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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Hans Michael Wampler was born 19 November 1724 at Keskastel, Germany, a son of Hans Peter Wampler and Anna E. Stephan. Hans Michael Wampler was listed along with his father, Hans Peter Sr., and brother, Hans Peter Jr., on the passenger list of the ship Lydia, James Allan, Master. The Wamplers were among a larger group who adopted the Reformed religion and were persecuted and moved to the new world seeking religious freedom.1 It is thought Wampler’s mother and sister or sisters were also aboard the Lydia, but only men aged 16 years and older were typically listed on the manifest of passengers. They arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 29 September 1741.2
The family first settled at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Hans Michael married Anna Elizabeth in 1750 at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of eight known children: Elizabeth, George, Christopher (Stophel), Lovice (Louisa), Michael, Jr., Peter, Esther, and Catherine.3
Hans Michael became a citizen, 17 August 1765, at the Philadelphia Courthouse under English rule. It is unknown exactly when Wampler and his family relocated to Virginia, but Michael Wampler first appeared on the Virginia tax rolls in 1771.4
Hans Michael Wampler was a soldier in the Montgomery County, Virginia, Militia. Hans Michael, and son George,5 served in Captain Robert Doack’s Company of Militia in Lord Dunmore’s War, June 2, 1774. A muster roll of this company listed 35 members.5
Hans Michael Wampler died in 1789 “while traveling.” He was buried in the Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery at Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia.
References
1. William Neal Hurley, Jr.: Neikirk Newkirk Nikirk and Related Families Vol. 2, (Westminster, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1996), Pg. 159.
2. Fred B. Wampler: Wampler family history, 1701-1980, Pg.11.
3. Ibid, Pg. 6.
4. Ibid, Pg. 12.
5. R.G. Thwaites and Louis Phelps Kellogg: Documentary History of Dunmore’s War, 1774, (Madison Wisconsin, Democrat Printing Company, 1905), Pg. 399-400.
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