FAMILY HISTORY:  Zoeller, York County, PA

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Early Families in York County,  Historical Society of York Co.
York Dispatch, December 9, 1933.
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ZOELLER

Bartholomew Zoeller, of Windsor township, was born somewhere in Europe in the 
winter of 1713.  He came to America on the good ship Loyal Judith and took the 
oath of allegiance to the king on Sept. 2, 1743, but was never naturalized as a 
British subject.

We first find him living in Lancaster County west of the Susquehanna in 1748, 
the year before York County was formed.  He settled in Windsor township near the 
present Freysville, where he was a founder of the Reformed branch of the old 
Union church.  For some years he followed the trade of tailor, but later 
abandoned it and became a prosperous farmer.  Early in 1767 the heirs of William 
Penn granted him a tract of nearly 200 acres, which went to his children at his 
death, in 1779.  He is buried in the old Freysville Cemetery.

By his wife Anna Maria Hess he had five children:

(1) Eva, born 1748, married Andrew Pfister;
(2) Bartholomew, 1754-1826, who served in Captain Peter Frey's company in the 
Revolution, and afterwards farmed in Hopewell township;
(3) Jacob, of York township, who served with his brother in the war;
(4) Dorothea, who became the wife of Ulrich Neff in 1775;
(5) Catharina, married in 1776, to John Smith.

Later generations of this family changed the spelling to Zeller, Zellers, and 
Sellers, thus causing much confusion in the family tree.