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1725 Philip Lorents Grünewald, son of Joh. Mathes and Maria Catharina Grünewald, was born on June 10, 1725. He was baptized on June 12 at Evangelische Kirche Haßloch (BA. Neustadt), Haßloch, Bayern (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany) with sponsors Philip Lorents Wam?. [1]

1727 Johan Conrad Grünenwald, son of Mathes and Maria Catharina Grünenwald, was born on 7bris ?, 1727. He was baptized on 7bris 21 at Evangelische Kirche Haßloch (BA. Neustadt), Haßloch, Bayern (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany) with sponsor Joh Conrad Vardua. [2]

1749 John Philip Grunewalt immigrated on the ship Phoenix, on September 15. [3]

1754 Philip Greenawalt warranted land in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on February 28. It was surveyed with 250 acres on June 21, 1760. [4] The tract was next to a warrant of John George Albright. [5] A map of Clay Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania shows the tracts of John George Albert and Philip Greenwalt [6] [Photocopy, Map of nearby patents in Clay Twp, Lancaster County.].

1756 Phillip Grinewald was taxed in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. [7] [8]

1759 Phillip Greenewald was taxed for 150 acres in Cocalico Twp, Lancaster County. [9]

1759 Philip Greenvalt was naturalized, on September 24, at the supreme court at Philadelphia. [10]

1765 Philip Greenawalt, innholder, and wife Margaretha and several others sold land, on March 13, in Lebanon Twp, Lancaster County to Reverend John Caspar Stoever of the German Lutheran Congregation. [11] [12] [13]

1771 Henry Light, of Lancaster County, appointed, on February 27, Philip Greenewalt, of Lebanon Town innholder, to receive payment for a mortgage payment due to Henry Light from Abraham Rouland. [14]

1777 Philip Greenawalt took the oath of allegiance and fidelity, on September 27, at Lebanon Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [15]

1777 Philip Greenawalt was Colonel in the First Battalion of the Lancaster County Militia. [16]

1801 Philip Greenawalt Senior dated his will in Lebanon Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania on December 31. The will was proved on March 29, 1802. [17]

Research Notes:

Egle provided a sketch of several generations of this family. [18]

Philip Grunewald, wife Anna Catharina, children Elisab. Margr., Joh. Dieter, Joh. Friedrich, Balthasar, Barbara, and Anna Catharina was a parishioner in Odenwald [19].

A letter of inquiry from a researcher about Revolutionary War records stated that John Philip Lorentz Greenawalt was born on June 10, 1725 in Hassock, Boehl, Germany. Baptized on June 22, 1725. He died February 28, 1802 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He came to America on the ship Phoenix in 1749. [20]

A biosketch reports [21]:

Philip Lorentz Greenawalt came to America in 1749, and settled at Ephrata, in Lancaster county, where he engaged in farming and hotel keeping. He was a colonel in the Revolutionary army, and was with Washington at Brandywine, Germantown, Princeton and other engagements. He was one of the commission appointed by Governor Mifflin to devise ways and means to bring the war to a successful termination. After the war he kept hotel at Lancaster and was engaged in many successful business enterprises. He was a prominent member of the German Reformed Church.

A biosketch reports [22]:

Philip Lorentz Greenawalt, b. June 10, 1725, in Hasslock, in Boehl, Germany; baptized June 22, 1725, the sponsors being Philip Lorentz Reehm and his wife: d. February 28, 1802, in Lebanon, Pa. His ancestors were of the best known families of his native place. He received a good German and classical education, and came to America in 1749. on the ship "Phoenix," John Mason, master, from Rotterdam, arriving at Philadelphia on the loth of September. He at first located in Cocalico township, Lancaster county, where he took up one hundred acres of land, February 28, 1754, subsequently removing to Lebanon township. At the outset of the Revolution, he entered heartily into the struggle, and during the entire war was more or less in active service. Upon the organization of the associated battalions, he was commissioned colonel of the First battalion of Lancaster county. He was with Washington, during the Jersey campaign of 1776, at Trenton and Princeton. His battalion was at Brandy wine and Germantown, and the conduct of Colonel Greenawalt during the former engagement received the commendation of the commander-inchief for efficiency and gallantry, especially in the protection of the Continental supplies. He was appointed, May 6, 1778, one of the agents for forfeited estates. At the close of the war he retired to his farm, and, like many more of the brave officers of that struggle for independence, poorer in purse, but conscious of having done his duty to his country. The Assembly of the State appointed him one of the commissioners to take subscriptions for the Continental loan, December 16, 1777, and, during the darkest hour of the struggle, he did effective service in collecting blankets, food, and forage for the half-starved and halfclad army at Valley Forge, and for most of which he was never recompensed. But such was the fate of many who sacrificed their fortunes on the altar of liberty. Colonel Greenawalt reached a good old age, honored, loved, and respected by his neighbors and fellow-citizens. He was twice married; first, to the widow Uhland, of Muddy Creek, who died the same year; secondly, in 1755, Maria Margaret Foeser, b. May 10, 1735; d. May 10, 1806, at Lebanon, and with her husband there buried.

1701 Anna Catharina Grünewald, daughter of Georg Christoff and Otillia Grünewald, was baptized on 21 Aug at Evangelische Kirche Haßloch (BA. Neustadt), Haßloch, Bayern (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany) with sponsors Anna Catharina Philip ? hausfrau. [23]

1704 Johannes Grünewald, son of Johannes and Anna Barbara Grünewald, was baptized on March 31 at Evangelische Kirche Haßloch (BA. Neustadt), Haßloch, Bayern (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany). [24]

1704 Anna Margaretha Grünewahl, daughter of Georg Christoff and Otillia Grünewald, was baptized on 22 Jun at Evangelische Kirche Haßloch (BA. Neustadt), Haßloch, Bayern (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany). [25]

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Footnotes:

[1] 78, image 496, [URL].

[2] 86, image 500, [URL].

[3] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 291, right column, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[4] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A9-9, [PASurveyBookLinks].

[5] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, Q-206, [PASurveyBookLinks].

[6] Pennsylvania Archives, Township Warrant Map (large download), Lancaster County, Clay Twp, [PATownshipWarrantMaps].

[7] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[8] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[9] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[10] M. S. Giuseppi, ed., Naturalizations of foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian colonies, (1921), 56, [HathiTrust].

[11] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed H-296, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[12] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed H-297, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[13] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed H-299, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[14] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed N-446, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[15] R Thomas Mayhill, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, deed abstracts & Revolutionary War oaths of allegiance; deed books "A" through "M", 1729 through ca. 1770, with adjoining landowners & witnesses (1973), 156, list L391B2.

[16] Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume 7 (Militia Lancaster) (1906), 20, 22, [GoogleBooks].

[17] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord].

[18] W. H. Egle, History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon Biographical and Genealogical (1880), 240, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[19] Jane Adams Clarke, "Some Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Höchst in dem Odenwald," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 36 (1987), 289-315, at 312.

[20] U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, [AncestryImage].

[21] William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries Historical Biographical and Genealogical Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Annual Volume 1897 (1898), 33, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[22] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German, also has biographies of each of the children, [GoogleBooks].

[23] Bayern, Haßloch, Taufen, Heiraten u Tote 1700-1799, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971, 4, image 458, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[24] Bayern, Haßloch, Taufen, Heiraten u Tote 1700-1799, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971, 9, image 460, [AncestryImage].

[25] Bayern, Haßloch, Taufen, Heiraten u Tote 1700-1799, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971, 10, image 461, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[26] John W. Heisey, "Extracts from the diary of the Moravian pastors of the Hebron church Lebanon, 1755-1814", 61.