Bio in . This large and honorable family claims as its common ancestor Christian Laubach, who, together with his wife, children and his father, Reinhart Laubach, aged seventy years, landed at Philadelphia, September 16, 1738. Along in the same ship came Andrew Lerch and his two sons, Peter and Anthony. It is said that they were friends before departing for America; at least, they settled on adjoining tracts on Laubach's creek in Saucon Township, Northampton County. Soon after their arrival in 1745, Christian Laubach erected a saw and gristmill and added five adjoining tracts of land to the original homestead, some of which are still in possession of his descendants. He was a blacksmith by trade. The records of the Durham furnace show that he had many castings made there, especially iron pots and kettles.

Christian Laubach had been trained as a soldier in the German army. On August 29, 1755, he was appointed captain of the Saucon rangers, and was stationed at various times during the two following years at Rose Inn, Christian Springs, Gnadenthal Mill, and at the various blockhouses along the Blue mountains. A letter, read at the centenary of the Nazareth Inn, June 9, 1871, contains this reference to him:

In this way, during the winter of 1755 and 1756, did the Rose exchange its character of an inn for that of a city of refuge. But it was also for a military post, and suffered from military occupation. This occupation fell in the interval between the 26th of November 1755, and the 20th of February 1756, and some of its incidents are the following: In the evening of the aforesaid 26th of November, a company of Saucon rangers, in command of Capt. Christian Laubach, halted at the inn and bivouacked for the night. Having scoured the neighboring woods next day, on receiving intelligence of the enemy's presence in the gap of the mountain, they broke camp at dusk, and when the moon had risen, set out in pursuit. Meanwhile two detachments of mounted men had arrived. These failed to recognize any necessity for their presence, and having dined, departed.

His son, John George Laubach, was a member of the company. The younger sons remained at home, conducting the farm, mills and the blacksmith shop. Christian Laubach was born in Germany in 1699, and died on his homestead November 29, 1768; his wife, Susanna Catharine, was born in 1705, and died March 12, 1770. They lie buried at the Lower Saucon Church, Northampton County. His will bears date, March 4, 1768, in which he says: "I bequeath unto my wife, Susanna Catharine, such household goods as she may desire, also the sum of six pounds sterling money annually; the annual interest of 150 pounds, and a yearly allowance of 10 bushels of wheat, 5 bushels of rye; unto his son, John George, he bequeathed the sum of 50 pounds; to his daughter, Elizabeth, 30 pounds; to his sons, Conrad and Frederick, all those messages and tenements consisting of a grist-mill, saw-mill (situated on Laubach's creek), plantation, and five tracts of land, containing 215 acres, granted to him by a proprietary patent, bearing date, April 28, 1762, but subject to payments of certain sums of money, to wit: To his son, John George, 70 pounds; to his son, Peter, 70 pounds. After the death of his wife the rest and residue of his effects were to be divided in equal shares amongst his five sons.

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Christian Laubach, accompanied by his wife, Susan Laubach, and six children, sailed in August, 1738, from the Palatinate, Germany. and landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1738, on the ship "Queen Elizabeth." They settled on the banks of a small stream in Saucon township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, where he shortly afterward erected a saw and grist mill. Christian Laubach was a blacksmith and iron dealer, and furnished large quantities of material to the Durham furnaces. Subsequently be became the owner of five tracts of land which are still in the possession of his descendants.