Descendants of Kuntz Brecht

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  KUNTZ¹ BRECHT was born 1565 in Neudorff Karlsrue, Baden, Germany, and died 1612.  He married CATHERINE.  She was born 1569.

       

Children of KUNTZ BRECHT and CATHERINE are:

2.                i.    CHRISTOPH² BRECHT, b. 1591, Neudorff, Germany; d. 1665, Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany.

                  ii.    GEORGE BRECHT, b. 1590.

                 iii.    HANS BRECHT, b. 1590.

                 iv.    NICHOLAS BRECHT.

                  v.    CHRISTOPH BRECHT, b. 1594.

                 vi.    ELIZABETH BRECHT, b. 1595.

                vii.    SEBASTIAN BRECHT, b. 1600.

               viii.    CHRISTINA BRECHT, b. 1605.

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  CHRISTOPH² BRECHT (KUNTZ¹) was born 1591 in Neudorff, Germany, and died 1665 in Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany.  He married ANNA.  She was born 1598 in Neudorff, Germany, and died 1683 in Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany.

       

Child of CHRISTOPH BRECHT and ANNA is:

3.                i.    BALTHASER³ BRECHT, b. 1636, Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany; d. September 09, 1703, Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany.

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

3.  BALTHASER³ BRECHT (CHRISTOPH², KUNTZ¹) was born 1636 in Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany, and died September 09, 1703 in Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany.  He married ANNA MARGARETA CHRISTMAN August 24, 1658. 

       

Children of BALTHASER BRECHT and ANNA CHRISTMAN are:

                   i.    ANNA MARGARETE⁴ BRECHT, b. February 24, 1659/60.

4.               ii.    JOHANNES BRECHT, b. October 12, 1662, Schriesheim, Mannheim, Baden, Germany; d. August 11, 1719, Schriesheim, Mannheim, Baden, Germany.

                 iii.    HIERONYMUS BRECHT, b. April 02, 1665.

                 iv.    PAUL BRECHT, b. January 27, 1665/66.

                  v.    ANNA MARIA BRECHT, b. June 21, 1668.

                 vi.    HANS BALTHASER BRECHT, b. October 02, 1670.

                vii.    DORTHEA BRECHT, b. March 24, 1671/72.

               viii.    JOHANN MATHIAS BRECHT, b. August 01, 1675.

                  ix.    MARIA MAGDALENA BRECHT, b. August 01, 1675.

                   x.    WILHELM BRECHT, b. February 16, 1677/78.

                  xi.    EVA BRECHT, b. November 23, 1679.

                 xii.    ANNA BARBARA BRECHT, b. March 06, 1680/81.

                xiii.    HANS PHILIP BRECHT, b. June 17, 1683.

 

 

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

4.  JOHANNES⁴ BRECHT (BALTHASER³, CHRISTOPH², KUNTZ¹) was born October 12, 1662 in Schriesheim, Mannheim, Baden, Germany, and died August 11, 1719 in Schriesheim, Mannheim, Baden, Germany.  He married ANNA KATHERINE HOFFMAN Abt. 1684 in Germany, daughter of HANS HOFFMAN and CHRISTINA FRANK.  She was born October 14, 1664 in Germany, and died 1709 in Germany.

       

Children of JOHANNES BRECHT and ANNA HOFFMAN are:

                   i.    ANNA MARGARETHA⁵ BRECHT, b. June 17, 1685.

                  ii.    APOLLONIA BRECHT, b. March 09, 1686/87.

                 iii.    ANNA ELIZABETH BRECHT, b. May 27, 1688.

                 iv.    BALTHASER BRECHT, b. February 26, 1690/91.

                  v.    HANS STEPHEN BRECHT, b. February 17, 1691/92.

                 vi.    JOHANN BRECHT, b. May 17, 1699.

                vii.    ANNA KATHARINA BRECHT, b. March 25, 1704; m. JOHN DEHOFF, October 01, 1727.

5.            viii.    JOHAN MICHAEL BRECHT, b. May 30, 1706, Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany; d. September 13, 1794, Heidelberg, Berks Co. PA.

 

 

Generation No. 5

 

5.  JOHAN MICHAEL⁵ BRECHT (JOHANNES⁴, BALTHASER³, CHRISTOPH², KUNTZ¹) was born May 30, 1706 in Schriessheim, Palatinate, Germany, and died September 13, 1794 in Heidelberg, Berks Co. PA.  He married MARGARETA SIMONE April 1728 in Germantown, PA, daughter of JACQUES JACOB SIMONE.  She was born 1708 in France, and died March 21, 1778 in Shaefferstown, Lebanon Co. PA.

 

Notes for JOHAN MICHAEL BRECHT:

The first emigrant to America was Michael Brecht.  He came from Schriessheim, a market town in the Palatine. Born in 1706, he left his native town for America when he was twenty   years of age and came to Germantown, Pa., in October, 1726. It is not often that a family is so fortunate as to trace its  remote ancestors beyond the first emigrant. But in the case of   the Bright Family by the recent effort of George D. Bright of Philadelphia, a great-great grandson of the emigrant's eldest son Jacob, the dusty and mutilated records of the Lutheran Church of Schriesheim have been carefully searched at some expense. From them it appears that certain Christoph died there in 1665 at the age of 74 and his wife Anna in 1683 at the age of 85 and hed removed thither from Neudorff where he was born in  1591. The same records further disclose that Christoph Brecht had a son Named Balthaser, born in 1636, who was married on  the 24th of August, 1658 to Anna Margareta Christman; that he was a councilman and almoner of the town; and had fourteen children, and that his death occurred September 9, 1703, at the age of 67.  Of the fourteen children, the third named Johannes. He was born October 12, 1662 and married July 29, 1684, to Anna Katharine, a daughter of Hans Yost Hoffman, a councilman of the village.  Among the children of Johannes Brecht was one named Johann Mechael, who was born, says the church record, May 30, 1706, and who had for sponsor at his baptism Hans Michael Hoffman. It would appear that Johann Mechael dropped his pre-nomen, probably to distinguish him from his father Johannes as he was known after he left his home for America only as Michael Brecht. This Michael Brecht was the emigrant who first settled  at Germantown.  His stay at that place was brief.  As the impelling desire of the German emigrant of that day was liberty and land, the newcomer soon pushed his way westward until he found fertile, unoccupied lands in the Lebanon Valley.  Here, at the head waters of the Millbach, a small tributary that flows into the Tulpehocken Creek at the present town of Sheridan on the Lebanon Valley railroad, he settled.  The locality was known as Heidelberg Township, originally in Chester County, but by the latter county.  In its immediate neighborhood the village of Schaeffertown, now Lebanon County, was afterwards laid out by Alexander Schaeffer, who also emigrated from the Palatinate in 1740. Here Michael Brecht first met Margareta Simone, daughter of Jacob Simone, a newly arrived emigrant from France.  She was somewhat his junior in years, but after a short courtship, they were married.  After this happy event, which took place in April  1728, Mr. Brecht turned his attention to the business of future support.  Following the example of his neighbors, he had already marked out a tract of vacant land.  It contained by a subsequent survey 78 acres and was located in the rich limestone region of Lebanon Valley, and covered with primeval forest of white oak and hickory. After building a log dwelling for the use of his family, he began the work of clearning [sic] the land.  Year after year portions of the tract were brought under cultivation, buildings for his horses and cattle erected, and an increasing family provided for.  It was the ambition of every settler to get a title to the land he occupied, but, it was only after 12 years of severe toil and rigid economy that Mr. Brecht, accumulated sufficient ready money to pay for his holding.  On the 30th of July, 1741, he obtained a patent from John Thomas and Richard Penn for the 78 acres, he had occupied as a settler as stated in the patent, which is recorded in Patent Book Volume 8, page 353.  In 1749, Mr. Brecht acquired by purchase from the Penns two other tracts of land in the same neighborhood, one of 100 acres, and the other of 64 acres, making the extent of his landed estate about 250 acres, and the patent is dated November 27, 1749 and duly recorded in Patent Book, Vol. 14, page 334   At the time of his last purchase his children were still at home, assisting in the work of the farm, Jacob, the eldest son being then 20 and David, the youngest nine years old. As a rule, when the children of a farmer become of legal age they desire to set up for themselves and the family of Michael Brecht formed no exception.  Jacob, the oldest son, was the first to leave the old homestead.  He goes to Philadelphia and is  married in the German Reform Church of that city on February 1, 1751, to Susanna Rittenhouse a near relative of the celebrated, David Rittenhouse.  When his second son, George, left home does not appear, but from his adventurous disposition it is not likely that he worked on the farm after his majority in 1752. In 1754 we find Michael, the third son, a resident of the town of Reading, Pa., to which place his fifth son, Peter follows him in 1760. In the same year his fourth son, John (my ancestor and father of Henry who came to Kentucky) married a daughter of Alexander Schaeffer, the founder of Schaeffertown.   His remaining son David, a few years engaged in the milling business on the Swatara in Pinegrove township, Berks County within 20 miles of Schaeffer town.  His daughters all married; Katherin to Peter Sheetz, of Heidelberg Township; Maria to Ludwig Wittenmeyer, a neighbor; Sarah to a Mr. Jones who subsequently removed to Pittsburg. His youngest daughter Christina, found a husband in Philadel phia when she was but 18 years of age.  Her marriage to Christopher Pechin on April 4, 1765, is recorded in the First Baptist Church of that city. From the statements in Michael Brecht's already given his several children "as much as he wanted or  could give them"; it may be inferred that they we portion of his estate as they severred and left home to seek new relations in life -- such advances consisting mostly of a family outfit usual in those days.  In 1762, most of his chil dren had drifted from the paternal domicile, and the stay of those who still remained (probably Sarah and Christina)   .  Mr. Brecht concludes to give up his farm and on the 11th of May of that year he sells his estate of 246 acres and allowance which he had bought from the Penns to Yost Hoff man for 1200. He continues, however, to reside at Schaeffer town until after the death of his wife, Margareta in 1778.  She was buried in the Heidelberg Reformad Graveyard located at the village of Heidelberg, afterwards called Schaeffertown.  There being no longer any of his family in the neighborhood -- his son John having changes his place of residence to Fredericks burg, now in Lebanon County, Pa., in 1782, Mr. Brecht about this removes to Reading, where his sons Michael and Peter were with their families.  In 1789, he makes his will~ calling elf in the preface "Michael Brecht, Sen. of the town of     ng" and on September 13, 1794, at the ripe age of 88 years he is gathered to his fathers, his remains being deposited in the German Reformed burying place, then located at the north east corner of Washington and Sixth Streets.  Whether a tomb stone marked his grave is not known, but, if so it was lost in removal of the dead to the Charles Evans Cemetery, and his place of burial is unknown If anything were wanting to establish the genuine chararacter of the document in question it will be found in the corres pondence of its statements with the "Will of Michael Brecht, the Elder" written in 1789 in German it was proved September 29, before Jacob Bower and is on file in the Office of the er of Wills, and contains the names of his ten children e order in which they were given in the registry ex cept that the sons are named first~  It is a long document and appears to be the testor's own composition.  As it contains, any material facts as to his own life and his children's we give a summary of it with some fullness of details. gins by calling himself Michael Brecht, the elder, of the Reading, Pa.  Next he orders his executor to give to each ten children, vix., Jacob, George, Michael, John, Peter and David and his daughters Katherine Sheetz, Maria Wittemeyer, Sarah Jones and Christina Pitchin, as much as he shall hereafter t.  He then gives Jacob five shillings, because he is his t born son; and after reciting that he has already given is several children as much of his estate as he chose or  according to his means, he provides for a settlement of with them by his executor as follows:  Having loaned Jacob $150 in August 1786 for which he takes his bond with interest, the executor is directed to collect from œ 50 with interest and then give him back his bond.  As to his son George, the executor is to give to his lawfully begotten children œ40 in equal shares.  To Michael who had given his father a bond dated April, 1784 for œ 150, the executor was to return his bond upon the payment of œ 50 with interest, In the case of his son John, recites that as he has already before given to him for his portion the same as his brothers and sisters received and has since lent him in ready cash $40 for which he gave his bond dated October 1786, he directs his executor to return his bond upon payment of the interest in full.  As to Peter to whom he loaned œ 200, and took his note dated in April, 1788 he directs that upon his paying œ100 with interest his bond should be returned to him.  To his son David, he had loaned "in ready cash œ27 anno 1765."  He accordingly directs that his bond be handed back to him and that he should be paid in addition œ80 for his inheritance   For his daughter Katharine, he provides that in addition to what he has given her, she shall yet receive the sum of œ30 for portion.  For his daughter Maria, inasmuch as he holds the bond of her hus band, Ludwig for œ50 dated in April 1773, she is to receive back the said bond with the interest accrued and in addition the sum of œ20 for her inheritance; and to his daughter Sarah Jones in addition to what he had advanced her, she is to be paid the sum of œ80.  To his youngest daughter, Christina Pitchen, he directs that œ100 be paid in addition to what she has already received. Perhaps nothing so clearly shows the peaceful  and fatherly character of the testator as the closing portion of the will  Apprehensive that some of the children might be dis- satisfied with the division he has made of his estate, he "ad vises such to have patience and to learn from his own mistakes and be wise; and that each of them may at once do right and be at peace."  He then appoints his loving son, Michael, as his execu tor, with full power to give satisfaction to any just and reason able complaint which may be made. The original spelling of the family name was Brecht as is shown by the Lutheran records at Schrlessheim in the Palatinate in which the names of the ancestors of the emigrant for three consecutive generations are so written.  In addition to this, the emigrant always wrote his name "Brecht" as in the deeds of lease and release of lot on the corner of Thomas and Callow hill Streets, in the town of Reading, to his son Michael in  1761, in the writer's possession, as also in his last will and testament on file in the Register's Office, the same spelling is preserved.  In the second generation of the Bright Family in America, the sons of the emigrant retained the same spelIing in early life, as witness the marriage record of the Reformed Church at Philadelphia in 1751 of his eldest son Jacob, the deeds of lease and release by Michael, the leder to his son Michael, J. in October 1761, above referred to and the early official as sessment rolls of his sons John and David and the signature of his son, Peter to deeds executed by him in his lifetime, as well as his signature to his last will filed in the Register's Office at Reading, Pa., in 1793 When the change from Brecht to Bright was made is uncertain It began, however, in the second generation.  The first use of the word Bright, I find in the signature of Michael, the third son, to the administration account on the estate of Conrad Bower, whose widow he married, filed in 1768; which he signs jointly with her.  He here, signs his name Michael Bright and in the deed  to him for a tannery and twelve acres of land in Alsace given to him as grantee by James Boone, in 1775, he is likewise named Michael Bright.  So in a deed to him from his son Jacob for a lct in Reading, in 1793, he is named as Michael Bright; and in all documents subsequent to 1778 signed by him, including his last will in 1814, he signs his name Michael Bright, which after his father 's death ln 1794 is changed to Michael Bright, Sen., as he had a son by the same name.  He does not appear to have written his own name as Michael, Jr., probably for the reason that his father used Brecht as the family name while he wrote Bright.  His oldest brother Jacob, of Philadelphia seems to have changed his spelling of the family name to Bright at an early day as in a commission to him as Captain in 1776, he is named as Captain Jacob Bright.  In the third generation the use of Bright as the family name appears to have been generally adopted   The name Brecht had entirely disappeared. Michael Brecht, the Elder, having emigrated to America from the Palatinate in 1726, and settling first at Germantown, Pennsylvania, married 1728, Margareta, daughter of Jacob  Simone, recently emigrated from France. records of the Lutheran Church at Schriessheim have been care fully searched at some expense.  From them it appears that a cer tain Christoph Brecht died there in 1665, at the age of 74, and his wife, Anna, in 1683, at the age of 85, and had removed thither from Neudorff, where he was born in 1591. "The same records further disclose that Christoph Brecht had a son named Balthaser, born in 1636, who was married on the  24th of August, 1658, to Anna Margareta Christman; that he was a councilman and almoner of the town; and had 14 children, and that his death occurred September 9, 1703, at the age of 67. Of the 14 children, the third was named Johannes.  He was born October 12, 1662, and was married July 29, 1684, to Anna Katharine, daughter of Hans Yost Hoffman, a councilman of the village. Among the children of Johannes Brecht was one named Johann Michael who was born, says the church record, May 30, 1706, and who had sponsor at his baptism Hans Michael Hoffman.  It would appear that Johann Michael dropped his prenomen, probably to distinguish him from his father, Johannes, as he was known after he left his home for America only as Michael Brecht. This Michael Brecht was the emigrant who first settled at Germantown." Soon after his arrival in America, Michael Brecht moved on westward, to the fertile valley of the Lebanon, settling in   the locality known as Heidelberg Township, near the present town of Schaefferstown.  There he acquired land, engaged in the oc cupation of farming, which proved prosperous.  He and his wife raised a family of ten children, all of whom married and went to establish homes of their own.  His children having scattered, in  1762, Michael Brecht sold his estate, but continued to reside in Schaefferstown until after the death of his wife in 1778. About  1782, he removed to Reading, Pa., where two of his sons were living.  There he lived until his death, which occurred on Sep tember 13, 1794, at the ripe age of 88.

 

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References:  "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," v. 1, p.213; "A Brief History of Schaefferstown," by A. S. Brendle, 1903;  Pennsylvania Archives; Publications of the Lebanon County Historical Society, Vol. 1, page 14; etc)

 

       

Children of JOHAN BRECHT and MARGARETA SIMONE are:

                   i.    JACOB⁶ BRECHT, b. April 13, 1729; d. 1802; m. SUSAN RITTENHOUSE, February 01, 1750/51.

                  ii.    GEORGE BRECHT, b. February 09, 1730/31; d. 1814, Reading PA.

                 iii.    CATHERINA BRECHT, b. April 06, 1734; d. res. Heidelberg, Berks Co. PA; m. PETER SHEETS.

6.              iv.    JOHN BRECHT, b. February 20, 1735/36, Heidelberg, Berks Co. PA; d. 1817, Jonestown, PA.

                  v.    PETER BRECHT, b. May 13, 1738.

                 vi.    DAVID BRECHT, b. August 09, 1740.

                vii.    MARIA BRECHT, b. August 01, 1742, Berks Co. PA; m. LUDWIG WITTENMEYER.

               viii.    SARAH BRECHT, b. January 19, 1744/45.

                  ix.    CHRISTINA BRECHT, b. August 12, 1747; d. 1835; m. CHRISTOPHER PECHIN; b. Philadelphia, PA; d. 1779.

 

 

Generation No. 6

 

6.  JOHN⁶ BRECHT (JOHAN MICHAEL⁵, JOHANNES⁴, BALTHASER³, CHRISTOPH², KUNTZ¹) was born February 20, 1735/36 in Heidelberg, Berks Co. PA, and died 1817 in Jonestown, PA.  He married MARGARET SCHAEFFER, daughter of ALEXANDER SCHAEFFER and ANNA ENGEL.  She was born 1744, and died 1816.

 

Notes for JOHN BRECHT:

 

Fought in the Revolutionary War.  He was in the Eighth Regiment -- Pennsylvania -- Continental Line-Records of War Department -- Adjustant General's Office.  John Bright's name appears under the  head of Pennsylvania against U.S.A. for depreciation of pay.

       

Children of JOHN BRECHT and MARGARET SCHAEFFER are:

                   i.    HENRY⁷ BRECHT, b. 1760, Shaefferstown, Lebanon Co. PA; d. 1858, Hubble, Lincoln, Co. KY; m. ELIZABETH POPE.

                  ii.    MICHAEL BRECHT, b. September 10, 1762, Shaefferstown, PA; d. March 06, 1847, Plum twp. Allegheny Co. PA; m. BARBARA WINTERS.

                 iii.    JOHN BRECHT, b. 1764.

                 iv.    CATHERINE BRECHT, b. 1767.

                  v.    SARAH BRECHT, b. 1770.

                 vi.    SUSAN BRECHT, b. 1772.

                vii.    JACOB BRECHT, b. 1774.

7.            viii.    GEORGE BRIGHT BRECHT, b. 1776; d. 1829, Centre Co. PA.

                  ix.    GEORGE BRECHT, b. 1776.

 

 

Generation No. 7

 

7.  GEORGE BRIGHT⁷ BRECHT (JOHN⁶, JOHAN MICHAEL⁵, JOHANNES⁴, BALTHASER³, CHRISTOPH², KUNTZ¹) was born 1776, and died 1829 in Centre Co. PA.  He married EVA ELIZABETH STOVER, daughter of JOHANNES STOVER and JULIANA WOLF.  She was born in Centre Co. PA, and died 1819 in Centre Co. PA.

 

Notes for EVA ELIZABETH STOVER:

Church Records: Selected Areas of PA, 1600s-1800s

 

Eva Elizabeth of John Stover (Stoever) and wife Barbara, b. Jun 5,1780; bapt. Jun 25, 1780.  Spon:  John. Wm. Ehrli and Eva Wolf, both single.

 

 

       

Children of GEORGE BRECHT and EVA STOVER are:

                   i.    MICHAEL⁸ BRIGHT, d. 1893, Memphis, TN.

 

Notes for MICHAEL BRIGHT:

Slave holder, fought on the Confederate side.

 

 

                  ii.    DAVID BRIGHT, b. March 08, 1801.

                 iii.    SOPHIA BRIGHT, b. December 07, 1802; m. ADAM GUISWITE; b. r. Aaronsburg, Centre Co. PA.

                 iv.    MARGARET BRIGHT, b. January 06, 1805.

                  v.    CATHERINE BRIGHT BRECHT, b. December 10, 1806, Centre Co. PA; d. April 21, 1892, Centre Co. PA; m. SAMUEL SHAFFER, Centre Co. PA; b. October 09, 1803, Centre Co. PA; d. January 19, 1883, Centre Co. PA.

 

Notes for SAMUEL SHAFFER:

From the Shafer family homepage from Centre Co.

 

The Shaffer Family First Started With Three Brothers And Their Families Immigrating From Germany In June 1710. Their Names Were Johann Nicolaus Schaeffer, His Wife Maria Catharina Suder; Their Daughter Anna Margaretha, And Five Sons, Michael, Caspar, Peter, Nicolaus And Jacob. The Other Two Families Were Johann Michael And His Wife Anna Christina Schehrer,  And Johann Friederich And His Wife Anna Rosina. Discouraged, And Dissatisfied With  Their Treatment After Their Arrival, The Families Left In The Late Fall Of 1712 For  Schoharie Valley, Some 60 Miles From Livingston Manor, Ny., Where They RemainedThere For 10 Years.  Early In 1723, The 3 Families Left Schoharie And Settled Tulpehocken, In Southeastern Pennsylvania. Johann Nicolaus Schaeffer And His Family Were The Earliest Settlers To Tulpehocken. His Brother Johann Friederich Also Settled The Same Area Johann Nicolaus' Son, Johann Nicolaus Jr., Who Was Born Jan. 21, 17o6 In Relsberg, Germany Had A Son Named Johannes. Johannes Was Born In Tulpehocken In 1728. Johannes  Was Raised Near Rehersburg In Berks County, And Later, He Met And Married Maria Eva Saab In 1749.  Their First Son, Johan Nicholas Was Born On New Years Day In 1750, In Berks County.Two Years Later On October 31, 1752, My Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather  John Adam Schaffer Was Born. Johannes And His Family, Wife Eva, Five Sons AndThree Daughters Moved Northwest To Mahanoy Township In Northumberland County In The Spring Of 1775.  In April 1775, When The Colonies Started Getting Mad At King George iii In England,  And Declared Their Independence, The Two Oldest Shaffer Boys Went Off To Fight  For Liberty And Freedom. John Adam Was A Lieutenant And His Brother Nicholas  Was A Private In A Company Called "The Associators." They Both Fought In The Battles Of Trenton And Princeton During The Cold Winter Of 1776-1777. Their  Enlistment Commitment Ended In 1779 And John Adam Mustered Out At York County.

He Married A York County Girl Named Elizabeth Klinefelder. After Eleven Children,  (6 Boys And 5 Girls) John Adam And Elizabeth Moved Their Family To Centre County In  1801.  Nicholas And His Wife Juliana Brosius Had Moved To That Area Nine Years Earlier  And Produced 14 Kids In 22 Years. John Adam Was The Patriarch Of His Day, Lived To  Be 87 Years Old When He Passed Away In Madisonburg, In 1840. His Wife Elizabeth Died 5 Years Earlier And His Brother Nicholas Died In 1825. All Are Buried In The Lutheran  And Reformed Church Cemetery In Madisonburg.

 

 

                 vi.    JOHANNES "JOHN" BRIGHT, b. April 28, 1809, Centre Co. PA; m. MARTHA HILL.

                vii.    GEORGE BRIGHT, JR, b. August 02, 1811, Centre Co. PA; d. Centre Co. PA; m. SARAH BOWER, March 13, 1842, Centre Co. PA.

               viii.    SAMUEL BRIGHT, b. 1818, Aaronsburg, Centre Co. PA.; m. EVE WEAVER; b. Haines Twp. Centre Co.PA.