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About John Rauch

John Rauch, DAR Ancestor A094758 BIRTH 1726 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA DEATH 3 May 1803 (aged 76–77) Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA MEMORIAL ID 148517187 · View Source John Rauch received a Pennsylvania land Warrant on November 20, 1767, for 146 acres and, eventually had two hundred, seventy-three acres in West Hanover township in the County of Dauphin.

Address 7700 Old Jonestown Road, West Hanover Township, Pennsylvania at the corner of Old Johnstown Road and Manor Drive, still stands the two-story limestone house once used by Revolutionary War Patriot John Rauch who paid the supply tax during the war , signed the Oath of Allegiance on August 20, 1777 and on whose land, it is said, General George Washington and the Continental Army camped.

He married Susannah Mueller, daughter of Lenhardt Mueller about 1752. She was born about 1730 and died before 11 June 1821 in West Hanover, Dauphin County, Pa.

Orphan's Court Docket "B" page 289, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1803: Estate settlement for John Rauch names his wife Susannah and his children: William (eldest son), Henry (second son), Jacob (third son), John (fourth son), Peter, Bernhard, Molly (Magdalena) intermarried with Frederick Garst, Anna Maria intermarried with Christian Zehring, Catherine intermarried with Joseph Forney.

According to Virginia records, on September 10, 1803, Frederick and Magdalena Rauch Garst traveled back to Dauphin County, Pa. to claim his wife's portion of her father's estate found in Deed Book "N," Vol. 1, page 175, County of Dauphin, State of Pennsylvania.

DAR Patriot Index: RAUCH, JOHN: Born 1730 Pa., died 1803 Pa., married Susannah _______, Pvt. PA

RAUCH, JOHN Ancestor #: A094758 Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: CIRCA 1730 LANCASTER CO PENNSYLVANIA Death: 1803 WEST HANOVER DAUPHIN CO PENNSYLVANIA Service Source: PA ARCH, 3RD SER, VOL 17, P 693 Service Description: 1) PAID SUPPLY TAX

Family Members Order of children and approximate births from father's probate proceedings in 1803

  1. William R Rauch 1st son 1750
  2. Magdalena Rauch 1751
  3. Henry Rauch 2nd son 1756
  4. Jacob Rauch 3rd son 1758
  5. John Rauch 4th son 1760
  6. Anna Marie Rauch 1762
  7. Kathrina Catherine Rauch 1764–
  8. Peter Rauch 5th son 1774
  9. Bernard Rauch 6th son 1776–
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John Rauch's Timeline

1726
1726
Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
1750
1750
Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
1752
1752
Bethal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
1760
1760
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
1762
March 11, 1762
E. Hanover Twp, Dauphlin Co, Pa
1764
1764
Bethel, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States
1766
March 20, 1766
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
1773
February 21, 1773
Dauphin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
1776
March 14, 1776
Lancaster, Pennsylvania