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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 28 Feb 1715 / Hessen / Germany Death: 16 Dec 1791 Upper Saucon / Northampton / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
1778, he took the Oath of Allegiance in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Additional References:
Griffiths, GaylordAlphabetized Listing of Those Subscribers to the Oaths of Allegiance, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1777 - 1784, 1992, pg 29
Spouse: (1) Maria Elizabeth XX; (2) Maria Catharina XX; Children: Eva; Johannes; Wilhelm; Anna; Heinrich;
Balthasar Beil arrived in the Colony of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on 26 September 1737. He was aboard the ship St. Andrew Galley out of Rotterdam with 186 fellow German immigrants. He signed a pledge to King George and the province at that time.
No data for him is found between the fall of 1737 and the spring of 1740, and it is assumed he was a "redemptionist." This is someone who was sold by the ship's captain into a three to four-year service in payment for ship passage to the New World. When this service is completed, he is promised a warrant for the right to buy 50 acres of land as provided for by the William Penn Charter. Balthasar Beil's name appears in the earliest records of St. Paul's (Blue) Church (Lutheran) near Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, in Upper Saucon Township. Their records, written in German, record a child Eva Elisabeth, born to Balthasar and Elizabeth Beil on 4 May 1740. There is no record of the marriage or maiden name of Elizabeth. The marriage probably occurred in 1739, officiated by a transient preacher. On 25 February 1742, he was issued a warrant for 55 acres in Upper Saucon Township. A second warrant was issued on 11 February 1743 for 100 acres jointly with Samuel Newcomer, another local settler. When an English scribe wrote the first warrant to Balthasar Beil, he Anglicized the name to "Boyle," this continued for years until Balthasar knew enough English to correct the spelling. In later years, he acquired warrants for at least 200 more acres.
In 1745 Balthasar Beil was among the builders of the Lutheran congregation's first wooden church. The announcement in Sauer's German newspaper, 16 March 1745, lists fourteen congregation members. Nearly all were fellow passengers on the "St. Andrew Galley."
On 14 August 1748, Balthasar attended the "First Pennsylvania Ministerium" of the Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. He was the delegate of the Saucon congregation. Balthasar was an ardent Lutheran. His correspondence with Pastor H.M. Muhlenberg is on record at the Lutheran Seminary in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania, and quoted in "Pastors and People."
He signed his pledge to the new government on 20 April 1778 before Squire Jacob Morry of Saucon Township, Pennsylvania. This pledge was required of all males in the Pennsylvania colony due to the stress of the Revolutionary War.
He died on 16 December 1791 at the age of 76. Despite his close ties to St. Paul's (Blue) Church, they have no record of his or his past wives' burials. It was common to bury on your own land, and these plots have been lost.:
Sources::
Oath of Allegiance Book, Northampton County, PA - Page 29
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