Misc. Notes
in the year 2000, Gerrardstown is 11.5 miles or 20 minutes by automobile from Martinsburg.
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Information for this family’s origins was obtained from a family treemaker user site on the internet at address:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/o/s/Dana-T-Bostwick/GENE4-0001.htmlI have adding that information to a private area of my file lest that site becomes unavailable:
Source for the records in Tailfingen is:
. Joe Dessel, e-mail, April 1998: provides parents and birth information for Michael and Matthias Bitzer, and marriages of Conrad Bitzer, referencing microfilm # 1189974 for the family registry and microfilm #s 1189972 to 1189975 for the complete church records for Tailfingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany. 2. Birth & Death Source: Tailfingen Family Register, Film # 118974, Family # U94
MATTHIAS BITZER, b. February 24, 1731/32, Tailfingen, Wuerttemberg, GERMANY; d. June 10, 1816, Berkeley, VA, USA.
MICHAEL BITZER, b. February 20, 1733/34, Tailfingen, Wuerttemberg, GERMANY; d. May 1822, Gerrardstown, Berkeley, VA, USA.
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Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania
[The original list is herewith given.]
LIST OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED IN THE SHIP OSGOOD. WILLIAM WILKIE, CAPTAIN, FROM ROTTERDAM. QUALIFIED SEPT. 29, 1750.
Johannes Bitzer, Ludwig Bitzer
Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania
LIST OF FORRIGNERS IMPORTED IN THE SHIP EDINBERGH, JAMES RUSSELL, MASTER. QUALIFIED SEPT. 16, 1751.
Mattheis Bitzer, Michael Bitzer,
LIST OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED IN THE SHIP OSGOOD. WILLIAM WILKIE, CAPTAIN, FROM ROTTERDAM. QUALIFIED SEPT.
29, 1750.
See also
Ancestry.com: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
First Census
Also try Bart Twp., Lancaster Co., PA
NAUGHRIGHTVILLE.
HERMAN BITZER occupied the last farm on the Budd or Allen tract as early as 1750 and until it was purchased by John Peter Scharpenstein. Nothing is known of the Bitzer family, except that the name occurs among the settlers at Annsburg, near Rhinebeck, in 1711. This farm of 455 acres included the farms of Willard Apgar, the Wyckoff and Lambert Sharp place, and perhaps the Henry Wise, the Baldwin and Lance farms.