Peter Michael

Other Events:

• Census: 1800, Frankstown Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States; Septennial Census, as Peter Michael, weaver
• Census: 1810, Allegheny Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States; as P Michael
• Census: 1820, Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio, United States; as Peter Michael
• Newspaper: 15 Apr 1824, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, United States; Defendant in Petition for Partition concerning the property of George Fetters, deceased; Address:
  Ohio Repository
• Land Patent: 20 May 1826, Carroll County, Ohio, United States; purchased 80.90 acres (Land Patent Certificate Number 1089); Address:
  Ohio River Survey, East half of the South West quarter, Section
• Census: 1830, Rose Township, Stark County, Ohio, United States; as Peter Michael
• Newspaper: 3 Jun 1831, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, United States; Defendant in case concerning the sale of property by John Fetters, deceased to Peter Michael; Address:
  Ohio Repository
• Census: 1840, Rose Township, Carroll County, Ohio, United States; as Peter Michael
• Census: 1850, Rose Township, Carroll County, Ohio, United States; as Peter Michael, farmer, head of household

Notes:

...The Michael family traditional history tells us that three brothers living in Prussia: David; Aaron; and Daniel decided to emigrate to America for religious freedom. In Holland, Daniel married a Dutch girl named Catherine and the couple had a son named Nathaniel. Aaron never married.
...David Michael was appalled by the way the Finnish Dutch were treating the Indians and settled in Germantown near Philadelphia. Later he married a Delaware/Shaconee Indian and began to live with the Indians in Pennsylvania. They lived at Shomoken in North Cumberland County. They later moved to Huntingdon Co. where they settled near Frankstown at an Indian village. Their son, John George Michael, was born about 1735 and married Margaret Coleman on October 23, 1735. David's grandson Peter Michael, was born in 1782 and married Catherine Fetters.
...The Michael history tells us that Peter became an important Indian war chief due to his white ancestry. He was considered notorious by some. He is known to have lived in the Indian village in 1790 and 1800 when Congressional records were made. Since Peter and his Indians had fought for the Revolution with the promise of eventual rule over the other tribes, he was given the Ohio land as compensation, while the Indians received nothing.
...The land grant farm was located near the Tuscarawas River and was inhabited by many Delaware/Shaconees and some Seneca Indians. The Indian capitol and largest settlement of the Chustion/Delaware/Shaconees was just down stream.
...Peter and Catherine's house was located in what became Carroll County and remained in the family until 1924 when it was sold to the Greer Beatty Brickyard. the old log milkhouse built at the time the land was cleared for the farm was still in use in the early 1920's.

Peter married Catherine Fetters about 1801 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. Catherine (daughter of George Fetters and Elizabeth Switzer) was born in 1771 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; died in 1861 in Carroll County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Michael was born on 23 Apr 1803 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States; died on 17 Mar 1878 in Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States; was buried in Mar 1878 in Sidney, Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.
2. George Michael was born in 1805 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States; and died.
3. Peter Michael was born on 27 Oct 1807 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States; died in 1884 in Allen County, Indiana, United States.
4. Elizabeth Michael was born in 1812 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States; died in 1872 in Ohio, United States; was buried in 1872 in Carroll County, Ohio, United States.
5. Daniel Michael was born on 26 Sep 1814 in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States; died on 25 Jan 1895 in Monroe Township, Allen County, Ohio, United States.
6. Mary Michael was born on 6 Jan 1817 in Stark County, Ohio, United States; died on 20 Dec 1896 in Huntington County, Indiana, United States; was buried in Dec 1896 in Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
7. Joseph Michael was born in 1820 in Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio, United States; died on 4 Mar 1888 in Cloud, Marion County, Iowa.