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Notes for John George Wolf

1781 John George, son of Frederick and Elizabeth Wolff, was born on October 18. He was baptized on January 6, 1782 with witnesses Henry and Susanna Schuh at the Abbottstown Reformed Church. [1]

1803 The will of Frederick Wolf named son John. [2] [3] [4] [5]

1803 Widow Susanna signed a release to son John Wolf, son-in-law John Noll, and Henry Hull, the administrators of the will of Frederick Wolf of Berwick Twp, Adams County, dated March 17, 1803. [6]

1804 The name George Wolf with 119 acres was crossed out on the Berwick Twp tax list with the note "Sold to Hoffman". [7]

1804 John Wolf, son of Frederick, was taxed in Berwick Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. He had 130 acres and also had 18 acres in Pigeon Hill. [8]

1805 John Wolf, John Null, and Henry Hull, executors of the will of Frederick Wolf, produced an account of their administration amounting to £57.1.1, on October 1. [9]

1809 John Wolf, John Null, and Henry Hull, executors of the will of Frederick Wolf late of Berwick Twp, produced an account of their administration amounting to $3,850.91, on October 1. [10]

Research Notes:

Any relationship of the notes below to this family is uncertain:

1802 George Wolf and wife Barbara of Frederick County, Maryland sold land in Frederick County, Maryland to Philip Wolf of German Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. George had purchased the land in 1800. [11]

1829-32 George Wolf, born 12 August 1777 in Allen Twp and died 11 March 1840, was elected governor of Pennsylvania as a democrat running against Joseph Ritner (who won in 1835). Likely a different George Wolf. [12]

A biosketch of a son of John George Wolff and Eleanor Bittinger, of Adams County, reports [13]:

Rev. Joseph Bittinger Wolff, resident pastor of Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Glen Rock, and St. Paul's at Hametown, was born January 9, 1848. His parents, John George and Eleanor (Bittinger) Wolff, were natives of Adams County, Penn., and of German descent. They reared a family of seven sons and one daughter. Rev. Joseph, who was the second of the family, was brought up on the farm, and educated at the public and private schools of his native county. In the spring of 1869 he entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, and graduated in June. 1874, as A. B. In the fall of 1874 he entered the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, and graduated from there in June, 1877. A few days after graduating he received a call from Glen Rock, to take charge of Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, which he accepted, and has held since. In 1877 he was married, at Gettysburg, to Miss Priscilla E., daughter of Daniel Cashman, of Adams County. They have one daughter, Anna Eleanor, and one son, Joseph Harold.


Footnotes:

[1] F. Edward Wright, Adams County Church Records of the 18th Century (2000), 90, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Adams, Will A-193, [FamilySearchImage].

[3] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, Adams, Will A-193, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Willis Wolf Eisenhart, Ancestry of the John Franklin Eisenhart Family (1951), 109, of 109-111, [GoogleBooks].

[5] D.A.R., Adams County court records, Vol. 1 (), 34, [FamilySearchBook].

[6] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Deed B-132, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[7] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, [FamilySearchImage].

[8] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, [FamilySearchImage].

[9] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, A-178, [FamilySearchImage].

[10] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, A-344, [FamilySearchImage].

[11] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Deed {2}, D-1, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[12] John Gibson, ed., History of York County Pennsylvania, Part II Biographical Sketches (Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1886), 315, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].

[13] John Gibson, ed., History of York County Pennsylvania, from the earliest period to the present time (Chicago: Battey, 1886), 184, [InternetArchive].