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- [S54] HISTORY OF KREIDER FAMILY FROM PEN OF THE REV. J. G. FRANCIS.pdf, REV. J.G. FRANCIS, 7/28/1919.
CHRISTIAN, SON OF JACOB THE SETTLER
Christian Kreider is doubtless next to oldest son of Jacob, the Settler. We have a number of Christians. He is the oldest of all. He was one of the four brothers who divided up the old Kreider tract. He received 172 acres, it being the extreme eastern part of the "Kreider Settlement." He bordered on "Kleinfelt," of which we have written and out of which he bought Jan. 7, 1772 48 acres and 27 perches of land which lay along the lane running into the old John Q. Royer farm and up to the Bomberger cemetery. The road running to Zinn's mill, we are told, constituted the southwestern boundary of the Kreider Settlement. Christian's two tracts, his descendant, J. S. Bomberger, tells us, comprised the eastern farm of Henry Bomberger, the Royer, now Spitler farm, the southeastern part of the Frank Hauck estate, the purchased tract being partly an addition to the Mace farm, the balance being in the Adam Hauck estate, with the exception of a small strip of the Louser farm.
Christian made his will Aug. 15, 1789. To his son Jacob he bequeathed 108 acres, which was then bounded by land of Martin Cryder, Frederick Zimmerman and George Hock (Hoke). To his son Christian, Jr., he gave the remainder of his land, 102 acres, containing the buildings, bordered by lands of Frederick Wolfersberger, George Ellinger, George Hock, Philip Greenawalt, Frederick Zimmerman, and Jacob Cryder.
The care of his wife Mary he left cojointly to his sons Jacob and Christian._ "I give and bequeath to my Beloved Wife that little room wherein my son Christian now liveth for her residence together with the stone [stove] in it. And my son Jacob shall supply my said wife yearly with four cords of good fire wood, and my son Christian with three cords ditto, well split and cut for the stove, to be carried before her door." Each son was to supply her with ten bushels of potatoes yearly. Jacob and Christian were the executors.
Christian seems to have been a man of considerable influence and wealth. He had 4 children:
• Jacob, b. ----; d. in 1819.*
• Christian, received half of homestead; perhaps never married.[*]
• Anna, m. Jacob Secrist, of whom we have no additional knowledge.
• Tobias, b. Dec. 8, 1759; d. July 22, 1835.*
- [S54] HISTORY OF KREIDER FAMILY FROM PEN OF THE REV. J. G. FRANCIS.pdf, REV. J.G. FRANCIS.
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Abt 1726 - 1789 (63 years)