Second Generation

4. Johann Ludwig BITTING^1,2,3,6 was born on 14 May 1702 in Freinsheim, Palatinate. He was baptized on 21 May 1702. He immigrated in 1723 to Philadelphia, PA. He died on 27 Dec 1775 in Bucks County, PA. He was buried in New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, Upper Hanover Twp., Montgomery Co., PA. Baptism sponsor Johan Ludwig von Rodebach. In 1734 he was a resident of Hanover Township, that same year he was naturalized. He was taxed in Hanover Township in 1734, but owned no land. In 1740's he purchased land in Bucks and Northampton Counties. His farm was called "First Fruits", and was located between Kings Hyway and the Great Swamp Reformed Church, now in Lower Milford Township, Bucks County. He served on the Northampton County Assembly 1758 to 1760. Ludwig wrote his will September 25, 1771, and left to Elizabeth his second wife, (last name unknown), 100 pounds, bed and bedstead, with chest and all therein, and her spinning wheel, three sheeting, two table cloths, two towels... Ludwig the first born son got 5 pounds, and each of the remaining nine children, one share each of the estate. That same year, 1771, he sold his plantation to his son Ludwig; which doesn't seem to jive well with the son's story, as the son was living in Berks County.

Johann Ludwig BITTING and Johanna Sevina BOEHM were married about 1728. Johanna Sevina BOEHM^1,3 (daughter of Rev. Johan Philip BOEHM and Anna Maria STAHLER) was born on 2 May 1709 in Worms, Hesse. She died about 1765 in Bucks County, PA. Known mostly as Sevina. She is noted as Levina in" The Perkiomen Region - Past and Present." Johann Ludwig BITTING and Johanna Sevina BOEHM had the following children:

+18	i.	Ludwig BITTING Jr..
+19	ii.	Heinrich BITTING.
+20	iii.	Elizabeth Dorothes BITTING.
21	iv.	Philip BITTING3 was born in 1737. Married Abigail (?) Thomas. Died after 1807.
22	v.	Anthony BITTING1,3 was born on 17 Oct 1738 in Germantown, PA. He died in 1804. A land transaction between Anthony of Bedminster, Bucks Co., dated May 1771, confirms siblings Ludwig of Cumru, Heinrich of Lower Milford, and Anna Maria, wife of Andreas Graver. An Anthony Bitting married a Martha Leppeaux and had a son Joseph, b. Dec 1764, died bef 1804. Anthony Bitting, Sr. (1738-1804) m. Martha (Patty) Poe (1746-1788) Anthony Bitting was born October 17, 1738 in Germantown, PA and was christened in the New Goshenhoppen Reformed church, Montgomery County, PA. He died June 27, 1804 in Stokes County, NC and is buried in Nazareth Lutheran Church Cemetery, Rural Hall, NC. He was a tavern keeper (in his home) in present-day Germanton, NC. Anthony married Martha Poe who was born in Germanton, PA in 1746. Martha died in 1788 and is also buried in Nazareth Lutheran Church cemetery. We have now learned that he had a second wife: Memorial of Anthony Bitting of Stokes County, North Carolina, states that he married Ursilla RAY sometime in the year 1793, and within the space of four or five weeks after said marriage, the said Ursilla absconded from the petitioner's bed and board and has never returned. The petitioner states that he has never received any part of the Estate of said Ursilla by virtue of the marriage, she being possessed of considerable property at the time of the marriage. She had made over to her children some property of which your petitioner would not receive any benefit. He prays for an act to secure to him all said estate which he now has or may hereafter acquire, either real or personal, free from the claim of said Ursilla by virtue of the marriage, and also secure to said Ursilla all such property as she now has or may hereafter acquire. Referred to Committee of Propositions and Grievance, No. 2. Report of Committee of Propositions and Grievances No. 2 to whom was referred above petition, states that such prayer should come under the consideration of the Committee of Divorce and Alimony. No further action found. (GASR Nov.-Dec.1802, Box 2 - folder "JCR Propositions & Grievances. No.2".) -- Extracted from The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Volume XVIII, No. 4, November, 1992, pg. 229. Children of Anthony Bitting and Martha Poe Joseph Bitting (1764-1798) m. Rachael Nelson (c1774-c1830), d/o Joseph Nelson and Mary E. Alexander Mary Bitting (1766-1841) Anne Bitting (1771) died in infancy Lewis Bitting (1774) lost at sea Elizabeth Bitting (1779-1848) Martha "Patty" Bitting (1782-1854) m. Joshua Banner John Leppeaux Bitting (1785-1850) m. 1) Johanna Gertrude Stoltz (1785-1831) d/o of Johann Casper Stoltz and Anna Margaretha Hauser 2) Martha Matthews (d/o Tandy Matthews and Elizabeth Hill) (Martha was the widow of Edward Moore) Anthony Bitting, Jr. (1788-1870) m. Mary Wilkerson (1787-1845)
23	vi.	Anna Maria BITTING3 was born about 1742. She died before 1809. Married Andrew Graber.
24	vii.	Peter BITTING3 was born about 1746.
+25	viii.	Christina BITTING.
26	ix.	Mary Catharine BITTING3 was born about 1750. Married Johannes Klein.