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The ancestry of Peter Vogele is unknown. The literature suggests a possibility that two Vogele families were in the Lehigh/Berks Counties border area of Pennsylvania. A Fogel (von Vogel) family originally from Chur Hesse, Germany, emigrated in 1731 and settled in Lynn Township, Lehigh Co. Some moved to Upper Macungie Twp., and founded the town of Fogelsville. They were predominantly aligned with the Reformed church. Several lines of descent are reported, but no Peter Vogele is found. He may descend from one of the untraced lines.
Among the Lutheran families settled along the Little Lehigh, "who came principally from Wurtemberg" was a Wilhelm Fegley (Vogelein). No further documentation of this family has been found. Our Peter Vogele may be descended from this Wilhelm Fegley. The possibility also exists that the list of early settlers principally from Wurtemberg contained the names of some who were not from Wurtemberg. Wilhelm Fegley may in fact be connected to the Fogel family from Hesse.

Ancestry chart segment

Generation 7            Generation 8
                        
                    +-- Peter Vogele
                    |   (????->1810)       
Elizabetha Vogele --+                     
(????-????)         |                         
                    +-- Elisabeth Marz
                        (????-1810)

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Children

(Children for whom baptismal records list parents Peter & Elisabeth Vogele.
More than one Peter & Elisabeth Vogele couple appear in Longswamp records, so children's parentage uncertain.)

(Vogele adults who serve as sponsors for the children of Elisabeth Vogele & Johan Jacob Klein; possibly her siblings, or cousins)

(Possibly a Vogele daughter; from baptismal sponsors)

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• Line by line search of the 1790, 1800 and 1810 census records for Macungie Twp, Northampton Co, PA yielded no clear results for Peter Vogele under any name variant. An Ancestry.com search of the entire county for first name Peter gave no clear choice. Although there are Peter Fegele (1800), Peter Fogel (1810) and others who could be our ancestor, the ages and children are not consistent with previous information and the data are not sufficient to make a choice. Longswamp Twp. Berks Co PA was also searched without useful results.

• The Lehigh Church records show multiple David Vogele baptisms, in 1779, 1790, 1804, & 1808.
• The Longswamp Church records, baptismal sponsors from who appear to be of the same generations as Peter Vogele and Elisabeth Marz are: Christian, Heinrich, Philip, Abraham, Conrad , Mariga (with Christian Ritz, married in 1805), Magdalena.

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Research

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• Historical& Biographical Annals of Berks County PA, by Montgomery, Vol. I, 1909, pg. 8 "First Taxables, "It is believed that the Assessment was made in the year 1752..." continues to Pg. 12 Longswamp Twp: Barnard Fegely, Samuel Fogel, Jacob Fenstermacher, Philip Fenstermacher, Bernhart Klein, Dewalt Klein, Nicholas Martz, Peter Martz, Joast Mertz, Henry Mentz (sic).... Pg. 1211 Biography of George Fegley, born 1806 in Douglass Twp., Montgomery Co. PA, where his family has long been located. Bernhard Fegley, the first of the name in this country, came from Switzerland...first located in Montgomery Co., near East Greenville, but died in Longswamp Twp., Berks Co. in 1782. Little in known of his son, Peter Fegley, the grandfather of George Fegley, except that he was born in Montgomery County & settled in Douglass Twp that county, induced by the fact that his uncle (a brother of Bernhard) had made a permanent settlement there... Peter Fegley, the father of George Fegley, born Douglass Twp., Montgomery Co., married Elizabeth Low...15 children including a Peter who married Rebecca Gottshall...no matches seen for out Direct Line ancestor Peter Vogele.

• "Berks Surnames Matched to German Hometowns", article in the Summer 1989 Journal of the Berks County Genealogical Society, pg. 63. quotes from Annette Burgert's "Eighteenth Century Emigrants Vol. I: "Northern Kraichgau Palatinate", that the surname Vogele originated in the village of Hoffenheim, in Wurtemberg.

• History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon by Alfred Mathews. History of Lehigh County PA:
• Pg. 340 "History of the Lehigh Church" by Rev. William A. Helffrich. He discusses the settlement of families along the Little Lehigh River valley in Macungie Twp., Lehigh Co. The "Lehigh Zion church, now known as the Lehigh Church" was Lutheran. Some of the settlers were Reformed, and their choice was to attend the Ziegel Church in Longswamp Twp, Berks Co., or to go to Salisbury. "Among the first immigrants (to the Little Lehigh vallery), who came principally from Wurtemberg, were the following...Wilhelm Fegley (Vogelein)."

• Pg.316 "Early Settlements" discusses early settlers around Fogelsville. "Philipp Gabriel Fogel is the ancestor of the Fogel family"...arrived on ship "Samuel" in 1731 at Philadelphia (name miss-recorded as Philipp F. Fogel). He came from the province Hanau in Churhesse, and is one of the first Reformed families that settled in Lehigh County...They settled near Lynnville on about 500 acres of land. Buried in cemetery of Ebenezer Church at New Tripoli of which he was one of the founders. Oldest son Conrad Fogel had 2 sons, Johannes & Philipp, and daughters...additional Fogel family biographies. Additional biographies of this family from"Hanan, Chur Hesse, Germany" are found in History of Lehigh County PA by Charles Rhoades Roberts, Vol II, pg. 369.

• "Tombstone Inscriptions, Fogelsville Union Cemetery, Lehigh Co. PA", manuscript at Lehigh County Historical Society Library; Fogel entries did not include a Peter Fogel.
• "J. H. Helffrich Records 1790-1810" at Lehigh Co. Hist. Soc. Library:11 Fegley, Fogel, Voegli, Vogele etc. marriages or burials; no Peter (Vogele/etc.) record.

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