Philip and Susan (Williams) Antes. The families were of German extraction, and among the earliest settlers of Centre county. Philip Antes was born in Faldemer Swamp, twenty miles above Philadelphia, on the 25th of August, 1759.... Philip moved to Centre county in 1784, and located in Boggs Township, on the Bald Eagle, just below Milesburg. He removed to this county in 1825.946
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Of German descent and among the early settlers of Centre County [PA]. After marriage and some years of residence in Northumberland county, Penn., removed in 1784 to Centre County, locating in Boggs Township at Bald Eagle, just below Milesburg. In 1825 Mr. Antes moved to Clearfield county and there spent his declining years.831
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Separate family records in source indicates Philip born 2nd and 7th Aug 1759. Settled in Curtin Township, Centre, PA on 21 Feb 1786. Records marriage date erroneously as 2.21.1870.947
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These sources show his birth date as 26 Aug 1759 and death date as 14 Aug 1831.944,948
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This source includes an entry under “Comment,” presumably made from the grave stone itself, which indicates Philip’s age as “71Yr 11Mo 18D (Hist Soc has 1831” BUT in the same entry it indicates his birthdate as “Aug 7, 1759” and death date as “Aug 14, 1834.”716
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In 1824 land was donated by [a] Philip Antes to build a school [in Lawrence Township].949
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Philip Antis [sic] donated a piece of ground near on the public road from Clearfield to Curwensville, on which a school-house was built about 1824. John Patton, Sr., (1782-1851) father of Congressman John Patton (1823-1897), was the master here in 1826.

It was here, in this house, under the tutorship of his father, that Hon. John Patton attended school for the first time.834

[Was this Philip Antes the father-in-law (1759-1834) or brother-in-law (1781-1862) of John Patton Sr. It is not known for certain but was probably one or the other and most likely the senior Philip.]
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Philip Antes died in Lawrence township, Clearfield County, Aug. 14, 1831. He was a son of Henry Antes, sheriff of Northumberland County in 1782, and grandson of Rev. Henry Antes, "the pious and active German Reformed layman of Frederick township."

Philip was born at Falkner Swamp, Montgomery Co., Aug. 26, 1759, removed while young to what is now Dauphin County, married Susanna Williams, Feb. 21, 1780, and removed to Nippenose [Lycoming Co., PA], to what was known as the Little Mill, and came to Bald Eagle May 3, 1787. He is more especially referred to in the general history of the Methodist Church. His wife died May 2, 1826, in Clearfield County.

Their children, Frederick, born Jan. 18, 1781, lived and died on the farm opposite Eagle Forge; John, born Oct. 4, 1782, died at his son's, in Moshannon, in 1852; Henry, born Dec. 4, 1784, lived and died in Harrisburg; Philip, Jr., lived near Clearfield, and died at his daughter's, in the town of Clearfield; Polly, born June 3, 1787, married Hiram J. Miller, and afterwards Isaiah Goodfellow; Elizabeth, born July 31, 1794, married Moses Boggs, associate judge of Clearfield County for seventeen years; Susan (Mrs. John Patton, Sr.), mother of Gen. John Patton, of Curwensville, still survives, at the age of ninety-two years, born May 10, 1791, at Antes Mill, now Curtin.950,844
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In 1787 [Philip] moved up the West Branch of the Susquehanna (this would have been from the Jersey Shore area, where his father was living at the time) to the area of Bald Eagle Creek, settling near later Curtin iron works. In that area, he built a grist mill,* started Methodist meetings. In 1829 he donated the land for the first Methodist Episcopal church in Clearfield County.945


*A gristmill or grist mill is a building in which grain is ground into flour. In many countries these are referred to as corn mills or flour mills.3