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Documentation: Information from "John Samuel Duey", by Charles J. Duey
Conrad Duy and family arrived in Philadelphia in 1740, soon taking up residence in the area of the Tohicken Reformed and Lutheran Church, Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This was an historic church, founded by pious Lutherans and Huguenots as an effort to Christianize America. Many of the church members were sent by the Pietistic Movement associated with the University of Halle, Germany. Christian and Frederich Duy, Conrad's nephews, came to Philadelphia in 1750, and settled in Germantown. Their brother Johann Phillipp arrived in 1764. These Pioneers served in the Pa. Militia during the Revolutionary War, and at least two died in the service.
From this colonial beginning, the Dueys began a march westward, first to Bucks Co., then the area today known as Lebanon Co., and thence into the area now occupied by Harrisburg. A few years prior to the Revolutionary War, John Jacob Duey and his wife, Anna Catherine Wolfersberger, with their children, moved across the Susquehenna River into the new farming area around Carlisle (founded in 1750). They speculated in land and also owned farming sites. Sons Peter, Martin, Philip, and Conrad either owned farms or rented them. Peter was a weaver, as was another Duey in Hummelstown. Some were wheelwrights and/or wagon makers, one a cooper. In the next generation, a grandson of the Duey/Wolfersberger family, Jacob, was involved in real estate. These all were associated with either the Lutheran churches or the Reformed churches, including the Presbyterian. By the middle of the 1800s, we have record of a strong musical talent in the family. John Samuel Duey, b. 1820, was a choir director in Quincy, Pa., and his son, George Sylvester, had a small music school along with his wagonmaking business. John Samuel also taught musical instruments, having a marching band and being involved with the training of soldiers in the Civil War. George was choir director for a time at the Pine Street Presbyterian Church in downtown Harrisburg. |