Johan Peter Weller (abt. 1720 - aft. 1798)

Born about 1720 in Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire

Husband of Elisabeth Maria (Basten) Weller — married 1753 in Oley Township, Berks, Pennsylvania

Husband of Elisabeth (unknown) Weller — married before 1778 (to after 1798) in Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died after 1798 after about age 78 in East District Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Diane Weller [send private message] and George Ferris [send private message]

Biography

Johann Peter Weller was born about 1719, in the German Palatinate. He was a son of Johann Wilhelm Weller (1690-1745) and Anna Elisabeth Dusenbach (1692-1763) who were married in 1716 in Heuchelheim.

Christening: Bürbach, Siegen, Westphalia, in what is today Germany^[1]

Immigration: 21 Sep 1742 arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Francis and Elizabeth, whose captain was George North, from Rotterdam and later from Deal, England to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was granted title to 95 acres of land located in Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA, by patent.

He died in 1795 in Berks County Pennsylvania, and he is buried there.^[2]

Johann Peter Weller married Elisabeth. The couple had the following children:

1. Philip (1754-1828) m Gertrude Herb (1755-1855?); 12 children?
2. Catharine (1755- ) m George Frederick Mayer (1748-1812)
3. John Adam (1764-1848) m Elisabeth Messert (1762-1810)
4. Peter (1766-1766); typhoid.

John Peter Weller also had three children from a second wife, also named Elizabeth.^{[citation needed]} "The Weller Family: The 51st Reunion Book," 29 June 1941, page 5, children: George Peter b. 1780; Magdalena, married to Jacob Meyer; Mary Barbara, or "Polly," b. 1788, died 1801.

John Peter wrote and signed his will on Dec. 6, 1798, so died after that date. The will was put to probate on 30 January 1802.

Research Notes

Emigration From German Palatinate Region to Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Dutch spoken by the Amish in the United States is (among other dialects) derived from the German dialect spoken in the Palatinate, which many Palatine refugees brought to the colony in the early decades of the 18th century. The only existing Pennsylvania German newspaper, ÙCuÙDHiwwe wie Driwwe </wiki/Hiwwe_wie_Driwwe>ÙC/uÙD is being published bi-annually in the village Ober-Olm, which is located close to Mainz, the state capital. In the same village, one can find the headquarter of the German-Pennsylvanian Association.

Source: Wikipedia

Sources

1. ↑ Family History Library film# 597048
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #26586655

• The Weller Family, by Robert G. Weller (1941) Link to Full Text at Ancestry
• "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ND5L-21S : 26 March 2020), Johann Peter Weller, 1719.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L1D1-T83
• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKN-BFJ : accessed 16 August 2020), Peter Weller, East District, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 50, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 8; FHL microfilm 568,148.