From Henry Clevenstine estate records, 1805, Robeson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphan’s Court

Long John Bitler and his family moved to the Ringtown - Brandonville area of Union Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania around 1812. John Bitler and his children are enumerated here in the 1820 and 1830 U.S. censuses.

Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed at the Session of 1835-36 in the sixtieth year of Independence, Harrisburg, Printed by Theo. Fenn, 1836, p. 808-809.