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Jacob Weiss, Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General for Northampton County during the Revolution, who settled in Towamensing Township, Carbon County, where he was a farmer, lumberman, and a founder of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, the first anthracite coal mining company of the Lehigh region.

From the description of Papers, 1733-1862 (inclusive), 1733, 1780-1835, 1862 (bulk). (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122524256

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Pennsylvania--Lehigh
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Coal mines and mining
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Quartermasters
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Active 1862

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