The Revolutionary War
This information has largely been collated from comments which had been attached our Zollinger data base. In some cases a source for this information was given, in others it is unknown where the information was found. It is clear that the DAR organization must have much more accurate information, and it will be a future task to compare the information on this section the their file. At the same time this data can also be helpful to family members who are interested to follow their lineage to a participant in the Revolutionary War, and maybe this can even be useful to support an application for membership with DAR. The names are listed in alphabetical order.
Zollinger, Alexander
York County, Pennsylvania militia, 7th Battalion, 8th Company. In 1778 he served under Captain Peter Zollinger, and was still in the militia in 1786.Date of Birth: 25 Mar 1761 in Lebanon Township, Lancaster Co., PA
Date of Death: 4 December 1851 in Sevierville, Sevier Co., TN
Buried at: ?
Notes:
In 1778 he was drafted into the York County, Pennsylvania militia at the age of 17. He was a private, where his name was spelled "Elixander". In the 1790 census he was in Franklin County (with Adam Zollinger), with a wife and one male child (Thomas). He was a witness to the wedding of Eve Long and George Baker in 1797 in the Shenandoah valley, Augusta County, Virginia. (His own wife's name was also Baker) .
He was still there in 1800, but appeared in Sevier County, Tennessee in 1811, where from 1833 onwards he was receiving a revolutionary war pension (#11993), which lasted to his death on the 4th of December 1852. He filed a lawsuit on the 10 April 1845 against a George Fox to regain 303 acres of land at Fairgarden, Sevier County, which Alex had been swindled out of in the 1830's, a deal apparently involving 1900 gallons of homemade whiskey.
In the 1840 federal census his daughter Margret (Polly) and her family were living with Alex. In his old age he lived with Elizabeth Gibson and her family, a younger woman whom he had raised from childhood. In the 1850 census he was still on record, but his wife Margaret had died that June.
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Zollinger (Zoller), Andrew
- French and Indian War: He fought against the French in Canada in 1763.
- Private in Captain Jacob Clocks company, fighting at German Flats, NY
Date of Birth: 17 August 1739 in Fairfield, Herkimer Co., NY
Date of Death: 1782 in Montgomery Co., NY
Buried at: Zoller Farm, Fairfield, Herkimer Co., NY
Notes:
In 1777 in the Revolutionary War he was fighting under Colonel Campbells 1st Tyron County Regiment. He fought in the battle of Stone Arabia, and on the 6th of August 1777 he fought in the battle of Oriskanny. He was taken prisoner and was sent to Canada. After his return he was in poor health, and died shortly after.
He changed his name from "Zollinger" to "Zoller". He was the first child of the family born in the USA. His birth name was "Andres". He was naturalized in New York on the 11th of September 1761.
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Zollinger (Zoller), Jacob
- French and Indian War: Fought against the French in Canada in 1763.
- Captain Klock's Stone Arabia Militia.
- Revolutionary War: fighting under Colonel Campbells 1st Tyron County Regiment in 1777.
Date of Birth: 8 March 1741 in Palatine, Minden Co., NY Date of Death: 6 August 1777 in Oriskanny, Oneida Co., NY Buried at: Zoller Farm, Fairfield, Herkimer Co., NY
Notes:
He fought in the battle of Stone Arabia, and on the 6th of August 1777 he fought in the Battle of Oriskanny. He was killed in that battle.
He changed his name from "Zollinger" to "Zoller". He is commemorated with 98 other names in the Oriskanny battleground monument in Whitestown, Oneida Co., NY.
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Zollinger, Jacob
Lancaster County Militia, 2nd Battalion, Wayne's Light Brigade. Lieutenant by 1780 .
Date of Birth: 16 November 1753 in Lebanon Township, Lancaster Co., PA
Date of Death: 6 April 1820 in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA
Buried at: Old Graveyard Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA
Notes:
In 1780 he was a Lieutenant under Colonel Edwards, and was still there on Christmas day 1781, ending his service with the rank of Captain. Private Nicholas Zollinger served under him.
He took the oath of allegiance on the 9th of October 1776. He was a deacon in the Tabor church in Lebanon Township in 1760. He was assessed for the school house in Harrisburg on the 12th of March 1787. He was an elder/trustee at the German Reformed church, with the reverend A. Hautz as pastor.
His property was recorded as 50 acres in 1771, 60 acres in 1773, and 70 acres in 1779. By 1782 he had handed over that land to his son John. He was in Harrisburg on the 12th of September 1790, and was also listed there as a married resident on 16 Jan 1795. He is listed as Captain Jacob Zollinger in his obituary.
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Zollinger, Johann Adam
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a MilitiaDate of Birth: 1760 in Lebanon Township, Lancaster Co., PA
Date of Death: 1833 in Greene Co., OH
Buried at: no information
Notes:
He was in the Revolutionary War with the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania militia. All traces of his family are lost, and he may have changed the spelling of the name. That person could be the Adam "Soleinger" in Franklin County, who was listed in the 1790 census, and again in the 1800 census where the name was spelled "Sollinger". He could also be the Adam Sullinger who was recorded near Dayton in Greene County, Ohio, in the 1820 and 1830 census.
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Zollinger Johann Adam (John)
Private in the York County Militia under Captain Peter Zollinger.Date of Birth: 23 May 1765 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA
Date of Death: 10 February 1819 ?
Buried at: Saint Johns Cem., Sabillasville, Frederick Co., MD
Notes:
His father had already used a different spelling for their name, but his brothers and sisters did not change the spelling. Yet he must have changed his name to the new spelling "Sollinger" early in his life. His name was spelled John Solenger in the 1790 census, living in North Huntington Township, Westmoreland Co., showing his family as having one son over 16, one son under 16, and three daughters. He was still in North Huntington Township in the 1800 and in the 1810 census. There he is listed as John Sollinger, and then was said to have had 16 children. There is still much debate over this person.
He was in Venango County, Pennsylvania, listed as Sullinger. He came to Rockland (or Richland) township in 1805 to purchase 400 acres of land, and he moved his family there in 1813. He is shown in Richland Township, Venango County in the 1830 and 1840 census. He was either a shoemaker or a weaver. There is a Sollinger shown as having died at age 91 in Trumbull County, Ohio.
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Zollinger, Johann Jakob
Date of Birth: 1753Date of Death:
Buried at: no information
Notes:
He was recorded in 1781 as a private in the Revolutionary War, from Berkshire county, Pennsylvania. His father came to the USA from Germany, and he was the first child of the family born in the USA. His brother George Zollinger also served in the war.
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Zollinger, Johann Nicholas
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, 1st Battalion, 8th CompanyDate of Birth: 12 February 1740 in Üssikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Date of Death: 19 November 1823 in Upper Strassburg, Franklin Co., PA
Buried at: Upper Strassburg, Franklin Co., PA
Notes:
In 1777 he was serving as lieutenant under Commanding Officer Colonel Philip Greenwald and Captain Sheaffer.
His name was spelled "Nickula" in some Swiss documents. A reference states that he is a brother to a Peter and an Ulrich. He came to America on the ship "St. Andrew", the same boat as General Lafayette, the revolutionary war hero. He swore the oath of allegiance on the 7th of October 1743. After the war he was given a land grant in Harrisburg, which became later the site of the Harrisburg state hospital. He was on the tax list for 200 acres in 1772 in Heidelberg Township, Dauphin county (then Lancaster county). In 1779 and 1782 he was taxed in Sheafer's town (Scheafferstown), Heidelberg township for 2 acres, 1 horse and 1 cow. He was married before 1799 to Eva, as they were sponsors at Margaretha Schaeffer's baptism at Zion church in Armstrong Valley.
He is the son of Jacob Zollinger, born in 1706, and he administered his father's will in 1791 in Dauphin county. He purchased a 220 acre tract of land in Upper Strasburg, deeded "Clark's Fancy", from Abraham Dewalt and Christian Keefer on the 19th of April 1805. The purchase was recorded in 1811, bearing patent of the 18th of September 1787, original survey was done in 1737. In the 1790 federal census he is in Cumberland county with his family, but his name is not found in the 1810 or 1820 census.
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Zollinger, Johann Peter Jr.
Private in George Eichelberger's company in 1775.Date of Birth: 8 May 1721 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA
Date of Death: 10 December 1790 in Paradise Township, York Co., PA
Buried at: Emanuel Cemetery, Abbottstown, Adams Co., PA
Notes:
He enlisted in 1775 in the Revolutionary War, and the Mennonite cemetery records list him as a Private in George Eichelberger's company.
Peter Solinger was a communicant at the church in Philadelphia in 1733 to 1735. He was married in Germantown, and had 6 children while he was living in Mount Joy Township. There he was a member of the German Reformed church. He first moved to Lancaster county after 1749, and was in York county by 1764. He was the first deacon of Emmanuel Reformed church in Abbottstown in 1775, after helping to organize its construction.
He took the oath of allegiance to Pennsylvania on the 2 October 1779. At that time he farmed in Paradise Township with 150 acres, but the farm had been reduced to 60 acres by 1780, and down to 18 in 1781. I 1786 he bought another farm in the same township. His farm was just over county line in York county (Adams county was not formed until 1800).
His first wife died in 1785, and he married a widow named Elisabeth Yohe, maiden name unknown, who already had several children. He died in 1790, and the inscription on his gravestone is in German. A copy of his will dated 19 December 1790 was recorded on the 5th of January 1791 with Jacob Weist as executor. He willed his estate equally to the six children of his first marriage.
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Zollinger, Johann Samuel
Captain Cochran's Pennsylvania Militia, Captain Stone's 2nd Battalion, Bowman's Company from Dauphin CountyDate of Birth: 14. December 1752 Lancaster Co., PA
Date of Death: 13 March 1786 Dauphin Co., PA
Buried at: no information
Notes:
He was a private in the Revolutionary War with Captain Cochran's Pennsylvania militia, where he was a fifer. In September 1781 he served with Captain Stone's 2nd Battalion on duty in Bucks County, and was a fifer and 6th class Private by July 1782. He was killed in 1786, while part of Bowman's company from Dauphin County.
He took the oath of allegiance to USA on the 8th of October in Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania . In 1780 he is listed on the Lebanon Township tax record, and his name appears in the Dauphin will book. In the census of Lebanon Township there is a John Zollinger on record as a minor child (14 years old), the son of John Zollinger (deceased). The court distributed the funds after court expenses, and assigned George Zinn of Lebanon Township as the son's guardian.
It was assumed that the 'S' in his middle name stood for "Streibel", but another Johann Streibel Zollinger actually has a mother with that maiden name. One source says it stands for "Samuel".
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Zollinger (Zoller), Kaspar (Casper)
Colonel Campbells 1st Tyron County RegimentDate of Birth December 1733 in Ober-Ottikon, Zürich, Switzerland
Date of Death: 1794 in Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., NY
Buried at: Zoller Farm, Fairfield, Herkimer Co., NY
Notes:
French and Indian war: fought against the French in Canada in 1763. Later he was fighting under Captain Klock's Stone Arabia Militia.
In 1777 in the Revolutionary War he was fighting under Colonel Campbells 1st Tyron County Regiment. He fought in the battle of Stone Arabia.
One record uses the diminutive "Casperli". He was naturalized on the 11th of September 1761.
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Zollinger, Nikolaus
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, MilitiaDate of Birth: 1742 in Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date of Death: 1810 in ??
Buried at: no information
Notes:
His name was anglicized to 'Nicholas'. He immigrated to the USA in 1767 on the ship 'Minerva' with his brother Jacob. He was a private 6th Class in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War, and fought under Lieutenant Jacob Zollinger.
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Zollinger, Ulrich (Ullery)
Continental Line, Revolutionary War, under Colonel Holgert's Germantown Battalion, Captain Mathias GensselDate of Birth: 1726 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA
Date of Death: 13 November 1782 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA
Buried at: Axs Upper Burying Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA
Notes:
He was in the militia during the Revolutionary War, then known as Ullery, or Albrick, or Woolery. He enlisted as a private on the 22nd of October 1777, under Captain Mathias Genssel, in Colonel Holgert's battalion of Germantown. 'Ullery's will is dated 1st of July 1782 and proved on the 22nd of Nov 1782. He was probably killed in the revolutionary war.
He was listed as Ulrick (Ullery or Ulley) Zollinger when he was naturalized the 10th of April 1760, as required by statute #13 by King George of England. He is on the tax list in Kresheim (Creisham), Germantown Township in 1769, 1774, 1779, and 1782, with 17 ½ acres, 1 horse and 1 cow. He was also a rope maker. He is buried in Old Ax cemetery in a lot purchased in 1760, which is now called Upper Burying Ground. His will listed his wife Catherine and his brother Peter, with trusted friend Ludwig Barnhart as administrators. He had no children. Ulrich and his wife Verena sponsored his sister Anna's child Verena on the 23rd of December 1753 at the Germantown Reformed Church. A different record says that his wife's name was Veronica. On his grave the first name is "Ullery".
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