i Maria Margaret WOHLEBEN was born ca 1730. Maria Margaret died ca 1760. Maria Margaret married Frederick MILLER on 26 Jun 1749. Source: C

ii Catharina WOHLEBEN NY was born ca 1732 at Herkimer Co., NY; Catharina and Friederich Jost SCHUMACHER were married 00 Jun 1750 at Schocharie Lutheran Church.

iii Anna Maria Mary WOHLEBEN was born 1735; died 07 Mar 1815; Anna Maria Mary and Peter FLASS were married.

iv Peter Nicholas WOHLEBEN NY was born 09 Mar 1736 at Herkimer Falls, NY; died 17 Nov 1829 at Manheim, NY; Peter Nicholas and Catharina FLACK were married 17 Jul 1765 at Stone Arabia Ref. Dutch Church.

v Johannes WOHLEBEN NY was born CA 1740 at Herkimer Co., NY; died 06 Aug 1777 at Battle of Oriskany; Johannes and Maria FLACK were married.

vi Henrich WOHLEBEN NY was born 03 Oct 1740 at Herkimer Co., NY; died 1790;Henrich and Margaretha BURNHAMS or BURKHAMS were married 00 Nov 1763; Henrich and Magdalena KESSLER were married CA 1753.

vii Mary Sophia WOHLEBEN was born 1743 at Herkimer Co., NY; Mary Sophia and Peter FLAGG were married.

viii Elisabetha WOHLEBEN was born 1745 at Herkimer Co., NY; Elisabetha and Frederick SCHUTT were married.

ix Johann Dieterich N. WOHLEBEN NY was born CA 1750 at Herkimer Co., NY; died 06 Aug 1777 at Battle of Oriskany; Johann Dieterich and Anna Elisabeth DEIGERT TYGERT were married 08 Mar 1770 at Montgomery Co., Stone Arabia.

x Magdalena WOHLEBEN was born 07 Jan 1755 at Herkimer Co., NY; died 18 Jun 1829; Magdalena and Frederick BELLINGER were married ca 1773.

xi Abram WOHLEBEN NY was born 26 Dec 1756 at New York; died 06 Feb 1819 at So. Columbia, Herkimer Co., NY; was buried at Columbia, Herkimer Co., NY; Abram and Dorothea BELLINGER NY were married 25 Jan 1778 at Little Falls, Herkimer Co., NY.

xii Anna or Hannah WOHLEBEN was born 03 May 1759; was christened 1759 at Loonenburg, NY; Anna/Hannah and John or Jacob EMPIE were married.

xiii Jacob WOHLEBEN was born 10 Jan 1761 at Stone Arabia, Montgomery Co., NY; died 04 Dec 1827 at Auriesville, NY; Jacob and Susanna FLAGG were married 10 May 1779 at Herkimer, Herkimer Co., NY.

iv Margaret WOOLEVER was born 21 May 1777; Margaret and Andrew DILLENBACH were married.

A daughter of Johann Nicolaus, named Mary, is supposed to be the heroine of "Drums Along the Mohawk." A Is this Mary Sophia?

From notes of Leone E. Everett: Johann Nicolaus settled at German Flatts on the Mohawk River near Herkimer, N.Y. He had the good fortune to receive a patented land grant for 100 acres at that place. Some of his sons fought in the Revolutionary War. He had a son Peter (1732-1829NY). Peter's sons were Nicholas Walrath (b. 1750 -- NY) and John (b. 1757 -- NY). D

There is conflicting information in print on this family. Johann Nicolaus seems to have had several wives. It may be that this is one person married three times, or two people - one married twice and one married once. Please read over the children in this family carefully, as well as the following notes. You will find when doing research of original documents as well as published histories that the family is not found outlined the way I have done above. After reading through the following if you find an error, or if you find that elusive bit of evidence to straighten this family out, I am most anxious to hear of it.

According to William Barker's, "Early Settlers of Herkimer Co." Johann Nicolaus may have had a son Nicholas. Also in Henry Z. Jones, "The Palatine Families of New York 1710," he lists a possible son, Nicolaus.

"The Palatine Families of New York 1710," lists the children in Nicholas' will as: Sophia, Henrich, Catharina, Elisabetha, Dieterich, Johannes, Anna Maria, Magdalena & Abraham, and cites Fernow Wills #2071.

"Early Settlers of Herkimer Co., NY" says there was probably only one family of Nicholas, but includes the possibility of a Nicholas Sr. and a Nicholas Jr. Barker lists the children in Nicholas' will as: Henry, Dietrich, Johannis, Abraham, Jacob, Sophia, Catherine, Elisabeth, Magdalena, Anna and Anna Maria. Barker cites Fernow Wills #2017. (Note the difference in the number as referenced in Henry Jones work.)

The difference here is that Barker includes Jacob and Anna, Jones does not. Neither include Peter who is known to have been a brother of Abram or Abraham Woolever according to Abraham's Pension File. NEED TO FIND FERNOW WILLS AND DOUBLE CHECK THE ACTUAL WILL.

Raymond Grant Woolever's History says Nicolaus' children are: Henry 1730; Peter 1732; Richard 1734; John 1736; Catherine 1742; Mary Sophia 1743; Elizabeth 1745; Lena 1747; Hannah 1750; Mary 1753 (heroine of Drums Along the Mohawk); Jacob 1754; Abram 1756.

From "Book of Names" pg. 172: "Wohleben, Abraham: With feet frozen, the flesh coming off and with his head scalped, his pension describes his being laid up for about two years, and that he and Nicolas, his nephew, both served in the Battle of German Flatts, August, 1783." (Nicholas, the son of Peter, was b. Aug 1769 or Aug 1770; Nicholas, son of Jacob, b. 1795 -- this has to be the Nicholas b. 1769, at the age of 13 or 14 in 1783 - making Abram a brother to Peter.) "Abraham was scalped Oct 15, 1781, Sergt. and Judge John Frank in his pension papers gives the same battle, same year, three affidavits. Wohleben's papers give two affidavits to that effect U.S. pension R17772. Peter Wolleben's death notice by Dominie Spinner, recites that Peter escaped from the battlefield of Oriskany 'with his father.' Although Benton has Nicholas, the father, dying two years before the war. This death notice means an additional bar for all descendants of this family. (MY NOTE: Benton wrote the "History of Herkimer Co." ---- WHAT IF HE WAS WRONG? 1773 IS THE DATE NICHOLAS WROTE HIS WILL - DID HE CONFUSE THE DATE THE WILL WAS WRITTEN WITH HIS DEATH DATE?) Won, Niclas, is thought to be Wolleben, later moved to Fort Plain. Descendants in Shoemaker, Flagg, Bellinger, Schute, and Woolaver (modern spelling) are in North Ilion, Manheim, Mohawk, Columbia, Jefferson County and Georgia."

The Pension abstract of Abraham Wohleben lists parents as Nicholas & Maria Elisabeth and siblings as Magdalena, b. 07 Jan 1755, Peter, John, Diederich, but does not name a Sophia - ? The death date in Abraham's pension abstract for a Nicholas of Jan 6, 1788, could possibly be the death date of his father...depending upon the translation??? (HERE IS WHERE COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL PENSION FILE MAY HELP.) IF it would be that the 1788 death date is of Abraham's father, this would prove there were 2 families, because the will written 23 Feb 1773 was probated in 1783!!

So, you can see that more research is necessary on this family in particular. Possibly the original pension application or the original will would help clear this up? Does anyone have access to these documents?

From "The Wilderness Empire" by Allen Eckert, pg. 46:
"The German immigrants who had settled in the Mohawk Valley were small-time traders and farmers, existing mostly by competing with the Iroquois as middlemen for the Great Lakes furs or else growing wheat for market. To sell, they had to journey downriver to Albany where the merchants, too, had them over a barrel. That is, they had to go to Albany before, but now, with far less traveling and a much better deal, they could do business with this enterprising young man, William Johnson, who had just opened a store along the main trail. Little wonder the Albany merchants were furious with Johnson."