LANTZ GENEALOGY

     land and to this province, to the utmost of our power and the
     best of our understanding."
       Our ancestors all subscribed to this oath an allegiance
     and established in the beginning at least five settlements in
     the New World.  The first settlement was established in Penn-
     sylvania fifteen miles west of Reading, in the year 1728.
     It is said that the family was later killed by the Indians,
     probably four of the family escaped.
       Now Palzor Lantz was born in New Jersey this same
     year, 1728, but I know nothing about a permanent settle-
     ment there, but to this good day there are Lantzes in New
     Jersey.
       The second settlement was probably established in the
     Valley of Virginia at Winchester, and here is the evidence,
     the records of Virginia say that Bernard Lantz on the fifth
     day of July, 1762, bought of Alix Boyd, two lots in Winches-
     ter, Virginia, for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds,
     in our money, seven hundred and thirty dollars and fifty
     cents.  Bernard Lantz on August 19, 1767 received a cash
     payment from the Valentine estate, also received his natu-
     ralization papers in the year 1770.
       In the year 1790 George Lantz of Fayette County, Vir-
     ginia, deeded to Peter Hull, a tract of land, devised to him
     by his father, Bernard Lantz, who received this grant of
     six hundred and thirty acres in the year 1781 in Crab Bot-
     tom, Pendleton County, Virginia.
       Order Book No. 2, June 20, 1786, Jacob Sweet was for-
     merly bound to Bernard Lantz.  Barnard Lantz was ap-
     pointed road surveyor August 21, 1781.  License were is-
     sued to Conrad Buck, a German, and Mary Lantz, daughter
     of Burnard Lantz on April 19, 1787, and they were married
     the same day.  These are the evidence of the Virginia set-
     tlement.
       The third settlement was Frederick, Maryland.  This is
     proved by the government census of the year 1790 and
     shows that there were living at that time in the state of
     Maryland, the following families: Jacob Lantz, who had one
     son and four daughters.  Also two other families, Chris-
     tian Lantz and George Lantz.  The government thought
     enough of them to give them the Lantz post office in Fred-
     erick County, Maryland.
       The fourth settlement was made in North and South
     Carolina.  The 1790 census shows in those states there were
     living at that time the following families: John Lantz, two

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