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Sources vary on Jan's birthdate: ca. 1650/1, 1655, ca. 1660 .
Immigrated 1683 from Crefeldt, Germany, one of the "33 Dutchmen" who founded and settled Germantown, Pennsylvania.
"one of the founders of Philadelphia" Google Book
See a photo of the Lukens family mill in Germantown: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3670331632982818&set=pb.100064...
Germantown Historical Society, Philadelphia
July 17, 2020 ·
Today’s post brings us to the old Roberts Mill, previously known as Lukens Mill. This gristmill was built by Robert Townsend on what was once known as Mill Street, later renamed Church Lane. Though it has been said the mill was demolished in 1873, the 1862 Samuel Smedley map of Philadelphia does not show the structure as standing, whereas maps from 1843 and 1855 do. Historian Edwin C. Jellett copied this photograph from an earlier, unknown source.
The location where this mill once stood is at the present-day intersection of Church Lane and North Lambert Street, just east of Wister Street, the eastern boundary of Germantown.
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April 5, 1650
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Wickrath, Kurpfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
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1684 |
July 28, 1684
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Abington Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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1686 |
May 10, 1686
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Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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1687 |
February 11, 1687
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Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, BCA
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1689 |
September 19, 1689
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Germantown, Co,, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States
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1691 |
November 27, 1691
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Germantown, Co,, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States
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1693 |
November 18, 1693
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Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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1696 |
January 30, 1696
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Germantown, Philadelphia Co, PA
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1698 |
May 25, 1698
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Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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