Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » Col. David Mulholland Deschler (± 1734-1796)

Persönliche Daten Col. David Mulholland Deschler 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1734.
• Er ist verstorben Dezember 1796.
• Ein Kind von JOHN ADAM DESCHLER und Hanna Appolonia Mulholland
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 2. Juni 2023.

Familie von Col. David Mulholland Deschler

Er ist verheiratet mit Susan Elizabeth Muhlenberg.

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Kind(er):

1. Anna Barbara Muhlenberg Deschler   
2. Susannah Muhlenberg Deschler  
3. Catherine Muhlenberg Deschler  1761-????
4. George Muhlenberg Deschler   
5. John Adam Muhlenberg Deschler   
6. Maria Elizabeth Muhlenberg Deschler  

Notizen bei Col. David Mulholland Deschler

DAVID DESHLER. David Deshler, the son of Adam Deshler, was born in Switzerland, in 1734. His father was one of the early settlers of Whitehall township, where he became quite prominent. David, his eldest son, who was naturalized April io, I76i, purchased the mill property on the Little Lehigh from Michael Rothrock in 1762 and was one of the first settlers of Allentown. In i762 he was taxed £9', and in 1768 for a grist mill and a saw mill and fifty acres of land in Salisbury township. He was a member of the Committee of Observation, which was chosen December 21, I774, and 20I was a delegate from Northampton county to the Provincial Conference of Committees, which met in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, on June i8, 1776. He was chosen by this conference as one of the judges of election for members of the convention, on July 8, 1776, at Allentown, where the second election district, consisting of Northampton, Salsburg, Upper Saucon, Upper Milford, Macungie, Weisenberg, Lynn, Whitehall and Heidelburg held its election. On March I2, 1777, he was elected by the Assembly one of the four Sub-Lieutenants of Northampton county. In his account, filed September 4, I779, he reports having received £4,8i8 17 s. 9 p., from sundry persons for non-performance of militia duty. He was appointed one of the Commissioners of Purchases for Northampton county on February i9, 1778, and on July 7, 1780, Assistant Commissary of Purchases. He was a delegate to the convention called to ratify the Federal Constitution in I787. Mr. Deshler was a man of great ability and much force of character. In 1782, he purchased from John Benezet of Philadelphia, the house built by George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, with the land belonging to the plantation, which Mr. Taylor had sold to Mr. Benezet in 1776. Here he spent the latter part of his life. When slavery was abolished in the state, Mr. Deshler owned two negroes. He was one of the wealthiest men of his time in the county and in his will bequeathed each of his six daughters £500, his son David £r,ooo, and his tanyard and bark-mnill to his son George, having already given his portion to his son John Adam. He died in December, I796, at the age of 62 vears, at Biery's Bridge, now Catasauqua, a large part of the borough of Catasauqua occupying what was then his farm. The location of his grave is unknown to the writer, although it is probable that he was buried at Shoenersville. PETER B

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