. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . arge of all hispublic and private duties, and his piety and moraldeportment were of an undoubted and unexception-able character. Respected and esteemed by the com-munity generally, he was especially beloved by thepeople of his own charge, among whom he laboredwith much acceptance. JOHN PETER Peter Williard was a native of Switzerland,born in 1745. He came to America as a soldier inthe British service, but shortly after landing effectedhis escape. He then volunt
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . arge of all hispublic and private duties, and his piety and moraldeportment were of an undoubted and unexception-able character. Respected and esteemed by the com-munity generally, he was especially beloved by thepeople of his own charge, among whom he laboredwith much acceptance. JOHN PETER Peter Williard was a native of Switzerland,born in 1745. He came to America as a soldier inthe British service, but shortly after landing effectedhis escape. He then volunteered in the cause of theColonies, and was with other deserters stationed onthe Indian frontier or as guard of prisoners of the close of the Revolution he took up a tract ofland in Lykens township, called Amsterdam,where he settled, began farming, and subsequentlymarried. He died in 1821, at the age of wife died the following year (1822), aged sev-enty-seven. They left the following family : Adam,who came into possession of the homestead. Hischildren, Joseph, John A., Henry B., and Adam, Jr.,. REV. JOHN WINEBRENNER, BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 551 then divided the farm. Part of it yet remains in pos-session of the descendants. Samuel remained in thevalley, a farmer and had a large family ; Anna Mariamarried John Philip Umholtz. CAPT. JAMES WILSON, OF Wilson, son of Moses and Jean Wilson, wasborn June 3, 1755, in Derry township, Lancaster (nowDauphin) Co., Pa. He received the best educationthe country schools then afforded, and spent some timeat the college of Philadelphia. He had just returnedto the quiet of frontier farm life when the war of theRevolution opened, and in which he took a prom-inent part. He was an officer in the associated bat-talions, and was in at least three active campaigns,—that of the Jerseys in 1776, at Brandywine and Ger-mantown in 1777, and on the frontiers against theBritish and their allies, the Tories and Indians
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