Skippack, originally named "Van Bebber's Township", is a census-designated place in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,758 at the 2010 census. In 1683, the Original 13, thirteen families from the lower Rhine River arrived at Philadelphia aboard the Concord, on October 6 of th…
Skippack, originally named "Van Bebber's Township", is a census-designated place in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,758 at the 2010 census. In 1683, the Original 13, thirteen families from the lower Rhine River arrived at Philadelphia aboard the Concord, on October 6 of that year. These families were primarily linen weavers, but also knew how to farm. These first German immigrants left their homeland of Germany because of persecution they experienced as religious Anabaptist Mennonite and Quakers from the Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches. Upon arriving at Philadelphia, the families were greeted by the representative of the Frankfort Land Company, a highly educated German lawyer, Franz Daniel Pastorius, who was charged with the authority to make land transactions with the thirteen families. After inspecting different areas of the vicinity of Philadelphia, the families settled on the land that was to become the villages of Germantown, Summerhousen, Crefeld, and Germantownship.
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