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Notes for Jacob Angus and Susanna Mohler

1774 The account of the estate of Henry Mohler was recorded at the Orphans Court of Lancaster County. [1]:

John Landes and Henry Mohler executors of the Last will and Testament of Henry Mohler late of Cocalico Township deceeased appeared in court and produced to the court the account of their administration of the estate … distributed in manner following according to the last will and testament aforesaid, to wit: To Martin Mohler £106.18.1½, To John Mohler £106.18.1½, To Elizabeth Mohler £106.18.1½, To Susannah Mohler £106.18.1½. £427.12.6

1782 Susanna Mohler petitioned the court to allow her husband to become her guardian, [she was over 14, but not yet 21]. John Landis, the only surviving executor of Henry Sr. estate agreed. [2]

1783 Susanna, daughter of Heinrich Mohler deceased, married Jacob Angwitch, son of James Angwitch deceased on December 2. [3]

1811 Br. Angwisch his daughter the 21 Octo was old 22 year and 10 Mo. and his wife the 10 Novem was old 52 year. [4]

Susanna Angaus of Jacob Angaus his wife. [5]

1848 Br. Angus died in November. [6]

Research Notes:

1821 The death of Susanna Mohler has been reported on 10 November, 1821 at Ephrata.

1848 Brother Jacob Angus died in Nov 1848. "Jacob Angus was the last survivor of the Community who assisted during the Revolution (1777-1783), at Zion when used as a military hospital, and was an eye-witness to the scenes then enacted. At the laying of the corner-stone, July 4, 1845, of the monument to the memory of the Revolutionary soldiers who died at Ephrata, he was present, together with Peter Shindel, of Lancaster, who was the last survivor, so far as is known, of the soldiers who had been treated there." [7]

1848 "Jacob Angus, Died, at Ephrata, on the 20th ultimo [Nov.] Mr. Jacob Angus a soldier of the Revolution, aged 92 years and 6 months." [8]

1847 Mrs. Francis Worrell Reed, born in Quincy, Illinois, Daughter of Milton Edwards Worrell (1823-1907) & Martha Smith, (1823-1890), m. 1847; Grand-dau. of Benjamin Worrell (1784-1843) & Elizabeth Angus (1799-1892), m. 1819; great grand dau of Jacob Angus and Susanna Mohler (d. 1812), m. 1784, Jacob Angus served, 1780, as a private in Capt. Michael Oberly's company, Lt. George Feather's Penna. regiment, from Northumberland Co. He was born 1760 in Ephrata, PA. where he died. (From an undated book titled Daughters of the American Revolution, p 76)


Footnotes:

[1] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Miscellaneous Book 1774-184, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[2] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Orphan's Court Record, not yet seen, 1782-1784, p 293.

[3] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 6 (Egypt) (1907), 242, 206, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[4] Julius F. Sachse, "The Registers of the Ephrata Community," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 14 (1890), 297-312, at 309, item 315-316, [HathiTrust].

[5] Julius F. Sachse, "The Registers of the Ephrata Community," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 14 (1890), 297-312, at 310, item 330, [HathiTrust].

[6] Julius F. Sachse, "The Registers of the Ephrata Community," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 14 (1890), 297-312, at 312, item 372, [HathiTrust].

[7] Julius F. Sachse, "The Registers of the Ephrata Community," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 14 (1890), 297-312, at 312, [HathiTrust].

[8] "Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots of Lancaster Co. from the Dec. 6, 1848, Lancaster Examiner and Herald," Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society 34 (1930).