Children: Anna Maria b. ?1713 ? Germany, George born ?1718 PA,
Eva Born ?1719 PA. Lived in Chester County area which became Lancaster County, PA. First
Pennsylvania Land Warrant issued by London Company in May 177. Founded Zeltenreich Reformed
Church in Strasburg, PA. Lived in Mill Creek Colony. American version of name is Seldomridge.
Sons, grandsons served in American Revolution, War of 1812, American Civil War. Grandson
migrated to western Virginia, Ohio, Illinois.

 

 Andreas Seldonrich [Zeldonrich] is listed as owning 212 acres of land and by the 1720 the tax valuation of his property was set at twenty pounds in the Conestoga Township Assessment. 4 He took out a warrant to survey the land March 5, 1718 and this warrant is in the Taylor Papers volume 4 page 570 in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He held this tract of land until February 26, 1747 when he and his wife, Anna Maria, sold it to Dorcus Boughwalter.5
Andrew moved with his family into Leacock Township, Lancaster County. (Leacock township was one of the origianl townships of Lancaster County, 1729). Here he took up two hundred acres of land along Mill Creek at the west end of the Welsh Mountains. A small portion of the land at this end extended into Earl Township. The warrantee may be found in the Land Records Office, Dept. of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg, Pa. The warrant was taken out March 8, 1734 by Andreas Seldenridge of County of Lancaster for 200 acres in Leacock township adjoining to John Avy and John Riley. He agreed to pay 15 pounds ten shillings for each 100 acres and a yearly Quit rent of 1/2 penny sterling for each acre. Thomas Penn signed the warrant. The land was surveyed but a patent was not taken out by Andrew. After his death, George had the-land resurveyed May 22, 1760 and the survey is in the Land Records Office. Andrew evidently never paid the Quit rent for in the Penn-Physick Papers Volume 5 p.74 of the Hist. Soc. of Pa. the following appears: ?3 October 1760 George Seldenridge two hundred and fourteen acres, one quarter, and thirty-six perches of Land Situation Leacock township Lancaster Co. surveyed to his Father Andreas Seldenridge by Warrant of the 8 March 1734 whose right is now in the said George.

Name was "Americanized" to Seldomridge. Various spellings-
Seltenreich, Seldenrich, Seldomreich plus others.

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