, I do hereby constitute, appoint and ordain GODFREY BOLCH my well loved sone to be my whole and sole executor of this my last will and testament and do hereby do utterly disallow, revoke and disannounce all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies, bequeaths and executors b me in ways before willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament, in witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this THIRTIETH DAY OF JANUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY

(SIGNED) ADAM BOLCH

Signed, sealed and published, pronounced and declared by the said ADAM BOLCH as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the resence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names.
CONRAD(X) MAUGRO JACOB (X) DI
ANDREW CLONINGER

probate in April 1794


REF: MELANIE COYL WEBSITE
Johan Adam was a shoemaker by trade. According to family stories, he had considerable property in Germany. Germany had strict limits on the amount of property immigrants were allowed to take with them when they left the country. Johan Adam converted the greater part of his property into gold which he then melted into thin plates. He made new shoes for the family, with an extra pair for each. He placed the sheets of gold between the soles of the shoes and the family carried the gold to America.

Andreas Balch arrived in Philadelphia on the same ship as Johan Adam Bolch. The next year a Johan Georg Bohlich arrived in Philadelphia on December 13, 1754 also on the Neptune (Walliam Malane, Master) from Hamburg, Hanover and Saxony. It has been theorized that these three men, Johan Adam Bolch, Andreas Balch and Johan Georg Bohlich were brothers. As far as I know, this has yet to be proven. Johan Georg Bohlich and his son Johan Peter were shoemakers by trade. At this time I do not know what profession Andreas pursued.

This is my Great-Great-Grandfather,
Ephriam Lawrence Bolch, Sr. (sitting
on the left) and five of his children.
My Great-Grandfather, Ephriam Lawrence
Bolch, Jr. is sitting on the far right.

ON THE SHIP "NEPTUNE" JOHANN AND CHRISTINA CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1753 ARRIVING IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.. THEY CAME FROM THE PALATINATE REGION OF GERMANY VIA ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND.

ARRIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA ABOUT 1760 AND SETTLED NEAR CONOVER, NORTH CAROLINA. MEMBERS OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH AS WERE MOST OF THE GERMANS WHO WERE CALLED THE "PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH". THERE IS AN EXCELLENT STORY IN THE KENTUCKY MILITARY PAGE REGARDING THE BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN ON THE INTERNET US GENWEB PROJECT.

http://genforum.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?catawba::longcrier::11.html
Jacob Shook, The Man and His Legacy. By Bob Jones Copyright 2001, Asheville NCThe original land grants on Lyles creek record the owners, Johan Baum in 1750 was the first recorded, Simon Yonoss (Jonas) and Hinrich Shrink, Phillip Hahn, Conrod Mull, Conrad Boobey and Johann Hagins appear soon after. Then in 1753 the German United Brethren or Moravians purchased a huge tract of land in Lord Granville?s district, location undefined. They set out to determine the land they would select and brought a small team of surveyors across the Catawba to "look for the land". As guide they hired Johann Baum. Being duly impressed with the area between the South Fork of the Catawba and the Catawba proper they decided that this area, which included Lyle?s Creek, would be an ideal spot for their projected colony. John Carteret, Lord Granville set aside this huge parcel, as well as several others, for the Moravians and ceased to sell land there late in 1753.For ten years the land lay under this reserve. The Moravians decided to place their colony at a less remote area which is today Forsyth County, NC in 1755, but the restriction still remained on the Catawba lands until 1763. In that year the land was released and it seems that many German settlers had been living on the land in question without deed for up to ten years. In 1763 many of them came to the Land Office in Rowan County at Salisbury, a two day walk away from home, and registered their claims. The surnames from Lyle?s Creek include Henry Pope, George Schmidt (Smith), Jacob Wissenaut, Adam Aker (Eckard), Adam Bolch, Thomas Cowan, Peter Grunt, Michael Hart, Johan Haun, Andrew Killian, Isaac Lowrance, Peter Stutz, Christian Treffelstadt, Conrad, Joseph and William Whittenburg and William Fulbright. (so there is our Jacob?s aunt Chistina?s husband, Wihelm Vollbrect in 1763)Then in late 1763 John Carteret, Lord Granville, died and his heirs in England closed the sale of his lands. It was 1778, 15 years later, before the office would open again, and many, many Germans had come to live on the unclaimed lands by then. In December 1778 8,900 acres were registered in Salisbury on Lyle?s Creek alone. Among these names we find Christopher Beekman (Jacob?s Capitan in the Cross Creek Campaign) Adam Bolick, George, Peter and William Deal, George Eslinger, Peter Gront, Frederick Gross, Devault Hunsucker, Johann Isonhower, Frederick Shull, Andrew Fulbright and, our guys, Johann (Hans) and Jacob Shuke (Shook). In that year Jacob was 29 years old.It is obvious from these many land rolls that the Germans predominated in Lyle?s Creek. Land was the historical issue, but religion was the heart of the story for the Germans. These were a refugee folk, for generations they had been persecuted, driven to exile and isolated by the surrounding cultures due to their religious beliefs. As a product of this experience these groups had developed a self contained resolve to remain independent. This resolve had motivated the majority to leave Europe behind and make the perilous journey to America in the first place.It was to be after 1770 before the first real congregation of German speaking settlers began to form west of the Catawba. In those years they were served by itinerate "circuit riding" preachers who would come from time to time to their meeting house built on the South Fork of the Catawba. This first church, Der Saut Fark in German, was the predecessor of "Old" St Pauls Lutheran Church in Lincoln County which still exists today.On the rolls of that church?s early membership, as reported in 1775 by it?s first permanent minister Johann Arends (or Ahrend, Arent, Arnt and Arndt as it is variously spelled in English records) we can find the Lyle?s Creek surnames of Bolich, Hahn, Hauk, Killian, Klien, Siegman, Wiegnburger, Miller and Schuk (Shook). This was a "Union" congregation however, so we don?t know of which sectarian persuasion the Shooks may have been.Church was the only real authority, for although the distant courthouse at Salisbury was technically the seat of civil power, its reach was weak on the west side of the Catawba, especially in the tight knit German communities.

Thanks so much for posting the photos. I am a descendant of this family too.
Georgia Belle Austin
Shawnee, OK
GEOBAUSTIN@aol.com

As a decedent of this family I just had to write and say thank-you. The workyou did brought tears to my eyes. Please share my thanks with all yourco-workers.Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!Nancy Farrar
nanfar@comcast.net

1. Jacob Bolch Bolick b: 1751 in near (Alsace-Lorraine, Vosges Mountains, France), Palatine Forest, Southwestern, Germany
2. Sebastian Bolch b: Sep 1753 in Ship "Neptune", Atlantic Ocean, "High Seas"
3. Johann Adam Bolch Jr. b: 11 Jan 1755 in Berks Co., Pennsylvania c: 8 Feb 1755 in Schwarzwald, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
4. Casper Bolch Sr. "Bolick" Johan Casper b: 26 Dec 1756 in Exeter Twp.Berks Co., Pennsylvania c: 16 Feb 1757 in Schwarzwald, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
5. Godfrey Bolch "Bolick" b: ABT 1759 in Berks Co. Pennsylvania
6. Christina Bolch b: ABT 1761 in Berks Co. Pennsylvania
7. Elizabeth Bolch b: ABT 1762 in Berks Co. Pennsylvania