Peter Martin

1769 - 1831  (62 years)

• Name	Peter Martin
  Birth	26 Feb 1769	West Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Mar 1831
  Person ID	I18688	All
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2007

  
  

  Father	Henry Martin,   b. Abt 1745   d. Date Unknown
  Mother	Anna Burkhard,   b. Abt 1745   d. Date Unknown
  Family ID	F5082	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Zimmerman,   b. 18 Feb 1775   d. 12 Dec 1836 (Age 61 years)
  Children	1. Samuel Martin,   b. 18 Mar 1805, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F5081	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2007

  
  

• Notes

  From Ezra Eby Book Peter Martin, "was born in West Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, February 26th, 1769. He was married to Anna Zimmerman, December 25th, 1793. She was born February 18th, 1775. He followed farming in his native state, but owing to the poor harvests for several years in succession, together with low wages and many business failures, caused him to make arrangements with his numerous family to move to Canada. Two of his daughters, Barbara, married to David Martin and Maria, married to Christian Zimmerman, remained in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, while the parents with fourteen of their children, together with Daniel Weber and others, moved to Canada in 1819. They, at their arrival here, settled first on the farm now owned by Dilman Shantz and the heirs of the late Abraham Groff, but not finding this to their taste they finally located on the farm now possessed by Menno Gingerich. Here they resided until their deaths. He died March 2nd, 1831, and she died December 12th, 1836. They had a family of seventeen children, all of whom were married."