John Michael Minnich was the son of Peter Münch, according to Blue Book of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Peter Münch was born in 1698 and died in 1766. He settled in what was then Bethel Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and took up a tract of land there in 1750. His tract included land on both sides of the Schuylkill River. Peter built a log house on this site, which was located where the Seven Stars hotel now stands in Manheim Township.Schuylkill County. His log house was burned by Indians in 1755. Later in 1777, Peter’s son Conrad Minnich built the Seven Stars hotel on the property. It was the first public house in the county, and it afforded entertainment and lodging for the patrons of the stagecoach from Philadelphia and Reading to Fort Augusta.
The history of Seven Stars Inn actually begins before it was known as such. It began as the homestead of Gerhard Brumbach who settled in Vincent Township soon after his marriage to Mary Rittenhouse Papen in 1718.
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