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- Solomon is listed in the 1830 PA census (on microfilm), as living in New Hanover Twp., Montgomery County,
PA. The household included one male and one female between 16 and 29 years of age. Solomon is listed on the
tax list of New Hanover Twp. for 1831 and 1832. He was confirmed in 1823 at the New Hanover Lutheran
Church.
Much of the following information is based on written statements found in the family Bible of Milton E.
Bastress. Solomon and Rachel T. Miller or Tuckenmiller were married on April 6, 1830 by Rev. Conrad Miller,
who served as Pastor of the New Hanover Lutheran Church (near Pottstown) from 1829 to 1852.
It is probably safe to assume that Solomon died between 1833 and 1847.
Solomon Bastress, Associate Judge of Lycoming County, PA
Posted 28 Dec 2019 by havensc64
Associate Lay Judge Solomon Bastress
Among the early representative men of Jersey Shore was Solomon Bastress. He was born at Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pa., January 20, 1788, and died at Jersey Shore, May 12, 1872.
A furnace to make pig iron was erected on Upper Fine Bottom in 1814 by Mark Slonaker, Benjamin and Henry Tomb, John Turk, George Tomb, Solomon Bastress and Philip Krebbs. But the iron ore proved to be too costly to manufacture as it took one or two days hauling to bring it from near the Coudersport Pike. About 1817, after losing $7,000 in the enterprise, they gave it up.
Mr. Bastress was a weaver and dyer by trade, but soon after settling here he became a surveyor and scrivener also. He was elected to the legislature in 1827, and re-elected in 1828, 1829, and 1830. He was also a Justice of the Peace, and Burgess of Jersey Shore, 1827. In 1846, he was chosen an Associate Judge and served two terms of five years each. When Susquehanna Township was divided in 1854, his friends insisted that the new township be named after him, and it was done.
When Cummings Township, named for Associate Judge John Cummings, was laid out in 1832, from Mifflin and Brown Townships, Solomon Bastress made the survey.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES, Lycoming Law Association (www.lycolaw.org/history/sketches)
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1804 - 1847 (43 years)
