Display Patriot - P-306771 - Johann Philip TRAUTMANN/TRAUTMAN
Johann Philip TRAUTMANN/TRAUTMAN
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P-306771
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Johann Philip Trautmann was born on 9 August 1758, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Johannes & Eva Elizabeth (Bauer) Trautmann. His parents were from Schriesheim, near Heidelberg, Germany. They arrived at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1743 and settled in the Tulpehocken region of Lancaster County (now Berks County), Pennsylvania.
Johann married Magdalena Hoffman (1758-1834), the daughter of Johann Jost & Maria Catharina (Meiser) Hoffman. Johann Philip and Magdalena were the parents of six children:
Maria Magdalena.
Maria Elizabeth.
Johannes.
Michael.
Johann Jacob.
Heinrich.
During the Revolutionary War, Johann served as a Private in Captain John Sheafer’s 6th Company, 6th Battalion, and Captain Conrad Sherman’s 7th Company, 6th Battalion, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Militia. He took the Oath of Allegiance in Heidelberg Township, Lancaster County (now Lebanon County), Pennsylvania and he paid the supply tax in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1781. This tax was used the raising supplies in the war against Great Britain. Johann, like so many other Pennsylvania Germans, was loyal to the Revolutionary cause.
Johann Philip Trautmann was a farmer in his retirement life in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He died on 23 February 1830, at his plantation in Tulpehocken Township. He and his wife Magdalena are buried at the old cemetery, St. John’s Host Church, Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Hundreds of Troutmans are buried at St. John’s Host Church since it was the family’s church for over two hundred years. In 2015 Johann Philip’s gravestone and the gravestones of his three brothers: Michael, Valentin, and Johannes, plus brother-in-law Christoffel Leiss, all veterans of the Revolutionary War, are still standing in the old cemetery.
Most of the Trautman / Troutman families of Berks and Lebanon Counties are descendants of this patriotic family.
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