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Greathouse kith and kin records found in the county:

1751 - 1798 Beyer of Plainfield

1770 - St. John’s Lutheran Church, Easton, PA:

Some of the confirmed persons in 1770 are children of some of the above families. Others representing their names are:

William Grothouse

1770, Aug 16 - St. John's Lutheran Church, Easton, PA:

18 Catechumen

William Grothhouse

Define: CATECHUMEN, n. One who is in the first rudiments of Christianity; one who is receiving instruction and preparing himself for baptism. These were anciently the children of believing parents, or pagans not fully initiated in the principles of the Christian religion. They were admitted to this state by the imposition of hands, and the sign of the cross. Source: 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary, Online: http://1828.mshaffer.com

1772 - 1791 William Greathouse of Upper Saucon

1775 - 1783 William Greathouse of Plainfield

1776 - Map of Northampton

1778, Aug 29 – No. 4 Account Sale of Henry & Peter Zells Estate Sold at Public Vendue Aug 29, 1778

Page 436
William Grothouse, Saw and joiners tools, ......1 5

Sources:

Memorial Volume. St. John's Lutheran Church, Easton , Pa: Containing an Account of the Jubilee Services, the Historical Sermon, the Charters of the Church and the Benevolent Society and a List of the Officers of the Church and the Officers, Teachers, and Pupils of the Sunday School By St. John's Lutheran Church (Easton, Pa.), D H Geissinger, Rueben Kolb, Pa St. John's Lutheran Church (Easton Published by Pub. by authority of the Church Council, 1882 Original from Harvard University Digitized Dec 7, 2007. Online: http://books.google.com/books?id=74ISAAAAYAAJ , William Grothouse page 34.

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Easton, PA, Parish Records of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton, PA from 1769 to the Consecration of the New Church, Jan. 1, 1832. Online: cover - http://www.footnote.com/image/229077355; Page 356, William Grothhouse - http://www.footnote.com/image/229077356

1776 Map of Northampton County

Pennsylvania Archives; By Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, Gertrude MacKinney, Pennsylvania State Library, Charles F Hoban, Secretary of the commonwealth, Pennsylvania General assembly. Published 1935 printed by J. Severns & co. William Grothouse, saw and joiners tools, Page 436. Online: http://www.footnote.com/image/3242119/grothouse.