Peter Smith

Johann Peter “Peter Smith” Schmidt

• BIRTH 3 Mar 1701 Wingen, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
• DEATH 1769 (aged 67–68) Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
• BURIAL Burial Details Unknown, Specifically: Buried in a cemetery which dates back to colonial times, located near mile-marker 80 on I-85. The original parcel of land was deeded to Peter Smith.
• Linen Weaver
• Son of Johann Theobald Schmidt and Anna Maria Schleber Deckenberger Schmidt.
• Grandson of Theobald (Diebold) Schmidt, and Margareta Schmidt, Michael Schleber and Anna Mang Schleber.
• Great-grandson of Wendelius (Wendel) Schmidt , Barbara Klotz Schmidt, Michael Schlaeber, and Anna Margaretha Frick.
• On 20. January 1728, he married Maria Barbara Engels, daughter of Philip Engels, linen weaver of Schoenburg, in Sulzbach (now Langensoultzbach), Alsace. 1 child
• In the spring of 1733, Peter, his new wife (believed to have been Elisabetha Ensminger, daughter of Philip Ensminger, of Diemeringen, Alsace, and at least two of Peter's children, (Georg Michael and Maria Eva, then five and three years old) set out on their trip down the Rhine River towards Rotterdam in Holland.

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215250880/johann-peter-schmidt