Jacob Boltz
Jacob was born in Germany or Switzerland around 1734 to Johan
Michael Boltz and his wife Maria Barbara (Lauten) Boltz.
He arrived in Philadelphia with his mother and father aboard
the ship William on October 31, 1737
He married Catherine (Caterine) Mader (Madern) on March 22, 1757
at the Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church in Annville Township,
Lancaster County (now Lebanon County).
He and Catherine had eleven children:
Mary Catherine (1757), Johan Michael (1759), Johan Jacob
(1761), Fronica (1763), George (1765), Anna Mary (1767), Heinrich
(1769), Conrad (1772), Elizabeth (1776), Johann (1778) and Christine
(1780).
He is identified as a farmer in the 1769 tax record of Lancaster
County and he appears on the 1771 Tax record as a freeman.
In 1782 he is shown on the tax rolls for Lebanon Township,
Lancaster County with 181 acres, 3 horses and 4 cattle.
He died in 1795 in Dauphin County (previously Lancaster County).
His grave site is unknown.
His wife Catharine who was born around 1735, died on October
5, 1794 and is buried on Lot OC-5 of the old cemetery of Hill
Lutheran Church near Annville, Lebanon County.
In 1782, Jacob served as a private in the 2nd Company,
2nd Battallion, 7th Class, Lancaster County
Militia under Captain Michael Holderbaum.
On May 29, 1778 he signed the Oath of Allegiance in Lancaster
County, PA.