Among these early settlers was Henry Faust, who was born in Albany Township, Berks Co., and was the son of one of two brothers, Bastian or John Faust, who had landed at Philadelphia at an early period of Penn's emigration from the Palatinate, and settled in Berks County. He died April 14th, 1795, leaving to survive hint a widow and eight children.

Henry Faust, purchased the farm originally one hundred and ninety-three and a half acres of Robert Gibson, a Scotch-Irish settler, who owned two thousand seven hundred and twenty-three acres in Allen township, embracing all that land from a point near Bridge Street to Stemton, west of the Howertown

Had 8 children