in the house of the baker Dalmer a fire broke out in the course of which seven buildings were destroyed. Four animals were killed in the fire. According to the official records of the town Dalmer was not allowed to rebuild his house in the same place. In 1753 he baked his bread in his mother's house. This baker Dalmer was probably a grand-child of the above mentioned Hannss Ulrich Heberlin.
The purchase lists of the 18th century which are preserved from 1707
on give many examples which show that the possession of land was the most important
basis for the economic existence of the family. Especially the name Jakob Friedrich
is mentioned frequently. In 1736 he pays 51 Gulden for a location from Lorentz
Neumann's widow under the condition that he will not build a stove near the
seller's house northat he will build anything which would take away the light
from the neighbor's kitchen or cow stable. In 1738 he buys a piece of garden
in town between the "Allmand Street" and the property of Conrad Burkhard, an
innkeeper. He pays 22 Gulden for the lot. In 1742 he pays 68 Gulden for three
fourths of a vineyard. In 1746 he buys a barn for 25 Gulden. On November 26th,
1736 he sells with the consent of his wife the lower part of a house and part
of a barn and half of a basement for 500 Gulden. In 1738 the guardian of his
wife, Johann Georg Renner, buys from him a piece of garden in the upper part
of the town near the town wall for ' r 30 Gulden. Also in 1738 he se lls a piece
of a field with the spelt+ which was growing on it. In the purchase lists we
find a number of entries under his name. When he is older, in 1780, he sold
a two story hause together with the garden and all the tools he had needed in
his profession as a baker which ' were: 1 trough, 1 pair of scales with 12 pounds
of weights, 1 large vat, 2 sacks for four, 4 sacks for fruit, 5 pieces of cloth,
4 cake scoops, altogether for 600 Gulden.
+ spelt is a hard grained kind of wheat or any of its varieties (CFH)