Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Strock, Anthony
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Springfield Township


   ANTHONY STROCK a native of "de Reina Poltz," Germany, 
emigrated to this country in 1775, and settled at the place 
afterward known as Perkiomenville, Montgomery county.  In 
the struggle for liberty with Great Britain, he espoused the 
American cause and became one of the sufferers of Valley 
Forge.  After that year he returned home, where he followed 
his trade of butcher, at the same time buying herds of 
cattle for the Philadelphia market.  He was very successful, 
and purchased two of the best farms in the valley of the 
Perkiomen.  The continental money, then in circulation, 
depreciated to such an extent that he lost his money and 
farms, and discouraged he returned to Germany.  After the 
family reached Spain, they all became sick and the father 
died and was buried there.  The mother and her three sons 
returned to America, and took up their abode at the old 
place.  After the sons were grown up, Henry went to 
Philadelphia to learn the trade of shoemaker with a man 
named Hone.  Daniel and the other brother went west.  It is 
supposed by the rest of the Strock family, that the 
brothers, who emigrated west about the year 1800, settled in 
Wayne county, Ohio.  The descendants of Henry, at present 
the fourth, fifth and sixth generations, are all living in 
Springfield township, in and around the pleasant village of 
Springtown.   Samuel, father of Professor T. C. Strock, 
lives in the center of the town.  In 1875 his barn was 
burned, causing a loss of about $800, with no insurance.