Johannes Creese

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Husband Johannes Creese ¹

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           Born: Abt 1755 - Würtemberg, Germany
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1 M Henry Creese ¹

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2 M George Creese ¹

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3 M Andrew Creese ¹

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4 M John Creese ¹

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5 M Samuel Creese ¹

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6 F Elizabeth Creese ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Johannes Creese

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The American ancestor of this family, he was born in Wuerttemberg, Germany, and immigrated to America about 1772, at the age of seventeen years. He first located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, leaving his name in that city as the designation of a public thoroughfare, in 1784 purchasing land in the Ligonier Valley, also acquiring a large tract in what is now Ohio township, Allegheny County, the property that he originally owned being later divided into about twenty farms, none of them small. His grant to a part of this was from the government, the other he bought at different dates. He erected saw mills to cut the timber cleared from the land into sizes suitable for the market, and as rapidly as the forest disappeared before the axe and saw he planted crops, also building a grist mill. He was a man of considerable importance in the county, conducted extensive business dealings through the medium of his mills and property, and also held the title to some Philadelphia property.
He was a Lutheran in religion. He married and had five sons and one daughter.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 468.