The earliest members of the Hartman family - Quakers from the Palatinate - had settled in William Penn's territory by late 1740, with the particular branch discussed her settling in Berks County, northwest of where the first Hartmans arrived in Philadelphia. In the late 1780s, when the many frontier (then in east-central Pennsylvania) disputes had been settled, the family migrated further northwest to what is now Pennsylvania's Columbia County. By...
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