Susanna Wagner (Wagener) and Peter Supplee [192-3a]

[192-3a] SUSANNA WAGNER (WAGENER), b June 4, 1750; d Aug. 31, 1817; dau Melchior and Gertrude (Steyer) Wagener [192-21]; m Ist time, Mar. 6, 1774, PETER SUPPLEE, SR.., b Sept. 2, 1745; d at Valley Forge, Jan. 24, 1778; s Hance and Magdaline (De Haven) Supplee; buried in Bethel Cemetery, Worcester Twp., Pa., where a monument marks his grave.

Children (2):

Peter Supplee who married Susanna Wagener was the sixth child of Hance and Magdaline Supplee. He was born in Upper Merion Twp., Montg. Co., Pa. When the Revolutionary War broke out Peter Supplee was living with his wife on the old Supplee homestead in Worcester Twp., Pa. He volunteered as a soldier in the Revolutionary army and joined Capt. Charles Wilson Peale’s Company of Philadelphia Militia. This company belonged to the 4th Battalion of the Phila. Reg. of Foot. Jacob and John Supplee, his younger brothers, were also soldiers in the Revolutionary War and served in the same company with Peter. Jacob was the twelfth and John the thirteenth child of the family.

Peter Supplee died at Valley Forge on January 24, 1778; his remains were taken to Worcester and buried in the Bethel Cemetery. On November 28, 1903, a monument was erected over his grave by his descendants and bears the following inscription: “In memory of Peter Supplee, A Revolutionary Soldier, Born Sept. 2nd, 1745, Enlisted Sept. 12, 1777, Died whilst encamped at Valley Forge, January 24, 1778, A Martyr to Liberty.”

Peter Supplee was a descendant of Andris Souplis, a soldier and officer in the French army, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1684. For further data concerning the Supplee family and for Peter Supplee’s service in the Revolution, vid. Biographical Annals of Monig. Co. (Pa.), Vol. II, p 851 sqq.