Johannes Eckroth settled in what is now Lynn Township in Lehigh
County, at the foothills of the Blue Mountain, which formed the
extreme northern boundary of the Penn-Indian treaty of 1732. This
general area was christened "Allemangel", meaning "lacking in all
things", by Reverand Henry Melchior Muhlenberg following his vist
there in March 1747. He reported:

"There lived in this locality German settlers, poor and miserable,
sadly in need of nourishment for body and soul. In view of the fact
that many of the settlers had removed from New Hanoverand in their
loneliness recalled my services at that place, they earnestly
entreated me to pay them a visit."
"The conditions I found were deplorable. Many grew up without the
benefit of the church or the school. Others became attached to the
so-called preachers who forced themselves upon the unsuspecting. Still
others, who avoided both, became adherents of the Moravians..."

The earliest records of John and Anna Margaret in America is when
they were recorded as sponsors at the baptism of Margaret Kuhn, at
John Kuhn's house at Cedar Creek, on 17 April, 1744. It is most likely
that he had arrived in Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1743, on
the snow Charlotta, John Mason, Master, from Rotterdam, last from
Cowes, and took the oath of allegiance to the government at the
courthouse in Philadelphia.
Besides "Johannes Ickroth", a Henrich Eckenroth was also listed
among the passenger on the Charlotta. He has been considered to be a
brother, and settled in Lancaster, where he married Susanna Steissen.
James Eckenrode, editor of "The Democrat" of Pocahontas, Iowa, and his
first cousin Joseph Farabaugh, of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, in
1927 gave voice to what appears to have been a family legend that
"John Eckenrode" with one brother and five sisters came from Germany.
Nothing has been found of the five sisters.
The exact location within Philadelphia County where John and Anna
Margaret settled and lived until 1752 is not known. On Novermber 1,
1752, John placed an advertisment in Christopher Sower's newspaper
that read "Johannes Eckroth, Allemangel, Berks County, in the Blue
Mountains".
Four years later, on November 22, 1756, after the conference with
Chief Teedyuscung and the Minisink Indians at Easton (November 8th to
17th), Lt. Col. Conrad Weiserset out to inspect Fort Franklin, located
over the Blue Mountain, north of Albany Township, Berks County, and
Linn Township, then Northampton County. Two days later, on November
24, 1756, he made the following report by letter to Governor Denny:

"I took my leave of them and they of me very canditly. Capt. Arnd
sent an escort with me of twenty men to Fort Franklin where we arrived
at three o'clock in the afternoon (22 November, 1756) it being about
14 miles distant from Fort Allen. I saw that the fort was not tenable,
and the house was not finished for the soldiers and that it could not
be of any service to the inhabitant part there being a great mountain
between them. I ordered Lt. Engel to evacuate it and come to the south
side of the hillshimself with 19 men at John Eberts, Esq. and the rest
being 16 men more at John Eckenroad's both places being about 3 miles
distant from each other and both in the township of Linn, Northampton
County."

Between April 28 and May 28, 1757, some six months after the
detahcment of 16 men under Lt. Engel's command were stationed at John
Eckenroad's, he was killed - "shot dead" - by the Indians while he
was in the fields plowing. His burial site has not been found, but was
probably on his home farm.
In the June 1, 1764, accounting of the estate, his widow, Anna
Margaret, included a disbursement after July 1763 of 4 pounds 5
shillings "for her son's expenses who was a prisoner among the
Indians". Although it is not known how and when (or which son) was
taken prisoner, it probably did not occur at the time of his father's
death as there is no reference to it in the accounts of the shooting.
Anna Margaret never remarried and continued to live on the family
plantation until 1785. On April 11, 1764, she purchased 105 acres of
land adjoining to the south, which she on November 1, 1784, conveyed
to her son Christopher. Sometime after May 8, 1785, she with her son
Henry, her daughter Mary Elizabeth and their families moved to
Paradise and Berwick Townships in York (now Adams) County, where she
died on September 6, 1790, and was buried in the Conewago Catholic
Cemetery.

• Married: BEF 1738 in Germany

1. Henry Eckenroth b: 1736 in Germany
2. Peter Eckenroth b: 1739 in Germany
3. George Eckenroth b: ABT 1740 in Germany
4. Mary Elizabeth Eckenroth b: 1741/2 in Germany
5. Christopher "Stofel" Eckenroth b: ABT 1742 in Germany
6. Anna Margaret Eckenroth b: 22 APR 1744 in Cedar Creek, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania c: 25 JUL 1744 in St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Bally, Washington Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
7. Anna Maria Eckenrode b: ABT 1745
8. Catharine Eckenroth b: 17 NOV 1746 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania c: 17 NOV 1746 in Eckenroth home, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
9. Mary Elizabeth Eckenroth b: BET 1750 AND 1754 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

1. Abbrev: Brian L. Cartwright's info
   Title: Cartwright, Brian L., GEDCOMs and other sources. (Manassas Park, VA, bl cart95@erols.com or blcart95@netzero.net or brian.cartwright2@verizon.n et) rt95@erols.com or blcart95@netzero.net or brian.cartwright2@verizon.net .
   Name: Footnote
   Name: ShortFootnote
   Name: Bibliography
2. Abbrev: Lois Ann Stafford's information
   Title: Stafford, Lois Ann nee Eckenrode, Information from the her records. (It sNama@aol.com) Nama@aol.com.
   Name: Footnote
   Name: ShortFootnote
   Name: Bibliography
3. Abbrev: Catholic Trails West
   Title: Adams, Edmund & O'Keeffe, Barbara Brady, Catholic Trails West: The Foun ding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore M D, 1989) ding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania ding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania. Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore M D, 1989.
   Name: Footnote
   Name: ShortFootnote
   Name: Bibliography
   Page: p. 470
4. Abbrev: Joseph Eckroat's info
   Title: Eckroat, Joseph. Infomation from an email. Umwold@yahoo.com
   Name: Footnote
   Name: ShortFootnote
   Name: Bibliography