Elizabeth Ziegler

Elizabeth married Samuel Boyer on 1 Mar 1766. (Samuel Boyer was born on 6 Aug 1746 in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, died on 18 Nov 1822 in Douglas Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Hereford Mennonite Cemetery, Hereford, Berks, Pennsylvania.)

  Marriage Notes:

His parents were Samuel Bauer and Barbara Landis. He was born August 6 1746 Herford, Pennsylvania and died November 18, 1822 in Douglas Township Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

They had the following children:

Children Susanna Bauer\Bower b: 1 MAR 1769 Barbara Bauer\Bower b: 22 MAR 1770 Deborah Bauer\Bower b: 23 DEC 1771 John Bauer\Bower b: 24 DEC 1773 Elizabeth Bauer\Bower b: 20 AUG 1776 Samuel Bauer\Bower b: 8 NOV 1778 Anna Bauer\Bower b: 15 APR 1781 in Berks County, PA Andrew Bauer\Bower b: 6 APR 1784 Christopher Bauer\Bower b: 24 FEB 1788


Ancestry.plus, Early New England Ancestors

Samuel served in the militia 1783 to 1790. He returned with Captain John Dengler's Company in 1786. His commander was Colonal Peter Richards, Esquire.




A Payroll of Captain Morgan's Company of the Seventh and Eight Classes of Berks County Militia, Now in the Service of the United States Commanded by Colonel Jacob Weaver, Esq Dec 5 1777"

[At Camp Bucks, Warwick Feb 5th 1778]

David Morgan, Captain John Robinson, 1st Lieut Jacob Keeley, 2nd Lieut

Samuel Colter, William Smith, Samuel Boyer, John Murnel, Sgts

Military: Rev War: Company Rosters/Pay Records 1778-80: Berks/Schuylkill Cos, PA


Among the hundreds who took the oath before Peter Spycker, the following appear on contemporary tax lists in Brunswick and Pine Grove Townships [now Schuylkill County]:

Philip Feit Stophel Deiber Henry Holler Leonard Read George Huntzinger Geo Huntzinger Jr Bernard Huntzinger Bern'd Zimmerman Simon Bressler Hannes Braun Valentine Schuller Adam Christ Samuel Boyer

Pennsylvania ArchivesMiscellaneous: Oath of Allegiance, "Northeastern Berks", 1778: Berks/Schuylkill

On March 1, 1766, Samuel L. Bauer, married Elizabeth Ziegler from upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who had a very unusual background. on her fathers side she was a descendant of Reverend Michael ziegler who was one of the founders of the Christopher Dock school established in 1717, along the skippack. This is a very famous school in Pennsylvania Archives as the schoolmaster, Christopher Dock, wrote the first textbook on pedagogy ever to be published in america. Michael Ziegler was also one of the trustees of the Lower skippack Mennonite church which was built in 1725, adjoining the schoolhouse.

On her mother's side Elizabeth was a descendant of Captain Henry Pawling, a wealthy Englishman who was one of the patrons of Van ABebber's Township, a tract of land lying north of Philadelphia between the Schuylkill and the delaware. Around 1700, a number of wealthy Englishmen and Dutch patroons tried to establish a feudal kingdom in this section of pennsylvania, but their plan fell through because of the independence of the early settlers who were for the most part, plain people. the children of some of thse aristocrats married into Mennonite families, which was the case in Elizabeth Ziegler's ancestry. Consequently, she became the ofshoot of an English aristocrat and a Mennonite preacher.

Her father, Christopher Ziegler, owned a large tract of land in upper Hanover Township, south of Pennsburg. After she and Samuel married, they left the Buttertahl, and moved onto one of the farms belonging to her father. They lived on Ziegler land in upper Hanover Township, until the year 1782. On July 30, of that year they bought a farm of 151 acres in Douglas Township, from John Landis and his wife Elizabeth for 6 pounds and 7 1/2 bushels of wheat as down payment on the property.

The contour of the land on this farm is beautiful. It spreadsout over a broad shallow valley made up of softly rolling fiels and woodland. Samuel spent the last 39 years of his life here and during that time built two stone houses, first, a small one no bigger than a log cabin, with built-in corner cupboards, a narrow staircase and a tiny loft; then later, a larger two story house to take care of his growing family. In 1856, his grandson, andrew B. Bauer, built a commodious brick house nearby with a central staircase so beautiful it is famous to this day. All three houses are still standing, clustered together in an affectionate family group.

Samuel and Elizabeth had 9 children, 5 girls and 4 boys. the baby, Christopher, died when he was only 7 years old. he and Andrew were the only two born on the homestead place.

Samuel died on November 18, 1822, preceding the death of his wife by 18 years. He left a will dated February 23, 1820. Both he and Elizabeth are buried at the Hereford Church in Bally. Their markers are well preserved and are located only a few feet away from the present building under a towering pine.

Samuel more than any of the other Bauers handed down to his children the venturesome spirit of the Pioneer. Around 1815, the early settlers of Pennsylvania began to move farther west. they followed the Conestoga Trail across southern Pennsylvania and on into the northwest territory which was just then opening up for homesteaders. Four of Samuel's children joined this new wave of emigration. In 1816 his daughter and her husband moved to Harmony, Pennsylvania

Weiss, Lister O. [View Citation] [Table of Contents] A history and genealogy of Hans Bauer and his descendants Akron, Ohio?: unknown, 1952, 57-59