Peter Wolf

Note about parents:

There are a number of resources which lay out the parentage of Peter Wolf of Washington County, PA. Common theme is that Peter's father was named Philipp. However, it's also important to note that there's another contemporaneous Peter Wolf in Pennsylvania at the same time, and may indeed even be the same person. Here is his profile:

• Johann Peter Wolf

Parents and siblings are tantalizingly similar, but the family is much more thoroughly laid out. If there really are two Peters, this would represent the source of much confusion.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wtm&id=I278

ID: I278 •Name: Peter WOLF •Sex: M •Note: BIBLIOGRAPHY: Beers, J. H., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, PA, J.H. Beers Co, Chicago, 1893, reprinted by Polyanthos, Inc, New Orleans, LA, 1976. Available at http://archive.org/details/commemorativebio03jhbe

Bell, Raymond Martin, Children of Peter Wolf Sr. Keyhole, XXIII,4 Oct95, p150-152.

Bell, Raymond Martin, German Settlement in Buffalo Township, Keyhole II,3 July 1983, pp109-17.
Bell, Raymond Martin, The WOLF Family of Washington County, PA, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1984. Located in Citizens Library, Washington, PA, SR 929.3 Wol. Available at familysearch.org/search/catalog/526675.
Rupp, I Daniel, Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania From 1727 to 1776, Philadelphia, Leary, Stuart & Co, 1927. Available at http://archive.org/details/collectionofupwa00rupp
Stoever, Johann Casper, Early Lutheran baptisms and marriages in southeastern Pennsylvania: the records of Rev. John Casper Stoever from 1730 to 1779, Harrisburg: Harrisburg Pub Co, 1896. Reprinted: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1984. NYPL APR (Pennsylvania) 84-3621. Available at http://archive.org/details/recordsofrevjohn01stoe
Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, v.1 1727-1775, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1966. Available at catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006785559.
Sumney, Barbi, Wolf-Sumney, private email 1/8/2002. Author address: BarbS at pghmail dot com
•Note: RESEARCH NOTES: family record found by Annette K Burgert in the unpublished Moravian records at Bethlehem, PA: Seelen-Register zu Libanon an der Quitopehille - 1754 catalog. Peter Wolf, b June 1714 in Gangeloff in Zweibruch, Reformed. Wife Hannah b 1717 in Vigourie in Elsass (m Aug 8 1742). Children: Maria Magdalena b 1 June 1743, Joh. Jacob b 27 June 1744, Joh. Peter b 25 Aug 1745, Johannes b 2 Feb 1747, Maria Barbara b 5 Feb 1748, Elizabetha b 3 Jun 1749, Christian b 16 Dec 1750, Rosina b 3 Dec 1751, Susanna b 2 Sept 1753, Christina b 25 Nov 1754 (church record), William b 14 Mar 1757 (pension record), Daniel b 21 May 1759 (church record) [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]

may have come from Meisenheim [Ref: Bell GermanSettlement p111]

landed Philadelphia Nov 25 1740, with brothers John and Jacob [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-95 p150]
ship Loyal Judith, Lovell Paynter, Commander, from Rotterdam, last from Deal [Ref: Rupp 30KNames p141, Strassburger PAGermanPioneers p282]
Moravian church was a few miles east of the Wolf home. When Stoever married Peter and Hannah Wolf in 1742, they were both of Tulpehocken. Peter gradually moved west until he got to East Hanover [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
member of Hill (Lutheran) Church in Lebanon Co in 1744. Son John baptized there Mar 31 1747 [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
taxed 1750 in Labanon Township [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1752 Jun 10 warranted 125 acres, adjoining John Graham (warrant 1737) and Robert Corry (warrant 1745); now E Hanover Twp, Dauphin Co. [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1756 on Hanover Twp tax list, marked "fled", some neighbors killed [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1759 Jun 11 mortgaged to Jacob Meily for 49.4.3 his 1752 farm and his blacksmith tools, witnesses Isaac Bar and James BICKHAM (Deed book M, p393) [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
taxed 1759 in Lebanon, having fled from Hanover because of Indian attacks [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1761 Apr 7 naturalized at Philadelphia with Philip Dennis [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1764 overseer of poor, Lebanon Twp [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1765 Nov 26 applied for 200 acres adjoining his 1752 tract in Hanover [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1766 Jul 8 sponsor with wife Hannah of their grandson, Frederick FOULK, son of John and Elizabeth FOULK [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1767 Mar 10 sponsor with Hannah of John Jacob KILLINGER, son of Andres and Ann KILLINGER [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3]
1768 Jun 2 granted warrant for 200 acres, patented Jun 3. tract lay northeast of the junction of Bow and Swatara Creeks, 3 miles north of present Hershey. Adjoining to northeast James Baird 1752, John Thompson before 1757, John Dixon 1738. Adjoining to southeast Joseph Wilson 1766. Tract named "Wolf's Hole" [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
1772 taxed East Hanover 200 acres, 3 horses, 4 cows [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
1773 taxed for 200 acres, 4 horses, 4 cows [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
1775 Apr 27 sold 1768 tract [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p3-5]
1775: sold to Abraham HURST for L700. The deed was recorded July 13. Witnesses were John Thomas and Peter Hurst. Jacob Sauter was a witness to the receipt. The deed was acknowledged May 10. [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p5]
settled in Lancaster Co, PA; moved to Washington Co about 1775 [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p1]
sold his Lancaster County farm in April 1775 [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p1]
only record of Peter Sr in Washington Co is the "Wolf Estate" in the 1789 tax lists [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p1]
•Birth: Jun 1714 in Gangloff, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany •Note: Sources for this Information: date: [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-95 p150], place: [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-95 p150]

•Death: 1788 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania •Note: Sources for this Information: date: [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p15]

possibly in 1789 [Ref: Bell WOLF-95 p150], place: [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p15]

tradition says died in Washington County [Ref: Bell WOLF-95 p150]

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Marriage 1 Hannah (WOLF) b: 1717 in Vigourie, Alsace, Germany•Married: 8 Aug 1742 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania •Note: Sources for this Information: date: [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-95 p150, Stoever Records p59], place: [Ref: Bell WOLF-84 p1]

Tulpehocken Church [Ref: Stoever Records p59], names: Peter WOLF & Hanna ___ [Ref: Stoever Records p59]

Peter WOLF & Hannah ___ [Ref: Barbi Sumney 1/8/2002, Beers WashingtonCoPA p699, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-84 p17, Bell WOLF-84 p19, Bell WOLF-84 p1, Bell WOLF-84 p21, Bell WOLF-84 p22, Bell WOLF-84 p24, Bell WOLF-84 p3, Bell WOLF-95 p150, Bell WOLF-95 p151], child: [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p699, Bell WOLF-84 p15, Bell WOLF-84 p17, Bell WOLF-84 p19, Bell WOLF-84 p21, Bell WOLF-84 p22, Bell WOLF-84 p24, Bell WOLF-84 p3, Bell WOLF-95 p151]

Children1.Has Children Mary Magdalena WOLF b: 1 Jun 1743 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 2.Has Children John Jacob WOLF b: 27 Jun 1744 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 3.Has Children John Peter WOLF b: 25 Aug 1745 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 4.Has Children John WOLF b: 2 Feb 1747 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania c: 31 Mar 1747 5.Has Children Barbara WOLFF b: 5 Feb 1748 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 6.Has Children Elizabeth WOLF b: 3 Jun 1749 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 7.Has No Children Christian WOLF b: 16 Dec 1750 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 8.Has Children Rosanna WOLF b: 5 Dec 1751 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 9.Has No Children Susanna WOLF b: 2 Sep 1753 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 10.Has Children Christina WOLF b: 25 Nov 1754 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 11.Has Children William WOLF b: 14 Mar 1757 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania 12.Has No Children Daniel WOLF b: 21 May 1759 in East Hanover, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania