Pennsylvania Family Group Sheet for the Peter Schweitzer Family

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Submitted by: David D. Shaffer
Email address: <dstubbles5@aol.com>


Husband: Peter Schweitzer
Birthdate: 1740
Birthplace: Lancaster Co., Pa.
Death date: 1817
Place of death: Somerset Co., Pa.
Burial: Berlin, Somerset Co., Pa.
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Marriage date: Ca. 1765.
Marriage place: 

Wife: Veronica
Birthdate: 1741
Birthplace: 
Death date: Ca. 1815
Place of death: Somerset Co., Pa.
Burial: Berlin, Somerset Co., Pa.
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknonw


CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Maria Elizabeth Schweitzer
Sex: Female
Birthdate: ca. 1770
Birthplace: Brothers Valley Twp., Som.Co., Pa.
Death date: 1841
Place of death: Berlin, Somerset Co., Pa.
Burial: Somerset Co., Pa.
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Jacob Gunderman

Child No. 2: Anna Catherine Schweitzer
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 13 October 1772
Birthplace: Brothervalley Twp., Somerset Co., Pa.
Death date: 28 October 1855
Place of death: Berlin, Somerset Co., Pa.
Burial: Berlin Lutheran Cemetery
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Peter Martin Jr.

Child No. 3: Elizabeth Schweitzer
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 1779
Birthplace: Brothersvalley Twp., Somerset Co., Pa.
Death date: 29  December, 1848
Place of death: Somerset Co., Pa.
Burial: 
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: David Phillippi

Child No. 4: Peter  Schweitzer
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 23 September, 1778
Birthplace: Brothersvalley Twp., Somerset  Co., Pa.
Death date: 1833
Place of death: Somerset Co., Pa.
Burial: 
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Margaret Friedline

Child No. 5: Jacob Schweitzer
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 31 May 1780
Birthplace: Brothersvalley Twp., Somerset Co., Pa.
Death date: April 1856
Place of death: Northampton Twp., Somerset Co., Pa.
Marriage date: 
Burial: Old Mull's Church Cemetery.
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Maria Elizabeth Burbaugh

Child No. 6: John Schweitzer
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 19 June 1784
Birthplace: Brothersvalley Twp., Somerset Co., Pa.
Death date: Bef. 1817.
Place of death: 
Burial: 
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: 

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 Documentation: Peter Schweitzer: 
#1. Found in 1772 on tax list of Bedford Co. (now Somerset Co.) Pa.

#2. Deeds for land Warranted in 1784, called "Petersburg" to Peter 
Schweitzer, patent Book 56 pg. 354, this land is then sold off by his 
children as the legal heirs of Peter Schweitzer, after his death.
Patented in Bk. Vol. 6 pg. 110. 

#3. Peter Schweitzer is named among the founders of the town of Berlin, 
indenture was made on June 2, 1784. 

#4. Peter Schweitzer is on the Manufacturers Federal Direct Tax List of 
1798, listed with 1  still house.

#5.Peter Schweitzer is listed on December 6, 1804 Term on the Jury list 
of Somerset Co. 

#6. Peter Schweitzer, Brothers valley Twp., Jan. 6, 1809, Vol. 5 pg. 
119,  sold 166 acres of land, part of Petersburg, to Adam Miller, which 
was patented in Vol. 6 pg. 110, sold for 32 pds. 16 shillings & 2 
pence.      #6.    #3 of 1817, Vol. 2 pg. 136, Brothersvalley Twp., 
mentions his plantation of 150 acres,Somerset County, Pa. Will written 
on July 20, 1816, names his children ( not his wife) as on the family 
group sheet, Sons, Peter & Jacob; daughers as Elizabeth wife of David 
Lewis Phillippi; Margaret, wife of Jacob (Gunderman) Countryman, now 
Michael Tedrow; and Catherine, wife of Peter Martin.  His son, John 
Jacob, is recorded in the Berlin Church Records but he is not named on 
the will. registered on 17 July 1819.

#7. On December 13, 1818, Vol. 8 pg. 326, Elizabeth Schweitzer and 
husband David Phillippi sold another part of Petersburg,149 acres, part 
of a tract warranted on October 5, 1784 to Peter Schweitzer, Elizabeth 
being one of the legal heirs. 

#8. Vol. 8 pg. 330, Brothersvalley Twp. October 6, 1818 Peter 
Schweitzer Jr. sold land, part of Petersburg ,149 acres, to Jacob 
Countryman. 

#9. Vol. 7 pg. 435, Brothersvalley Twp., Peter Schweitzer Sr.
sold part of the land called Petersburg to his son, Jacob, for his 
natural love and affection in 1817. 

#10. The grave markers of both Peter and Veronica Schweitzer are 
located in the Berlin Cemetery behind the Lutheran-Reformed Church on 
Main st., Berlin, Somerset County, Pa. .