George (Hans George) RUCH (ROUK) (The_Jr.), son of George (Hans George) RUCH (ROUK) (The Sr.) and Catharina REISS was born in Northern Alsace (now France) in 1709.

He came to America with his father's family on the ship Samuel arriving in Philadelphia on August 17, 1733 and settled with his father's family in Whitehall Township of old Bucks (later Northampton, now Lehigh) County Pennsylvania.

He became a Naturalized British subject at the courthouse in Philadelphia on February 2, 1745. He was listed in this record of naturalization as a resident of the Bucks County.

Probate records indicate that by about 1750 he was living somewhere within Upper Milford Township (later to be part of Lehigh County in Pennsylvania).

Hans George Jr. had the following children:

1. George (Jorg) RUCH (The III) was born in Pennsylvania about 1735. He lived in Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.. George died about 1820-1821.

About 1760 in Pennsylvania he married Anna Margaret RABESNOLD. Anna Margaret RABESNOLD was born about 1740.

George (III) and Anna Margaret had the following children: Margaret Elizabeth (b. 1761), Lorentz, John, Elizabeth, Catharine, Peter, Eva Dorothea (b. abt 1765), Christian (b. 1766), and George Philip (b. 1768).

2. Lorentz RUCH was born in Pennsylvania about 1740. He appears as the head of his household in the nations first census taken in Pennsylvania in 1790 as Larance Roegh or Rogh in Whitehall Township, Northampton County. He died in or about 1825 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

About 1765 in Pennsylvania he married Valentine.

Lorentz and Valentine had at least one child, Peter, who was born about 1770.

3. Christian (Ja. Christian) RUCH was born in Eastern Pennsylvania on January 7, 1748.

On April 20, 1766 he served as a baptismal sponsor for Christian Ruch (the son of his brother, George) at the Jordan Lutheran Church in SouthWhitehall Township, old Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He was apparently living there or nearby at the time.

He served as an Ensign in the Northampton County Militia during the Revolution.

At the time of the nations first census, taken in 1790, he was the head of a household in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

He died on December 2, 1827 in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania and was buried at Lower Saucon Cemetery in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

About 1780 in Pennsylvania he married (1st) Anna Rosina FRIEMAN. She was born on December 26, 1755 and died on November 11, 1825.

Christian and Anna Rosina had the following children: Jonas (b. abt 1781), John (b. abt 1783), George (b. abt 1786),

About 1810 Christian married (2nd) Elizabeth HERMAN.
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