1720 John Peter Wolf was baptized on November 1, at the Evangelisch-reformierte Church, Baumholder, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [1] Date? Joh Jacob Wolff Zu Roneberg, ?nna Barbara, uxor - Joh: Peter - Johannes Reid? zu N/Roneberg Peter ? zu ?Peter ? zu Ronnenberg Anna Martha Barbara, Peter Wolff zu Ronberg Tochtor? Maria G?h, ? ? zu Ronberg Tochter?" [2]
1737 John Peter Wolf arrived in America, with his father, on the ship Samuel. [3]
1746 Catharina Wolff, daughter of Peter and Maria Agnes Wolff, was baptized in January. Catharina and Johannes Wolff were sponsors. [4]
1749 Johan Peter Wolff, daughter of Peter and Maria Agnes Wolff, was baptized in March. Catharina and Killian Schmid were sponsors. [5]
1750 Peter Wolf, perhaps this one, was appointed overseer of the poor in Manchester Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. [6] [7]
1752 Charlotte Wolff, daughter of Peter and Maria Agnes Wolff, was baptized in March. Charlotte and Johannes Wolff were sponsors. [8] [9]
1754 Joh Gorg Wolff, son of Peter and Maria Agnes Wolff, was baptized in December. Anna Barbara Hog and Gorg Hog were sponsors. [10] [11]
1758 Maria Elisabeth Wolff, daughter of Peter and Maria Agnes Wolff, was baptized in December. George and Maria Elisabeth Fink were sponsors. [12] [13]
1759 John Peter Wolf and Maria Agnes Wolf were sponsors at the baptism, in November, of Johann Peter Bens to Johannes and Maria Magdalena Bens. [14]
1762 John Peter Wolffe was naturalized in April, 1762, in Dover Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. [15]
1768 Peter Wolf, of York County, was naturalized on November 18, at the Philadelphia supreme court, affirmed by Jacob Lambert, Christian Ratfoun, Adam Dick, and Nicholas Yoner. [16]
Research Notes:
A biosketch reports [17]:
John Peter Wolf. He lived in Manchester Township, later moving to Yorktown, He came to America on the ship, Samuel, in 1737; the ship list gives his age as 17. His name follows the name, Jacob Wolf, aged 43, in the same ship list. He married Maria Agnes Schmidt, a daughter of Killian Schmidt (1693-1763) and his wife Catherine Frey (1687-1758). The Schmidts were both born in Germany; they came to America, August 17, 1733. Peter Wolf and his wife had eight children: Maria Catharina, Anna Margaret, John Peter, Charlotte, John Jacob, John George, Andrew, and Maria Elizabeth. Peter Wolf died about 1770. John George chose his uncle, Hans Wolf, as his guardian after the death of his father; and Andrew chose Frederick Wolf of Berwick Township as his guardian in 1771. Charlotte married Henry Holl. Jacob Wolf and his wife Anna Barbara sponsored the baptism of John Jacob, April 29, 1750, The baptism of the last child of Frederick and Maria Elizabeth Wolf, Andrew, born June 5, 1782, was sponsored by Henry Holl and his wife, Charlotte. Charlotte Holl is buried on the Reformed Graveyard at Abbottstown; the inscription on her tombstone reads, died September 29, 1804, aged 50 years and 8 months.
1741 John Peter Wolf and Jacob Welsch were sponsors at the baptism of Bauer, child of Martin Bauer. [18]
1750 This is inconsistent with the marriage to Agnes: Peter Wolff and wife Anna Elisabetha had son Joh. Jacob, baptized 29 Apr 1750, sponsored by John Jacob Wolff and Anna Barbara in Lischy's records and First Reformed KB, York County, Pennsylvania. [19]
See also [20]
[1] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate (1985), 338.
[2] Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Baumholder (Kr. Sankt Wendel), Kirchenbuch, 1679-1798, FHL film 493258, [FHLCatalog].
[3] Willis Wolf Eisenhart, Ancestry of the John Franklin Eisenhart Family (1951), 74, [GoogleBooks].
[4] York County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1744-69: Jacob Lischy's Private Pastoral Record abstracts of Henry James Young, The private record of Jacob Lischy, V.D.M., 1743-1769, [AncestryRecords].
[5] York County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1744-69: Jacob Lischy's Private Pastoral Record abstracts of Henry James Young, The private record of Jacob Lischy, V.D.M., 1743-1769, [AncestryRecords].
[6] George R. Prowell, History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume 1 (Beers, 1907), 578, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[7] John Gibson, ed., History of York County Pennsylvania, Part II Biographical Sketches (Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1886), 306, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[8] York County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1744-69: Jacob Lischy's Private Pastoral Record abstracts of Henry James Young, The private record of Jacob Lischy, V.D.M., 1743-1769, [AncestryRecords].
[9] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate (1985), 339.
[10] York County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1744-69: Jacob Lischy's Private Pastoral Record abstracts of Henry James Young, The private record of Jacob Lischy, V.D.M., 1743-1769, [AncestryRecords].
[11] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate (1985), 339.
[12] York County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1744-69: Jacob Lischy's Private Pastoral Record abstracts of Henry James Young, The private record of Jacob Lischy, V.D.M., 1743-1769, [AncestryRecords].
[13] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate (1985), 339.
[14] York County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1744-69: Jacob Lischy's Private Pastoral Record abstracts of Henry James Young, The private record of Jacob Lischy, V.D.M., 1743-1769, [AncestryRecords].
[15] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate (1985), 339.
[16] M. S. Giuseppi, ed., Naturalizations of foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian colonies, (1921), 154, [HathiTrust].
[17] Willis Wolf Eisenhart, Ancestry of the John Franklin Eisenhart Family (1951), 74, [GoogleBooks].
[18] Private Church Registers to 1800, York County, Pennsylvania, [AncestryRecord].
[19] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate (1985), 339.
[20] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate (1985), 339, Baptisms of children.