He arived in Philadelphia on September 1, 1736 when he was 22 years old.

Many people from Germany were from Palatinate.

They all seemed to settle in Heidelbergh Township.

According to Charles Roberts history, he states that John Jacob Daubenspeck from the beginning of his entry into Heidlelberg area built a church.

He originally started it in his own home.

It is said by this historian that he traveled on his own around the Heidlberg Township inviting people to come to his home for devine worship.

We know from historical facts that John Jacob's home was used a a meeting for devine worship by 1740.

Until t745, both the Lutheran and Reforms met in his home, they were also working toword the organization of the church and a new building to worship in.

By 1744, they built a new log building in which they started holding meetings in 1745.

The congregation was a mixture of Lutherans and Reforms.

Eventually, they called it the Heidleberg Union Church.

When his church burned to the ground in 1756, another much larger and better log church was built.

It was dedicated in 1757.

Two outstanding leaders in the committee that organized the first church that was dedicated in 1745 and the second church which was dedicated in 1757 were John Jacob Daubenspeck and Henrich Geiger.

The last dedicated church in 1757 was built approximately in the center of Heidelburgh Township about a mile northwest of John Daubenspecks home.

Today, however, if you were to go to Washington Township, Leheigh County and travel the road to Saegersville, near that place you would find the area in which the old church and cemetery plot stood (the old one and the new one that was started in 1932).

Here of course you could also find the lands in which at one time were owned by our ancestors, John Jacob Daubenspeck.

In this area, there is a small granite monumement with a picture of a log church at the very top of the monument and down under it was written that the first church was built on this spot in 1745.

Later rebuilt because a fire ruined the first one and rebuilt in 1756, dedicated in 1757.

John Jacobs house was about one mile southwest of the church lands.

The church stood one mile from Sagerville near the center of the township on the road to Neffsville.

The first small springs of Weidelberg Creek rise upon the church lands.

A new Cemetery was opened up in 1932.

Heidelberg Township is now Washington Township, Lehigh County Pennsylvania.

Lehigh County was formed from Northampton in 1812.

Church Records Of The Egypt Reform Church 1734 -1807 Lehigh County Pennsylvania.

From Pennsylvania Archives, Six Serrs Volume 6. 1753 Heidelberg.

DAUBENSPECK, Anna Magdalena, daughter of Jacob DAUBENSPECK and wife Juliana; b. February 16, 1753; bap. - ; sp. Conrad BLOSS and wife Anna Magdalena