Person Info
- Name: Peter WOLF
- Sex: M
- Birth: Jun 1714 in Gangloff, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany b
- Death: 1788 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania d
Parents:
Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Mary Magdalena WOLF Birth: 1 Jun 1743 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
- John Jacob WOLF Birth: 27 Jun 1744 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Death: 20 Apr 1835 in Buffalo Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
- John Peter WOLF Birth: 25 Aug 1745 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Death: Abt 1829 in Knox Co, Ohio
- John WOLF Birth: 2 Feb 1747 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Death: 15 Jan 1833 in Canton Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
- Barbara WOLFF Birth: 5 Feb 1748 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Death: 17 Jun 1817 in Buffalo Twp, Ohio Co, Virginia
- Elizabeth WOLF Birth: 3 Jun 1749 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
- Christian WOLF Birth: 16 Dec 1750 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
- Rosanna WOLF Birth: 5 Dec 1751 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Death: Abt 1815
- Susanna WOLF Birth: 2 Sep 1753 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
- Christina WOLF Birth: 25 Nov 1754 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
- William WOLF Birth: 14 Mar 1757 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Death: 16 Oct 1839 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania
- Daniel WOLF Birth: 21 May 1759 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Bibliography
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Sumney, Barbi, Wolf-Sumney, private email 1/8/2002. Author address: BarbS at pghmail dot com Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002].
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Beers, J. H., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, PA, J.H. Beers Co, Chicago, 1893, reprinted by Polyanthos, Inc, New Orleans, LA, 1976. Available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008651804. Available at http://archive.org/details/commemorativebio03jhbe Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p[0-9-]*].
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Bell, Raymond Martin, James Clemens of Washington County, 1986. Washington, PA: author, 1986. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/367556. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bell CLEMENS-James p[0-9]*].
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Bell, Raymond Martin, German Settlement in Buffalo Township, Keyhole II,3 July 1983, pp109-17. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bell GermanSettlement p[0-9]*].
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Bell, Raymond Martin, The WOLF Family of Washington County, PA, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1984. Located in Citizens Library, Washington, PA, SR 929.3 Wol. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/102637. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p[0-9-]*].
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Bell, Raymond Martin, Children of Peter Wolf Sr. Keyhole, XXIII,4 Oct95, p150-152. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bell WOLF-95 p[0-9]*].
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Rupp, I Daniel, Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania From 1727 to 1776, Philadelphia, Leary, Stuart & Co, 1927. Available at http://archive.org/details/collectionofupwa00rupp Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Rupp 30KNames p[0-9]*].
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Stoever, Johann Casper, Early Lutheran baptisms and marriages in southeastern Pennsylvania: the records of Rev. John Casper Stoever from 1730 to 1779, Harrisburg: Harrisburg Pub Co, 1896. Reprinted: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1984. NYPL APR (Pennsylvania) 84-3621. Available at http://archive.org/details/recordsofrevjohn01stoe Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Stoever Records p[0-9]*].
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Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, v.1 1727-1775, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1966. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006785559. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Strassburger PAGermanPioneers p[0-9]*].
Sources for birth and parent Information
- date:
- [Ref: Bell CLEMENS-James p47, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-95 p150],
- place:
- [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002, Bell CLEMENS-James p47, Bell WOLF-84 p15,
Bell WOLF-95 p150]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p15]
- possibly in 1789 [Ref: Bell WOLF-95 p150],
- place:
- [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p15]
- tradition says died in Washington County [Ref: Bell WOLF-95 p150]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah (WOLF)
- date:
- [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002, Bell CLEMENS-James p47, Bell WOLF-84 p15,
Bell WOLF-95 p150, Stoever Records p59],
- place:
- [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p1]
- Tulpehocken Church [Ref: Bell CLEMENS-James p47, Stoever Records p59],
- names:
- Peter WOLF & Hanna ___ [Ref: Stoever Records p59]
- Peter WOLF & Hannah ___ [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002, Beers
WashingtonCoPA p699, Bell CLEMENS-James p47, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-84
p17, Bell WOLF-84 p19, Bell WOLF-84 p1, Bell WOLF-84 p21, Bell WOLF-84 p22,
Bell WOLF-84 p24, Bell WOLF-84 p3, Bell WOLF-95 p150, Bell WOLF-95 p151],
- child:
- [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p699, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-84 p17,
Bell WOLF-84 p19, Bell WOLF-84 p21, Bell WOLF-84 p22, Bell WOLF-84 p24, Bell
WOLF-84 p3, Bell WOLF-95 p151]
Research Notes:
family record found by Annette K Burgert in the unpublished Moravian records
at Bethlehem, PA: Seelen-Register zu Libanon an der Quitopehille - 1754
catalog. Peter Wolf, b June 1714 in Gangeloff in Zweibruch, Reformed. Wife
Hannah b 1717 in Vigourie in Elsass (m Aug 8 1742). Children: Maria Magdalena
b 1 June 1743, Joh. Jacob b 27 June 1744, Joh. Peter b 25 Aug 1745, Johannes b
2 Feb 1747, Maria Barbara b 5 Feb 1748, Elizabetha b 3 Jun 1749, Christian b
16 Dec 1750, Rosina b 3 Dec 1751, Susanna b 2 Sept 1753, Christina b 25 Nov
1754 (church record), William b 14 Mar 1757 (pension record), Daniel b 21 May
1759 (church record) [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
may have come from Meisenheim [Ref: Bell GermanSettlement p111]
landed Philadelphia Nov 25 1740, with brothers John and Jacob [Ref: Barbi
Sumney 1/8/2002, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-95 p150]
ship Loyal Judith, Lovell Paynter, Commander, from Rotterdam, last from Deal
[Ref: Rupp 30KNames p141, Strassburger PAGermanPioneers p282]
Moravian church was a few miles east of the Wolf home. When Stoever married
Peter and Hannah Wolf in 1742, they were both of Tulpehocken. Peter gradually
moved west until he got to East Hanover [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
member of Hill (Lutheran) Church in Lebanon Co in 1744. Son John baptized
there Mar 31 1747 [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
taxed 1750 in Labanon Township [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1752 Jun 10 warranted 125 acres, adjoining John Graham (warrant 1737) and
Robert Corry (warrant 1745); now E Hanover Twp, Dauphin Co. [Ref: Bell
WOLF-84 p3]
1756 on Hanover Twp tax list, marked "fled", some neighbors killed [Ref: Bell
WOLF-84 p3]
1759 Jun 11 mortgaged to Jacob Meily for 49.4.3 his 1752 farm and his
blacksmith tools, witnesses Isaac Bar and James BICKHAM (Deed book M, p393)
[Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
taxed 1759 in Lebanon, having fled from Hanover because of Indian attacks
[Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1761 Apr 7 naturalized at Philadelphia with Philip Dennis [Ref: Bell WOLF-84
p3]
1764 overseer of poor, Lebanon Twp [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1765 Nov 26 applied for 200 acres adjoining his 1752 tract in Hanover
[Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1766 Jul 8 sponsor with wife Hannah of their grandson, Frederick FOULK, son of
John and Elizabeth FOULK [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1767 Mar 10 sponsor with Hannah of John Jacob KILLINGER, son of Andres and Ann
KILLINGER [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1768 Jun 2 granted warrant for 200 acres, patented Jun 3. tract lay northeast
of the junction of Bow and Swatara Creeks, 3 miles north of present Hershey.
Adjoining to northeast James Baird 1752, John Thompson before 1757, John Dixon
1738. Adjoining to southeast Joseph Wilson 1766. Tract named "Wolf's Hole"
[Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
1772 taxed East Hanover 200 acres, 3 horses, 4 cows [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
1773 taxed for 200 acres, 4 horses, 4 cows [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
1775 Apr 27 sold 1768 tract [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3-5]
1775: sold to Abraham HURST for L700. The deed was recorded July 13.
Witnesses were John Thomas and Peter Hurst. Jacob Sauter was a witness to the
receipt. The deed was acknowledged May 10. [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
settled in Lancaster Co, PA; moved to Washington Co about 1775 [Ref: Bell
WOLF-84 p1]
sold his Lancaster County farm in April 1775 [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p1]
only record of Peter Sr in Washington Co is the "Wolf Estate" in the 1789 tax
lists [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p1]
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