Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
NameMartin ARNER, M
Birth Date7 Aug 1752
Birth PlaceHeidelberg, Northampton County (Now Lehigh), Pennsylvania
Death Date4 Jan 1850 Age: 97
Death PlaceNescopeck, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 1752
Death Dateabt 1810 Age: 58
Death PlaceNescopeck, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
FatherJohannes Nicholas SOLT , M (1722-1803)
MotherMaria Catherine BALLIET , F (1732-1815)
Marr Dateabt 1774
Marr PlaceTowamensing Township, Northampton County (Franklin / Carbon), Pennsylvania
ChildrenElizabeth Barbara , F (~1778-)
 Paul , M (1779-)
2HISGE, F
Death Datebef 14 Aug 1822
Marr Dateabt 1824
Marr PlaceNescopeck, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Notes for Martin ARNER
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MARTIN3 ARNER
(ULRICH2, ULRICH1), born 07 August 1752 in Heidelberg, Northampton (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania(A);  died 04 January 1850 aged 97 years, 04 months, 28 days in Nescopeck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania (Death Notice);  married first about 1774 in Towamensing, Northampton (now Franklin, Carbon), Pennsylvania to MAGDALENA SOLT who was born about 1752 in Pennsylvania and died 1810 in Nescopeck;  married second by 21 April 1815 to ______ HISGE [see NOTES below] who apparently died before 14 August 1822;  married [third?] about 1824 in Nescopeck to ELIZABETH NAUGLE(M).
On 16 April 1770, “Martin Arner, Ulrich Arner’s son, across the Blue Mountain…single” was a baptismal sponsor in Lehigh, Northampton, Pennsylvania for Johann Martin Solt, son of Melchior and Philippina Solt(4).
[NOTE: Magdalena’s father died intestate, but the will of her brother Johannes Jacob Solt (Northampton Will Book 5, page 231; File #4061) mentions [translated from the German] “the children of my sister Magdalena and her husband Martin Arner”.]
Martin enlisted in Captain Peter Koeken’s Company, Northampton County Militia on 08 May 1781 (PA:5:8:035)(C). He served several tours of active duty from 1781-84, usually as a substitute for someone else (PA:5:8:256, 258, 263, 272, 297, 299, 791 and 878)(C). He received Depreciation Pay, and pay for services (PA:5:4:311, 338 and 644)(C).
He was one of the first settlers in what is now Nescopeck. According to the Luzerne County History(J), they moved to Newport (now Nescopeck), Luzerne, Pennsylvania in 1790 (page 608). And, from Annals of Luzerne County, Stewart Pearce, published by J. B. Lippincott & Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1860: “Jacob Smithers, Jacob Shover, Martin Arner and Jacob Seyberling settled in the territory of this [Nescopeck] township in 1791, on the banks of the Nescopeck creek, near its mouth.” [NOTE: Martin himself, in his pension application, said it was in 1790.]
He apparently is the Martin “Herner” on the 1796 Nescopeck Tax List (transcribed in both County Histories, above). He filed an application for a Revolutionary War Pension on 04 September 1832, which pension was granted on 08 May 1833 (File #S23829)(also Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, abstracted by Virgil D. White, published by National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, Tennessee, 1990). He received $40.00 per year, retroactive to 04 March 1831. He is on the 1835 List of Pensioners (PA:3:23:534)(C).
Martin also submitted at least three affidavits in support of the Revolutionary War pension application of Paul Solt, with whom he had served. For some reason, the one submitted on 17 November 1838 almost certainly has a forged signature on it , possibly due to age and health reasons; but this affidavit (26 May 1834) appears to have Martin’s genuine signature also.
[From an affidavit that Paul Solt submitted in support of his own Revolutionary War pension application: “An election was held in said [Captain John] Ritters company for ensign immediately upon their being assembled in a field in front of Martin Arners house, when he the said Paul Solt was duly elected Ensign of said Company.”]
In a Deed of Release to Paul Solt dated 14 August 1822 (Northampton Deed Book G4, page 204), the parties of the first part are “Martin Arner, lately intermarried with Magdalin Solt deceased, and Paul Arner and Elizabeth Barbara Wedknicht (late Arner), surviving children of said Martin and Magdalin Arner…”
In deeds dated 22 April 1823 (Luzerne Deed Book 24, page 379), 01 June 1831 (Luzerne Deed Book 28, page 085), and 07 January 1833 (Luzerne Deed Book 29, page 130), Martin sold land described as being surveyed on a Warrant dated 21 December 1792 to Henry Daubenspeck, who granted his rights by deed 24 August 1795 to Martin Orner, who received a Patent on 31 May 1813, recorded in Patent Book H, page 96 of #9. Descriptions of the boundaries of his land mention neighbors [not all at the same time]: James Dodson, Henry Daubenspeck, Jonas Buss, Paul Orner, “the church land” [presumably Nescopeck Church, now Mt. Zion Union Church], Philip Weidknecht, and Abraham Keen/Kean.
1781-82 Towamensing Tax List: Martin Ainer.
1790 Census: Martin Arnor, page 248, Towamensink, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
1800 Census: Martin Orner, page 360, Nescopeck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.
1810 Census: Martin Orner, page 091, Nescopeck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.
1820 Census: Martin Orner, page 356, Nescopeck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.
1840 Census: Martin Arner, page 091, Nescopeck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.
1850 Mortality Schedules: Martin Orner, page 486, Nescopeck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.
Known children with first wife, born in Towamensing (now Franklin):
ELIZABETH BARBARA4 ARNER, born about 1778;  married to WILLIAM WEIDKNECHT.
+    PAUL4 ARNER, born 26 March 1779(19);  married ELIZABETH GILMORE.
NOTES:
From Genealogical Abstracts of the Orphans Court Records of Northampton County Pennsylvania, Volumes 6-8, 1795-1815, Candace E. Anderson, published by Closson Press, Apollo, Pennsylvania (transcribed at the Easton Library by Ken Maxwell, and submitted by Judy McElderry) [emphasis added]:
“Page 384, Court on 21 April 1815, continued: Estate of Lawrence “Hipgy”, Hamilton Township, yeoman (left no issue, no parents) --audit requested: petitioner: George Gauer the administrator; also five sisters ‘of the whole blood’: Dorothy wife of Henry Mattes, Maria Elizabeth wife of [blank] Keppler, Catharine wife of John Hardy, [blank] wife of Martin Arner, and Rachel, a single woman…” [Note: Hamilton Township is now in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.]
[NOTE: In the deeds dated 1822 and 1823, only Martin Arner sold the land; but in the deeds dated 1831 and 1833, Martin and wife Elizabeth sold the land. This is what led me to place second wife ______? (Hisge) Arner’s death as “before 14 August 1822” and Martin’s third marriage (to Elizabeth Naugle) as “about 1824”.]
NOTE: There is also an estate record for a Johann Theis Hisge [recorded as “Hans Thys Hisge”] that was administrated ____ 1760-March 1761 in Heidelberg Township (Northampton County Wills website). [Note: A letter “s” written in the old-style handwriting can easily be misread as the letter “f”, or more rarely for the letter “p”, which could explain the “Hipgy” misspelling.] [Johann Theis Hisge apparently immigrated to America on the ship Rowand which arrived 20 September 1753 at Philadelphia]. (Thanks to Judy McElderry for pointing me toward the “Hisge” spelling also.)
Notes for Magadelana (Spouse 1)
[NOTE: Magdalena’s father died intestate, but the will of her brother Johannes Jacob Solt (Northampton Will Book 5, page 231; File #4061) mentions [translated from the German] “the children of my sister Magdalena and her husband Martin Arner”.
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