By H. S. Hallman

Anthony Hallman was born in 1671. He was a resident of Skippack Twp in Montgomery County, Penna, as early a 1708 where he owned a farm of about 150 acres. He was a member of the Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe, PA., and on the building committee of this church, which he helped to build. Benjamin Hallman was a member of Captain Barnet Haines Company of Militia in 1777. He was a shoemaker by trade and lived in Upper Providence Twp, Montgomery County and married to Anna and they had thirteen children. One of his sons, Benjamin, born in 1783 continued farming. And during the great financial depression from 1816 to 1827 like many others, failed financially, sold the farm to pay creditors and moved to Canada.  

109p. 139 actual p., Illus, 1906)