Armstrong County PA Archives Biographies.....Nolf, George ???? - September 1830
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Source: Pension Files
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From pension files of George Nolf:   
April 28, 1939                                                                      
         
  BA-N/AWF
  George Nolf
  W 3188
The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir.

     Reference is made to your request for information 
relative to George Nolf, Captain in the Pennsylvania 
Militia, War of the Revolution, died in September 1830.
     The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on 
file in claim for pension, W. 3188, based upon the military 
service of George Nolf (Nulff) in the Revolutionary War.
     The date and place of birth of George Nolf and names of 
his parents were not stated.
     George Nolf served in the Northampton County, 
Pennsylvania Militia, two months as sergeant, four months 
and seven days as lieutenant; he was appointed Captain May 
10, 1780, and served as such, eleven months and twenty-one 
days, a part of the time he served under Colonels Kern and 
Roulp.  His service was to protect the frontiers from 
incursions of the Indians, and in ranging between the 
Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers.
     George Nolf married in the year 1775, Susanna Edelman.  
The date and place of her birth and names of parents are not 
given George Nolf died in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 
September 2, 1830 aged about eighty-two years and his widow, 
Susanna Nolf, died January 4, 1841, in More Township, 
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, aged about eighty-four 
years. Susanna Nolf was survived by the following children 
all of whom were living in 1846-
            Catharine, born September 1, 1775, married 
Daniel Close, living in Northampton County, PA in 1846.
             Susan, born June 21, 1777, married George 
Zeigenfuss; said George Zeigenfuss was dead in 1846, and she 
was living in Carbon County, PA.
             Barbara, married Frederick Brownmiller; they 
were living in 1846 in Delaware County, Ohio Conrad Nolf, 
residing in 1846 near Pittsburgh, PA
              Elizabeth, married Michael Creever(?); they 
were living in 1846 in Lehigh County, PA
              Isaac Nolf, residing in 1846 in Northampton 
Co. PA
              Sarah, married John Huvier or Havier, who was 
dead in 1846, and she was living in Northampton Co. PA
               Rachael, married Robert Jamieson; they were 
living in 1846 in Northampton Co. PA
               Jacob Nolf, residing in 1846 in Northampton 
Co. PA
               Mary Robinson, name of her husband not 
stated, nor was her place of residence shown.
     In 1854 the following children of George Nolf and wife 
Susanna were allowed the pension due her:  Barbara 
Brownmiller, Conrad Nolf, Elizabeth Greever, Susan 
Zeigenfuss, Isaac Nolf, Sarah Huvler or Havler, Rachael 
Jamieson, Mary Robinson and Jacob Nolf who was then 
sixty-nine years old and a resident of Moore Township, 
Pennsylvania.
     Reference was made in 1777 to Elizabeth Edelmann, and 
to Conrad Edelmann and his wife, Catharine,  in 1846 Charles 
Ziegenfuss was Justice of the peace for Northampton County, 
PA and in 1854 Susan Ziegenfuss was seventy-seven years old, 
and George Ziegenfuss was seventy-five years of age.

     The relationship of these persons to the family of the 
Revolutionary war officer, George Nolf was not stated. the 
application for headstone for George Nolf is returned 
herewith.  There was no correspondence enclosed.     
                                                    Yours very truly

                                                      A.D. Hiller
                                                       Executive Assistant
                                                       to the Administrator

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