Nicholas Kern was one of the earliest settlers of Whitehall Township, where he had taken up land under date of December 3, 1735, February 24, 1737, and October 28, 1737, for 300 acres, which he sold, February 27, 1739, to Lawrence Guth. A Nicholas Kern landed at Philadelphia October 2, 1727, and September 21, 1732, there is also one of the same name recorded. One of these was the Kern of Whitehall Township. Nicholas Kern and wife Mary Margaret were sponsors at Egypt church in the years 1734, '736, 1739, 1740 and 1741. He took up large tracts of land in 1737 and 1738, amounting to five hundred acres where Slatington is now located, where he later removed and died in 1748, leaving seven children, William, John, Cornelia, who married Martin Singling, Frederick, Nicholas, Henry and George.