Abraham Arndt was the eldest son of the pioneer Bernhard Arndt. The original records of Old Goshenhoppen Church have disappeared. Where Bernhard Arndt and his wife died and were buried is now unknown. But in the oldest part of the churchyard is a plot of ground, unmarked by gravestones, which is known as the burial place of the ancient settlers, and here probably rest the remains of the courageous emigrants. Abrahmam Arndt was born in Baumholder, Germany in 1722. He arrived with his family in America in 1731. Abraham bought a farm in Williams Township, near the village of Raubsville. The deed of this purchase, which is dated June 9, 1770, was given by Christopher Bittenbender, and conveys 150 acres "in the said Abraham Arndt's possession now being." He paid Bittenbender £575 for the farm. Evidently he had removed from New Britain before this time, yet he still owned his old place. By deed dated December 27, 1770, the New Britain farm was conveyed to Peter Kephart for the sum of £900, a handsome profit upon his investment of £680 ten years before. Abraham fortified his new purchase in Williams township by taking out a warrant of survey on June 13, 1770, for 100 acres, covering land adjoining the Bittenbender purchase, but it was not returned to the Surveyor General's office until March 21, 1782, when the tract was found to contain 81 acres 80 perches. He set about improving his new property at once, and the tradition is that the family lived in a primitive log hut while a house was being built. He built a good stone house of dignified appearance, which still stands and is occupied. In this place Abraham, now forty-eight years old, with six children and in prosperous financial circumstances, settled down for the remainder of his days. He was to live twenty-five years longer. Abraham Arndt was in his seventy-fourth year when he died in December, 1795. Four years before his death he made his will, a document marked by justice as well as affection. He was buried in the family cemetery at Raubsville, where several members of his family were interred.

Taken From: The Story of the Arndts: The Life, Antecedents and Descendants of Bernhard Arndt; By John Stover Arndt, Warren Smedley Ely, 1922.

NOTE: He died in what is now William Twp., PA in the stone house he erected ca. 1770. He is either buried in a small family plot there or in the Raubsville Cemetery.

Jacob Arndt House and Barn is a historic home and Pennsylvania barn located at Williams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The property includes a Federal style limestone house built about 1810 with an addition completed about 1840, a large stone and wood Pennsylvania barn built about 1840, a stone carriage house built about 1890, and the ruins of an out kitchen built about 1810. The house features an entrance portico with an elliptical pediment, slate covered gable roof, and two gable-end brick chimneys.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]

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