Display Patriot - P-176576 - Johann Martin HARTER Sr
Johann Martin HARTER Sr
SAR Patriot #:
P-176576
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Billie West Lowe
To begin let me say; in none of the records for these two men, father and son, to my knowledge, would you find the suffix, Sr. or Jr. The lack thereof, you can be certain, could cause a researcher much distress. SAR Genealogist/Registrars added the Sr. and Jr. to more easily identify which was which, and because it is now common practice to do so.
Johann Martin Harter Sr. (Herter) arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam 25 September 1751. Martin Jr. was but eleven years old at the time and not listed on the ship manifest. It was a common practice at that time not to list women and minor children. Martin Sr. first settled in Whitehall Twp., later in Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., Pa. We can assume Martin Sr. was quite wealthy due to the large number of land warrants and patents that he accrued and is a matter of court record. It is also known that he was an "innholder" and a "storekeeper". The Harters were Lutheran and members of that congregation where ever they lived. Martin Sr. is recorded in the 1790 Census with two males under sixteen, two over sixteen and four females. Most of these remained in what would become Lehigh Co., Pa.
It was not until 1782 that Martin Sr. performed his patriotic service by serving parts of the 6th Battalion, Northampton Co. Militia. There were three events recorded in the Pa. Archives, Series 5, Vol. viii, Pgs 489, 495 and 500 naming the companies of Captain William Meyers on 18 April, Captain Adam Stahler on 25 May and Captain Henry Kregloh on 27 July 1782. Each company was called out for a muster roll at "John Martin Herters"to begin service for two months by their respective Lt Col in command.
An interesting bit of the Harter history is; Magdalene, Martin Sr's first wife died. Martin Sr. remarried Catherine Maurer, a widow with a daughter, Christina Margretha . Martin Jr. married this daughter, thereby making his step-mother his mother-in-law. And, with that bit of extraneous information, I will sign off.
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