Peter Steigerwalt ⁸⁴⁹

  General Notes:

Per History of Carbon County:

Peter immigrated to America in 1767 at the age of five. He served in the Revolution.
Peter and Christina were the parents of 12 children: Salome, Barbara, John, Esther, Daniel, David, Peter II, Christina, Maria, Salomon, Joseph, Joel.

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Children
Salome STEIGERWALT b: 26 MAY 1786
Barbara STEIGERWALT b: 15 DEC 1788
John STEIGERWALT b: 24 JAN 1791
Esther STEIGERWALT b: 1793
Daniel STEIGERWALT b: 24 MAY 1796
David STEIGERWALT b: 22 AUG 1799
Peter STEIGERWALT b: 24 FEB 1802
Maria Christina STEIGERWALT b: 29 JUL 1804
Solomon STEIGERWALT b: 30 JAN 1807
Joseph STEIGERWALT b: 25 APR 1809
Joel STEIGERWALT b: NOV 1811

Better known as Peter. Arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct 26 1767 on ship Brittania with parents and three brothers. Birth and baptismal record says: "In dem DorfFloersbach, in dem gabied Hanau in Europe,". He was baptized by the Rev. Reitz of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Furschbach. Sponsers were Peter Kunckel and his wife. According to a family record he was confirmed in the Allengeter Kirche" (All Saints Church) in Berks County on April 15, 1776. In 1781 he served with his brother Carl in the Revolutionary War in Captain Jacob Ladich's Co; Colonel Ely's Battallion of the Berks County Militia. He served until the surrender at Yorktown in 1781. There is a second record naming Peter as a Private in Company 6, 1st Battalion, Northampton County Militia in 1785 under the command of Lt. Col. Michael Brobst. A bronze memorial has been erected on the site of his grave by the Steigerwalt descendents. Sometime after his marriage to Maria, they migrated over into Schuylkill County, settling at the present site of Andreas. Tradition says they erectd a temporary shelter under a spreading oak near the Lizard Creek until a log house could be built. On October 27, 1794, J. Peter Steigerwalt purchased 321 acres of land from the estate of Abel James for the sum of 65 pounds, the annual interest to be paid in like money on the 27th of November of each year.
He also purchased 59 acres from John Handwerk. Altogether there were four tracts: the 321 acres from the Abel James estate; another of 59 acres from the aforesaid John Handwerk, then 4 acres and 121 acres, a total of more than 500 acres. The 59 acres and 149 acres of the Abel James estate were later transferred to his second youngest son, Joseph, who built the present brick colonial type farm house near the site of the original log house, on the edge of what is now the village of Andreas, Pa. A second part of the tract was transferred to Solomon, third youngest son, who built a house on the east side of the tract. A third part of the tract was transferred to Joel, youngest of the eleven children of J. Peter Steigerwalt and his wife Maria Christina. Joel built a house and established a farm house on the west side of the original tract near Andreas. The remaining eight children received grants of money as their part of the inheritance. Served as a trustee of Ben Salem Church.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alternate Spell: Johann Petrus Steigerwalt. ²⁰⁴

• Alternate Spell: Johann Petrus Steigerwalt. ⁶⁷

Peter married Maria Christina Hollenbach. (Maria Christina Hollenbach was born on Jan 4, 1760 in Greenwich Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania,⁶⁷ died on Nov 30, 1855 in East Penn Twp, Carbon Co, Pennsylvania ⁶⁷ and was buried on Dec 2, 1855 in East Penn Twp, Carbon Co, Pennsylvania, Ben Salem Church ⁶⁷.)