52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 12

Week 12:

The theme for Week 12 is "Historic Event." How was an ancestor affected by an event, either large or local?

Johann Jacob Stromenger (Possible Revolutionary War Veteran) 

1727– 3 Oct 1786

5th great-grandfather

Johann Jacob Stromenger was born in 1727 in France, the son of Gertrude and Peter. He immigrated to America, arriving in Philadelphia in 1754.
He married Magdalena Haas on January 25, 1760. They had three children during their marriage. 

Johann is listed in, Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania and York County in the Revolution by George R. Prowell. 1914 - York County (Pa.). Pages 264-265, with the Third Battalion of Associators.

The Third Battalion of Associators was organized in 1775 by Colonel Richard McAllister, of Hanover, who commanded the Second Pennsylvania Regiment of the Flying Camp, in which a large number of his men enlisted at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1776. After the organization of the state militia, in 1777, the Third Battalion was commanded by Colonel David Jameson. Part of this battalion served under Jameson at Germantown, White Marsh and minor engagements in 1777. Out of the Associators in the townships of Heidelberg, Berwick, Paradise, Mt. Pleasant, Manheim and Germany.

In 1780, the Third Battalion of the Pennsylvania militia, part of the York County militia, was commanded by Lt Colonel Michael Smyser and Major William Ashton.

I was able to access Johann's Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File Company Return Militia Accounts: Militia". Records of the Comptroller General RG-4. 1780 http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp. This doesn't mean

Johann Jacob Stromenger died on October 3, 1786, in Hellam, Pennsylvania, at the age of 59.

I would love to find out where Johann is buried. I'd also like to make him one of my DAR Patriots, if I can prove the genealogy through the appr documentation. 




Marriage certificate










Military Accounts Militia 



















Continental Congress at York,  Pennsylvania and York County 

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