of Baden-Baden, Germany according to Emma E Riggs-Cairns’ Woodin & Dickerman Families

on ancestry, people say he lived in Bucks Co PA, died about 1771 (some folks have DoB abt 1712, some 1650???)... in family bible Casper (”of the township of Richland) was married in Bucks Co 1801
look for wills!
Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994 Bucks Estate index 1684-1939 A-R
image 312 of 641 @familysearch.com
CITATION: "Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-28763-7884-43?cc=1999196 : accessed 19 April 2016), Bucks > Estate index 1684-1939 A-R > image 312 of 641; county courthouses, Pennsylvania.


(from wiki) Columbia County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Bloomsburg. Columbia county was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County and named for Columbia, a poetic name for the United States that alludes to Christopher Columbus.
(from wiki) Northumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Sunbury. Northumberland county was formed in 1772 from parts of Lancaster, Berks, Bedford, Cumberland, and Northampton Counties and named for the county of Northumberland in northern England

*Berks co is south of Berwick,east of Harrisburg, in the Reading area
(from wiki) Reading developed during the 1740s when the inhabitants of northern Lancaster County sent several petitions requesting that a separate county be established. With the help of German immigrant Conrad Weiser, Berks county was formed on March 11, 1752 from parts of Chester County, Lancaster County, and Philadelphia County.
It was named after the English county in which William Penn's family home lay - Berkshire

*Bucks co is east of Reading, north of Philadelphia
(from wiki) Bucks County is one of the three original counties created by colonial proprietor William Penn in 1682. Penn named the county after Buckinghamshire, the county where he lived in England.
Bucks County was originally much larger than it is today. Northampton County was formed in 1752 from part of Bucks County, and Lehigh County was formed in 1812 from part of Northampton County.

-http://www.raogk.org/pennsylvania-genealogy/pa-counties/
1682 Bucks, Chester and Philadelphia counties are 3 original counties
1729 Lancaster co from Chester co
1749 York co from Lancaster co
1750 Cumberland from Lancaster
1752 Berks was formed from Chester, Lancaster and Philadelphia counties
1752 Northampton formed from Bucks
1771 Bedford (along MD border half way between Pittsburg & Harrisburg) from Cumberland
1772 Northumberland was formed from Lancaster, Berks Bedford, Cumberland and Northampton counties
1786 Luzerne County formed from Northumberland
1800 Adams co from York co
1810 Susquhanna from Luzerne
1813 Columbia county formed from Northumberland and Luzerne
1878 Lackawanna from Luzerne

POSS Nicholas Hartman
Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 for Nichl Hartman
Berks Greenwich; image 62 of 105 @ancestry.com
Source Citation: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 318-319
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Description: Township : Greenwich
Name: Nichl Hartman
Year: 1785
Town or Ward: Greenwich
County: Berks
Archive Rollname: 318-319

POSS Nicholas Hartman
Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 for Nichl Hartman
Berks Exeter; image 61 of 104 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 318-319
Description: Township : Exeter
Name: Nichl Hartman
Year: 1785
Town or Ward: Exeter
County: Berks
Archive Rollname: 318-319