Person:Daniel Etter (2)

Name	Daniel Etter
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	24 Dec 1752	Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Marriage	25 Apr 1781	to Mary Magdalen Reims
Death`^?`	5 Sep 1805	Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia

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German Settlers of PA by Edward W. Hocker--974.802 H--Pennsylvanische Geschichts Schreiber (Published in Germantown, PA, now part of Philadelphia by Christopher Saur/Saur-Sower)--

p. 41--June 16 1754--Sower's Newspaper (above) Georg Etter, wheelwright, in the White Oak Land, Rapho Twp., Lancaster County, seeks his son Christain, who was indentured in Philadelphia several years ago to Wilhelm Mueller, in the Jerseys.

p. 92--July 31, 1761--Sower's Newspaper--Johann Wilhelm Hoffman at the corner opposite Daniel Etter, Race Street, Philadelphia, has established a sugar house, in association with Joh Corman.

Wythe County, Virginia---A Bicentennial History p.43---Daniel Etter, who later gave the land for the St. John's Lutheran Church, appeared before the court for "harboring persons of ill fame and Enemies of this State." He was required to post bond.(St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1776-1976

[Radford, VA: Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1976] pp.10-12)

P.723---At a court held for Montgomery county-Sept. 7, 1779--On the complaint of Robert McFareland against Daniel Etter for certain offences committed against government of this state the prisoner being heard in his defense the court were of opinion that the said Etter be tried by a jury according to the act of Assembly declaring what shall be certain offences.

Daniel Etter appears in the book ""Fincastle and Montgomery County Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1783 on page 70 under Capn. James Finley's Company of Militia.

Another source gave Daniel Etter as a Lt. in Capt. James Finley's Co. of Rev. War Soldiers of Va. Line.

In Montgomery Co. Order book under a list of fines to be collected 25 September 1778 for not attending general muster Daniel Eater is assessed 5 shillings.

Wythe Co. deed book #3, page 54 is entry that Daniel and Mary gave a 1 acre lot to the Trustees and Congregation of German Lutheran and Reformed Church.

The St. Johns congregation first met on Daniel Etter's land. In 1800, Etter and his wife Mary conveyed one acre to Casper Rader and George Armbrister, elders of the German Lutheran Congregation, the "members of which live near Wythe Court House," and to "Peter Yantz(yonce) and Jacob Prooner, elders of the German reformed congregation, the members of which also reside in the same area," both congregations "having had a place of worship hitherto on said Etter's land. The two congregations were to have the use of a nearby spring. (Wythe county Deed Book 3 p.54--the deed is dated Oct. 11, 1800)

Headstone:

ETTER, Daniel, d. Sep. 5, 1805, age 53y-4m-7d

Burial: Wytheville, St Johns Luth Cemetery, Wythe, Virginia

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