Frederick Bicking (John Frederick Bicking)was born in Winterburg, a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany and came probably first to Philadelphia and then to East Brandywine Township, Monotgomery County, Pennsylvania, before the revolution. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1741 with his parents Johann Reichard Bicking and Anna Elizabetha Roos Bicking, a brother and two of his three sisters.

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  • Frederick Bicking (John Frederick Bicking)was born in Winterburg, a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany and came probably first to Philadelphia and then to East Brandywine Township, Monotgomery County, Pennsylvania, before the revolution. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1741 with his parents Johann Reichard Bicking and Anna Elizabetha Roos Bicking, a brother and two of his three sisters. In Pennsylvania he owned and operated a paper mill, establishing the Bicking paper dynasty that would last well into the 19th century. Bicking also operated the Sheetz, or "Dove Mill", which was thought to be the oldest or second oldest paper mill (to the Rittinghouse mill) in the colonies. The Continental Congress allocated funds to purchase Bicking's paper for currency production. The bank notes to pay the troops at Valley Forge were printed on his paper. He is mentioned in several of the minutes of the Continental Congress and in the George Washington Papers where Capt. James Lovell explains to Washington that he thought the minutes of the Continental Congress were buried at Bicking's property to avoid destruction of the documents by the British. Frederick Bicking married Mary Catherine Unverzagt of Otwiller, Germany on May 26, 1752 at St. Michael's & Zion Lutheran Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Mary Catherine Unverzagt, daughter of Johannes Unverzagt, was also a German Palatine. Bicking was buried in the Bicking family cemetery which has been maintained and is located in Narberth, Pennsylvania. Of Frederick Bicking's five sons, three were paper makers in Pennsylvania. Frederick's son, John Bicking, had a paper mill near present day Fisherville.
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  • Frederick Bicking (John Frederick Bicking)was born in Winterburg, a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany and came probably first to Philadelphia and then to East Brandywine Township, Monotgomery County, Pennsylvania, before the revolution. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1741 with his parents Johann Reichard Bicking and Anna Elizabetha Roos Bicking, a brother and two of his three sisters.
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  • Frederick Bicking
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