Semiquincentennial - - Revolutionary War - - Captain John Hollis

 - #12 in a series of  posts about our family's Revolutionary War soldiers -

250 Years; 1776 - 2026

Our Family was there, from the Beginning

Captain John Hollis

3 Dec 1751 Fairfax, Virginia – 4 November 1836 South Carolina

Son of Moses Hollis & Rosannah Berry Hagan; Husband of Nancy Knighton

My 6x great uncle 

Captain, South Carolina Militia

John Hollis, born 3 December 1751 on the Potomac River, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 26 years old and living on the Wateree River in Craven County, South Carolina when he first served with the patriots. In the winter of 1775, he was a private under Captain Samuel Boykin and Colonel Fletcher for one month.^{[i], [ii], [iii]}

            His second tour of service lasted for 18 months. He served under Colonel Thompson. His pension papers show his rank, during this tour, as either sergeant or lieutenant. This tour began in November 1775 and lasted through June 1777 and included the Battle of Sullivan’s Island on 28 June 1776.[iv] This took place near Charleston, South Carolina when the British troops tried to capture the city. American troops had begun construction of a fortress built out of palmetto logs and sand to defend the island and the channel into Charleston Harbor.  The British and American forces faced each other across the channel. The British launched a naval bombardment on Fort Sullivan. Due to the nature of its construction the fort absorbed the cannonballs rather than splintering. When night fell the British withdrew.[v]  John had been on the island during the battle.[vi]

After this battle John Hollis was transferred to Richard Winn’s company. They marched to the Georgia, Florida border area.[vii] Fort McIntosh, Georgia was a small stockade of 100 square feet on the bank of the Satilla River. About 80 patriots, led by Winn, were inside the fort. After a battle of several days the British took the fort in March 1777. Winn surrendered[viii] and John Hollis became a prisoner. He was held for a short time and then received a parole and was allowed to return to his home in South Carolina where he remained until his enlistment expired.[ix]^, [x]

            An 1833 letter written by John Buchanan in support of John’s pension included the following description of John.

We have no revolutionary soldier whose case excites more general interest in this District than his. There is no one better entitled, there is no one who stands in greater need of his Country’s assistance. He was gifted by nature with a robust and athletic frame, a daring courage and an unbending spirit of resistance to opposition, and singularized himself throughout the war as one of the most active and efficient officers of his rank in this section of the Country. He is now reduced from easy circumstances to a state of poverty by the workings of providence…[xi]

Starting with John Hollis’ third tour of duty he was a captain in rank. He served for one month and a half under Colonel Thomas Sumpter. Captain William Miller was absent without leave and his men were assigned to Captain Hollis’ company.[xii]

His fourth tour lasted two months under Major John Odair. They were “engaged in marching through the country.”[xiii] It must have been during the third and fourth tours that John was a part of the Battle of Rocky Mount that took place 1 August 1780 at Rocky Mount, Lancaster County, South Carolina. Sumpter was unable to defeat the British at Rocky Mount. He had the British trapped in log cabins.[xiv]

Sumter rolled a burning wagon against the cabins. The Tories put up a white flag and was going to surrender. Just at that time, a torrential downpour appeared and the rain quickly put out the fire. The Tories withdrew their surrender request and engaged the Americans again.[xv]

John Hollis was also at the Battle of Hanging Rock on 6 August 1780.[xvi] Colonel Thomas Sumpter and Major William Richardson Davie led this battle. They attacked a British camp. The British had 200 men killed but the Patriots lost only 12 men in this victory for the Patriots.[xvii] On 15 August they were a part of the skirmish at Carey’s Fort on the west bank of the Wateree River Ferry in Kershaw County. 

Sumter and his men took 70 British soldiers, 150 loyalists, some horses, 44 wagons loaded with supplies, a drove of three hundred cattle and a flock of sheep. When Sumter learned of the British preparing to cross the river and retrieve their American prisoners and stores, they then made a hasty retreat up the west side of the Wateree River.[xviii] 

John was involved in the Battle of Camden on 16 August 1780 which was a devastating defeat.[xix] And on 7 October 1780 John participated in the Battle of King’s Mountain, a series of hills inside the South Carolina border. The colonists steadily fought their way up King’s Mountain and killed or captured the British troops.[xx]

During his fifth tour he commanded a company [xxi] and was involved in the Battle at Fort Granby, which was fought May 2 – 15, 1781 in Lexington County, South Carolina. Captain Hollis was one of 400 – 500 men who served under Colonel Sumpter as he laid siege to Fort Granby, a British post. An American victory was the result of musket and cannon fire.[xxii] Captain Hollis said there was “a considerable body of militia at the taking of the fort at Granby, perhaps one thousand men.”[xxiii]

During his sixth tour of two months John was under Colonel Edward Lacy in the 3^rd Regiment of South Carolina Rangers. John was frequently “out scouting.”[xxiv]

John’s next three tours were all served as captain in the Orangeburg area of South Carolina and each lasted two months. Edward Lacey was in command during his seventh tour. The “army attacked and defeated a body of Tories.” During this tour, John Stallings, a British Captain with 25 or 30 men surrendered themselves a prisoners of war. In a sudden quarrel shots were fired. Captain Hollis “received one of the balls through his left arm.”[xxv]

He served under Major Wise during his eighth tour. There were several regiments serving together.[xxvi]  In his final tour in Orangeburg they oversaw the surrender of between 200 and 300 soldiers.[xxvii]

In his recollections to the court John Hollis said, “he was never at home more than one month at a time and seldom from the year 1778 to the conclusion of peace and during all this period was in active duty as Captain of a Company when his Company’s services were required.”[xxviii]  

He [John Hollis] stated that he was wounded in the right leg and his horse shot in an engagement on ‘the Juniper’, and was also wounded by a musket ball passing through his left arm on his first tour to Orangeburg …[xxix]

In 1790 John lived in the Camden District, Fairfield County, South Carolina.[xxx] In 1800 he was still in Fairfield.[xxxi]

In 1830 Captain Elijah Hollis wrote a letter in support of John’s pension application. Under oath Elijah swore that he was the brother of John Hollis and that John was “out almost the whole time of the Revolutionary War”.  Elijah verified that everything in John’s statements about his service to the country were accurate.[xxxii] When Elijah petitioned for a pension for himself he claimed service under Lieutenant John Hollis.[xxxiii]

In 1831, as a part of his petition for a pension “for Military services rendered the State of South Carolina in the war of the revolution”[xxxiv] John listed his property. That list includes:

·      150 acres of land in Fairfield District, their quality three fourths cleared and one half of the clearing lands worn out worth $400.00

·      2 horses 15 years old worth perhaps $20.00

·      3 yearlings $3.00 each

·      15 head of sheep at $2 each[xxxv]

Records kept by the Daughters of the American Revolution note John’s parents as Moses Hollis and Rosannah Berry (Hagan) Hollis, daughter of Berry Jacob Hagan. His wife was Nancy (Knighton) Hollis and their children were Isaac Knighton Hollis, Elizabeth Hollis, Margaret H. Hollis, John Hollis, Jr., Sarah Emmaline Hollis, Darling Jones Hollis, Susannah Hollis and Nancy Hollis.[xxxvi]

Captain John Hollis’s application for pension was granted.[xxxvii] Hopefully that money made his last years of life easier. One of the documents in his file said John was supporting four daughters and four grandchildren. He died 4 November 1836 in South Carolina.

Revolutionary War Series:

#1  William Stark Kelly, Private in the North Carolina Militia

#2 Captain John Kennington, Camden District Regiment, South Carolina Militia 

#3 Sergeant John Brumfield, Patriot & Spy South Carolina Militia 

#4 Charles Brumfield, Gave Patriotic Service

#5 Captain Johannes Ritter, Sr., Northampton Co., PA Militia

#6 Sgt. David Faulkenberruy, SC Militia 

#7 Lt. Moses Hollis, Lieutenant in the South Carolina Militia

#8 Pvt. Jeremiah Smith

#9 Richard Dillon, NC Militia 

#10 Captain Jacob Ott II, SC Militia

#11 Lt. Johann Jonas Wolf, York Co. Militia, PA

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[i]Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) John Hollis, SC.

[ii] Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed Sept. 2020) Hollis.

[iii] Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR, Volume 15; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed Sept. 2020) p. 189, John Hollis. 

[iv] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 24, John Hollis, SC.

[v] The Battle of Sullivan’s Island, American Revolutionary War; digital record, (revolutionarywar.us: accessed Sept. 2020).

[vi] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Flol3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 25, John Hollis, SC.

[vii] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) John Hollis, SC.

[viii] Revolutionary War Raids & Skirmishes in 1777; digital record (myrevolutionarywar.com: accessed Sept. 2020).

[ix] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 5, John Hollis, SC.

[x] Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed Sept. 2020) Hollis.

[xi] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 14, John Hollis, SC.

[xii] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 25, John Hollis, SC.

[xiii] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) John Hollis, SC.

[xiv] The Battle of Rocky Mount; digital record, (revolutionarywar.us: accessed Sept. 2020).

[xv] The Battle of Rocky Mount; digital record, (revolutionarywar.us: accessed Sept. 2020).

[xvi] Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR, Volume 15; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed Sept. 2020) p. 189, John Hollis.

[xvii] American Battlefield Trust. Battle of Hanging Rock; digital record (battlefields.org: accessed Sept. 2020). 

[xviii] Skirmish at Carey’s Fort; digital record (myrevolutionarywar.com: accessed Sept. 2020).

[xix] American Battlefield Trust. Camden; digital record (battlefields.org: accessed Sept. 2020).

[xx] American Battlefield Trust. King’s Mountain; digital record (battlefields.org: accessed Sept. 2020).

[xxi] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) John Hollis, SC.

[xxii] The Siege at Fort Granby; digital record, (revolutionarywar.us: accessed Sept. 2020).

[xxiii] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 26, John Hollis, SC.

[xxiv] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 22, John Hollis, SC.

[xxv] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 27, John Hollis, SC.

[xxvi] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) John Hollis, SC.

[xxvii] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 27, John Hollis, SC.

[xxviii] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) John Hollis, SC.

[xxix] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 9, John Hollis, SC.

[xxx] Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790; South Carolina (Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Co., Inc., 2004) 19 – 20.

[xxxi] Holcombe, Brent H. Index to the 1800 Census of South Carolina (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980) 115.

[xxxii] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; NARA record group 15; digital image, Fold3 (fold3.com: accessed Sept. 2020) page 7, John Hollis, SC.

[xxxiii] South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Accounts Audited of Claims Growing Out of the Revolution (S108092), Reel 72, Frame 561; Elijah Hollis.

[xxxiv] South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Accounts Audited of Claims Growing Out of the Revolution (S108092), Reel 72, Frame 5796, file 3705; John Hollis.

[xxxv] South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Accounts Audited of Claims Growing Out of the Revolution (S108092), Reel 72, Frame 5796, file 3705; John Hollis.

[xxxvi] Daughters of the American Revolution. Ancestor Record, Ancestor #A056678, John Hollis; digital image (dar.org: accessed Oct 2020).

[xxxvii] Ervin, Sara Sullivan. South Carolinians in the Revolution (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1976) 38.

Semiquincentennial - - Revolutionary War - - Lt. Johann Jonas Wolf

  - #11 in a series of  posts about our family's Revolutionary War soldiers -

250 Years; 1776 - 2026

Our Family was there, from the Beginning

Johann Jonas Wolf

 

27 Dec 1739, Lebanon, Pennsylvania - 21 Sep 1787, Abbottstown, York, Pennsylvania

Son of Johan Jacob Wolf & Anna Barbara Orth

Husband of Appollonia Dick

 

My 5th great grandfather 

 

Second Lieutenant in the 5^th Company, 6^th Battalion of the York Co. Militia, PA;

which later became the 8^th Company, 7^th Battalion of the York Co. Militia, PA

Johann Jonas Wolf, born in Pennsylvania, was the youngest child of Johan Jacob and Anna Barbara (Orth) Wolf. He married Appollonia (Dick) Wolf. Appollonia had been born at sea when her parents emigrated from Germany to America.[i] The couple lived in York County, Pennsylvania.[ii]

Johann Jonas Wolf was a Second Lieutenant during the American Revolutionary War.[iii]^, [iv] At that time Adams County was still a part of York County. Although news was slow to arrive in this remote area the people were in support of the steps towards separation from the British Empire. As early as 1760 discontent was openly spoken of at public meetings. In April 1775 they raised money to send to the people of Boston. On 1 July 1775 the first company of soldiers marched from Pennsylvania to Boston. Companies and regiments of soldiers were formed. In 1777 Congress fled from Philadelphia to safety in Lancaster. After a brief stay they fled again. This time they settled in York where they remained for nine months. In 1778 the number of men from York County in the militia was 4,621.[v]

In 1778 Johann Jonas Wolf was in the Fifth Company, Sixth Battalion, with Peter Ickes as his Captain and John Mullin as the First Lieutenant. Jonas was the Second Lieutenant.[vi] In 1779 he was in the Seventh Battalion, Eighth Company. Peter Ickes was still his Captain. Now Jonas was the First Lieutenant.[vii]^,[viii] In 1781 – 82 he was,

 

“…in a detachment of the York County Militia under command of Captain John Wampler, in actual service guarding prisoners of war at Camp Security in York County, D 7, 1781 – F 7, 1782.”[ix]

 

            Camp Security was a Prisoner of War Camp, just east of the City of York. It housed over one thousand British and Canadian prisoners of war between the summer of 1781 and the spring of 1783. Many of these were from the surrender of General John Burgoyne to General Gates at Saratoga, New York, on October 18, 1777. 

 

The site of the Revolutionary prison camp was north of the York and East Prospect Road in the Northeastern part of Windsor Township. For three – fourths of a century it had been owned by Jacob Holtzinger. The prison, ‘pen’ as it had been called, was built in the form of a circle. Posts, fifteen feet in length, were erected in close proximity, so that the entire prison resembled an Indian fort; within the enclosures prisoners built huts. The County Militia guarded the camp for several years until the fall of 1782, when a congressional regiment was sent to guard the prisoners in York, Lancaster and Berks Counties.[x]

 

During the American Revolutionary War the Germans in Pennsylvania were strong supporters of the war. Men like Johann Jonas Wolf fought to repel the British troops. Many more families helped the fighting men by providing horses, wagons and food. The Pennsylvania counties were the most prosperous agricultural areas at that time. Even the non-combatant Mennonites never denied requests for provisions. Lancaster, York, Berks and Northampton Counties led the way in supplying the fighting troops.[xi]

In 1778 Johann Jonas Wolf  was the over seer of the poor for Berwick Township.[xii]

Miller and Pencak describe the average farm in late Colonial Pennsylvania. The average farm was 125 acres.

 

There were seven head of cattle, three or four horses, eight pigs, ten sheep, some chickens, and a hive or two of bees. Fifty-three acres were under plow, in hay meadows, or in orchards. Another twenty acres were pastureland. Three acres were devoted to the house, barns, springhouse, and corncribs, while the remainder was woodlot, providing lumber, fuel, and foraging for cattle and pigs. The family, often with the assistance of a slave, servant, tenant family, or hired help, harvested 300 bushels of grains, dressed 450 pounds of pork and beef, made cheese, butter, beer, and grew vegetables, fruit, flax, and tobacco every year.[xiii]

 

Miller and Pencak continue to describe the average farm’s products and its purchases.

 

This average farm family sold about 55 bushels of wheat, 200 pounds of meat, plus flaxseed, hay, and other products and purchased cloth, shoes, hats, salt and spices, almanacs, Bibles and prayer books, hardware, tools, and more.[xiv]

 

Following the war, York County fell on hard times.

 

The winter of 1783 is known as the “hard winter,” during which everything froze, causing an entire failure of crops the following year. A contagious disease breaking out among the cattle, carried hundreds away. The people, generally, were in distressing circumstances. Collectors of taxes were unable to make their collections, … For a number of years after the war, times were hard, on account of the great depreciation of Continental money, and the waste of life and property during the long struggle.[xv]

 

The Wolf family belonged to the Emmanuel Reformed Church, Abbottstown. 

 

Jonas Wolf was the ancestor of the Wolf family that took an active part in the affairs of the church for more than one hundred fifty years. Frederick Wolf, d. 1803, was a highly respected citizen of the Township, as is evidenced by an uninterrupted period of civil service covering a period of seventeen years.[xvi]

 

 Johann Jonas Wolf died In September 1787 in Berwick Township. An inventory was made of his “Estate, Goods, Chattles, Rights and Credits”. The extensive listing included “The Dwelling Plantation, Consisting of 83 Acres and Allowances of Land, Another Plantation and tract of land Consisting of 120 acres, more or less.” Reading through the inventory gives a clear view of life in 1787, the time of his death.

 

A Sermon Book; Two Hymn Books; 2 Old Spelling Books, and Primer; Great – Coat; Four Coat, Jacket, Breeches and Hat; 4 pair of Trouzers [sic], & 1 pair of Leggins; 2 Shirts, and one pair of stockings; 1 pair of old boots, 1 pair of Shoes, Buckles; A watch and 3 old Shirts; A wagon; A Plough and Irons; 2 black horses; A Sorrel; A Black Mare; A Colt; A brindled Cow; A Spotted Heiffer [sic]; A brown Steer; A red Steer; A black Heiffer; 3 Heiffer Calves; 2 other Calves; 17 head of Sheep; A Wind Mill; A Waggon Cloath [sic]; A Cutting Box and Knife; The Geers [sic] and Stones of an Oil Mill; A Quantity of Wheat at 4/6 Bushels; A Quantity of Rye at 2/9 Bushels; A Quantity of Oats at 1/6 Bushels; Hay; 2 Dung forks, and hook; A hay – fork, 2 Rakes and 2 flails; 2 old casks and trough; A Quantity of Flax, unthreashed; A Quantity of Hemp, unwatered; 5 Cow Chains; A Pair of Hay – Ladders; 8 Planks; An Old Wheel – barrow; A Log – Chain; One Still – Door; A Harrow; Stretch Chains; A Sleigh; A sled; 4 Hogs; 2 Shovels; A grindstone; A pair of Hobbles; A Man Saddle, and Saddlebags; An old Saddle, and Saddlebags; A stallion chain; 2 Augers; A pair of Pincers, Chizzel [sic], Gouge, and Spike; A half – Bushel; A hand saw, and draw knife; Two pieces of Iron & a door hinge; A whip; A Cake – Iron; An old Sythe [sic] & piece of Gin Barrel; A Pot Trammel; A quilling – Wheel and Swifts; A Sythe [sic] and Craddle [sic]; 2 Spinning Wheels; A warping Bar, Wouk, and 22 spools; A weavers Loom; Reeds and Geers [sic]; 2 Gums with some Salts; A covered Straw Basket and dried apples; An old cask with some Sope [sic] and Fat; Riddles & Straw; An Old cask with some Lime; 2 Baskets and old Iron; A Bag with feathers; A pruning saw and Whip Stalk; Some Onions and old Sive [sic]; An empty Hogshead with straw cover; 2 straw baskets and some beans; A flour Barrel; An Axe and three rakes; A big Wheel, Reel and Swifts; A hair – sifter and Rope; A Dough Trough; A Side – saddle and Bridle; A pair of Steel yards; 9 Bags; A Chest and Box; A bed and Bedstead; 2 Razors 7 Strap; Table Clothes; An old Half Bushel and 7 Bread Baskets; A table; A Looking Glass; A Cupboard; Wool; Woolen Yarn; A Stone Jug; 2 little Tubs; 3 Pails; An Iron Pot; 2 pewter Basins,  4 Plates, 7 spoons & 8 Tea spoons; Tea tin, Coffee pot, Funnel, 1 Quart, 2 Pint & half pint cups; 5 Delf [sic] Plates; 10 pairs of cups & saucers, 2 tea pots, and a Sugar Pot; A glass and earthen bowl & salt Box; 1 lamp and Candlestick; A Coffee – Mill & Spice Box; 2 Bottles; 6 Knives and 10 Forks; A Kitchen Dresser; A Shelf[xvii]

 

            Appollonia (Dick) Wolf died circa 1790. On 19 August 1790 another inventory was taken, this time of Appollonia’s Estate. Many of the same items were listed. The following were some possessions unique to Appollonia (Dick) Wolf:

 

A Bed Case; 3 Callico [sic] Gowns; 3 lintsey [sic] Gowns and a long Gown; a Woman’s Cloke [sic]; 8 lintsey [sic] petticoats; one silk hankercheif [sic]; a pair stocking and a pair of Mitten; 2 knifes, 2 forks, 3 cups and one apron; one bowl and a candlestick; blue and white woolen yarn; 3 yards of flax linen; 14 yards of ton linen; hand sope [sic]; a feather bed and two blankets; a pair of spectacles; a pine Chest; a wallet and a little bag[xviii]

 

The final resting place of Johann Jonas is in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania at Emmanuel United Church of Christ. 

 

Revolutionary War Series:

#1  William Stark Kelly, Private in the North Carolina Militia

#2 Captain John Kennington, Camden District Regiment, South Carolina Militia 

#3 Sergeant John Brumfield, Patriot & Spy South Carolina Militia 

#4 Charles Brumfield, Gave Patriotic Service

#5 Captain Johannes Ritter, Sr., Northampton Co., PA Militia

#6 Sgt. David Faulkenberruy, SC Militia 

#7 Lt. Moses Hollis, Lieutenant in the South Carolina Militia

#8 Pvt. Jeremiah Smith

#9 Richard Dillon, NC Militia 

#10 Captain Jacob Ott II, SC Militia

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[i] Wolfe, J. Arthur. Jonas Wolf of Berwick Township, York County, Pennsylvania: A History and Genealogy of a Colonial Ancestor and Some of His Descendants. Privately Published: 1987.

[ii] Wolf family papers and charts from Christine Ann (Klessins) Zengler, Wisconsin. Wife of great grandson of Joseph W. Wolf.

[iii] Young, Henry James. Genealogical Reports for The Historical Society of York County: Evidences of the Wolf Families of York County before the Year 1850, 1938. From York County Heritage Trust, 250 East Market Street, York, Pennsylvania. Revolutionary Records; Jonas Wolf.

[iv] Second Lieutenant Jonas Wolfe, Ancestor #A127487, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Research Database.

[v] 1886 History of Adams County, Pennsylvania. 1977 Reprint. Chicago: Warner, Beers and Company, 1886. 

[vi] Pennsylvania Archives; Sixth Series, Volume II, page 540. 

[vii] Pennsylvania archives; Sixth Series, Volume II, page 565.

[viii] Prowell, George R. History of York County, Pennsylvania. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Company, 1907. Print.

[ix] Young, Henry James. Genealogical Reports for The Historical Society of York County: Evidences of the Wolf Families of York County before the Year 1850, 1938. From York County Heritage Trust, 250 East Market Street, York, Pennsylvania. Revolutionary Records; Jonas Wolf.

[x] Wolfe, J. Arthur. Jonas Wolf of Berwick Township, York County, Pennsylvania: A History and Genealogy of a Colonial Ancestor and Some of His Descendants. Privately Published: 1987.

[xi] Kuhns, Oscar. The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania. Reprint. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1979. Original Printing, 1901.

[xii] Young, Henry James. Genealogical Reports for the Historical Society of York County, Evidences of the Wolf Families of York County before the year 1950. Volume XX. The Historical Society of York County, 1938. . Copy of book owned by York County Heritage Trust, 250 East Market Street, York, Pennsylvania.

[xiii] Miller, Randall M., and William Pencak. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth.

 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.

[xiv] Ibid.

[xv] History and Directory of the Boroughs of Gettysburg, Oxford, York springs, Berwick and East Berlin, Adams County, PA with Historical Collections.

[xvi] Eisenhart, Willis W. A History of Abbottstown. 1953.

[xvii] Estate Files for Johann Jonas Wolf and Appollona Wolf of Berwick Township, Pennsylvania; Held at the York County Archives, 150 Pleasant Acres Road, York, Pennsylvania.

[xviii] Estate Files for Johann Jonas Wolf and Appollona Wolf of Berwick Township, Pennsylvania; Held at the York County Archives, 150 Pleasant Acres Road, York, Pennsylvania.