Matthew or Matthias Schwenk, son of John Martin, was born about 1762. On June 4, 1784, he bought his father's farm in Gwynedd Township, which he sold four days after to George Heist. He later removed to Allentown where he was a wheelwright. He lived in the town until Dec. 4. 1810, when he sold his house and lot on the West Side of the first block of North Seventh Street, to George Shaffer to $600.00 and removed to Carbon County, where he died in 1813. He married Elizabeth Troxell and had seven children: (1) Margaret, married John Keiper; (2) Henry, who removed to Ohio; (3) Jacob, born Jan 5. 1793, died March 29, 1875: (4) Martin; (5) John, born April 17, 1797, who died in 1853; (6) Elizabeth, born July 19, 1795, died April 21, 1837, married first Joseph Albright and second, Daniel Snyder; and (7) Catharine, born Aug. 14, 1805, married Jacob Geisinger, and died July 10, 1889.