John Peter Altman

   Another name for John was John Peter Aultman.

  General Notes:

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 12, Ed. 1, Tree #0054 ]
John Peter (Johannes or Hans Peter) Altman

Deed Abstracts Book 8
Westmoreland, Pennsylvania
24 Feb 1796. Deed John Peter Altman and Daniel Williams to the "chool house" on a road that leads from Greenburg to John Peter Altman's. Price: "For the love and affection they bear to the said "schoolhouse" and its congregation or employers thereof."

Naturalizations
Altman, John Peter, n.a., Lehigh Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, 18 Oct 1765, 2564, page 128 (Also see Caspar Altmann.)-- Giuseppi, Montague Spencer, ed. Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies.

Westmoreland County Will Book 1:161
John Peter Altman, yeoman, of Hempfield Township, 1 Dec 1799 - 16 Mar 1801 Wife: Barbara. Children: Sallomon, George Peter, Andrew, Susanna, wife of Peter Eisenman, George Jacob, Catharine, wife of Philip Miller, Michael, Christina, wife of Peter Miller, Barbara, wife of Joseph Gongawere, and William. Anna Maria was a daughter of the testator's first wife Christina; Sallomon, Christina, Labina and Catharina are children of testator's present wife Barbara. Executors: wife Barbara and Peter Wendling. Witnesses: James Guthrie, Adam Wendling, Daniel Williams.

From the application for membership in the D.A.R. by Esther Royal Altman, No. 440997:
ALTMAN, JOHN PETER, born 1739, Hesse, Germany, died Nov. 1800, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania; married c1760, Christena, born 1744, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, died 1783-91.
CHILDREN:
1. George Peter
2. Andrew
3. Susanna
4. George Joseph
5. John Michael
6. Christena
7. Barbara
8. John William, born 7 Feb 1778; married Barbara Ann Swope.
SERVICE: Served as Private, Capt. Christopher Truby's Company; was a ranger on the frontier 1778-1783. (History of Westmoreland, Dallis Albert)

From the 1790 US Census of Pennsylvania (for Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County):
Peter Altman:
3 white males of 16 years and upward
1 white male under 16
2 free white females including heads of households.
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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: Yeoman.

John married Anna Barbara Fast, daughter of Johann Nicklaus Fast and Cadarina Margaretha Dörner, between 1784 and 1791 in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. (Anna Barbara Fast was born in 1752 in Frederick, Maryland, British Colonial America and died on 26 January 1827 in Masontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.)