The Wolff lineage: Dietz and Krieger

August 27, 1769 - A German, Wilhelm Adam Wolff, and his family arrived
today. Some years ago they joined the little congregation at Manakosy, Maryland.
They are very poor but pleasant, friendly people. The parents have brought six
children with them. The eldest son is at work in Manakosy but will follow them.
September 2nd they moved to a couple of hundred acres of land between the
Leinbach farm and Bethania.

SOURCE: Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, Volume I, p. 392

Wilhelm Adam Wolff, a caprenter from Germany and his wife Maria Elisabetha _______ (1725-1803), arrived in Pennsylvania on the Edinburgh in 1751 with an infant son. They settled initially in York Co. PA, but by 1759 they had moved to Monocacy, Maryland. In 1769 they moved to North Carolina, near the Moravian settement at Bethania. The oldest son, Friedrich Lorenz Wolff remained in Maryland after his parents and younger siblings moved to NC, but joined them in 1777.

They had eight children:

1. UNK2 WOLFF, b. Bef. 1751; d. c. 1751.

2. ii. FRIEDRICH LORENZ WOLFF, b. 07/05/1751; d. 03/31/1826.

3. iii. JOHANN ADAM WOLFF, b. Bet. 1752 - 1756.

4. iv. JOHANN LUDWIG WOLFF, b. 04/28/1757, York, PA; d. 11/08/1842.

5. ANNA ELISABETHA WOLFF, b. 06/07/1759, Monocacy, MD.

6. vi. JOHANN DANIEL WOLFF, b. 03/26/1761.

7. vii. ANNA CATHARINA WOLFF, b. 06/23/1763; d. 09/14/1805.

8. GOTTLIEB WOLFF, b. 05/09/1765, Monocacy, MD.

Wilhelm died 24 July 1773. His wife Maria Elisabetha died 11 Sept 1803. Both are buried in the Lutheran cemetery in Rural Hall, NC.

Their fourth child Johann Ludwig (Lewis) Wolff (1757 - 1842) married Anna Catherine Dietz, daughter of Jacob Dietz and Anna Mumbacher, in Bethania 21 May 1776.

Lewis Wolff would become an officer in the Revolutionary War.

Lewis Wolff and Catherine Diez would have two sons:

Daniel Wolff (1776-?)
Frederick Wolff (1779-?) m. Maria Krieger (1784-1867)

Lewis Wolff and Anna Maria Moser would have these children:

Christina Wolff (1783-?) m. Joseph Miller
William Adam Wolff (1792-1857) m. 1) Catherine Huffman (d. bef. 1845), 2) Tena or Christina, widow of John Cromer
Joseph Wolff m. Jane Huffman
Sarah Wolff (1793-1858) m. John Henry Spainhour (1790-1835)
Elizabeth Wolff m. William Craig

THE WACHOVIA SETTLEMENT in NORTH CAROLINA

In the fall of 1752, Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg and an accompanying party of five men traveled by from Bethlehem PA to the east coast of North Carolina and then inland to select and purchase a tract of nearly 100,000 acres from Lord Granville. The first settlers arrived in November, 1753, a group of eleven single men selected to provide the necessary skills for establishing a new community. Four others accompanied them on the journey but returned to Pennsylvania soon after. The tract was named Wachau or Wachovia, for the ancestral home of the Zinzendorf
family near the Wach River in Europe.

Additional settlers arrived beginning in 1754 and 1755, including the first women. The first community established was Bethabara, initially a stockaded fort protecting the neighboring farms. Never much more than a farming community in the early days, it is now within the city limits of Winston-Salem, on the northwest side of the city center. Researchers will find records for two different graveyards in Bethabara, the Moravian one and a second one, often called Dobbs Parish, which was used for "outsiders."

In 1759 the site was selected for a village, Bethania, about three miles northwest of Bethabara. The first houses were built in the summer of that
year, just before an epidemic of typhus broke out that killed ten of the settlers. Bethania had its own church, still an active congregation, and
graveyard or God's Acre, and supported the surrounding farms with basic goods and services.

The Krieger - Wolff Marriage

Johann George Krieger was born in Lancaster Pensylvania and moved to Surry
County when he was about 7 years old. He was a volunteer in the Revolutionary
War in the company of Captain Joseph Phillips and Col. William Shepherd in Surry
County.

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When eight years of age, Catharine and her parents moved from Pennsylvania to
Guilford County, North Carolina and some years later, they moved to Stokes
County, North Carolina, settling on Belew's Creek. She was working in the house
of Brother and Sister Michael Hauser, in Bethania when she met Brother Johann
George Kreeger.

George Kreeger married Catharine Ludwig, June 10, 1783 .... They had eleven
children: Peter, Maria, Elizabeth, Jacob, Catharine, Philippina, Johann George,
Margaretha Eva, Gertraut, Beatus, and Susannah.

Their oldest daughter, Maria, married Fredrick Wolff, son of Johann Ludwig (Lewis) Wolff and Ana Catherine Deitz. (MARIA KRIEGER, b. 18 May 1784, Stokes Co., NC; d. 28 May 1867, Surry Co., NC; m. FREDERICK WOLFF, 16 Sep 1802, Surry Co, North Carolina; b. 29 Apr 1779, Surry Co., NC; d. Surry Co., NC.)

Maria and Fedrick Wolff had these children:

Ludwig Wolff (ca. 1807-?)
Anna Catharina Wolff (ca. 1809-?) m. Clement Norman
Mary Wolff m. William Wilmouth
Elizabeth Wolff (ca. 1816-?) m. Lewis Grigg
Lawrence Wolff (ca. 1820-ca. 1842)
Charity [Gertraud?] Wolff (ca. 1821-?) m. Jesse Mahaffey
Henry Nathan Wolff (1823-1897) m. Rachel Isaacs (1823-1904)

.... and so it continues .....