Johannes3 Arner (ulrich2, Ulrich1), born 1760(14a) in Heidelberg, Northampton (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania and christened 07 February 1760 (Sponsors: Johannes Kern and Julianna Catharina Hoffman)(2)(37); died 27 January 1850(14a) in Towamensing (now Franklin), Carbon, Pennsylvania; married first 28 March 1786(34) to Catharina Deibert who was probably born about 30-31 October 1768 and died (buried 26 August) 1790 aged 21 years, 09 months, 25 days in Heidelberg(8)(42); married second to Catharina ______ who was born before 1765 and apparently died 1830s in Towamensing.
On 20 April 1777, he enlisted in Captain Jost Dreisbach’s (1st) Company, Count von Ottendorf’s Corps (PA:5:3:898)(C). He was on the 1788 Tax List in Whitehall Township (PA:3:19:315)(C). They moved to Towamensing, Northampton (now Franklin, Carbon), Pennsylvania in the early 1800s. On 27 May 1804, they were baptismal sponsors for Catharina Rischel, daughter of Jacob and Fronica Rischel (recorded at St. John’s Towamensing Church(18)).
He became insolvent about 1816. The land of “John and Catharine Arner” in Towamensing [which they had bought 01 February 1805] was sold by Court Order at a Sheriff’s Sale on 12 March 1817. It was bought by their son Jacob (Northampton Deed Book A2½, page 072), who later sold it to his eldest son Thomas on 29 December 1837 (Northampton Deed Book E6, page 615). [NOTE: As an interesting side note, this is the same tract of land which had been originally warranted to his father Ulrich Arner in 1770, and sold by Ulrich to his son Martin on 10 August 1776. However, there was not unbroken Arner ownership; from 1782 to 1805, it had been owned by men named Lampert and Craig.]
[From History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Alfred Mathews and Austin N. Hungerford, published by Everts & Richards, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1884: “John Arner was of the family who came into Towamensing soon after the Revolution, and settled on the farm now owned by Benjamin Peter. He lived and died here, and left sons, Daniel and Jacob, and daughter Susan (Mrs. Jacob Snyder), and Mrs. Moore, of Conyngham Valley, near Hazleton.”]
[From the Brenckman History of Carbon County(G), page 198: “John Arner was of the family who came into this region [Franklin Township] soon after the war of Independence. The people of that name have now [1913] become so numerous that they have formed a family association, holding annual reunions in the township that bring hundreds together from various sections of the country.”]
1790 Census: John Arner, page 288, Heidelberg, Northampton, Pennsylvania. [also see Worksheet]
1800 Census: John Arner, page 560, Lehigh, Northampton, Pennsylvania. [also see Worksheet]
1810 Census: John Orner, page 076, Towamensing, Northampton, Pennsylvania. [also see Worksheet]
1820 Census: John Arner Jr, page 291, Towamensing, Northampton, Pennsylvania. [also see Worksheet]
1830 Census: John Orner, page 207, Towamensing, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
1840 Census: John Arner, page 251, Towamensing, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
He is believed to be buried at Bunker Hill Cemetery at Weissport, Carbon, Pennsylvania [but I didn’t find a gravestone for him (in August 2004)].
Known children [also see Worksheet], the first three with first wife, the rest presumably with second wife:
+ John R.4 Arner, born 09 January and christened 14 January 1787 (Sponsors: Peter Anthony and Elizabeth)(3); married Elizabeth G. Koch; moved to Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
+ Jacob4 Arner, born 28 March 1789; married ANNA MARIA DREISBACH.
(Daughter)4, born about 1790.
+ Daniel4 Arner, born 01 January 1792(14); married SUSANNA SOLT.
Susanna4 Arner, born 05 March 1794(5); married to Jacob Snyder(K).
(Daughter)4, born 1790s; possibly died young.
+ Elizabeth4 Arner, born about 1802; married Joseph Houseknecht; moved to Sugarloaf, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.
Salome4 Arner, born 06 December 1806 and christened 01 February 1807 (Sponsors: Jost Dreisbach and Anna Maria)(18); possibly the daughter married to _______ Moore(K) and moved to Sugarloaf, Luzerne, Pennsylvania. She was confirmed 26 April 1823 at St. John’s Towamensing Church (FHL film #020346, item 5).
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