LOESER Frederick[1, 2, 3] - 1810

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• Birth	Germany
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	6 Jun 1757  [4]
  	Revolutionary War
  	Frederick was a sergeant in the Sixth Company, 3rd Battalion Militia during the Revolutionary War.
  Tax Roll	27 Dec 1781	Lynn Twp, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania   [5]
  Census	1790	Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania   [6]
  	Frederick was head of a household that included 2 males to age 16, 1 male 16 and up (Frederick) and 3 females. His surname was spelled "Liser" in the census.
  Census	1800	Whitemarsh Twp, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania   [7]
  	Frederick was living with his son, Christian, who was head of a household that included 1 male under 10, 1 male 10-16, 4 males 16-25, 1 male 45 and up (Frederick), 2 females under 10, 1 female 10-16 and 1 female 26-45.
  Died	1810	Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania
  Buried	1810	Loeser Family Burial Grounds, Lynn Twp, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  	Frederick and his son, Daniel, are buried in the middle of a bean field. A visit to the "cemetery" in August 1996 found the gravesite entirely overgrown with weeds. When the family descendants who owned the land died, the old farmhouse and the land were sold. The buyers indicated it was their intention to clean up and preserve the burial place.
  Person ID	I2677	Wheeler
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	LÖSER Johann Jacob,   b. Abt 1723, Reinhardtsdorf, Dresden, Saxony, Germany ,   d. Feb 1775, Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania
  Mother	EBLI (?) Mary Margaret,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	10 Nov 1747	New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
  Documents		Last Will & Testament of Johann Jacob Löser
  Family ID	F1826	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	SMITH Catharina,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Abt 1762
  Children	1. LOESER Anna Maria,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. LOESER Ferdinand,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. LOESER John,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. LOESER Frederick,   b. Abt 1763, Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1768, Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania > 5. LOESER Maria Dorothea,   b. 15 May 1769, Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 5 May 1828   6. LOESER Daniel,   b. 18 Mar 1772, Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 18 Dec 1814 > 7. LASER Christian,   b. 3 Apr 1775, Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 16 May 1845, Plymouth Twp, Richland County, Ohio
  Last Modified	04 Jul 2009
  Family ID	F903	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Event Birth - - Germany Tax Roll - 27 Dec 1781 - Lynn Twp, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Census - 1790 - Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania Census - 1800 - Whitemarsh Twp, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Died - 1810 - Lynn Twp, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania Buried - 1810 - Loeser Family Burial Grounds, Lynn Twp, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos		Frederick Loeser modern tombstone Burial place located in the middle of a bean field on Frederick's original farm land in Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  		Frederick Loeser early tombstone This is an early, but not original, stone marking Frederick's burying place on his farm land in Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  		Frederick Loeser monument at Leaser Lake Leaser Lake is located about a mile from his original farm land

  
  

  Documents

  Last Will & Testament of Johann Jacob Löser

  
  

  Histories

  Frederick Loeser, Patriot The story of the rescue of the Liberty Bell

  
  

• Notes

  Frederick Loeser's name is recorded with various spellings, such as Liesser, Leiser and Leaser. He was the second child of Jacob. He and his wife, Catherine, had seven children. Frederick was a farmer in Lynn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He was involved in spiriting the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia and hiding it in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to keep it from the British. He also served for a short time in the Colonial Army during the Revolution. Frederick is listed with the surname "Liser" in the first federal census of 1790 in Lynn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. His family consisted of two males to age sixteen, one over sixteen and three females. In the census of 1800, he has not been found as a head of a household. However, his son Christian was listed in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania as head of a family that included a male over 45 years of age, which may have been his father, Frederick. Frederick died in 1810, apparently before the census of that year. He is buried in the family plot on the farm he owned near New Tripoli, Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Frederick was a farmer in Lynn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania and enlisted in the Colonial Army on June 6, 1757 at the age of 19 during the French and Indian War (1754-63). There is a Frederick Leiser of Northampton County identified as a private, 7th Class, 6th Company, 6th Battalion in 1781 during the Revolutionary War, most likely one in the same. The reported birth date for Frederick gives rise to a problem. Johann Jacob Löser was listed as 18 years old when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1741. Unless his age was recorded in error, he would have been a father in 1738 at the age of 15 if Frederick was indeed born that year. It's possible that the English captain of the Europa entered Jacob's age incorrectly on his list of passengers. This would also mean that Frederick was born in Germany and arrived in Philadelphia with his father as a child of 3. Frederick was reported as unmarried on the tax list made during the assessment of Lynn Township in 1762. His name is found on the assessment of Lynn Township made December 27, 1781. He is listed with the surname "Liser" in the first federal census of 1790 in Lynn Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. His family consisted of two males to age sixteen, one over sixteen and three females. In the census of 1800, he has not been found as a head of a household. To appreciate the story of Frederick Loeser, Patriot, we must set the stage with a review of certain events during the War of Independence. The series of events that led the British colonies in North America from resistance in 1765 to outright rebellion in 1775 cannot be recapped here. But one point serves to summarize the situation. The crisis represented a clash between a mature colonial society and a mother country anxious to assert parental authority. Britain had previously never exercised much direct control over the colonies. Prospering under the "benign neglect", the colonies enjoyed de facto independence and developed a remarkable degree of self-reliance. Colonial aspirations thus collided with England's desire to enforce subordination and diminish colonial autonomy. The actual fighting began April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord, where the British were initially defeated. This was followed by the British victory at Bunker Hill. The following year, Washington forced the British to abandon Boston, then the colonial troops were forced out of Canada. William Howe became commander-in-chief of the British army and took New York and Rhode Island. Fort Lee surrendered to the British. Washington retreated to Pennsylvania, trying to stay between the advancing enemy and the rebel capital at Philadelphia. Though in disarray, he began a winter campaign by leading his troops across the Delaware River on Christmas night and defeated the Hessian troops at Trenton. The 1776 campaign ended with the Continental Army small but intact and with the British in control of only New York and Newport, Rhode Island, which were minimal gains for England's maximum effort. In 1777, England made its second greatest effort of the war. Howe left a garrison in New York and took 13,000 troops to capture Philadelphia. Washington rose to defend the capital, but on September 11 was outflanked and defeated at Brandywine Creek, but his army was not destroyed. Washington retreated to Chester, PA. Several days later the Americans suffered another defeat at Paoli, PA. Several hundred Americans were killed under a British bayonet attack. The American Congress fled from Philadelphia to York, PA, and Howe entered Philadelphia without opposition in late September. Howe quartered a part of his army at nearby Germantown. On October 4, the Americans attacked this garrison and seemed to have won a victory until the British made a determined stand in the Chew house. British reinforcements came up from Philadelphia while the besieged house still held out, and Washington's little army retreated. The Americans then took up their miserable winter quarters at Valley Forge. Fearing the possibility of capture by the enemy, on June 16, 1777, the Assembly of Pennsylvania meeting in the State House at Philadelphia voted to authorize the removal of all bells belonging to several churches and other public buildings and all copper and brass to a place of safety. The Continental Congress, meeting in Independence Hall, on September 14, 1777 (three days after the Battle of Brandywine) resolved that all public bells in Philadelphia be removed to a place of security upon a near approach of the enemy to the city. The order to remove the bells was passed along to Colonel Benjamin Flower, and his instructions read: "Ordered: that Colonel Flower employ James Worrell, Francis Allison and Mr. Evans, Carpenters, or such other workmen as he may think proper to employ, to take down the Bells of all the public Buildings in this city and convey them to safety." They had their work cut out for them. Not only did they have to get the bells down, also to convey them to safety. Eleven bells in all had to be removed. Most had to be taken from fairly high steeples, loaded aboard wagons, and spirited out of the city, all under the cover of night. Once they were down, Colonel Flowers had to decide whether or not to move them by Army transport wagons leaving the area with increasing frequency. If they were to be overtaken by the British, they would certainly end up as shot designed for Americans. His reasoning might then have led him to seek out farmers bringing produce into the city from the area where the bells were destined to go ¾ Allentown (then Northampton Town). Traditionally, these Pennsylvania German farmers brought their wares into Philadelphia and returned to their farms north of the city with empty wagons. A few of these wagons, with the bells secreted in them and covered with hay or straw, might be a better device. Should the British pass such a convoy, there would be a slightly lesser chance that they would be searched. There are two stories recorded about whose wagon was used to haul the Liberty Bell out of Philadelphia. One states that the man chosen was one John Jacob Mickley. The exact date of the bells' departure is unknown, perhaps a tribute to the extent of Flowers' well-kept secret. Some historians give the date as September 16 or 17 when the bells were taken down. Whatever the date, Howe marched into Philadelphia on September 27 but did not send a patrol in pursuit of the fleeing wagon train, undoubtedly because he needed all of his men to secure the city and to repulse Washington's counterattack at Germantown on October 4. The bells were taken via Bethlehem to Allentown. At some point along the way, the bell wagons joined an Army convoy of some 700 other wagons, and they rattled into Bethlehem. As the wagon bearing the heavy Great Bell reached the center of town on September 24, the great weight broke the wagon. As the first story goes, the Bell was transferred to a wagon owned and driven by Frederick Loeser, who then carted the Bell on to Allentown. The Bell's hiding place until 1778 was in the basement of the Zion High German Reformed Church of Allentown, where it arrived early on the morning of September 25. Other bells were hidden in the same basement and the Church above them served as a military hospital until the British evacuated Philadelphia. John Jacob Mickley and Frederick Loeser both have commemorative tablets in Pennsylvania which honor the parts they played in the saving of the Bell. The Loeser tablet stands at Loeser Lake just off Route 143 near Jacksonville, Pennsylvania in upper Lehigh County, not far from Frederick's farm land. The tablet dedicated to Mickley is outside the entrance to the Liberty Bell Shrine located at the Zion Church in Allentown, and also mentions Frederick's role in the transport of the Bell. The shrine is housed in the same basement where the Bell was harbored during its year-long stay in Allentown. When the British completed their evacuation of Philadelphia on June 18, 1777, the bells at Allentown were free to leave their refuge, and they lost no time in doing so. It is recorded that they departed on June 27 and on August 22, the Pennsylvania Packet stated that the bells had been returned safe and hung again. Another version of this story remains. At the dedication of the Loeser tablet at Loeser Lake in 1928 by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Frederick's role was recorded as follows: "He with his new wagon and fine span of four horses, which were his pride and joy, Frederick Leaser set out from his home in Lynn Township with a load of farm products for Philadelphia. Arriving at his destination, he disposed of his cargo, made some purchases and planned to start his journey home next morning. The whole city was in a state of excitement. Rumors as to the nearness of the British Army were on every tongue. "Early next morning, when he went out to the stables to get his team, he discovered that both his horses and wagon had been commandeered, and that the wagon was laden with military stores, among which was the State House bell. Upon being informed that the destination of the cargo was either Bethlehem or Allentown, he cheerfully offered his services and the use of his team. "The officers in charge of the removal of the bells from the city were pleased with Mr. Leaser's attitude and restored to him his team. Thus did Frederick Leaser and his fine span of horsed become a part of the baggage train of the Continental Army. "Going down the hill at the 'platz' in Bethlehem towards the Monocacy Creek, one of the rear wheels broke, due no doubt to the method of braking with chains. After some delay, a wheel was obtained at the local wheelwright shop and the journey was continued to Allentown, where the bells were placed in the cellar of Zion Reformed Church. After which Frederick Leaser was permitted to return to his home with his team. "Meanwhile the family had become alarmed on account of his not returning within the usual time. They feared that he might have been waylaid by a band of Indians or perhaps fallen into the hands of the British soldiers. There was great rejoicing when he finally reached home. In later years he was fond of recounting this outstanding event of his life. "Such is the story of the hauling of the Liberty Bell by Frederick Leaser, as told by his Dorothea Follweiler, his daughter, to her children and grandchildren." Another account was written which supports the version that Frederick hauled the Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown, and that Jacob Mickley played a different role in the episode. "It was Frederick Leaser, who in 1777 hauled the famous bell from Philadelphia to Allentown, where it was hidden under the floor of the old Zion's Reformed church. Pioneer Leaser was a farmer and distiller. His grain and apple-jack he hauled to Philadelphia, where it was utilized. "His descendants who are quite numerous love to relate the following interesting story: 'That on a certain Monday morning he started away from home on his accustomed monthly trip to Philadelphia with a number of barrels of apple-jack on his large and strong conestoga wagon, to which were hitched four well kept black horses. The distance from his home was some sixty miles. The trip usually consumed five days and occasionally a day or two longer, depending upon the condition of the roads. Upon this particular occasion when the seventh and finally the 8th day had passed and the head of the Leaser household had not yet returned, the family became alarmed and their anxiety became more intense as the hours of subsequent days passed by and the husband and father failed to return. It was feared that Frederick Leaser had met with an accident, or had been killed by roving bands of Indians, or perchance had fallen into the hands of the British. He was strong for the freedom of the colonies. The gloom that had fallen upon his family was happily dispelled on the Saturday morning of the second week when Leaser returned home safe and sound, announcing to his family and neighbors that he had hauled the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown, where they hid it under the floor of Zion's Reformed Church.' "The story of how the team of Frederick Leaser was drafted into service is related alike by his many descendants. It reads as follows: 'A committee had been visiting the hotels where farmers stopped with their teams in Philadelphia. That the committee selected Leaser's wagon because it was new and storng; and when the committee passed through the stables to select good horses, they came to a place where four heavy black horses were feeding. They selected them. They next inquired for the owner of the wagon and also the horses and incidentally they belonged to the same man.' "After the loading of the bell, the trip was begun. Soldiers accompanied the team. One John Jacob Mickley from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, held a minor office under the colonies in the Revolutionary war. Well founded tradition tells us that he led the procession and had charge of the soldiers and the guarding of the bell on its journey and assisted in hiding it under the church floor where it remained until after the close of the war." Frederick died in 1810, possibly before the census of that year. He is buried in the family cemetery located in the middle of a soybean field on the farm he once owned in Lynn Township. It is near Jacksonville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the same land originally purchased by his father, Jacob. Lehigh County was created from Northampton County in 1812. From the 1955 Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution, compiled by Floyd G. Hoenstine, Historian, Pennsylvania Society, pub., 1956, listing SAR lineages: Frederick Leaser (Hauled Liberty Bell to Allentown), «b»d. 1810;«/b» md. Catherine Smith; daughter Maria Dorothy Lieser (5/15/1769 - 5/5/1828), md. Daniel W. Fellweiler, etc...... Frederick's son, Daniel Loeser, is identified in the History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, with his birth and death dates given therein. He was born in 1772 and died in 1814. He is found in the census of 1800 with his surname spelled "Leysor", and with a family of one son and two daughters under ten. Daniel is also buried in the family cemetery near his father. Another Revolutionary War patriot, John Smith, is also buried here. He may have been the brother of Frederick's wife, Catherina Smith. Upon Frederick's death, part of the Leaser homestead was left to his daughter, Maria Dorothea, and her husband, Jesse Follweiler, along with the famous wagon. It was still in use in 1833, when it was used to transport a "liberty pole" from a nearby mountain side to Loeser Lake, where it was erected to celebrated the re-election of President Andrew Jackson. When it was no longer fit for use, it was divided and two wheels and a part of the wagon were given by Follweiler to his brother, who lived on the original homestead. In 1855, the barn on the Jesse Follweiler farm was struck by lightning and burned, consuming part of the old wagon. In 1888, the barn on the homestead burned down and the other part of the wagon was destroyed. In August, 1996 the writer had the opportunity to visit the homestead and the Loeser family cemetery. I had the opportunity to visit with a Mr. Leiby, who lives on the adjacent farm where Jesse Follweiler resided, and to see the site where his barn once stood. Mr. Leiby directed me to the soybean field which surrounded the final resting place of Frederick, his son Daniel, and others whose graves are now unmarked. Though the beans were waist high, six foot high weeds had sprung up throughout the plot, which measured about twenty-five feet square. After clearing out some of the weeds, I was able to locate the original stone for Daniel, and more modern stones placed in honor of both Frederick and his son. Frederick's original stone could not be identified. The Leaser homestead continued to be owned by Jacob and Frederick's descendants until October, 1998, exactly 249 years after Jacob acquired the land. The following news article relates the circumstances leading to the sale of the property. A BID FOR HISTORY: PROPERTY, GOODS OWNED BY LIBERTY BELL TRANSPORTER WILL BE AUCTIONED MONDAY. by ELIZABETH BARTOLAI (A free-lance story for The Morning Call). For 2-1/2 centuries, Frederick Leaser, legendary for transporting the Liberty Bell during the Revolutionary War, or his descendants lived at his Lynn Township farm. "This property has been passed down through direct descendants since the 1740s," said Woody Zettlemoyer. That will change at noon Monday, when the 77-acre farm and Leaser's log cabin will be sold at auction. Willis Frey lives next to the Leaser property. He said Mabel Roth, who died in May at age 74, was a descendant of Leaser who lived on the farm with her husband, Ellis. Frey said the Roths had no children. "Both died and the will states everything is to be sold," Frey, an executor of the Roths' will, said. The proceeds are to be divided evenly among several people, including Frey. Zettlemoyer, of the Ralph W. Zettlemoyer Auction Co. Inc. of Fogelsville, is the auctioneer in charge of the sale. "It's gone on for 250 years, (so) it's sad that it comes to an end, but it's an economic reality," Zettlemoyer said. "Even if there were children, by this generation they might have elected not to live here. "There are some more distantly related family in other parts of the country. There aren't any direct descendants of Ellis and Mabel, who were the direct descendants (of Leaser) to pass it on to." Zettlemoyer wouldn't guess what price the property will command. "Because it depends entirely on what the bidders value," he said. "If they value history ... history is priceless." But Zettlemoyer is also practical. He estimates it would cost $100,000 to make the 19th century farmhouse livable by modern standards. As for the legend that Frederick Leaser hauled the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to safety at Zion's Reformed United Church of Christ in Allentown, Zettlemoyer thinks Leaser may have been a patriot, but it's more likely he was just a practical man. "A lot of people romanticize the thing," he said of the story. "I think he went to Philadelphia to sell corn whiskey to the troops. He was staying there overnight when they needed wagons to haul the bells out of Philadelphia. Naturally he would volunteer ... It was on his way home. "It certainly well may have been (that) he was a patriot. He was in the right place at the right time." There are also claims by descendants of John Jacob Mickley of Whitehall Township that Mickley's wagon hauled the Liberty Bell to the Lehigh Valley. Zettlemoyer said the discrepancy might by explained by records showing that the wagon carrying the Liberty Bell broke down in Bethlehem and the bell was transferred to another wagon. But he said it was possible that the bell started in Mickley's wagon and was transferred to Leaser's wagon or it could have been the other way around. Another version of the story puts Mickley in charge of the wagon train with Leaser's wagon carrying the bell. But Zettlemoyer said that in the early 1900s members of a local church recognized Leaser's role in transporting the Liberty Bell. Frey and Follweiler want the family cemetery where Frederick Leaser is buried to remain on the property. "There was a woman who wanted to move Frederick over to Leaser Lake," Frey said. But the neighbors were totally against that idea. He said the deed restricts moving the cemetery. Frey said Ellis Roth stopped farming about 12 years ago, then leased the land to another farmer, so crops were grown even until this year. The Roths hadn't lived on the farm since February 1997, when they moved into Kutztown Manor, Frey said. Ellis Roth died in July 1997. HISTORIC LEASER PROPERTY BOUGHT BY VINEYARD OWNER LYNN TWP. FARM AUCTIONED FOR $430,000 TO COUPLE WHO OWN NEW TRIPOLI'S BLUE MOUNTAIN. by ELIZABETH BARTOLAI, The Morning Call Joe and Vickie Greff of New Tripoli's Blue Mountain Vineyards bought the historic Leaser farm for $430,000 at auction Monday. The Lynn Township property, which includes a farmhouse and colonial-era log house, had been handed down through generations of Frederick Leaser's family since the 1740s. Leaser is legendary for his role in bringing the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown during the Revolutionary War. "I feel broke all of a sudden!" Joe Greff exclaimed shortly after buying the 77-acre farm and log home, which were auctioned separately. Greff plans to put vineyards on the property. "The log home, I'm going to let it stay there and fix it up," he said, adding he'll tear off the addition to make it historically compatible with the time Leaser lived there. Greff also said he plans to approach Lynn Township officials about moving the road that cuts through the property between the stone farmhouse and the wagon shed. But Greff has no plans to move to the farm. "The home may be on hold for a while," he said noting the costly repairs necessary to modernize the 19th-century structure. The property was auctioned because Ellis and Mabel Roth, the Leaser descendants who lived on the property, died and had no children to leave it to. About 1,000 people attended the auction Monday, among them Steve Leaser of Bethlehem Township, who is a seventh-generation descendant of Frederick Leaser. Armed with a video camera, Steve Leaser and his wife, Cathy, trekked through his ancestral home. "It was really neat to see it," said Leaser. He said his family visited the farm when the Roths lived there but did not go inside the buildings. The Leasers were pleased Greff plans to restore the log home. "We were concerned about somebody coming in and tearing it down," said Cathy Leaser. She said she's also glad Greff wants to preserve the family cemetery. Greff said he plans to encourage efforts by the Daughters of the American Revolution, which has expressed interest in helping preserve the Leaser cemetery on the farm. Steve Leaser's father, Earl "Lee" Leaser, 77, a retired Air Force colonel, lives in Whitehall. Earl Leaser has lived in the Lehigh Valley since 1972. Earl's father, Maurice Leaser, worked at Mack Trucks. The last farmer in that branch of the family was Earl's grandfather, Harwin Leaser, who lived in the Fogelsville area. Willis Frey, who lives next to the property and was one of the executors of the Roths' will, was surprised at the price the property commanded. He had predicted it would sell for $250,000 to $300,000. He noted that many of the other objects auctioned were also selling for prices higher than he expected. Ben Dietrich lives in Lynn Township on the other side of Leaser Lake. Dietrich, 64, knew Mabel Roth his whole life. "They never realized what they had," he said. "They lived a simple life." [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]




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