The founder of the Applegate
Family in America was Thomas Applegate who left Norfolkshire England and
settled in Holland. About 1635 he came to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
A great deal of information on the Applegate family has been published
on the internet by Hugh E. Voress of Charles Town, W. VA.
I have accumulated a little more information on the Applegate Family of Northampton
County, PA. My husband's great great grandfather was the son of Moses
Applegate and Christiana Vogel. Moses Applegate was born Dec. 7,
1787 in NY; died 1856 in Northhampton Co., Pa. He married in Aug. 1814
to Christiana Vogel, born 1793; died after 1860. Moses located on a farm
of 60 acres in Northhampton Co., Pa. He was a Lutheran by faith and in
political belief, was first a Whig, and then a Democrat. In 1830,
1840, and 1850, they were living in Willliams Twp., Northhampton Co., Pa.
He used the name Appelgate. The names of their children were:
George Applegate born 2/20/1818 in Williams Township, Northampton County, PA in what was known as Bucher's Hill. He attended the township schools three months a year during his boyhood days and began life for himself by working on a farm, as he was often heard to remark, at the princely sum of $3 a month. In the year 1833-34 he hauled stone for the abuttments of the Riegelsville bridge. A year later he took to boating, running a redline boat from Mauch Chunk to Easton and later from Easton to Philadelphia. In the year 1840 he bought a store from the late Jacob Deemer in Williams Township, whose daughter, Esther Deemer, he married in 1841. During the next ten years he was a School Director of the Township and also Merchantile Appraiser for the district. In 1856 he moved to Saucon, where he purchased a grist mill and general store and served as Justice of the Peace for three consecutive terms. In 1867 he bought the old Luckenbach farm north of Bethlehem, but did not live there for any length of time, removing with his son-in-law, George J. Shimer, to the Buffalo Valley, near Milton, PA., where they cleared a tract of 3000 acres of woodland. In 1876 he moved to West Bethlehem and engaged in the real estate business, erecting in the course of years no less than fifty houses. He died 11/22/1909 at the age of 92.
John Applegate, born Apr. 7, 1821. He married Mary Ann (Polly) Kachline, born April 24, 1826 daughter of Jacob S. Kachline. In the 1850 census, Polly and her sons Jacob & Quintus were living in Lower Saucon, Northhampton Co., Pa. with her brother Jacob Kichline. In a petition filed on 8/23/1850 in the Northampton County Courthouse for guardianship of Polly & John's two children it referred to Polly as the widow of John. Therefore, it is determined that John died sometime between 6/10/1848 when son Jacob was born and June 1850 when the census was taken. Mary Ann Kachline later married Reuben Christine. Mary Ann died 9/1/1908 in Shimersville, PA and is buried at Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery in Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA. The son of John Applegate and Mary Ann (Polly) Kachline, Jacob Kichline Applegate, married Jane Nolf daughter of Aaron Nolf and Sarah Anna Hoch. Jane was born 3/14/1854 near Butztown. Jacob and Jane had eight children as follows: Irene Mae, Stewart M., Stella Jane, Hattie S.Stanley Jacob, Emma R.,Mamie and Frank. Check out the Descendency Chart on Jacob and Jane and their descendents.
Jacob Applegate, born June 1826; died after 1910. He married Dinah _________, born Sept. 1832 in Pa.; died before 1910. He used the name, Appelgate.
Caroline Appelgate, born 1828;
died . She married Reuben Hoffman, born ; died . In 1860, they lived in
S. Easton,
Pa.
Sarah Appelgate, born 1834;
died .
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