Melchoir Bierly

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Husband Melchoir Bierly ^{1 2}

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1 M Nicholas Bierly ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Anthony Bierly ^{1 5}

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            AKA: Nicholas Beerly 4
           Born: Abt 1743
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           Died: 7 Apr 1825 5
         Buried:  - Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre Co, PA

         Spouse: Anna Maria Warner (1752-1844) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Melchoir Bierly

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He came from Bavaria, Prussia, in Colonial times with his wife and two sons. He located in what is now Snyder County, Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Mohantango creek, but during the great "Runaway" caused by the Indian troubles of 1778 he left that locality and went to Lancas-ter County, where he remained.

Like most of the early settlers of central Pennsylvania, this family is German ex-traction, the name having been formerly written Bierhley or Bherly. The founder of the line in this region, Melchoir Bierly, came from Bavaria, Prussia, with his wife, before the Revolutionary war, probably before the French and Indian war, and about the time of the Revolutionary war, lo-cated in Snyder County, near Mahantango creek. During that war they were obliged to flee from the Indians, probably at the time of the "Run away" in 1778, and they never returned, as Melchoir Bierly found employment in the iron works of Lancas-ter County, and made his home there. He met his death while crossing the mountains to visit friends.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 179.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 235, 243.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 243.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 313.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 236, 243.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 236.