As early as 1744 Christian Lauer operated a dry goods store near present day Womelsdorf. His customers, as shown by his account books, were the earliest settlers of Western Berks. These accounts now form a part of Volume IX of a collection known as Potts papers, now on deposit in the vaults of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Many persons living in Berks County today would find a record of some of the business transactions of their immigrant ancestors. The list is too lengthy to reproduce in the entirety here; therefore we select only the accounts which came to the attention of Conrad Weiser.
Michael Spangler
George Michael Ritner, an ancestor of a Pennsylvania governor.
Bastian Brosius – first settler of western Schuykill.
Ludwig Born- Later helped to found Graceham, Maryland.
Abraham Lebo
John Brown- Bill Paid to Wiser by Peter Loch in 1745.
Hannah Zeller- of Zeller’s Fort.
John Graft – a bad bill.
Jacob Perfinger- For rum
Wihelm Huber- Never collected
Nicholas Deck- for nails, paid to Conrad Weiser.
John George Bergenstine- For a hat for his wife.
Jacob Kuser
George Lorman
Adam Walborn
Jonas Lerch
Jacob Dubbs
Peter Knopf
Tobias Bickel
Nicholas Bollman
Thomas Krauss
Jacob Adam Sunday
John Stain
Henry Schmidt
Conrad Goldman
Jacob Deter
Wihelm Hoster
Michael Kirnagle
John Karsnitz
Caspar Durst
Leonard Miller
John Hollenbach
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