| The first KITCH in the U.S. was Johann Michael KITCH. | Married to Elizabeth WEISS, she was the daughter of Jacob WEISS and Barbara WOLFFIN | |
| His land Warrant in the new county of Lancaster,
PA. was filed on the first day allowed for filing, January 3, 1733; his
father-in-law also filed on the same day.
He also was a partner in a saw and fulling mill, on Middle Creek, in what is now Clay township. Never having surveyed the property prior to his death in 1740, the land was sold by the Proprietors to J. Weidmann, who transferred it to a recent émigré, J. Elsner. As recently as 1888 it was still in operation, known as Elsner's Mill. |
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They had children beginning in 1732, with Johann Michael KITCH, Barbara, Sophia, and my line through Martin. The children were born in 1732, 1734, 1736 and 1738/9. |
| His first as yet found mention was an assault and battery he filed against John Priest, scheduled for the sixth Quarter Sessions held in Lancaster, Nov. 3, 1730. | Johann Michael KITCH died around 1740, with an intestate will being filed. The first page of Reverend Casper Stoever's Journal has written across the top "Johann Michael KITCH ist gestorben" (is dead.) | |