John Adam Kern, Jr.

John Adam Kern was a passenger on the ship "Royal Union" that arrived in Philadelphia. He qualified as a citizen of Pennsylvania on August 15, 1750. ( Source: Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol XVII. p. 313).

He lived for a time in Philadelphia, where he appears the following year on the records of St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church, as witness at the baptism of a child of Jacob and Anna Margaret Nick. He was then unmarried, the other sponsor being Anna Margaret Reh.

On March 3, 1752, Adam Kern and Anna Maria Zehlin ( First wife) were married in "the evening hour of prayer." They had the following children:

• Conrad, born December 19, 1752
• Jacob, born July 30, 1754, died September 19, 1756.
• Martin, born September 12, 1756, died October 10, 1759.
• Catherine, born March 1, 1759, died October 18, 1759.
• Adam, born August 20, 1760, died August 2, 1761.

Anna Maria, wife of Adam Kern, died August 6,1764, aged thirty-eight years.

On June 4, 1775, Johann Adam Kern married Eliz. Mayer (Second wife) http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/paarchivesseries/series2/vol8/pa...

He served in the Revolutionary war as a private in Captain Henry Darrah's Company, Bucks County, November 1777.