Greathouse of Plainfield Township, Northampton County, PA

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1775, Nov 5 - Baptism: John Leonard Grothaus, Plainfield Reformed Church

Excerpt from Records of Plainfield Reformed Church: View @ Fold3 [ Cover ]

Entries by the Rev. John Wm. Weber, Sept. 1772 - May 1783. View @ Fold3 [ Page 6 ]

John Leonard, son of William & Maria Grothaus, b. 10 Sep 1775, bap. 5 Nov 1775; Sponsors: Leonard Bayer [Johann Leonhart Beyer] & wife. View @ Fold3 [ Page 8 ]

Footnotes:

1) A John Leonard Greathouse born on 10 Sep 1775, provided that he survived through adulthood, would have attained the age of 21 in 1796, when he could have married and started a family of his own. Between 1787 and 1803, a William Greathouse Jr., his wife Mary and a Leonard Greathouse were named in land, marriage and tax records, such that they were residing in the same district of Harrison County, VA. A Leonard Greathouse, who could have been the son of William Greathouse Jr. and his wife Mary, was married to Sarah Parsons in Harrison County, VA about 8 Nov 1801.

Article: 1801 - Marriage Bond: Leonard Greathouse & Sarah Parsons, Harrison County, WV

2) While William Greathouse Jr., his wife Mary and a Leonard Greathouse were residing in the same district of Harrison County, VA between 1787 and 1803, a Rohanah Greathouse, daughter of William Greathouse, married John Stackhouse in Harrison County, VA on 11 Oct 1798. In the 1830 census of Belmont County, OH, when Rhoaner Greathouse Stackhouse was enumerated as head of her own household, her age was related such that she would have been born between 1780 and 1790. If she was age between 15 and 18, when she married John Stackhouse in 1798, then she would have been born between 1780 and 1783. Also, if Rohanah Greathouse was a sister of Leonard Greathouse who married in Harrison County, VA in 1801, then she could have been born while her father William Greathouse was serving as a Corporal in Cpt. Lewis Stacher's Company of Plainfield, Northampton County, PA militia between 1780 and 1783.

Article: 1798 - Marriage: John Stackhouse and Rohanah Greathouse, Harrison County, WV

3) William Greathouse, husband of Maria and father of John Leonard, obtained a land warrant for 10 acres in Plainfield in 1773. The farm of William Greathouse was adjoined to the north by Ulrich Houser, whose farm was adjoined to the north by Conrad Germandon, whose farm was adjoined to the north by Plainfield Reformed Church.

Article: 1773 - Land Warrant: William Krothouse, 10 acres, Plainfield

Article: 1750 - 1789 - Plat Map: Warrantees Near Plainfield Reformed Church

4) William Greathouse's farm was adjoined to the east by Henry Schleydorn, who also owned an adjoining farm to Johann Adolph Grothaus in Springfield, Philadelphia County, PA.

Article: 1759 - Deed: John Grothausen and wife Amelia to Christopher Ottinger, 901 Abington Avenue, Springfield, Philadelphia County, PA

5) Leonard Beyer's farm adjoined Plainfield Reformed Church's land to the west.

6) Lewis Stacher Esq.'s farm adjoined Plainfield Reformed Church's land to the east.

7) Regarding Plainfield Reformed Church, as early as 18 Oct 1750, a warrant for a tract of land was granted to Adam Dietz in trust for the German Reformed Church in Plainfield [or in trust for the Calvinist Congregation], which was in Bucks County, PA until the creation of Northampton County occurred in 1752. A small log church was erected for a small congregation on the first tract of land in 1770. "The Ministers of the German Reformed Congregations in Pennsylvania and other Colonies in the 18th Century" - William. Hinke, page 188, reads: "In August, 1782, a German traveler, John David Schopf, visited some of the settlements, near Wind Gap, and writes as follows: 'We passed a small log church which has been built by the Lutherans and the German Reforms, whom it serves alternately as a place of worship'." This quotation informs us that the Reformed and Lutheran people erected the first log church in 1770. The congregation obtained a second tract from Casper Doll on 27 Aug 1790. When both tracts were surveyed and a new patent was issued on 27 Nov 1820, the congregation's land amounted to 60 acres, 70 perches and allowance. The Plainfied Reformed Church remains active today as St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1422 Church Road, Pen Argyl, PA 18027. View Website

Sources:

Plainfield Reformed Church, Church Records of the Plainfield Reformed Church, Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania 1763-1853, Vol. 1, Copied by Wm. J. Hinke, Feb - Mar 1934. Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society, Lancaster, PA. John Leonard, son of William & Maria Grothaus. View @ Fold3 [ Cover ]

Ibid., Plainfield Reformed Church, Page 6, Rev. John Wm. Weber. View @ Fold3 [ Page 6 ]

Ibid., Plainfield Reformed Church, Page 8 , John Leonard, son of William & Maria Grothaus. View @ Fold3 [ Page 8 ]

John T. Humphrey, Pennsylvania Births: Northampton County 1733-1800.

Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA. Land Warrants. 1773, Aug 3 - Land Warrant: William Krothause, 10 Acres, Plainfield. View @ Fold3 [ Page 280 | Page 281 ]

RG-17, Records of the Land Office, WARRANT REGISTERS, 1733-1957. [series #17.88], *NORTHAMPTON COUNTY Document Images*. Page 95, 1773, Aug 3 - Land Warrant: William Krothouse, 10 acres, Plainfield. View @ Pennsylania Archive

Greathouse Point, Greathouse Archives: USA - Northampton County, PA, 1750 - 1789 - Plat Map: Warrantees Near Plainfield Reformed Church.

Pennsylvania Archives, RG-17, Records of the Land Office, Copied Surveys, 1681-1912. {series #17.114} Book C43, Page 153, 1789 - Survey: Plainfield Reformed Church, 60 acres. View @ Pennsylvania Archives [ Book C43, Page 153 ]

St. Peter's Evangelical Church, Origins of the Plainfield Church. View @ St. Peter's

St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1422 Church Road, Pen Argyl, PA 18027. View Website