Background
Henry Antes emigrated with his father"s family to Pennsylvania Colony about 1720, and built a paper mill on the Wissahickon near Philadelphia.
Henry Antes emigrated with his father"s family to Pennsylvania Colony about 1720, and built a paper mill on the Wissahickon near Philadelphia.
The name “Antes” is a Greek paraphrase of the German “Blume,” adopted as a disguise during persecutions of 1620. He was one of the founders of Bethlehem. The house he designed and built in 1736 was used as the first multicultural school during the colonial period, is now the residence of the Goshenhoppen Historians, Incorporated.
Member Reformed Church, Falkner Swamp, Pennsylvania, became lay preacher.
Married Christina Elizabeth De Wees, 1726, 11 children including Philip Frederick, Ann Margaret.