Johann Philipp Dellinger (1743 - 1826)

Born 23 Oct 1743 in Oberacker, Dertingen District, Duchy of Württemberg, Roman Empire

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara (Weidner) Dellinger — married 19 Jun 1778 in Tryon County, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 4 Nov 1826 at age 83 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Captain John Dellinger served with Lincoln County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Birth, Birthplace, Parentage

Johann Philipp (John) Dellinger, son of Philipp and Anna Maria (Brandstatter) Dellinger, was born and baptized in the village of Oberacker on Wednesday night, 23 October 1743. When John was born, Oberacker village was part of Dertingen District, Duchy of Württemberg; today the area is in Bruchsal District, State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.^[1]

America

John was approaching his seventh birthday when he arrived August 1750 with his father Philipp Dellinger at the Port of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the ship Two Brothers.^[2]

North Carolina

By 2 September 1757, and logically prior to that, Philipp Dellinger was in North Carolina as proved by a deed to Philipp from his brother, Martin Dellinger.^[3] In that year, son John was age fourteen.

The first known reference to John in North Carolina is when he served as a chain carrier for the 1762 survey of his brother Henry's land claim.^[4] During the same period, John entered his own land claim, and his grant title was final on 22 April 1763 when he was age twenty.^[5]

Revolutionary War Patriot

On 14 August 1775, the Tryon County Safety Committee published a document called “An Association” to determine political inclinations of county inhabitants. It characterized events in Boston, Massachusetts, as “unprecedented, barbarous & bloody actions committed by British Troops on our American Brethern,” resolved to resist all such invasions, and to take up arms if necessary. Only forty-nine men signed, but John Dellinger did; he boldly signed his name in large script. The men signing this historic document were exceedingly brave for their loyalty to the American cause was considered treason.^[6]

John served active military duty in addition to supplying provisions to the Patriot cause. Testimony in his Revolutionary War pension file states, "never knew a better soldier or a braver officer than John Delinger."^[7] His DAR Patriot number is A031545.^[8]

Marriage

John married Barbara Whitener, daughter of Henry and Catherina (Mull) Whitener, on Friday, 19 June 1778, in Lincoln County, North Carolina. The marriage date is sworn to in John Dellinger's Revolutionary War pension application papers.^[9]

Children of John and Barbara (Whitener) Dellinger

1. Henry Dellinger 1779–1851. Spouse: Katherine Setzer
   
2. Catharine Dellinger 1782–1863. Spouse: Jacob Yoder
   
3. John Dellinger 1784–c1841. Spouse: Elizabeth (Bollinger) Shuford
   
4. Joseph A. Dellinger 1788–1826. Spouse: Margaret Sigman
   
5. Barbara Dellinger 1790–1864. Spouse: Henry Sigman
   
6. Jacob Dellinger 1798–1843. Spouse: Sarah Setzer
   

On 10 May 1791, the Dellinger children's maternal grandfather Henry Whitener executed a deed of gift for 420 acres: “to Henry Dellinger, Catey Dellinger, John Dellinger, Joseph Dellinger & Barbara Dellinger the sons and daughters of John Dellinger . . . it being the same land left by the said Henry Whitener by his Will to the said [children].”^[10]

Death

John Dellinger died 8 November 1826. His widow Barbara died 8 February 1840.^[11] Their burial sites are unknown. Speculation that they were buried at St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery in present-day Catawba County probably is incorrect.

Sources

1. ↑ St. Andrews Evangelical Church of Oberacker, Taufen [births] 1717-1766, p. 81; Family History Library microfilm 1272382, item 8.
2. ↑ Ralph B. Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers (1934; reprint Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992), vol. II: 509.
3. ↑ Anson County, North Carolina, deed book C-1: 346-52; Anson County Record of Deeds 1749–1838, North Carolina State Archives.
4. ↑ North Carolina State Archives, Secretary of State Record Group, Land Office: Land Warrants, Plats of Survey and Related Records, Anson County, file no. 560, Henry Dellinger, 200 acres on both sides of Rudisloes [Rudisill's] Creek; granted 1763.
5. ↑ None of the papers (warrant, survey or grant) for John's first grant have survived, but his claim appears in Mecklenburg County's Land Entry records with no date: "John Phillip Dellinger, 300 acres in Mecklenburgh County on the Lick Branch of Leapers [Leepers] Creek beginning at a white oak ... joining both sides of the branch." The date he received his land title was 22 April 1763, documented in Lincoln County, North Carolina, deed book 3: 11, 60.
6. ↑ The context of “Association” was a brotherhood or pact. The historic document became known as the Tryon Resolves. Kathy Gunter Sullivan, Tryon County Documents 1769–1779: A North Carolina County (Forest City, N.C.: The Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, 2000), 184–86; citing Secretary of State Papers S.S. 305, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
7. ↑ John Dellinger, widow Barbara, (captain and private soldier, militia service), Revolutionary War Pension W19180, Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
8. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 17 Aug 2021), "Record of Dellinger, John", Ancestor # A031545. DAR Patriots include these Dellingers: Philipp, Henry, and John. Philipp was sponsored by his descendant Kathy Gunter Sullivan, DAR member national no. 752135.
9. ↑ John Dellinger, Revolutionary War Pension W19180.
10. ↑ Lincoln County, North Carolina, deed book 16: 292–93, 10 May 1791; Register of Deeds, Lincolnton.
11. ↑ John Dellinger, Revolutionary War Pension W19180.

• Kathy Gunter Sullivan, “Descendants of John and Barbara (Whitener) Dellinger,” in Heinrich Weidner 1717–1792 and Catharina Mull Weidner 1733–1804: Through Four Generations With Important Contributions from Gracie Seitz Cook, Dr. Joy E. Whitener, and Kathy Gunter Sullivan (Privately printed by Anne Williams McAllister, 1992), pp. 86-89, 229-50, 594-706. A digital version is available at Family History Centers.
• Kathy Gunter Sullivan, Lincoln County, North Carolina: Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1779–1812 (Privately printed, 1990–2005).