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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 29 Mar 1761 Ephrata / Lancaster / PA Death: 29 Jun 1830 East Berlin / Adams / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private, 6th Company, 3rd Battalion, Lancaster Militia under Captain Michael Oberly (Oberlin), Colonel George Feathers in 1781 and 1782
Private, 2nd Company, 3rd Battalion, Lancaster Militia under Captain Michael Oberly, Lieutenaut Colonel John Huber in 1785
Spouse: Hannah Studebaker Children: Rebecca;
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Patriot Samuel Zimmerman was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, on 27 March 1761.
He enlisted at the age of 20 in the Lancaster County Militia and served three tours of duty in 1781, 1782, and 1785. According to the Pennsylvania Archives Volume VI, initially, he was in the 6th Company, 3rd Battalion (1781 and 1782) under Captain Michael Oberly (Oberlin), then later in the 2nd Company in 1785 (post-Revoltuion) also under Captain Oberlin.
Between enlistments, at the age of 23, he married Hannah Studebaker (1755 to 1825) in 1783. Their first known children were:
Elizabeth was born in 1785.
Rebecca was born in 1787.
Peter was born in 1789.
Samuel was born in 1791.
Catherine was born in 1792.
George was born in 1795.
Samuel was born in 1797.
After the war, he built a house in East Berlin, Pennsylvania. By 1799 he was a merchant in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania, where, in 1814, he organized the Berlin and Hanover Turnpike. He died of apoplexy (stroke) in 1830. Both his spouse and he are buried in the Mummert's Meetinghouse Cemetery, Abbottstown, Pennsylvania.
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