George Whitmoyer ¹

  Research Notes:

From http://www.colcohist-gensoc.org/Essays/whitmoyer_saga.htm
(provided by http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vanalstine&id=I41155):
When the area in the Forks of the Susquehanna was opened to settlement in 1769, one of the pioneer settlers was George Whitmoyer, of Lancaster County. He was probably descended from Peter Witmer, one of three brothers from the Swiss canton of Zurich who came to Philadelphia in 1733. In about 1772 George brought his family to the headwaters of Chillisquaque Creek in what is now Madison Township. They settled in the valley along Mud Creek in modern Jerseytown, built a cabin and made a life in the wilderness. By 1780 Peter and his wife (née Sheets) had nine children: Sarah (Sally) 17, Philip (the oldest son, probably 15), Catharine 14, Ann 12, Mary 11, Peter 8, George 6, John 4, and an infant.

  Death Notes:

Killed in the "Whitmoyer Massacre" on Easter Sunday morning 1780

  Noted events in his life were:

• Settled: in the area in the Forks of the Susquehanna, Abt 1769, Pennsylvania, (United States).

• Settled: at the headwaters of Chillisquaque Creek in the valley along Mud Creek in modern Jerseytown, 1772, (Madison Twp), (Columbia), Pennsylvania, (United States). with his family.

George married Mary Sheets, daughter of Jacob Sheets Sr. (U.E.L.) and Unknown. (Mary Sheets died in 1780.)