Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Moyer, Peter September 4, 1816 - 
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Author: G. A Hardin and F. H. Willard

Moyer, Peter, Stark, was born where he now resides, in Stark, September 4, 
1816, a son of Jacob S. and Elizabeth (Moyer) Moyer.  The grandfather, Solomon 
Moyer, settled in Minden, Montgomery county, prior to the Revolution, where he 
died during that war.  He had four children:  Andrew, Solomon S., Jacob S., 
and Nancy, all of whom raised families, and lived to old age.  Jacob S. was 
born December 18, 1781, in Minden, Montgomery county, and served in the war of 
1812.  He was also at Sackett's Harbor. He served in various town offices as a 
Democrat.  He was a leading Mason.  He married in 1805, and immediately 
afterwards settled on 170 acres in the town of Stark.  He died June 30, 1871, 
aged eighty-eight years; and his wife, (born December 23, 1782), June 30, 
1861, aged seventy-seven.  They had ten children, raising eight:  Nancy, 
Katie, David I., Solomon W. (a twin), Betsy, Peter, Ann Eliza, and Lucinda.  
Peter Moyer received a common school education, and at the age of twenty-eight 
leased the homestead, which he worked until his father's death.  He bought the 
homestead and paid off the heirs.  He has since bought three other farms, two 
in Stark and one in Little Falls, comprising 368 acres.  He has served two 
terms as supervisor on the Democratic ticket, is a Granger, and a member of 
the Universalist Church.

Additional Comments:
From "History of Herkimer County, New York" by G. A. Hardin and F. H. Willard. 
D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, NY  1893.
Part II, "Family Sketches," pp. 204-205.

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