On page 3 of Abraham Black and Elizabeth (unknown) reference was made to John Peter Schwartz, son of Abraham and Elizabeth Schwartz, who was born 21 February 1772 and baptized 12 May 1772 at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York County, Pennsylvania.  Peter Black of Greenbrier County, (West) Virginia is enumerated in the Personal Property Tax (PPT) rolls for the first time as head of household (of age 21) on 12 June 1793.  That places his birth date prior to 12 June 1772, but after 12 June 1771.  Until proof to the contrary, we are making the assumption this is Peter's birth date.

Mary is assumed to have been born prior to 10 January 1776 based on not having a permission slip with the marriage bond.  A Johann Wolfenbarger was a witness to the marriage bond, and since Mary's brother John was only 6 years old when Mary and Peter married, Johann was more than likely her father.  Since her parents did not need to give permission, then the assumption is she was already at least 21 years old.

Peter is found in the Greenbrier PPT rolls nearly continuously from 1793 through 1804:

Peter does not appear again in Greenbrier or Cabell counties PPT rolls after leaving in the 1804/1805 time frame.  With brother John leaving Fauquier County for Scott County, Kentucky in the same time frame, could Peter have gone with him?  As of this writing no record has been found of Peter in Scott County.

Most of Mary's family moved to Gallia County, Ohio in the early 1800s.  A search there for Peter and Mary turned up nothing, except this reference in John Wolfenbarger's will dated 7 May 1827 in Gallia County:  "...at her (wife's) death shall be divided equally amongst my children that is to say, to the heirs of my daughter Hannah Childers(last name crossed out) cont. Sally Childers and Polly Stanby I give an equal proportionable part such as their mother could have got if she were living, and unto Polly (a nickname for Mary) Black or her heirs also my loving daughter is to have an equal part and my loving son Philip Wolfinbarger the same and my loving daughter Katharine Koontz the same and my loving daugher Betsy Humphreys the same and my loving daughter Sally Shoemaker the same and my son John who is deceased to his lawful heirs the same, and to Jacob Hartinger the surviving husband of my daughter Hannah decd, I bequeath one Dollar and to Polly Wolfinbarger the surviving widow of my son John decd, I bequeath one Dollar and to John Nicholas the surviving husband of my loving daughter Peggy decd, I bequeath one dollar."  While he was very explicit in identifying those sons or daughters who had died, even naming their surviving spouses or children, he was more vague in his reference to daughter Polly/Mary Black - "or her heirs".  Where John's other children were in Gallia County or neighboring counties, it appears Peter and Mary Black were remote enough that John had not communicated with them any time soon and was not confident in her status as to living or dead.

At this time we have not been able to locate Peter and Mary subsequent to the last Greenbrier PPT entry in 1804.

The children of Peter Black and Mary Wolfenbarger are unknown: