Notes:
Peter Templer received the Crown Patent for lot 34, Conc. 1 in
1816, and lived here all his life. He was of Welsh extraction,
and had been born in 1754 in Kingwood, Hunterdon Co., NJ. He
had enlisted in 1776 in the 3rd Regiment of Pennsylvania, was
captured and imprisoned in New York, and was released in 1777.
He became a militia Captain in Greenwich Co., NJ, and lived
there after the war. In 1779 he married Martha "Tillie" Servus
(1758-1842), and they joined the "Society of Friends." Peter,
with his wife amd eight children, moved in 1798 to Grimsby
where his uncle, John Green, was a mill owner; and here, his
tenth, and last child John was born. In 1802 they moved to
Ancaster Twp. and settled on lot 34/1.
Peter Templer (1754-1826) had ten children: Sarah 1780, d. in
infancy; Mary 1781, md. Samuel Carpenter; Esther 1783, md. Mr.
McMullen; William 1785, md. Lydia Weaver; Jane 1787, md. Andrew
Kitchen; Samuel 1790, md. Sarah Cornell; Hannah 1792, md. James
Howell; Catherine 1794, md. Reginald Kitchen; Abigail 1797, md.
Mr. Muma; and John 1800, md. Elizabeth Ann Howell. It is said
that Peter came to his Ancaster home in an iron-runnered sleigh,
and that the iron runners were used to make the coulter for his
first plough. Mr. Sanford K. Bonham now owns this plough.
Peter's grandson Jesse remained on this lot 34/1 until it was
sold in 1875 - the north half to James F. Wilson and his wife,
Rhoda Sexton, and the south half to Thomas McCormick.
REF: Ancaster's Heritage pub. by the Ancaster
Historical Society 1973, Pg. 231.
Data source was the Muma Family Tree website which is no longer active.