Skippack

From the Skippack Historical Society’s website, here is a timeline of some of the important dates and events in Skippack History (https://www.skippack.org/skippackhistory.htm) with links to their respective webpages, if any:

1681 – William Penn receives his royal charter.

1682 – William Penn conveyed 5000 acres of land in this province to Dirck Sipman of Crefeld.

1687 – A Dutch merchant named Mattias Van Beeber arrived in Germantown.

1698 – Dirck Sipman sold his unlocated land to Matthias Van Bebber.

1702 – Mattias Van Bebber secures a patent for his 6,166 acres of land.

1704 – Van Bebber moves from Philadelphia to Bohemia Manor, Maryland.

1706 – Hendrick Pannebecker settles in Skippack.  Acting as a representative for Van Bebber he surveyed and prepared many of the deeds for the early settlers in Skippack.

1706 – Gerhard and Herman In Den Hoffen purchase 440 acres from Van Beeber.

1710 – ? Gerhard and Herman In Den Hoffen build a stone house.

1713 – Petition by 30 landowners in the Skippack region to have the government build a road [Skippack Pike] from Bebber township to “Wide Marsh [today known as Whitemarsh].

1717 – Van Bebber conveyed 100 acres of land to seven trustees for a meeting house, school house and cemetery for all inhabitants of Bebbers Township.

1718 – Christopher Dock taught at the Meetinghouse school until 1771.

1719 – Skippack Mennonite Meeting House is built.

1725 – Bebber township was surveyed and given the name of “Skippack and Perkiomen Township.”

1777 – George Washington marches the Continental Army into Skippack on the way to and from the Battle of Germantown.

Click on this link to go to the Skippack Historical Society’s  website.