married
Inscription:
In the 88th year of his age
Note: AKA Henry Dilts.
Old School Baptist Cemetery, Locktown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
Dills Ferry
HISTORY
OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA,
ILLUSTRATED, 1877
EDITED
BY DAVIS.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING:
PETER FRITTS, 1877
Page 253
The Columbia
and Delaware Bridge Company erected, in 1869, a wooden arch
bridge, across the Delaware, a few rods north of the
depot. This also
furnishes another business inlet to a considerable
number of inhabitants
living on the opposite aide of the river.
The bridge is
even hundred and ninety-six feet long and eighteen feet
wide in the clear, inside, constructed in four spans
of about two hundred
feet each, supported by three stone piers, standing
twenty-seven feet above
low water mark, and the whole costing about $40,000,
of which $37,550 is
capital stock, a little more than two-thirds of which
is held on the
Pennsylvania side.
For many
years previous to the erection of this bridge the inhabitants
crossed the river by the ferry, a few rods north of
where the bridge now
stands. It is said that a Mr. Smith owned the first
ferry right at this
place, but there are no records to corroborate this
statement. Mr. Dill was
probably the first ferryman, about 1780.
About this
date he had erected a log tavern on the hill opposite the
ferry. This
has long since been demolished. The subsequent ferrymen at
this place have been as follows:
Alexander Decker
Jacob Lamb
James Decker
Michael Weller
George Decker
John Ott, who relinquished the ferry at the
completion of the Delaware
Bridge, in 1869.
History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the Grand Valley of the ...
By American Historical Society
Chapter XII The Dills of New Jersey contains extensive
history on the Dills, including:
“At some undetermined date, probably in the neighborhood of
1736, the Dills emigrated from Germany and settled in Huntindon County, New
Jersey. It is rather difficult to
determine just who were in the party but among the younger people was a boy
William, and a girl, Rachel, probably brother and sister. The girl married a man by the name of Snyder
and died at Easton, Pennsylvania. The
boy became William, Sr., and moved to Knowlton, New Jersey, where he founded
the Dills family of that locality. Many
of the Dills remained in Huntindon County and this makes plausible the
supposition that with the parents of William, Sr., came several of his
uncles. We find wills of Henry Dils of
Amswell, N. J., 1788; John Dills of Amswell, N. J., 1786; Peter Dills of
Amswell, N. J., 1760; Christopher Dills of Kingswood, N. J., 1812; Jacob Dilts
of Amswell, N. J., 1827. These are all
no doubt related to the Knowlton branch of the family.
William Dils, Sr., was born in Germany in 1711 and emigrated
with his parents about 1736. He married
Rachel, who was born in 1721. He bought
a large amount of land at Knowlton and also across the Delaware River at what
is now called Portland but which was
then called Dill's Ferry. He made his
will on the 17th of June, 1793, and died the following year. His will, on record at the office of the
Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J.,, shows that he left his wife Rachel (who
evidently died shortly after the will was made in 1793) 200 pounds, and the
estate finally to e divided among the children equally except that Henry was to
have 20 pounds more than the other children.
The sons, John, Adam and William were to be the executors.
William, Sr., and his wife, Rachel, had five sons and one
daughter. The daughter , who was, of
course, called Rachel, married George Ribble.
The sons were John, born 1742; Adam, born 1743; Henry, born 1745;
William (date of birth unknown) and Samuel, born 1765.”
From: THE KELLERS OF HAMILTON TOWNSHIP
by David Henry Keller, M.D. 1922
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