A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Peter Kreiling
Other spellings: Greiling, Grieeling, Greuling, Kryling, Cryling, Gryling, Chreiling, Krayling (from Marilyn Knowles Riehl).
Notes from Marilyn Knowles Riehl:
PETER KREILING, who was probably born in Germany, arrived in Pennsylvania on the ship St. Mark on September 26, 1741. Peter married first Anna Maria ______ with whom he had Jacob, George, Susanna and Mary. He married secondly ELIZABETH ______ and, between 1754 and his death in 1765, he had Salome, Sarah, Ann and CATHARINE.
In 1744 Peter and Anna Maria baptized son Johanne George in the Moravian church in Emmaus. By 1745 he was a member of the Lutheran Church near Dillingerville in Lower Milford Township where Reverend Henry Melchior Muhlenberg was the minister. In 1748 he was executor for Abraham Duboy, minister of the Church of the Brethren at Great Swamp (German Baptist or Dunkards), and in February of 1750 he signed a letter recommending excommunication of Jacob Muller, a Brethren minister. After Peter's death his widow remained active in this church.
On May 11, 1747 he warranted 150 acres in Richland Manor, Bucks County, which became Northampton County, later Lehigh County. He was a witness in an estate settlement of Henry Rincker in 1749 and that same year signed a petition for a road in Milford Township. Peter is mentioned in land history in 1753 as having sold 175 acres in Milford to Michael Keiper. In 1759 he and Elizabeth were the mortgagors for two tracts in Upper Milford; one 23 acres 28 perches and the other 200 acres by vacant land. In this record he is called "cooper" but in 1764 he is "... weaver". He paid 16 pounds in taxes in 1761 in Upper Milford Township.
He died about 1765 as an 1802 inquest, requested by his son-in-law George Hepler who was married to Peter's daughter Catharine, states "Peter Kreiling Upper Sauson (sic probably Upper Milford) died about 37 years ago". In 1768 guardians were named for his four youngest children, "...all under fourteen." A debt of 1200 pounds owed to Peter Teis was leived [sic] in 1774. The Pennsylvania Gazette ran an advertisement on July 20, 1774 announcing a public auction would be held at the home of inn keeper Christian Gross to sell land of the late Peter Kryling. Peter's land - 176 acres 28 perches, plantation and two contiguous tracts in Upper Milford Township adjoining his widow's land, also 23 acres 28 perches and another 153 acres adjoining her land - was sold to pay the debt. Elizabeth died about 1802.
No exact death dates or burial has been found for Peter or Elizabeth.
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