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BACON


GREAT NEWS from DNA participant Herbert Bacon who connected with the YODER FAMILY but not BACON FAMILIES. Would love to hear from anyone who knows the connection. I believe Jeremiah Bacon may have gone to Berks Co., Pennsylvania as a toddler with the YODER families. Living with immigrants who came from Switzerland to Germany to Pennsylvania so he to marries Fronica who may have been born in Germany or of German parents


  • Jeremiah Bacon was born about 1725 somewhere in Berks Co., Pennsylvania and not New Jersey. It was Thomas Bacon who was living in Salem Co. is the most rural county in the state of New Jersey. The name Salem is related to the Hebrew word shalom, meaning peace. The town and colony of Salem was founded in 1675 by John Fenwick. 1771 the will of Thomas Bacon leaves his estate to his daughter Mary (Bacon) Hutchinson the mother of two sons & one daughter (Thomas and John Hutchinson & Hannah Hutchinson Hogate Huit) and he left money to "Jeremiah Bacon whom some say is my son" Jeremiah had made the move to Berks Co., Pennsylvania. We know the Yoders were traveling back and forth on the road between Philadelphia & Oley, much of the time doing business. The same road I traveled in May 2014 HWY 73 ; they traveled horseback taking about 3-4 days so I am sure an inn staying the night was called for. The HANS YODER settled in Oley 1714 & the township government was established, in 1740, when Jeremiah was a young man and over 50 families had acquired land parcels taking up a large portion of the township's land. Oley's major iron works, Oley Forge and Oley Furnace. Sons Henry and Jeremiah made their way to Northumberland, Pennsylvania by 1800 and the other five sons were settled in Washington Co., Tennessee

    • 1710-1740 Oley twp land grants list the following: David Kauffman, John YODER, Gabriel Boyer, John Yoder, Yost Yoder, John George Hunter, Robert Stapleton, John Longworthy, John Sheirs, Abraham Ashman, Casper Wilstar, Casper Griesemer, Jean BERTOLET, Thomas Elids, George Boone, Samuel Lee, Martha Shenkel, Martin Shenkel, Anthony Hunter, Elizabeth Bertolet, John Herbein, Hans Sneider, Maxillian Shepfer? John Leinbacet, Isaac DETURK, John Kerst, John Kerson to Samuel Guildin, Engle Peters, John Hoch, Adam Weidner


  • Frederick Batz
  • Jacob Busch
  • Jeremiah Bacon
  • Martin Borkhard
  • Samuel Banfield
  • Conrad Christian a weaver
  • Mathias Dotterer
  • Henry Diener a shoemaker
  • Michael Hartman ; we have Hartman's migrating from Germany who also came to Tennessee

    • In the late 1970s, the Hartman cider press was moved from the farm of Elam Fox near Pricetown. It was placed on the foundation of a former pig stable which was torn down. A cider mill was used for pressing the juice from crushed or broken apples

  • I am thinking the Keim family may be related to Jeremiah Bacon

    • Family History OF Keim family

  • The Keim�s are descendant from Johannes Keim who came from Lindau, Bavaria around 1698. Keim was born in Landau, Speier, Germany Bavarian Palatinate, Germany in 1675. Keim left Germany after the French invasion of the Palatinate (1688-1697) which ruined him. Johannes immigrated through the port of Philadelphia. After staking out his claim in the Oley Valley, Johannes returned to Germany where he married his first wife in 1706, Katarina Bertha DeTurk. Johannes had sixteen children by two wives, but only nine of the children survived childhood. He was the first settler to stake out a claim in the Oley Valley. The Keims were among the Huguenot and Palatine refugees who fled to America from Europe. During the 1740s, Johannes Keim was active in petitioning for the creation of roads. Johannes died in 1758 and is presumably buried with other family members in a plot on the property. The family cemetery is located across the street from the house in the middle of what is currently a farm field
  • 1. Elizabeth Keim 1703 � 1779 ; married John Yoder Jr. born 1700 Berks Co., PA
  • 2. Katarina Keim 1708 � 1793
  • 3. Johannes Peter Keim born March 4, 1711 � 1782
  • 4. Stophel Stephen Keim born March 28, 1717 in Oley and died after 1760
  • 5. Hans Nicholas Keim 1719 � 1802
  • 6. Barbara Keim 1722 � 1764
  • 7. Jacob Keim 1724 � 1799 ; youngest son of Johannes� first wife. Jacob, who was born in 1724, was married to a Magdelena Hoch. In 1767, Jacob Keim was listed as a turner, owned 126 acres, 2 horses, 3 cattle, and was taxed 9 Pounds. When Jacob died in 1799, Magdalena (Jacob�s wife) received the right to remain in a room of the house and some other things, but the homestead was inherited by son John