Deborah Wagener and John Adam Deshler [196-5]

[196-5] DEBORAH WAGENER, b 1764; d Oct. 11, 1826; dau David and Susanna (Umstead) Wagener [196-2]; m JOHN ADAM DESHLER, b July 31, 1766; d Oct. 14, 1820: s David and Susanna (Muhlenberg) Deshler. Prominent business man of Easton, Pa.

Children (8):

In the will of Adam Deshler of Easton, Pa., dated Apr. 6, 1820, and probated Nov. 27, 1820, he names his wife, Deborah, and five children: Elizabeth, wife of Charles Horn; Mary, wife of Samuel Bittenbender; Catharine, wife of James Hackett; David Deshler and George W. Deshler. Wife, Deborah Deshler, and son-in-law, Samuel Bittenbender, Executors. [Will Book 4, p 597.]

The widow, Deborah, died prior to 1827, in which year Samuel Bittenbender, as surviving executor, made a report to the court.

David Deshler (1736-1796), the father of John Adam Deshler, was a son of Adam and Apolonia Deshler. He was a member of the Committee of Correspondence of Northampton County, Pa. He also served as Commissary and when the Continental army was in extreme need, advanced money for supplies. References showing that Col. David Deshler was a Commissary in the Revolution will be found in Colonial Records of Pa., Vol. 12, p 460; Vol. 13, p 109; also in Pa. Archives, 1779-1781, Vol. &, pp 300, 517, 697,721. [For further data re Deshler Family, cf. Hist. Lehigh Co., Pa., 1914, pp 2-234 sqq.|

‘‘An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favour of Mr. Charles Deshler, for the sum of £1,000, of the money emitted by an act of the General Assembly, passed the 25th day of March last, to be by him paid to Colonel David Deshler {father of John Adam Deshler], Commissioner of Purchases for the County of Northampton, for purchasing supplies for the use of the Army; to be charged to Colonel Jacob Morgan, Jun’r, Superintendent, &c., and deducted out of an order granted him the fourteenth instant.”

‘‘Two orders were drawn on the Treasurer in favor of Mr. David Deshler, one for the sum of three thousand and ninety-seven pounds thirteen shillings and two pence, State money emitted by act of Assembly of the seventh day of April, 1781; and the other for the sum of four hundred and one pounds eight shillings and one half penny specie, balance of his account as Commissioner of Purchases in the County of Northampton.’ [From Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pa., published in 1853.)