This family is so closely identified with the village of Siegersville that the early history of the one includes the history of the other. The family traces its history to John George Sieger, who came from Bavaria on the Bilander Townshead, landing in Philadelphia Oct. 5. 1737. He followed the King George highway as far as the present village of Siegersville. He took with him (probably from Philadelphia) a horse, a wagon and some necessary farming implements. His wife's name was Anna Catharine Miller. They reamed near the beautiful spring of that place until some time the following summer or early fall. There is a well-established tradition that Mr. Sieger, having come from the "Hill County" of Bavaria, was not altogether content with his location, hence he went farther north beyond the Blue Mountains into Carbon county. Here he remained about two years, when owing to an uprising among the Indians and remembering the beautiful springs of the Siegersville district he returned in the spring of 1740, and settled permanently where Siegersville now stands. Mr. Sieger was a linen weaver by trade and was known as the "brick weaver." The king's highway from Macungie to Fort Allen at Weisspozt passed about fifteen rods east of John Sieger's house or hotel, and is mentioned in the government records of "Seger's Inn"