John Nicholas Wolfe
BIRTH 28 Jul 1730
Niederhöchstadt, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
DEATH 1810 (aged 79–80)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL
Brickerville United Lutheran Church Cemetery
Brickerville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
John Nicholas Wolfe was born on 28 Jul 1730 in Niederhochstadt, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hessen, Germany. He was the son of George Michael Wolfe (1703-1756) and Elizabeth Rutter Wolfe (1706-1756).
John was 8 years old when he and his family moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Johan Nicolas Wolff - Name: Johan Nicolas Wolff - Year: 1738 - Place: Pennsylvania - Source Publication Code: 1804 - Primary Immigrant: Wolff, Johan Nicolas - Annotation: Taken from original manuscripts in the state archives. Names given throughout pages 1-677. Foreigners arriving in Pennsylvania named on pages 521-667. No. 3776, Kelker, supplements this. - Source Bibliography: EGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, editor Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2, vol. 17.) Harrisburg [PA]: E.K. Meyers, 1890. 787p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967. - Page: 152 -
John married Marie Elizabeth Bressler (1732-1824) on April 22, 1752 at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. Marie Elizabeth was the daughter of Johannes Valentine Bressler (1698-1744) and Eva Magdalena Shirman Bressler (1702 - ).
John Nicholas and Elizabeth Bressler Wolfe are the parents of the following 18 known children: Daniel Wolfe, Catherine Wolfe, Charles Wolfe, Marie Margaretha Wolfe, Nicholas Wolfe, Johannes Valentine Wolfe, John Wolfe, Mary Elizabeth Wolfe, John Andrew Wolfe, Jacob Wolfe, Barbara Wolfe, Anna Maria Wolfe, Johannes Henry Wolfe, George Wolfe, Magdalena Wolfe, John Leonard Wolfe, John Philip Wolfe and John Casper Wolfe.
In the book, "Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution : battalions and line, 1775-1783", it names "John Wolfe" on page 1_479.
U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 about John Wolfe: - Name: John Wolfe - Rank - Induction: Sergeant - Roll Box: 82 - Roll State: PA.
John died in 1810 in Hempfield, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He was 80 years old.
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