Moll, Johannes

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Moll, Johannes		Allentown	Pennsylvania	1776	6nbsp

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Johannes Moll, (or John Moll) born in 1747 could have had learned gunsmithing at Christian Spring. Christian Spring was a well known gunsmithing school until 1792. Maker of Kentucky style rifles and pistols. John Moll was located in Allentown at least as of 1776. However, in 1782, when the town contained fiftynine dwellings non was owned baker a Johm Moll gunsmith but one belonged to a John Moll who is listed as tailor. Johannes (I will now use John when refering to him) Moll and his wife Lydia had a son born May 13, 1773, named John Moll II. In March 1776, a second son, named John J. Moll, was born. A third son, Peter Moll, was born on November 26, 1779. John was member of Northampton County Militia, and on June 18, 1777, he was a member 8th Class, of the 3rd Company of the First Battalion. John was never called for military duties because his service were needed in the State Gun Factory in Allentown, leaded by the gunsmiths John Tyler and Ebenezer Cowell. The factory employed sixteen gunsmiths including John Moll. After the war, John Moll's business prospered. The inventory made after his death in 1794 reveals a vast store of tools and personal property, totalling £ 407-4-0 which was $ 1,221. Herman Rupp, Gunsmith, and Jacob Newhart, where named to appraise the inventory. John Moll, was survived by his widow, Lydia Moll, and two sons, John Moll, 11, and Peter Moll. There is no record of what happened to the other son, John J. Moll. This Peter Moll is not the one who came to Hellertown and started a gun shop, but the Uncle of the Peter Moll who was in Hellertown. There is a Tax record of a Peter Moll in Lower Saucon Township, Lehigh County, who paid taxes in 1835 as a "Gongsmith." There is a personal incident in thc life of John Moll, during the Revolutionary War. It is known that Moll had a large number of bee hives in his yard on North 7th Street. In his Estate Inventory, taken Feb. 6, 1795, is an item of "61 bee hives valued 30 pounds, 10 shillings." The incident is reported in the "Friedenbote" paper in 1886 as follows: "In 1776, thcrc wcrc 54 dwt?llings in Allenlown, and the number of inhabitants around 330. Among these was Boechsenschmidt (gunsmith) Johannes Moll. Hessian Prisoners of War were camped near the properties of John Moll and a baker named Mohr. The Hessian soldiers lusted after honey conlbs in Moll's garden, and often robbed the bee hivcs. Moll caught one of these Hessian prisoners in the act and shot him. Mohr and Mnll buriecl thc culprit Hessian on the Moll property." Almost a hundred years later, when this article was written, a Charles More, living then on the property, discovered the skeleton of the long dead Hessian prisoner, identified by his metal trappings still surviving the long burial. John Moll belongs to the Bethlehem School of gunsmithing.

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Johannes Moll, (or John Moll) born in 1747 could have had learned gunsmithing at Christian Spring. Christian Spring was a well known gunsmithing school until 1792. Maker of Kentucky style rifles and pistols. John Moll was located in Allentown at least as of 1776. However, in 1782, when the town contained fiftynine dwellings non was owned baker a Johm Moll gunsmith but one belonged to a John Moll who is listed as tailor.

Johannes (I will now use John when refering to him) Moll and his wife Lydia had a son born May 13, 1773, named John Moll II. In March 1776, a second son, named John J. Moll, was born. A third son, Peter Moll, was born on November 26, 1779.

John was member of Northampton County Militia, and on June 18, 1777, he was a member 8th Class, of the 3rd Company of the First Battalion. John was never called for military duties because his service were needed in the State Gun Factory in Allentown, leaded by the gunsmiths John Tyler and Ebenezer Cowell. The factory employed sixteen gunsmiths including John Moll. After the war, John Moll's business prospered. The inventory made after his death in 1794 reveals a vast store of tools and personal property, totalling £ 407-4-0 which was $ 1,221. Herman Rupp, Gunsmith, and Jacob Newhart, where named to appraise the inventory.

John Moll, was survived by his widow, Lydia Moll, and two sons, John Moll, 11, and Peter Moll. There is no record of what happened to the other son, John J. Moll. This Peter Moll is not the one who came to Hellertown and started a gun shop, but the Uncle of the Peter Moll who was in Hellertown. There is a Tax record of a Peter Moll in Lower Saucon Township, Lehigh County, who paid taxes in 1835 as a "Gongsmith."

There is a personal incident in thc life of John Moll, during the Revolutionary War. It is known that Moll had a large number of bee hives in his yard on North 7th Street. In his Estate Inventory, taken Feb. 6, 1795, is an item of "61 bee hives valued 30 pounds, 10 shillings." The incident is reported in the "Friedenbote" paper in 1886 as follows: "In 1776, thcrc wcrc 54 dwt?llings in Allenlown, and the number of inhabitants around 330. Among
these was Boechsenschmidt (gunsmith) Johannes Moll. Hessian Prisoners of War were camped near the
properties of John Moll and a baker named Mohr. The Hessian soldiers lusted after honey conlbs in
Moll's garden, and often robbed the bee hivcs. Moll caught one of these Hessian prisoners in the act and
shot him. Mohr and Mnll buriecl thc culprit Hessian on the Moll property."

Almost a hundred years later, when this article was written, a Charles More, living then on the property, discovered the skeleton of the long dead Hessian prisoner, identified by his metal trappings still surviving the long burial.

John Moll belongs to the Bethlehem School of gunsmithing.