Joseph Bollinger was from one of the most prominent families in Carroll Co MD. He was the son of the Widow Bollinger(Catherine), who with her two sons, Joseph and Henry emmigrated to York Co. PA in 1754. They are found in the Mannheim tax records in southwest York Co. and the records of the Lutheran Reformed Church. The connection between many of our family members who traveled back and forth between Maryland (Westminster and Frederick in Carroll Co.)  and York and Adams Co. PA, was that where the family lived in Carroll Co., it was farther to a church to attend in Maryland, the Mannheim and Black Rock, Pennsylvania churches were much closer.

m. 1st wife, Ursula Brodbeck Children: Joseph II b. 1768, Mathias b.1770, John b.1771, Elizabeth 1773, Eve b. 1775,Catherine(Hohf), Issac b.1787.

2nd wife, Catherine Child: Mary Magdelina (Bowman), Andrew, Daniel, Peter, George, Jacob, Barbara, Elizabeth B, Susannah, and Sally.

Johannes Heinrich Lamottes' Last Will and Testament naming Joseph Bollinger as heir to his estate as his favored friend, (Step-son).

Link to a text file of D.Koehler's lineage from Joseph Bollinger

Link to maps of the Bollinger Farm Family Cemetary from John Bollinger, Thank You.

As the proclivities of fate and the abundance of progeny of Joseph B. would have it, when my Great Grandparents, Theodore Price and Savilla Hoff married they actually both had Joseph Bollinger for a great-grandfather. On Theodore's side by Joseph's daughter Mary, and on Savilla's side by Joseph's daughter Catherine.

The family has left its name all over the map of Carroll Co., MD. Many members of the Price and the Bowman family are buried on Bollinger Farms.

Link to Photos of  the Bollinger Farm, "Bollinger's Contrivance".

Joseph Bollinger

 The Widow Bollinger(Catherine) remarried after settling in America, she was wed to Johannes Heinrich LaMotte who had immigrated in 1740 on the ship "Phoenix". His family lived in Baltimore Co. (later named Carroll Co.) He died in 1803 and Joseph was mentioned in his will. He was buried at "Bollinger's Contrivance". Joseph had purchased land in Carroll Co. MD in 1784, It was located about a mile south of Lineboro near the PA/MD border. He named this farm "Bollinger's Contrivance", a particularly interesting name for property. Many of the branches of our family are buried at Bollinger's Contrivance. Some of the Prices, the Bowmans, the Millers and the Buchers rest there.

Johannes Heinrich LaMotte (cousin of the Marquis  de LaFayette)

Johannes Heinrich LaMotte was born in Provence, France in 1705, leaving France because of religious persecution immigrating with the Palantines and Swiss. (Widow Bollingers People) Johannes was a Hugenot Protestant in the old country, but he embraced the anabaptist religion on arriving in this country.  He was a pacifist and registered with Maryland as a non-combatant with allegiance to America in the Revolution. He married the widow Bollinger in approx. 1750, his first child, Henry being born in 1751.  Johannes Heinrich was a first cousin of the Marquis de LaFayette, and when LaFayette came to the colonies to fight for the Americans in the Revolution, one of his staff officers was Johannes uncle , Nicolas de la Motte. Nicolas came to America with Rochambeau to join the French force.  Nicolas paid a visit to Johannes and Catherine with several other French Officers, during the Revolutionary War.  On this visit Johannes and Nicolas spoke only in French, which stunned the family. They did not know their father spoke french and were also amazed at the high respect he was shown by the other French Officers accompanying Nicolas. As a pacifist, it is doubtful that Johannes spoke much of his more militaristic family.

(It is interesting that one of the most prominent French Traders in the French Peorias was LaMotte. His name is on the books of Thomas Forsythe as trading in pelts and goods for the indians in 1803 in what was to become Central Illinois. He gained fame in the war of 1812.)