Mercer, Henry Chapman, 1856-1930 · Doylestown, The Bucks County historical society · leaf 139
m;nt in stoves were go ng out offashion in public bu Idings and private houses in Bethlehem andNazareth, that the first stove of the kind was made at apottery in the Swamp (probably near Hanover. MontgomeryCounty), by Ludwig Huebner. and set up by him in 1742. thatlater Huebner came to Bethlehem… … 228. 1762 the pottery, then managed by Huebner, was in a stonebuilding 32 by 35 feet in size. We learn further, that Huebner,after the Continental soldiers had used the brethrens house atBethlehem as a hospital, had presented a war claim against thenew government in 1789 for 12 pounds for the loss…
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