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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Soldier
Birth: 09 Aug 1750 Death: 14 Apr 1829 / Adams / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Soldier, James Watson, 6th Co., 3rd Class, Col David Jenkins,10th Batt., Lancaster Co., PA Militia
Baltzer Pitzer was born on 9 August 1750 in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the son of Johann Hans Balthaser Bitzer and Dorothea Ann Haerter.
In 1772, he married Dorothea Glasser in Earl Township, and they had Together they had the following known children:
Anna Maria/Mary was born on 6 November 1778 and married Henry Walter.
Andrew
Emanuel
Elizabeth
John
Solomon
Joseph
Jacob
Catharine
Rebecca
Baltzer served in multiple units during the Revolutionary War: Captain Watson’s Company of Colonel David Jenkin’s 10th Battalion of Lancaster County Militia in 1779 and the Lancaster County 5th Battalion in 1782.
In a tax assessment in 1789, Baltzer is noted as having a 60x25 log barn on North Paxton Street and a 25x25 stable with 218 acres valued at $1,853.
Baltzer is believed to have moved his family from Lancaster to Franklin Township, Adams County, around 1793. In 1799, a township property assessment noted Baltzar's value as $1,238.
The Patriot died on 14 April 1829 at 78 in Franklin Township.
His estate sale was announced in the Adams Sentinel and General Advisory on 19 September 1842 by his son Jacob Pitzer, Esq. The notice identified his executors as his sons Emanuel and Joseph. The sale date was 27 October 1842 at 1 PM. Listed in the notice were 263 acres of pasture, 70 or 80 acres of first-rate timberland, a brick house, a log barn, and a fine orchard.
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