Johann Adam Dieffenbach

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59569008/johann-adam-dieffenbach

Was among the founding members of the Trinity Tulpehoken Curch of Berks Co, PA.

Lt. Col. in the Revolutionary War

From Wikitree page

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Baptized by a itinerant Reformed minister and there is no record of his birth or baptism.

A founding member of Trinity Tulpehocken Church of Berks County

Will is in the Courthouse in Reading, Penn.

Miller by trade.

Was Captain at Fort Henry, Penn. (Mar 1, 1733 age 21)

Served in 1755 in the French and Indian War at age 44.

Sons took communion at Host Church near Tulpehocken.

Adam helped organize Trinity Reformed Church of Tulpehocken in 1747 and served as trustee for 30 years. The church was built on property adjoining his farm.

Had a plantation in Berk County, Pennsylvania in 1741.

Adam inherited his father's original farm in Tulpehocken, Berks, Pennsylvania that he settled when the families first arrived after rafting down the Susquehanna River.

Someone named Ferol Dillon has a copy of his Will, in both German and translated to English.

He was a Catain in the French and Indian War from 1754-1763. All of the sons served in the American Revolutionary War.

Was buried in Tulpehocken, Trinity Reformed Church Cemetery, Berk Co., Pennsylvania.

The Dieffenbach Organ Makers Book by Victor C. Dieffenbach states:

"The mill which J.A.D. diligently and successfully operated for many years has in recent years been torn down and the stone used to build an enormous memorial to Caspar Wistar, who had later acquired the Dieffenbach farm and homestead through entanglements between the Penns and Wistars father. Rev. Backenstose, present pastor of Tulpehocken Church once tried to tell me that the Dieffenbach never actually owned the farm, the mill, nor the ground which he donated for the erection of the church. In the Dept. of Interior at Harrisburg it showed the Dieffenbach's settled 1723 and the Wistar receiving their papers 1734. So much for the "Squatters rights" which Rev. Backenstose tried to tell me was all the D's ever had."

SOURCE: Descendants of Albrecht Kobel Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana Compiled from research and information contributed by: Elaine Woods Cobel, Robin D. Pierce (51610 Bluffside Ct., Granger, IN 46530) robinp@skyenet.net, Maxine Pearson, Dale Koble, Pat Cipolla August 1998