The future of a family is dependant on its history. Family history
is one of the few things good or bad that cannot be taken away. These histories
can be things to proud of or to be dreaded.
On October 21, 1761 Valentine Anawalt (then known as Fallhenden von St. Annewaldt)
arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania onboard the Snow Squirrel (the Snow Squirrel was the first ship
to come to Philadelphia following the end of
On July 1, 1773 Valentine purchased One hundred-three acres and began his role as an American Patriot.
Valentine served in the Northampton County Militia 8th Company, 4th Battalion under Captain George Edelmen. He is listed as Feltre Onawalt.
You can find this information in most public libraries with a geneology section.
Valentine was not the only family member to serve in the Revolution.
His oldest son John also served. John served as a regular army soldier enlisted in
the eighteenth section of Rifleman, Pennsylvania Forces under captain George Dinckeney.
If the hallowed traditions, sturdy principles and venerated institutions
of America are to be perpetuated, it must be mainly by the descendants of the founders of the nation and
of those early patriots whose devotion to principle and whose loyalty to country made the Nation Possible.
The Anawalt Family has a great deal to be proud of in their history as they are one of America's
First Families.
The Founders of the nation and also the early patriots represented true Americanism; and their descendants,
who have consecrated their noblest efforts, generation after generation, to the perpetuation of
the nation's high principles, constitutes the "FIRST FAMILIES OF AMERICA." Valentine Anawalt: An American Patriot
the French and Indian War).
He had began his voyage in Rotterdam, Holland along with his wife Johanna Margaret(Kurtz) Anawalt
and their daughters: Catherine and Anna Margaret. The year following their emigration, the first Anawalt was born in the
new world, John. Over the next sixteen years an additional six children were born (these nine known children may be an account
of those who survived child birth as Johanna's head stone states she had six boys and six girls for a total of twelve children).Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Volume III
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