1754 Martin Wise was confirmed on April 12, at Cocalico. He was named as Jacob Weiss' son, born October 30, 1737. [1]
1785 Martin Wise was taxed, in 1785, in Middleton Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania for 2 horses and 1 cow. [2] [3]
1786 Martin Wise was taxed, in 1786, in Middleton Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania for 1 horse and 1 cow. [4] [5]
1787 Martin Wise was taxed, in 1787, in Middleton Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [6]
1790 Martain Wise lived in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. with 2 males under age 16 and 2 females. [7] [8]
1798 Martin was named as a son in the will of Jacob Wise of Middleton, dated May 5, 1795. [9] [10]
Research Notes:
1780 Martin Wise was a private in Samuel Kennedy's Company of the Seventh Regiment (raised at Carlisle) of the Pennsylvania Continental Line. [11] [12] [13]
1853 Elizabeth Wise was named as widow of Martin Wise, a soldier and late a pensionary of the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth, or her administrator, was to be paid a gratuity of $140, the same that would have been due her said husband if living. [14]
Martin Weiss was named as a parent in the index of the Brickerville Lutheran Congregation in Lancaster County. [15]
[1] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 6 (Egypt) (1907), 268, citing Communion Services, Rev John Waldschmidt, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Tax, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[4] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1790, right column, line 5, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Cumberland, Will F-100, [FamilySearchImage].
[10] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Cumberland, Will F-410, old book Will F-100, [FamilySearchImage].
[11] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 23 (Naval Muster Rolls) (1897), 371, [InternetArchive].
[12] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume 3 (Continental Line Fifth) (1906), 267, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[13] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume 3 (Continental Line Fifth) (1906), 274, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[14] Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, passed at the session of 1853 (Harrisburg: 1853), 61, [GoogleBooks].
[15] J. H. Schantz, "History of the Brickerville Congregation in Lancaster County," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 3 (1899), 57-99, at 98, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].