1812 Map of central Lancaster County.
Joseph Wenger likely moved from his parent's homestead in Earl Twp (east)
to Manor Twp (west) in Lancaster County, before moving to Virginia about 1790. [17]
1727 Joseph Wenger's father, Christian Wenger, came to America from Switzerland on September 30, and settled in Groffenthal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
1747 Joseph Wenger, son of Christian Wenger and Eve Grabiel, was born on August 8, in Earl Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] [4]
1748 Barbara Hoover was born in 1747 or 1748 near New Holland, Pennsylvania. Her parents were John and Margaret Huber. [5] [6] [7] [8]
1764 Anna Hockman, later to be the second wife of Joseph Wenger, was born in October. [9] [10]
1765 Joseph Wenger and Barbara Hoover were married on November 22, 1765. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] They had thirteen children.
1769 Christian Sn'r, Christian Junior, and Joseph Wagoner were taxed in Earl Twp, Lancaster County. [16]
Joseph Wenger may have lived in Manor Twp between 1770 and 1789, after which he returned to Earl or moved to Virginia. The records listed below are consistent with this possibility.
1765 Joseph Wenger was not taxed in Manor Twp. [18]
1769 Joseph Wenger was not taxed in Manor Twp. [19]
1770 David Martin and wife Katrout sold a tract of 265 acres to Joseph Wanger, all of Manor Twp, Lancaster County. [20] [21]
1770 Joseph Wenger was taxed with 35 clear + 80 wooded acres in Manor Twp. [22]
1771 Joseph Wenger was taxed with 100 new quit rent + 35 clear acres in Manor Twp. [23] [24]
1772 Joseph Wenger was taxed with 70 new quit rent + 30 clear acres in Manor Twp. [25] [26]
1773 Joseph Wenger was taxed for the King's tax in Manor Twp. [27]
1775 Joseph Wenger was taxed in Manor Twp. [28]
1777 Joseph Wenger was taxed for 100 acres of deeded + 40 clear acres in Manor Twp. [29] [30]
1779 Joseph Wenger was listed with no return for the Continental tax. [31]
1779 Joseph Wenger was listed in the Septenial census for Manor Twp. [32]
1780 Joseph Wenger was taxed with 125 acres in Manor Twp. [33] [34] [35] [36] [37]
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1786 Joseph Wenger was listed in the Septenial census for Manor Twp. [38]
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1789 Joseph Wenger was taxed in Manor Twp. [39]
1790 Joseph Wenger's name was crossed out on the tax list for Manor Twp. [40]
1791 Joseph Wenger was not taxed in Manor Twp. [41]
1792 Joseph Wenger was not taxed in Manor Twp. [42]
1788-1791 Christian, Michael, Joseph, and John Sr Wenger were taxed in Earl Twp, Lancaster County. [43] [44] [45] [46] [47]
Others in Joseph's family continued to be taxed in Earl Twp.
1770 Christian Sn'r, Christian Junior, John, and Michael Wegner were taxed in Earl Twp, Lancaster County. [48]
1771 Christian, Christian Jun, John (previous page), and Michael Wegner were taxed in Earl Twp, Lancaster County. [49]
1772 Christian, Michael, John, and Eve (widow) Wenger were taxed in Earl Twp, Lancaster County. [50]
1790 Joseph Wegner lived in Earl Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in a household with males:1 (16 +); and females: 1. Michael Sensinig, perhaps the spouse of Joseph's sister, was listed nearby. [51] A different listing for Jos. Wenger was for a household that also included 2 males under age 16. [52]
1785-90 Joseph Wenger moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to 6 miles north of Harrisonburg, then Rocktown, Rockingham County, Virginia with his brother Henry Wenger, who settled a few miles south of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Henry Wenger married Barbara Hoover's sister, Anna. Joseph Wenger bought between 500 and 600 acres of land between Edom and Linville in Virginia, nearly all timber, for $1700 in silver, which at that time was the only current funds. His buildings were placed near a good spring. Joseph Wenger built a barn sometime between 1785-1795, which was used for over 100 years until it burned in 1898. Joseph Wenger was a Mennonite farmer and lived in Edom, Rockingham County, Virginia. [54]
1789-1803 Land tax records for Rockingham County, Virginia listed Joseph Wenger's brother, Henry Wenger. Joseph Wanger first appeared in the tax records in 1791 (although he did not appear in the Virginia Tithables list for 1792). Joseph (with 196 or 169 acres) and Henry (with 500 acres) appeared every year thereafter through 1803. Another record for Joseph Wenger (with 310+1 acres) also started in 1791. Peter Burkholder and Jacob Huber, Barbara's brothers-in-law through sisters Margaret and Anna also first appeared in 1791. This suggests that these four families moved to the Rockingham area at about the same time. (records later than 1803 have not been examined).
Joseph and Henry and Jacob Winger were named in several land surveys in Rockingham County. [55]
1794 A survey was made for Henry Winger of 420 acres. [56]
1800 A survey was made for Joseph Winger of 324 acres. [57]
1800 A survey was made for Joseph Winger of tracts of 10 acres and 13 acres. [58]
1801 A survey was made for Henry Winger of 6 acres. [59]
1801 A survey was made for Joseph Winger of 324 acres. [60]
1805 A survey was made for Joseph Winger of tracts of 10 acres and 13 acres. [61]
1819 A survey was made for Jacob Wenger. [62]
Rockingham County Tax records for Joseph Wenger, his brother Henry, and children Benjamin, John, and Christian and son-in-law William S Reed are gathered here:
1789 Henry Wenger was taxed with 500 acres. [63]
1790 Henry Wenger was taxed with 500 acres. [64]
1791 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 310 acres. [65]
1791 Henry Wenger was taxed with 500 acres. [66]
1792 Joseph Wanger (fr'm Eversole) was taxed with 310 acres. [67]
1792 Joseph Winger (from Gov'n Hamilton) was taxed with 169 acres. Henry Winger was taxed with 500 acres. [68]
1793 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 310 acres. [69]
1793 Joseph Winger (from Hamilton) was taxed with 169 acres. Henry Winger was taxed with 500 acres. [70]
skipped some years
1796 Joseph Winger was taxed with 169 acres. Henry Winger was taxed with 500 acres. [71]
1798 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 310 acres. [72]
1798 Wm Reed was taxed with 91 acres. [73]
1799 Wm Reed was taxed with 91 acres. [74]
1800 Wm Reed was taxed with 91 acres. [75]
1800 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 196 and 311 acres. Henry Winger was taxed with 500+5+17½+23½ acres. [76]
1801 William Reed was taxed with 91 acres. [77]
1801 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 311 acres. [78] Joseph Wanger was taxed with 196 and 311 acres. Henry Winger was taxed with 500+5+17½+13½ acres. [79]
1802 William Reed was taxed with 91 acres. [80]
1802 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 196 and 311 acres. Henry Winger was taxed with 500+5+17½+23½ acres. [81]
1803 William Reed was taxed with 91 acres. [82]
1804 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 84½ and 311 acres. Henry Wanger was taxed with 206+67+190+14½+14½ acres. [83]
1804 Henry Wanger and Christian Wanger [perhaps a son of Joseph] were taxed for property. [84]
1804 Benjamin, Joseph, and John Wanger were taxed for property. [85]
1805 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 84½ and 311 acres. The name Henry Wanger was listed and crossed out. [86]
1805 Joseph Wanger was taxed for property. [87]
1805 Benjamin Wanger was taxed for property. [88]
1806 Joseph Wanger was taxed with 311 acres. [89]
1806 Henry Wanger and Christian Wanger [perhaps a son of Joseph] were taxed for property. [90]
1792 Barbara Wenger, wife of Joseph Wenger, died and was buried at Lindale Mennonite Church, Virginia. [91] [92] [93]
1793 Joseph Wenger and Anna Hockman were married on December 1. Five children were born to this 2nd marriage. [94]
1806 Joseph Winger was granted 10 acres of land in Rockingham County adjoining land of Christopher Young and Joseph Krattzer. [95] Also, 13 acres adjoining Adam Snanks, Joseph Krottzer. [96] Both land grants were dated August 14, 1806. In 1805, Joseph Krottzer was granted land described as 398 acres adjoining land of Warren, Lear, Shanks, Winger &c. [97]
1810 Joseph Wenger and one female age 45+ and 5 males and 3 females age less than 25 lived in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia. Joseph Good is listed on the same page. Benjamin Winger, perhaps Joseph's son, age 25-44 lived in the same township. Brother Henry lived in New Haven Twp with 2 males age 45+ listed. Next to Henry is Ann Winger age 25-44. Joseph Kratzer is in the next listing on the next page of the census (also listed adjacent in the 1806 land Patent). [98] [99]
1810 Joseph Winger was named as executor in brother-in-law Martin Huber's will in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
1812 Joseph Wenger died in April or May. [100] [101]
Joseph and Barbara Wenger were buried at the Lindale Mennonite Church Cemetery, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. [102] [103] [104] [105] [106]
Part of Joseph Wenger's farm later became the property of his youngest son Henry. It was in the possession of father and son for about a hundred years. Later it became the property of Henry's daughter Kate Wenger Miller, and son John D. Wenger, who owned it as of 1903. This tract of 500-600 acres included the farm owned by Kate Miller, and son, that of Jacob Geil Sr., the former John H. Beery farm, also the north part of the old Jesse Ralston farm and the east part of the Isaac N. Beery farm. In the spring of 1902 the grandchildren and their descendants placed a plain but beautiful white marble marker with inscriptions, showing the resting place of these dear old people. They were members of the Mennonite Church, and both are buried at the Brenneman Cemetery, now located and known as the Lindale Mennonite Church, about a mile north of Edom, Rockingham County, Virginia. [107]
1816 Henry Wanger (perhaps Joseph's brother) and Benjamin and Abraham Wanger (perhaps Joseph's sons) were taxed in Rockingham County, Virginia. [108]
1847 Anna Hochman Wenger died on November 17 and was buried at the Lindale Mennonite Church Cemetery, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. [109] [110] [111] [112] [113]
Research Notes:
Many more details of the timeline of Joseph's life are given in a delightful summary by Wayne Diehl. [114]
See also: Lindale's Song [115], Gerberich Collection [116].
c 1781 Joseph Wenger, perhaps this one, was listed in Battalion 4, commanded by Col. Zeigler in Lancaster County. [117]
1784 Joseph Wenger (perhaps this one) and many other Lancaster County residents signed a petition about enlarging the market in Philadelphia. [118]
1800 Joseph Wenger was listed in the septennial census in Earl Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [119]
According to tax records, there was another Joseph Wenger living in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster/Berks County about this time. He had modest land and was perhaps listed as a poor man in 1785. It seems unlikely that he would have the assets to purchase land in Virginia in 1791.
1765 Joseph Wenger was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Berks County. [120] [121]
1769 Joseph Wenger was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. [122]
1770 Joseph Winger was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. [123]
1771 Joseph Winger was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 20 acres and 2 cattle. [124]
1772 Joseph Wenger was taxed for 10 acres of cleared land and 8 acres of wooded land in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [125]
1775 Wegners Land was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. [126]
1782 Wegners Land was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. [127] [128] [129]
1783 Wegners Land was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. [130]
1785 Wegners Land was taxed in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. [131] He was taxed with 30 acres, poor man. [132]
1789 Joseph Wenger was taxed for 10 acres in Brecknock Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [133]
Mennonite card file. [134] [135] [136] [137]
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