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c1729 Samuel Overholtzer was born about this time, based on his age when he arrived in America. [1] [2]

1732 Jacob Oberholtzer, age 28 [3], emigrated to America on August 11, on the ship Samuel, commanded by Hugh Percy [list 19A p 59], from Duren in the Upper Palatinate [4] with children Elisabeth, age 6, and Samuel, age 3. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

1749, 1751 Samuel Oberholtzer was taxed in Brecknock Twp as an unmarried laborer with no land. [10]

1760-1770 Samuel Oberholtzer was taxed in Cumru Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [11]

1762 Samuel Oberholtzer and sister Elizabeth Bowman and her husband Christian Bowman, reportedly signed a deed acknowledging their inheritance from father Jacob Oberholtzer's estate. Dated December 22. [12]

1765 Samuel Oberholtz, son of the late Jacob Oberholsz, married Maria Eva Hauswirth, daughter of the late Christian Hauswirth, on September 8. The marriage was in Lancaster County, by Rev. John Waldschmidt. [13] [14] [15]

1771 Samuel Overholtzer, of Cumru Twp, purchased land in Shenandoah County, Virginia. [16]

The will and inventory of Samuel Overholser have been copied to microfilm and digitized. The images can be viewed at a Family History Center [17]:

1772 Samuel Oberholdser dated his will on May 29 in Dunmore County, Virginia. He named wife Eaff [Eve] and four children under age 21: oldest child Peter, son Samuel, daughter Barbara and daughter Eaff. Wife Eaff and friend Caspar Loop were named executors. The will was proved on December 25, 1783. Jacob Neff was appointed as administrator. Jacob Neff, Francis Neff and Abraham Bird were to present an inventory to the Shanando Court.

1784 The inventory of Samuel Overhalser was recorded in Shenandoah County, Virginia on January 31. [Shenandoah Will book B-56]

Samuel Overholtzer of Virginia and some of his descendants (1981), by Helen Overholser Turn, reports:

The earliest known ancestor is Samuel Overholtzer who lived in Pennsylvania and married there in 1765. Samuel was in Virginia by 1771, at which time he purchased a tract of land. …

Samuel had eight children, four of whom were named in his will dated 1772. The three sons, Peter, Samuel and Jacob, … the son Peter stayed in Virginia, … The son Samuel stayed in Virginia … before moving to Tennessee. The son Jacob went to Tennessee as a young man; married and had children there.

… The Virginia land deed for Samuel's 1771 purchase … A 1791 guardianship paper …

… The children began to marry in 1791, when Peter married Ann Baughman; Eve married John Riser, 1794; and Samuel married Nancy Eagle, 1798. Peter was bondsman for the three younger sisters: Ann married Andrew Greiner, Veronica married John Durst, Sept. 12, 1799; and Susanna married John Folz, 1804 (History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Wayland)

… Barbara, daughter of Samuel and Maria Eva, moved to Washington County, Tennessee and bought 2½ acres of land for fifty dollars from Jacob Brown the Waggonmaker, Aug. 20, 1806. The land was "on the waters of Little Limestone". She was still single when she sold the same 2½ acres, to David Brews for fifty dollars, May 8, 1809 (Book-181)

… Samuel's and Maria Eva's daughter, Eve, married John Riser, Jan. 28, 1794, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. They were married by Rev, Anderson Moffett, pastor of the Smith Creek Baptist Church. They were in Carter County, Tennessee, by 1796, at which time John appeared on a tax roll.

Research Notes:

See also: [18] [19] [20]


Footnotes:

[1] Barbara B. Ford, The Oberholtzer Book (1995), 118, person JL2, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 19, person O2, age 3 in 1732.

[3] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 39, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[4] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 37, lower left, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[5] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 43, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[6] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 72, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[7] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 13.

[8] John L. Overholt, "The Marcus Oberholtzer (1664-1725) Family," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 (October 1986), 26-40, at 26, Table, Immigrant H.

[9] The Olive Tree Genealogy Palatine Passenger listings, [OliveTreePalatineShips].

[10] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 19, person O2.

[11] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 19, person O1.

[12] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 18, person O2, citing an unrecorded Lancaster County deed.

[13] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 6 (Egypt) (1907), 244, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[14] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 19, person O2, see page 24 for their children.

[15] Barbara B. Ford, The Oberholtzer Book (1995), 118, person JL2, [GoogleBooks].

[16] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 19, person O1.

[17] Shenandoah County, Virginia, Will B-39, [URL].

[18] Helen Overholser Turn, Samuel Overholtzer of Virginia and some of his descendants (1981), 1, [GoogleBooks].

[19] Barbara B. Ford, The Oberholtzer Book (1995), 118, person JL2, [GoogleBooks].

[20] Jerold A Stahly, "The Family of Jacob Oberholtzer (1704-1755) of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (April, 1989), 13-26, at 19, person O1.