Thornton Family Genealogy

    Witmer, Maria Magdalena Thornton

Birth:     4 Apr 1766, Manor Twp., Lancaster Co., PA
Death:     1847, Green Twp., Summit Co., OH

Father:    Witmer, 2 Peter , Senior (*1737 Pr. Hessen-Nassau, Hertzheim, Dillingsburgshopf(?), Germany +1793)
Mother:    Schuett, Sarah Maria Sallome Witmer ()

Married    Thornton, 2 John (*1758 Snyder Co., PA +1816 Union Twp., Snyder Co., PA)
           24 Nov 1785, Snyder Co., PA, Sourced, Has note(s)
Children:
    1. Thornton, 3 John (*1787 Union Twp., Snyder Co., PA +1846 Green Twp., Summit Co., OH)
    2. Thornton, George ()
    3. Thornton, 1 Henry ()
    4. Thornton, Peter ()
    5. Thornton, Susan ()
    6. Thornton, 1 Samuel ()



Censuses: 

 1830
Roll 149, Vol. 7, p. 323
Chapman Twp., Union Co., PA
1 female 60 <= 70

Notes: 

Entry for Mrs. John Thornton - surety on will of Peter Witmer, proved
3 Aug 1793.
SOURCE: Northumberland Co. Wills & Administrations, p. 23
The [2 Peter Witmer]
will mentions his wife, Maria Sa-
lome, and some of their children:
Peter, Junior, Susanna, Magdalene,
(Mrs. John Thornton), and Mary
(Mrs. John Motz).
SOURCE: DR. CHARLES A. FISCHER, Snyder Co. Pioneers, Selinsgrove,