Two sons of Jacob Alstadt are pictured above (Top, John Ripley Aldstadt,and middle, Samuel Alstadt). John Ripley Aldstadt married Isabelle Maurer in 1864, in Bedford County,
Peter Alstadt was a sadler by trade and owned a shop at 10 Penn Street in Reading, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Derst in 1765, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Peter died around the age of 35 years in 1769, leaving a wife and two small children, Johannes S. and Elizabeth. Sarah Alstadt married Jacob Meyer on April 16, 1772, and the Alstadt children were brought up in the Meyer household in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Johannes S. Alstadt married Hanna Derst around 1788, and this marriage probably produced seven children. Hannah died around 1814, and on February 27, 1817, Johannes married Hannah Marsteller. This union probably produced
The spelling of Aldstadt was adopted by most of the male line of Peter Alstadt living in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, after the Civil War period except for the descendants of Samuel Alstadt and his brother George Henry Alstadt who did not live near or have contact with the Bedford County Aldstadts after the Civil War period.
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