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at the time of his death, which occurred 

 October 2, 1805, at the age of sixty- 

 three, he was the possessor of the entire 

 •east end of Bucher Hill. He was buried 

 with great honors in the famliy burj'ing 

 ground on the plantation. Tliis quarter 

 acre lot is along the road at the extreme 

 end of Mr. Fackenthal's farm, and 

 through neglect is fast becoming oblit- 

 ■erated. In it are buried all the first gen- 

 erations of Heinleins, Longs, Buchers 

 and others. His family consisted of 

 -eleven children: jNIargaret, wife of Nich- 

 olas Brotzman; Eleanora, wife of John 

 Bucher; Sarah, wife of Abraham Bucher; 

 Lawrence, James, George, William, 

 Reading. John, Ann and Catharine. All 

 the Heinleins living in the regions 

 roundabout are descendants of James, 

 who married Ann Bay. only daughter of 

 Hugh Bay and his wife Elizabeth Bell, 

 both of Philadelphia. After Hugh 

 Bay's death Dr. Abel Morgan married 

 the widow, and removed to what is now 

 Morgan's Hill, in Williams township, 

 about one mile below Easton. They 

 "had only one daughter, Hannah, who 

 ■died while yet in her teens. James Hein- 

 lein is credited with changing the spell- 

 ing of the name from Heinlein to Hine- 

 line, yet the baptismal records of his 

 •family show the former way of spelling. 

 His children were George Bay Heinlein. 

 Hugh Bay Heinlein, Abel Morgan Hein- 

 lein, Edward Bay Heinlein'. Morgan 

 Bay Heinlein. Jacob Bay Heinlein. John 

 Bay Heinlein, Henry Bay Heinlein, 

 Hannah Eliza, wife of William Raub. 

 "They all were born prior to 1820. The 

 'children of George Bay Heinlein are: 

 Hugh Abraham, born 1823; Joseph, 

 1825; John William, 1829: Samuel Mor- 

 ■gan, 1832; Susan, 1834; Daniel Edward, 

 1836; Ann Shultz, 1839. The children of 

 Joseph Heinlein are: Mary, married 

 "Kemmerer; Emma, married Edelman; 

 Charles, Frank and Clara, married 

 Kleinhans, all of whom have children, 

 and some grandchildren. Hugh. Abel. 

 Jacob and John, with their entire fami- 

 lies, about the year i860 removed to 

 Ohio, where their descendants are quite 

 numerous. The descendants of Morgan 

 and Edward are to be found in Warren 

 county. New Jersey, and Bucks and 

 "Northampton counties, Pennsylvania. 

 Henry died without issue. 



WILLL\M JACOB HELLER, of 

 Easton, Pennsylvania, manufacturer, 

 lias long been numbered among the pa- 

 triotic citizens of the land, and his ef- 

 "forts were largely instrumental in insti- 

 tuting the movement that resulted in 

 placing the flag upon the school houses 

 of the United States. He comes of a 

 family noted for kiyalty and patriotic 

 service in the colon al struggles and in 

 ■the war for indepenc ence, and traces his 



descent from eleven patriots who served 

 Pennsylvania in the revolution. 



He is a direct descendant of Christo- 

 pher Heller, who was born in Peter- 

 shiem. near Bingen, along the Rhine, in 

 the Province of Pfaltz, Germany, in 

 1688, and emigrated to America in 1738, 

 arriving in Philadelphia with his six 

 sons on the fifth of September of that 

 year. He established his home in what 

 is now Milford township, in the south- 

 ern part of Lehigh county. He passed 

 the last few years of his life with his 

 son, Daniel, who lived along the creek 

 a short mile below Hellertown, and 

 where he died in the year 1778. Of his 

 six sons, Joseph, in early life known as 

 Joe Dieter, was the oldest, having been 

 born in 1719, and died unmarried in 

 1800. He was buried at Plainfield 

 church. The second son of Christopher 

 Heller was Johan Simon Heller, born 

 in 1721. On attaining his majority he 

 purchased the 200 acre farm in Lower 

 Saucon township, along the creek, where 

 he built what is now Wagner's mill in 

 1746. He was one of the founders of 

 the Reformed church in that township, 

 and in the year 1763 removed to what is 

 now known as the Woodley house, in the 

 town of Wind Gap. Here he assisted in 

 the organization of the Reformed church 

 in Plainfield township, and later married 

 a second time and removed to Hamilton 

 township, and there organized Hamilton 

 church. His patriotic spirit was mani- 

 fested by active military service in the 

 French and Indian war. He had sixteen 

 children, of whom Jacob, John, Abra- 

 ham, and Simon served in the revolu- 

 tionary arm}'. His death occurred in 

 1783, and he was buried at Plainfield 

 church. Johan Michael Heller, the third 

 son of Christopher Heller, was born in 

 1724, died in 1803, and is buried at the 

 ancient burying ground of the Reformed 

 church, now known as the Lime Kiln^ 

 schoolhouse. Daniel, the fourth son, 

 was born in 1726, and died in 1803. 

 Daniel's children were Mathias, John, 

 Jeremiah and Michael (the potter). He 

 was buried in the ancient burial ground 

 at what is now Lime Kiln schoolhouse. 

 Ludwig, the fifth son, was born in 1728, 

 and in early life removed to Bucks 

 county, later to Hamilton township, 

 Monroe county, where he died in 1807, 

 leaving several children, of whom An- 

 drew and John remained in Bucks 

 county. He is buried in Hamilton town- 

 ship, at the church which he helped to 

 organize. The sixth son, George Chris- 

 topher, was born in 1731. He married 

 in early life and settled on a farm ad- 

 joining that of his brother Michael. A 

 few years later he purchased an ad- 

 joining property, on which was erected 

 a grist mill and a hemp mill. He was the 

 father of two boys, Joseph and Michael, 

 who on attaining their majority were 

 given the property, Joseph taking the 



