Display Patriot - P-318741 - Michael Johannes BOGER

Michael Johannes BOGER

SAR Patriot #: P-318741

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service

Birth: 01 Apr 1762 / Lancaster / PA
Death: 20 Mar 1822 Lovettsville / Loudoun / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Paid supply tax in 1782 and 1783


Additional References:

Loudoun County Personal Property Tax 1782, 1783


Spouse: Maria Elisabeth Brenner
Children: Philip; Maria Magdalena; Catharina; Ana Maria; Jacob; John; Samuel;
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Burial:
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Cemetery (C-0069606)
Location:
Lovettsville / Loudoun / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
151099
Grave Plot #:
Row CC, Site 3
Grave GPS Coordinates:
39.257803 / -77.639338
Find A Grave Memorial #:
42883356
Marker Type:
Headstone / SAR Granite Marker
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
10 Apr 2022

Comments:
  • The headstone photo is displayed with consent of Edward W. Spannaus, MDSSAR
  • photo used with permission of Edward W. Spannaus, MDSSAR


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Author: Edward Wise Spannaus

Johann Michael Boger was born on 1 April 1762 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the son of Joseph Boger and Anna Magdalena Wampfler.  He was baptized on 23 May 1762 at Trinity Lutheran Church of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.1

Boger supported the Revolutionary War effort by paying the Supply Tax in 1782 and 1783.2

Michael Boger married Maria Elisabeth Brenner on 13 April 1785 at the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church of Lovettsville, Virginia. She was the daughter of Philip Brenner.3  They were the parents of seven children:  Philip, Maria Magdalena, Catharina, Ana Maria, Jacob, John, and Samuel.4   

Michael Boger and the Boger family owned land southeast of the Town of Lovettsville. The area between the old German Reformed Church and the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church and Cemetery was known as “Boger Woods.”  

The 1810 U.S. Census documents Michael Boger living in Loudoun County, Virginia. His name is listed immediately above Christian Ruse, who was a neighbor east of the town of Lovettsville. Ruse’s property is the present-day Lovettsville Community Park.

Michael Boger died on 26 March 1833 and was buried at New Jerusalem Cemetery, Site CC3. The entry in the burial register at New Jerusalem Lutheran Church is in German. The record in translation is: “Old Michael Boger, March 28, 1822, 60 years [illegible].”

The inscription on his headstone is:

Memory of
MICHAEL BOGER,
who was born 1st April
A.D. 1762, and departed
this life 26th March
A.D. 1822, Aged 59 Years,
11 months, and 25 days.

 

Sources:

  1. Ancestry.com; FamilySearch.org; Pennsylvania Births and Baptisms 1747-1799, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
  2. Loudoun County Personal Property Tax, 1782 B and 1783 A.
  3. The birth dates for all but Catharine are in the New Jerusalem Parish Register. Other information is from familysearch.org.
  4. New Jerusalem Parish Register, 1784-1836.

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