I am the designated researcher for our family branch. What started simply as locating my husband's immediate ancestors in Berks County back in 2008 has developed into finding and categorizing most Herbeins and Herbines from Oley, Exeter and Bern townships in the 1700s through the 1900s - this has been no small task, but luckily for me some of the ground work was done by Sue Herbine and Neil Scheidt, who has also been active in this endeavor, passes along good updates. I have been doing a little at a time while I visit the "homeland's" city to play with the resident Symphony Orchestra, which I have been doing for twenty-five years. How ironic is it that I found out that our name of Huguenot origin "Harpyn" is French for "player of the harp".

In 2010 my husband and our immediate family took a trip to the visit their ancestral house - the Bertolet-Herbein log house (circa 1720-1750) which was dismantled from the Herbein-Snyder farmstead and reassembled at the Daniel Boone Homestead in Exeter in 1967. If interested, you can read more about it below.

A recent discovery has been linking the Harpine and Harbine lines, branching out from the the Herbeins in the early 1800s. I also discovered no link to the Harline and Herb families that were in Berks County during the same period. The name variations that I have found for the Herbein family are: Harpyn, Harbyn, Harben, Herben, Herbin, Hearbin, Harbine, Harpine and Herbine. It seems that only the Herbine, Harbine and Harpine variations continue.

My research has branched out over the last three years to include the Bliss, Gilbert, Barrett, Evans and Pierce families, in particular, on my side of the family.

About the "Daniel Boone cabin":

From historical information researched by the National Parks Service, in May of 1737 Elisabeth Bertolet bought land from Jonathan Herbin, had the cabin erected and then in June 1745, she sold the farm back to Jonathan Herbein, and died two years later. Jonathan willed his "remarkable plantation" with the log house to son Peter in 1761 for £200. In 1795 Peter leaves his son Peter his "present dwelling house" allowing his widow to continue to live there and according to the NPS, willed the 5o acres with log house to his son Samuel. Upon Samuel's death it comes to brother Peter and in 1828, at Peter Herbein's death, it is willed to his nephew David Schneider whose niece Mary Herbein (twenty years younger) married at the urging of her uncle.

I believe that Jonathan's son Peter and wife Elizabeth raised their sons Peter, Samuel and David, and daughters Maria, Esther (wife of Benjamine Schneider), Sarah (wife of Christian Kinsey), and Susanna (wife of Peter Knabb) in that log house. The property, log house and bake/smoke house plus colonial-era house (built in 1831) was in the Herbein and Snyder families from when Jonathan purchased the land from the widow Bertolet in 1737 until sold to the Eastern Lime Corp. in 1955. According to the Boone website, the log-house is an excellent example of 18th century PA-German log architecture. Speaking of Boone - I just found a direct Boone connection in my husband's lineage.

I am the designated researcher for our family branch. What started simply as locating my husband's immediate ancestors in Berks County back in 2008 has developed into finding and categorizing most Herbeins and Herbines from Oley, Exeter and Bern townships in the 1700s through the 1900s - this has been no small task, but luckily for me some of the ground work was done by Sue Herbine and Neil Scheidt, who has also been active in this endeavor, passes along good updates. I have been doing a little at a time while I visit the "homeland's" city to play with the resident Symphony Orchestra, which I have been doing for twenty-five years. How ironic is it that I found out that our name of Huguenot origin "Harpyn" is French for "player of the harp".

In 2010 my husband and our immediate family took a trip to the visit their ancestral house - the Bertolet-Herbein log house (circa 1720-1750) which was dismantled from the Herbein-Snyder farmstead and reassembled at the Daniel Boone Homestead in Exeter in 1967. If interested, you can read more about it below.

A recent discovery has been linking the Harpine and Harbine lines, branching out from the the Herbeins in the early 1800s. I also discovered no link to the Harline and Herb families that were in Berks County during the same period. The name variations that I have found for the Herbein family are: Harpyn, Harbyn, Harben, Herben, Herbin, Hearbin, Harbine, Harpine and Herbine. It seems that only the Herbine, Harbine and Harpine variations continue.

My research has branched out over the last three years to include the Bliss, Gilbert, Barrett, Evans and Pierce families, in particular, on my side of the family.

About the "Daniel Boone cabin":

From historical information researched by the National Parks Service, in May of 1737 Elisabeth Bertolet bought land from Jonathan Herbin, had the cabin erected and then in June 1745, she sold the farm back to Jonathan Herbein, and died two years later. Jonathan willed his "remarkable plantation" with the log house to son Peter in 1761 for £200. In 1795 Peter leaves his son Peter his "present dwelling house" allowing his widow to continue to live there and according to the NPS, willed the 5o acres with log house to his son Samuel. Upon Samuel's death it comes to brother Peter and in 1828, at Peter Herbein's death, it is willed to his nephew David Schneider whose niece Mary Herbein (twenty years younger) married at the urging of her uncle.

I believe that Jonathan's son Peter and wife Elizabeth raised their sons Peter, Samuel and David, and daughters Maria, Esther (wife of Benjamine Schneider), Sarah (wife of Christian Kinsey), and Susanna (wife of Peter Knabb) in that log house. The property, log house and bake/smoke house plus colonial-era house (built in 1831) was in the Herbein and Snyder families from when Jonathan purchased the land from the widow Bertolet in 1737 until sold to the Eastern Lime Corp. in 1955. According to the Boone website, the log-house is an excellent example of 18th century PA-German log architecture. Speaking of Boone - I just found a direct Boone connection in my husband's lineage.