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Neu, John? Peter (b. 19 MAR 1780, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Hill Lutheran Church, Annville, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, Catharine (b. 9 APR 1781, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Hill Lutheran Church, Annville, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, Henry (b. 6 NOV 1773, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Bindnagel Church, Palmyra, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, Mary Christina (b. 20 AUG 1775, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Bindnagel Church, Palmyra, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, Elizabeth (b. 13 MAY 1777, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Bindnagel Church, Palmyra, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, John (b. 3 OCT 1779, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Bindnagel Church, Palmyra, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, Anna Mary (b. 6 DEC 1781, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Bindnagel Church, Palmyra, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, John Fred (b. 15 NOV 1783, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Bindnagel Church, Palmyra, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Neu, Mary? Barbara (b. 17 JAN 1785, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Bindnagel Church, Palmyra, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Palm, William? (b. , d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Egle's Notes and Queries
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Fernsler, John? Jacob (b. 7 SEP 1797, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Hill Lutheran Church, Annville, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Huber, Juliana Dorothea (b. AUG 1766, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Hill Lutheran Church, Annville, Lancaster Co., (now Lebanon Co.)
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Witmoyer, Maria (b. 26 DEC 1785, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Altalaha Church, Rehrersburg, Berks Co.
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Weydemeyer, *Eberhard (b. ABT. 1720, d. 13 APR 1794)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Leimen Reformed Church Records, Leimen, Germany
Author: searched by Alvin Schrey, 2027 Shelfield Drive, Carmichael, CA 95608 - schrey@@lanset.com
Media: Church Record
Source: (Birth field)
Title: Schwartzwald Reformed Ch. Records, Berks Co.
Source: (Birth field)
Title: Alvin Schrey
Immigration: Date: 22 OCT 1764
Place: Port of Philadelphia on ship "Hero"
Note: Alvin Schrey, Carmichael, CA, in correspondence, states that "After a number of years of frustrating research I read "Kurpfalzische Auswander Vom Unteren Neckar" by the German genealogist Werner Hacker. His research reveals that Eberhard, Melchior, Johann Georg, and Urban departed Leiman (located between Heidelberg and Zweibrucken) in the Palatine on March 20, 1764.
Utilizing the church records of Leimen I have constructed the relationship of the Weidenmeyers in Leimen and those who settled in Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War. "
Eberhard Weydenmeyer arrived in America at the Port of Philadelphia on 22 Oct 1764 on the ship "Hero" captained by Ralph Forster, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes. He was accompanied by his wife, his three sons from his first wife (Melchior, Johann Georg and Urban, who were men over the age of 16) and four or five children from his second wife , Catharine (Georg, Michael, Philip, Peter and David). They later had four additional children.
On 19 Feb 1777, Eberhard Witmyer enlisted in the Continental Army commanded by George Washington. He was a Sergeant in B Company, 6th Regiment, Pennsylvania Line. His Company Commander was Capt. Jacob Bower. Later he was in the 2nd Reg. He served until 1783. He was in the Battle of Brandywine in Sept. 1777 where he was wounded (rupture, now called hernia). He was at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-8 and fought during the later battles in the north.
He applied for and was granted a pension for his injuries on 12 May 1786 in the amount of 20 shillings a month.
TRANSCRIPTION OF OATHS AND PETITIONS IN SUPPORT OF EVERHART WITMEYER'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION
To the honorable the Justices of the Orphans Court of the County of Berks
The humble Petition of Everhart Whitmeyer of Reading in the said County aged sixty four years
Sheweth?
That your petiioner in the year 1777 enlisted in the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment in the service of the United States and served as Sergeant during the whole of the War being for the most part in the said Regiment and for the remainder in the Second Battalion commanded by Col. Humpton that during said service he suffered greatly in his health and at the battle of Brandywine by violent exertion in performing his duty got a rupture in his belly: that although he was so far affected as to be able to continue in the service and to perform his duty yet the said Complaint became worse and more trouble an he is now and for a long time past has been thereby rendered wholly unable to get a livelihood by labor.
Your petitioner therefore humbly prays your honors to admit him to a Pension as Disabled in the Service according to the Act of the Assembly in such case ____provided.
And_____Duty bound he will pray
(signed)
Everhart Windmyer
(Original in Berks Co. PA Court Records - the originals were hand written and very difficult to read)
At an Orphans Court held at Reading May 12th 1786 before Henry Christ John Ludwick and John Otto Esq. Given to ? the Justices of the Peace for the County of Berks.
The Petition of Everhard Whitmyer of Reading in the said County aged sixty four years late a Sergeant in Captain Jacob Bowers Company in the Battalion of Col. Henry Becker of the Pennsylvania Line was here? praying a Relief under the Act of the Assembly of Pennsylvania dated _____22nd 1785 in letter an Act for the Relief of Officers and Soldiers and _____who in the Course of the late War have been wounded or otherwise disabled in the service of this State or of the United States and ____and Everhard Witmyer has ____furnished the Court with full proof of ____to the directions of the same Acts that he is sixty four years of age was a Sergeant in Captain Bowers Company in the said Regiment that to? the Battle of Brandywine in the service of the United States got a rupture in his belly one of his testicles and since that time has been disabled from procuring a Livelyhood by Labor that he continued a Sergeant to the end of the War. The Court is ____and judge the said Everhart Witmyer is to receive the sum of Twenty Shillings monthly from the time of his discharge.
(Original in Berks Co. PA Court Records. A microfilm copy is in the PA State Archives Library, Harrisburg, PA - Rev. War Pension File Rg. 4, roll 5)
TRANSCRIPTION OF JACOB BOWER'S OATH IN SUPPORT OF EBERHARD WITMEYERS PENSION APPLICATION
I Jacob Bower late a Captain in the Pennsylvania Line do Certify whom it may Concern that Everhart Witmyer enlisted with me into the said service on the 19th day of Febrary 1777 and served me as Sergeant for that time during the War. That during the said service his health was greatly impaired by the Hardships and Fatigues of his duty and he became ruptured in the Belly which has rendered him incapable of getting a livelihood by Labor.
Given under my Hand in the Borough of Reading this 19th day of April 1786.
(signed)
J Bower
(Original in Berks Co. PA Court Records)
He died about 11 Apr 1794 and is probably buried at Schwarzwald Reformed Church in Reading, Berks Co., PA
He died intestate. Probate of intestate found in Administrative Docket IV, p. 217 & 383 , Berks Co. Courthouse.
He paid taxes in 1762-64,65,67,70-74 and 1785.
References to Military Service and Pension:
The Pennsylvania Line, JBB Trussel, Jr. (1977) p. 90
NGSQ Vol XII March 1923 p. 3 (Published as a supplement to Vol XX, March 1932)
Pennsylvania Archives, Series 2, Vol XI, p. 760
PA - 2, XV, p. 464
PA - 5, II, p. 893
PA - 5, III, p. 134,155,186
PA - 5, IV, p. 155, 507
(Researched by Lois Whitmeyer Cody, boblocody@@worldnet.att.net
January 16, 2000 -
Letter from Al Schrey to Jeanne DeLong -
As for the source of Eberhards birthdate (info obtained from the records at the Reading Schwarzwald Reformed Church, b. 1722) --I also have that info, but I do not use it as a source because it is not an "independent source". If a non-independent source is believable I will use it. However, in this case I have reservations:
1) Eberhard married the first time Sept.30,1738 (If he was born in 1722 this
would make him 16 yrs. old.)
2) His first child was born Aug.1739--thus no shot-gun marriage.
3) The years between his next oldest sibling,Susanna, (1722-1714) is eight
yrs. Possible, but suspicious.
4) The minister wrote on the marriage sheet that the bride had been married
before--It's difficult to reason that a previously married women would marry
a 16 yr. old boy.
5) Since my Dad was born in Germany I have gone through hundreds of German
church records--I have not found a boy 16 yrs. being married by the
minister.
The question is why would he not use his correct age?
His son, George, died while held captive by the British in late Dec. 1776 or
Jan. 1777. Another son, Michael, who served with George was released in Jan.
1777. By the time he walked home in cold winter to inform his father,
Eberhard, the circumstances of the death it was probably Feb.1777. Eberhard
signed-up for the "Continental Army", not the militia, on Feb.19,1777. This
was probably the only time he was required to give a stipulated birth date.
My theory is he could have given a date of March 1722 because that meant he
was not yet 55yrs. old. Being 55 yrs. old was probably too old to join the
marching army.
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Witmoyer, Catherine Elizabeth (b. 14 JAN 1784, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Little Tulpehocken Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bernville, Berks Co.
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Witmoyer, Jacob (b. 1 APR 1795, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Wenerich's Reformed Church, Berks Co.
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Witmoyer, Maria Margaret (b. 22 NOV 1800, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Wenerich's Reformed Church, Berks Co.
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Stiely, Anna Maria (b. 5 DEC 1783, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Heidelberg, Cacusi, St. John's or Hain's Reformed Church, Wernersville, Berks Co.
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Stiely, Margaretha (b. 6 FEB 1786, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Heidelberg, Cacusi, St. John's or Hain's Reformed Church, Wernersville, Berks Co.
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Stiely, Susanna (b. 3 NOV 1788, d. ?)
Source: (Name field)
Title: Records - Heidelberg, Cacusi, St. John's or Hain's Reformed Church, Wernersville, Berks Co.
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