Display Patriot - P-148085 - John Peter DIEFFENBACH
John Peter DIEFFENBACH
SAR Patriot #:
P-148085
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Pennsylvania's Digital State Archives, (ARIAS) Rev War Military Abstract Card File, Item 95 for Military Accts: Militia, Records of the Comptroller Gen
NSDAR RC # 860802
Spouse: Anna Catherina Lebengut Children: Esther; Maria;
Author: James DeChant Long
Peter was born 15 Jul 1755 in Tulpehocken, Lebanon County, PA and died 23 Feb 1838 on his farm in Tulpehocken. He inherited the plantation and 152 acres from his father, Johann Adam Diefenbach, whose will was probated on 16 Dec 1777. Adam married Mary Sibilla Kobel. Peter was the youngest male of Adam but Adam willed him the farm so it would “stay in the family the longest”. Adam, b. 1712 in the Hudson Valley of New York State, descended from Johan Conrad Diefenbach, b 1659 in Wiesloch, Germany. Conrad had 7 children, 4 born in Germany and 3 in the Hudson Valley of NY. Conrad’s family left Germany 15 May 1709 and landed in London, England 11 June 1709 and were sent to a refugee camp in Blackheath, England. When his family came to America and landed on Mutten Island (New York, America) in June 1710 they were sent up the Hudson River to Livingston Manor, NY to help in the tar making project for the Royal Navy (tar for sealing hulls of naval vessels). It was here that Adam was born along with two sisters. Around the spring of 1723 the family came down the Susquehanna River and settled in Tulpehocken. Adam inherited the Diefenbach plantation and farmed it. Adam is in the DAR Patriot Index as # A2049923.
Peter is found in the DAR Patriot Index #1, page 193 (written as “Peter Diffenbach, b. 1755, d. 1838, m(1) Anna Catharine Lebengut, PVT, PA) and is DAR Patriot # A064684. Peter had three children: ? Diefenbach, b. 16 May 1780, d. 9 Feb 1783; Maria Catharine, b. 7 Sep 1788, christened 19 Oct 1788, d. ?; and Esther b. 20 Jun 1793, ch. 4 Aug 1793, d. 20 Oct 1851. Esther married Rev. John Philip Mayer, m. 23 Apr 1809.
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