An American Family History

Johan Dietrich Bauman and Eva Elizabeth Beil

Marlborough Township, Montgomery (was Philadelphia) County, Pennsylvania
Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Bauman is also spelled Baughman, Baumann, Boman, and Bowman.

The Goshenhoppen Church in Hereford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was a Union church where Lutheran and Reformed congregations shared one building. The first recorded Reformed worship service was on October 12, 1727. The congregations built a log building that was both church and schoolhouse.

Johan Dietrich Bauman and Eva Elizabeth Beil married on August 21, 1739 at the Goshenhoppen Church at Red Hill, Montgomery County (then Philadelphia County) Pennsylvania. Pastor Johan Justus Birkenstock performed the ceremony.

They first lived in Marlborough Township, Montgomery (was Philadelphia) County, Pennsylvania where they owned and operated a grist mill.

Sybilla Bauman Truby was born about 1738.

Anna Maria Bauman Seybert was born July 5, 1741.

Bernard Bauman was born in 1749.

Heinrich Bauman was born September 29, 1751.

About 1755 they moved to Northampton County, Pennsylvania which is now Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The History of Carbon County, Pennsylvania says the land was "near the mouth of Lizard creek, in what is now East Penn township."

Sybila married married Christopher Truby about 1760 and moved with him to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Maria married Sebastian Sebert about 1764.

Heinrich married Catherine Dreisbach about 1767.

John Dietrich died about 1762 and Elizabeth died about 1773.

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1773
The Pennsyvania Gazette

Montgomery County, in southeast Pennsylvania was created on September 10, 1784, out of land that was originally part of Philadelphia County.

17th and 18th century Germans often gave children two names at baptism. The first was a saint's name. The second a secular name which is what the child was called. The saint's name was usually given to all the children of that family of the same gender. Johannes was rarely a saint's name, but Johann was.

Northampton County, Pennsylvania is on the eastern border of the state in the Lehigh Valley. It was formed in 1752 from parts of Bucks County. Easton is the county seat.

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