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Personal data Valentine 66 (Clemmer) Clymer 

• He was born August 1763 in Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pa.
• Properties:
• Resident: Towamencin Township, Montgomery County, New Britain Township, Bucks County, Warrington Township, Bucks County.
• He died on August 24, 1833 in New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pa, he was 70 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1833 in Cemetery of Line Lexington Mennonite Church, New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
• A child of HENRICH BAR (PA 1717) (KLEMMER) CLYMER and Maria Unknown
• This information was last updated on August 27, 2023.

Household of Valentine 66 (Clemmer) Clymer

He is married to Hannah Godshall Johnson.

They got married before 1788.

Child(ren):

1. Abraham Johnson Clymer  1784-1808
2. Elizabeth Johnson Clymer  1787-1836 
3. Henry Johnson Clymer  1788-1869 
4. Mary (Polly) Johnson (OHIO) Clymer  1794-1882 
5. Valentine Johnson Clymer  1797-1884 
6. John Johnson Clymer  1799-???? 
7. Hannah Johnson Clymer  ± 1800-???? 

Notes about Valentine 66 (Clemmer) Clymer

Note: N15 Swartz Branch.–Elizabeth Beitler and Christian Swartz. II.–3. Elizabeth Beitler, b. ;d. ;mrd. Christian Swartz. They lived in New Britain Twp., Bucks Co., Pa. On April 2, 1790, he and wife Elizabeth sold to Valentine Clymer ten acres of land in New Britain township. This is all we could learn. They probably had no children, or if they had, we have not been able to trace them. This is taken from a book on the Ruth family by Kriebel and the Valentine Clymer who is mentioned may be Valentine Johnson Clymer or his father Valentine Clymer... http://meiszen.net/family/tree/dessie/henry_ruth.htm ANDREW RUTH (1) born 1730, died January 13, 1810; married first, Margaret, daughter of Andrew Swartz, who arrived at Philadelphia from Rotterdam, Holland aboard the ship, "Friendship", on October 16, 1727. After Margaret's death, he married Susanna, widow of John Hermon. Andrew purchased 107 acres from Abraham and Elizabeth Swartz in 1754 and 100 acres from John Wireman in 1770. He was assessed for these 207 acres till 1791, when his son Henry was assessed for 100 till his removal to Northampton County. After Andrew's death, the former tract, now consisting of 119 acres was sold to his son Abraham for L. 2261 and the latter, now containing 102 acres went to his son-in-law, Jacob Moyer, for L. 1556. In 1837, Jacob sold 60 acres of this to John Sherm and he to son, William in 1868. Irvin S. Detweiler became owner in 1899, and it is still in the Detweiler family, Raymond being the present owner. It is located north of Chalfont, on the west side of Rt. 152, a short distance north of the point where Sellersville Road meets it. The first mentioned tract was sold at Abraham's death in 1820 to Valentine Clymer. It laid just south west of the other tract and now includes a number of properties as far as and including the Joseph Novaski farm along the southwest side of Sellersville Road south of its intersection with New Galena Road. Andrew's will was made November 12, 1808, and proved June 18, 1810, executed by son Abraham Ruth and Valentine Clymer.

Mennonites were almost the first religious sect on the banks of the
Delaware. About 1662 some of the followers of Menno Simon came from
Holland and settled at Whorekill, where the Dutch made them a grant free
from all impost and taxation for twenty years. When the Delaware fell
into the hands of the English, two years afterward, these unoffending
people were severe sufferers. The conquerors robbed them of their goods,
and many of them were sold as slaves to Virginia. They were among the
early German immigrants to the banks of the Schuylkill. They purchased a
lot at Germantown in 1703, and five years afterward erected thereon a
frame meeting-house. The church was organized May 23d, 1708, and they
worshiped in the old building until 1770, when the frame was replaced by a
substantial stone structure, whose centennial was celebrated in 1870.
This modest frame was the parent church of this denomination in America.
John Sensen is said to have been the first Mennonite who came to
Philadelphia and Germantown. Just when this sect came into Bucks county
is not known, but they were among the earliest German immigrants who
penetrated the wilderness of the upper townships in the first thirty years
of the last century, and now constitute a considerable portion of our
rural German population. They are almost universally farmers, and in
point of morals, integrity and industry, are second to no class of the
inhabitants of our county. They are plain in dress, frugal in living, and
poverty among them is almost unknown, leading a simple life, and mingle
but little with the great outside world. They agree with the Friends in
their opposition to war.

The Mennonites of Bucks county being without a written history, we find it
difficult to trace their churches and congregations. They have churches
in New Britain, Rockhill, Milford, Springfield, Bedminster, Doylestown,
and probably elsewhere. New Britain was one of the first townships they
settled in, and the Line Lexington congregation is one of the oldest in
the county. The Reverend John Geil, son of Jacob Geil who immigrated from
Alsace, or a neighboring province on the Rhine, at the age of eight years
and settled in Plumstead, was one of their ablest ministers. Jacob [sic...
should be John], was born there in April, 1778. The father, who married
a sister of Valentine Clymer, of New Britain, removed to Chester county,
and soon afterward to Virginia. Jacob (sic) was apprenticed to learn the
tanning-trade, but liking neither the trade nor the master, he ran away and
returned to Bucks county in his eighteenth or twentieth year. He married Elizabeth
Fretz, of New Jersey, April 22d 1802, and had nine children, of whom Samuel Geil,
of Doylestown, is one. He probably joined the Doylestown church, and in
1810 or 1811 he was called to the ministry, at Line Lexington, where he
preached until 1852. His wife died November 5th, 1849, in her sixty-ninth
year, and he the 6th of January, 1866, in his eighty-eighth year, in
Plumstead township, the place of his birth. He was a man of strong mind,
extensive reading, and had a remarkably retentive memory. John Holdsman*,
a member in the church for thirty-eight years, and probably one of the
pastors at Line Lexington, died in New Britain February 9th, 1815, aged
seventy-eight years. Among other ministers at this church in the past
sixty years, can be mentioned Hunsberger, Isaac Hunsicker, Isaac
Oberholtzer, George Landis, Henry Moyer, and Abraham Moyer. Henry
Hunsberger became a bishop and presided over the three churches of
Perkasie, Deep Run and Doylestown, administering the ordinance of baptism
and the Lord's Supper. The oldest tombstone in the burial-ground attached
to this church was erected to the memory of Abigail Shive, who died in 1783.

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