Display Patriot - P-269040 - Wilhelm PETER/PETERS

Wilhelm PETER/PETERS

SAR Patriot #: P-269040

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A089659

Birth: 10 Oct 1756 Heidelberg Twp / Northampton / PA
Death: 01 Apr 1813 Heidelberg Twp / Lehigh / PA

Qualifying Service Description:

Pvt - Capt Conrad Ritter, LCol. Henry Geiger; Col Probst, Geiger, Northampton Co. Militia
Hired substitute, Joseph Cabell, 25 May to 23 Jul 1782

Additional References:

PA Arch.
- 2nd Series, Volume 13, pg 181
- 5th Series, Volume 13, pg 233-234, 449, 510
PA Tax Rolls, PA Militia 5th Company, Capt Conrad Reader, 1780, 1778
PA Patriot Index, Volume 1, pg 529
Proceedings of Leigh Co Hist. Society, Vol 25

Spouse: Magdalena Hunsicker
Children: Johan Jacob; Henry; William; Anna; Daniel;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1984-08-13	PA	Unassigned	Charles David Peters MD (124466)	J
1984-08-13	PA	Unassigned	Ray Francis Peters (124467)	J
1985-04-10	PA	229929	Ray F Peters III (125619)	J
1985-04-10	PA	229930	Andrew Dean Peters (125620)	J
1988-05-06	AZ	223094	Gustavus Alfred Peters MD (131129)	William
1989-02-09	AZ	221123	Gustavus Alfred Peters Jr (132409)	William
1996-02-28	PA	204056	Charles David Peters Jr MD (146018)	J
2001-11-20	IN	11063	Hubert John Shackleton (156941)	William
2016-10-04	WA	71400	William Allison Bolima (200109)	William
2017-08-23	KS	76688	Nick Dale Peter (204173)	William

Burial:

Heidelberg Union Cemetery_(C-0371165)

Location:

Heidelberg Twp / Lehigh / PA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

1412748

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

55115468

Marker Type:

Headstone

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Two stones:
- upright stone that is contemporary with the death of the Patriot
- modern V/A style flat bronze marker
unidentified stake marker
Image provided with permission from Laurie Mathews, Find-a-Grave member # 47496924

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

From the PA Turnpike Northeast Ext. - US 476, take the Friedens Rd exit and go west. Take Frieland Rd about a mile west and turn right on West Station Rd. Follow this about 2 miles until it ends at Chruch Rd. and turn left. Follow Church road about 0.7 miles until you see Heidelberg Union Church. Turn left onto Irvin Rd next to the church and follow it to the cemetery behind the church

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Mark Andrew Davis

Wilhelm “William” Peter/Peters was born on 10 October 1756 at Heidelberg Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, the son of Rudolf Peter.

In 1778, he was in the Company of Captain Conrad Ritter of the Third Battalion of the Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Militia, under the command of Colonel Michael Probst. He was in the same company, now of the Sixth Battalion, on 26 October 1780.

He married Magdalena Hunsicker, and they had the following children:

William was born on 22 September 1779.
Catharina was born on 16 September 1783.
Heinrich “Henry,” born 31 March 1785.
Anna was born on 22 January 1787.
Johann “Jacob” was born on 27 November 1791.
Daniel was born in about 1794.

Wilhelm died on 1 April 1813 at Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. He was buried at Heidelberg Union Cemetery at Slatington, Lehigh County.

Source:

Find a Grave.com, digital record, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 12 July 2020), memorial for Wilhelm Peter, Find A Grave Memorial # 55115468, Slatington, Pennsylvania.
Sons of the American Revolution, National Society, Louisville, Kentucky. Primary application of John Robert Coon, National Number 125590.
Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, Pennsylvania Archives Fifth Series, Vol. VIII, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906, pages 233-234.
Klotz, Beulah Peter, Genealogical Record of the Peter Families Which Originally Settled in Heidelberg Township, Northampton, Now Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Allentown: self-published, 1955.
Peter, W.K., History of the Peter Family: Which Originally Settled in Heidelberg Township, Northampton, Now Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Williamsburg: Call Publishing Company, 1908.
Daughters of the American Revolution. Forty-Third Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington: Government Printing Office. 1941, page 175.

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