Peter Weaver

WEAVER, PETER Ancestor #: A123410
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): SOLDIER
Birth: 1736 ORANGE CO VIRGINIA
Death: 1817 MADISON CO VIRGINIA

RESIDENCE
1) County: CULPEPER CO - State: VIRGINIA

SPOUSE
Number Name

1) MARY BARBARA HUFFMAN

Child [Spouse #] Spouse
ANNA [1] JACOB ROUSE
DINAH [1] ABRAHAM GAAR
ELIAS [1] HANNAH CLORE
PETER [1] MARTHA WALKER
AMY [1] EPHRAIM CLORE

Biography

Peter Weaver was born between 1736 and 1738 in Orange (now Madison) County, Virginia. His parents were Hans Dieterich "Peter" Weber and Louisa Elisabetha Weber (Volck).

Peter married Maria Elisabeth Weaver (Huffman). Together they had the following known children (per Germanna genealogists):

1. Elizabeth Blankenbaker (Weaver)
2. Anna Weaver;
3. Helena Weaver;
4. Dinah Gaar (Weaver);
5. Maria Barbara Crigler (Weaver);
6. Elias Weaver;
7. Moses Weaver;
8. Peter Weaver;
9. Rosina Weaver;
10. Amy Clore (Weaver).

He died between March 17, 1816 and June 12, 1817 in Madison, Virginia, United States.

Father Hans Dieterich Weber, b. Abt 8 Nov 1710, Gemmingen, Baden (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) , d. Abt 18 Aug 1763, Culpeper County, Virginia (Age ~ 52 years)
Relationship natural
Mother Louisa Elisabetha Volck, b. 23 Mar 1711, Wagenbach, Hüffenhardt Parish, Baden (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany), d. Between 1794 and 1795, Madison County, Virginia (Age 82 years)
Relationship natural
Married Between 1726 and 1727 Virginia [5, 6]
Family ID F21112 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family
Maria Elisabeth Huffman, b. Abt 29 Jul 1736, d. Bef 17 Mar 1816 (Age ~ 79 years)
Children
1. Elizabeth Weaver, b. 28 Sep 1762, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia
2. Anna Weaver, b. Between 1763 and 1764, d. Abt 1843 (Age ~ 80 years)
3. Helena Weaver, b. 4 Nov 1766, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia
4. Dinah Weaver, b. 27 Nov 1768, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia, d. 26 Sep 1834 (Age 65 years)
5. Maria Barbara Weaver, b. 4 Feb 1770, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia, d. 21 Dec 1853 (Age 83 years)
6. Elias Weaver, b. 16 Apr 1773, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia, d. Between 26 Dec 1805 and 28 Aug 1806 (Age 32 years)
7. Moses Weaver, b. 20 Dec 1774, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia, d. Abt 27 Feb 1863, Madison County, Virginia (Age 88 years)
8. Peter Weaver, b. 20 Dec 1774, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia , d. 22 Mar 1863, Wayne Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana (Age 88 years)
9. Rosina Weaver, b. 24 Jan 1777, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia, d. 1854, Boone County, Kentucky (Age 76 years)
10. Amy Weaver, b. Abt 1781, Madison County, Virginia, d. 10 Mar 1850 (Age ~ 69 years)

Family ID F22484 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes
16 November 1776 Peter Wever signed petition for regulation of pricing of "spirituous Liquors" sold by suttlers at "exirbitant prices" to regimental soldiers and minutemen (“Inhabitants: Petition,” Culpeper County, 16 November 1776, Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA. Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 58, Folder 3. Library of Virginia, (https://www.lva.virginia.gov/: accessed 9 April 2019), Virginia Memory > Digital Collections > Collections A to Z > Legislative Petitions Digital Collection.).).

The Hebron Communion Lists: Communion Lists of the Hebron Lutheran Church 1775 to 1812 Madison, Virginia by John Blankenbaker (Chadd's Ford, PA 2001):
p 5 Communicants Christmas December 25 A.D. 1775 Peter Weber
p 21 Communicants 13th Sunday after Trinity 1792 [2 September] Peter Weber son Elias dau Barbara

12 May 1779 Peter Weaver signed petition requesting Culpeper County be divided into three separate counties [two Peter Weaver signed] ("Inhabitants: Petition," Culpeper County, 12 May 1779, Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA. Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 317, Folder 5. Library of Virginia, (https://www.lva.virginia.gov/: accessed 9 April 2019), Virginia Memory > Digital Collections > Collections A to Z > Legislative Petitions Digital Collection.).

The will of Peter Weaver was written 17 March 1816 and proved 12 June 1817. He names daughters Barbary Crigler, Rosannagh Deer, Amey Clore, Elizabeth Blankenbaker, Anna Rouse and Dinah Gaar. He names sons Elias Weaver, Moses Weaver and Peter Weaver. He also mentions son Elias deceased children but does not name them. Son Moses Weaver, son-in-law John Blankenbeker and Ephraim Clore were named executors. Witnesses were Simeon Utz, Absolem Utz and Abner Deer (Madison County, Virginia Will Book 3: 305-306.).

12 June 1817 Moses Weaver and John Blankenbeker gave bond as executors of Peter Weaver deceased (Madison County, Virginia Will Book 3: 306-307.).

Sources
[S0040392] Hebron Church Register 1750-1825 Madison, Virginia, Volume 1, Translated and Transcribed from the Original German by George M. Smith, (Edingburg, VA: Shenandoah History Publishers), 6 name Peter Weber, 15 same.

[S0047976] Culpeper County, Virginia Will Book A, (County Clerk's Office, Culpeper, VA), 343-344.
named in his father's will

[S0048865] Descendants of Peter Weaver, the Immigrant, B.C. Holtzclaw, (Germanna Record #13, (Locust Grove, VA: Memorial Foundation ofthe Germanna Colonies, Inc., October 1971, Second Printing February 1982, Third Printing February 2006)), 21, 26.
date c1736-38

[S0041196] Madison County, Virginia Will Book 3, (County Clerk's Office, Madison, VA), 305-306.
will written 17 March 1816, proved 12 June 1817

[S0048865] Descendants of Peter Weaver, the Immigrant, B.C. Holtzclaw, (Germanna Record #13, (Locust Grove, VA: Memorial Foundation ofthe Germanna Colonies, Inc., October 1971, Second Printing February 1982, Third Printing February 2006)), 20.
as early as 1726-1727

[S0042523] The German Colony of 1717 - Part 3, Arthur Leslie Keith, (William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, First Series, XXVI, no. 4, (April 1918): 234-249), 244.
location only Virginia

Per The Germanna Foundation

• Reference: TNG Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 25 2021, 23:36:06 UTC

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