HISTORY
OF THE
Volume I
JOHN KRYDER 1736-1803
Patriot of Colonial
and Revolutionary Wars
Pioneer of Central
Pennsylvania Wilderness
AND HIS FORBEARS
by
Edward Hemington Kryder
Edward Kryder, Publisher,
Alexandria, Virginia, 1987
ISBN 0-9617943-0-5
Library of Congress
Catalog Number 86-81705
130 pages
·
Original research traces paternal
and
maternal roots to early 1500s in Canton of Bern, Switzerland; thence
for one
generation in Colmar, France, birthplace
of John Kryder, wherefrom he was drafted
into the army of General Montcalm to fight
in the French and Indian War.
·
From Quebec he went with the
French army to
Ticonderoga, was there captured by the British, and elected to fight in
that
army until the end of hostilities which after the battle of Fort Pitt
found him
in Berks county, Pennsylvania where he was
married to
Angelia Fox in 1767.
·
Pioneering the newly opened
County of Northumberland,
John Kryder and his family settled first
in Buffalo
Valley, were survivors of Indian massacres, fleeing down the
Susquehanna, and
then returning to engage in Revolutionary War service.
·
In 1791 John resettled upon
extensive acreage in Penns Valley (which
is now in Centre
County).
·
This volume researches and
records the paternal and
maternal lineage of Angelia Fox Kryder.
HISTORY
OF THE
Volume II
THE DESCENDANTS OF
JOHN KRYDER 1736-1803
by
Edward Hemington Kryder
Edward Kryder, Publisher,
Alexandria, Virginia, 1997
ISBN 0-9617943-1-3
Library of Congress
Catalog Number 86-81705
326 pages
·
This Volume records the
comprehensive biographical
histories of the ten generations of John Kryder’s
descendants leading up to the end of the 20th century.
·
All Kryders
of this line
emanate from John’s two sons, John Jr. the pioneer of Stark county,
·
John was the father also of three
daughters, whose
biographical histories cover their marriages, the family history of
their
spouses, and the families of their children. This pattern is followed
throughout the Volume for daughters of Kryders.
to obtain copies:
Edward Kryder:
kh@dejazzd.com
Volume I: $26 post
paid
Volume II: $32 post paid