SAR John Hancock Chapter Member – Thomas R. Hershey
Peter Weygandt was born about the year 1760 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He was a Private in Captain Jacob Buss’s First Company, Second Battalion of Militia in North Hampton County, Pennsylvania.
Peter was the son of Cornelius Weygandt and his wife, Maria Agneta Bechtel, immigrants from Germany. In 1776 Cornelius Weygandt was elected and served as a member of the General Committee of Correspondence and Observation of Northampton County, representing Forks Township. All four of Cornelius’ sons, John, Jacob, Cornelius, Jr., and our subject Peter served in the American forces of the Revolutionary War.
Peter worked as a blacksmith in his earlier years. About the year 1792 he located on a 100-acre tract of wooded land that he cleared in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Margaret, raised a large family amidst the challenges and austerity of frontier life. Through hard work he was able to extend his families fortunes. Peter and his family removed to Stark County, Ohio, in 1815 where he became possessed of some eight or ten quarter sections of 160 acres each. He resided a few miles north of Massillon, near the junction of Newman’s Creek and the Tuscarawas River where he died in 1821. He was married to Margaret Staub who died in 1825. In 1961 gravestones for Peter and Margaret were placed in the Newman Cemetery in Stark County near where they were believed to have been buried on their farm.
Peter Weygandt was a Private in Captain Jacob Buss’s First Company, Second Battalion of Militia in North Hampton County, Pennsylvania.
Sources:
Powell, Esther Weygandt, The Weygandt – Frase – Bechtel Family Record 1523-1965, pg. 104. (Available on-line at Family Search)
Weaver, Ethan Allen, “Descendants of Rev. George Herman Weygandt of the Rhine Palatinate” in The Family Record, C.H Weygandt publisher, No. 1, January 1897, pg. 104. (Available on-line at Google Books)
Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, ed., Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Vol. VIII, pub. 1906, pgs. 130, 141, 200. (Available on-line at Fold3)
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