PREFACE

In this life many questions must be answered . Perhaps two of the most
important are:

Who am I?
Where did I come from ?

In the belief the answer to the first question lies largely in the answer
to the second , I have devoted considerable effort , time and money trying
to ascertain the answers.

To answer these questions I have turned to family records , to genealogy

sheets, to histories and libraries , and finally to visits to court houses and
cemeteries in those areas where my ancestors lived and died . It has been ,
and is , a most wonderful , gratifying and interesting pursuit .

I hope my efforts will give my family members, and my own three

children in particular , an interest and desire to continue their genealogy ,
and perhaps more importantly , to appreciate the many generations of their
hardy and wonderful ancestors and to pass this legacy on to future
generations .

How wonderful it would be if a younger member of the Hunsaker family

could go to Switzerland , to lovely Aarau , and make that elusive connection
that still exists unmade in this book . Was the Johannes Hunziker born on
the 27th of January \ lo9$ the baby who became our ancestor Hartmann Hun-
ziker upon his arrival in Philadelphia in 1731
— as I so truly believe?
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
. CHAPTER I . INTRODUCTION
The Basic Documents: Journal and letters of Abraham Hunsaker ; Daisy Morgan
Genealogy ; Other Family Books ; Professional genealogists consulted ; Church of
the Brethren (Dunkard ) sources; Family bibles 4

CHAPTER II . EUROPE
Aarau , Switzerland ; Hunziker of Aarau History ; Lists of names; Coat of Arms ,
Departure from Switzerland ; Holland ; The Voyage 27

CHAPTER III . ARRIVAL

Ship Passenger Lists; Oaths of Allegiance and Abjuration ; Germantown ;
Martin Hunsaker 72

CHAPTER IV . LANCASTER COUNTY

Land Acquisition ? ; Family ; Hartman death / Anna remarriage;
Jacob Cocghenhower 102

CHAPTER V . YORK COUNTY

Land Acquisition ; Jacob Hunseker ; Mennonite Church ; Kreutz Creek Church ;
“ Our John ” ; Hartman’ s Daughters ; Mason and Dixon Survey ;
Burial Places 118

CHAPTER VI . MARYLAND
Effect of Mason & Dixon Survey ; Washington County ; Frederick County ;
Katherine Huffman 161

CHAPTER VII . WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Overland move to Faytette County ; Land ; Massacre of John Jr . Family and
kidnap of sons ; Death of Magdalena ; Move to Kentucky 171

CHAPTER VIII . KENTUCKY

The River Trip; Development of family ; Arrival of North Carolina Hunsakers ;
Arrival of Huntzingers; Apparent mistreatment ; Exploration into Illinois . . . . 195

CHAPTER IX . UNION COUNTY , ILLINOIS

First white civilian settlement ; Jonesboro ; Beginning of family expansion ;
Slavery ; Land ; Part of family to Missouri 215

CHAPTER X . ADAMS COUNTY , ILLINOIS

Land acquisition ; Family growth ; Elder George Wolfe and Dunkards ; Abraham
and John L . join Mormon Church ; Abraham to Nauvoo and Utah ; John L . to
Texas; Jacob to Oregon ; Others remain in Midwest 244

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 I INTRODUCTION
The descendants of Abraham Hunsaker of Utah trace their ancestry to Hartman Hun-
saker who arrived in Philadelphia , Pa . in 1731 with a wife and six children . I believe he
came from the area of Aarau , Canton of Aargau , Switzerland , via the Palatinate, Holland ,
and England . He was a Mennonite and left the Old World because of religious persecu -
tion . We know he settled in Pennsylvania . We thought his wife , Anna , died and Hartman
remarried and had two more children . His son John and grandson Jacob Sr . migrated
to Kentucky , his great grandson Jacob Jr . migrated to Illinois. My immediate ancestor
Abraham took part in the epic march of the Mormon Battalion from the Missouri river
to California in 1846 and 1847 which helped open the mighty U . S. west to settlement .
He later participated in the settlement of Utah and Nevada and several of his children
were in the pioneer settlements of Arizona.
The descendants of Hartman became a large group as they moved westward from
Philadelphia . Marriage came early and children in large quantities, as a labor force was
created in the wilderness. At some places where the family settled , some stayed permanently
while others moved on , and not all went in the same direction . When we consider these
families were establishing themselves before our country was established as a nation we
must remind ourselves of the almost complete lack of everything that we now consider
essential to a civilized life . On the edges of civilization , where our ancestors generally were ,
there were no cities, nor towns , no medical facilities nor hardly any doctors ; and no
machinery to work their land with — just their hands and a few animals.
Today , there are many members of a family with a strange sounding foreign name
in the Eastern States, many more in the Midwest , probably the greatest single concentra-
tion in the Mountain West , and a competing number along the entire Pacific Coast . There
are active family organizations in Illinois, Utah , Arizona , and fledgling organizations in
California and Oregon . There were other ancestors of people named Hunsaker besides
Hartman , but most of us trace our roots back to that hardy soul and his family who ar -
rived in the New World in 1731.
The information we possessed , all the material in Abraham’ s handwritten journal
and brief sketches of the lives of Abraham’s wives and children I published in 1957 with
Gwen Hunsaker Haws as The History of Abraham Hunsaker and His Family . In 1959 I
wrote a pamphlet , Hunsaker Burial Grounds in Illinois. As a result of these activities I
developed a continuing interest in learning more about the forefathers of Abraham . As
I delved more deeply into the subject it became evident that our ancestors were more ent -
wined in the development of early American History than we had ever imagined . Our
forefathers were always on the extreme western edge of civilization in our country . As
the U .S. expanded, our ancestors moved to the westernmost edge of each expansion . When
the colonies extended only to the Susquehanna River , they were there. At the end of the
Revolutionary War when the infant United States was extended to the western portion
of Pennsylvania , they were there. When the Old Northwest Territory along the Ohio River
to the western portion of Kentucky was secured from England , they were there . When
the Mississippi Valley was acquired by the Louisiana Purchase , our ancestors settled near
that great river’ s banks in Southern Illinois.
There was much information to be gathered regarding our forefathers’ lives and ac-
tivities. And , unfortunately , there were gaps , questions and innaccuracies in some of the
information we had . In 1975 I decided I would devote most of my time attempting to

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 answer these questions , fill in the gaps and , to ensure absolute accuracy , substantiate my
— —
information the main aim of this book by securing and reproducing whenever possible
the original documents regarding our ancestors . To accomplish this my wife and I made
—
our first extensive trip three months of 10 , 000 miles through Pennsylvania , Maryland ,
West Virginia , Kentucky and Illinois in 1976. In the areas where Hunsakers once resided
we carefully searched courthouses , libraries and cemeteries for all possible information
and documentation .
We found that in the early days of our country records usually were maintained only
for matters pertaining to taxation . Land transactions , real and personal property tax rolls ,
census lists and probates of estates comprise the bulk of early records. Non -taxable mat-
ters like births , deaths , and marriages generally were not recorded by the authorities until
well into the 1800’ s. For this latter type of information we must rely on records kept by
individuals and families , generally in a family bible , and a few letters in which our ancestors
communicated their genealogy . Sadly , there are obvious discrepancies in this type of
material but we believe it is generally correct and are most thankful to have it . As a result
of the long 1976 trip a great wealth of information , and documentation to substantiate
much of it , was secured . From the fall of 1976 to the spring of 1978 I worked to assemble
this data into a meaningful chronological account of the history of our ancestors. As this
was done it became evident there was still information I had not secured . Information
acquired pointed the way to information missed . During this time I was most fortunate
to have the kind cooperation of Faun and Ruth Hunsaker , Utah family genealogists. We
compared our information and each of us supplemented our data from that of the other
to create a more complete whole.
In 1977 I established contact with Robert and Edna Hunsaker of Joplin , Missouri .
Bob was the president and historian of the Illinois Hunsaker Family Organization . He
has been searching family genealogy for 30 years and has acquired a stupendous amount
of data . In 1978 Bob and I worked together very intensively comparing our information ,
ascertaining the gaps we had , and again , each supplementing his information with that
of the other . With the gaps and possible errors carefully worked out , Bob and Edna and
I then embarked upon a joint venture in Kentucky , Illinois and Missouri to find documents ,
to correct errors and to fill gaps . We did not find all original documentation but we did
find secondary documentation . Seems like the Indians were a little rough on courthouses
in the early days!
In 1980 my wife and I again returned to Pennsylvania to make a final attempt to
locate missing documents. We found but one new document and one corroborating
reference. We have come to the conclusion the other documents we would like to find
do not exist . After 250 years the ravages of time , Indian depredations , man’ s carelessness,
and in many cases the lack of a formal document in the very first place , make it impossi-
ble to find all the documents we sought . All these separate and joint searches simply have
not corrected all the apparent errors or filled the obvious gaps. We have information that
does not entirely jibe with other information . On some points we simply do not have the
information to tell us exactly what happened.
Sadly , Bob and I are not entirely in agreement as to the correctness of some informa-
tion ; the applicability of some information to our family ; the interpretation we each put
on information regarding doubtful or vague points. We have both done our best to ascer -
tain the correct interpretation but sometimes reach different conclusions from the same
information . Therefore , in each such case , I shall present the information acquired , the
conclusion I draw from it and the conclusion Bob draws from it . In each case the reasons

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for our differing conclusions will be provided . I realize this is not the most desirable way
to present a family history . But Bob and I are not getting any younger , we are the ones
who possess the most family information and we both feel it is extremely doubtful that
anyone else will ever acquire more information than we have. We therefore believe it is
most essential that we get all the family information now available written down for the
record and for the benefit of all Hunsaker’ s, present and future , in the entire United States.
So , let us start and see what the facts, and less than facts, are. The word “ docu -
ment ” indicates information in original documents found and copied . The word
“ reference” indicates information found in a recognized publication which refers to
documents not actually found or which are no longer in existence. The word “ belief ”
indicates information for which there is a reasonable basis for belief through research
and study but which can not be substantiated through documentation or a recognized
reference. The word “ presume” indicates information probably true in light of other cir -
cumstances or events. The word “ apparently ” indicates an educated guess. Square brackets
[ ] will be used to insert information I deem necessary for clarification of the material
presented . A question mark will indicate unsureness of an item due to lack of informa-
tion or inability to read an original source with certainty. The editorial “ we ” will not
be used as such . “ We ” signifies the family in general , Bob and I , or my wife and I, depen -
ding on context and will indicate agreement of all concerned . “ I ” will be used to express
my belief or opinion which may or may not agree with the belief or opinion of others .
Let me disclaim responsibility for instances in which copies of original documents presented
show names checked , words underlined and material written in , and some of these were ob-
viously done by persons searching Hunsaker genealogy. I have great respect for historical
documents and can not understand how people can deface them. Index records indicate
records should be in files , but they are not there. It is obvious some researchers have ac-
tually stolen documents from the archives of governmental and historical organizations.
This history could be full of footnotes which I find very distracting . I have removed them ,
and the distraction I hope , by incorporating the source of information in the text with
the information itself . My zerox copies of most source documents are on file in the
Genealogical Services Library (GS) of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City.
There are many wonderfully written and interesting old documents found in court -
houses and libraries to help produce this work . I have copied some of them into the text
so that you may savor them , their interesting language and note the care taken by our
ancestors to protect the rights of women long ago.
There is obvious duplication between this history and material previously published
by myself , by Gwen and I , by Faun and Ruth , by others and probably by material to
be published by Bob Hunsaker . This was done deliberately as my second main aim was
to create one unified encyclopedic document with all the information available for
a complete history of the Hunziker family since their origin in Switzerland prior to 822,
to the breakup of the cohesive family composed of the descendants of Hartman Hun -
saker in 1845 near Quincy , Illinois.
I have also departed from the norm of publishing in that the duplicated material ,
particularly that from the Hunsaker Family Bulletin , has been incorporated directly in
the work rather than being separated into an annex . I believe this facilitates the flow of
information by including it at the proper moment rather than in a separate location to
be consulted at a different time . And , many of the readers of this history may not have
had access to the Utah Bulletin and other published material.

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THE BASIC DOCUMENTS

In addition to general historical publications and family genealogical information ,

the following foundation documents specifically pertaining to Hunsaker’ s have been us-
ed as the base upon which to conduct the search for full documentation .

1 . The journal of Abraham Hunsaker as published in The History of Abraham Hun-

saker and His Family.
2. A copy of an 1886 letter by Abraham Hunsaker recounting his genealogy .
3 . A list of Hunziker names in Switzerland , originally secured in 1885 in Switzerland
by Joseph Hunsaker and largely duplicated in 1977 by Dianne Sheriff .
4. Die Hunziker Von Aarau [Genealogy of Hunzikers of Aarau , Switzerland ]
5. A copy of Hunsaker genealogy written in 1909 by L . Daisy Morgan .
6. “ Hunsaker Burial Grounds in Illinois ”
7. “ Hunsaker Family Bulletins”
8. Beery Family History

The following professional genealogists have been consulted or their material used .
1. Mrs. Gail Breitbard , 1260 NW 177 Terrace , Miami , Fla .
2. Mrs Edith Beard Cannon
3. Mr . Milton Rubicam , Green Meadows , Md .
4. Mr . Charles Starr , LDS Genealogical Society , Salt Lake City , Ut.
5 . Mrs. Sarah Roberts , Mt Joy , Pennsylvania
6. Mrs. Hedy Schindler Belknap, 1335 Kingston , Ogden , Utah
7. Miss Carolle Erne , Aarau , Switzerland

Several histories of the Church of the Brethren (Dunkard ) have been used .
1. The Old Brethren James H . Lehman
2. “ History of the Dunkard Migration , Pennsylvania to Illinois ” MS Thesis , David
B . Eller , Bluffton College , Bluffton , Ohio
3. Some Brethren Pathfinders , J . H . Moore

We are most fortunate in having been able to procure Xerox or certified copies of
a number of old family bibles .
1. John Hunsaker Sr . Bible
2. Joseph Hunsaker and Margaret Stevenson Bible
3. Jacob Hunsaker Jr. and Polly Luce Bible
4. Isac Hunsaker Bible
5. Andrew Hunsaker Bible
6. Miscellaneous Bible pages

Weldon Hunsaker ’ s memoirs gave us a copy of “ Quincy and Adams County History
and Representative Men , ” 1919

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ABRAHAM’ S JOURNAL

As the most logical point of beginning, let us start with the pertinent parts of Abraham
Hunsaker ’ s journal in which he provided genealogical information :
Abraham Hunsaker was born in the year 1812, Nov 29, Jonesborough town ,
Union County , State of Illinois , son of Jacob Hunsaker and Polly Luce . My
father was born in Pennsylvania , sone of Jacob Hunsaker . He lived till he was
some 64 years old and he dyed . He was a good and honest man all the days of
his life... He belonged to the Dunkard Society till his death . He was 27 years
old when Maryed to my mother . He had 5 children by my mother , viz: Nancy ,
John L . , Abraham , Katharine , Jacob .
Nancy was maryed to Jacob Wigle and had 7 or eight children . John maryed
a girl whose name was Marthy Lemmon and had 5 or 6 children. Katharine
maryed a man whose name was John Wigle , brother to Jacob , [and ] had 2 or
3 children . Jacob maryed a girl by the name of Emely Collins , cousin to Eliza ,
my first wife. They had 6 or 7 children when we saw them last . They all moved
to Oregon except my brother , John . He was in Texas when I last heard . I am
looking for him to moove here .
My father allso maryed girl after my mother dyed by the name of Elizabeth
Brown . They had 9 children when my father dyed .
My father ’ s father’ s name was Jacob. He lived till he was 84 years old when
he died . He was a hatter by trade , a good and honest man .
My father’s father’ s father , being my great grandfather , his name was Jacob.
He lived to a good old age and full of years. My great granfather was 106, one
hundred and six , years old when he dyed . My granfather and great granfather
and granmother were buryed with my mother some 2 miles west of Jonesborough
town , Union County , State of Illinois, near where I was born . My granmother
Hunsaker ’ s name was Katharine and she was 84 years old when she dyed .
My mother was some 30 years old when she dyed . She was buryed with most
all my fourfathers in a graveyard that we called the Duncard graveyard , for most
all were duncards or belonged to the duncard society , near Uncle George Wolf ’ s
farm who was the main minister of that society ... Hir name was Poly Luce ,
daughter of William Luce and Nancy Mourton . My granfather Luce was an
honest man and honerable in all his dealings. He was some 80 years old when
he dyed and was buryed with his wife Nancy , in Mulinburgh county on green
river near the mouth of muddy river . .. He had some 8 or 9 children that lived
to state of manhood whose name is Jacob , Isaack , Jonathan , Poly , Hety ,
Elizabeth . Some of their name I forget.
My granfather Hunsaker had 7 children that lived to rais a tollerable large
familys. Their names is called Jacob , George , Abraham , Anny , Katharine, Mary ,
Sally . One boy dyed when young , name Henry. My father and his father were
the first settlers of Jonesborough town , Union County.
My father lived here in Union County till I was 14 , fourteen , years old . He
then moved to Adams County and settled some 15 miles east of Quincy.. .the
road was mudy , it being in the month of March . I took my first wife Eliza
and was married January 2, 1833 when I was 20, twenty , years old and 34 days,
Eliza was 15 years and 10 months lacking 2 days... I lived with my wife Eliza
for nine months and two weeks when a boy was born Oct 22, 1833. We call his

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 nane Jacob after his granfather Jacob Hunsaker . He lived eight weeks and he
dyed . We buryed him in the duncard graveyard where my father and aunts Any ,
Mary , Sally was buryed as allso some of my half sister and connection . The
graveyard is 15 miles east of Quincy near Uncle George Woolfs , who maryed
my father’s sister Any. My aunt Sally maryed John Hughes and raise large family.
Aunt Mary maryed Lewis Simpson , raise large family . Aunt Katherine marye
Daniel Kimble and had large family . My uncle George maryed a girl whose name
was Sible Ellis , raised large family of girls. Uncle Abraham maried a girl who
sir name was Dodd and had large family. In the year Dec 3, 1835 a daughter
was born . We call hir name Mary after Eliza’ s mother ...Another daughter born
to hir . We call hir Elizabeth ; was born Nov 17 , 1837. In 1839 Lewis Jones
Hunsaker was born Saturday night near 12 o’ clock at midnight April 6, 1839
near Payson , Adams County .
Allen Hunsaker was born July 9, 1840; he was named for his granfather
Allen Codings .
March 1842 I settle on my farm in Hancock County on the rapids of the
Mississippi . August 31 , 1842 Sary Hunsaker was born Aug . 31 .

We have learned Abraham has some mistakes in his account. His great grandfather
was John , not Jacob. John died in 1815 at the age of 87 , not 106. William Luce’ s wife
was Ann Newman , not Nancy Mourton . The Luces are buried in Butler county , not
Muhlenberg county .

ABRAHAM ’ S 1886 LETTER REGARDING GENEALOGY

Additional genealogy was provided by Abraham in a letter he wrote in 1886 to his

cousin Harrison Hunsaker in Oregon . Meltrude Hunsaker Stohl acquired a typewritten
copy of this letter apparently from a genealogy written by L. Daisy Morgan in 1909. Daisy’ s
lineage is Martha , Joseph , John , Hartman .
Daisy made a number of comments, and perhaps changes , in her reproduction of
Abraham ’ s letter . Meltrude also made comments regarding Daisy’ s work . As we have
no other copy of Abraham ’ s letter , I present herewith the information exactly as I have
it , complete with notations and comments by both ladies .

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Honeyville , Box Elder Co. Utah

November 23 , 1886

Cousin Harrison Hunsaker

It is with pleasure I pen you a few lines. We are all well at present hope
this will find you all the same . I was delayed at the Yaquina Bay , waiting for
the ship to leave . Well , when I got on the ship and went out to sea , I was very
sick . Did not get well when we landed in Frisco . I thought I wasn ’ t able to go

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down to visit your father and uncle , as I did not have their full address .
My son that was on a mission in Switzerland has come home. He has got
some four or five thousand names of projenitors and connections .
We find that our second great grandfather , Hartmann Hunsaker , left
Switzerland in 1730 with his wife , Barbra Miller and his sone John , our great
grandfather . Our first great grandmothre’ s name is Magdalina Biry. I have given
you the genealogy of the children on other sheet .
Your grandfather , Joseph , and my grandfather , Jacob , are two of their
children . I will give you the name of my 2nd great grandfather and his wife ,
Barbara Miller [name crossed out ] children’ s name and who each one married .
John married Magdalena Biry . ( Uncle Elijah spells the same name Magdaline
Byra-L . D . M )
Elizabeth Hunsaker married Jacob Gath . Vienna Married John Rolph ;
Orscal Hunsaker maried a man by the name of Landers ; Mary Hunsaker mar -
ried Casper Rowland . Anny Hunsaker married Lewis Moler , Catherine Hun -
saker married John Biry. Those were married in Pennaylvania. I have not got
any of the girl’ s genealogies in the U .S. My son has five or six thousand
genealogies which he got in Switzerland and he did not get perhaps one quarter
as many as he might but his way was hedged up for the present so he came home ,
being quite tired having been on a mission some two years before he went to
Switzerland . But I hope he will be [new page not numbered] able to go again
so I can get a tolerable full history of our family . I think some of publishing
a book if I am able to do so. My brother Jacob write to me telling me that he
had a letter from your folks in California , saying that they had information from
the East saying there was a large estate in Switzerland for the Hunsakers in
America.
I think it ’ s all a hoax . I think it started through jealousy by some of them
said that I had perhaps heard there was something coming to the Hunsakers and
I was working to get it , having my son in the old country working at it , but I
place no such good ; more I havn’ t any idea .

May God bless you all

From your cousin
/ s / Abraham Hunsaker

(My great Uncle Elijah Hunsaker’ s statements is that his great grandfather
came from Switzerland in 1745 . This was from evidence gathered surely , [from ]
no other than Hartman Hunsaker . Abraham said he came year 1730. L . D . M .)
It is stated Abraham Hunsaker (a Mormon ) had 5 wives and 50 children .
Mrs Harret Hunsaker , Hangville , Utah , being one of the wifes.
(This record contained in the foregoing letter has nothing to do with the
records obtained by Uncle Joseph [Jode] , in fact those records were never con -
nected with Hartman ’ s family , not yet anyway .)
The records of the people named in these letters , were records kept by various
members of the families , themselves.)

(Meltrude) 1952

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 The genealogy “ on other sheet ” mentioned by Abraham in the above letter to Har -
rison , and which was annotated when copied or rewritten by L . Daisy Morgan , is as follows:

STATEMENT OF ABRAHAM HUNSAKER , (a Mormon ) Nov 26 ,

1886 to Harrison Hunsaker of Portland , Oregon

HARTMAN HUNSAKER Born in Switzerland , died in Penna.

Relation to A . H . (or Abraham ) 2nd
great grandfather
Wife
BARBARA MI1LER 1707 in Switzerland Died 1798 Penna
2nd G Grandmother
their son
JOHN HUNSAKER Born May 22, 1728 . Came from Switzerland
when 17. Died Union Co . Ill
July 1815 (1st GG Father )
married 1750
Magdalena Byra Born in Penna . Jan 3, 1732. Died in
Penna . Aug 9, 1795 1st Great Grandmother to
Abraham
their children
Abraham Hunsaker Born Jan 13, 1751 , Penn . Died in infancy in
Penn . Grand uncle to Abraham
John Hunsaker Born Sept 16 , 1752, Penn . Died Apr 8 , 1792
Penn ( killed by Indians) Grand uncle to A . H .
Barbara Hunsaker Born 5-6-1754 Penn . Died 7-27-1799 Penn.
Grand Aunt
Nicholas >>
Born 2-3-1756 Penn . Died Penn. Grand Uncle to
A.H .
Hartman Born Penn . Died in Infancy
Jacob Born 5-6- 1759 Penn . Died 3-11-1831 Union Co
Ill Grandfather to Abraham Hunsaker
Joseph Born 5-20-17§9 Penn . Died 9- 25-1844 Adams Co
Ill Grandfather to Harrison Hunsaker
Abriam Born 4-25-1764 Penn . Died Union Co , Ill Grand
Uncle to A . H .
George Born 2-12-1766 Lancaster Co. Penn Died 1845
Sullivan Co. Mo. Grand Uncle to A. H .
Andrew Born 7-5-1772 Lancaster Co , Penn . Died
10-17-1843 Union County Grand Uncle
Magdalena Born 3-24-1770 Lancaster Co. , Penn . Died
Union Co. Ill . Married Cesley; later Keith ;
Grand Aunt of A . H .
Samuel Born 11-22-1777 Lancaster Co, Penna Died
2-27-1864 Adams Go , Ill Grand Uncle to A. H.

(My great Uncle Elijah Hunsaker ’ s statement is Samuel died in 1865-also

he said Joseph was born 1761 . L . D .M .) The children of John Hunsaker (1728)

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 and Magdalena Byra are my mother ’ s grandfather (Joseph Hunsaker , born May
20, 1760 and grand uncles and aunts. L. D.M .)

Harrison Hunsaker , to whom this statement was sent , was a double cousin of 2nd
Joseph Hunsaker’ s children Andrew , Dan S, Margaret Ann . For Harrison Hunsaker’ s
family see page 27. [Which I do not have.]
In view of other information we have acquired , we know there are errors in this
material . We do not know if they are Abraham ’ s errors or as a result of changes made
by Daisy. John was not born in Switzerland . He was four years old , not 17 , when he
arrived in Pennsylvania . Anna was the name of Hartman’s wife. I estimate she was born
in about 1697 and died about 1739. Joseph was born in 1761. Magdalena Bieri died in
1796 . John was killed by Indians in West Virginia , not Pennsylvania .

THE GENEALOGY AS PROVIDED BY L . DAISY MORGAN

There follows a genealogy compiled by L . Daisy Morgan in 1909 . I believe a great

deal of this material was secured from Abraham ’ s letter to Harrison . As you will note,
Daisy disagreed with some of this information . This genealogy was originally secured by
Meltrude Hunsaker Stohl , but I do not know the date nor manner of acquisition . It was
included in 1949 correspondence from Meltrude to my father , Ben Hunsaker . Meltrude
added her comments to the material prepared by Daisy. The information has been copied
exactly as I have it . Insertions and corrections have been made just as they were in the
original . As Bob has a copy of these papers without these insertions , I must presume they
were made by Meltrude . My remarks that I deem necessary for clarification are enclosed
in square brackets.

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FAMILY TREE RECORD OF THE HUNSAKERS

[This record was compiled by L . Daisy Morgan , 953 Alder Street , Eugene Ore .]

Record of the Hunsakers, based on information received from my uncles

and aunts, Daniel S. and Andrew J . Hunsaker , Elizabeth Jane Miller and
Margaret Ann Barbre. Also from my mother Martha Allen Hunsaker-Conger-
Morgan . Dated this 25th day of Oct 1909. L . Daisy Morgan .

HARTMAN HUNSAKER

The progenitor of the Hunsaker family in the United States came from
Switzerland in year 1730 or 1745 and settled in Germantown , Pennsylvania.
He was accompanied by his family . His wife Barbara Miller [ crossed out
and “ Anna ” inserted ] was born in 1707 . (See record page 2.) Their son John
was born May 22, 1723 and was a lad of 17 years when they settled in German -
town , Pennsylvania . He married in 1750 Magdalena Birg (or Magdalene Byra
[last name crossed out ]) who was born in Penn. Jan 3, 1732 . To them ten sons
and two daughters were born . (See record page 8. ) Joseph Hunsaker their 7 th

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was born May 20, 1761. He married Margaret Stevenson (or Stinson) whose
mother’ s name was Martin and they were all Scotch (so said great uncle Elijah
Hunsaker ) . To Joseph and Margaret Hunsaker were born six sons and three
daughters . (See page 9.) Their 4th was Joseph Hunsaker Jr . Born July 4th , 1799.
He married Elizabeth Jane King who was born Nov 19, 1804 in North Carolina.
They were married April 1820.
To Joseph and Elizabeth Jane King Hunsaker were born twelve children .
Five sons and five daughters lived to be grown. (See record page 10.) They crossed
the plains in 1847 reaching Oregon Sept 23 rd . Third first camp was at Foster ,
Oregon after coming through the Cascade Mts. The Captain of the company
was “ Uncle Jimmy Curl ” . This Joseph and E . J . K . Hunsaker , his wife , settled
in Marion Co., one and one half Miles from Marion Station at Parish , Ore. Their
children were as follows.

Oldest died in infancy

Second Thomas Howard Hunsaker Born Sept 28, 1824
Third France King ” Jan 10 , 1827
Fourth Daniel Stinson June 9, 1829
Fifth George Washington “ Oct 23, 1831
Sixth Andrew Jackson ” Jan 10, 1834
Seventh Elizabeth Jane Aug 10 , 1835
Eighth Margaret Ann ” Jul 10, 1838
Ninth Joseph Irvin Dec 14 , 1840
Tenth Martha Ellen ” Jan 12, 1843
Eleventh Died in infancy in Oregon
Twelfth Charlotte Evelyn ” Sept 5 , 1849

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HARTMAN HUNSAKER , who came from Switzerland and settled in Germantown ,

Pennsylvania , year (1730 or 1745? )
BARBARA MILLER , [crossed out and “ wife Anna ” inserted ]
Born 1707 Came from Switzerland 1730 or 1745
same as above

THEIR CHILDREN

John Hunsaker Born May 22, 1728. Married Magdelina Birg (or
Byra) [crossed out ]
>J
Viena Married John Rolph
>)
Elizabeth Married Jacob Gath
Orscal (girl ) Married Landers
>>
Mary Married Casper Rowland
Annie Married Lewis Moler
<
Catherine (
Married John Biry (or Byra)

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ELIJAH’ S LETTER CONCERNING GENEALOGY

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Copy of a letter from Elijah Hunsaker , (of page 9) my great uncle who died
July 30 , 1911. Written to my Uncle J . Hunsaker of McMinnville , Oregon .
Mt. Sterling Ill
August 8, 1901
Dear Nephew and Family:
I will now try to answer your most kind and welcome letter which we received
some time ago, and was truly glad to hear from you , to know all is well.
You asked where my father was born. I will go back and commence with
my great grand father where he came from . My great grandfather came from
Switzerland . My grandfather was then a boy about 17 years old . He came with
him in the year 1745 [45 crossed out and 1731 inserted] They settled in German -
town , Penn .
My Grandfather was married to Magdelina Byra [Byra crossed out and
“ Birg ” inserted] in 1750. My father’s oldest brother’s name was John , the 2nd
was Nicholas , the 3 rd was Jacob , the 4th (my father ) was Joseph . He was born
1761 . The fifth was Abriam the 6th was Andrew , the 7th was George . The 8th
was Samuel who died here in Adams Co., Ill in 1865. Now the Girls I don’ t
know anything about them , don’ t know their names.
My mother ’ s name was Margaret Stevenson . My grandmother ’ s name was
Martin and they were all Scotch . My mother had two brother’ s John and Ed -
ward . She had five sisters that I know their names.
I will give you their men’ s names. They married Hill , Fleming , Hall , Mitchel
and Jennings.
The record of my father was stolen by the Mormons . You wish to know
the men that married my sisters. Joseph Cox married my oldest sister , her name
was Betsy (Elizabeth ) . My second sister married George Godwin , her name was
Nancy . The third married John G . Thurman , her name was Delia
You wished to know how many children I have living . I have eight . Our
oldest is Nancy . She lives with me , never married and is blind and almost deaf .
The 2nd , William Green , lives in Kansas , married and has four children . 3rd ,
Mary , she is dead . Our 4th was Louis J . He is dead . The 5th , Eliza , is married
and has nine children . 6th , A. J . Hunsaker , he is the old batch . The 7th is George
W . He is married and has four children. 8th is David , he is married and lives
in the State of Washington and has three children . The 9th was Laura , she mar -
ried and lived to have three children and died . The 10, Margaret , is married and
has nine children . They live in Oklahoma . The 11 th is Perry A . He is married
and has four children . Perry A . is the youngest boy.
My wife is dead and has been for ten years , and my home is with Perry .
Nancy D. and A.J . live with him also. I would like to know which one of your
brothers is living and if any are living on the old home place where your father
first settled . And would like to know the names of your sisters. How far away
do you live from the old homestead ? And I would like to know if you ever got
acquainted with Jacob Hunsaker who lived about Oregon City , he settled there
long ago. I will send you my picture, me and my wife. I was 76 and my wife

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 66 years old when they were taken .
I will close by asking you to write soon .

Good -bye
Signed Elijah Hunsaker
by Sarah Hunsaker

Dear Cousin: [at bottom of page , no further explanation]

EVELYN HUNSAKER LA LANE CHART

In Nov. 1980 I received a family chart from Evelyn Hunsaker La Lane , 594 Cliff
Drive, Laguna Beach, CA. On this chart it is stated that it was prepared by L. Daisy Morgan
on 10/ 25 / 1909. The information on that chart , rearranged to fit this format , follows:

Hartman Hunsaker m Barbara Miller b 1707 d 1798 PA

John b 5 / 27 / 1728 Switzerland d .8/ 1815 Union Co IL m .1750 Magdalena Bira ( Byra)
b 1 / 3 / 1732 Pad 8/ 9 / 1795 PA
Abraham b 1 / 13/ 1751 Pa
d Infancy , Pa
John b 9/ 16/ 1752 Pa killed by Indians
Barbara b 5 /6/ 1754 d 7 / 27 / 1788
Nicholas b 2/ 3/ 1756 Pa d Pa
Hartman b Pa d infancy
Jacob b 5 / 16 / 1759 Pa d 3 / 11 / 1831 Pa
Joseph b 5 / 20/ 1760 or 61 Pa ma Margaret Stevenson or Stinson 6 9/
George
David
Elizabeth b 6/ 12/ 1793 Pa d 2/ 27 / 1879 m 1810 Joseph Cox
Joseph b 7 / 4/ 1779 Christian Co , Ky d . 9/ 15 / 1869 Marion Co OR
Buried on old home place with his wife
Died at birth
Thomas Howard b 9/ 28 / 1824 Alexander or Adams Co., Ill
d 4/ 7 / 1888 Marion Co., Ore
Francis King b 1 / 10/ 1827 d 1 / 12/ 1845 Nodaway Co., Mo
Viena m John Ralph
Elizabeth m Jacob Goth
Orsal m Landers
Mary m Cooper Rouland
Amy m Lewis Moler
Catherine m John Biry or Byra
Nancy m George Goodwin
Delia m John G Truman
Daniel b 12 / 19/ 1803 Christian Co ,Ky m 1823 Charlotte M King , Alexander
Co Ky
(Sister to Elizabeth Jane King and half sister to Sellie Wilson) d

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 6 / 14 / 1897
Isaac b 2 / 17 / 1807 Christian Co , Ky d 10/ 5 / 1885 m Sellie Wilson ,
m Mary Walker
Elijah b 5 / 17 / 1810 Christian Co Ky , d 7 / 30/ 1911 Brown Co. Ill
m Mary A Simpson
Daniel Stilson b 6/ 9 / 1827 Adams Co Ill d 1 / 12 / 1845 Eugene , Or
George Washington b 10/ 23 / 1831 Adams Co. Ill d 5 / 17 / 1836 , prob .
Adams Co , Ill
Andrew Jackson b 1 / 10/ 1834 Adams Co , Ill d 11 / 6 / 1924 McMinnville ,
Or .
m 1855 Emma Hill m 1860 Mary E Adams m 1915 Carrie V . DeForde
Elizabeth Jane b 8 / 10/ 1835 , Adams Co Ill d 10/ 14/ 1920 Stayton , OR
m 9/7 / 1851 William T Miller d 4 /11 / 1904
Margaret Ann b 7 / 10/ 1838 , Platt Co . Mo d 4/ 2 /1925 Baker City , Ore.
m Thomas Barbra
Joseph Irvin b 12/ 14 /1840 Platt Co. Mo d 3/ 2/ 1841 Platt Co, MO
Martha Ellen b 1 / 12/ 1843 Platt Co . Mo d 11 / 5 / 1931 Eugene , Ore.
Died in infancy Oregon
Charlotte Evelyn b 12/ 5 / 1849 Marion Co, OR d 3 / 31 / 1868 Marion
Co. OR
m . 1867 John Conser

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE HUNSAKERS L . Daisy Morgan —

Elijah (9), son of grandfather Joseph , lived to be 101 years old , living from 1810-1911.
Margaret Stevenson , wife of grandfather Joseph (7) Hunsaker ’ s parents lived in Delaware
at the time of the Revolutionary War . If anyone wants to join the D . A. R . , this would
be the lineage to follow up. Her brother , Edward Stevenson , was sent to Congress several
times from the State of Virginia .
Joseph Hunsaker (4) brought his wife and seven children across the plains to Oregon
in a covered wagon from April-September , 1847. Daughter , Martha Ellen (10) said , “ I
often heard father say the reason for leaving Marysville , Mo. , was that he had hopes of
benefiting the health of his family who were suffering form chills and fevers.” Son An -
drew Jackson (6) , told of the trip by ox team in the prairie schooner as a child . “ A few
days travel this side of The Dalles, Oregon , the wagons waited a part of a day while Mrs.
Louise Payne , daughter cf Capt. Curl , gave birth to a son , Another incident I shall never
forget . We camped at Foster Road , on the western slope of the Cascade Mts. , where we
bought a peck of pototoes . Our family ate almost all of the peck that night and the next
morning we finished what was left . I never remember tasting potatoes before or since
that tasted as good as those...About four miles from Turner my father found a man named
Cook who had 640 acres of land and let father have half his claim , which was 320 acres .
This was one and a half miles from Marion Station at Parish Gap.’’ (Andrew Jackson
Hunsaker became pastor of the First Baptist Church and trustee of McMinnville College
for 40 years . He served as Justice of Peace when a young man and was the Prohibition
Party candidate for governor of Oregon .
When grandmother EIIZABETH JANE HUNSAKER and grandfather WILLIAM
T . MILLER were married , they settled on a place eight miles west of Turner , Oregon .
In May , 1874 , they moved nearer Turner . In the Fall of 1891 , they moved to Stayton ,

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Oregon . Grandfather WILLIAM T . MILLER was the son of “ Dicky ” Miller who cross-
ed the plains when the Hunsakers did in 1847 and was a brother to Elizabeth Jane Miller
who married Thomas Howard Hunsaker (2). Grandfather WILLIAM was in an accident
on the trip across the plains and broke his hip. He used a cane the rest of his life as a
result of this accident , His family settled near McMinnville and in 1849 William Thomas
Miller went to California but returned soon to Oregon and married Elizabeth Jane Hun -
saker in 1851 . Ethel Hunsaker Dickey , cousin who lived in Eagle Rock , California , was
the daughter of George Washington Hunsaker (5).

FAMILY BIBLES

For many years portions of various bibles have appeared in different family records.
Some of them seem to stem from a common source. There are obvious discrepancies which
make it difficult to reconcile the information . Copies of the original handwritten pages
are on file in the LDS Genealogy Library in SLC. Nearly all these old family bibles were
handwritten . They are now on moldly and torn pages . I would loved to have presented
them to you in their original form , but they are just almost unreadable without great ef -
fort . Therefore , they are presented in typed form so you can find the ancestors you are
looking for easier by far than we did .

John Hunsaker Sr . Bible

The first bible , John Hunsaker Sr . bible , is the most important . In December 1977
I acquired from Bob Hunsaker a copy of a Certified Copy made by Ray W . McDonald ,
County Clerk , Du Page County (Wheaton ) Illinois , of a bible , which according to anota-
tion on the copy , is the bible of John Hunsaker Sr . At the time the copy was certified
on 18 Nov . 1964, the bible was in the possession of Oliver C.Hunsaker of Wheaton . Oliver’s
lineage is Robert W . , Samuel Y . , Samuel , John Sr ., Hartman . This Certified Copy was
secured by Bob from Mrs. Robert (Coreene) E . Bowles , 210 E . Warsaw , Ursa , Illinois
62376 in 1977 . Mrs . Bowles is a Hunsaker relative . Even with this “ Certified ” copy there
still remain problems. The marginal notation “ John Hunsaker Sr . Bible ” apparently was
made by some later person to identify the bible and is not proof certain of original owner-
ship. Neither John Sr . nor his wife could write . Their son Samuel could . Bob believes
Samuel wrote the “ Bible Register ” at the direction of his parents. In 1978 two searches ,
one by my daughter and one by myself , did not locate Oliver C. Hunsaker , or anyone
who knew him , in the Wheaton area. I have no idea as to the present location of this bible.

FAMILY REGISTER (John Hunsaker Sr .)

John Hunsaker , only son of Hartman Hunsaker , Born on the 22nd of May 1728.
Had sisters and half sisters, daughters of his mother .
1 , Vlene , wife of John Roth .
2, Elizabeth , wife of Jacob Guth .
3 , Orscel , wife of Landis , and after him of Kopf .

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 4 , Mary , wife of Caspar Roland .
5, Anna , wife of Lewis Mohler .
6, Cathrina , wife of John Biry.
7 , Half sister Eva , wife of John Weldy.
8, Elizabeth , wife of Abraham Biry .
In the year 1732 , 3 th day of Jan . was born Magdalena , oldest daughter of Nicholus
Biry. f * the ueo- v n S o x h t i S f h o C M o- y John Hnn s* fce. r got M «.rr /'e 4 t o /Vlo^ j d c J e v a 0' r <j
W h i c h /i «. d / 0 So*<9 And 3 / o.u. tei'S t c w i f . . /

^
4
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1 , Abraham , born the 13 of June , 1751 [ died as an infant .]

2 , John , born on 16th Sept . 1752.
3 , Barbara , born the 6 th of May , 1754.
4 , Nicholas (or Nicolaus) , born the 3 th of February 1756.
5 , Hartman , born on the 20th of Aug . 1757 , died when an infant .
6 , Jacob , born the 6th of May , 1759.
7 , Joseph , born the 20th of May , 1761 .
8, Abraham , born the 25th of Apr ., 1764.
9, George, born the 12th of March , 1766.
10 , Catharina , born the 5 th of March 1769 / died as an infant /
11 , Magdalena , born the 24th of March , 1770.
12 , Andrew , born the 5 th of July , 1772.
13, Samuel , born the 22th of Nov . , 1777.

The 27th of July , 1788 , died Barbara (a born Miller ) mother of Magdalene Hun -
saker in the 81st [year ] of her age , and left children , grandchildren and great grandchildren
totalling about 120. The 18th of April , 1792, John Hunsaker Jr . his wife and one child
got killed by the Indians. He was married to Elizabeth , daughter of Andrew Huber , and
had 6 sons. 2 of 18 sons , Isaac & Jacob , and the daughter Katharina . Survived their grand -
mother Magdalena Hunsaker died on the 9th of Aug . 1796 , in the 65th year of her age ,
after being married 46 years.

ABRAHAM HUNSAKER BIBLE

A second bible which I called “ Abraham’s Bible” in The History of Abraham Hunsaker
but which I now believe is that of his mother , Polly Luce , was reproduced in the Hun -
saker Family Bulletin of 1978. It is now in the possesion of Nora Grant Tibbetts , 329
South 425 West , Bountiful , Utah . In his journal Abraham said , “ My mother while on
her death bed said she saw visions and would have the bible with her in hir death bed
till she dyed ” .
Abraham ’ s Bible
Jacob m . Polly Feb 17 , 1808
Jacob m . Elizabeth Mar 7,1820
Wm . J . Simpson m . Barbara Oct 1 , 1840
John J . Simpson m . Elizabeth Jan 1 , 1854
Eudorah B . Simpson b . Jul 26, 1856

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 Idah May Simpson b . Dec 11 , 1859
Robert B . Simpson b . jul 3 , 1862
Abraham Hunsaker b . Nov 29, 1812
Blanche L. Simpson b . Jun 14, 1867
.
Jacab £> ju / 30, / S / S' /I n r t b 3-7/ / 8 a BcrUcra. .
b / ykxr, .
* '83- 2
/

George b . Mar 28 , 1825

Nancy b . Feb 10 , 1809
John b. Nov 5 , 1810
Catharine b . Sept ,30 1814
Joseph b . Jan 11 , 1827
Daniel b . Feb 20 , 1829
Elizabeth b . Sept 14, 1832
Eliza Jane b . Apr 20 , 1834
Matilda b. May 1 , 1836
Jacob Sr b . Dec 4 , 1781
Elizabeth b. Jul 15 , 1795
Geor
Minerva b. Jan 23 , 1839
Mary Jane Simpson b . Jan 30 , 1842
Edward Simpson b . Apr 2, 1844
Polly wife of Jacob d . Nov 1819
Jacob d . Jan 26, 1845
Mary Francis b . Feb 5 , 1850
Jacob Simpson b. Mar 22, 1846
Lewis L. Simpson b . Sept ,30 , 1848
Elizabeth Me Kellips d . Oct 7 , 1862
Daniel Hunsaker d . -- 1850
JOSEPH HUNSAKER BIBLE

Another bible , “ Family Record ” appears to be a copy of the bible of Joseph and
Margaret Stevenson Hunsaker as it begins with their birth and death dates and then lists
various other relatives. A copy of this bible was found among Weldon Hunsaker’ s Memoirs,
[a son of Abraham of Utah . ] Which is passing strange indeed .

Family Record (Joseph Hunsaker )

Joseph b . May 26 , 1761 d . Oct 18,1844

—
Margaret Stevenson b. 1775 d. 1852
Edmund J . Hodges b. Dec 22, 1859
—
Phillip J . Tucker
George Hodges b . Apr 25 , 1858
Hunsaker b. Dec 14 , 186
Chas, E Hodges b . May 30 , 1859
George b . May 27 , 1790 d . Jun 27 , 1875 m . Ann E. Aston Jul 10, 1845
Nancy Wilkings b . Dec 9, 1792 d . Dec 16, 1879
James Jackson b. Mar 6, 1814 d . Oct 24, 1858 m . Haami Davis Mar 3 , 1839
Peggy b . Aug 31 , 1816 d . Apr 9, 1888 m . John Hodges Nov 10, 1833

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 Alexander Wilkings Oct 18 , 1818 d . Aug 30 , 1839
Matilda Ann b. Dec 8 , 1820 d . Sept 8 , 1840
George Washington b . Aug 1, 1823 d . Aug 30 , 1845
Benjamin F. Hunsaker m . Mary Ann
— Aug 30, 1849
Polite Jane b . Oct 10 , 1825 d . Sept 6 , 1884
Benjamin Franklin b . Jul 15 , 1888 d . Jul 6, 1904
Jemima Caroline b . May 26, 1831 d . Aug 18 , 1886
Joseph b . Dec 27 , 1835 d . Jul 7 , 1880
Amanda Dilday b . Nov 8, 1837
Iylia Jane b. May 27 , 1850
George Hodges b . Apr 25 , 1858
Edmund Hodges b . Dec 22 , 1859

ISSAC HUNSAKER BIBLE

Still another bible , was provided by the widow of John E . Hunsaker of Houston ,
Texas. I believe this is the bible of Isaac Hunsaker and Sarah Elizabeth Wood . Isasc was
the father of John E. Hunsaker , the son of Abraham F., grandson of John and Anna .
Shaw , great grandson of Abraham and Mary Jane Sneider , and great great grandson of
John and Magdalena Beery , The name of the Abraham married to Mary Jane Sneider
is also given as Abriam and Abram . On his tombstone the name is spelled Abram , which
is the spelling I use for him .

Hunsaker Genealogy 1969 ( Isaac Hunsaker )

I . Hartman Hunsaker (about 1690-1780) of German descent and wife Anna came
to the U .S. A . to find religious freedom . They arrived in Philadelpha 10 Sept .
1731 aboard the Pennsylvania Merchant . They signed the pledge of allegiance
the next day . After a short stay in Germantown , they settled in Lancaster Coun -
ty. Pa. They had with them one son , John , age three and five daughers, Elizabeth .
Frena. Ursula . Orcell and Mary.

—
II . John (22 May 1728 about 1815) was the only son of Hartman . He married
Magdalena Birg (3 Jan .1738-1796) on 15 May 1750. They had 11 children-3 i
daughters; Barbara . Catherine and Magdalena and 8 sons: John , Nichoulas.
Jacob. Joseph . Abraham ( my line) , George . Andrew and Samuel . Soon after
Hartman’ s death , many members of John’ s family migrated to Kentucky .

III. Abraham (25 Apr . 1764-1 Nov . 1841 , age 78 yrs.) was a son of John . He
married Mary Snyder (5 May 1766-15 Nov . 1843 age 78 yrs. ). Abraham , his family
and nephew. George Wolff , crossed the Ohio River from Kentucky into southern
—
Illinois a wilderness inhabited by wolves, bears and Indians. In 1803 they settled
near what is now Jonesboro Union County , Illinois , and the first white settle-
ment was made . They were the only white settlers in Union County for over two
years. Other Hunsakers came in 1810. Abraham and Mary had 3 daughters: Betsy ,
Nancy and Catherine and 6 sons , John , Samuel , Abner , Nicholas , Charles and
William .

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 IV . John (14 Sept . 1793-5 Nov . 1851) was a son of Abraham . He married Anna
Shaw ( July 1795. 18 Sept . 1833) about 1812. He was elected sheriff . Union County .
1824. They had 6 daughters ; Zerilda , Jane , Nancy , Catherine , Martha and Ellen
and 4 sons; Samuel Thorp (first County Superintendent of Schools , Union Coun-
ty , Illinois ). Abraham , F. , John N , and Hannibal .

Abraham F. ( 16 Nov. 1816-1888) was my grandfather and a son of John . He

married Elvina Holmes (8 Nov . 1818.1890) on 28 Nov . 1839 in Jonesboro. Il-
linois. They had 3 sons: John F., Isaac and George W .

John F. (9- 28 [added ] 1843-1890) married Martha Anderson . They had 2

daughters: Minnie and Edith and 4 sons; Oscar , Andrew , Irving and Claude .

Isaac ( 13 Apr . 1848- Aug 2 nd [ added ] 1922) , my Father and son of Abraham
Elizabeth Wood (25 July 1855-Feb . 15 1922) in 1876. They had 2 daughters; Ef -
fie Elmo and Allie May and 5 sons: R . F. , Virgil , A. L ., John F. and F. D .

George W . ( 1856) married Andanda Wood (1865-? ). They had 2 daughters ;

Lillian and Emma and 4 sons; Fred , Walter , Albert and Daniel W .
Isaac Hunsaker b. Apr 13, 1868
Sary Elizabeth Hunsaker b. Jul 25 , 1867
Robert Franklin Hunsaker b . Mar 12, 1877
Effa Ethno Hunsaker b . Aug 21, 1879
Allie May Hunsaker b . Jul 18 , 1886 d . Sept 13 , 1913
Isaac Virgil Hunsaker b . Jul 18 , 1883
Albert Lee Hunsaker b . Jul 25 , 1891
Clinton Hunsaker b. Nov 30 , 1888 d . Jan 10, 1889
John Evert Hunsaker b . Jan 6, 1895
Eland Dewit David Hunsaker b. Jun 28 , 1900
Clinton Hunsaker departed this life January 10 at 2 o’ clock p . m . , 1989
Allie M. Smith died September 13 , 1913, 2:30 p. m .

ANDREW HUNSAKER BIBLE

The fifth bible is that of Andrew Hunsaker and his wife Nancy Carruthers. It
was provided by Finnis A. Hunsaker , of Cobden , Illinois , a son of Joseph Hunsaker
and Lovisa Etherton , grandson of Andrew and Nancy Carruthers Hunsaker and great
grandson of Andrew Hunsaker and Mary Roades.

Andrew Hunsaker Bible

Andrew son of Andrew and Mary Hunsaker was born April the 8 , 1808
Nancy Hunsaker his wife was born Nov the 22 , 1811
Mary Hunsaker daughter of Andrew and Nancy Hunsaker was born Jan 9 ,
18
Elvira Hunsaker was born Jul the 4 , 1832
Samuel b. Aug 19 1834

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 —
Jacob -- b . 15 , 1837
Mahulda b . Sept 7 , 1838
William Jackson b . Sept 29, 1841
Joseph b . Oct 26, 1843
Katherine b. Nov 30, 1845
Sinthy An b . Aug 19, 1847
Homer Benton b . Jan 31, 1849
Andrew b . Sept 16, 1854

DAVID HUNSAKER BIBLE

Correne Bowls of Ursa , Ill. sent the next page —

also with other pages . The
Bible belonged to her g g grandfather David son of Joseph & Margaret (Stevenson )
Hunsaker .

Joseph b . May 20 , 1761

Margaret Stevenson b . Apr 5 , 1767
Mary b . Jun 20 , 1788
George b . May 27 , 1790
Elizabeth b . Feb 12, 1793
David b . Mar 14 , 1795
Nancy b . Jun 11 , 1797
Joseph b . Jul 4 , 1799
Delila b. Dec 19, 1801
Daniel b. Dec 18 , 1801
Isaac b. Feb 19, 1807
Elizabeth b . May 17 , 1800
Susan b . Apr 15 , 1842
Margaret Ellen b . May 6, 1836
Mary Jane b . Dec 30 , 1831
Margret Whit b. Sept 1 , 1800

OTHER RECORDS

Following are some bible pages and a copy of some information , very badly garbl-
ed , apparently copies from some other bible information . At first I thought this was
all material from Montgomery Hunsaker’ s bible , but Edna Hunsaker has reviewed
the material and has correctly identified it as follows:
“ The Records of Beatrice Holloway (about 100 pages) belong to the Genealogical
Society of Southern Illinois and are at John R . Logan College in Carterville , Ill in-
cluding the Bible Records
Magdalena Beery Hunsaker .
— she is a descendant of Abraham , son of Hannes &

Beatrice Holloway Records

Presented to Olivia Bernice Brooks b. 31 Jan , 1876 dau of Montgomery ( Hun -
saker ) Nicholes , Abraham , Johannes , Hartman . Beatrice Christiana Holloway b . 25

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Dec , 1864 (on ) January 31 , 1919
Hartman Hunsaker born near Zurich , Switzerland , moved to Germany
near Weisbaden in early manhood .

Children

John , b May 22, 1728

Verna , m . John Roth
Elizabeth , m . Jacob Grath
Anselle , no record
Rissal , m . John Kopp
Mary , m . Casper Roland
Anna , m . John Mohler
Caroline , m . John Biry
step-children
Eva , m. John Weldy
Elizabeth , m . Abram Biry

Hartman and son John came to U .S. in 1746 , settled in Lancaster County , PA.
The daughter
Mary came at a later date and settled near Springfield , IL .
The next page of Bible Records was sent to us along with other pages by Louise
—
Ogg , Unity , Ill . She is a descendant of George son of Joseph and Margaret Steven-
son Hunsaker .

Louise Ogg Records

Joseph Hunsaker b . May 20 , 1761

Joseph Hunsaker m . Margaret Stevenson Aug 1787 b . April 5 , 1767
Mary b . June 20 , 1788 d . April 11 ,
George b . May 27 , 1790
Elizabeth b . Feb 12, 1793
David b . 14 , 1795
Nancy b . June 11 , 1797
Joseph b . 4, 1799
Daniel b . Dec 19 , 1803
Isaac b. Feb 19, 1807
Elijah b . May 17 , 1810 m . Mary Ann Simpson April 15 , 1838 b. Aug 20 , 1820
Nancy Davis , b . Jan 27 , 1839
William Green b. Feb 27 , 1840

“ The last page was one of several sent by Verna Wunnerberger of Green River ,
Wyo. She is a descendant of Elijah son of Joseph & Margaret (Stevenson) Hunsaker .
She obtained the copies from the Salt Lake City Library . y y

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 /\ vJutiNtR &£ RG£ R RECORDS
Joseph m . Margret Stevenson Aug 1 , 1787
Elijah m . Mary Ann Simpson Apr 5 , 1838
Joseph b . May 20, 1761
Margret Stevenson b. Apr 5, 1767
Mary b . Jun 20, 1788 £ e o r < j e b s A a y ? 7, 7 9 &
Elizabeth b. Apr 12, 1793
'
David b . Mar 14 , 1795
Nancy b Jun 4, 1797

HISTORY OF QUINCY AND ADAMS COUNTIES

At this point let me provide a copy of A History of Quincy and Adams County
published by county officials in 1919 by the Lewis Publishing Company , Chicago
and New York , which contains information regarding the family . There are many
errors in this document .

A HISTORY OF QUINCY AND ADAMS COUNTY

GS BOOK 977.344 D3 w Volume 1

The Hunsaker family is well represented in Adams County. They are

of German origin , and probably came from Switzerland . In the year 1730
Hartmann Hunsaker came to America with his wife and one son John , who
was born in the old fatherland May 22 1728. They settled down in Penn -
sylvania , where the following children were born to Mr . and Mrs. Hart -
mann Hunsaker: Verena , wife of John Roth; Elizabeth , wife of Jacob Guth;
Orschel ( Ursula) , who was married twice , her first husband ’ s name being
Landis , the second Kopf ; Marie, wife of Caspar Roland ; Anna , wife of Louis
Mohler . Half -sisters were: Catherine , wife of John Birg ; Eva , wife of John
Weldy , Elizabeth , wife of Abraham Birg . This would indicate that Hart -
mann Hunsaker was married twice. John Hunsaker , who came to this coun -
try with his father in 1730, was married to Miss Magdalena Birg , May 15,
1750; she was the eldest daughter of Nikolaus-Birg . and was born January
3, 1732. The children of John and Magdalena (Birg) Hunsaker were:
Abraham , John , Barbara , Nikolaus, Hartmann , Jacob , Joseph , George ,
Catharine , Magdalena , Andrew and Samuel. On July 27th , 1788, occurred
the death of Barbara Birg , Nee Miller , the mother of Magdalena Hunsaker
nee Birg , in the eighty first year of her life, leaving 120 children , grand-
children and great -grandchildren . The data given in this story concerning
Hartmann Hunsaker and his desendants were gleaned from the old family
Bible , printed in Philadelphia in 1818 , and in possession of Robert Hun-
saker , a son of Samuel Y . Hunsaker , and born in this county in 1855.
While John Hunsaker , the second son of the before mentioned John
and Magdalena (Birg) Hunsaker , with his wife and child were traveling
overland from Pennsylvania to Illinois , they were killed by indians. This
occurred April 18 , 1792, while they were on their way to Union County ,
Ill. The wife was Elizabeth , a daughter of Andrew Huber .

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 Samuel Hunsaker , the youngest son of John and Magdalena (Birg) Hun-
saker , was born in Pennsylania November 22, 1777 , and was married to
Hannah Rhoades ( Rohde? ) , who was born January 4, 1786. Their children
were: John , Rachel , Andrew , Hiram , Margaret , Daniel , Susannah ,
Elizabeth , Katherine , Samuel Y . and Joseph , Samuel Y . Hunsaker being
the father of the above mentioned Robert Hunsaker .
John Hunsaker , born in Pennsylania , December 17, 1794 , moved to
Kentucky , where a son was born to him October 16, 1824 , who was named
Alexander . In the fall of 1829 the family came to Adams County , where
they settled in Liberty Township. Here Alexander grew up and in 1845 mar -
ried Mary L . Freeman , a native of New York . At the age of sixteen Alex-
ander Hunsaker began learning the blacksmith’ s trade at Liberty , and worked
at it until 1864 , when owing to impaired health he abandoned his trade and
engaged in general mercantile and milling business, conducting what was
known as Havanna Mills in Melrose Township. While the subjects of this
sketch have departed this life , a number of descendants are still among the
living .
Daniel Wilson Hunsaker , born September 25, 1820 , in Union County ,
Illinois , at an early age with his parents moved to Jefferson County , Missouri ,
in 1830. In 1834 the family came to Adams County , Illinois, where they
located in Fall Creek Township. July 3 , 1850, he married Frances Shuart ,
a native of South Bend , Indiana . March 27 , 1904, Mr . Hunsaker died , and
April 18 , 1906, his wife followed him in death . George Hunsaker , the only
son of Daniel Wilson and Frances (Shuart) Hunsaker , was born in Fall Creek
Township January 15 , 1984, and for sixteen years was a telegraph operator
on the railroad between Quincy and Louisana , Mo. , serving at every sta-
tion of the railroad known as the Louisiana branch of the C. , B . & Q . road .
He also worked in the same capacity on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
in Colorado . In later years he was town collector of Melrose .
Elijah Hunsaker celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birth
August 19, 1909, at the old settlers’ reunion , Clayton , Adams County ; he
died several years ago.

In a copy of this material which was included in the Memoirs of Weldon Hun-
saker , were found some notes written by Meltrude Hunsaker Stohl and Helen Hun -
saker Allen , we know not when .

Note: The Original of this document was given to Uncle John L . Hun -
saker , while he was visiting the adopted son of Lorenzo Hunsaker . That
copy had been sent to Lorenzo by some Hunsaker in Ill .
Note: Since we have definite information of the arrival of Hartman
Hunsaker and his family in the “ Record of German Emigrants to Penn -
sylvania’’ in the genealogical Library , We know that Hartman brought with
him , besides wife Anna , five daughters and one son , Johannes ; the family
as named in this document is very similar to the names in the Library record .
Note , the record of Daisy L . Morgan names the above mentioned Eli-
jah as her great uncle Elijah , born in Christian Co. Kentucky . The youngest
son of Joseph Hunsaker , who was a son of John and Magdalena Birg Hun -

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saker . 30 July 1911 , Elijah Hunsaker passed away at the age of 101 years,
2 months and 13 days , Elijah had been blind 40 years caused by a double
cataract . He was the father of 11 children.
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 II EUROPE
I believe that our Hunsaker family came from the area of Aarau , Canton of Aargau ,
Switzerland . All family traditions point to Switzerland . My grandfather Abraham was
absolutely certain the family came from Switzerland , said so in writing , and directed his
son Joseph to go to Aarau to look up genealogy . Abraham was most certain he was not
German . There are other Hunsaker families in the United States . Of those who arrived
about the same time as Hartman , the Valentine Hunsicker family came from Zurich and
settled in Skippack , just north of Philadelphia . The family of Johan Huntzinger came
from Rammelsbach , Germany and went to North Carolina.
In Die Hunsaker Von Aarau the Swiss name Hunziker has been traced back to the
year 822 and the Latin names Huncinga and Hunzo. The first Hunziker to be accurately
identified , and from whom the Swiss Hunzikers are traced generation by generation , was
Hans Hunziker , born about 1485 . Through his two sons , Niklaus and Hans , he was the
progenitor of a large and important family of which I believe we are a part .
To my mind , this is an astounding fact! Consider that figure a moment . That is eleven
hundred years ago , the world is still in the Dark Ages , the New World is still 670 years
from discovery . Just contemplating the year 822 sends shivers up and down my spine!
Although we have a shadow in the bright searchlight of truth we shine on this year to
find connection with our family , at least we have a light which very few other families
possess. I for one believe that light is real . I believe we have reasonable and correct right
to associate ourselves with that date , and family , and I am only sorry the viccissitudes
of health have prevented me from physically searching the area of Aarau and Aargau
for that one little connection . I hope some one who reads this will finish that quest
successfully !
The line of descent from Niklaus leads to a Johannes Hunziker , christened on 27
Jan 1695 , the year I estimate Hartman was born , who had a younger brother Jacob . In
the Swiss record Johannes and Jacob are listed with their baptismal dates but no further
information is provided . However , full information is provided for all their brothers and
sisters , as to whom they married , their children , and when they died . I believe the record
of Johannes and Jacob was not completed in the Swiss record because they had joined
a new religion , were considered a disgrace to the family , and were dropped from the family
records. The religious tensions of the times were intense . Families were torn apart , those
leaving the Established Church were persecuted , thrown in jail , their property confiscated
and dissenters were forced to leave their native land .
The chart of the descendants of Niklaus provides us with a most reasonable presump-
tion of our descent . The children of the first identifiable Hunziker were named Niklaus ,
Hans , Verena , Kungold and Ursula . It is most striking that our first US ancestor , Hart -
man , named his European born children Verena , Elizabeth , Ursula , Mary , Anna and
Johannes . To me , this similarity of names is such a strong and unique indication of con -
nection to Niklaus Hunziker that it simply can not be ignored . It is my strong belief our
ancestor Hartman named his children thusly to show his and their descendance from the
first identifiable Hunziker of Aarau , Switzerland .
In 1972 Horace Hunsaker , then Utah Family Historian , wrote the following to Bob
Hunsaker :
I have a little information that I am sure you will be interested in. We hired
a good Genealogist that can read German in Salt Lake. He [Starr ?] found a record

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 in the Salt Lake Library from Holland (Amsterdam) which stated that Hartman
Hunsaker and others served a jail sentence in Bern Switzerland , in 1728 , for leav-
ing the Catholic Church and joining the Mennonites. After they were released
their property was confiscated and they with their families were sent down the
Rhine River at their own expense. They got off the boat at the Palatinate and
spent about the next three years there . The record stated that they were helped
with their passage to America by the Dutch Government . Hartman gave as his
home address Katzbach , Bern , Switzerland . Our researcher is trying to find Hart-
man ’ s father and go on back .

There is a Kalbach at the Northwest corner of the Sursee (lake) just a few miles south
of Aarau . The Swiss history states that the Hunzikers came from various villages in this
area , especially Hunziken , from which they gained the name Hunziker . [The “ en ” en -
ding of the village name is replaced by “ er’ to indicate where a person comes from in
Swiss German . ] Aarau long ago was a major city and the focal point of people in a large
area.
Genealogist Starr later reported to Faun and Ruth that he “ had found information
that in 1728 Hartman , Jacob and Rudolf Honacre were imprisoned in Bern , Switzerland ,
their property confiscated and , when released from prison , they were deported because
they had left the established Church of Switzerland and became Mennonites. Starr can
not now provide the source of this information , presumably it is in the Genealogical Library
in Salt Lake City.
Bob reports that a Mrs . Helen L. Shaw also furnished this information to him from
records in the Salt Lake Genealogical Library but , like Starr , can not provide the source
of the information . I well know , unfortunately , that it is entirely possible to find infor -
mation , forget to note the source or make an error in notation , and never be able to find
that information again . I , and others , have diligently searched the library but can not
find the source of this information .
Bob provides the following additional thoughts on this subject , bolstering his belief
in the veracity of this unsubstantiated information :

From an intense study of what was happening around Bern at that time ,
I think Anna was also in the dungeon with Hartman and their children were
in an orphan’ s asylum .
At this time the Dutch Ambassador Runckel was in Bern . He intervened
on behalf of these imprisoned Swiss brethren with the Bernese authorities , of -
fering to deliver them for deportation to America if their wives and children
could accompany them . With the help of the English Ambassador , Lord Town -
send , his plan bore fruit .
The Bernese authorities, in an effort to effect their speedy departure, directed
that :
1. Those who are still imprisoned be liberated at once.
2. The reformed who are wedded to Mennonites be permitted to emigrate
with their spouses and also take their children with them .
3. All Mennonites , who have heretofore secreted themselves may , without
danger to themselves , appear openly and sell their possessions.
The Swiss Governnent imposed many fines and penalties to make sure they
[Mennonites] left Switzerland as paupers.

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 In 1979 I had Mrs. Hedy Schindler Belknap, a Swiss-born genealogist in Ogden , Utah
contact Herr Haudenschild , Director of the State Archives, Aargau , seeking information .
He provided a copy of the original family organization chart used by the compilers of
Die Hunziker Von Aarau , which was originally prepared by Merz Walther for the Wappen
Buch Der Stadt Aarau (coats of arms). He also provided copies of the Taufrodel VIII ,
1682-1749 ( name list ) which contains the record of the christening of Johannes and Hans
Jacob by Jacob Hunziker and Maria Lupoid .
There are several vague factors here: As we know , this was a period of great religious
upheaval in Switzerland and tensions were great between adherents of various religions.
At this time there were many people who were endeavoring to “ reform ” the Catholic
Church . They were not , in their beginnings trying to create new or different religions but
were only trying to improve the functioning and organization of the Catholic Church from
within . As time went on the reformers began going further and further from their original
purposes and eventually considerably different religions were created . At this point we
do not know for sure which Church Hartman left . We are entirely sure he eventually became
a Mennonite .
It was the custom of the Catholic Church , then and now , to give a child a saint ’ s
name as first name and a second name as the child ’ s own personal name . Suppose our
ancestor was named Johannes Hartman Hunziker ? Bob informs me that during this period
of religious upheaval it was often the case that when people left the Catholic Church they
dropped their saint’ s name which left only their own personal name . Thus , Johannes Hart -
man became Hartman Hunziker .
If you will very carefully read the explanation of the Swiss book as to (1) how the
named originated , (2) the names of the many places where the family originated , and (3)
the different spellings of names of people and places , I think you will agree with me that we
are trying to pin down a single definite name to a single definite place — and that just
can not be done . The Hunzikers originated as Hunzos , or Huncingas , and they came from
many tiny villages in the general area of Aarau , a village in the Canton of Aargau .

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 I don ’ t believe anyone has ever said the Hunziker family originally came from Aarau .
I think they eventually gravitated to Aarau , as the largest city in the area , from the several
very small places in the area where the family did come from originally . Die Hunziger
Von Aarau specifically lists three main areas generally south of Aarau which it considers
as possible family birthplaces (see p 3 of that book ) and specifically says on p 12, “ Hans
came from the Hunzikers of Sursee ” .
That Bern could appear of importance to Hunzikers’ origin is easy to see . It was
the major city of the area , it was the record- keeping city of the area , it was the religious
center , and it was where Hartman was jailed for being a Mennonite .
So , let ’ s all agree that the Hunziker family originated in the area slightly south of
a line drawn between Bern and Aarau , 50 miles apart , which will take in all the places
mentioned in any documents , traditions or letters, and that the City of Aarau became ,
and is , the focal point of the Hunziker family in Switzerland . Even L . Daisy Morgan said
Hartman came from Aarau .
In 1980 Mrs Belknap returned to Aarau to search for additional information but ap-
parently due to a misunderstanding did not acquire any information .
From the summer of 1984 to October 1985 I was in frequent contact with Carolle
Erne, a Swiss genealogist researcher in the City of Aarau . We had a great deal of cor -
respondence , and even telephone conversation , and I really thought she was going to find
the answer to our questions regarding Hartman . Unfortunately , such was not the case.

OTHER SWISS HUNZIKER NAMES

The Hunziker names Joseph Hunsaker brought from Switzerland in 1875 are now
filed in the LDS Genealogical Society in Salt Lake City . In 1977 Dianne Sheriff , a Utah
genealogist , was engaged by Faun and Ruth to search Hunziker genealogy in Aarau . She
returned with generally the same names as those provided by Joseph plus some additional
names .
I have selected from these lists those pages containing names that are of interest to
—
us Hans , Hartman , Ani , Anna , Ulrich . Rudolf , Martin . Although none of these names
can be correlated directly and accurately to Hartman , they provide a most tantalizing store
of information . These names follow .
Of these names , Number 122, Hans Hartmann Hunziker born about 1635 and Number
123 Ani Peter born about 1637 , really make me stop and ponder . We consider “ Hart -
man ” as the name of our first U .S. ancestor . I believe he could have been named Hans
(or Johans) , and we believe his wife’ s first name was Anna . The only fact that does not
jibe , and is undeniable , is that Hans Hartman would have been 96 years old when he
arrived in Philadelphia in 1731 . The following are other Swiss Hunziker names from LDS
church files in Salt Lake City , Utah:

119 Hans Heinrich 8 Nov. 1674 Kulm

120 Hans 2 July 1676
121 Anna Maria 21 Oct . 1677
122 Hans Hartmann about 1635
123 Ani Peter about 1637
Child :

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124 Ulrich 8 Nov . 1663
125 Hans Hunziker about 1639
126 Barbli Elsisser about 1641
Children:
127 Jakob about 1641
128 Jakob 16 July 1665
129 Rudolf 2 Sept . 1666
130 Hans 25 March 1668 i
131 Maria 20 March 1670
md . 5 July 1695 Samuel Muller
132 Hans 17 Aug . 1673
133 Samuel 12 March 1676
134 Jakob Hunziker 1638
Hans Hunziker md . 15 Oct . 1691
Anna Huber md . 15 Oct 1691
Child :
Barbara 13 Dec. 1691
Samuel Hunziker 18 April 1662
Barbara Zobrist about 1666
Child :
Hans Jakob 5 Jan . 1693
Ulrich Hunziker 8 Nov. 1663
Anna Falmann md . 17 June 1690
Children:
Susanna 17 Dec . 1693
Hans Heinrich 3 March 1695
1108 Hans Heinrich 12 Dec. 1723
581 Samuel Hunziker 24 Aug. 1690
1109 Anna Huber md . 4 Feb . 1722
Children:
1110 Hans Rudolf 4 Oct . 1722
1111 Elsbeth 7 May 1724
1112 Samuel 11 Sept . 1727
1113 Barbara 26 Oct . 1732
1114 Anna Maria 5 Aug. 1736
1115 Margaretha Weerli
1. wife 1696 Kuttigen
1116 Elsbeth Zubler md . 9 Nov . 1736
1117 Hans Jakob 15 Feb. 1728

THE COAT OF ARMS

The Hunziker Coat of Arms , which we have considered our own for many years,
1

is one to which we have no proven right as of this moment except through our connection
to the Hunzikers of Aarau . In 1875 Mrs. Gertrude Baird first provided the Coat of Arms
to Joseph and this reached the US as a pen sketch . In 1935 Meltrude and Orpha Hun -
saker Stohl had Mrs . Baird produce the Coat of Arms in its original colors. I do not know
the location of this colored example , or even if it is still in existence . Julius Billiter , a

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Swiss genealogist wrote , “ In all probability it belonged as much to your ancestral line
as to the people who have adopted it over here . ”
A description of the Coat of Arms , and a lengthy explanation of the development
of coats of arms in general , is contained in the document from the Historical Research
Bureau , but this document is so ambiguous that I have not included it here. Gene Shepherd
reproduced the Coat of Arms used here from the description.
Also , information compiled by the Historical Research Bureau of the WPA during
the Depression regarding various Hunsecker , Hunsacker and Hunsaker families , and us-
ed by Aleen Hunsaker Allen , is not presented as a document here because it is not only
very mixed up , but really amounts to little more than a “ vanity document ” I have spent
a great deal of time straightening out its information and that which pertains to our fami-
ly has been extracted and put in the proper place in this work .

PHOTOGRAPHS OF AARAU , SWITZERLAND

The photographs , which follow , were taken of the City of Aarau in the summer of
1984 by my nephew , Dr . Donald B . Croft , of Las Cruces , New Mexico . He and his wife
Jeanne found Aarau to be a most charming city , clean and neat as a pin , and the old
homes maintained in perfect condition . They noted a number of Hunzikers listed in the
telephone directory but , as they did not speak German , did not attempt to contact them .

THE COAT OF ARMS

DIE HUNZIKER VON AARAU
(The Hunzikers of Aarau)

As the keystone of my number two aim of providing a complete and encyclopedic

knowledge of all information available to me regarding the ancestry of other Hunsakers
descended from Hartman Hunziker , I present next material from the HUNSAKER FAMI-
LY BULLETIN of 1973 which recounts my meeting with Otto Hunziker from Aarau ,
Switzerland who provided me with a copy of the history book prepared by his family ,
DIE HUNZIKER VON AARAU , which has been translated by the Utah Family Organiza-
tion and by Lewis Hunsaker .
I very strongly believe descendants of Hartman Hunsaker are of the Hunziker Fami-
ly of Aarau and my reasons for that belief will be detailed at the end of the translation .
Guido Hunziker , in his introduction to this history welcomes Hunziker relatives near
and far who are lovingly seeking knowledge of their mutual origin . He especially hopes
the younger generation may be awakened to a deeper appreciation of a sense of tradition .
Herewith the translation to facilitate this appreciation by American Hunsakers.

HUNSAKER FAMILY BULLETIN

Vol. 2, No. 1 August 11 , 1973

In November 1972, Q . Hunsaker , who lives in Arizona , met Dr . Otto Hunziker ,

a veterinarian doing very modern and sophisticated research work on animal foods
for the Sandoz Company , a large chemical firm in Switzerland , in Tucson through
a mutual friend .
Otto , who spells his last name Hunziker , lives in the city of Aarau , in the Can -
ton of Aargau . I met Otto for the first time in a group of men and immediately pick -
ed out Otto as being a Hunsaker . Otto later looked through the History of Abraham
Hunsaker and , first , found the family coat of arms to be the same as his, then Abraham
reminded Otto of his grandfather , and Ben Hunsaker looked like Otto’ s father . By
this time , I was waiting for Otto to come to the picture of Hugh Hunsaker , son of
Newman . When Otto came to Hugh’s picture , he exclaimed that he had found his twin!
Q gave Otto a copy of the History of Abraham Hunsaker and His Family to
take back to Switzerland . In return , Otto sent a copy of Die Hunziker Von Aarau
(The Hunsakers of Aarau ) which arrived in June . This book written in German ,
presents many interesting things . The coat of arms is identical to that which we use .
Hartman Hunsaker left Switzerland because of religious persecution and this Swiss
book also recounts persecution against the Hunzikers because of their religion .
A map in this Swiss book , shows the area of Switzerland where the Hunzikers
were concentrated , and many of the names are the same as in Abraham’ s history.
Otto Hunziker was quite surprised to find relatives in the United States , way
out in the western desert , and said he would endeavor to find out more about the
migration of the Hunzikers from Switzerland when he got back to Switzerland .
A very striking thing in this Swiss history is that Hans Hunsaker , born about
1480 had two sons , Niklaus and Hans , and three daughters, Verena , Kungold , and
Ursula . The children of Hartmann , when he arrived in Pennsylvania in 1730 were:
Elizabeth , Verene , Ursula , Mary , Anna , and Hannes. Although we cannot connect
Hartmann to this Hans Hunziker , surely the reappearance of three names in Hart -

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man’ s children duplicating names in the family of Hans Hunziker , the first known
Hunziker in this Swiss history , gives a strong indication that there must have been
a connection . I believe Hartman -Hans was pointing the way to his ancestors through
his children ’ s names.
Hartman spelled his last name Hunziker , Huntseker , and other ways , even -
tually ending up the way we spell it now , which is probably the way it got pronounc-
ed most of the time . The names of children were spelled differently too. As few peo-
ple were literate in those early days in Pennsylvania , and the government officials
were probably rushed and discourteous when dealing with these immigrants , it is a
wonder any names came out correctly .
However , this brings up a thought . In all our searching we have never been able
to definitely link Hartmann with any ancestors. This Swiss book , the coat of arms ,
the resemblance of the people , the fact that the Hunzikers were protesting the Catholic
religion being imposed on them , seem to strongly indicate that Otto Hunziker and
his ancestors are closely related to Hartman Hunsaker . All the family names repeat
many times except Hartmann . Was “ Hartman ” a name or title? In German “ Haupt-
mann ” means “ Captain . ” Could , for example , our ancestor have carried the title
“ Hauptmann Hunziker ” which got translated and mispelled as Hartmann ? This at
least would provide a logical reason why we hit a blank wall when we try to go beyond
Hartman .

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 DIE HUNZIKER
VON AARAU

FAMILIENGESCHICHTE

EINES ALTEN AARAUER GESCHLECHTS

Aarau 1962

THE HUNZIKERS OF AARAU

Family History of an old Family of Aarau

This book was commissioned by the brothers Robert ( deceased ) and Guido Hunziker ,
written by Robert Oehler and printed by the firm of H. R. Sauerlaender & Co. in Aarau .

Introduction

My brother Robert Hunziker in Rheinfelden knew the many aspects of our closer family
relationships. He had the desire to gain a deeper insight into the relationships of the whole clan .
In 1957 he assigned Dr. Robert Oehler of Guemlingen to research and record the history of the
Hunzikers of Aarau . In that same year my brother passed away . He was not able to witness the
creation of the book .

His desire was a bequest to me . I renewed the assignment . It seemed worth the effort to
collect all the information available about the Hunzikers of Aarau and to show it in context .

In doing this the prevailing conditions of our hometown Aarau should be considered :
economical and political and their influence upon the family . Mr . Oehler has fulfilled this assign -
ment with the thoroughness for which he is known . He has shown an untiring thirst for know-
ledge. He has been very diligent . For all this I want to thank him at this time.

I owe a special debt of gratitude to my friend Professor Dr. Karl Schmid , old principal of
ETH, for the checking of the manuscripts , also to my cousin Gerold for his help in the designing
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of the book . The book about the Aarauer Hunzikers may now start its journey to those close
and distant relatives and other interested parties in city and country , who are filled with the
knowledge of their mutual origin and a love of their mutual hometown .

In the younger generation of our clan may it awaken and deepen a sense of tradition .

In any instance it will be able to give an overview of the clan whose roots can be traced
back to the middle ages. This may not represent an extraordinary family , but a family that
according to Gottfried Keller , belongs to the ‘"unmarked tribal wood of the nation .” This book
is dedicated to the grateful memory of my parents and my brother Robert .

Baden , AG , October 1961 Guido Hunziker

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 The Name

The family name Hunziker can without a doubt be traced back to a place name . In Swit-
zerland there are three places from which it can be derived : ( 1 ) The village of Hunziken in the
town of Rubigen in the Bern District of Konolfingen . ( 2) The hamlet Hunzikon in the town of
Geuensee in the Lucerne District Sursee on the slope of “ Hoehenzuges, ” which is the border of
the Suhrental in the east . ( 3) The small village of Hunzikon in the town of Waengi in the Nlurg
Valley of Thurgau halfway between Frauenfeld and Wil . *
Hunziken on the Aare is mentioned in a document of Sankt Gallen dating back to the 10 th
century: Bishop Eginold of Lausanne gave in May of 982 his own building at “ Huncinga in
pago Aregeuwe ” to the cloister of Sankt Gallen .

This village gave its name to the Hunzikcnbridge , the crossing of the Aare to Belp and the
Guerbe Valley .

Hunzikon near Waengi in Thurgau was formerly called Hunzikofen . The name of the
clan at Wil and the surrounding area and at Winterthur can be traced to it . Persons with this
name can be found between the 13 th and the 15 th century , Herr Henrich the Huntzinchower
was in 1271 at witness with the mayor of Wil . In 1407 Hans Hunzikofer , the miller at Bron -
chhofen near Wil , is documented .

Conrat der Huntzykoner was in 1313 a citizen of the city of Winterthur ; Heinrich of Hun -
zikon , kitchenmaster of the duke of Austria and mayor at Winterthur , is documented in 1405
and 1412.

As knights the city council clan of Winterthur has the name of the place with the origin
designation “ von ” ( of ). With all others having this name the place name was changed into a
family name by adding the ending - or

The place name itself , Hunzikon and Hunziken , the older form is Hunzingen ( Latin Hun
cinga ) can be traced back to the old German personal name of Hunzo. A Hunzo is mentioned as
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a witness in a Sankt Galler document issued in Stammhcim in 822.

1 Place names according to

the “ Ortsbuch der Schweiz ” ( Gazetteer of Switzerland ), pub-
lished by the PTT in 1928. and the Ortslexikon ( Gazetteer ) published by Jacot , edition of 1933
On the new map oi Switzerland there is a difference in spelling: Hunzigen bei Rubigen (Sheet
Muensingen ) ; Hunziken near Geuensee ( Sheet Sursee) and Hunziken near Waengi (Sheet Wil ).

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 *

The name of the settlement goes back to the first settler Hunzo and the clan named after
him , the Hunzinge .

A different interpretation traces the place name Hunzikon back to the official designation
Hunno , Supervisor or Captain of a hundred ( Latin centenarius or tribunus). An attempt has
been made to trace the place name back to the national name of the “ Hunnen ” (Huns). However ,
the derivation from the personal name Hunzo is the most simple and believable one .

The town of Hunzcnschwil between Suhr and Lenzburg (in 1201 : Hunzeliswiler ) received
its name from the same personal noun .

Hunzikon near Geuensee and the First Persons Named After It

In a document of 996 the village of Geuensee is mentioned for the first time as Geinwiesen
In records of gifts to the cloister of Einsiedeln of the 10 th to the 14 th century , is the note that
a nobleman Werner gave to the cloister farms near Geinwiesen and Huntzingen The first list of
income of the cloister of 1217 / 22 notes the gift of a pound of the farm of Hunzikon : “ de Hun -
zingin talentum . ” In another record of 1272 two farms (Shuposen ) are mentioned in Huntzin-
gin , which were leased by Ulrich of Aarburg to a priest .

The name of the village up to the 15 th century is Hunzingen . Later on , it is changed to

Hunzikon .

The large settler listing of 1331 lists also the income “ Heimo of Huntzingen gives from the
farm at Tuna 8 shilling , from the farm of Schoenis 2 shilling and from Mr . Hugcs farm of Muen -
ster 2 shilling.” In Wetzwil , a settlement located two kilometers north of Hunzikon , lived in
1324 a Nycolaus de Huntzingen who from his farm gave a “ Maker Spelt ” ( I am not sure what
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this means. A measure of something. Translator ) to the “ Stifts-schaffner ” (convent supervisor )
of Beromuenster . There also lived a Heimo de Huntzingen with 22 pfenningen tax ( or interest ) .

At about 1346 / 47 a Katharina de Huntzingen owned a farm at Wetzwil which had to pay
tribute to the city of Beromuenster. The same records show an H . ( Heinrich ? ) and Jo (hannes
de Huntzingen .

In Etzelwil , a village still further north near the Canton border between Lucerne and Aargau ,
a Rjchi of Krumbach had a farm . C (onrad ) in der Schuera and Johann Zimmermann were his
sponsors. A supplemental entry by a third person ( about 1400 ) mentions Johannes Rot as the
next owner and as his sponsor Jost Rot and Conradus Hunzinger

Since several persons with the name of Huntzingen live in Wetzwil in the 14 th century , can
this designation be interpreted as the family name ?

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PLACES OF RESIDENCE OF THE HUNZIKERS

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 Here again the older form is given with the preposition “ of ’ (von ). The younger form
with the ending -er about 1400. When the place name Hunzingen became Hunzikon , the family
name received the same form : Hunziker .

The spelling of the family names \vas at that time not strictly regulated but left up to the
opinion of the clerk until the 19 th century . Hence the records show the various spellings all
mixed up: z changes to tz ; k with ck and gck . Thus we find the various spellings: Hunziker ,
Huntziker , Hunzicker , Huntzigcker , etc . As can be said of family names which have been derived
from small settlements , the family name of Hunziker was first mentioned in the close vicinity of
the name giving hamlet of Hunzikon near Geuensee and has spread from there . At first , and this
already very early , the Suhren Valley downward to the villages of Reitnau , the two Leerau ,
Staffelbach , Schoeftland and Muhen ; in the side valleys to Kirch - and Scholssrued and to Botten -
wil into the valley of the Uerke , then turning east in the upper Wynen Valley to Gontenschwil ,
Leimbach and the two Kulm ; to the west into the valley of the Wigger , to Mauensee , Wauwil to
Zofingen and Oftringen .

The map of the old burgher places of the Hunzikers , which were found there as burghers
prior to 1800 and where their families were still represented in 1938 lists besides the already
mentioned villages the villages of Hendschiken , Unterboezberg , also Schwarzhaeusern and Wynau
in the Upper Aargau and Arisdorf in Baseband .

Population movements in the 19 th century led the Hunzikers to ten additional places, and
since 1901 to thirty more.

LEGEND FOR MAP ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF PAGE

* The name giving place - Hunziken near Geuensee

Former places of residence of Hunzikers , with the year when the family was first mentioned
there

• Old hometowns of the Hunzikers , still in existence

o Younger hometowns , Hunzikers became burghers in the 19 th century ( not marked are the
places where Hunzikers settled after 1900)

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The Council Clan of Hunziker of Sursee *

In close vicinity of Hunzikon , not quite an hour ( to walk ) lies the small city of Sursee ,
near the exit of the Sempacher Lake , founded by the count of Kyburg in the first third of the
13 th century . Here first mention is made of the council clan Hunziker .

P . X. Weber , the former city archivist of Lucerne , mentions in his paper “ To the Oldest
Family History of the City of Sursee ” as the first person of which the name can be documented
LLSBETH VON HUNTZINGEN She lived in 1361 as a Dominican in Neuenkirch near Sempach i
and 1390 as Priorin ( abbess of this small cloister).

At that time she purchased two farms at Geuensee for the cloister Her origin is not men -
tioned . However , at that time only members of nobility or city families were chosen as abbesses
of cloisters , thus it is reasonable to assume that Elizabeth belonged to the Hunzikers of Sursee.

The first person carrying the name known as a burgher of Sursee is Jenni Huntzinger ,
prefect in Michelsamt .
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The city of Sursee purchased in July of 1415 , shortly after it was conquered by the Lu -
cerners , from the barons of Gruenberg , the right to judge over Michelsamt for 650 guilders
Michelsamt was the district around the Cloister of Beromuenster , St . Michael . The city council
of Sursee appointed as prefect over this area their fellow citizen Jenni Huntzinger In January
i
of 1417 Prefect Jenni received from the city of Zuerich penal judicature , the higher jurisdiction
of Michelsamt . By paying the sum of 4500 guilders the city of Zuerich had received from King
Sigmund the penal judicature over all villages and towns which had formerly belonged to the
dukes of Austria , and was thus able to delegate part of it
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Jenni or Johann Huntzinger is mentioned in a document in connection with the abbot of
the Cloister of Beromuenster

He is probably identical with the Jenni Huntzinger , the innkeeper “ Zur Sonne ” (To the r
Sun ) in Sursee , who is listed in a “ Jahrzeitstiftung ” ( seasonal gift ) of his son -in -law Johann
Ulrich Schnider “ Zur Sonne ” and his daughter Gertrud Huntzingerin Also listed is his wife
Elisabeth and another daughter Anna Huntzinger. The daughters husband Hans Schnider was
mayor in Sursee in 1463. At that same time lived Uolmann or Ulrich Hunxingcr , who was mayor
in 1461 and with his wife Verena made a large gift .

A contemporary of Jenni ’s was Cueni von Huntzingen , who in the record of 1417 concern-
ing the Court rights of the Meierhofs of Sempach , is listed as a witness.

His name is in second place , right after that of the mayor of Sursee.

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 Other name carriers such as Werner de Huntzingen , Heimo de Huntzingen , Walter Huntzin -
ger , and Johannes Huntzinger the younger , are listed in the season book of the Church of Sursee
with their wives and daughters .

These entrees testify that in the 15 th century in the small city of Sursee the Hunziker clan
blossomed and was represented in the city council and had some importance .

The parish registers of Sursee , which are available from 1598 , show that the clan was still
living there at the beginning of the 17 th century .

In the city of Willisau a Bendicht Huntzinger is documented in 1561

A burgher of Willisau by the name of Kaspar Huntzigker , a tailor , was accepted as burgher
of Luzern in 1589.

The first Hunziker in Aarau can be documented about 1520. The main part of this book
deals with him and his descendants.

The First Three Generations:

Father of the Clan , Children and Grandchildren

The beginnings of the Hunziker clan in Aarau are in the dark , and little can be done to shed
light upon them

Only a single entry lists the name of the father of the clan . In the roll of the Severus
Brotherhood on page 11 the name Hans Huntziger is written on the margin

Prior to the reformation brotherhoods were well -liked ecclesiastical associations of priests
and lay members for the purpose of mutual worship services , to take care of graves , to read masses
for the deceased There were ten brotherhoods in Aarau . The roll of the Brotherhood of the holy
Severus or Severinus was started about 1516 and contains about 150 names of living and deceased
members .

Next to a few ministers and noblemen , as the priest Mr. Balthasar Hupli or Hans v . Hallwil ,
^
tiie majority are names of burghers. Hans Huntzinger ( 1 ) is entered next to the name of Ulli
Blaeuenstein . Perhaps he lived in his house or was in some other connection with him . From the
proceedings and following names no conclusions can be drawn .

1The numbers in parenthesis after the name of the family fathers refer to their number on
the pedigree and overview charts.

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 t

There is only one thing for sure , that is that the father of the clan lived prior to the intro-
duction of the reformation in Aarau . The entry was made between 1520 and 1525.

Nothing is known of him besides his name . Neither the reasons for his coming to Aarau ,
nor profession or home . Concerning his origin only guesses can be made . The oldest son Niklaus
married in the first marriage Dorothea Wirz from a well-respected family in Schoeftland . Perhaps
the Aarauer Hunzikers lived prior to this time in Schoeftland . However , any records that could
confirm this assumption , are not available there .
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On the other hand one could assume from the position of the sons in society - their quick
promotion to officers , the fact that Niklaus had his own seal and that one of his sons achieved
the highest office in the city , that of mayor - the Hunzikers could be a branch of the council clan
of Sursee . But again all proof is missing The question remains unresolved .

In 1880 in his notes of the family history , Hermann Hunziker -Springer mentions this prob-
ability concerning the origin of Sursee .

Tlie parish registers beginning in 1534 and other archive records of the city archive of Aarau
give some information about the second and third generation :

First we meet three Hunziker daughters: Verena , wife of Laurenz Staeglin or Imsteg , whose
six children are born between 1536 and 1546 ; then Kuengold with her husband Hans Brunner
and two children of 1 538 and 1544 , and finally Ursula as godmother at the baptism of Simon
Suter in April 1548 .

Then follow the two family fathers Niklaus with baptisms of nine children from July 1548
to June 1 580 from two marriages and Hans , who had his children baptized between July 1 55 1
and August 1567 .

All of the five name bearers may be considered as sons and daughters of the father of the
clan , Hans. Their births fall in the time between 1505 and 1525

More detailed information cannot be obtained , since there are no records of baptism and
marriages prior to the reformation . The season books ( Jahrzeitbuecher ) from time to time men -
tion the names of deceased relatives of the contributors, but no years.

NIKLAUS HUNZIKER ( 2) about 1510/ 20 to 1587 , presumably the oldest son of the clan
father , is the first Hunziker of Aarau , whose image is fairly clear . It is that of a respectable and
successful man , who besides his occupation served the city over four decades in different capa -
cities.

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 In 1544 his name is first listed on a tax list . At that time he was already married to Doro-
thea Wirz , for she is mentioned in April of 1544 as godmother of Hans Schmuziger as the wife
of Klaus Hunziker .

In 1547 Niklaus became a member of the court , 1550 as a burgher of the large city coun-
cil ; three years later he became a member of the middle council of the thirty and in 1566 in the
closer council . He received smaller offices such as that of a “ Stubenmeister ” (Chamber Master ) ,
Chorrichter ( ? ) , Einigers ( building master ). In 1561 he was given the important office of the
“ Seckelmeister ” ( treasurer ). He held this title from 1573 until his death .

As far a * the military is concerned , he was classified among the “ Scharwaechter ” (one
watching the group of people or group of soldiers) In 1561 he was a watchman at the Lauren -
zen Gate On the rolls ( Reisroedeln ) of 1 557 and 1560 he is listed as one who is equipped with
a spear In 1568 he is promoted to ensign . Most of these civil or military offices were voluntary
or rendered for a small remuneration .

His income must have come from his occupation , which unfortunately is not mentioned
in the archive records.

The tax lists show that Niklaus advanced economically and that his assets increased con -
stantly . His tax in 1544 was 4 shilling , in 1545 one pound or 20 shilling , in 1583 it increased
to 7 pounds. This would be equivalent to assets of 7000 guilders . From 1544 to 1 548 Niklaus
lived in a house on the old Ringwall near the Kaufhaus ( now a department store) , presumably in
the first house of the Pelzgasse next to the inner Laurenzen Gate . Heini Lengnauer , and then
Felix Goldenberg paid 18 pounds of rent to him ( Herrschaftszins). The tax records list before
and after him as neighbors: Squire Hans Wilhelm v . Muelinen , Agnes Hallwiler , Hans Buchser
and Margret Kallenberg , Squire of Wildenstein and Master Constans , the tanner . He was in good
company .

Two original letters of Niklaus Hunziker have been preserved in the letter collection of the
Zuerich State Archive , one of the 27 th of February 1549 to the mayor of Zuerich , Johannes
Haab , the second of 6 March 1549 to Heinrich Lochmann , the brother -in -law of Hunziker in
*
Zuerich .

The following can be learned from these letters: Hans Beat Holzhab, the son -in -law of
Mayor Haab , wanted to move with his family to Aarau , since he had had a fight with his brothers.
Through intermediaries he had purchased , for 500 guilders in the year 1548 , in Aarau the house
which Niklaus Hunziker had to sell . In accordance with the city laws of Aarau every buyer of a

1 Both letters are cited in full in the appendix of The Huntzikers of Aarau” ( pp . 173-176).

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house had to bring an affidavit from his hometown . Holzhab didn’ t present the affidavit , even
though the city council granted him extra time , since he had very respectable relatives in Zuerich .
He arrived with wife and child and four carriages of household goods in Aarau in the beginning
of 1549.

The rumor went around that Holzhab had been given a guardian in Zuerich and that he
was not able to spend his money without the guardian ’s approval .

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Hunziker now asked the mayor ( his brother in-law) in Zuerich for more information . The i
Aarau city council asked Gregor Wolffhart to be his counsel , who was to take care of this matter
with Holzhab ( Letter of the city council of Aarau to the mayor of Zuerich of 18 March 1549).
How this matter was resolved is not known .

It is certain that Niklaus Hunziker since 1 550 ( the tax list for 1549 is missing ) lived in the
second story of a house ( in the block surrounded by the Pelzgasse , the Rathaus and Kronengasse
He also owned a barn in 1578 with a walled yard near the Laurenzen Gate.

A small ( Urbar ) tax list shows Niklaus Hunziker as owner of a property tax (or rent ) of i

the Zuercherhof in Egliswil , which annually brought 3 “ Muett Kernen ” (grains). Of his orchard
near the Aar he paid in 1551 io the Spital of Aarau 2 pounds. The first letter of Niklaus Hunzike
contains , besides the signature in his own handwriting, a seal: a coat -of-arms with a climbing dog
and the initials N . H . (see page 172) . The second letter indicates the relationship with Lochmann
The letter was addressed to Heinrich Lochmann ( 1511-1571 ), Council and Flag Lord of Zuerich
who had married Mergeli Wirtzin of Schoeftland in 1 534 .

Mergeli ’s sister was Dorothea Wirz , the first wife of Niklaus. He married Anna Huber in a
second marriage. Ursula Huber , who is called stepmother of the son Samuel in 1594 and 1 598
can be considered as the third wife .

The minutes of the city council of Aarau recorded the death of its treasurer : “ In the be-
ginning of February 1 587 died Herr Niklaus Hunzikdr , treasurer . ”

Hans Hunzikdr ( 3) about 1512/ 20 to 1579/ 80 can be considered as the younger son of the
father of the clan , in spile of the fact that his name is mentioned for the first time seven years
^
before that of Nicolaus . In the first “ Vaetzzehntrodel ” is an entry that states that a Junghans
Hunziker paid 18 shilling rent for his field in place of Rudolf Imhoff . The name Junghans ( the
young Hans) can only have reference to a son of the father of the clan , Hans.

1 Listing of barrellmush tithing. The rent for ground on which legumes ( beans , peas, len
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tils) were raised , from which a well-liked mush was prepared , which was kept in barrels.

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 In the second “ Vaetzzehntrodel ” of 1542 Hans Hunziker is recorded several times and is
listed as a saddler. In 1556 and 1557 Hans was a fire watcher on the second floor . This floor
/

must not have reference to a floor in a house but to a certain part of the city . In 1571 he was
one of the judges in a trial .

On the tax rolls Hans Hunziker is mentioned for the first time in 1547, three years after his
brother . He lived in the house of his father-in -law , Urs Duerr , who was the prefect of Solothurn
at Goesgen and who , at the time of the religious upheaval in Solothurn , moved with his family to
Aarau .

In 1560 Hans paid 3 pounds interest from his farm near the Aar , which had been owned
by his father - in -law , the prefect Duerr .

His tax was 10 shilling in 1547 and climbed to 2 pounds and 5 shilling in 1560. In 1580
an additional tax is noted . In the following year the children of Hans are listed in the tax list .

He died presumably in 1579. His wife , Anna Ursula Duerr , died probably before him.

Both brothers, Niklaus and Hans Hunziker , took part in the great Aarauer festival of 1551 .

In response to an invitation of the Aarauers to Brugg on Shrove-Tuesday ( Fastnacht ) of 1540 ,

Aarau on the Tuesday next to the May Day of 1551 , on 28 April , invited the burghers of Brugg
as well as representatives of the cities of Lenzburg, Aarburg and Zofingen , as well as the nobility
and officials of the surrounding area . The guests were greeted by a delegation of the city council ,
among them Niklaus Hunziker , and accompanied to the Telli. The festivities and dinners took
several days. The dramatic story of Jephta was also performed under the open sky .

Hans Hunziker was among the burghers who watched from the tower and greeted them .
Both brothers are also mentioned among those burghers who served on the tables.

For their overnight stay the guests were , in accordance with their rank , distributed to the
various houses . The most prominent one came to the house of the mayor v Heidcgg and in that
of the city recorder , then in the houses of Jochem Schmuziger , Bastian Kueniger and Hans Haberer .
The house of Hans Hunziker was on sixth place . He had five guests: Jakob Blum , Hans Burkart ,
Ulrich Singenberg , Ulrich Knuchler and Ulrich Puerli . On ninth place , after Hans Lauber and Hans
Saxer , followed Niklaus Hunzikdr with six guests: Adam Ertlieb , Konrad Wyss , Lienhard Kraft ,
Heinrich Saegissenmann , Jakob Haus and Junghans Zimmerman . The houses of Rudolf Buchser
and Bastian Hammerschmied were mentioned after him .

This was one of the few great festivals on which the Aarauer burghers interrupted their day -
to-day chores and their work to enjoy with their guests some happy hours and to share their wealth
with them .
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 The city recorder Gabriel Meyer , which is called the most important city recorder of old
Aarau by Walther Merz , has described in the minutes of the city council this unique festival in
all its details .

Since both Hunziker brothers starting in 1550 until their death owned houses in the second
story , we want to list from the tax register of 1550 this entire section : Co ^
1) Cunrad Berwart , 5 shilling
2) Uli Hammerschmied , 3 shilling
3) Marti Pfaff , 3 shilling
4) Niclaus Hunziker , 1 pound 5 shilling
5) Uli Pcyer , 12 shilling
6) Meister Peter Hanz , 3 shilling
7) Cunrad Fellenberg , 10 shilling
8) Hans Huntziker , 14 shilling
9) Bartli Kramer , 4 shilling
10) Melchoir Richener , 10 shilling
11 ) Heinrich Wadtlich , 4 shilling
12) Jochem Schmuzinger , 2 pounds 5 shilling
13) Marquart Pfister , 1 pound
14 ) Hans Stuber , 3 shilling
15) Bastian Kuniger , 4 shilling
16) Hans Buchegger , 1 pound 4 shilling
17) Hans von Kulm , 1 pound
18) Urs Barger , 3 shilling
19) Uli Haas , 4 shilling

The third generation includes 21 grandchildren of the father of the clan , 15 sons and 6 dau -
ghters. We list here the name bearers of which more is known than just the name and the baptis-
mal date .

The pedigree in the second mainpart gives a complete overview .

The first son of Niklaus and Dorothea Wirz , Hans Rudolf ( 2a ) , born in 1548 , was obviously
called Hans and to differentiate from his uncle was called Junghans. In the tax lists from 1565 to
1567 a Junghans appears immediately after Niklaus, with a tax of 1 pound and 16 shilling. Accord
ing to the tax list of 1569 Junghans paid a tax of 2 guilders for the defense of the city . In 1572
he is mentioned among those who are equipped with an armour and a halpart . Nothing is men -
tioned about him after 1572. He died single or moved away from Aarau .

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 Katharina born in 1552 , the first daughter of Niklaus , married Hans Kyburz from an Aarau
family that is first mentioned in 1401.

Three other daughters can be put in the gap between baptisms of 1552 and 1562: Mar -
garctha born about 1553/ 55 , the wife of Leonhard Kasthofer , whose father , the coppersmith
Leonhard Kasthofer , was adopted as a burgher in 1572. Dorothea , born about 1557/ 58 , the
first wife of Hans Rudolf Imhoff , of the older Aarauer branch . She died prior to 1598. Barbara,
born about 1559/ 60 , the wife of Jakob Baerwart , who in 1590 and 1591 was the mayor of the
city .

Niklaus ( 4 ) 1563 until 1627 inherited his father ’s abilities . He was first given smaller
offices , Kaufhausmeister (overseer of the store) , meat estimator , and caretaker of the church .
He became treasurer in 1597 , a year later governor (StatthJter) of the mayor and in January of
1600 mayor . Alternately with his predecessor Isaak Koelliker and later with Heinrich Eger ,
Niklaus was the first Hunziker to hold this highest office of the city during seven turns in office
until 1627.

Some documents issued during his tenure , bearing his seal , have been preserved. In the
weapons list of 1582 Niklaus is listed as a bearer of a rifle and in 1589 as the owner of a musket.
In 1597 he participated on the Aarauer expedition to Muehlhausen . He became Flag Lord in
1603. He is first listed in the tax list in 1584 , at the end of the last circle on the Ringwall . After
the death of his father he moved into his house on the second story . According to Rychner’s
Genealogy , he received as a gift , while renovating his house , a window with the coat -of -arms.

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 Hunziker Pedigree

Introduction

To avoid too many names and dates in the text , this pedigree has been added. It contains,
according to individual families, the names and exact biographical data of the Hunziker marriage
partners and their children , in addition biographical notes , source references.

The family fathers and husbands carry a number ( 1 - 205) according to their position
within the fourteen generations. The children in their groups of brothers and sisters have been
designated with a letter in lower caps. All godparents are given for families 2 and 3. Down to
die eighth generation only those godparents are mentioned which came from the Hunziker
Family or which give special information .

The sons who got married have at the end of their line a number , under which they appear
as husbands . Single sons and all daughters are designated by the number of their father and their
position letter .

The most important genealogical sources for the families of Aarau are the original parish
registers in the city archive . They start in 1534 with baptismal entries , 1544 with marriages and
1673 with deaths. They are replaced in 1876 by civil registers . Hereto are added the official
burgher registers of the city started in 1820 , and the family registers started in 1928.

The city archive possesses two private handwritten genealogical books for the Aarauer
families: Daniel Rychner 1790 - 1849 has in his Burgher Register of the City of Aarau from the
oldest to the present times , for the first time compiled pedigrees of the Burgher Families. Wilhelm
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Hcmmeler 1843 1915, a clerk in Aarau , has in years of volunteer labor indexed all parish reg -
isters up to 1816 The loose leafs are filed according to families in folders and in 24 boxes . This
Family Register of the City of Aarau indexes the parish registers and gives an overview of the
contents of the originals.

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The Coat -of Arms Book of the City of Aarau by Walther Merz 1868 1938 , printed in
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1917 , contains besides the coats-of arms and seals pertinent historical explanations about every
generation and practical abbreviated pedigrees up to 1800.

A pedigree with an historical introduction and overview concerning the living Hunzikcrs
is found in volume VII of the Swiss Family Book ( Schweizerisches Geschlechterbuch ), 1943 ,
pages 783-791.

Checked besides the genealogical sources were the documents from the printed document
book and many archive records of the city archive. Many council manuals from the 16 th to the

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 18 th century. Also Orphan books , apprentice books, records about the trades, commerce and
some tax records, etc. Also the folder “ Hunziker ” in the family records of the city archive.

The tax records were checked systematically for the time from 1534 to 1797 for Hunziker
entries. Thus it was possible to determine the year of death for most of the family fathers , even
.
for the time prior to the beginning of the death records , at least approximately The fact that
from a certain year on taxes are paid by the wife and children instead of the husband gives an
indication of the year of death . The tax records also indicate in which area the taxpayers had
their residence .

More exact information about the houses has been able to be obtained through the
“ Herrschaftszinsrodel ” ( tax records of the landowners) , as far as they have listed the houses in
the city and their owners They have been prepared in the following years : No. 6: 1536 ;
No . 7: 1578 ; No . 8: 1591 ; No . 9: 1603 ; No . 10: 1625 ; No . 11 : 1633 ; No. 12: 1642; No. 13:
1651 ; No. 14: 1660.

Besides sources in the city archive of Aarau and a few pieces in the state archive , two fam-
ily archives of the Hunzikers have been checked . One of the family archives of the branch of
Johann Georg by Gerold Hunziker in the Laurenzenyorstadt and that of the Berner branch by
Mrs . Ruth Hunziker PhD in Bern .

The individual sections of the pedigree are organized as follows:

The. name , the number of the individual family father and the relationship (son of ) , the
date of birth ( prior to 1800 the baptismal date ) and the death date. Age in years (j), months
(m ), weeks ( w), and days ( t ) are added , if they are contained in the parish registers prior to
1875 . Then in key words occupation , as far as known , the officers with year . From the tax
registers (St ) the residence , and length of time the family father is mentioned there . In parenthe-
sis the amount of the first and last tax in pounds and shillings , after 1750 in guilders and farthings .
Then follows what can be taken from the Herrschaftszinsroedeln ( Hzr ) from the time from prior
to 1660 concerning the houses of residence and those who owned them prior to and after the
time owned by Hunzikers .

The information about the place and date of marriage introduces the section for the wife ,
second and third marriages are included . Then follows the child group with the names and dates
of birth and death. With the married sons also the name of the wife and the number of sequence .
With the daughters their marriage date and information about the son -in -law.

The name by which the person is called is set in italics. At the end are data about the
genealogical sources and short critical remarks. The following signs and abbreviations are used:

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With the dates: * - born ; —— —
christened ; oo married ; o /o
godparent ; . . . . date or place missing
— divorced ; t — died ; P —

——— —
St A City Archive Aarau ; St Tax REgister (City Archive III , No. 36 51);
Hzr Herrschaftszinsroedel (City Archive III , No 62)
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—
BR Burgher Register of the City ; FR Family Register ( both located in the civil registrar’s
office in Aarau )
—
Ry Rychner ’s Burgher Register (City Archive IV , No . 4 )
He - Hemmeler ’s Genealogy Book (City Archive IV , No . 5)
Mz - W Merz , Pedigree Hunziker in the Coats-of - Arms Book of Aarau , 1917

Father of the Gan

HANS HUNZIKER ( 1 ) , born ( about 1480/ 90)

In Aarau prior to 1 S 26 Mentioned only once in the register of the Brotherhood S Severi
at Aarau , about 1 S 20 / 25 -

Wife unknown

Children ( Sequence uncertain )

a ) Niklaus , born ( about 1 510/ 20) ; died February 1587 ; oo 1 ) Dorothea Wirz , — 2

b) Hans , born ( about 1 51 5 / 20) , died about 1579/ 80; oo Anna Ursula Duerr , — 3

c) Verena , born . . (prior to 1520), wife of Laurenz Staegli or Zumsteg; they have six
children baptized between August of 1536 and February 1546

d ) Kuengold , born . . . ( prior to 1 520) , wife of Hans Brunner , ( they have two children
baptized between 1538 and 1 543)

e) Ursula , born . . . ( about 1 525 ) , mentioned as godmother of Simon Suter 15 April 1548

Mz , The History of the City of Aarau , p. 128; Coats-of -Arms Book , p . 131 ; Sta ; Brotherhood
list D 1 , No. 17, p . 11 .

The origin of the father of the clan is uncertain The social position of the sons , their relationship
with tiie Wirz of Schoeftland and Prefect Duerr as well as the quick advancement of the descen-
dants in the council and the office of mayor leads to the assumption , that Hans came from the
Hunzikers of Sursee.

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-
—
HANS HEINRICH IIUNZIKER (43), Sohn von Hans Rudolf ( 24) und Anna Ehr
sam. Aarau , 21.Marx 1652, t
Seckler (Sattler )
... ( um 1689)

St : Ringmaucr 1673-1687 ; III. Stock 1688/1689 (100 bis 1 U )

..
oo ( vermutlich ) I ) . ( um 1674 )

—
ANNA BAUR , Tocbter des Georg Baur und Margreth Scnger
Aarau , 17. M 5 rz 1644
oo II ) ... (vermutlich um 1684 )

—
SARA KYBURZ, Tochter von Josua und Susanna Pflegel
Aarau , 23. Dezember 1660
& ie co II ) Aarburg, 16. August 1695 Jakob Fahlmann , von Aarburg PERTINENT
— —
Kinder , Aarau , von I :
..
——
a ) Hans Jakob , 4. Juli 1675, f . ( vor September 1679)
b ) Johanna , 18. Februar 1677
c) Hans Jakob, ~~ 13.September 1679 ( P. Hans Jakob Hunzikcr )
d ) Daniel, 3. Dezcmber 1682
GENEALOGY
PAGES
t> on II :
e) HANS HEINRICH,
— 5. Juli 1685, f 15. Februar 1764

——
<» .Anna Katbariua Buefi, = 67
f ) Katbarina , 16.0ktober 1687
g ) Hans Rudolf , l . Januar 1689, lebt vermutlich 1725 nls Schulmeister zu
Waltbeim bei Landau ( Pfalz )
.
Ry, He 42, Mz Nacb Mx Sobn von Hans Heinrich (27 )

FELIX HUNZIKER (44), Sohn von Ham Rudolf (24) und Anna Ehrsam
— Aarau , 29. April 1655, f ... ( urn 1688)
-
St : I. Stock 1677 1689 (10 0 )
co Aarau , 15. Januar 1677

— —
MAGDALENA KYBURZ, Tochter von Josua und Susanna Pflegel
Aarau , 21.0 klobcr 1655

—— —
Kinder ,
a ) Felix ,
b ) Anna ,
Aarau :
25. Dezember 1678
4. April 1680 ( P: Jakob Hunziker , Metzger )

—
Sechsie Folge

— ——
c ) Hans Jakob, 12. November 1682
d ) Josua, 5. Januar 1684
e) Johanna , 1. August 1686
f ) Katbarina , 12. Mai 1689
( HANS ) JAKOB HUNZIKER ( 45), Sobn von Hans Heinrich (26 ) und Anna Maria
Camper , Aarau , 30. April 1654,\ Aarau , 14. August 1705, 52 j.
Metzger , zu Burgern 1704, Cborrichter 1706
St : IV. Stock 1675 1689 ; Ringmauer 1690 1704 (3 U bis 5 U 10 0). 1704-1719
- -
Ry, He 39, niebt Mz seine Frau
co Aarau , 31. Mai 1675
206

— —
MARIA LUPOLD, Tochter von Samuel und Katbarina Frank
Aarau , 31. Mai 1657, f Aarau , 19.0 ktobcr 1719, 62 j .

-—
Kinder , Aarau :
a ) Daniel , 14. Mai 1676, f Aarau , 24. August 1704
...
——
b) Jakob, 17. Februar 1678, f 1696
c) HANS GEORC, 5. September 1680, f 18. Januar 1766
°° Maria Jakobea Rychner, = 68

— ——
d ) Katharine , 23. Juli 1682, f ... ( vor Juni 1696 )
.
e ) Hans Heinrich , 13. April 1684, f . . ( vor Miirz 1701 )
f ) Samuel, 24. April 1687
g ) Anna Maria , 8. Dezember 1689 ( P: Daniel Hunziker )

——
co ... Johann Anton Frey, 1668, von Lenzburg
*
..
b) SAMUEL, 12. April 1692, f . 1773; co Margaretba Jenner , = 69

——
i) Johannes ,
k ) Katbarina ,
27. Januar 1695

Bern , Salzkommissar in Aarburg

..
14. Juni 1696 ; <o ( vermutlich ) . April 1720 Abraham Jaggi,

—
1) Hans Jakob, 12. Dezember 1697
ra ) Hans Heinrich , 13. Mara 1701, f Aarau , 8. November 1767, 67 j. 8 m ., ledig,
des Rats ( P: Heinrich Hunziker )
Ry, He 37, Mz

—
HANS RUDOLF HUNZIKER (46 ), Sohn von Uriel ( 27 ) und Ursula Pfaff
..
Aarau , 5. Februar 1671, f . ( vermutlich um 1693)
Schulmeister in Erlinsbach (1690 1693) -
co Erlinsbach , 4. Juli 1690

—
MAGDALENA RICKLI von Brugg, Tocbter von Balthasar und Barbara Beck ,
Brugg, 23. Juni 1665

—— —
Kindts , a Erlinsbach , b-d Aarau :

—— —
a ) Johanna , .. Marz 1693 ( P : Hans Heinrich Hunziker )
b ) Barbara , 1. September 1695
c) Magdalena , 14. Februar 1697 ( P: Magdalena Hunziker )
d ) Veronika , 10. April 1698 ( P : Hieronymus Hunziker )
Ry , He 44, niebt Mz. Laut Ry Sobn von Hans Rudolf (45)

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 POSSIBLE LINE OF DESCENT FROM HUNZIKERS OF AARAU

Ancestor Marriage Spouse

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Rudolph 22 Jul 1548
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Katharina 6 May 1552 1580? Hans Kyburz
Margaretha 1554? -1597 ? 1581? Leonhart Kastoferer
Dorothea 1557? 1587? Hans Rudolf Imhoof
Barbara 1559 ? 1593 ? Jakob Barwart
Samuel 18 Jan 1562- 1568
Nicklaus 25 Jul 1562 1627? Maria May
>NICKLAUS Second marriage 1565? Anna Huber
Burkhard 7 Jul 1566 - 1580 ?
Samuel 15 Aug 1568-1612 Barbara Buser
*> BENDICHT 4 Jul 1574 -1630 1593? Barbara Tufelbeiss
Bendicht 21 Jul 1594
Madlena 24 Sep 1595 9 Sep 1614 Johan Wyss von Brugg
Barbel 15 May 1597
Sara 17 Nov 1599
^ HANS HEINRICH 15 Feb 1601-24
Susanna 27 May 1623 -Oct 1626
Jan 1656 1622? Susanna Schmuziger

Jakobea 24 Jul 1625 1650? Elias Dysli

Susanna 29 Oct 1626 - May 1631
5 HANS HEINRICH 28 Sep 1628-1673? 1651 Anna Maria Gamper
Jakob 30 May 1652-Apr 1654
b HANS JAKOB 30 Apr 1654-14 Aug 1705 1675? Maria Lupoid
Daniel 14 May 1676 - 24 cLAug 1704
Jakob 17 Feb 1678-1696
Hans Georg 5 Sep 1680-18 4 Jan 1766 Maria Jakobea Rychner
Katharina 23 Jul 1682-Jun 1696
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Hans Heinrich 13 Apr 1684 Mar 1701
Samuel 24 Apr 1687
Anna Maria 8 Dec 1689 mrd
Johann Anton Frey
Samuel 12 Apr 1692
d 1773 mrd
Margaretha Jenner
1JOHANNES 27 Jan 1695 1713 Anna
Verena 1714?
Elizabeth 1715?
Ursula 1717?
Anna 1718?
A Mary 1721?
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Infant 1730-1731
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Katharina 14 Jun 1696 Apr 1720 Abraham Jaggi
Hans Jakob 12 Dec 1697 Eva Catherine
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ct W * Verena 1516? Laurenz Stagli
* Kungold 1517? Hans Bruner
NjJrsula 1520?
7 NICKLAUS Third marriage Ursula Huber
No children

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON EARLY HUNSAKER HISTORY

Researcher Charles H Starr has compiled some additional information on

the early history of the Hunsaker family. In addition to The Hunsakers of Aarau ,
his sources were GS Book Ref 289.703m 527e Vol 1 , page 5, and GS Book 943B2hc
“ Hessenische Chronik . ” The written name of Hunziker also can be traced back
to 982 AD when a Bishop Eigenold from Lausanne , Switzerland received money
or quit rent of a Huncinga of the Kloster of Sankt Gallen , Zurich , Switzerland .
The Hunsaker coat -of -arms was formed by Jenni Huntzinger in the early 1400’ s
at Zurich .
Variations of the Hunsaker name spelling include: Hunsaker , Hunziker ,
Hunsiger , Honacre, Hounsinger , Huncinger , Huntziger , Hunsinger , Huntzicker ,
Houtzger , Hoondsacker , Hunsecker , Hunsgkar , Hensiger , Heinsucker , Huntz-
inger , Huntzigcker , Hundsiker , Huntdsger , Handsucker , Houtziger , Untziker ,
Ondsicker , Utzecker , Heuntsikare , Hoonsakier , Huntsequer , Hoonsquere, Gun -
sacker , Guntziger, Goontsaquer , Gundseckquer , Huindsequer, Huncinker , Chun-
saker , Shonzicker , Hudseckgr , Hottsicker , Hoknsecker , Hogniziger , Utinger
Hohntziker , Hunzinger , Huntzaker , Huntsaker , Hohnsooker , Hunsucker , Gund -
tsoocker , Heundzocker , Uhonsiger , Huntzohker , Huntzohker , Huntsickere ,
Huentseckier , Hunsackier , Hohnsingker , Huntseckger , Hoondzekair ,
Huntzigckere .
—
French spellings Hounsquere , Honsecaire , Honseqaire , Heunsequare ,
Hoondsicgur , Houhnsekquar , Hounskcaire , Hohnsacre , Hondzeaire, Ounzakar .
—
German spellings Huntziger , Hunsicker , Huntzinger , Hohnsiger , Hunds-
inger , Utzicker , Heinsecker , Hundtsicker , Gunsicker .
—
English and American common spellings Hunsaker , Hunsicker , Hood -
sacker , Hunsecker , Huntsinger .
Italian spellings Hohnsicqur , Huntsigker , Hunsackier , Huntzigcker .
—
Information compilied by Genealogist Starr on the early emigration of Hun -
sakers from Rotterdam , Holland to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania appears in tabular
form on page 13.

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DEPARTURE FROM SWITZERLAND

The first stop for many Swiss who left Switzerland during this time of intense religious
contention was the Rheinish Palatinate , in what is now Germany . Beginning in 1527 this
became a place of refuge for many Swiss and German Religious dissenters , and they became
known in general as Palatine Germans. From here, after stays of varying lengths of time,
the refugees made their way down ( northward ) the Rhine River to Holland . (Map and
description of Palatinate) i

PALATINATE

PALATINATE , ( pa lat ih nayt ) , was the name of two little countries of

the old German Empire . The two Palatinates were one political unit until 1620.
One was called Upper Palatinate , or Oberpfalz . The other was called Lower ,
or Rhenish Palatinate , or Unter pfalz . Pfalz is German for Platinate. The name
Platinate once referred to a castle of the German emperor .
Powerful princes of Germany , called the “ counts palatine , ” owned the
Palatinate and districts belonging to it as early as the 1000’ s. The Upper and
Lower Palatinates were separated by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 . The Up-
per Palatinate, bounded chiefly by Bohemia and Bavaria, was given to Bavaria.
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The Lower Palatinate , on both sides of the Rhine , became a separate electorate.
A further settlement was reached at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. Bavaria
was given the largest part of the Palatinate . The rest was divided among Baden ,
Hesse-Darmstadt , and Prussia . i
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AMSTERDAM

Our refugee ancestors reached Amsterdam sometime before June 1731, for in Amster-
dam document No . 2274 it is noted that “ Hartman Huntinger , wife Anna and seven
children ” made a Request for relief to the Mennonite Organization there and were pro-
vided with passage to the New World . This is great information , but footnote No . 47
on the same page says “ ... The name is also given as Martin Hunsecker ” . Thus we first
run into a problem that will recur upon Hartman’s arrival in Philadelphia , and will become
the basis for the first difference of opinion between Bob and I .

This important information is copied from “ The Pennsylvania Germans , ” GS Bk

974.8 B4pg Vol , p. 192.

The Mennonites

A year later , August 29, 1730 , the Thistle unloaded among others, Chris-
tian Leman and Heinrich Lukebill . On board the Alexander and Ann , which
arrived the following week , were Conrad Stamm , Heinrich Klemmer and Johanes
Klemmer , During the year 1731 there arrived on various ships the following who
seemed to be Mennonites, Jacob Mumma , Martin Hunsecker , Christian Lehman ,
Hans Heinrich Martin , Jacob Rohr , Dorst Hoste , Jacob Snevely , Abraham
Halshuaus , Johannes Eschelman , Henry ...

47. The name appears in a Palatine list of June 23 1731, of prospective Penn-
sylvania emigrants who require help as Hartman Huntinger with wife and seven
—
children . The full list of prospective emigrants is as follows Casper Schurger ,
Christinn Lerman , Hartman Huntinger , Jacob Snebel , all with families: the
following as young men — Abraham Althaus , Hans Eshelma , Christian Hofer ,
Daniel Hofer , Jacob Moyer , Jacob Rohr and Hendrick Blucher : the remainder
are young women — Veronica Martin , Catherine Perkin (? ), Maria Solilnger .

50a. All these names except that of Jacob Mumma are found in a Dutch
document in the Amsterdam Archives , number 2274 • • ••

This document contains a second discrepancy , and the second point of difference
between Bob and I , the number of children who left Holland and the number who arriv-
ed in Philadelphia. Hartman requested assistance for “ wife and seven children ” . The
ship arrival list names Hartman and Anna and six children .
Susie Hunsaker Elmore , of Overland , Mo. , stated to Bob and me that there has long
been a tradition in her family , Abram and Mary Jane Sneider Hunsaker , that Hartman
and Anna had a baby girl born in Holland who died during the voyage to America and
was buried at sea . Bob does not accept this family tradition . It appears only in Susie’ s
family , it is not known in other Illinois Hunsaker families nor in the Utah family . However ,
Susie most emphatically believes it , and I believe stated family traditions should be
considered .
Bob believes that Catherine was born in Europe after John’ s birth , therefore in about
1730 or 1731 , and was counted in the Request for Relief in Amsterdam but , as she was

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still a baby in arms when the family landed in Philadelphia , she was not counted , thus
dropping the count to six children upon arrival , He also bases his belief on the fact that
Catherine had a son born in the U .S. in 1747. Thus she would had to have been born
in 1729-30 in order to be 17 or 18 at the time her son was born.
Of 123 ships arriving between 1727 and 1748, 50 captains listed the ages of their
passengers , and of these , only five listed any one under one year of age . Our Captain
Steadman settled on the 16th year division point . So long as he was listing children “ under
16 ” I do not believe he would skip one because it was a baby. Steadman certified that
he brought 175 Palatines but only provides names of 172. Did three die during the voyage?
I believe Catherine was born immediately after the family arrived . If the unknown
baby was born in 1730-31 , Anna could well have had another baby in 1733 . This would
thus make Catherine 14 when a baby was born to her in 1747 , which was not impossible
in those days or now.
From Amsterdam the family went to Rotterdam . There , in July 1731 , they embark -
ed in the British sailing vessel , Pennsylvania Merchant , which then sailed to Dover , England
[apparently to comply with English requirements for immigrants to enter the American
Colonies ] and then began what must have been a horrible three months’ voyage to the
New World.

And , from the other side of the coin . If the Hartman born in 1695 is not our first
US ancestor , who is? Almost from the time he arrived here with his family — who soon
got married , started raising families , and started making their livings in America , some
of them began wondering just exactly how they had gotten to where they were? — their
history; who had been the people behind them ? — their genealogy . They began writing
down , generally in the only place they possessed where writing had a chance of remaining
in existence for a long time , their family bible , I believe that of all the sources of family
information , the family bible is the true source stone . We are fortunate to have so many
bibles as the basis for our information search. They are hard to read , some have been
used as “ practice paper ” by young children learning their ABC’ s , but we have them . As
our ancestors acquired land , they created governmental records of their doings. And govern-
ments create taxes and tax records create lists of taxpayers and then lists of all people
called censuses.
All these records have been searched out and poured over by Hunsakers for many
years. Families of Hunsakers in Illinois, Utah , Pacific Northwest , Pennsylvania , East Coast
and West Coast all have come up with the same beginning ancestor
— Hartman . And ,
those of us who trace back to Hartman , also trace back to Switzerland , and a number
have gone back to the town of Aarau , from where I implicitly and whole heartedly believe
that our Hartman came from .
In all these years , with all these researchers , no one has ever come up with a different
first US ancestor but Hartman , and no one has ever traced our roots to any other place
but the town of Aarau , Canton of Aargau , in Switzerland .

THE VOYAGE TO THE NEW WORLD

An account of the rigors of such a voyage in such a sailing vessel is provided by a

man named Mittelberger who wrote letters about his voyage which are reprinted in
Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1727-1775 , Hinke , Vol 1

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 Pennsylvania German Pioneers

In England there was another delay on one to two weeks , when the ships
were waiting either to be passed through the custom house or waiting for favorable
winds. When the ships had for the last time weighed their anchors at Cowes or
some other port in England , then , writes Mittelberger , “ the real misery begins
with the long voyage . For from there the ships, unless they have good wind ,
must often sail eight , nine , ten to twelve weeks before they reach Philadelphia .
But even with the best wind the voyage lasts seven weeks. ”
The third stage of the journey , or the ocean voyage proper , was marked
by much suffering and hardship . The passengers being packed densely , like her -
rings, as Mittelberger describes it , without proper food and water , were soon
subject to all sorts of diseases , such as dysentery , scurvy , typhoid and smallpox.
Children were the first to be attacked and died in large numbers. Mittelberger
reports the deaths of thirty- two children on his ship. Of the heartless cruelty
practiced he gives the following example: “ One day , just as we had a heavy gale ,
a woman in our ship , who was to give birth and could not under the circumstances
of the storm , was pushed through the porthole and dropped into the sea , because
she was far in the rear of the ship and could not be brought forward . ”
The terrors of disease , brought about to a large extent by poor food and
lack of good drinking water , were much aggravated by frequent storms through
which ships and passengers had to pass . “ The misery reaches the climax when
a gale rages for two or three nights and days, so that every one believes that
the ship will go to the bottom with all human beings on board . In such a visita -
tion the people cry and pray most piteously. When in such a gale the sea rages
and surges , so that the waves rise often like mountains one above the other , and
often tumble over the ship, so that one fears to go down with the ship ; when
the ship is constantly tossed from side to side by the storm and waves , so that
no one can either walk , or sit , or lie , and the closely packed people in the berths
—
are thereby tumbled over each other , both the sick and the well it will be readily
understood that many of these people , none of whom had been prepared for
hardships , suffer so terribly from them that they do not survive .

CONCLUSIONS

In view of the information thus far presented , I have come to several conclusions
which I would like to present in order to envision some of the major happenings of this
time in our ancestors’ lives.
1 . We are of the family described in Die Hunziker Von Aarau .
2 . Our first U . S. ancestor was christened Johannes . When he joined the Mennonites
he may have changed his name to Hartman , that may have been his second name or a title.
3. Hartman , Jacob and Rudolph Honacre were deported from Switzerland after be-
ing jailed and were dropped from their family records for becoming Mennonites.
4. I believe an infant was born in Europe prior to July 1731 who died at sea during
the journey to Philadelphia .
5 . The name “ Hartman ” became confused with “ Martin ” because of language pro-
blems. I believe Hartman is the name of our ancestor .

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 And now , sad news. My great and good friend Bob Hunsaker died on Oct . 2, 1991.
His wife Edna tells me that before he died Bob came to agree with my conclusions except
he estimated Hartman was born in 1691. There is no Martin of interest to us in the
Amsterdam -Philadelphia times , Katzback is not of interest , but Bob did not fully accept
the Johannes-Hartman name theory.

This information presents confusing problems in names and numbers , and another
difference of opinion between Bob and I . The name “ Martin ” is not one connected often
with our family. It appears for the first time in 1731 and once more in a record of land
in Philadelphia in 1734 , and then never again that I can find . The name Hartman appears
here in writing the first time in 1631 , and is written twice in this record . It appears seven
more times in various people traced down from this Hartman in my research , and now
for the eighth time in the name of my grandson Cameron Hartman Geroux , born in 1991.

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 Chart of the Travels
of the Family in Europe

Dover , England
AMSTERDAM Martin Hunsecker/
* Hartman Huntinger
Arrived 1731 applied for Mennonite
To Philadelphia born
- Infant name assistance , 23 June
Arrived 10 Oct ,1731 Rotterdam
Sailed on
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1730 31 » un -
1731 » to emigrate to
Penna with wife and
r.Infant died known
children
at sea PENNA MERCHANT 7
Jul 1731

Date of Rhine Journey unknown

Y/ eisbad en
Family arrived 17 9 ^
John born 22 May 1728
Departure date unknown

Switzerland
Aarau
Hartman born 1695?
Anna born . 1697?
3ern Msrried 1713?
Rudolph , Jacob & Verene 1714?
Hartman ’ Elizabeth 1715?
1728, property con
fiscated , and
- Anna 1718? -
Ursula 1717?'
deported Mary 1721?

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 Ill ARRIVAL IN THE NEW WORLD
The effects of this terrible voyage upon the hapless refugees is provided by an
eyewitness of the time , Mittelburger , in his account of the physical condition of the im -
migrants upon arrival and the rigors of the process by which the immigrants were allowed
to enter the New World .
Copied from Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1727-1775 , Hinke , Vol . 1 , pgs xxxiv , xxxv .

When at last the Delaware River was reached and the City of Brotherly Love
was in sight , where all their miseries were to end , another delay occurred . A health
officer visited the ship and , if any persons with infectious diseases were discovered
on the ship , it was ordered to remove one mile from the city . As early as 1718 ,
Dr . Thomas Graeme was appointed to visit and report on all incoming vessels.
But no reports from him are on record until the year 1738. On September 14 ,
1738 , Governor George Thomas laid before the Board the reports of Dr . Graeme ,
“ setting forth the condition of four ships lately arrived here from Rotterdam
and Amsterdam ; And it being observed from one of the said reports that were
the Passengers on Board the ships Nancy and Friendship allowed to be immediate-
ly landed , it might prove dangerous to the health of the Inhabitants of this Pro-
vince and City. It is Ordered that the Masters of the said Ships be taken into
Custody for their Contempt of the Governour’ s Order , signified to them by Thos.
Glenworth , pursuant to a Law of this Province , to remove to a distance of one
Mile from this City , and that they shall remain in Custody till they shall give
security in the sum of Five Hundred Pounds each , to obey the said order and
not to land any of the passengers Baggage , or Goods , till the Passengers shall
have been viewed and Examined , and until they shall receive a Licence from
the Governor for so doing . > > 2 6
The Governor urged at this time that a hospital be erected for sick passengers,
but the Assembly refused to act until an epidemic broke out in the city of
Philadelphia. Then the Assembly voted to buy Fisher Island , at the junction of
the Schuylkill with the Delaware . The island was bought in 1743. On February
2, 1743, Governor Thomas approved a bill27, passed by the Assembly , for the
purchase of this island of three hundred and forty-two acres, with the buildings
on it , to be used for a hospital . The name of the island was changed to Province
Island , and as such it appears on the map of Philadelphia , which we present .
The erection of an adequate hospital was , however , delayed until the year 1750.
How serious conditions were and how many of the sick passengers died ,
after being brought to Province Island , appears from a statement of Jacob
Shoemaker , and undertaker , which he handed in to the Council on November
14 , 1754:
“ An Accompt of the Palantines buried this year .
For Alexander Stedman 62
For Henry Cepley 39
For Benjamin Shoemaker 57
For Daniel Benesett 87
For Michael Hilligass 8
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 Jacob Shoemaker upon his affirmation saith the above acct of Burials since
14 Sept , last is exact & read from his Book & the Acct of Coffins except those

from Michael Hillgass which he thinks may be 6 or 8 more.

Jacob Shoemaker .
Affirmed before me , Nov. 14.175428
Chas . Willing .
26. Colonial Records, Vol. IV, p. 306 f
27. L.C. Vol. IV, p. 638
28. Preserved with the ship — lists of the year 1754. The persons for whom the passengers were buried were the
Philadelphia merchants to whom they were consigned.

PENNSYLVANIA — A RELIGIOUS HAVEN

The history of William Penn and his Colony of Pennsylvania where the Society of
Friends , (Quakers) found the religious freedom they could not enjoy in England , is well
known . Less known is the fact that thousands of German -speaking protestants also found
religious freedom in the new colony . Some German -speaking Mennonites first went to
the Mohawk Valley in New York State but friction developed there with the Dutch and
the English . When Penn heard of this he offered them a haven in Pennsylvania . Penn
was greatly impressed with the first group of German-Swiss Mennonites. They were highly
industrious , hard working , sincere in their religious beliefs and , unlike the Quakers, will-
ing to face the hardships of settling a wilderness . Penn later sent emissaries to Europe ,
particularly to the Palatinate , to invite more Mennonites to Pennsylvania . This resulted
in a mass migration of Swiss-German Mennonites. Eventually there were many more Swiss-
Germans in Pennsylvania than English -speaking Quakers. The German and Swiss Men -
nonite emigration from the Palatinate began in 1683, reached its flood tide in 1727-1750,
and stopped in 1788. The best figures available state that from 1727 to 1788 a total of
324 ships arrived in Philedelphia carrying 65 ,040 German and Swiss immigrants, mainly
Mennonites , from the Palatinate . The original Quakers generally settled in “ The City of
Brother Love, ” and in the area northward of Philadelphia . The Mennonites were will-
ing to go westward into the wilderness and settled in Lancaster County and later in York
County .
When Philadelphia was first settled , all the land outside the city and county of
Philadelphia was considered the “ Conestoga Wilderness ” and no one really knew its boun -
daries. In 1682 Philadelphia and Chester Counties were formed . In 1729 Lancaster was
formed and for a long time it included land West of the Susquehanna , which was under
Conestogo Indian domination and was also called Conestoga . In 1749 York County was
formed of the land West of the Susquehanna . Before the time York County was formed ,
some settlers, mostly Mennonites , began crossing the river and squatting on the West Bank
of the Susquehanna . This disturbed the Penns , who maintained excellent relations with
the Indians by their fair dealing with them . The Penns purchased the land from the In-
dians in 1736 , and then validated the claims of the squatters who had settled in the area .
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 settled the French and Indian War against the British , and
established the boundaries of the recently established United States of America by the
“ Proclamation Line ” which ran along the backbone of the Alleghenes.

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 MAP OF AMERICA IN 1763

Germantown , then a village north of Philadelphia , is now a completely swallowed -

up suburb . In the 1700’ s it was the gathering place for , as its name indicates , the German -
speaking immigrants arriving in Philadelphia , and apparently was also a gathering place
for the Mennonites . There are some indications that the basically English Quakers were
not too friendly with the basically German -Swiss Mennonites so it could well be that this
slight geographical separation promoted better relations between the two groups.
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 MENNONITE DIVISIONS
After arrival in Lancaster County and later spreading to York County , the Mennonites
suffered separations from their ranks. Although the Mennonite religion was , and is , an
extremely strict one , some of its members in 1735-60 came to believe the Mennonites were
becoming too worldly , too lenient in their beliefs and too materialistic. As a result , many
Mennonites joined other religious groups following even stricter standards. These other
groups, perhaps in descending strictness of doctrine and severity of life , were the followers
of Conrad Beissel who set up the Cloisters at Ephrata , the Amish , and the Society of
Brethren (Dunkards) .
The Ephrata group built a monastery-like commune where they practiced a rigid
discipline and lived in a completely independent but elemental fashion as a self -contained
community . They sought no contact with the outside world but freely provided hospitali -
ty to any traveller who requested shelter .
The Amish , who followed Jacob Ammon in 1693 away from the Mennonites , form -
ed their own society which still foregoes the use of modern conveniences. There are many
Amish in Pennsylvania , particularly in Lancaster County , although many later migrated
to Ohio and Indiana .
Location of Dunkard Churches
i?03
Schwsrze.nsu , Germany
*
1719
Germantown , Pennsylvania
4
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1732
Conestoga , Lancaster County
* Coventry

1760
Manheim Township , York County
Michael Danner
175
West Manheim Swatara
?. Himmel 1768 ?
1769 Franklin County
White Oak Michael'Danner
C Longnecker
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1772?
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Michael Danner •

1772
Conestoga

1784
Fayette Co » , renna
Phillip Danner ?
1797
Muhlenberg Co , , Ky
Stump ?
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1808
Union County , Ill
George Wolfe
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1822
Adams County , Ill
George Wolfe
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Lower White
1841
Tulpehocken , Pa
Oak Oak
851
White Oak

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 The Dunkards or Society of Brethren , of which society our ancestors became members ,
were perhaps the least strict . They were founded in 1708 by Alexander Mack in
Schwarzenau , Germany . The first group arrived in Philadelphia in 1719 and moved
—
westward ; the Mennonites into Conestoga and Pequae . Dunkards were originally Bap-
tists (Anabaptists or Wiedertaufen ) but separated from that church because they came
to believe in triple immersion , once each in the name of the Father , the Son and the Holy
Ghost . Their only religious book was the New Testament which they interpreted very strictly
“ as it reads ” .
At first the Society of Brethren ( Dunkards) wore no particular garb to differentiate
themselves, did not forego the few conveniences available and allowed themselves the
pleasures of social gathering and singing . In later years , the Dunkards began adopting
stricter standards of dress and conduct and began punishing those who failed to conform
by “ shunning ” them . Perhaps this was done in an effort to maintain their tightly closed
society in the face of increasing numbers of people who accepted more worldly philosophies.
In 1978, the Dunkards were a small society of about 240 , 000 members, mainly located
in Ohio and Indiana .
Some writers classify the Mennonites and Dunkards as practicing communal living
or communism. Nothing I have read confirms this and the special ability of the Hun -
sakers , even though devout Mennonites and Dunkards , to acquire property for themselves
and to create businesses wherein they performed services for others for a fee , strongly
belies such a classification . This is not to say however , that there was not a very high
degree of cooperation among the members and a sharing of their provender with those
who had too little . The typical community barn raising is a perfect example of this fine
cooperation .
Our certainty that Hartman was a Mennonite is reinforced by the fact most of his
associates were Mennonites. Jacob Keagy , who married Barbara Miller Bieri after Nicholas
Bieri died , was a Mennonite minister at Heidelberg , and John Welty , who married Eve
Cocghenhower , was a Mennonite elder . Hartman ’ s son John presumably was raised as
a Mennonite but joined the Dunkards sometime after 1760 when Michael Danner Sr . ,
broke away from the Mennonites and became the leader of the Dunkards in Manheim
Township , York County. All of John ’ s principal associates were Dunkard leaders or
ministers. Abraham noted in his journal that Jacob Sr . , and Jacob Jr . were “ members
of the Dunkard Society ” . The names of John and both Jacobs figure prominently in
Dunkard Histories.

THE LISTS OF PALATINE IMMIGRANTS

Because of its extreme importance to our understanding of the affairs of the times
and to our certainty of our ancestors identities , presented below are pertinent excerpts
from Pennsylvania German Pioneers by R . B . Strassburger p VII .

Pennsylvania German migration and its part in the settlement and develop-
ment of America form an epic tale of faith and zeal , of sacrifice and achieve-
ment . The story has been told and the Pennaylvania German pioneers have come
into their rightful place as builders of our nation . But the task of giving a com -
plete list of the passengers, their signatures and the names of the ships that brought
them to Philadelphia has remained unfinished . The purpose of this publication

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 is to finish these lists , which are the most exhaustive of their kind . They meet
a need keenly felt for many years. Their historical value to posterity is further
enhanced by the fact that of all the American colonies , in Pennsylvania alone
were such lists made , although uncounted thousands came to this country from
the old world through other ports in the East and South.

It early became a matter of concern to these Englishmen that so large a body of con -
tinentals , speaking another language and accustomed to another form of government ,
should be admitted to the land , even though they came by invitation . Therefore , in 1727 ,
the Provincial Council passed a law requiring all continentals who arrived at Philadelphia
to take oaths of allegiance to the British crown . Two years later the continental immigrants
were required also to take oaths of abjuration renouncing the Catholic Church .

p VIII
There were three lists: those kept by the captains of the ships; the lists of
the signers of the oath of allegiance and of the signers of the oath of abjuration .
The captains lists were prepared carelessly . Few gave complete lists of names,
and the occupations of the passengers and the places of their origin were ignored .
The lists were handled indifferently and many were lost . The oath of allegiance
lists were incomplete , in that they they contained only the signatures of the adult
males who did not happen to be ill on the day they had to sign their names.
But the lists of the signers of the oath of abjuration were preserved in bound
books and in their complete state these lists are printed in the present work for
the first time. Allegiance lists were incorporated in the Provincial Council minutes
from 1727 until 1736 and were published by the State of Pennsylvana in 1852
under the title of “ Colonial Records ” .

The Colonial Records are presently preserved for our use as the First Series of
Pennsylvania Archives. We are most fortunate that our ancestors arrived in 1731 , during
the time these records were kept. As Strassburger now recounts the manner in which the
lists were created , let us remember that our ancestor Hartman arrived on the ship “ Penn -
sylvania Merchant ” which was only the fifteenth ship to have its passengers recorded .
Our ancestors were fortunate in that Captain Steadman was one of the few captains who
treated his immigrant passengers in a kind and courteous fashion and endeavored to lessen
the rigors of their rough voyage as much as was possible .

p XXVII
Internal evidence shows that the two lists of signature (Lists B and C) were
made before different clerks , seated probably at different desks. This can be
inferred from the fact that when the passengers were unable to write and the
clerk wrote the name for them , the same name is often spelled two different ways
on the two lists. Besides, the chirography of the clerks differs on the two lists.
These facts show that there were two clerks , each superintending the making
of one list .
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 Printed Passenger List

4^ Pe German Pioneers

[ List 15 A ] Account of Palestine Passengers on board of y*

Pensilvania Merchant , John Stedman , Commander , from Rot -
terdam , at the day of their arrival at Philadelphia , September
y* 10th 1731.
Pennsylvania Merchant ( 7 31 43
Lunr.ui t> jyvt r
MEN ABOVE SIXTEEN
Hans Martin Schults
Michail Gybert Rooloi Kusman
Michail Kcrer Johannes Reymert
Michail Moll Nicholas Fuys
Adam Kremer Laurence Rod
Fredrick Wilshevt Conrad Koogh
Hartman Huntseker Jacob Mumma
Bartel Kooker Melchier Wilsteyts
Jacob Lanius Adam Sower
Pieter Smit Michael Giger
Abraham Saler Johannes Shaak
Nicholas Reymel Engelbert Lak
Martin Bogher Johannes Gerich Smith
Gerich Hendrick Hans Michael Horloger
Christian Smit Borket Kilmiere
Hans Jerick Kelyenar Johannes Bischof
Jacob Steenar Andreas Meyer
Christian Wivser
•
WOMEN ABOVE 16 YEARS OF
Johannes Diel
AGE
Abraham Freeman
Frederick Gybert Anna Maria Rygcn
Frederick Stroubcl Barbel Bischof
Christian Smit Barbel Selern
Gerich Meyer Margarite Shilling
Gerich Bergstraser Margarite Smit
Johan Hendrick Smit Anna Smit
Barent Arent Clove Stroublen
Christophel Moll Julian Laamsen
Valentine Shults Crceto Car
Frans Kryke Cathcrina Kar
Jacob Kryke Lucrctia Wildhcydt
Hendrick Kremer Magdalena Wildhcydt
Balscr Scler Barbara Wildhcydt
John Nicholas Steymutch Barbara Egling
John Adam Egling Anganias Rcymcrt
Christophel Beyer Margaret Kusman
Jacob Tilsover Barbara Snyder
Johan Schinkel Katrina Kooker
Valentine Snyder Eliz. Krcemer
Philip Beyer Eliz. Krcemer
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 Pennsylvania German Pionee rs
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An I ins S \ berr Jerick Beyer
Marilis Sybert Carrina Be \ er
Sabina Gybcrt Johann es Steynmu tch
Catrina Gybert Lenard Srevnmu tch
Eliz. Gybart Jacob Schults
Eliz. Rod Catrina Beyer
Eliz. Lak Johann es Koog
Katrina Vilsover Julian Koog
Charlote Stadlevc n Maria Horloger
Katrina Feter Maria Milderen
Helena Feter Anna Huntseke r
Katrina Feter Ursul Huntscke
Crete Kelgenna Meyer Huntseke r
Eliz. Porkhold cren Hannes Huntseke r
Maria Kortson Abraham Arent
Maria A rent Frederick Kelgenar
Anna Smit Michael Feter
Anna Huntseke r Katrina Feter
Frena Huntseke r Conraed Moll
Eliz. Huntseke r Margarit e Moll
Frenech Horloger Maria Stadleren
Annabaer t Hoog Catrina Stadlere n
Margarite Beyer Anna Vclsovcr
Cathrine Shultson e A 'lagdalcna Lak
Eliz. Shultson e Magdalen a Fuys
Katarina Smit Catarine Rood
Magdalin a Eselman Margarite Rood
Maria Fobsinga ren Julian Gybert
Catharin a Steynmut ch Barnet Gybert
Rosina Moll Sabina Gybert
Margarit e Moll Mathias Gybert
Anlyas Moll Godlicb Gybert
Maria Bcyercn Cathrina Sybcrt
Magdalen a Stoudcn Gcrich Sybcrt
Catherin a Stoudcn Eve Kreeme r
Leona Islcwood Christia n Kreemer
Joanna Fetter Adam Kreemer
Maria Kreemer
CHILDREN UNDER THE ACE
Laurenc e Kooker
' OF 16
Christia n Kooker
Hendrick Beyer Heinrich Kar

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 Printed Oath of Allegiance

Pennsylvania M frchant I J J 1 45
Christian Knr Margarire Zeeiie
Gerich H end rich Kur Jacob A rent ^
Lliz. Wiltheydr Catrina Arent K

Frederich Wiltheydt DAVID Arent *

Jacob Mumma Maria Fuys

Margaret Mumma Anlies Sybcrt
Frederich Mumma Christina Kreemer
Rosin a Smit In Number of Men , Women - and
Johanna Zeelie Children 175.

Philad 5* Sep1 1 ili' 1731 .

In Presence of the Honb!eye Lt . Govr , S. Grifnts Esqr , Mayr,
W. Allen E $qr.
The above List was sworn to by the Master.
John Stedman.
Rob Charles, Cl . Con.
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“ At the Courthouse at Philadelphia , Septr nth , 1731. . . .

A List was presented of the Names of Fifty seven Palatines ,
who with their Families, making in all One hundred &: seventy
five Persons, were imported here in the Ship Pennsylvania Mer -
chant, Jno. Stedman , Master , from Rotterdam , but last from
Dover, as by Clearance from that Port.’ ’ From Minutes of the
Provincial Council , printed in Colonial Records , Vol . Ill , p.
413 -
[ List 15 B ] Palatines imported in the Ship Pensylvania
Merch1, Jn° Stedman , Mr , from Rottr, but last from Dover.
Qualified Septr 1 I t h 1731.

Michael Geberth Jerg Hen rich

Michal Feder Christian Schmid
Johan Michel Moll Hans Gorg Kelchncr
Hans Adam Kremcr Jacob ( J ) Steiner
Friedrich \ Vulhci_t Christian Wcisscr
Hartman ( X ) Hunsecker Johannes Diehl
Johan Bahrtel Gucker Abraham ( +)
Freeman
Jacob Lanius Friedrich Geberth
Peter ( PS ) Smit Strubcl
Friedrich
Abraham Sahler Schmidt
Christian
Johann Nicklaus Rei [ mel ] Johann Georg Mayer
Martin Boger Johann Gorg Bcrgstrossrr

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VJ Pennsylvania German Pioneers ’

Johann Hennrich Schmidt Rulut ( RC) Cabman

Johann EcrnJt Arndt * Joannes ( • ) Rymert
Chrisrofrel Moll Nicklas Fu >>
Valentine ( -— ) Shults
Frantz Kruck
—
Laurence ' ) Roodt
Conrad ( C K ) Koogh
Johan Jacob Kruck Jacob Mumma
Henrich Kramer Melcher Wisthokz
Bairzer Sevier Adam Sauer
Johann Nicklaus Steinmerz Michael ( X ) Gyger
Hans Adam Eychelen Joannes Shank
Christoff Beier Johann Engelbertt Lack
Johann Jakob Woltzhoffer Johann Geors Schmidt
Johannes Sch [ en ] kel Hans Michael Horlacher
Vallentin Schneider Burkhart Kullmcr
Johann Philip Beyer Johannes Bischofr
Conrad ( S ) Sybert Andreas Bever
Hans Martin Schultz
Printed Oath of Abjuration
[ List 15 C ] Palatines Imported in the Ship Pensylv1 Merch *
Jn° Stcdman , Mr, from Rottr , but last from Dover.
Michael Geberth Abr 3 ( + ) Freeman
Michel Fcder Friedrich Geberth
Johan Michel Moll Friedrich Strubcl
Hans Adam Kremcr Christian Schmidt
Frid rich Wuheiti Johann Georg Mayer
+ Martin ( X ) Jlunscck 'vr '
Johann Gorg Bergstrosser
Johan Bahrtel Gucker Johann Hennrich Schmidt
Jacob Lanius Johan Bcrndt Arndt
Peter ( P S ) Smit Christoffel Moll
Abraham Sahler Valentine ( O ) Shults
Johan Weis Frantz Kruck
Martin Boger Johan Jacob Kriick
Jerg Heinrich Henrich Kramer
Christian Smid Baltzer Sevier
Hans Georg Kelchncr
.
Johann Nicklaus Stcinmetz
Jacob ( X ) Steiner Hans Adam Eychelen
Christian Wcisser Christopf Beier
Johannes Diehl Jacob WoltzhofTcr
• For the descendants of John Bernhard Arndt see The Story of the Arndts, by
John Stover Arndt, Philadelphia , 1922.

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Johann Phipp Beyer
Conrad ( S ) Sybcrt
Hans Martin Schultz
Rului ( R C ) Casman
Joannes ( \ ) Rybert
Mich1 ( X ) Gcygcr
Joannes ( -? ) Shaak
Johann Engelherrt Lack
Johan Georg Schmidt
Burckhart Kullmer (

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Laurence ( 4 ) Roodt
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Conrad ( C K ) Koogh Andreas Bcvcr
Jacob Mumma 1

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the several Foreigners whose names are contained in this 2c the
preceding Page. 1
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 So, now that we understand how the lists came about , let us look at the lists themselves
as presented by Strassburger in Pennsylvania German Pioneers. List 15 A is the captains’
list , in printed form , of those passengers who arrived on the “ Pennsylvania Merchant
on 10 Sept . 1731 . List 15 B is the Oath of Allegiance , in printed form , signed on 11 Sept
1731. List 15 C is the Oath of Abjuration , in printed form , signed on 11 Sept 1731 . Hand -
written List 15 B is a facsimile of the original handwritten list prepared by one clerk of
the names of those who signed the Oath of Abjuration . Handwritten List 15 C is a fac-
simile of the original handwritten list prepared by another clerk of the names of those
who signed the Oath of Abjuration . Lists 15 B and C prepared by the clerks were signed
by the passengers but the clerks wrote in the name for those passengers who could not write .

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND ABJURATION

The following are copies of the Oath of Abjuration in which the signers renounced
adherence to the Catholic Church ; and the Oath of Allegiance to King George the Se-
cond , rather than to King James the Third , both of whom were claiming to be the rightful
King of England . Immediately following the texts of the Oaths are the names of the signers ,
again presented in the form of two lists , and again presenting the names of Hartman and
Martin . This material was copied from Pennsylvania Archives , Series 2, Vol . XVII , from
the original writing contained in Colonial Records.

NAMES OF FOREIGNERS
Who Took The
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE,
1727-1775
The following list of foreigners who took the oath of alegiance to the crown
of Great Britain and the Province of Pennsylvania , from the year 1727 to 1775 ,
with those to the State from the close of the Revolution , have been in part printed .
The originals in the possession of the Commonwealth having been badly mutilated
by searchers for untold fortunes , it has been deemed advisable to publish the
entire record under the athority of the State and the lists have been carefully
compared and collated . To make the same of permanent value a complete index
of surnames is given . In some few cases , the entire list of ship’ s passengers is
preserved with the ages of all. Originally these were furnished the proper
authorities, but unfortunately one by one they have been abstracted . Owing to
the large influx of foreigners , especially German and Swiss , it was deemed ad -
visable to compel all to take the oath of allegance which was at the first as follows:
I . A B, do solemnly & sincerly promise & declare that I will true & faithfull
to King George the Second and do solemnly , sincerly and truly Profess Testifie
and Declare , that I do from my Heart abhor , detest & renounce as impious &
heretical that wicked Doctrine & Position that Princes Excommunicated or depriv-
ed by the Pope or any authority of the see of Rome may be deposed or mur -
thered by their subjects or any other whatlate , State , or Potentate hath or ought
to have any power ., soever . And I do declare that no foreign Prince , Person ,
Pre-Jurisdiction , Superiority , Pre-eminence, or Authority Ecclisiastial or Spiritual
within the Realm of Great Britain or the Dominions thereunto belonging.

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 I . A. B. , do solemnly sincerly and truly acknowledge profess testify & declare
that King George the Second is Lawful & rightful King of the Realm of Great
Britain & of all others his Dominions & Contries thereunto belonging , and I do
solemnly & sincerly declare that I do believe the Person pretending to be Prince
of Wales during the Life of the late King James , & since his Decase pretending
to be taken upon himself the Stile and Title of King of England by James the
Eighth or the Stile and title of King of Great Britain hath not any right or title
whatsoever to the Crown of the Realm of Great Britain , nor any other Dominious
thereunto belonging . And I do renounce & refuse any Allegiance or obedience
to him & do sollemnly promise , that I will be true and faithful , & bear true
Allegiance to King George the Second & to him will be faithfull against all
traitorus Conspiracies & attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his
Person , Crown & Dignity , & I will soe my best Endeavors to disclose & make
known to King Geroge the Second & His Successors all Treasons and traiterous
Conspiracies which I shall know to be made against him or any of them . And
I will be true and faithfull to the Succession of the Crown against him and the
said James & all other Persons whatsoever as the same is & stands settled by
An Act Entitled An Act declaring the Rights & Liberties of the Subject , & settl-
ing the Succession of the Crown to the late queen Anne & the Heirs of her Body
being Protestants , and as the same by one other Act Entitled An Act for the
further Limitation of the Crown & Better securing the Rights & Liberties of the
Subject is & stands Settled & Entailed after the Decrease of the said late Queen ,
& for Default of Issue of the said late Queen to the late Princess Sophia Eloc-
toress & Duchess Dowager at Hanover the Heirs of Her Body being Protestants
and all these thing I do plainly & sincerly acknowledge promise & declare , ac-
cording to these express words by me spoken , & according to the plain & com -
mon sense and understang of the same Words, with out any Equivocation , mental
Evasion or Secret Reservation whatsoever . And I so make this Recognition ,
Acknowledgement , Renunciation & Promise heartily willingly and truly .

All males over sixteen years of age were obliged to take this oath and declaration ,
as soon after their arrival as possible — being marched to the Court House , although
in a number of instances they were qualified at the official residence of the magistrate .
In 1731 Philadelphia , the Hunsaker port of entry was a small but sophisticated city
that marked the year by opening the first public library , ordering the first fire engine ,
and beginning construction on what was to become Independence Hall . We are very for -
tunate that our ancestors arrived in Philadelphia which was the only port that required
captains to make a list of their passengers’ names . We are also fortunate that Captain
Steadman listed the names of all his passengers , not just the males as many captains did ,
and provided some indication of ages of passengers.
Pennsylvania was the preferred destination of most of the immigrants who left the
Old Country because of religious dissension and persecution , because of the Penn Brothers’
willingness to accept religious dissenters and provide them a place where they could live
in freedom , Immigrants who arrived at other ports, Boston , New York snd Baltimore
also came to Pennsylvania to seek religious freedom . In particular , many Swiss and Ger -
man Mennonites went to Pennsylvania when they ran into religious discrimination and
oppression by the Dutch in upper New York State. Some of the other Colonies were very
severe and strict upon those whose religion did not conform to the dominating religion

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 NAMES OF FOREIGNERS
Who Took The
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE ,
1727-1775
LIST OK POIIKXONBRS IMPORTED IX TIIK SUIT PENNSYLVA
NIA MERCHANT, JOHN STKDMAX. MASTER , FROM HOTTER
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DAM. QUALIFIED SKP. .1 1 , 1 W 1 .

Michael Geherth ,
Peter Smit ,
Michael Fcriur,
Abralmm Sahler,
H'omen ’ j names abate sixteen .
Johan Nie.hu Weiss, Martin Iloger, Barbel Bischof , Anna Marla Rygen ,
Georg Heinrich , Jacob Steiner, Margarite Shilling . Barbel Selerein,
Christian Welser, Johannes Diehl , .
A turn Smit
Julian Larensen ,
Margarite Smit,
Abram Freeman , Friedrich Geberth, Clove Stroublen,
Friedrich Strubel , Valentin SehultH, Catherina K ;ir, Creeto Cus,
Frantz Kruck , Heinrich Kramer, Magdalina Wildheydt , Lucretia Wildheydt ,
Baltfcer Sevier, Christoph Derer, Barbara Egling, Barbara Wildheydt ,
Johannes Schcnkel , Conrad Svh*» r t. Margaret Kusmati
Katrina Kosker ,
. Anganius Reymert ,
Barbara Snyder,
Nicklaus Fuss, Laurence Roodt ,
Conrad Hoogh , Eliz. Kreemer, Eliz. Kreemer,
Jacob Muinum,
Adam Sauer, Michael Geyger, Marilis Sybert , Aullus Sybert,
Johannes Rymert, Johann Bartel Gucker, Catrina Gybert , Sabina Gybert ,
Hans Adam Kremer , Ludwig Wulheitv Eliz. Hod , Eliz. Gybert ,
Jacob Lanius, Johann Michael Moll , Katrines Vilsiver, Eliz. Lak,
p Martin Hnnsecker, Christian Schmidt , Katrina Feter, Charlore Radleven ,
Hans Georg Kelehner, Christian Schmidt , Katrina Feter, Helen Feter,
Johann Georg Mayer, Joh. Georg Bergstrosser, Eliz . Porkhohleren , Crete. A. Kelgenar,
Johan Henrich Schmidt , Johan Bernhardt Arndt , Maria A rent
, Maria Kortson ,
Christophel Moll, Anna Huntseker, Anna Smit ,
Johan Jacob Kruck ,
Joh. Niclaus Steinmetz, Hans Adam Echelen , * Eliz. Huntseker, •Frena Huntseker,
Joh. Jacob WoltzhofTer, Valentein Schneider, Christina Kreemer. Frenech Horloger,
Johann Philip Beyer, Hans Martin Schultz, Annabeiert Hoog Margarite Beyer ,
Rudolph Gasman, Johannes Rynert , Eliz. Shultsone, Cathrine Shultsone,
.
Joh Eng’dhert Lack , Jolmn Georg Schmidt, Magdalina Evebnan, Katarina Smit,
Burekhart Kullmer, Johannes Bischoff , Catherina Steyninutch, Maria Fobsengaren,
Johannes Sliaak, Andres Beyer, Margarito Moll , Rosina Moll ,
Hans Michael Horlacher, Melchior Wistholtz . Maria Beyeren , Anlyas Moll .
Catherina Stouden , Magdalena Stouden,
Leona Islewootl , Joanna Fetter,

[ The original list is herewith /7 iuen. ] Children under sixteen:

Michail Gybert , Michail Feter, Hendrick Beyer , Christina Kreemer,
Michail Moll, Adam Kremer, Catrina Beyer, Jerick Beyer,
Fredrick Wilslieyt , A Hartman Huntseker, Lensard Steyninutch , Johannes Steyninutch ,
Bartel Kooper, Jacob Lavins, Catrina Beyer, Jacob Schults,
Pieter Smit, Abrahain Saler, Julian Koog, Johannes Koog,
Nicholas Reymeh ,
Gerlck Heindrick ,
Martin Bogher , Maria Mehlcrcn . Marla Horloger,
Cliristian Smit , * Unwo lIuntMekcr,
Hans Jerck Kelyerows, Jacob Steenar,
•
* Anna Huntseker,
Meyer Huntseker, » ]!ainif ’M lluntHekor,
Christian Wiyser, Johannes Diel , * Abralmm Arent , Frederick Kolgenar,
Abraham Freeman , Frederick Gybert, Michael Feter, Katrina Feter,
Frederick Strouhul , Cliristian Smit , Conrad Moll, Margarito Moll,
Jerick Meyer, Jerich Bergstreser, Marla Stadlcrcn , Catrina Stadlcrcn ,
Johan Heindrick Smit, Barent Arent, Anna Velsoner, Magdalena Laic ,
Cliristophel Moll , Valentine Shults, Magdalena Fuys,
Hans Kryhe, Calrino Hood ,
Jacob Kryhe , Margarite Hood , Julian Gybert,
Hendrich Kremer, Balser Selcr, Barnet Gybert,
John Nicholas Heymestch, Sabina Gybert,
Jolin A'dam Egling, Mathias Gybert,
Cliristophel Beyer, God Web Gybert.,
Jacob Jilsover, Cathrina Sybert ,
Johan Schinkel , Valentine Snyder,
Gerich Sybert ,
Philip B** yer,
Han Martin Schults,
.
Con *ad Suyvert ,
Eve Krcemor,
Adam Kreemer,
Christian Kreemer,
Maria Kreemer,
Roslo Kusman, Laurenco Koolccr,
Johannes Reymert , Nicholas Fuys, Christian Koolcor,
Laurence Real . Conrad Koogh ,
Heinrick Kar,
Gerich Hoinrich Kar,
Christian Kar ,
.
Eliz Wiltlicydt,
Jacob Mumma, Milehier Wilsteyts, Frcdorich Wilthcydt,.
Adam Sower, Jacob Mmmna,
Michael Giger, Margaret Mmnina, Fredericdi Mumma,
Johannes Slmak ,
Johannes Jerick Smith ,
Engelbert Lak . Rosina Smit ,
%

Johanna Zeeler,
Hans 31 iclmel Horloger , Margarito. Zeeler , Jacob A rent,
Borket Kilmiere , Julmnues Bischof , Catrina Arent , David A rent,
Andreas Meyer, Maria Fuys, AnJiers Sybert .
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of the Colony , as for instance , the Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut , and the
religious colony of Roger Williams in Rhode Island .
Therefore the passenger lists of arrivals at Philadelphia do not contain the names
of all Hunsakers who may have gone to Pennsylvania . However , in going through the
archives and records of courthouses and libraries , one develops a knowledge of the Hun -
sakers present in a certain area and learns to differentiate between the Hunsickers of Bucks
County and the Hunsekers of York County , for example . I feel that I , and others , have
found and accounted for all the Hunsakers of our ancestry in the area where our ancestors
lived except for two or three persons whose identity is not known for sure .

HUNSAKER ARRIVALS

The ship’ s passenger lists, as given in Pennsylvania German Pioneers, contain

numerous Hunsakers , in many spellings , who arrived during the time period of interest
to us. Other information secured from varied sources regarding these arrivals is also
included :

Sam and Arrived 1711

Rudi Hunziker From Aargau , Switz
Destination North Carolina
Valentine Hunsicker Arrived 1717
From Zurich , Switz
Destination Bucks County , Pa
Settled north of Phila., in Skippack area where his descen -
dants are today a numerous and important group. A history
of this family has been written . We know of no connection to
this family.
Hans Fill Hunsicker Arrived 18 Sep 1727 on “ William and Sarah ”
Hartman Huntseker Arrived 10 Sep 1731 on “ Pennsylvania Merchant ”
Martin Hunsecker
[one man ] From Switzerland , Aarau via Palatinate , with wife and six
children .
Our ancestor
Rudolph Huntzigker Arrived 21 Sep 1731 on “ Britanica ”
From Switzerland
Destination Bethel TWP , Lebanon , Pa.
Of interest bacause of unverified information
Hartman , Jacob and Rudolph Honacre jailed in Bern in 1728 .
Valentine Hunsicker Arrived 11 Aug 1732 on “ Samuel ”
Age 12 From Canton of Zurich , Switz
Believe part of previous Valentine Hunsicker family
Johannes Huntiker Arrived 21 Sep 1732 on “ Plaisance ”
Age 23 From Lenzburg , Aargau , Switz
Of interest because of name Johannes and of age when could
have acquired land in Hellam Twp , York County. No further
record . No Hunsakers claim as ancestor . Arrived alone.
Jacob Huntziker Arrived 28 Sep 1733 on “ Richard & Elizabeth ”

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Age 30 From Canton of Bern , Switz,
also spelled Destination Manheim Twop , York Co , Pa .
Hunsinger Because of interest discussed fully later.
Simon , age 18, & Arrived 24 Sep 1737 on “ Virtuous Grace ”
Johannes Honzecker Destination Hellam Twop , York Co , settled
age 21 in Allentown , PA . Of interest because of name Johaness arriv -
ed too late to fit calculations .
Johannes Huntzinger Arrived 11 Sep 1738 on “ Robert & Oliver ”
also spelled From Rammelsbach , near Kusel , Rheinland
Honsinger Pfalz [ Palatinate] Germany
Destination North Carolina .
Of interest because a Hunsinger family in Rowan Co. , No
Car . associated with Mary Hunsaker and Casper Roland .
Some Hunsingers from No. Car . arrived in Muhlenberg Co . ,
Ky. at the same time our ancestors did . Intermarriage occur-
red between Hunsingers and Hunsakers.
Peter Hunsicker , 53 Arrived 3 Nov 1738 on “ Thistle ”
Abraham ” 23 From Wellerbach near Kaiserstoutern
Greata Hunsiker 18 Rheinland Pfalz [Palatinate] Germany
Desination Lancaster , Pa , then Virginia
Johannes Huntzinger Arrived 7 Sep 1748 on “ Mary Galley ”
No other information .
Johannes Huntiziker Arrived 15 Sep 1748 on “ Two Brothers ”
From Schallbach near Rauweiler , Dept of Bas Rhin , France
Destination Heidelberg Twp , Lehigh Co, Pa Johann Georg
Arrived 2 Oct 1749 on “ Jacob ” from Germany
Bernard Hunsiker Destination Brunswick Twp, Schuylkill Co. , Pa . , then Sullivan
Co ., Pa .
Johannes Hoynsicker Arrived 17 Sep 1753
Phillip Honsaker Arrived 14 Sep 1754 on “ Nancy ”
from Geelen by Rockenhausen , Rheinland
Pfalz , [ Palatinate] Germany

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 In order to make the documentation complete , here is the index of Hunsaker arrivals
as provided in Pennsylvania German Pioneers . Note the listing for Hartman ( Martin ) .

442 Index of Pioneers

Gorg Philipp I, 344, Elisab . 1, 44 ; II , X 32
Hannes Jacob I 344 ,
345
.
.. 675
| 345 Frena I 44
Jacob II Hannes
Johan Chrisn
Johann George
I
* 79
II , 75
Hartman ( Martin )
Jacob
. . I, 44
I 43, 45 46
I , 127, 129, 130, 704
Johan Gerhart
( Gerhard ) . . .
I 569 570 572
Johann Georg
Johannes ( Joannes,
I 4*8 .
Johan Heinrich I , 487 Johann ) I , 79, 81, 82, 176
Joh . Willhelm II , i n 177 , * 78, 212, 214
Johannes 2 5,
* 378, 379, 38 *
( Johannii ) I, 360, 361, 4 x 7 II , 13 a
Joseph
Maria
Thomas ( Tomas )
..
II * 35
II * 35
I , * 56, 159, * 61
Margred
Meyer
Peter ..
II , * 32
I 240, 242, 243
I , 44
HUMMER ( HUMER ) Simon I * 76 , 177, * 78
Jacob I, 676 Thomas I, 628, 631, 633
Jn ° Wm I, 755 Ursul I, 44
Johan George
HUMMERHAUS
I , 469 Valendine
HUNSLMAN
I 61.
J -
HUMMERLE
II , 141 Jerick
Margrita
I, 1 x 8
I, 1 x 8
Hans Jurch .
I 450 HUNTER
HUMRICH
Johannes Henrich
Petter
.
I 495
I, 40 *
Joh . Gott * Wils.
H 0 PB1SH ( HIPTSCH )
.
H Michal
II , xx 8

HUN tee HUHN

HUNA
( Michael )
HUPFENSTIEL
. .
I 637 639, 4 *
^
.
Christ Fredk .
HUNDT ( HUND, HULD )
II 93 . Fried *
Johann Jost
II 128
II , 128
.
G. Mich ( Gorch. Maria Elisabet II , 128
Nicl ) I, 6ox , 602, 604 HUPPE
Michael I , 503 Johann II , 79
HUNGEL HOPPEL ( HUPPEL, HIPPELL )
Phillip I , 384 Jacob I , 367, 368
HUNGER Johannes I , 204, 206 , 297, 376 , 377
John Gottfried II , 22 HUPPER
HUNGERBERER ( HUNGERBALT ) John Henry I, 748
Davit ( David ) I , 610, 611, 613 HORCHE ( KENKE )
IIONNER ( HUNER )
Kraftt I , 416
Johannes
HURLEBANS
.
I , 340, 34 * 342
Willhelm I , 478 Barbara II, 151
HUNOLT David II , * 5 *
Mattheis
Wilhelm I 466.
I , 466 Eliza
Sophia
II , * 5 *
II, 15 *
HUNROF
Maria Catrina
HUNSAM
I * 39. HURRELMAN ( HARLEMAN )
Gerdt ( Garet )
HORSTMAN
I 574 , 575 . . 576
Johannes I, 1 0 2 Peter I , 700
HUNSICKER ( HUNSECKER , HORTER ( HARTER )
HUNTSEKER,
HUNSICER,
HUNSEKER ,
HUNSINGER,
Gorg ( Geo )
HURTGEN
. .
I , 30 * 3 2 , 303
°
HUNTZICKER , HUNTSINGER , Ant . II , 7 *
HUNTZEKER, HONSACRE, HUSCH ( HUSH )
HUNZIGER )
Abraham I , 240, 242 , 243
Vallcntin
Vallentin, Junr
.
I 37 *
I, 37 *
Anna I , 44 HUSER ( HOUSER )
Creeta I , 241 Anna I , * 44
Daniel
David
I , 628, 631, 633
I , 539
Christian
Henery
. .
I , * 43 * 45, * 46
II 146

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RUPP’ S THIRTY THOUSAND NAMES

Although not of great value to us —

in comparison to Strassburger’ s compilation
of passenger lists—in order to present all the information available , there follow pages
which contain names of interest to us , from the “ other ” list of immigrants ,

A COLLECTION
O F UPWARDS O f

mTTTnrn mu A '
fi
in JJ
OF

GERMAN, SWISS , DUTCH , FRENCH

AND OTHER

Immigrants in Pennsylvania
Prom U7QT7 to 2-r7T70,
WITH A

Statement of the names of Ships, whence t h e y Bailed , and the date

of their arrival a t Philadelphia ,

CHRONOLOGICALLY A R R A N G E D ,
TOOXTHKR WITH THE

Necessary Historical and other Notes,

ALSO ,
An Appendix containing Lists of more than one thousand German
and French Names in New York prior to 1712,
BY

PROF. I. DANIEL RUPP,

Auihor of tevtral flu orical Work* .
^
^

Strlag ® tgttter & OSroatb © pofjr

Sfipjig

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 66 NAMES OF GERMAN SWISS , AND OTHER IMMIGRANTS — 1731. 67
Conrad Eckert, Johan Hcnrich Knopp, Peter Smit,* Johann Michael Moll,
Ludwig Han , Jolmnn Jacob Kruuss, Abraham Sahler, Martin Hunscckcr,*
Johannes Metzger, Johann Jacob Scheibc, Johan Niclas Weiss, Christian Schmidt,
Jacob Wenst,* Johann Hcnrich Hamrncl, Martin Boger, Hans Georg Kelchner,
Conrad Mbller, Frederick Babcnmeyer,* Georg Heinrich , Christian Schmidt,
Christo Ritter,* Lodwick Goodbrood,* Jacob Steiner, Johann Georg Mayer,
Johannes Ditcrichs, Hans Georg Bender, Christian Weiser, Joh. Georg Bergstrbsser,
Andreas Erlewyne,* Georg Sebald Madrigcr,* Johannes Diehl , Johan Henrich Schmidt,
Johan Millbiirger, Hans Georg Lohrman, Abram Freeman,* Johan Bernhardt Arndt,
Hans Ritter, Philip Friederich Vogel , Friedrich Geberth , Christophel Moll,
Joh. Georg Koch, Johaun Christoph Bauer , Friedrich Strubel, Johan Jacob Kriick ,
Barcnt Tisen ,* Ludwig Sauemiilch , Valentin Schults,* Joh. Nicklaus Steinmetz,
Johannes Spengler, Johannes Stuntz, . Frantz Kriick, Hans Adam Echelen,
Georg Balscr Wentz, Hans Adam Warthman, Heinrich Kriimer, Joh. Jacob Woltzhoffer,
Hans Georg Pliiger, George Hendcrich , Baltzer Seyler, Valentein Schneider,
Johann Michael Gleim , Hans Georg Lohrman. Christoph Bcier, Johann Philip Beyer,
Engelberd Schraidt, Johannes Schcnkcl, Hans Martin Schultz,
Passengers under sixteen years : Conrad Sybcrt, Budolph Gasman ,*
Nicklaus Fuss, Johannes Ilynert,
Mclfcnbe unter fcc c n 3at) rcn :
^^ ^
Martin Gricscmer, Johannes Schraidt, Georg Kropp, Peter
Knopp, Georg Hahn , Georg Han , Joh . Han , Carl Muller, Joh.
Laurence Roodt,*
Conrud Iloogh,*
Joh . Engelbert Lack ,
Johan Georg Schmidt,
Dietrichs, Abraham Warthman , Jac. Hofmiuich , Balzer Vogel,
Jacob Muinma, Burckhart Kiillmer,
Adam Sauer, Johannes Bischoff,
Henrich Miilbcrger, Georg Gutbrod, Anthony Schniding. Michael Geygcr,* Johannes Shaak ,*
In this ship came, according to List A, Ludwig Heck, his Johannes Ry inert,* Andreas Beyer,
wife Mary and daughter Elizabeth. Johann Bartel Gucker, Hans Michael Horlacher,
9J? it © d) iffc famen naefy 2 ifle A Eubroig £ ecf mlt feiner Hans Adam Kremer, Melchior Wistholtz.
grau 3Jbiefem
? arp unb feiner loiter (Hifabetfy. Passengers under sixteen :
SUifenbe unter [ed) jff ) n 3a rcn.:
15 ) Sept. 11, 1731. Palatines imported in the ship Penn -
sylvania Merchant, Jno. Stcdman, Master, from Rotterdam , last ^
Bernhardt Geberth , Matthias Geberth , Gotti. Geberth , Chris-
—
from Dover. Col. Rec. III. 413. Males, fifLy -seven above six-
teen , twenty-five under sixteen ; females, fifty-seven above six-
tian Kramer, Hcnrich Gehr, Adam Kriimer, Christian Gehr,
Georg Henrich Gehr, Jacob Muinma, Johannes Sahler, Jacob
Arndt, David Arndt.
teen , thirty- three under sixteen.
Sept. 11, 1731. <Pennfploania OTerdjant, GEapitain 3ol) n
Scr. III. 413. banner fleben unb fiinf ig fiber unb ffinf unb
^
—
© tebman , son Sfiotterbam fiber Doocr, bracf ) tc $) faljer. Sol.*'
jtuanjig unter fed) $ef ) n ; fieben unb ffinfoig SBetber fiber unb
16 ) Sept. 21, 1731.* Palatines imported in the ship Brita
nia, of London, Michael Franklyn , Master, from Rotterdam,
-
.
Michael Geberth
Michael Feder,
^
brei unb brelfjig untcr fc cljn 3 f > ren
^
Ludwig Wulheit,
Jacob Lanius,
* While the Synod of South Holland was in session in Dort, 1731,
eight hundred exiled Palatines passed through the place to take
.
ship at Rotterdam for America They were visited by the whole Synod

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 AND OTHER IMMIGRANTS — 1733. 91 AND OTHER IMMIGRANTS — 1737. 107
Hans Georg Grondt, Johann Georg Grimm, 6ept. 24, 1737. fiiljcr mit bem © chtffe Sirtuoud © race,
Georg Adam Koch ,*
Justus Osterrath ,
Henrieh Schmidt. ^
Gapitain 3 M;n S3uU, bon SRottcrbam iiber Goroed .— 3m ©an*
A . Sick — Melchior Gronsaum , Ilenrich Reet, Jacob Unger. 3en 225.
Antoni Riigcr sen . , Burckhart Riigcr,
Under sixteen : — Henrieh Souchonet, Guilliam Marot, Philip Antoni Riigcr jr. , Isaac Hoffman jr. ,
Marot, Benjamin Marot, Daniel Marot, Hans Georg Ritt, Caspar Jacob Sclmub,* Martin Hegcndorn ,
Klemm, Abraham Riegel, Johannes Ewalt, Johann Schmyer, Isaac Hoffman , Johannes Stauffer,
Johannes Gasser, Matheis Gasser, Joh . Ruth , Jacob Ruth , Hans Hoffman , Hans Jacob Groller,
Peter Ruth , Georg Winter , Hans Winter , Andreas Stehlin,- Christoph Stauffer, I Ians Jacob Kobler ,*
Johannes Stehlin , Matheis Stehlin, Jacob Schultz , Joh . Gotz , Leonhart Iloicr, Hans Georg Schwartz ,
Johannes Reuter, Peter Ingold , Jacob Frick , Paulus Schaffer , Rudolph Liitzlcr, Hans Georg ltcimmel ,
Georg Schaffer , Georg Stoubi", Christian Striebig , Joh. Schaf- Bernard Ilaup,* Albrecht Graff,
fer, Christopher Frey, Christian Fischer, Jacob Straub, Peter Jacob Schwartz , Simon Schunck ,
Straub, Georg Ilauck , Paulus Gardner, Andreas Biichler. Jacob Kernel,* Frederick Cromer ,*
Jacob Graff, Hans Georg Dillmann ,
—
33 ) Sept. 28, 1733. Palatines, brigantine Richmond and
Elizabeth , Christopher Clymer, Master, from Rotterdam , last
Jacob Rimy ,
Ludwig Born ,
Henrieh Jacob Dillmann
Hans Michael Ulrich ,
from Plymouth . — Forty-four males above sixteen, thirty -four Jacob Stokec,* Christian Bullingcr,*
females ; twenty - four males under sixteen and thirty-five fe - Simon Stokee,* Hans Georg Konder,*
males — in all 137 . — ( Editor . ) Jeremiah Sinitt,* Rudolph Duckwcll ,*
0ept. 28, 1733. 2Iuf bem 31 ennfd) iffe SRdjmonb unb Glifa * Peter Kondcr, Jacob Hollingcr,
betfy , GapitoinGfgiftopfyer Glpmer, bon SRotterbam fiber Ipmoutb , Peter Staut,* Andrew Sunwald ,*
^
famen <Pfafjer. — 23 ier unb » icr3ig Planner unb x> icr unb breipig
grauen fiber, unb bier unb jroanjig mannlidjen unb ffinf unb
Adam Weiss,
Abraham Wize,*
Ilans Georg Friedcrick,
Friederich Kicster ,

^
( Jperau tfgeber. ) ^ —
breipig rueibltc en © efd) led) te unter fec 3 ef > n — im © an 3en 137. Michael Ulrich ,
Jacob Wolff ,
Henrieh Schwerdt,
Jacob Bollinger,
Frantz Schuller, Ulrich Burghalter ,* Adam Dill , Wilhelm Fischer ,
Jacob Greib, Baltzer Hartsoc,* Ilenrich Shamberger,*
Mattheis Beck , Christian Toll ,* Henrieh Crossman ,
David Mertz, Hans Schiirer ,
Georg Lipp,* Jacob Croyter, Hans Georg Meyer,*
Jacob Christ,* David Bruch , Johan Jacob Conradt,
Mattheus Bausser, Marcus Christ,* Georg Heck ,
Matheis Bausser jr. , Marx Bigler , Henrieh Wideabach ,*
Christian Bausser, Hans WcLs , Johannes Weiss,*
Johannes Weber, Jacob Springer, Ilenrich Engel ,
Philip Mire ,* Mattheis Reach ,
David Edelman ,* Hans Michael Merti ,
Johannes Tasker,
Jacob Hubler,
Johann es IIunscckcr ,
.

Michael Rausch ,
-
Adam Spohn , Hans Conrad Lipp ,*
Jacob Hennel , Christian Piner ,* Christian Bauer,
Philip Jacob Edelman , Henrieh Grimm , Hans Jacob Inhof,*
Michael Wise,* Johan Georg Schuster,
Jacob Lcbegood ,* Michael Carle, ? Simon Ilunsecker. ,
Johan Jost Heck , Albert Lebolt,
Jacob Herman ,* Jacob Huntzccker,

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118 NAMES OF GERMA N . 8 WIS9 AND OTHER IMMIOR ANT3 — 1738. 110

Wolfgang Braun , Hans Georg Greiser,* Gottfried Betzelo, Conrad Kayt,*

Johannes Solder. Hans Martin Halter, Daniel Klingenschrnidt, Peter Hayt ,*
Jacob Hauser, Johun Gotlieb Brcuninger, Christopher Heydrich , Christian Grub,
Philip Friederich, Hans Martin Brcuninger, Michael Clementx, Theobald Fick i
Andreas Frey ,* Hans Michael Easterly,* -
Johan Peter Phiel,* Anthony Biehler,
Leonhart Notz , Michael Friederich Zevler, Johan Paulus Kutz, Ulrich Bullher,*
Henrich Funck , Hans Georg Brendel, Johannes Trau t man n ,* Peter Ruby,*
Johannes Johe , Hans Georg Briicker, Georg Michael Buch , Jacob Beck ,
Christian Everhart,* Johan Philip Brendel , Johun Adam Schnell ,* Peter Reitenaucr,
Philip Smit,* Johan Henry Bvdenstoek ,* Johan Gottfried Bbhrer, Georg Gottfried,
Simon Crevsmcyer ,* Johan Wilhelm Wcntzel, Georg Michael Kolb, Adam Dick ,
Matthias Keygcr,* Hans Georg Coon ,* Johannes Huntzinger , Job. Christoph Welterich ,
Balthas Bahret , Johan Wolfgang Unger. Hans Mich . Torenbergcr, Johan Nicolaus Schncvder.
Johannes Mcrckcl , Johan Bernhart Beher , Valentin Schultz , Johan Frid. Schneyder ,
Hans Mich. Reiss, Johan 11enrich Meycr. Frantz Klingcnsehmidt, Joseph Kentzeljr.,
Under sixteen : Johann Wilhelm Simon , Melchior Ruch.
— Johan Georg Friederich , Jolmn Philip Weiss,
Johan Jacob GugeHc,
Friederich Schupp, Ludwig Holtzhefer, Hans Peterly. Christian Casper Weisgerber, §
Schenck , Jacob Diir, Hans Peter Ziegler , Johan llenrieh Johan Jacob Klunt,* Jacob KopjHinhelFer,*
Brendel. Hans Lenhart, Hans Geiger , Hans Michael Kuhn . Hans Caspar Dortst, Leonhart Nachbar, *
Andreas Huber, Christian Schwartz, Hans Jacob Holler. Frantz Hans Adam (.rosier,* Johan Nicolas Wolff,
Joseph Kilcshauer. Hans Horst, Georg Friederich, Jacob Frey, Hans Jacob llevman ,* Henrich Thomme,
Hans Grube, Peter Grube. Hans Michael Reyman ,* Job. Jacob Schumacher,
Adam Daniel ,* Johannes Schumacher,
Peter Hcyel, Johan Nicklafi Holl,*
55 ) Sept. 11 , 1738. Palatines imported in the ship Robert Johannes Brown ,* Abraham Holl,
and Oliver, of Dublin , Walter Goodman , Commander , from Rot - Tobias Steuer, Balthaser Reydenauer,
terdam , hist from Dover. 320 passengers.
— Theobalt Schaffer, Hans Georg Roth ,
ppt . 11 . mR . T.at 3(bin Jlcbcrt unt Clistr "on Xublin , Tbeobalt Schaffer jr., Johan. Philip Fehl,
^
domnianbant Balter 0) ccbnian , oon Dlotterbam iiber ^ cecr,
^ . Andreas Meyer,*
Paulus Mosscr,*
Johannes Eskusen ,*
Peter Eskusen ,* ( Etcoqut ,')
Caspar Scheck, ^
. bracf ) tc 320 'Pfd er

Lorcntz Biesang, ?
Melchior Kolp,
Peter Kolp.*
Johannes Bricker,*
Michael Mtiller,*
Michael Shumaker,*
Stephan Durabercber,*
Paulus Baliett, Johannes Fbrch , Jacob Doinraer,* Johannes Schleyfard ,*
Peter Heydrich , Peter Seuhert, Johan Shneyder,* Johan Peter Karch ,
Peter Kister, Johnnncs Rohrer , Andreas Bader , Johan Adam Graner , ?
.
Alex Scheffer,* Melchior Yand ,* Hans Martin , Hans Martin Startzman ,
Reinhart Alspach. Ludwig Boos,* Joseph Kensel,* Hans Hen . Reitenauer,
Jacob Frantz, Jacob Bricker,* Philip Tofort sen ., Christian Stetler ,
Matheis Alshach , David Nagle,* Philip Tofort jr. , Johan Nicolas Nagle,*
Paulus Buflc,* Gerhart Henry,* Ilenrich Shengle,* Christian CasselL*
Philip Herzog, Nicolas Miller ,

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.
 AND OTHER IM MIGRANTS — 1738. 127 AND OTHER IMMIQRANTS
— 1748. 185
— Johannes Kricvc, Casper Hukabach, Viet. Walter, ©ept . 15, 1748. f grembe famen mit bem ©cfjijfe Divo 53ro *
. Christ
Wagner, Lewis Vausunt, Simon Derrick , Jacob Walter , tfcerS , Sapitain Itjomae Slrnott, von Jlottcrbam iiberPortsmouth
Johan Schcnkcl , Anthon Kinter, Samuel Beem , Peter Yosey , Johannes Herrmann ,
Christian Sauder, Georg Grovencr, Christian Trewett , Ilcnrich Johan Peter Enogel,
Bchn , Elias Bald , Ilans Ulrich Katerman , Hans Michael Shef- Peter Bier, Johan Matheus Ettcr,
fer, Christian Stein Claither, Thomas Everhard , Hans Philip Peter Bier jr. , Johan Caspar Runnier ,
Smith , Martin Adam Brows, Ulrich Tow , Hans Georg Webber, Johannes Knecht, JohannesJHuntzecker ? _
Casper Kieffer ,* *
Johan Ncveling , Georg Bibighaus, Andreas Gcnbcrger, Jacob Johan Friedench Reber ,
Welsh, Johan Heinrich Huffman, Johan Jacob Wagner. Abraham Kieffer jr. , Johan Paul Juugcr,*
Jacob Scherer, Michael Reiffsnydcr,*
Jonas Eberst, Joh . Georg Messerschmidt,
63 ) Oct . 28, 1738. Palatines imported in the bilandcr Thistle, Christoffel Heck , Johannes Achtung,
George Houston , Commander, from Rotterdam , last from Cowes . Nicolaus Clementz, Ulrich Wirth,
Forty- two men , thirty-six boys , sixty-four women and girls— Johannes Wbrncr, Ewalt Gantler ,
in all 142. Johannes Daubach , Johannes Waltz,
£)ct. 28, 1738. Pfizer auf fccm 2 aftfcf ) iffe Jonas Somerlad , Matteis Dilhart,
Command Johannes Stein ,
bant ®eorg oufton, von Jlotterbam iiber S o l v e d . — Johannes Deyh ,
^ un
vlerjig banner, fccfjd unb breifjig Jtnaben , unb vier unb fed ig
SBeibcr unb 2J7 abc cn — im (Slanjcn 142. ^
^ Jacob Hendel ,*
Jacob Ildck ,
Candias Messert,
Johannes Nees,
Jacob Lantz,
Michael Lantz ,
^ Abraham Iluntzicker,
Peter Iluntzicker ,
Michael Giinter ,*
Johannes Heckert,
Jacob Jirardcn ,
Johannes Schlcgel ,
Johannes Gyscr,* Phillippius Stein , Michael Ilesler,
Johannes Kleingenny ,* Johannes Roller, Hen rich Frantz ,
Peter Gyscr,* Hans Martin Hertz,
Conrad Mchriam, ? Conrad Kohler, Georg Engel ,
Hans Nicolas Ensminger, Johannes Scldegcl , Johannes Braun ,
Peter Coger ,* Samuel Eberhart Kopp,
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MARTIN HUNSECKER — MARTIN HUSACKER

In view of the presence of the name Martin Hunsecker in these lists, I have searched
for information regarding him . I found but one reasonably close record ; a “ Martin
Husacker ” owned an unspecified amount of land in Frederick Township , Philadelphia
County , Philadephia , prior to 1734 . I have never found any other record of him . I know
of no family which claims him as an ancestor . There is no “ Husacker ” in the ships’ lists .
Bob has had correspondence with a Mrs . Helton who states, “ Martin Hartman Hun-
saker owned land in Frederick County , Maryland , according to Pennsylvania Archives.
I can not find this information in this source . These archives record information for Penn-
sylvania , not for Maryland . I believe Mrs . Helton is somehow confused by the one item
regarding Martin Husacker land in Frederick Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
as compared to Frederick County , Maryland .
I do not believe “ Martin Husacker ” is an ancestor or is in any way connected with
our family. Bob does not believe we can dismiss Martin thusly and that we should con-
tinue looking for traces of him and a connection to our family as he might be our Hart - i
man , and that as such died in the Philadelphia area almost immediatly after arrival , “ prior
to 1734” .
For the record I am also affixing copies of pages of Pennsylvania Archives that give
a record of Valentin Hunsecker who we have already discussed (475) and Uly Hunsberger
(p 471) , simply because the name sounds somewhat like “ Hunsaker ” , in addition to Martin
Husacker ( p 472) . Let’ s detail the info we have.

HARTMAN OR MARTIN ?

In each of the ship lists the name of the Hunsaker man is in the sixth position . On
the first list , page 26 of the Oath of Allegiance , the name Martin is in the 18th place and
yet in the “ original list ” on the lower part of the same page , if one reads across the col-
umns instead of down , the name “ Hartman ” is in sixth position . The compiler of the
lists elsewhere stated that the numerical position in the list of a man ’ s name usually in -
dicated his relative importance in the group. A fact which is very important to me is that
on the two hand-written lists, the mark made by both Martin and Hartman is very distinc-
tive , not just an initial nor an “ X ” , and the mark for both men seems to be identical
except one is slightly larger than the other . Obviously , I believe one man made both marks .
There are a total of five lists on which three names are Hartman and two are Martin .
On one list , Index p 442 , Martin-Hartman are written together and enclosed by a bracket .
This to me indicates that the writer was indicating only one person whose correct name
was in doubt . I know of no family which traces its descent from Martin . There is ab-
solutely no family tradition for the name Martin . There is a strong tradition among Utah
Hunsakers for the name Hartman . I have never found a Hunsaker named Martin in the
United States. In the names brought from Switzerland by Joseph Hunsaker and Dianne
Sheriff , there is a Hans Hartman Hunziker born about 1635 and a Hans Martin Hun -
ziker born 7 Feb. 1697. I believe it is not only possible , but probable , that an English
speaking person hearing a German speaking person say “ Hartman ” could hear it as “ Mar -
tin ” . Hartman at this time spoke only German , the two clerks writing the names pro-
bably spoke only English . This should not hold true in Amsterdam as Dutch and German

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are similar languages . But , Bob tells me that Germans of today have difficulty understan -
ding the German of Switzerland . Maybe the Dutch in Amsterdam in 1731 didn ’ t unders-
tand Hartman correctly either . Amsterdam Document No , 2274 also clearly indicated that
the compiler recognized that there was but one man with two names and he knew not
which was correct . I believe the name is Hartman and we should disregard the name Mar -
tin . Bob does not believe this can be done. The Index of Pioneers , p 442, of Pennsylvania
German Pioneers list eleven different spellings of our name, but does not include the spelling
Husacker .
In the late fall of 1986, Bob presented me with a real bomb shell in a telephone con -
versation . He said he believed that Hartman , immediately after arrival , went to Skippack ,
north of Philadalphia to meet with Valentine Hunsecker , who he had heard of from so-
meone or perhaps was related to. Bob believes that Hartman stayed in this area for a
while and may have died there. He bases this belief on the fact that it would be more
logical for Anna to meet Cocghenhower in the Skippack area , marry him and move with
him to his land near Lancaster . It is about 60 miles from Skippack to Lancaster . It ’ s about
10 miles from Lancaster to the area of Grist Creek where I believe Hartman was when
he died .
In 1973 I had a long conversation with a Q. John Hunseker , a lawyer in New York
City . ( I always look for Q’ s in new places .) He told me he was a descendant of Valentine
Hunsecker , that he knew nothing of any people in the Skippack area who spelled their
name Hunsaker , and that none of the Valentine Hunsecker family had ever settled in the
area west of the Susquehanna ( York County-Grist Creek ). Bob also believes that the
Hunsecker , be he Jacob or John , who acquired the 200 acres on Grist Creek in 1731 was
a member of the Valentine Hunsecker family. Obviously , I do not . . .

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 JN' o . XVI .
FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY - FIVE NAMES OF
GERMAN, DUTCH AND FRENCH INHABITANTS
OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY ,
who owned land, and paid quit-rents prior to 1734.
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Jacob Obcrholtzcr, 150, Conrad Kiistcr, 100,
Jost Pfanncnkueh , 100 Michael Bang, 75,
Joseph Altlmus, 141 , Jacob Fuhnnan , 140,
Uly llunsbcrgcr , 150 , Johannes Hcntz, 100,
Leonard Christolccr, 200, Ludwig Zerkel, 100 , i

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Johannes Wilhelm , 50, Frederick Gadschaik, 150,
Hcnrich lloscnberger, 100 , Wilhelm Ilauk , 100,
Jost Schindler, 140, Ilcnrich Zerkel, 50 ,
Christian Mayer, 150, Michael Ilcntz, 100 ,
Abraham Bcif, 200, Georg Ilertzcll, 50,
Jacob Ilunsberger, 50, Frederick Scholl, 100.
Georg German , 100,
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Johannes Neus, 200 , Joh . Georg Kraus, 22,
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Joh. Ilciu Hagcman , 100, Christian Stettlcr, 50,
Hcnrich Stover, 100, Martin Funk , 1G 0,
Hcnrich Stettlcr, 140, Ludwig Englelmrt, 100,
Adam Barstellor, 25, Hcnrich Schmidt, 80,
Joh . Georg Sprogcl , 120, Michael Kraus, 150,
Johannes Kraus, 150, Baltus Fuuts, 100,
Jacob Fuuts, 100, Frederick Ilcymcr, 100,
Joh. Geo. Schwenhart, 100, Michael Ilergcr, 200,
Gotlicb Hcrger, 80 , Joseph Graaf, 100 ,
Wilhelm Frey, 150 , Michael Dottcrcr, 150 .
Geo. Phil. Dottcrcr, 150,
( The number of acrea are not given in the following. )
Christian Gctzcndonner, Johannes Herb,
Paul llippcl, Christian Midler,
Christian Schneider, Jacob Mccklin,
Michael Bastian , Jacob Fuchs,
Daniel Frantz, Georg Trumbauer,
Joh. Geo. Ganscr, Abraham Pfenning,
i* Martin Ilusackcr, Michael Hendricks,
Michael Hill , Adam Hill ,
Ludwig Dotterer, Johannes Dilbeck -
Fcrkiomen and Shippack Townships 475 .
Hcnrich Pcnnybcckcr, 150 Johannes Fried , 200
Anthony Hallman , 100 , Jacob Mcrklc, 200 ,
Julius Kassel , 90, Paul Fried jr., 100 ,
Abraham Schwartz , 100 , * Valentin Ilunscckcr, 100,
Jucob Schcimcr , 100 , Johan Van Ilusscn , 50,
Peter Jansen , 150, Hermanns Kiistcr, 150,
Martin Kolb, 100, Hupcrt Kassel, GO,

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 IV LANCASTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
There are problems in the first land records involving Hunsakers in Pennsylvania .
The first problem is that of geography . According to History of Lancaster County , Vol .
1 , p . 54:

Conestoga township originally embraced all that part of Chester County

[everything west of Philadelphia] which is now Lancaster County . ..The township
of Pequae had formed in 1721... Conestoga was a very large township and by
1729 had become comparatively thickly settled . Lancaster County , formed in
1729, occupied all the area until York County was formed in 1749 in the area
west of the Susquehanna River .

The second problem is that of names. The name Hartman never appears in land records
but the name John Hunseker appears at the time and place where Hartman could have ,
and should have, been , and where there is no other John Hunseker identifiable from the
records. The name Jacob Hunseker appears in conjunction with John Hunseker in land
records . A John Hunteker arrived a year after Hartman . Hartman’ s son John began ac-
quiring land in 1750. Let ’ s try to sort out these names one by one .
The John Hunteker who arrived in 1732 left no trace . Diligent searches of Lancaster
and York records provide no record of him after arrival. If this man had survived , ac-
quired land and a family , surely he would have left some record or , more importantly
perhaps , someone would have claimed descent from him . I have necessarily developed
some knowledge of other Hunsaker families in Pennsylvania and , as far as I can ascer -
tain , no Hunsaker has ever claimed the John Hunteker of 1732 as an ancestor .
As we saw in the previous chapter , Jacob Hunseker is of great interest to us: His
name appears in Die Hunziker von Aarau ; “ Hartman , Jacob and Rudolf Honacre were
jailed in Bern’ ’ ; he located in the same area as our ancestors and most importantly , he
could have acquired land from John Hunseker in 1736 on Kreutz Creek , Hellam Township,
York County .
As we have seen in previous pages , and will see in succeding pages , I believe our first
U .S. ancestor had trouble with his name , I believe he was christened Johannes , maybe
Hartman was his second name. When he became a Mennonite he dropped Johannes and
adopted Hartman , but then Hartman got mispronounced as Martin , so he went back to
Johannes which became John in English . Too far fetched ? I don ’ t think so. With the
first name of just the letter Q I have had problems . And , like Hartman maybe , tried us-
ing my second name of Maurice on occasion but always rather unsuccessfully .
In 1736 Pennsylvania ’ s York county , when the Hunsakers arrived was only a few
day’s ride from the “ Killing ground ” frontier where French - made iron tomahawks in In -
dian hands were used to deter further westward expansion by land - hungry colonists.

HARTMAN LAND IN CONESTOGA ?

I believe Hartman and Anna moved quickly from the port area of Philadelphia to
Germantown , probably in a group of fellow Mennonites and fellow passengers. They pro-
bably had little or no money for expenses in Philadelphia or Germantown . As it was still

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September and the cold blasts of winter had not yet descended upon them , I rather im -
agine they headed westward into the then wilderness to find a plot of free land and build
themselves a home .
At one time genealogist Starr reported to family members that he had found records
that “ Hartman owned 200 acres of land in Conestoga in 1732. ” Unfortunately, Starr
did not definitely note the source and has never been able to find it again. Several of us
have spent many hours trying to verify this statement but to no avail . In June 1985 in
the small LDS Genealogical Library in Mesa , Arizona I found a document which might
be the one Starr read . Below is this information from Eshleman’ s Swiss and German
Pioneers of Southeast Pennsylvania , 1916, p . 239.

1731 — Additional German Swiss Settlements in Our County

Rupp says , page 78, Mart Kendig built a walnut log house on his large tract
of 1060 acres . This tract , as we have seen before , included all the land between
Willow Street pike and the west and extended from the property of William G .
Mellinger to John Rush on the north and south .

According to the Colonial records , Volume 3 , page 381 , seven shiploads

of German -Swiss arrived at Philadelphia this year and nearly all came to the
Conestoga Valley (see page 417). Several Acts of Assembly were passed concer-
ning these people. They laid a duty or tax upon them because they were foreigners
(see 4 Statute at large , 135). Laws were also passed naturalizing them and enabl-
ing them to hold land . (See same book , page 20.) The discussion concerning this
right to hold land , as it took place in the Assembly of Pennsylvania may be found
in Vol. 3 votes of the Assembly , page 131. Many of them were naturalized by
a later act , this same year . The naturalization is found in 4 Statutes at large 147 .
We have discussed under the date of 1729. Those naturalized under the act of
1731 ( Page 219) were German Swiss who settled in Philadelphia County and ci-
ty and Bucks County and Chester County . Some of the names prominent in the
list are: Ziegler , Detweiler , Hunsecker , Zimmerman , Schmidt , Mayer , Bowman ,
Swartz, Andrews, Levand , Kauffman , Shenkel, Hoffnagel , Cressman , Funk ,
Schrack , Seltzer , Pennypacker , Hollanbiak , Reiff , Peters , Kline, Snyder , Kosdorf ,
Sander , Bauchman , Roth , and Acker . None appear in the list as Lancaster County
settlers.

This starts out referring to Swiss-German land settlement in Conestoga and ends up
referring to several Swiss-Germans , including a Hunsecker , who were naturalized , A less
than careful reading of this could lead one to believe the article refers to “ a Hunsecker
who owned land in Conestoga in 1731 ” . If Starr drew this conclusion , it would be very
difficult to ever discover that information again because the information you would be
looking for was not correct . Incidentally , the area referred to in this article is just directly
east across the Susquehanna River from land we will discuss shortly that does have, I
think , to do with our ancestors. Around Lancaster City there are many names that will
later become of interest to us ; Hunsecker , Landis Valley , Landisville , Hartman , Pequae ,
Manheim , Ephrata , etc.
In my opinion Hartman and Anna must have had their first child in the New World ,

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Catherine, soon after they were settled into their first , and probably very meager and rough ,
cabin . I would like to have Catherine born in about 1733. That date would give Anna
a little rest between babies , a long sea voyage that must have been one of life’s more horrible
experiences, and arriving and settling in a new land with different people and a different
language to cope with . I can not hazard a guess as to whether Catherine was born in Lan-
caster County or what is now York County.

THE NAME OF HARTMAN ’ S WIFE

We do not know the maiden name of Hartman’ s wife . All we ever had in the written i
record was “ Anna ” and the incorrect “ Barbara Miller ” . The name “ Stirtz ” apparently
came from Aleen Hunsaker Hansen sometime in the late thirties or forties. Aleen told
Orpha Hunsaker Stohl that she acquired this name from the Historical Research Depart -
ment in Washington , D.C. Aleen also said this source stated all of Hartman and Anna’ s
children were born in Weisbaden , East Labon , Germany , and that Hartman had a se-
cond wife and family after he arrived in the US. For many years this “ Historical Research ”
document could not be found . In the meantime , the name “ Stirtz ” was incorporated into
the records of some families . In 1972 Bob secured from Finnis Hunsaker the documents
we have just used which are obviously Aleen’ s documents , but , none of the documents
give the name “ Stirtz ” or mention the birthplace of Hartman’ s children . The Historical
Research Bureau was a depression born project of the W . P .A. to provide work to would -
be writers . Finnis, the source of this document for Bob and me , was visited by Aleen
in 1943 and again in 1945. He does not remember if he gave Aleen a copy of the documents
or not. My , and his , guess , is that he did . There is no “ East Labon ” in Germany but
that name could derive from an American ” s mispronunciation of “ Weis Baden ” . The
Palatinate is just across the Rhine River from Weis Baden .
In 1972 genealogist Starr discovered information in Salt Lake City indicating Hart -
man died before Anna and Anna married Jacob Cocghenhower in about 1737 and had
two daughters , Eva and Elizabeth . This information helped clear up old family bible en-
tries which indicated Catherine was born to Hartman and Anna but that Eva and Elizabeth
were “ half sisters ” , “ step sisters ” , or , speaking of John , were “ children of his mother ” .
This information is further confirmed in a Quit-Claim Deed from Cocghenhower’s children
to the oldest son , Joseph Cocghenhower . (Lancaster Deeds Book XV , p. 509 dated 23
Nov. 1758)

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 ANNA HUNSAKER AND JACOB COCGHENHOWER

We had long believed Anna died and Hartman married a second time, name of wife
unknown , and had three daughters, Catherine, Elizabeth and Eva , or , only the last two.
Since 1972 we have found information indicating that Hartman died and Anna married
a Jacob Cocghenhower . They lived in Manheim Township, Lancaster County , where
Cocghenhower owned land and a house. They had two daughters, Eva and Elizabeth .
Anna died , perhaps in childbirth , in about 1738. Jacob then married a third time , wife

A:A ^ unknown , and had a daughter Magdalena in about 1739. These three daughters are listed
as heirs of Cocghenhower in 1758 Quit Clain Deed , which the daughters signed , on 26
V Mar 1 60 , after they became of legal age. (Lancaster Deeds Bk XV , p 509.) This deed
provides us with the names of Eva’ s husband , John Weldy , and Magdalena’ s husband ,
Abraham Weldy . There is an unexplainable complication here . A Jacob Kegenhower ar -
rived in 1728 , apparently all alone . Jacob Gochnauer , age 20, arrived in 1732, with Chris-
tian Coghnauer , age 17 , probably a brother , and Kathrine Gochnouerin , age 18, who I
believe was Jacob’ s wife. The “ in ” ending in German indicates a married woman . Short -
ly after arrival the name became “ Cocghenhower ” .
There is no way of telling which of these men Anna married . If Kegenhower was
20 when he arrived , he would have been approximately 29 when Anna married him at
her age of 40, 11 years difference . Gochnauer was 20 when he arrived and would have
been 25 when Anna married him , 15 years difference. Although these seem large discrepan-
cies to us, they are not truly so if we keep in mind the fact that when our ancestors lived
it was imperative for a surviving husband or wife to immediately remarry . In those days
and circumstances the presence of both a man and woman was absolutely essential to
maintain a household . Anna had Catherine, who was three to five years old. Cocghenhower
had 4 children between 1 and 4 years old . We don’ t know about Kegenhower . Anna and
Jacob had to pool their resources to establish a home for their respective offspring . That
need surely was far more important than any considerations of age or romantic love.
Although the above information greatly upset our long held beliefs and traditions ,
it makes sense from several standpoints and is corroborated by documents. There are no
Hunsaker marriages listed in Marriage Records of Pennsylvania prior to 1810, as con -
tained in Pennsylvania Archives , Series II , Vols 1 and 2. We are thus not able to directly
document the marriage of Anna to one or the other , Gochnauer -Kegenhower , but for
proof must rely on other documents of the time and later . In his 1886 letter to Harrison
Hunsaker , Abraham listed Hartman’ s daughters thusly , “ Elizabeth , Vienna , Orscal , Mary ,
Anny and Catherine . ” He does not mention Eva or Elizabeth . John Sr . in his bible lists
Catherine as his sister and as “ half sisters , daughters of my mother , Eva and Elizabeth ” .
The Montgomery Hunsaker bible lists Eva and Elizabeth as “ step children. ”

THE COCGHENHOWER FAMILY

A Jacob Kegenhower arrived in 1728. A Jacob Gochenhauer , Age 20 , arrived in 1732.

One of them married Kathrina Gochnouerin , age 18 on arrival in 1732, had three children
and apparently died with the last in 1736, whereupon her husband , whichever he was ,
married Hartman’ s widow Anna , as they both needed helpmates badly and quickly. Jacob
bought his father ’ s ? land and moved to Virginia with members of the Bieri family.
Jacob and Kathrina produced Mary 1734 who married Christian Huber , John 1735?
who married Barbara Bieri , and Joseph 1736 who married Mary .

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 The wife Kathrina must have died , perhaps in childbirth with Joseph , and Jacob quick -
ly married a second time to Anna , widow of Hartman Hunsaker . Anna too died soon ,
and Jacob again married , quickly in order to provide a mother for his young children
and a homemaker for himself . His third wife , name unknown , promptly produced a
daughter , Magdalena , of whom we know practically nothing more .
I have given this information regarding the two men , Kegenhower and Gochnauer ,
simply because it exists in the records. However , I believe Anna married the Jacob
Gochnauer who arrived in 1732 because he arrived with the beginnings of a family unit ,
a named wife and an apparent brother . There are records of him and his family that blend
into our ancestral family and , in fact , provide us with much vital information , Also it
is easier for me to change Gochnauer into Cocghenhower than Kegenhower into
Cocghenhower . Bob is not entirely in agreement with me and believes Kegenhower should
be considered on an equal basis with Gochnauer as a candidate for Anna ’ s husband .
We have no birth dates for any of Cocghenhower’ s children. As the girls had to be
21 years old on 26 Mar 1760 when they resigned the Quit Claim Deed , I have calculated
ages backward (as on another page) and come up with a birth date for Magdalena , the
youngest , of some time prior to 26 July 1739. I admit this method of calculation results
in lightning fast conceptions, births, deaths, marriages, etc. , but I can find no other way
to adjust this narrative to the very few dates available. I have found in other cases that
there were many very young brides and grooms , there were many “ premature first babies ”
and that marriages after the death of a spouse occurred very quickly without much “ mour-
ning time ” , especially when there were young children involved and the surviving spouse
had their responsibility . Men needed housekeepers and baby tenders and the widows needed
a man to provide the security of a home and food . I don’ t think there was much romance
involved in a lot of marriages during Colonial Days .
ANNA’ S CHILDREN BY COCGHENHOWER

I estimate Eva was born about 1737 soon after Anna married Jacob Cocghenhower ,
Eva married John Weldy Sr ., about 1752. Information regarding their family was found
in York County , Register of Wills , Will Book J , p 78 [ page 27 of copy] , which reads:
John Weldy Sr . , of Manheim Township , yeoman dated Sept 21, 1792; Probated Aug
16, 1794 wife Eve
Issue: Cathareena , wife af Ludwick Geeding Peter
Peter
Barbara , wife of Christian Rubel
Mary , wife af Peter Eleberger
Anna , wife of Abraham M
Frena , wife of Joseph B
Eve , wife of Golding
Her daughter , Nancy
Elizabeth
Magdalena
Jacob
John
Abraham
Joseph (16 in 1795)
Executors , son Jacob Welty , son -in -law Christian Rubel

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 LANCASTERYORK COUNTY LAND HOLDINGS
YEAR MON DAY ACRE PLACE TOWNSHIP COUNTY TITLE PARTIES
1732 200 Kreutz Creek Hellam Lancas Squatter Hartman become John
II ti it
1733 ? ii
Licence Blunstcn to John
Hardman
1736 Oct 30 n n II II
Patent Penn to John

1736-37 II II II ii
Assign ? John to Jacob
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1749 / York County created from Lancaster/

1750? 137 Codorus Creek E Manchester York Gift? Bieri to Our John

1750 Jun 9 Mary Ann Furnace VestYManheim 11

Grant Penn to Our John
II Sep 10 100 Manheim II
Grant II II II II

1755 or befcrel37 Codorus Creek East Manchest " Our Jovn to ?

/transfer by Bieri/ 7
1756 Mar 1 110 Codorus Hdvater Manhe-’ m II
Warrant Penns to Our John
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1759 Dec 13 210 II II Survey Our John for Kautzman
1760 Jan 13 100 II it II Deed Our John to Kautzman

1760 Mar 10 200 Kreutz Creek Hellam II

Deed Jacob to Herbach
/Deed recounts history of land/
176O 11 II II II ti
Herbach to Stoner
1760 Nov 1 ISO Codorus Manheim II n Shivel y to Our John
1763 Jul 11 110 Codorus Manheim York Warrant Confirmedto Our John
/Received 1 Mar 1756/ #4776

1763 Sep 9 130 II II II

Deed Our John to Welty
1763 Oct 2 243 II II II
Survey Our John on Warrant of
#6653 10 Sept 1750

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 In Administration and Guardianship Accounts , Item No . 149, June 29, 1796, 1 found:
The Estate of John Welty , Christian Rubel , executor , shows a balance of L 1532.1.9 In
the Office of the Clerk of Courts , for the period 1749 to 1860 in Orphan’ s Court Dockets ,
Book G , p 226, is noted : June 25, 1795 , Christian Hershey is appointed guardian of Joseph
(aged 16) son of the late John Welty of Manheim Township.
Elizabeth must have been born about 1738. She married Abraham Bieri and had the
following children — Abraham , Mary , Nicholas , John .
Elizabeth and Abraham moved to the Valley of Virginia , now Shenandoah valley ,
about 1768 . Abraham died first and Elizabeth went to live with her daughter Mary at
whose house she died in 1800 and is buried in the Edom , Rockingham County , Virginia
cemetery according to Bieri Family History , p 55 , which also states, p 70 , that a Jacob
Coconour was a neighbor of Nicholas Bieri, borther of Abraham , on Linville Creek , Rock-
ingham County , This could be the eldest son of Jacob Cocghenhower .
Herewith a Quit Claim Deed from the Heirs of Jacob Cocghnower to the oldest son ,
Jacob Cocghnower Jr . , which was written on 23 Nov 1758 , but could not be legally “ com -
pleted ” until Barbara , Mary , Eve , Elizabeth and Magdalina became of age on or before
March 26 , 1760. This lengthy deed is copied in its entirety to illustrate the great detail
that was specified to cover every detail, and every possible detail thta could arise, the
care that was taken that the wives involved understood perfectly what they were doing ,
and making sure they were not being influenced by their husbands , and because the deed
provides much information regarding people and places , and because it is a fantastic
document .
Quit Claim Deed , Jacob Cocghnower Heirs to Jacob Cocghnower Jr 23 Nov 1758,
listing Eve and Elizabeth as daughters.

HOOVER TO COCGHNOWER THIS INDENTURE made the Twenty third Day

of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Fifty Eight
BETWEEN Christian Hoover of Heidleberg Township in the County of York and
Province of Pennsylvania Yeoman & Mary his wife , John Cocghnower of the
Township of Strasburgh in the same County and Province aforesaid Yeoman & Bar -
bara his wife , Joseph Cocghnower of the Township of Paradise in the same County
and Province aforesaid Yeoman & Mary his wife, John Welty of Heidleberg Township
in the same County & Province aforesd Yeoman and Eve his wife , Abraham Beery
of Winchester Township in the same County and Province aforesd Yeoman & Elizth ,
his wife and Abraham Welty of Manheim Township in the area County and Pro-
vince aforesaid Yeoman & Magdalina his wife (Which said Mary the wife of Chris-
tian Hoover , John Cocghnower , Joseph Cocghnower , Eve the wife of John Welty ,
Elizth , the wife of Abraham Beery and Magdalina the wife of Abrm . Welty are Six
of the Children of Jacob Cocghnower late of Manheim Township in the County of
Lancaster Yeoman deceased of the one part and Jacob Cocghnower , eldest son of
the said Jacob Cocghnower deceased the other part
WHEREAS the Honble. John Penn , Thomas Penn & Richard Penn
Esqs. Proprietarys in the said Province by their Patent bearing date the Fifteenth
Day of January in the Year of Our Lord One and Seven Hundred & Forty four for
the Consideration therein mentioned did Give Grant Release and Confirm unto the
above named Jacob Cocghnower ( now deceased ) A Certain Tract of land situate in
Manheim Township in the said County of Lancaster
BEGINNING at a Markt Hickary in a line of land then of John Sneve-

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ly and from thence extending by Vacant land along lines of Maple Trees the Five
Courses & Distances next following , Viz: South Sixty Degrees West one hundred and
Twenty Perches to a Post , North Sixty five degrees West Eighty Eight Perches to
a Markt. White Oak , North North East forty four perches to a markt White Oak
North Fifteen Degrees West One Hundred& fourteen Perches to a Markt Black Oak
thence North Twenty Degrees West one Hundred & Twenty Eight Pches to a Post ,
Thence by land (then ) of Francis Wilson the three Courses and Distances next following
Viz: East Eighty Perches to a markt Black Oak , South Sixty five Degrees East one
hundred & Twenty Pches to a Markt Black Oak , and South Thirty degrees East For -
ty Pches to a Markt Black Oak . Thence by the Same and the said John Snevelys land
South by East One hundred & Sixty Six perches to the place of Beginning.
Containing Two Hundred & Eighty Acres and the Allowance of Six Acres P .
Cent for Roads & Highways , with the Appurtenances
To Hold to him the said Jacob Cocghnower his heirs and assigns forever ,
as in & by the said recited Patent Entered in the Office for Recording of Deeds at
Philadelphia in Patent Book A Vol . 11, Page 502 &c . the 17th day of July 1745 ,
reference being thereto had may more fully & at large appear
AND WHEREAS the said Jacob Cocghnower died Intestate seized in
his Demesne as of Fee of an in the said described Tract of Two Hundred & Eight
Acres of Land and Allowance , Leaving Issue the above name Jacob Cocghnower ,
Mary the wife of Christian Hoover , John Cocghnower , Joseph Cocghnower , Eve
the wife of John Welty , Elizabath the wife of Abraham Beery & Magdalena the wife
of Abraham Welty , to and among whom the said Tract of Land Descended and came
as the only Children and Heirs of the said Jacob Cocghnower deceased in Fee as
Tenants in Common according to the Acts of Genl . Assembly of the said Province
in that behalf made & provided , and no partition or division being yet made of the
same Premises by and between the Parties aforesaid or any of them .
NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH that the said Christian
Hoover & Mary his wife , John Cocghnauer & Barbara his wife , Joseph Cocghnower
& Mary his wife , John Welty & Eve his wife , Abraham Beery & Elizth , his wife ,
and Abraham Welty and Magdalena his wife for & in Consideration of the Sum of
Four Hundred Pounds lawful Money of Pensylvania to them in hand well and truly
paid by the said Jacob Cocghnower ( party hereto) at and before the Execution hereof ,
the receipt & payment whereof they do hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every
part and parcell thereof do exonerate release and forever discharge the said Jacob
Cocghnower his heirs Exrs . & Admrs. by these Presents , Have and each & of every
of them Hath Granted Bargained Sold Aliened Enfeoffed Released & Confirmed &
by these Presents Do and each and every of them Doth Grant Bargain Sell , Alien ,
Enfeoff Release and Confirm unto the said Jacob Cocghnower ( Party hereto) and
to his Hairs & Assigns
All their and each and every of their parts , Shares Purparts and
Dividends whatsoever which descended and came or belonged to them or any or either
of them upon his the said Jacob Cocghnowers dying inteste as aforesaid of in & to
all & Singular the said above mentioned and described Tract of Two Hundred & Eighty
Acres of Land , with Allowance .
And of in & to the Houses Edifices and Buildings thereon erected and
being and all ways Waters , Water Courses , Hedges , Ditches , Fences , Profits,
Priviledges, Advantages , Commodities , Immunities, Hereditaments & Appurtenances

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whatsoever to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining .
And the Reversions & Rembrs. , Rents, Issues and Profits thereof .
TOGETHER with all the Estate , Right , Title Interest , Use , Trust , Pro-
perty , Possession ,Claim and Demand whatsoever of them the sd . Christian Hoover
& Mary his wife , John Cocghnower and Barbara his wife , Joseph Cocghnower &
Mary his wife , Jno Welty & Eve his wife , Abrm , Beery & Elizth , his wife, and Abraham
Welty and Magdalena his wife , and each & every of them either in Law or Equity
or otherwise howsoever of in & to the said tract of land & Premises wth . the Ap-
purtenances and every or any part thereof , And also all Deeds Evidences Minuments
Escripts & Writings whatsoever relating to touching or concerning the same and every
part thereof .
TO HAVE & TO HOLD all and every the said parts , Shares , Purparts
and Difidences of them the sd . Christian Hoover & Mary his wife , John Welty &
Eve his wife , Abrm . Beery and Elizth . his wife & Abrm . Welty & Magdalina his wife ,
hereby Granted & Released ( or mentioned or intended so to be) of in and to the said
described Tract of Two Hundred & Eighty Acres of Land & Allowance, Hereditaments
and Premises with their & every of their rights members & Appurtenances to him
the said Jacob Cocghnowar his heirs and Assigns , To the only proper use Benefit
& Behoofe of him the said Jacob Cocghnowar his Heirs and Assns. forever ,
SUBJECT to the payment of the Yearly Quit Rents now due & hereafrer
to grow & become due for the same to the Chief Lord or Lords of the Fee thereof .
And the said Christian Hoover , Jno Cocghnower , Joseph Cocghnower , John Welty ,
Abraham Beery & Abraham Welty for themselves severally and respectively for their
Several and respective Heirs Exrs . & Admrs . do hereby promise & Grant to and with
the said Jacob Cocghnower (party hereto) his heirs and Assigns , that they said Christian
Hoover & Mary his wife, John Cocghnower & Barbara his wife, Joseph Cocghnower
& Mary his wife , John Welty & Eve his wife , Abrm , Beery & Elizth . his wife , Abrm .
Welty & Magdalina his wife & their heirs & all and every other person and persons
whomsoever now having & lawfully claiming or hereafter to have or lawfully claim
any Estate , Right , Title or Interest whatever of in or to the said parts , Shares Pur -
parts and dividends hereby Granted & Released (or mentioned or intended so to be)
or any or either of them or any part or parcel thereo , by from or under them or any
or either of them , Shall & will by all of every time or times hereafter at the request
Costs , Charges in the Law of the said Jacob Cocghnower ( party hereto) his heirs
or Assigns , make do acknowledge Levy , Suffer , Perfect and Execute or Cause and
procure to be made done acknowledged , Levy’ d , Suffered , Perfected , Executed all
and every such further & other lawfull & reasonable Act and Acts , deed and Deeds ,
Thing and Things , Conveyances and Assurances in the Law whatsoever (be it by Fine ,
Feoffment , Common Recovery or other wise howsoever ) for the further better more
? effect and absolute assuring and Confirming all and every the said Parts, Shares ,
Purparts & Dividends of the sd , described Tract of land & Premises hereby granted
& Released with their & every of their Rights , Members and Appurtenances to him
the said Jacob Cockhnower (party hereto) his heirs & Assns , forever as by him or
them or his or their Council Learned in the law , shall be lawfully and reasonably
advised or devised & required .
And that they the said Christian Hoover & Mary his wife , John
Cockghnower & Barbara his wife , Joseph Cocknower & Mary his wife , John Welty
& Eve his wife , Abraham Beery & Elizth . his wife, & Abrm . Welty & Magdalina his

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wife have not neither hath any or either of them either jointly & Severally at any
time heretofore done committed , executed or Suffer’ d any Act or Acts , Thing or
Things whatsoever whereby the parts, Shares and Purparts of the of land & pmises
hereby granted & released with the Appurtces , or any part or parcel thereof now are
or at any time hereafter shall or can or may be impeached or incumbered in Title ,
Charge Estate or otherwise howsoever . y
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IN WITNESS whereof the said parties to these Presents their hands
& Seals have hereunto interchangeably set the Day & year first above Written .
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Christian CH Hoover SS Mary M Hoover SS John Cocghnower SS
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Elizabeth B Beery SS Abram Welty SS Magdalina M Welty SS
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Sealed & Delivered by the Within named Mary Hoover ( wife of Christian Hoover)
John Cocghnower , Joseph Cocghnower , John Welty , Abraham Beery , & Abraham
Welty in the Presence of us (after Writing the Word Barbara on Erazures throughout
the same)
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Henry H Hoover William Atlee
mark

Sealed & Delivered by Christian Hoover , Barbara Cocghnower , Mary Cocknower ,

& Eve Welty , Elizzth , Beery & Magdalen Welty , in the Psence of Adam Simon Kuhn .
RECED . on the day of the date of the within written Indenture of and from the within
named Jacob Cocghnower the Sum of Four Hundred Pounds Lawful Money of Pen-
sylvania in full for the Consideration Money within Mention’ d L 400
His his
John Cocghnower Joseph X Cocghnower John Welty
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the said Jno .
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Henry H Hoover Willm . Atlee
mark

BEFORE me the Subscriber one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace & Court of
Common Pleas in & for the County of Lancaster Psonally appeared the within nam -
ed Mary Hoover ( the Wife of Christian Hoover ) John Cocgnower , Joseph Cocknower ,
John Welty Abrm . Beery and Abraham Welty & did each of them acknowledge the
within Indenture to be their Act and Deed , and desired that the same might be recorded
as such , She the said Mary being by me privatlely examined acknoledged that she
executed the same Willingly and freely & with out any Compulsion fear or Threats
of her said Husband
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereto set my hand & Seal the Twenty third
Day of Novemr . A . D . One Thousand seven Hundred & fifty Eight .

Adam Simon Kuhn SS

LANCASTER COTY . SS : Before me the Subscriber one of his Majesties Justices

of the Peace in & for the County of Lancaster Psonally appeared the within named
Christian Hoover , Barbara the wife of Jno. Cocghnower , Mary the wife of JOseph
Cocghnower , Eve the wife of Jno . Welty, Elizth . the wife of Abrm . Beery , &
Magdaline the wife of Abrm . Welty , & acknowledged the within written Indenture
to be their Act and Deed & Desired that the same might be recorded as such accor -
ding to Law , they the sd . Barbara , Mary , Eva , Elizth . and Magdalina being each
of them of full age & by me privately examined thereto , Voluntarily consenting , the
within Contents being first made known to them.
WITNESS my hand & Seal the Twenty sixth Day of March A . D . One
Thousand seven hundred & Sixty
Adam Simon Kuhn SS
RECORDED 14th Novr . 1761
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We have documentation Jacob Cocghenhower owned land in Manheim Township ,

Lancaster County . This land , under Document No . A 63-110 filed in Lancaster Deeds ,
Bk XX P 590, was warranted on 31 Oct 1734, Surveyed 10 Jun . 1736 and patented 15
Jan . 1744 . The patent was formally issued 17 July 1745 . and was recorded in Patent Book
A , Vol II , p 502. in Philadelphia.

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 AGE CHART
The ages which 3ob and I arrive at are not exactly the same, and yet
are not far apart. Our calculations or reasons to reach the various
years of birth , marriage and death are as follows. ? equals Estimate .
NANS i EVENT i B03 i QMH iAGEi REASON
Hartman 3irth 1 690
1695 Previous estimate , Die
Hunziker von Aarau
Anna Birth 1694
1697
Hartman Marriage 171 i 18
Anna ) 1713 16
\7 t 2
Yerena Birth
!7H
1714
Elizabeth 1715
Ursula 1716
I 720
1717
Anna 1718
Mary 1715 1721
Eohn 22'May 1728 Family records
Jailing Bern) 17 8
^ 1728 33 Unsubstantiated genealogist's
Leave Switz report
Infant None 1730? One family traditionj Dutch
Death None 1731
Document 7 children ,6 child
ren upon arrival Phila. -
Catherine Birth 1730
1733? Based on birth/death infant
Hartman Arrival US 10 Sep 1731 -
1730 1731
Ship's passenger lists
Hartmanns Conestoga Land None 173 2 Unsubstantiated genealogist's
report 1 SW'JSS i GfRMAN PIONEER
Hartman as Kreutz Cr Land None 1732 37 Fellow passengers in area ;
John entered no other John Hunsaker in area,
Above patented 30 Oct 1736 41 I76O Deed , Reisinger statement,
Ref in COLONIAL ARCHIVES
Hartman Death r/33 4o
1736? 41
Anna 2nd Marriage 17>4 41
1737? 40
Eve Birth 17.T7 1737. 21 when 8ignedv.QCdD§§d .J.7601?6
Elizabeth 173F? 173*8?
Anna Death 1739 173 8? 42 '

Cocghenhour 3rd Marriage 1735? 1738?

Magdalena Birth 1739. 1739? '

J Cocghnhr QC Deed written23 Nov 1758 Lancaster Deeds Bk XV ,p509

" " fully
signed by dtrs 26 Mar 1760
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 V YORK COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
Land west of the Susquehanna River was in the domain of the Indians until 1736.
Beginning in about 1729-30 however , “ Pennsylvania Dutch ” crossed the river and oc-
cupied land . The Penns were very honorable in their dealings with the Indians and , being
unable or unwilling to stop these squatters , they appointed Thomas Blunston as their agent
to over-see these lands and these settlers to make sure no trouble arose with the Indians.
The Penns then negotiated with the Indians and in 1736 secured the land by treaty . Mean -
while , Blunston had issued licenses , or promises of licenses , to the settlers for the land
they occupied . At various times after issuance of these licenses Thomas Penn went to a
particular place and in one act on one day validated all of Blunston’ s licenses in that area.
He did this in the Kreutz Creek area on 30 Oct . 1736. This process is described in a foot-
note , page 265 of History of Lancaster County ,

—
Note. Thomas Penn , son of William Penn , arrived in Pennsylvania , 1732.
He was at Lancaster in October , 1736 signed licenses or grants for settlements
that had been made previously on the west side of the Susquehanna . Samuel
Blunston was engaged as his agent to grant licenses for 12 , 000 acres , to satisfy
the rights of settlers. These licenses , or rather promises to the settlers , to grant
them patents for the lands they had settled , are signed by T. Penn , himself .

The Blunston licenses affected other lands in many areas from Lancaster County to
lands far west and along the Pennsylvania-Maryland border . I have found many Blunston
licenses for other areas but have never found a single original Blunston license for any
land in the Kreutz Creek area . I believe all the licenses for this particular area were somehow
destroyed or lost . Several knowledgeable people I have talked to about this in Pennsylvania
agree with me.
However , we have a valid reference for these licenses which appeared in Pennsylvania
Magazine , ( 1935) Vol 12, pages 68 , 69 and 70. In this document , the following names
represent people we know were associated with Hartman and members of his family:
Michael Danner Martin Wigle
Jacob Welsover (Jilsover ) Nicholas Bougher ( Bowser )
Martin Shulk (Shultz) Tobias Fry
Balthasar Springier (Spangler ) Nicholas Pieree ( Bieri)
Christian Pixler (Bixler ) Jacob Lancas (Lanius)
Henry (Heindrek ) Smith (Smidt ) Christian Craul (Crawl)
Henry Hendricks

Bob Hunsaker contributes to the information on this subject with a quote from Sher-
man Day’s History of Pennsylvania.

Even before the death of Wm . Penn in 1718, the violent disputes between
the proprietors of Pennsylvania and those of Maryland had commenced in regard
to the boundary line . It was not the practice of the proprietors of Pennsylvania
to permit settlements or surveys to be made on any land until the Indian title
was fully and indisputably extinguished . The proprietaries of Maryland , on the
other hand , were mainly intent upon securing a boundary further north than

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 has since been allowed , and cared as little for the rights of the Indians as for
the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania. They therefore encouraged a desperate set of
traders and settlers to enter upon the lands west of the Susquehanna , and far
north of the disputed boundary .

Enlargement of Hellam County

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Gov . Keith , of Pennsylvania , wished to check the encroachment of
Maryland ; and yet , by the usage and laws of the province , was unable to grant
rights to Pennsylvanians . To extricate himself from this difficulty , he consulted
with the Conestoga Indians and other tribes in 1722, and obtained their consent
that he should make a large survey west of the Susquehanna .
The Indians, equally with himself , were jealous of the encroachments of
Maryland , and felt sure of obtaining from Pennsylvsnia a return of any part
of land they wanted for their own use . On the 19th and 20th June 1722, the
first survey of Springettsbury Manor ( now known as Keith ’ s Survey ) was made.
Not long after the survey , settlements were made within the manor under
Pennsylvania title; but as the lands were not fully purchased of the Indians ,
licenses to settle were granted by Samuel Blunston , of Wright ’ s Ferry , who was
commissioned by the proprietaries. The first license issued by Blunston is dated
24th Jan . 1733 (the new calendar would make this date the 3 rd of Feb . 1733)
and the last on the 31st Oct . 1737 (the calendar we use to day would make this
date the 10 Nov 1737)
...Several squatters, under Maryland title, particularly Michael Danner , Ed-
ward Parnell , Paul Williams , and Jefferey Sumerford , had for some years dwelt
on the west side of the Susquehanna , as high up as four miles north of the latitude
of Philadelphia . They were driven off by the provincial authorities in 1728. John
and James Hendricks, in the spring of 1729, made the first authorized settle-
ment in the County on Kreutz Creek , in Hellam Township , on the same tracts
from which the squatters had been removed .
Thomas Cresap was a blustering and desperate bully , who had volunteered
his services to the Governor of Maryland to raise a party of marauders , and drive
off the Pennsylvania settlers. He commenced his outrages about the year 1731 ,
and continued them until he was arrested in 1736, by a party of armed men under
the sheriff of Lancaster County. He had contrived to enlist a number of the Ger-
man settlers, and inveigle them into his plans .
One Daunt was murdered by him , and several murderous affrays occurred
between him and the Pennsylvanians. John Hendricks and Joshua Minshall were I#
seized by the Marylanders , and imprisoned in Annapolis Jail.

Beery Family History , Page 34 says , “ Nicholas Beery was arrested in 1737 on a writ
issuing out of the Supreme Court of Maryland for refusing to hold his land under Lord
Baltimore , and was imprisoned in the Annapolis jail.” And , on page 33 , “ Nicholas settl-
ed on the north bank of Codorus Creek , a mile or so north of the present city of York ,
in the area that became Manchester Township in 1742. ”

Blunston Licenses
A Coppy of Licences Signed by the Properietary when he was last in Lan-
caster County to Sundry persons Setled within the Manor of Springetsbury .
Whereas Sundry Germans & Others, formerly Seated themselves by Our Leave
upon Lands Lying on the West Side of the River Susquehanah , within Our County
of Lancaster ,, & withing the Bounds of a tract of Land Surveyd the Nineteenth
& twentieth Days of June An Dom 1722, Containing about Seventy thousand
Acres , Comonly Called the Manor of Springets-bury. And Whereas a Confir-

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mation to the Persons Seated on the Same , for their Several tracts, has hitherto
been Delay’ d by Reason of the Claim made to the said Lands by the Indians
of the five Nations, which Claim the said Indians have now Effectualy Released
to us , by their Deed bearing Date the Eleventh Day of this Instant October . And
Whereas One of the persons living within the said Mannor , hath now Applyed
for a Confirmation of . . . . Acres, part of the Same , where he is now Seated ,
I do Hereby Certifie that I Will Order a Patent to Be Drawn to the S . . . . for
the said . . . . acres (if so much Can be there had , without prejudice to the other
Settlers) on the Common terms Other Lands on the West Side of Susquehanah
River Are Granted , as Soon as the Said Quantity shal be Surreyd to him out
of the Above mentiond tract , and a return thereof Made to Mee , October the
thirtieth , 1736.
Thomas Penn .
Mark Evans. 350 a . Page 30.
Michael Tanner . 400 a .
Nicholas Coner . 200 a .
Jacob Welsover .
Adam Byer . 200 a.
Christian Craul . 200 a .
Jacob Lancas. 250 a .
Martin Wigle . 200 a .
Peter Gardner . 300 a .
Martin Joseph . 300 a.
Martin Shulk . 250 a .
Henry Smith 200 a .
Henry Bawn . 200 a .
Conrad Strickler . 350 a . of this Tract patented this day of Febry 1767 to Jacob
Strickler.
Henry Hendricks. 300 a .
Nicholas Bougher . 300 a . 170 acres 8 perches patented to Herman Milter the
25th Jany . , 1771.
Henry Hants. 250 a .
Casper Springier , 300 a.
Baltsor Springier . 200 a . December , 1762, Heirs patented to a Baltzer Spangler .
Andrew fllickarre. 200 a .
Lenard Imble. 20 a . 234 acrew 94 perches patented upon this about the 8th or
9th December , 1769. Held for the 34 acres & perches at the Rate of fl :4e. per acre.
Michael Wallack . 250 a .
Henry Liphart . 200 a .
Methusalem Griffith . 200 a .
Tobias ffry. 450 a . 19 October , 1762 Patented 250 acres of This to Godfrey Grey ,
& December , 1762, to Balkasar Spangler 200 acres to ye Remr as Assd .
Casper Carbil . 300 a . The one half of this Grant was patented to Marcus Haines
this day & the other to Geo . Weller by patent of 13 November , 1760.
Henry Sank 300 a . Henry Sank conveyed 200 acres of this Brant to Nicholas
Diehl who had a warrant dated 8 October , 1767 , to accept a Survey of 260 acres
of this Grant to Nicholas Diehl who had a warrant dated 8 October , 1767 to
accept a Survey of 260 acres 27 perches & o by p . v . d . 22-67 . Wolric Whistler .
250 a .
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 Christian Stoneman , 250 a .
George Homspaker . 150 a .
Frederick Lather . 250 a .
Killian Smith , 200 a . 61 acres 120 perches , Warrant of Acceptce issued to jos .
Updegraft the 23 July , 1713 [? ] , for a part of this Mt Gt .
Nicholas Pieree , 200 a .
Martin ffry. 250 a.
Michael Rambel . 250 a.
Tyner Tomar . 350 a .
Michael Miller . 200 a.
Joseph Evans 400 a .
Thomas Morgan . 200 a .
Christian Esther . 300 a.
Dennis Myer . 400 a .
George Myer . 200 a .
Philip Segeler . 200 a . Patented 328 1 / 2 acres to
Philip Zeigler jr this 23d October , 1767.
Jacob Grebill . 200.
George Segeler . 150 a.
Jacob Segeler . 150 a .
Francis Worley , Junr . 400 a .
1736, October 30.-Christian Pixler . Grant produced for 250 a . 24th Septr 1763.
Survey of 200 Acres, produced , & no more being in Settlement of Warrt , Patent
issued for ye Qty only .
Do Date . -Peter Fred. 150 a A Survey of 147 Acres & 50 Perches produced to
• • • Peters , Secry , the 8 th October 1765 , by sd Peter Fred , and granted to sd Peter
Fred by Warrt of sd 8th Octor & confirmed by Patent of 1765 .
do.-Martin Joseph . 300 a . Orgl produced at the Land Office the 8th December ,
1769. There is above 500 acres Surveyed on this Grant , Of which Adam Uler
holds a part . Heirs of Peter Uler other part & a certain Jacob Ottinger the Re-
mainder . See a Warrant of Acceptance dated the 8th December , 1769.
1724 , Sept. 21-Thomas Doyle . 400 a. On the West . Original produced at the
Land Office the 21 April , 1772.
1736, October 30.-Martin Bowen . 200 a . where is now settled about 3 Miles form
the West side of Codorus on a Small Run or branch of Connago. The orig pro-
duced to me 31st October 1788. D . Kennedy.

FIRST LAND OWNERSHIP

The land record in which the name John Hunseker occurs for the first time , and which
I consider so important to my theory , is a deed dated 17 Mar . 1760 from Jacob Hunseker
to Yost Herbach . This deed , in effect recounts the entire history of a piece of land , for
the benefit of its doubting owner , from 1736 to 1760 and , shows John Hunsaker as the
original grantee of the land from the Penns in 1736.
Pertinent parts of this extremely important deed are here copied from the original
which I found in York County Deeds , Book A , p 392 393 , in the York County Court -
house , York , Pennsylvania .

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 THIS INDENTURE Made the tenth Day of March in the Thirty third Year
of the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the second ... and in the Year of our
Lord God one thousand seven Hundred and Sixty.
BETWEEN Jacob Hunseker of Manheim Township in the County of York
and Jost Herbach of Helam Township in the County of York ...
WHEREAS the Honourable Thomas Penn one of the Proprietors of the
Province aforesd by an Instrument of writing under his Hand bearing date the
Thirtieth day of October which was in the Year .. . one Thousand seven Hundred
and Thirty Six did grant unto the aforesd John Hunseker the Quantity of Two
hundred Acres of Land situate on Grist Creek on the West side of Susquehanna
River in the County of York aforesd then in the County of Lancaster as by the
said Grant may appear .
AND WHEREAS the aforesd Jacob Hunseker on the Sixteenth day of
May ... one thousand seven Hundred and forty three did Afsign and make over
the aforesd Grant unto the aforesaid Jost Herbach as by Indoresement on said
Grant may Appear .
AND WHEREAS the afsd Recited afsignments on the aforesd Grant were
not deemed Sufficient Title to the aforesd Jost Herbach although the aforesd
Peter Beitler paid unto the aforesd Jacob Hunseker the sum of one hundred &
Eighty Pounds And the aforesd Jost Herbaugh did deliver unto the aforesd Peter
Beitler ...
NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNEFSETH That in Consideration of the
aforesd Premises and the further Sum of Five Shillings to the afs Jacob Hunseker
in hand paid by the aforesaid Jost Herbach ... the aforesaid Jacob Hunseker in
hand paid by the aforesaid Jost Herbach ... the aforesaid Jacob Hunseker hath
Granted bargained Sold Released and Confirmed ... unto the aforesd Jost Her -
bach ... all that aforesd Grant ... of two Hundred Acres.

Ordinarily the word “ aforesaid ” is used only after a name has been used in a docu -
ment . Therefore “ aforesaid John ” should read “ Aforesaid Jacob ” . Where was the er -
ror ? Should John in the first Whereas paragraph be Jacob ? Or was it meant to be John ? I'
One man’ s name , Breeitler - Beitler , is misspelled . Not an error , but Kreutz Creek is here
called Grist Creek . A Peter Bixler ( Beitler ? ) was associated with the Hunsaker family .
This land was originally in Conestoga ; it is of 200 acares; Starr reported that “ Hartman
owned 200 acres of land in Conestoga in 1732 ” .
We must remember that some deeds at this date were not perfectly written . This one.
Starting with a “ promise ” of a deed from Blunston , an execution of a license to occupy
land , and finally a patent to the land , and then a number of transfers of ownership by
highly informal assignments on the back of the patent , are all highly irregular manners
of transferring land .
I believe Hartman become John Hunseker received this 200 acres of land from Thomas
Penn via Samuel Blunston on 30 Oct . 1736. Before he could do anything more he died
and the land was transferred in an informal fashion , for the first of many times , in some
manner we can not find now , to Jacob Hunseker , who was a relative, probably his younger
brother .
No one has ever been able to find documentation of the original grant of 200 acres
of land to John Hunseker on Kreutz Creek . I have searched the York and Lancaster Court -
houses , the libraries of their Historical Societies , the Land Office at the State Capitol

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in Harrisburg , I have had professional genealogists search these same places. The land
records of Pennsylvania are all now in the LDS Genealogical Society Library in Salt Lake
City. They were searched in August 1979 by myself and by the official who had microfilmed
them in Pennsylvania and who was then in charge of them in Salt Lake City . All this
to no avail . However , several secondary documents have been found which strongly tend
to corroborate my belief this land was originally patented to John Hunseker , who , to
repeat , I believe was our Hartman by his American name of John .
In June 1980 I met Mr . Reisenger , the Librarian Historian of the York County
Historical Society in York , Pa . He provided me with a copy of the first map made of
Springettsbury Manor which occupied this portion of Hellam Township. This map shows
the plot of land and lists Yost Harbaugh as the original patentee. Mr . Reisenger told me
he was well acquainted with this land and the Hunsaker history , and that Yost Harbaugh
was not the original patentee and that John Hunseker was.
In Oct . 1980 I acquired from Kathryn Utz , a family relative of Whitewater , Wise.,
a copy of information from John Gibson’ s History of York County which discusses Yost
Harbaugh and says , “ The land was originally taken up (in 1736) by John Huntzecker ... ”
* Additional information regarding the Kreutz Creek area and Church , with many
familiar names from the Pennsylvania Merchant plus “ Jacob Huntsbecker ” are
contained in a History of the Kreutz Creek Charge of the Reformed Church .
More information regarding this land was found in 1976 in the York County Historical
Library in a letter dated 23 Oct . 1947 from Genealogist Edith Beard Cannon to Mrs. R .
L . Beardslee of Stockton , CA , which says in part :

We know that in the Kreutz Creek Settlement in Hellam Township , Hans

Martin Schultz and Johannes Schultz built the two first stone houses west of
the Susquehanna River in 1734 , that Jacob Lanius, Jacob Weltshoffer and Johan
Heinrich Scnmidt were there in 1731 and that all were given grants of land by
the Samuel Blunston Licenses on Oct 30 , 1736, after the Indians released to the
Penns their claim to the land on which these Germans had settled previously .
You will be intrested to know too , that Nicholas Perie (Bury or Beery) was granted
200 acres on the same day.

Four of the six landowners mentioned above were passengers with Hartman on the
Pennsylvania Merchant and Nicholas Perie became Hartman ’ s son John’ s father -in -law.
It is obvious , from reading these histories that immigrants aboard a particular ship form -
ed lasting friendships and tended to stay together when they settled in the New World .
As to Jacob ’ s reasons for selling the land , Mrs. Cannon’ s letter goes on to say:

The Pennsylvania Germans living in the Kreutz Creek Settlement , who had
been much persecuted by Lord Baltimore’ s agent , Tomas Cressap , in the
Maryland - Pennsylvania border dispute and told they were in Lord Baltimore’ s
territory , in the fall of 1736 sent to the Properietaries a petition telling of their
troubles and affirming their loyalty to the Province of Pennsylvania . The lands
in dispute were , before the Tomas Cressap invasion , “ in the quiet and peaceable
possession of Christian Carwl , Henry Libert , Jacob Hunthecker , Martin Schultz ,
Jacob Welsover , Henry Schmidt , Nicholas Brin , etc. ” Nicholas Brin is evident -
ly Nicholas Berie and Jacob Hunthecker is evidently Jacob Hunsecker , the long
letter “ S ” in the middle being mistaken for an “ H ” .

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^*
5S HISTORY O F YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLV ANIA
Prowell , 974.841 H 2 p
George the Second by the grace of God of lands and tenements by , from o r under the
Great Britain , France a n d Ireland , King said proprietaries of the province of Penn
defender of the faith , e t c. , a n d divers o t h e r sylvania aforesaid , violently and with an-
days and times as well before a s after a t t h e
township of London-Grove in t h e county of
Chester within the jurisdiction of this c o u r t
in pursuance of their wicked and unjust in -
tentions aforesaid and being united and con -
federated together between themselves
wickedly and unlawfully did conspire a n d
combine with armed force and with a mul -
titude of people in hostile manner arrayed
into the lands and tenements of the Honor-
able John Penn , Thomas Penn and Richard
Penn true and absolute proprietarie s and
governors in chief of the province of Penn -
sylvania , county of Lancaster on w e s t side
of t h e Susquehann a within t h e province of
Pennsylvani a t h e n in the quiet and peaceful
possession of Christian Crawl , Henry
Libert , Jacob Huntsecker, Methusalem
Griffith , Michael Tanner , Henry Stands,
Martin Shultz, Jacob Welshover, P a u l
Springier, Andreas Felixer, Ulrick Whist -
ler, Nicholas Booker, Hans Steinman , Con -
rad Strickler, Caspar Springier, Michael
Walt , Peter Kersher, Reynard Kummer ,
George Hans Pancker , Frederick Leader,
Michael Miller, Martin Weigle, Hans Henry
Place, Tobias Fry , Martin Fry , Peter Stein -
man , Henry Pann , Henry Smith , Jacob
Landis, Henry Kendrick, Tobias Rudisill,
Jacob Krebell, Michael Springle, Jacob
Singler , Philip Ziegler, Caspar Crever , Der -
ick Pleager , George Swope, Michael Krenel ,
Thomas May, Nicholas Brin , Kilian Smith ,
Martin Bower , George Lauman , Martin
Brunt , Michael Allen , Christian Enfers , and
Nicholas Cone , t e n a n t s occupying a n d hold -
ing t h e same lands and tenements under t h e
honorable proprietarie s of t h e province of
Pennsylvani a aforesaid , unlawfully and un -
justly with force and arms, e t c., t o enter and
them the said Christian Crawl , Henry
Libert , etc., * * * and Nicholas Cone
from their quiet and peaceable possession
aforesaid with an armed force in hostile
manner t o expel , eject and remove and the
same Christian Crawl , Henry Libert * *
* and Nicholas Cone so being expelled
and ejected from the possession of t h e lands
and tenements of aforesaid against them the
said Christian Crawl , Henry Libert * * *
and Nicholas Cone and against alb persons
whatsoever claiming o r to claim the said
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armed force t o keep, hold a n d maintain and
the persons of them the said Christian
Crawl , Henry Libert * * * and Nich -
olas Cone with force and arms, e t c., to
a r r e s t a n d imprison in high violation and
contempt of the laws in disinherison of the
said honorable proprietarie s t o the g r e a t
terror and disturbance of his Majesty ’ s sub-
jects, inhabitants of the said county oFLan -
castcr t o the evil and pernicious example of
others in the like case delinquents and
against t h e peace of o u r Sovereign Lord the
King who is now in his crown and dignity ,
e t c. J. Grow don
Endorsed “ Billa Vera /' per
a .
Dno Rege.
“ Henry Munday.”
Test. Edward Leet sworn .
COLONEL THOMAS CRESAP.
Colonel Thomas Cresap , one of the brav -
est and most audacious of the Maryland
settlers , figured prominently in t h e conten -
tions about rights t o lands in Springetts
bury Manor and southward . He became
-
the leader among t h e Maryland invaders
until t h e temporary line was r u n between
the provinces of Pennsylvani a and Mary-
land in 1739.
Colonel Cresap w a s born a t Skipton ,
Yorkshire , England , in 1702, and came to
Maryland when fifteen years of age. In
1732 he gave his occupation a s that of a car-
penter. He settled a t t h e mouth of the
Susquehann a , where he engaged in boat
building. In 1725 he married Hannah
Johnson, whose father. Thomas Johnson,
March 24 , 1725 , had surveyed t o himself
Mount Johnson Island , a t Peach Bottom
Ferry. Cresap soon after w e n t t o Virginia,
but he was not long there before an attempt
was made by a dozen or more persons t o
drive him away while he was engaged in
h e w i n g timber for his dwelling. He de -
fended himself and cleft one of his assail -
-
a n t s with a broad a x. He then returned to
Maryland , and took o u t a patent for a ferry
o v e r the Susquehanna river a t t h e head of
tide- w a t e r , a t or near what is now Bell s
Ferry , which must have been near the t e r-
minus of the voyage of Captain John Smith.
of Virginia , u p the river in 1608. While
HISTORY OF THE KREUTZ CREEK CHARGE OF THE REFORMED CHURCH
by Rev. Walter E Garrett » A .B. , publ Phila. , 1924

CREEK REFORMED CHARGE 249

Clayton Thomas, and thus a spiritual son of Canadochly
Reformed Church. The Crcsnp holding was called “ Pleasant
Garden .”
In one of the addresses, delivered at the unveiling, by
Attorney Robert C. Bair, of York , Pa ., he showed that
Crcsap had driven forty-nine German families from that sec-
tion and was about to sell the land thus illegally acquired , at
Annapolis, Md ., when his plan was frustrated by his arrest
by the Pennsylvania authorities. What we arc concerned
with, however , is the list of names as given by Mr. Bair.
This list appeared in the York Dispatch of September 27 ,
‘

1924, and is as follows :

Do you inquire who these 49 Casper Springier ,
Germans were ? Sept. 18, 1727
Your ancestors, men of Cone - Michael Walts,
johela . Peter Kershner,
Hear the list ; to which I have Reynard Rummer ,
added dates of their arrival : George Hans Baugher,
Arrived in America Frederick Leader ,
.. .
Christian Crall Aug 19, 1729 Aug. 24 , 1728
Henry Libhart, .
Michael Miller . . Oct. 16, 1727
Jacob Huntsbccker, Martin Weigel . Aug. 11, 1732
.
Sept 28, 1733 Hans Henry Place,
Mathusalem Griffith Tobias Fry . .
Sept 18, 1727
Michael Tanner , Sept. 30 , 1727 Martin Fry,
Henry Stence . .. Aug. 27, 1733 Henry Steinman ,
.. .
Martin Shultz . Sept 11, 1731 Henry Bann ( Bahn ) 1731
Jacob Welshover , Henry Smith . . ..
Aug. 29 , 1730
.
Sept 11, 1731 Jacob Landis,
Paul Springer, Henry Kendrick,
Andreas Fclixer, Tobias Rudissilly ,
.. .
Ulrich Whisler Aug 28, 1733 .
Jacob Krcibcil . Aug. 19, 1729
.. .
Nicholas Bucher Oct 10, 1727 .. .
Philip Zeigler . Sept 18, 1727
Hans Stcinniun 1733 George Lowcrmnn 1727
Conrad Striekler , .. .
Martin Bower . Sept 19 , 1732

250 HISTORY OF KREUTZ

Michael Springier , Thomas May,
Jacob Singer, Nicholas Brin ,
Casper Craver , Killiam Smith ,
Philip Krennel , Martin Brunt,
Michael Krennel, Michael Allen ,
Derick Pfleiger , Christian Enfers,
George Swope, . Nicholas Cone ( Gohn ) .
Those marked with a star arc members of Krcutz Creek
Church. Up to this time we have been unable to further
identify the list, in the absence of records to verify the same.
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 JOHN GIBSON
228 HISTORY OF YORK COUNTY .
manufactures, commerce , croditand civic re -
pute and standing , as thovhad in originally
establishing it . The facts are amplo for tho
purpose and they must convince everyone who
is not. a skeptic wilfully and from prepense
malice. Tho population of Baltimore of
Gorman descent constitutes our most indus -
trious classes ; they aro productive far beyond
their ratio in tho aggregate population ; they
produce more, consume less, and consequent -
ly save more per capita, than the other
classes of people. It must follow that thoy
are accumulating capital more rapidly , get -
ting rich faster than tho other classes. In -
dustry and economy are their rules, but they
do not spare enterprise, and thoy put their
thrifty hands upon every branch of trade .
There is an old German proverb* which says:
lNir. iibt'.nj' x Hand yclit durchjrdes land ,' but
RO does the German hand go into every land ,
and we find it most prosperously employed
here in every industry , from \YiIkons’ hair
factory to Knabe’ s piano works ; from Schu -
macher ’ s Bremen steamers to Knapp'sschool .
We see it in the intelligent and elaborate
network of German charities, in the brilliant
German social organizations. Wo soo it in
the German signs upon our business houses
find the German faces upon our busy streets.
Tho descendants of Germans in Pennsylva - Creek Church now stunds. Tho land was
nia an * 1 ,200,000 strong. Within tho la < t
forty years 2,000, 000 have come into this
countrv , every man of them with four hands.
'This population is a giant asleep.
‘ ’ They
are one third of us and the heaviest third , too.
Nearly all the direct immigration to Balti -
more of late years, and the larger part of tho
indirect immigration has been of Germans.
For tho three* months ended December 31 ,
1 S7 T , of 407 immigrants landed in Baltimore
3S t were from Germany and Austria , and
this is about tho normal proportion four - —
fifth ^ . and over one per cent per annum in
,
the :L.'gregato. * * * *
“ They come from every part of Germany
and Austria , and they are of all trades except
—
those of gentleman , idler and tramp artists,
clergymen , engineers, doctors, teachers,
scientists, bakers, blacksmiths, butchers ,
carpenters, clerks, mariners, masons, painters ,
shoemakers, tailors , woavers, unskilled labor -
ers. etc. When business revives and this
country ofTers again its old chances for a
livelihood to all , you must multi ply this
immigration by fivo to restore it where it
-
was in 1 8 72 ; by fen to put it where it prob
ably will bo. These peoplo nearly all have
trades ; nearly all bring a little money with
them . They are tho most valuable immi -
grants that tho world affords. ”
n known through all time as Harbaugh’ * Val
129
Publ. 1886
What, has boon BO well 6 aid by Mr. Scharf
about the ontorpriso, intelligence, and patriot -
ism of tho Gorman settlers of Baltifnoro is
equally true of those of York , whence many
of them went. Leonard Harbaugh , whom
ho mentions in connection with the wonderful
achievement of ‘‘ cutting Calvert Street
through , leaving the court house perched on
a rock ” was the seventh son of tho elder Yost
Horbach , the great grandfather of the late
Rev. Henry Harbaugh D. D. as also (on the
mother’ s side; of the author of this sketch.
Doctor Harbaugh , in his Annals of tho Har -
baugh Family , gives a brief account of his
granduncle Leonard , furnished by one of tho
latter’ s 6ons , ( Benjamin , ) then (1853) still
living in Bnltimore ; the substance of which ,
together with other interesting facts in rela -
tion to the Harbaugh family , owing to its
intimate connection with the early settlement
and history of tho county , will probably ,
not be deomod out of placo here.
Yost Harbaugh , the older , was a Swiss
immigrant who first settled in Maxatawny
Valley , ( now ) Berks County, in tho year 1730 .
from whence, about the year 1743, he removed
to “ Hallum ” Towuship, on Kreutx Creek , this
county , where ho bocamo the owner of a tract
of nearly 200 acres of land near whero Kreutz
originally taken up ( in 1730 ) by John
Huntzocker, and after passing through
various ownerships , became ' vested in
Stoner , in tho possession of whoso descendants
it still romains.
YOST HEHDACII.
Yost. Horbach . once the owner of this land
died in 170 2 in possesion of it . Ho loft to
*
survive him ton children , of whom seven
were sons , some of whom and their descend -
ants may claim more than a mere passing
notice. George , Ludwig , and Jacob, the eldest
throe , were born in Switzerland and came with
their parents into the province of Pennsyl -
vania , and to tho old homestead just de -
scribed , where thoy grew up to manhood and
then removed to and settled in a beautiful
little valley , nestled among the winding and
broken raugos of the South Mountain , partly
in Frederick County , Md .. and partly in
Adams County. Penn., whore they became land
owners , prosperous farmers, the heads of
large and respectable families, and partici -
pants in the founding of churches and schools.
So numerous did their descendants become
and so firmly attached to their new mount -
ain home, that the valley itself took their
name and will , probably , continue to bo
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 The petition referred to above regarding Cressap’ s invasion is given in Colonial
Records, Vol 4 , pgs 56-64 , but does not give the names or signatures of the people con -
cerned . Mrs . Cannon may have made an error as to source. In Prowell’ s History of York
County , Pennsylvania , p 58 which also follows , the names are given.

At this point in my account I feel impelled to insert a personal note that affects my
thinking , even though I have tried not to let it influence me. My wife and I had visited
the courthouse at Lancaster , then drove to nearby Strasburg , East Willow and then to
Conestoga . At this time I believed Hartman had owned land in Conestoga , on the east
side of the Susquehanna , but driving through the area gave me no feeling different than
that experienced driving through most any other area .
From Conestoga we went north along the river and crossed the Susquehanna at Col-
umbia . Upon reaching the other side of the river in Hellam Township , York County , I
immediately experienced a strange feeling — a feeling that this was the area my ancestors
had lived in . I mentioned this to my wife, but as we knew nothing of Kreutz Creek at
this point in time , the sign “ Kreutz Creek ” meant nothing to me . I shrugged off the feel-
ing and we went on to York .
At the York County Courthouse we found and copied the 1760 deed from Jacob
to Herbach which mentioned the original grant to John in 1736. At that moment this
information meant little to me except that Hunsaker names were involved , because I thought
I had no Jacob or John in that area at that date. I thought Hartman had owned land
east of the river in 1732 and knew his son John did not acquire land west of the river
until 1750. However , I dutifully copied all available documents regarding Hunsakers in
the York County Courthouse .
Weeks later , back in Arizona , after I had studied the documents , located the area
on a map and found (1) Grist Creek and Kreutz Creek were one and the same and , (2)
that this land in Springettsbury Manor , Hellam Township could well have been Hart -
man’ s land , I then realized the area in the deed was exactly the area where I had experienced
the strange feeling that that was where my ancestors had lived .

“ OUR JOHN ” IN YORK COUNTY

At this stage of our account we leave the first generation , with its question marks
and doubtful points , and go to the second generation where we find an easier path to
trace. Even though the record keeping English and the disciplined Swiss-Germans managed
to keep fantastically complete and accurate records under the difficult circumstances of
their lives , the records from the early 1700’ s to the mid 1800’ a are nevertheless sketchy.
I think we must , in all fairness to these meticulous people , ascribe some of this to the
facts that jurisdiction of areas was in doubt , there was a lack of precise geographic infor -
mation , and there were conflicting claims by various colonial governments as to territory .
John Hunsaker Sr . , or “ our John ” as I will call him to distinguish him from Hart -
man — become John and our John’ s son John Jr ., was the only son of Hartman and
Anna . Our search for information reveals our John as the central figure in our family’ s
important role in the early history of our nation . He was not only the leader of his family
but a pioneer who led in the settlement of new lands in the wilderness. He was a forerun -
ner of the major Dunkard migration from Eastern to Western Pennsylvania , then down
the Ohio River to Western Kentucky and finally to Southern Illinois where he helped
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from the Sauk and Fox Indians.
This important migration of a religious group is little known in U .S. history . The
story of these few brave families of Dunkards who made their way through hundreds of
miles of wilderness , carved out farmlands and set up villages in unknown territory con -
stitutes a saga of fortitude and untold hardships.
I presume our John lived in Lancaster County with his mother and stepfather until
Anna died . As his stepfather married immediately after Anna’ a death and the next record
of our John is in York County I presume he left Cocghenhower’s house . Perhaps he moved
in with Jacob Hunseker , who I believe was his uncle , in Manheim Township , York Coun -
ty. It is not impossible that he moved in with the Bieris with whom Hartman and Anna
were probably closely associated , and whose daughter he later married .
John and Magdalena Bieri were married on 15 May 1750 at the home of the Bieris
on the north side of Codorus Creek , Manchester ( now East Manchester ) Township , York
County . Our John built a cabin on some land there. There is no documentation as to
how or when he acquired this land and no documentation as to its disposition but I do
have a reference he disposed of this land before 1755 . Perhaps his father-in -law gave him
a piece of land upon which to erect a cabin and get started farming . Nicholas “ gave ”
the land to John but to save taxes and documentary fees for the young man , did not ac-
tually transfer the land by deed . Then , when our John left the land , it was transferred
to a new owner by Bieri and the money proceeds given to our John .
In order to know where our John’s land was located we must examine the land his
father-in -law owned . Nicholas Bieri secured 200 acres in Springettasbury Manor by grant
from Thomas Penn on 30 Oct 1736 in the same area near Kreutz Craek where I believe
Hartman-as- John had 200 acres. Although the earliest map of Springettsbury Manor , along
Kreutz Creek , shows only land south of Codorus Creek , other portions of the manor were
located north of the Codorus . As Bieri ’ s land is not shown on the map , it must have been
on the north side of Codorus, which we also know from other references .
As recounted in Beery Family History , pgs 32 to 40, Nicholas was not only harrassed by
Maryland ’ s Cressap , he was hauled off to Baltimore jail , paid a bond for his release , and
then his land was claimed by a Marylander after Bieri had received his patent for it from
the Penns . Bieri was a fighter and eventually ended up in Philadelphia before the Royal
Council where he established his right to the land over the Marylander , and where he
got into trouble with the Council for his aggressive “ not properly humble and submissive, ”
attitude before the council . On 16 Sep 1742 Bieri received 100 acres “ adjoining his other
land ” . On 14 Mar 1755 he received another 60 acres “ adjoining his land ” . Beeri History ,
p 40 says, “ Some of the adjoining land had formerly Belonged to Nicholas’ son in law ,
John Huntzicker ” . On 2 Jun 1760 Bieri sold the Springettsbury Manor 200 acres to Nicholas
King (Koenig) . In this deed on p 41 of Beery Family History it is recited :

the said Nicholas Peery and Barbara his wife for and in Consideration
• ••
of L 600 paid by Nicholas King release to him — now bound by (as Settled and
consentable Line , deviding the same from John Huntsinger’ s Land ) and by a
line of Nicholas Peery’ s Land , Fletcher ’ s Land , George Leviston’ s land and
Codorus Creek .

Page 42 of the same history then states , “ The one hundred acre tract along Codorus
Creek , patented to Nicholas Beery and adjoining the land of Nicholas King , was re-surveyed
November 23, 1762” This seems to presage trouble with King. Nicholas Bieri died , without

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a will , about 1 Oct 1762 and his wife Barbara Miller Bieri was appointed administratrix
of his estate. On 5 Dec 1765 she entered a Caveat , Pennsylvania Land Office, Caveat
Book No . 3, against Nicholas King . After several appearances before the authorities, on
15 Sep 1766 Barbara was held to be correct in her contention that King did not have any
right to a piece of meadow ground which he was claiming in addition to the land he had
purchased from Bieri .
Now for “ Isn’ t it a small world department ” ? When I talked to Mr . Reisinger at
the York County Historical Society Library regarding Hunsaker land at Kreutz Creek ,
I was amazed by his knowledge of the Hunsaker family . Upon questioning , he told me
he knew the Hunsaker family history well because he knew HIS family history well and
that he was a descendant of the Nicholas Koenig (King) who had done battle with the
obviously formidable Barbara Miller Bieri.
Incidentally , the Bieri family we are talking about is the same family that produced
the actors Wallace and Noah Beery , who were famous in the movies of yesteryear , and
the present TV actor Noah Beery , Jr .
In 1750 the Hunsaker marriage of this year was a promising marital enterprise . In
the same year the King’ s grant of a huge tract of land to the Ohio Company was a pro-
mising financial enterprise that would lead to further westering by people like the Hun -
sakers. Also in that year , fellow Pennsylvanian Jacob Yoder invented the flatboat to help
penetrate the roadless , but well watered wilderness.
Barbara Miller Bieri married a second time to Jacob Keagy , a Mennonite Minister ,
sometime between 27 Jul 1766 and 9 Jun 1767. On the later date two quit claim deeds
were made to pass Bieri’ s land to his son Abraham . One deed was from Keagy and others
for 60 1 / 2 acres “ adjoining Henry DeMuth , John Huntsicker , John Hoffman ” and a
second deed form Keagy for 143 acres “ adjoining John Hoffman , James Welch , John
Conneliy , Simon Hininger and John Huntsicker ” . These deeds extinguished any claim
the widow’ s new husband might have claimed in Bieri’ a land.
The second Quit Claim deed from the heirs of Nicholas Bieri to Abraham Bieri relin-
quished their rights as heirs of Bieri in the same two parcels of land . This deed provides
the following names and pairings of husbands and wives.

John Beery John Kochenhauer

Catharina ( X) Beery Barbara ( B) Kochinhauer 111

Nicholas Beery John Blafser

Mary (S) Beery Katharina (K ) Blafser

George Beery John ( B) Bicksler

Susanna ( X ) Bicksler

John Furry Margaret (XX) Furry

On 22 Jun 1767 our John and his wife made their marks:

John ( HH ) Huntzicker Magdalina ( X) Huntzicker

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 I believe this delay was occasioned by the fact they were living in Manheim , York
County , and had to make the journey back to Manchester to sign the deed . The deed
is copied in Beery Family History , p 49.1 believe that all of this land we have been talking
about , was located in what is now East Manchester Township , on the north side of Codorus
Creek immediately West of the Susquehanna , right at the junction of the two streams.
After their marriage 15 May 1750 John and Magdalena immediately started raising
a family . Perhaps a little too immediately as their first child was born only eight months ,
lacking two days , after the marriage. Their children born in Manchester were:
Abraham 13 Jan 1751
John Jr . 16 Sep 1752
Barbara 6 May 1754
Nicholas 3 Feb 1756
MISSING ONE PAGE NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO FIND

On 10 Sep 1750 our John acquired 100 acres in Manheim Township, York County ,
The township is south of the City of York and extends to the Pennsylvania -Maryland
border , and within it are the three branches of the headwaters of Codorus Creek . During
this time our John must have bean preparing to sell this land , In Warranties of Lancaster
County , but filed in the York Historical Society Library , I found:

Warrant 6573
210 acres Manheim Township, York County , surveyed 13 Dec 1759 for Benedict
Kautzman in right of Jobn Huntsacre.

Kautzman , however , only purchased 100 acres on 30 Jan 1760, according to York
Deeds , Book A , p 382. This left John with 110 acres. Also , unless these transactions are
concerned with the same piece of land , John had 243 acres of other land .

KNOW all Men by these Presents that I John Hunsinger of the Township of
Manheim in the Province of Pennsylvania for and in Consideration of the sum
of one Hundred and thirty Pounds lawful Money of Pennsylvania to me in Hand
paid by Benedict Kautzman of Manheim Township and Province aforesaid the
Receipt whereof is hereby acnowledged Have Granted bargained & Sold Release
and Confirm unto the Aforesaid Benedict Kautzman his Heirs and Afsigns all
my Estate Right Title and Interest of in and to a certain Tract of Land situate
and lying in the Township of Manheim and County of York adjoining the Lands
of Joseph Mark (? ) and Caspar Henley containing an Hundred Acres more or
lefs as the same was granted unto me by a Warrant from the Honourable the
Proprietaries bearing Date the tenth of September in the Year of our Lord one
thousand Seven Hundred and fifty with all and Singular the Rights Members
and Appurtenances whatsoever unto the said belonging or in any wise Apper -
taining TO HAVE AND HOLD the aforesaid Tract of one Hundred Acres of
Land be the same more or lefs as above described with the Appurtenances and
every part thereof unto the aforesaid Benedict Kautzman his Heirs and Afsigns
to the only use and behoof of him the said Benedict Kautzman his Heirs and
Afsigns forever SUBJECT neverthelefs to the payment of the residue of the Pur-
chase Money Interest and Quit Rent due and to become due the same to the
Honourable the Propritaries their Heirs and Succefsors In Witness whereof I

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 have hereto set my Hand & Seal this Thirtieth Day of Jauary in the Year of our
Lord one thousand seven Hundred & sixty John Hunsinger

In view of the great care exercised by the authorities to make sure the rights of the
women were fully taken care of , I wonder why Magdalena did not sign this deed ?
In the York Historical Society Library I found under Land Warranties:

#6653 Draft of a tract of 243 acres , 143 perches in Manheim Township , York
County , surveyed 2 Oct 1768 for John Hunsinger in pursuance of a warrant dated
10 Sept 1750.

which apparently confirmed our John’ s title to the land . There is no record of how or
when he acquired the other 143 acres mentioned in this survey. On 1 Mar 1756 our John
acquired by grant from the Penns , 110 acres in Manheim , I believe this land was adjacent
to the land he acquired on 10 Sep 1750, The only reference to this land was found in
York County Deeds , Vol 34 , p 297

NUMBER 4776
WARRANT To John Hantzeckar of York County including his im -
provements adjoining the lands of Daniel Bauser , Charles Babelitz, Peter Stephen ,
and Melchior Kitner in Manheim Townahip dated Jul 11 , 1763. Interest and Quit
Rent to commence March 1, 1756.

This reference seems to indicate our John occupied land on 1 Mar 1756 and it took
him until 11 Jul 1763 to establish his ownership and receive warrant of title to it , somewhat
akin to “ proving up’ on homestead land in the West. I think we should note here that
the area where John was acquiring land was also the area where Jacob Hunseker acquired
“ 50 acres adjacent to Michael Tanner and Hans Crist , A mile from Little Codorus’’ on
23 Oct 1749 by Warrant No . 4892, Warranties of Lancaster County , Pennsylvania
1738-1896 but found in the York County Historical Society Library .
Warrant No , 6411 , same source , says, “ Draft of a tract in Manheim Township , York
County , surveyed for Jacob Huntstacre 24 May 1751 adjoining his former land ” . No
acreage given . Warrant NO . 6484 then gives the acreage as 58 1 / 2.
I do not know exactly where in Manheim Township our John and Magdalena settl-
ed . Because the name “ Codorus ” frequently crops up , I believe they settled on the head -
waters of one of the three originating branches of the Codorus on the Pennsylvania-
Maryland border between Stiltz and New Freedom Boro. This belief is strengthened by
what happened in 1768 after the Mason and Dixon Line was surveyed . Having disposed
of his Manchester Township property sometime before 1755 without a trace, but apparently
staying there to have a child , Nicholas, in 1756 , John and Magdalena then must have moved
to Manheim Township. Here he must have built a cabin for they recorded the births of
the following children , at this point in time our best indicator of location , in Manheim .

Hartman 1757, died at or soon after birth

Jacob 6 May 1759
Joseph 20 May 1761
Abraham 25 Apr 1764

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 These land transactions left John and Magdalena holding 110 acres in Manheim
Township for sure , and possibly 243 acres more . John and Magdalena returned to East
Manchester sometime between 1764 and 1767 probably to assist Barbara Miller Bieri in
her law suit against Nicholas Koenig as it involved John’ s former land . While on this
return visit , John and Magdalena had born to them in East Manchester their son George
on 12 Mar 1766.
As you can see from the information in the various land deeds presented , it is very
difficult , 230 years later , to pinpoint exactly the land our ancestors occupied . When one
has to rely on a list of long dead neighbors , or metes and bounds descriptions based on
“ an old oak tree’’ or a “ large stone ” , identification becomes impossible. Maps of the
era , and area , we are concerned with are very scarce, and the few available are very hard
to read.

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MARY ANN FURNACE

In June 1750, John Hunsicker , a German emigrant , obtained from the pro-
prietaries of Pennsylvania a grant for land within the present limits of West
Manheim Township , four miles south of the site of Hanover . William Matthews,
the Quaker sureyor , called this tract “ Friendship . ” A level meadow four acres
in area , of this land , was crossed by the Head waters of what has since been

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 known as Furnace Creek . George Ross, a lawyer of Lancaster , and Mark Bird ,
of Philadelphia , in 1762, leased the four acres mentioned , and on it in the same
year began the erection of Mary Ann Furnace . In 1763 the petitioned the York
Court for a public road from their “ furnace lately built at a great expense ” to
the road from the Conewago settlement to Baltimore. This was one year before
the founding of Hanover .

The very first documented reference to land owned by our John in Manheim Township ,
presents such locations problems , and , in fact , I don ’ t really know where to place it in
this manuscript . This was found on page 484 of Gibson’ s History of York
County. A 1770 map of this area shows Mary Ann Furnace directly east of Hanover.
I can not identify the location of this land , mainly because Gibson does not provide the
number of acres. And , this land appears to be outside the geographical area where John
was settling . These problems are resolved when one notes that the article Gibson wrote
in History of York County refers to a date , 1750 , twenty years earlier than the map , 1770,
and as the article is talking about “ the site ” of Hanover , it is obvious that Hanover has
not yet come into existence , so therefore it is rather impossible to locate a piece of land
based on the location of a town that has not yet come into existence.
With these adjustments in mind , it then becomes easier to understand that in this
area Michael Danner , the leader of the Dunkard group our John , and most of the family ,
joined had his principal seat of activity near Hanover . This is mentioned in Prowell , History
of York County , p 982

Mennonite Churches. On the York road , about three miles east of Hanover ,
stands the Mennonite Church , known as “ Bair’ s Meeting House ” . The land upon
which it • •• was built was granted to Michael Danner ... August 8 , 1747.

As a young man apparently on the rise , with a rapidly increasing family , John must
have decided real estate was a good way of increasing his wealth . As documents to come
later indicate , he began to buy and sell real estate , at a profit .

HARTMAN ’ S DAUGHTERS

I have found only sketchy information regarding the lives of Hartman’ s six daughters.
People were more interested in keeping records of males than females because males bought
the land and paid the taxes . About the only time a woman got her name into the record
was when she necessarily had to sign a deed in order for her husband to sell land , and
in the occasional wills that were made . Incidentally , Womens’ Righters should read the
old land deeds to see how carefully the authorities protected married women from having
their right sold out from under them by their husbands. It was the custom for the justice
of the peace , notary public, judge , etc., to take married women aside (preferably into
a separate room ) and question them to make sure that when they signed away land in
a deed that (1) they knew what they were doing , (2) that the land would be irretrievably
gone , (3) they were not under any duress , and , (4) there was especially no pressure being
applied by her husband .
Mainly through collateral records because marriage records were not kept until into
the 1800’ s in Pennsylvania , we know the names of the men Hartman’ s daughters mar -

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ried . Through tax records , and eventually census records , we are able to ascertain when
they lived , how many children they had and , sometimes , their names and ages. Land deeds
are a main source of information regarding the daughters because their husbands could
not sell land without their signatures. The few family bibles we have are the greatest source
of information regarding women and their children , but there just aren’ t enough bibles
and the information is generally sketchy .
We are not sure exactly when Hartman’ s daughters were born and Bob and I are
not entirely in agreement in our estimates of the times of their births . We only have the
“ over 16’’ and “ under 16 ” of the ship’s list and our own counting and estimates. As
we are not sure of the order of birth , I have evolved the listing I use from a compilation
of all sources which list the daughters’ names and then assigned the girls 1 ,2, 3 etc., in
the order in which their name appears the most times in a given position in all the lists
and sources.
Verena ( Verene , Vrene , Frene , Frena ) I estimate was born in 1714, right after Hart -
man and Anna were married as she was over 16 on arrival . She married John Roth about
1734. We believe John Roth was of the family also known as Rhoades or Rhoads who
arrived in the US before the Hunsakers , settled in the same general area of Conestoga-
Lancaster about 1730 , were in Maryland about 1768 and later moved to Western Penn-
sylvania where they were associated with the Dunkards at Brothersvalley in Somerset Coun-
ty . The Rhoades family made the trek westward to Muhlenberg County , Kentucky in 1784
where they became even more closely associated with the Hunsakers. Verena had a son
Abraham born about 1734 and another child , Chrisley , about 1734. And here the record
stops. However , when I say “ the record stops ” I should really say , “ the search stopped ” .
It is impossible , at least for me , to trace down every single ancestor , especially collateral .
One just has to impose a limit somewhere and for me that limit has been the second genera-
tion of children of a daughter . If a record presents itself I will not ignore it , but I could
not fully trace beyond male lineal-blood -descent .

ELIZABETH

Elizabeth I estimate was born about 1715 as she was also over 16 on arrival . She
married Jacob Guth (Gath Good , Goot ) about 1735 and had a son Peter . The only other
information available is regarding her husband which we found in Mennonite Church
History in text and footnote :

Chapter XII .

Washington County , Maryland , and Franklin county, Pennsylvania Conference.

Meanwhile a settlement had been formed in Washington county , Maryland .

Among the early settlers there was Jacob Good , a resident near the little An -
tietam as early as 1765 . Others among the early settlers were Michael Miller ,
Andrew Reiff , John Barr , Jacob Miller and John Strite , all of whom located
in district prior to the year 1800 .

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 URSULA

Ursula ( Ursul , Ursse , Orscal , Orscal, Orschel) I believe was born about 1717 as she
was under 16 upon arrival . She married Benjamin Landis about 1737 . They had the follow -
ing children : Benjamin , Henry , Jacob , John . Ursula ’ s husband , Benjamin Landis, ap-
parently died in Pennsylvania or Maryland sometime before 1768. My grandfather
Abraham ’ s records show that Ursula married a second time “ to a man by the name of
Kopf ’ ’ Ursula would have been 51 in 1768 when the family left the Pennsylvania / Maryland
border area . I presume Landis died considerably before that time in order for Ursula to
marry someone because she had young dependent children and because Abraham specifical-
ly mentioned , “ she had no children by Kopf ” . The only other records that could pertain
to Ursula occur in Union County , Illinois where a Benjamin Landis was among the earliest
officials. In the early days of Union County all of the families were very closely associated
with each other , so one must presume that any “ Benjamin Landis ” in the area would
have to be a descendant of the Benjamin Landis who married Ursula . As Ursula would
have been 94 by the time the family reached Union County I presume she died enroute
and the County official in illinois presumably was her grandson who had travelled along
with the family. To confuse the issue , History of Lancaster County , Vol 1 , p 166 , says
a Benjamin Landis acquired land in Manheim Township upon which he built a sawmill
in 1829 . There are mortgage records in Manheim Township (see Anna Hunsaker ) and
there is a Landis Valley in Manheim Township and a Landisville in East Hempfield
Township in Lancaster County.

MARY

Mary must have been born about 1721. She married Casper (Gasper , Gayspar , Gaspar ,
Caspar ) Roland , ( Rowlan , Rolan ) in about 1743 and had the following children : Jacob ,
Isaac, John. Casper Rowland arrived at Philadelphia on 12 Oct . 1741 on the ship FRIEND-
SHIP at age 20 from the Palatinate . I have found land documenttation for Casper in
Manheim and Paradise Townships , York County , Pennsylvania in 1760 and 1762, and
in Frederick County , Maryland in 1766 . Casper and Mary apparently joined the Dunkards
under Michael Danner in Manheim Township , York County , about 1765 . J . H . Moore ,
p 161 , Some Brethren Pathfinders believes Casper emigrated to No. Car . from German -
town , Pa .
Mary and Casper went to North Carolina , probably with Eva Cocghenhower and
John Weldy , in about 1768.1 found documentation Casper received a state grant in Rowan
County , North Carolina in 1783 and bought land in 1785 , 1792 and 1797 and sold out
in 1798. He was also mentioned as a land owner in Wilke County, North Carolina in
1788 in a deed to a John Hunsinger and Henry Shutts. When Mary and Casper went to
North Carolina their eldest son , Jacob , apparently stayed behind in Maryland as I have
a deed “ heirs of Casper Rowland ” in Frederick County in 1792 and then a will of Jacob
Roland in Washington County , Maryland in 1794. I realize there is a discrepancy in dates
here , and some pretty tenuous thinking , but one must remember that in the late 1700’ s
there were not a lot of Jacob Rowlands running around .
Casper and Mary , along with some Hunsingers from North Carolina , left North
Carolina and joined the main family in Muhlenberg County , Kentucky. According to Eller ,
MS p 101 ,91 , Casper acquired land in Muhlenberg , Warren and Simpson Counties , Ken -

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tucky , from 1798 to 1826. Lehman , in The Old Brethren according to Eller , clearly puts
Casper in North Carolina and then moves him to Kentucky . He states Casper preached
at the first Dunkard meeting in Kentucky about 1795 . On 1 April 1780 Eller says Casper
ordained Joseph Rowland and John Hendricks as Dunkard Ministers . Joseph was pro-
bably Casper ’ s brother . Casper organized the Drake’ s Creek Congregation , Warren Coun-
ty , Kentucky before 1800. He organized a church in Grayson County on 2 Oct , 1814 ,
the Muhlenberg Church on 8 June 1814 and the Lone Creek Congregation in Muhlenberg
before 20 Sept . 1826.

ANNA

Anna I believe was born about 1719. She married Ludwig (Louis, Lewis) Mohlar
(Mohler , Moller ) about 1737 and had : Henry , Jacob , John . The only further record is
in a mortgage recorded in Lancaster Deeds , Book H . p 10 , which Ludwig Mohler held
against Jacob Cocghenhower , Jr . Benjamin Landis was Cocghenhower’ s “ surety bonds-
man ” on this mortgage . Another document in Lancaster Deeds, Book M , p 410 , also
names the wife of Ludwig Mohler as Anna . I believe Anna and Ludwig spent all their
lives in Pennsylvania .

CATHERINE

Catherine I estimate was born in about 1733. In 1753 she married John Bieri , whose
sister Magdelena had married Catherine’ s brother John in 1710. We have no further in -
formation regarding Catherine and John except that they had three children: Jacob , Daniel ,
Anna

JACOB HUNSAKER

Jacob is a person who just keeps cropping up in this history . A Jacob Hunziker was
born to Hans Jakob Hunziker and Maria Lupoid in Aarau and was christened on 12 Dec.
1697 , and thus was the brother of the Johannes I believe is our ancestor Johannes Hart -
man , There was a Jacob Honacre imprisoned in 1828, his property confiscated and he
was deported , along with , I believe his brother Johannes , and a relative Rudolf . A Jacob
Hunseker is in a deed with John Hunsaker in York County , a Jacob Hunsaker joined
the Michael Danner Dunkard Group our ancestors joined , and , finally a Jacob Hunseker
lived close to our ancestors in Pennsylvania and Maryland until he died in 1762.
Jacob , age 30 [a problem ] arrived on the Richard and Elizabeth on 28 Sept 1733 ac-
companied by his wife Eva Catherina , age 31 , and their daughter Eva Catherina , age 4.
Although neither Eva Catherine is given a last name of the ship’ s list , I have worked out
all the names and family relationships of the people on the list , and there just is no doubt
regarding these names , and this reasoning is substantiated in Jacob ’ s will where he “ give
unto Catharina my Dearly beloved wife” . I believe this is the man who acquired the land
on Kreutz Creek from Hartman - become-John. He is the one mentioned in records of the
Kreutz Creek Church , later joined the Dunkards , and was always associatad with our
ancestor Hunsekers in Pennsylvania-Maryland . Documents regarding Jacob’ s arrival , and
including names of others associated with our ancestors , are included , Also presented is
a word for word copy of his Will in order that you may appreciate the wonderful wor -
ding , phrasing and spelling of the days of yore .

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126 Pennsylvania German Pioneers

[ List 33 A ] A List of the Passengers imported in the Brig-

antine Richard and Elizabeth , Captain Christopher Clymer ,
Sept 2 S , 1733.
MENS NAMES AGES AGES

Francis Schuler 44 Johan Conrad Leap 20

Jacob Gripe 21 Philip Jacob Edelman 25

David Mertz 44 Matthcs Bouser f)
3
Johan Nicholas Mertz 18 Matthes Bewser 22

George Leap 56 Christian Bcwscr 18

Richard and Elizabeth 1733 127

AGES AGES
Philip Mire 36 Margaretha Edelman 26
David Edelman 49 Esther Bouser 49
Adam Spoon 34 Anna Margaretha Mire 40
Jacob Hainel 20 Anna Barbara Stammin 26
Ludwig Rigerd , sick 28 Anna Maria Edelman 54
Michael Wise 29 Anna Elisabeth Bewser 20
George Shuffard 44 Anna Margaretha Spoon 23
Yoost Heck 35 Gertrud Shuffard 32
Jacob Hunsinger 30 Sophia Glass 28
Hance Jacob Liebegood 39 Eva Maria Heck 35
Jacob Harmon 40 Margaretha Liebegood 40
Hans Jacob Uts 27 Catherina Harmon 33
Hans Georg Uts 50 Maria Catherina Uts 24
Hance Peter Sowmy 59 Barbara Holler 77
Hance Jacob Sowmy 22 Maria Magdalena 58
Hance Peter Sowmy 20 Maria Shoemacher 24
Otto Frederick Sowmy 15 Barbara Burghalter 34
Joseph Shumaker 25 Anna Barbara Sager 28
Ulrich Burghalter 40 Margaretha Schenemansgruber 28
Johan Nicholas Sager 39 Engelina Peck 37
Georg Schenemansgruber 35 Anna Margaretha Wollet 24
Matthes Peck * 39 Maria Magdalena Winter -
• herger
Johannes Wollet 38 24
Henry Winterberger 26 Maria Magdalena Sherer 22

Hans Sherer 30 Magdalena Christ 44

Jacob Christ 54 Eva Catherina 31
Marcus Christ 17 Maria Barbara Tadigsman 35
George Angsted 37 Anna Maria Tadigsman 25
Marcus Beegler 28 Margaretha Weaver 17
Philip Tadigman 36 Anna Margaretha Wootring 32
Johannes Weaver 22 Magdalena Wisen 25
Johannes Roscnsteel 19 Barbara Kossely 25
Abraham Wootring 33
BOYS
Matthias Rehsh 29
Johan Peter Mertz 13}
WOMEN Baltasar Edelman 4
Maria Schuler 47 Daniel Bewser nj
Veronica Mertz 40 Jacob Bewser 9'
Catherina Leap 50 Johan Henrich Spoon 4
Anna Christina Leap 24 Johannes Shuffard 10

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AGES AGES
Johan Jacob Hcck 6 Anna Catherina Heck 10
Johan Jacob Liebegood 10 Anna Gretha Liebegood 10
Dewald Harmon 13 Anna Catherina Liebegood 3J
Jacob Harmon 6 Catherina Harmon 11
Hance Harmon 3i Barbara Harmon 8
Hance Peter Harmon 9 m. Catherine Barbara 6 m.
Hance Michael Sowmv 10 Anna Barbara Haltin 50
Johannes Sowmv 5 Maria Magdalena Swomy 24
fiance Peter Burghalter Elisabeth Burghalter U
Johan Henrich Sager 8 Anna Catherina Burghalter 12
Samuel Sager 6 Anna Magdalena 8
Johan Christian Sager 2 Anna Barbara Burghalter 4
Antony Peck 12 Margaretha Burghalter 2\
Johan Henrich Peck 7 Anna Maria Sager I2 j
George Angsted 6 Anna Barbara Sager 10
Johannes Angsted 1 Maria Louisa 3i
Philip Tarrisman 6 Christina Barbara Sager 6 m .
Hance Peter Wootring 9 Anna Catherina Peck 10
Veronica Sherer 4 m.
GIRLS
Eva Catherina 4
Christina Mcrtz 34 Maria Catherina Tadigsman 9
Anna Maria Leap 14 Anna Maria Tadigsman 3J
Anna Margaretha Leap Maria Barbara Tadigsman
Maria Esther
12
14 Anna Margaretha Wootring 7 *
Magdalena Bewser Maria Magdalena Wootring
Anna Maria
7
4
* Anna Louisa Wootring 2
Anna Catherina iA
Anna Elisabetha 7 A true List .
Anna Maria 17 " .
*
Chris'- Clvmer.

“ At the Courthouse aforesaid , September 28 th , 1733 :

Forty three Palatines , who with their families , making in
all One hundred thirty seven Persons , were imported here in
the Briganteen Richard Sc Elizabeth , of Philadelphia , Chris-
topher Clymer , Master , from Rotterdam , but last from Plym -
outh , as by Clearance thence , were qualified as before . ” From
the Minutes of the Provincial Council , printed \n Colonial Rec•
ords , Vol . Ill , p . 5 19 .

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 WILL OF JACOB HUNSAKER

In the name of God Amen The Second Day of November in the year of our Lord
—
one Thousand seven Hondred and Sixtey Two I Jacob Honsicker of Man Heim Town
Ship in the County of York and Province of Penfylvania Fermer being very sick and weak
in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory Thanks be given to God therefore calling unto
Mind the Mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to
dye do make and ordain this my last will and Testament That is to say principally and
first of all I give and Recommand my soul into the Hands of God that Gave it and for
my Body I Recommend it to the Earth to be buried in A Christian like and Decent man -
ner at the discretion of my Executors Nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection
I shall receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God andas touching such worldy
Estates where with it hath Pleased God to Blefs me in this life I give devise and dispose
of the same in the following manner and form in promise it is my will and I do order
That in the first Place all my just Debts and Funeral charges be paid and satisfied Item
I give and bequeath unto Catharina my Dearly beloved Wife that she shall have her Bed
wherein we used to lay with four shets to it before Hand of the Rest of my estate and
ferder She is to have before Hand Five Boshels of Weath and Five Boshels of Reay item
it is my will that my wife shall Have Her Living in the hous where we live in Now heir
live time itum my wife is to have before hand all the Flax that we Plandet this year ferder
it is my will that my Wife shall have of all my Moveable estateheir shear according as
the Law allows her and with the Rest of my Moveable estates I order my executors to
Raysed to Money and send it out to my Nextest and Right Heirs which lives out in
Switzerland Chiefly of Bern and to be Sheared amongst them in Equally Shear ferder
it is my will that my estate that was comming to me yet from the Switzer Country shall
com to my Sisteren and Brethreren or Else to my Nerest Heis in Equall Shear amongst
them for Ever ferder it is my will that my Wife Shall have the Halfe of the Planting Gar -
ting ferder I do order that my Plandation Shall be Rendet out as long as my Wife lives
and after my wife Decease I order my Executor to Sell the Plandation and later the Money
of all my Real estate and all My Shear shall be sended out to Switzer land to my Heirs
to Have it for Ever item it is my will and I do order Micheal Danner and my Wife To
be my Sole and Sole Executor of this my Last will and Testament and I do hereby utterly
disallow Revoke and Disanull all and every other former testaments Wills Legacies and
Executors by me in any ways be fore this Time Named Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying
and confirming this and no others to be my Last will and Testament for In Wittnefs whereof
I have Hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Day and year above Written
Signed Sealed published Pronounced and Declared )
by the Said Jacob Honsicker as his Last will ) Jacob Hunsiker SS
and Testament in the Presents of us the Suscribers )
his
Jost Wagner Jacob Bollinger Henry H Wertt
mark

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 JACOB HUNSAKER
1697? Born , Switzerland

1718? Married Eva Catherina ?

1729? Birth , daughter Eva Catherina

Grantoto John Hunsaker 200 acres , Grist (yKreut z)
1736 Oct 30
Creek , York ( origi nally Lanca ster) Count , PA

1736 Fall Signed petition against Cressap raids

1736? Deed? John io Jacob

1740 Oct 5 Endoresement on deed , Jacob to Beitler to Herbach

1743 May 16 Endorsement on deed Jacob to Beitler

1749 Oct 23 Warrant $4892 to Jacob for 50 acres i mi from
Little Codorus Creek , adjacent to Michael Dan -
ner and Hans Crist. (York Historical Society Library)
1750 Oct 11 Patent to Jacob of I87 acres, Hallem Twp, York
County (Grist or Kreutz Creek)

1751 May 24 Draft $6411 "Adjoining his former land"

Manheim Twp , York tract surveyed
Draft #6484 gives acreage as 58i
1760 Mar 10 Deed , Jacob to Jost Herbach , 200 acres Grist
Creek -
(Deeds, Bk A p 393 3)
1762 Nov 2 Will made , Michael Danner Administrator
1762 Nov Death
1762 Nov 18 Inventory of Estate made and Filed

1763 Dec 2 First Accounting of Estate

1770 Oct 28 Survey shows 53i acres for land below

1771 Nov 16 Deed , Jacob to Henry Seiner , 50 acres

Manheim Twp from 23 Oct 1749 Warrant
(Phila Patent Bk A , Vol 17 p 29)
1772 Mar 27 Final Accounting of Estate to Widow Catherine
1777 Survey of 50 acres comes up with 53i acres

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THE MASON AND DIXON SURVEY LINE

Because of the long standing boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania
(remember the Cressap Raids?) , the Mason and Dixon Survey was begun in 1763 , com -
pleted in 1765 and legally adopted in 1768 . W . Scull ’ s map of 1770 refers to the boundary
as “ temporary limits ” and shows Pennsylvania occupying more land south of York than
it does now . The field notes of the survey state , “ the 1st branch of Codorus” , “ a branch
of Codorus ” and “ the third and last Branch of Codorus ” were crossed during the survey .
I believe the Mason and Dixon Survey Line placed John and Magdalena’ s land in
Maryland . This belief is supported by (1) the line was not established until 1768, (2) we
have found no documentation that John acquired land in the east part of Frederick County
prior to 1768 (3) Frederick County , Maryland is directly south of Manheim Township ,
Pennsylvania (4) after 1768 three children were born to John and Magdalena in Pipe Creek
Township , Frederick County , Maryland but there is no indication the family had actually
moved . I have never found a record of a sale of the 110 acres John acquired in Manheim
in 1756. The mix-up in boundaries may have prevented John from giving clear title necessary
for a sale , or , the records simply may have gotten lost in the shuffle of legal jurisdiction
between Pennsylvania and Maryland . The documentation for the Mason and Dixon Survey
follows. However the crucial points of the matter are contained in Chapter IV , p . 14 ,
History of Adams County ( Pennsylvania ).

History of Adams County

Chapter IV

First Settler , Andrew Shriver —

Extracts from Hon . Abraham Shriver’s
Memoir — Early Settlers
Pennsylvania .
—French Huguentos —
Their Settlement in

The border troubles about the dividing line between Penn and Lord Baltimore
were the real cause of the first adventurous pioneers coming into what is now
Adams County. Lord Baltimore , as he construed his grant from the crown , ex-
tended his possessions several miles north of what is now the dividing line bet-
ween the two states , and Penn claimed that his grant extended to the south , and
covered even a fraction more territory than is not within the State limits to the
south . This rivalry of contention was the real stimulating cause of the first set-
tlers coming at the time they did . The particulars of these proprietary grants
are given in detail in preceding chapters, and in this .. • •

In 1760 the French led Indian menace declined sharply this year when New France
expired with the fall of Montreal. Now those new-fangled Pennsylvania Conestoga wagons
could be used to haul pioneer families and their goods to the new lands beyond the horizon .
Some Hunsakers knew the route already , having hauled military supplies during the war .
( Remember , I said I had seen the name of Hunsaker as a wagon driver for the Brits in
the Ft . Pitt area campaign . )

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 THE JOURNAL OF
I

CHARLES MASON
AND I

JEREMIAH DIXON

Transcribed from the Original in the

United States National Archives
i
With an Introduction by

.
A HUGIILET! MASON f

University oj 1/ irt/ inUi

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY i

INDKI'ENDENCI-. SQUARE 101 11 .ADKI.l' H J A I

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1765
Ju ) ”
' Continued the JJno
'*
7 miles 3 G chains crossed a Branch of Gunpowder at half
le to the North of this i s the S ource of Codorus
% .
Miles Chains
57 06 A Branch of Gunpowder
At 53 53 M r. Valentine Vant ' s House 50 links North
58 GG C r o s s e d the upper Iload f r o m York to Baltimore
59 3 A S p r i n g running into Gunpowder ( r i v e r ).

30 Continued the Line

At GO miles 33 chains c r o s s e d t h e - l a s t branch of Gunpowder
Supposed t o be in ( Changed our direction 8 ' 18" to the N o r t h w e s t
the true P a r a l l e l GO m i l e s 57 c h a i n s 10 links { that i s t o be In t h e t r u e P a r a l l e l 10 * West =
+ 20 feet North 11.37 miles

31 Contvvucd the Line

Miles Chnins
f 62 30 .
Mr George Uinot ' s House G Chains to the South of the Lint
- G2 39 Crossed the 1st branch of C o d o r u s.
6? 47 Mr . E l i a s Hoarish ' a House 7 Chains South .
G2 57 C r o s s e d a Road f r o m Baltimore to M ' Allistor ' s Town
63 3 .
Mr P e t e r Stophel 's House 25 Links South
63 15 A B r a n c h of Codorus
August
1 Continued the Line
Miles Chains
G3 7G T h i r d and l a s t B r a n c h of Codorus
At 64 35 Mr . Henry Fight ' s House 7 Chains South
G4 60 Mr . Staphel Rinornan ' s House 2 Chains South
2 Continued the Line
Miles Chains
66 00 C r o s s e d t h e 1 s t branch of Conewago
66 21 C r o s s e d a 2 nd Ditto
67 10 Mr . Michael Worth 's House 5 Chains South
3 continued the Line
At 68 miles 28 links c r o s s e d a 3 rd and l a s t b r a n c h of Conewago
4 Sunday
5 Continued the Line
.
70 . 00 ( miles ) M r Henry Hiltibrand ' s House 6 Chains North
70.26 ( m i l e s ) Crossed P i n c y Run: T h i s r u n s into Monocacy which
empties into the great R i v e r Potowmack
.
70 6 3 C r o s s e d the Road leading from Baltimore t o t h e Temporary Line .
6 Continued the Line
C r o s s e d P i n e y Run s i x t i m e s i n Running 46 C h a i n s
f r o m the l a s t Road .
At 7 1 ( m i l e s ) 42 ( chains ) 62 ( links ) a B o a r d o r Station .
7 Set up t h e Sector in our d i r e c t i o n a t t h e distance
of 7 1 m i l e s 43 chains 19 l i n k s f r o m t h e P o s t m a r k e d West , in Mr . Bryan ' s
field and m a d e t h e following observations .

Plane of t h e S e c t o r East
S t a r Name Nearest P o i n t Revolutions Difference Apparent
on the Sector a n d Seconds on Zenith D
the M i c r o m o t o r
o R • l
•I o
Gamma Cygni 0 15 - 8 49 2 .
36 7 0 12
5 4 8 -r
Alpha Cygni 4 45 - 6 42 1 21.5 4 43
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On the map of the border strip , just above the “ R ” in Maryland , there are shown
two houses just west of Codorus Creek . I know this is an unwarranted flight of fancy ,
but let’ s just suppose that the draftsman was extremely meticulous to detail and showed
everything on the map just as it was on the land , and that one of these houses represents
the home of our John and Magdalena , and that the other house perhaps represents the
home of Abraham Weldy and Magdalena Cocghenhower . And maybe the third house ,
right on the Conewago , represented the cabin of Eva Cocghenhower and John Weldy ?
Up until about this time , while most of the family was still in Pennsylvania , or had just 1
been moved into Maryland , it appears other of Hartman and Anna’ s children and Anna
and Cocghenhower ’ s children , were with John and Magdalena or living nearby . We know
that in 1768 Elizabeth Cocghenhower and John Weldy moved to “ The Valley of Virginia ”
(Shenandoah Valley) where they spent the rest of their lives. At about the same time Eva
Cocghenhower and John Weldy , along with Mary Hunsaker and Casper Rowland , mov-
ed to Rowan County , North Carolina . Here the record for Eva and John ends. To our
later amazement , Mary and Casper eventually leave North Carolina and make the long
trek westward to join the rest of the family in far -off Western Kentucky. 1

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 DEED , John Huntzackre from Shively , 180 Acres L 200 1 Nov 1760
York Deeds , Book B , p 144- 5

THIS INDENTURE

Made the first day of November in the thirty Fourth Year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the second by the grace of god of Great Britain France
and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in the Year of our Lord God one
thousand seven hundred and sixty
BETWEEN Michael Shively of Manheim Township in the County of York and
Province of Pennsylvania Yeoman of the one part and John Huntzackre of Man-
chester Township in the County aforesaid Yeoman of the other part
WHEREAS in Pursuance of a Warrant from the Honourable the Proprietaries
of the Province aforesaid bearing date at Philadelphia the second day of June
Which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty eight
there was surveyed and laid out unto the aforesaid Michael Shively all that the
following described Tract of Land situate over Susquahanna River in the Bar -
ren near Codorus Creek formerly in the County of Lancaster , but now in
Manheim Township in the County of York aforesaid adjoining the Lands of
Daniel Bowser , Barnard Hauk and Nicholas Lamm containing one hundred and
eighty Acres be the same more or lefs As by the said Warrant and survey thereof
may appear
NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNEFSETH that in Consideration of the sum
of two hundred Pounds lawful Money of Pennsylvania to the aforesaid Michael
Shively in hand paid by the aforesaid John Huntzacker before the sealing and
delivery of these presents the receipt whereof he the aforesaid Michael Shively
doth hereby acknowledge and thereof doth acquit and forever discharge the
aforesaid John Huntzacker his Executors Administrators and Afsigns by these
presents & the aforesaid Michael Shively HATH granted bargained sold releas-
ed and confirm unto the aforesaid John Huntzacker and to his Heirs and Af -
signs that the above described Tract of one hundred and eighty Acres of Land
be the same more or lefs as the same is above set forth and described Bounded
and limited as aforesaid With all and singular the Buildings and Improvements
thereon erected and made Right members Heriditaments and appurtenences what-
soever to the aforesaid Tract of one Hundred and eighty Acres of Land more
or lefs belonging , or in any wise appertaining and the Reversion & Remainder
Rents Ifsues and Profits thereof , and also all the Estate Right Title Interest Pro-
perty , Use Pofsefsion , Claim and and Demand whatsoever of him the aforesaid
Michael Shively of in and to the aforesaid Tract of Land and Premifses and Every
part thereof with the appurtenences and all deeds Draughts Writings and evidences
whatsoever touching or Concerning the same and every part thereof TO HAVE
AND TO HOLD the aforesaid Tract of one Hundred and eighty Acres of Land
be the same more or lefs hereby Granted Mentioned or intended so to be with
the appurtenences and every part thereof unto the aforesaid John Huntzacker
his Heirs and Afsigns to the only use and behoof of the aforesaid John Hunt-
zacker his Heirs and Afsigns forever SUBJECT Neverthelefs to the Payment
of the Residue of the purchase money Interest and Quit rents and other Reser -

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 vations due and to become due and Reserved on same to the Honourable the
Proprietaries of the Province aforesaid their Heirs and succefsors AND the
aforesaid Michael Shively for himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and
for every of them doth Covenant Demise Grant and agree to and with the
Aforesaid John Huntzacker his Heirs and Afsigns by these presents in manner
and form following that is to say That he the aforesaid Michael Shively and his
Heirs the said Tract of one hundred and eighty Acres of Land be the same more
or lefs hereby Granted Mentioned or Intended so to be with the Appurtenences
and every part thereof unto him the aforesaid John Huntzacker his Heirs and
Afsigns from and against him the said Michael Shively and his Heirs and against
all and every other Persons and person whatsoever Lawfully claiming or that
shall or may hereafter Lawfully Claim some or any Part thereof by from or under
him them or any of them shall and will Warrant and forever defend by these
Presents Interchangeably set their Hands and affixed their Seals the day and Year
first above written

Michael Shively Seal SEALED AND DELIVERED in the presence of Johannes

Shomberg ? Phillip Danner Received on the day of Date of the foregoing Inden -
ture of the within named John Huntzacker the sum of Two hundred Pounds
in full of the Consideration Money within mentioned Michael Shively Witnefs
present at Signing Johanes Funberg ? Phillip Danner York County SS
Before me Michael Danner Esquire one of his Majesties Justices SS for said Coun-
ty personally came the within Named Michael Shively and Acknowledged the
foregoing Instrument of Writing to be his Act and Deed and desired that the
same may be entered of Record Witnefs my hand and seal the third day of
November Anno Dom 1760
Michael Shively Seal Michael Danner Seal
True Copy Compared with the Org’ l at York the 16th Sep 1763

Geo Stevenson Recorder

When John had a chance to do a little better than double his money on the land he
had bought from Shively , and still retain the land where he had his cabin , he sold the
180 acres to Abraham Welty ( who was married to Magdalena Cocghenhower ).
We note on this deed that John was still using “ HH ” as his mark in lieu of signature
that he had first used on the Bieri quit claim deed but his wife Magdalena had changed
from an undistinctive “ X ” to a more personal “ M ” on this

DEED , John Huntzacker to Welty , 180 Acres L450 , 9 Sept 1763

York County Deeds Book P , p 146-7

THIS INDENTURE

Made the Ninth day of September in the third Year of the Reign of our
Soverign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France

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Ireland King Defender of the Faith SS and in the Year of our Lord God one
thousand seven Hundred and Sixty three BETWEEN John Huntzacker Manheim
Township in the County of York and Province of Pennsylania Yeoman and
Magdalena his Wife of the one part AND Abraham Welty Manchester Township
in the County aforesaid of the other part , WHEREAS in Pursuance of a War -
rant from the Honourable the Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania Dated
at Philadelphia the second day of June which was the Year of our Lord one
thousand seven Hundred and fourty Eight there was Surveyed and laid out unto
a certain Michael Shively all that the following Described Tract of Land situated
over Susquahanna River on the Barrens near Codorus Creek formerly in the
County of Lancaster but now in Manheim Township in the County of York
aforesaid adjoining the lands of Daniel Bowser Barnard Hawk and Nicholas
Lamm containing one hundred and Eighty Acres be the same more or lefs as
by the said Warrant and survey therof may Appear AND WHEREAS the
aforesaid Michael Shively by Indenture of Bargain and Sale under his hand and
Seal duly Executed bearing date the first day of November which was in the Year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty for the Consideration therein
mentioned did greant Bargain and sell the above Recited Tract of land with the
appurtenences unto the aforesaid John Huntzacker to hold to him the said John
Huntzacker his Heirs and afsigns forever as by the said Indenture may appear
NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNEFSETH that in Consideration of the sum
of four Hundred and fifty Pounds Lawful Money of Pennsylvania to the aforesaid
John Huntzacker in hand paid by the aforesaid Abraham Welty before the seal-
ing and Delivery of these Present the Receipt whereof he the aforesaid John Hunt -
zacker doth hereby acknowledge and thereof doth acquit and forever discharge
the aforesaid Abraham Welty his Executors Administrators and Afsigns by these
presents he the aforesaid John Huntzacker and Magdalena his Wife HAVE
greanted bargained sold Released and confirmed and by these presents Do grant
Bargained sell Release and Confirmed unto the aforesaid Abraham Welty his
Heirs and Afsigns all that the aforesaid Tract of one Hundred and Eighty Acres
of Land be the same more or Lefs as the same is above set forth and descreived
bounded and Limited as as aforesaid with all and singular the Buildings and
Improvements thereon Erected and Made , Rights Members Hereditaments and
Appurtenences whatsoever to the aforesaid Tract of one Hundred and Eighty
Acres of Land more or Lefs belonging or in any wise appertaining , and the rever-
sions and Remainders Rents Ifsues and Profits thereof , and also all the Estate ,
Right Title Interest & Property Use pofsefsion Claim and Demand whatsoever
to him the aforesaid John Huntzacker and Magdalena his Wife of in and to the
aforesaid Tract of Land and Premifses and every part therof with the ap-
purtenences and all Deeds Draughts Writings and Evedences whatsoever touching
or concerning the same and every Part thereof TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the
aforesaid Tract of one hundred and Eighty Acres of Land be the same more
or Lefs hereby Granted Mentioned or intended so to be with the appurtenences
and every part thereof unto the aforesaid Abraham Welty his Heirs and Afsigns
to the only use and behoof of the aforesaid Abraham Welty his Heirs and af -
signs forever SUBJECT NEVERTHELEFS to the payment of the Residue of
the purchase Money Interest and quit rent and other reservations due and to
become due and Reserved on the same to the honourable the Proprietaries of

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the Province aforesaid their Heirs and succesfsors and the aforesaid John Hunt-
zacker for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and for every of them doth
Convenant Promise Grant and Agree to and with the aforesaid Abraham Welty
his Heirs and Afsigns by these presents in the manner and form following that
is to say that he the aforesaid Tract of one hundred and eighty Acres of Land
be the same more or lefs hereby granted Mentioned or intended so to be with
the appurtenences and every part thereof unto the aforesaid Abraham Welty his
Heirs and Afsigns from and against him the aforesaid John Huntzacker and his
Heirs and against all and every other person and Person Whatsoever Lawfully
claming or that shall or may hereafter Lawfully Claim the same or any part thereof
by from or under him them or any of them shall and will warrant and forever
defend by these Presents IN WITNEFS wherof the aforesaid Parties have to these
presents Interchangably set their Hands and Affixed their Seals the day and Year
first Above Written

his

her John HH Huntzacker Seal

Magdalena M Huntzacker Seal
mark mark

SEALED AND DELIVERED in the presence of us Robert M McKenzie

Jn Boyd
Recieved the 9th day of September 1763 of the within Named Abraham Welty
the sum of four Hundred and fifty Pounds in full of the Consideration Money
Within Mentioned

His
John HH Huntzacker
mark

Witnefs present at Signing Robt McKenzie Jn Boyd

York County SS BE it Remembered that on the ninth day of September 1763

Before me George Stevenson one of his Justices for said County personally Came
John Huntzacker in the foregoing Instrument of Writing Named and acknowledg-
ed the same to be his act and Deed to the Intent that it may be entered of Record ,
and at the same time Magdalena his Wife who on Examination apart from her
Husband acknowleged that she voluntarily became a party thereto the Contents
thereof having been first made known unto her
Witnefs my hand & seal
Geo Stevenson
A True Copy compared with the Origl at York the 16th Sept 1763
Geo Stevenson
Recorder

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DEATHS AND BURIAL PLACES

There is no record or document that has ever been found , and probably never will
be found , which will enable us to know exactly when Hartman and Anna died , and where
they are buried . Although death and burial records are now well kept this was not true
in the early 1700’ s. During this time the only record which provides only an approxima-
tion of time of death is the date of a will . This date , in those few occasions when it is
available , is fairly accurate because people did not generally write a will until they were
on their death bed . Another source of approximate time of death , which usually came
about because of the lack of a will , is a quit claim deed from the children of the deceased
father in which they sign over their interest in their father ’ s land to someone else , often -
times the eldest son . In the early 1700’ s it was not the custom to divide land between the
heirs, probably because there generally was not enough land to make such a division
economically feasible . Place of burial was not recorded in most rural areas until almost
into the 1800’ s although burials in city or church cemeteries were recorded a little earlier .
In many cases burial was on the land surrounding the family home . There were not many
churches available in Lancaster or York Counties in the early 1700’ s but mention was
made in old histories of some , and the information is presented in the hope someday some-
one might possibly find some of our ancestors’ graves in Pennsylvania or Maryland . I
believe Hartman died in York County about 1736.1 have no idea where he might be buried ,
I believe Anna was buried about 1738 near Manheim Township , Lancaster County in a
Mennonite Churchyard . Bob believes Hartman-Martin died in 1733 in Frederick Township ,
Philadelphia ( now Montgomery ) County , and was buried in the van Bebber (Skippack )
Mennonite Church grounds. Many of the Valentine Hunsicker family are buried there.
I do not know why Bob believes this .

FACTS ABOUT ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY

Rupp (85 ) sets out another paper , apparently not in the archives , stated to be a docu -
ment signed by former commssioners which states that those former commissioners by
a warrant bearing date the 10th of October 1710 , granted unto John Rudolph Bundely ,
Hans Herr , and divers other Germans , late inhabitants in or near the Palatinate of the
Rhine , 100 , 000 acres to be laid out on the north side of a hill , about twenty miles easterly
of Conestoga , near the head of Pequea Creek etc.
Thus we have the 6th , the 8 th and the 10th of October , declared as the date of this
first title of land in Lancaster County by our Swiss-German ancestors. There is an order
to survey according to the Taylor Papers ( No . 573) dated October 16 , 1710, which sets
out that by a warrant dated 11 th day of eighth month (October ) 1710 , there was given
to John Rudolph Bundely 500 acres of land adjoining the 10,000 located or to be laid
out to the Palatine Company . Thus the true date is not later that October 1710.
These pioneers at once journeyed to the head of Pequea Creek but did not find that
point to meet their desires and journeyed down the stream until they arrived at a point
on the creek directly east of present Willow Street and there took up , on both sides of
the creek 6 , 400 acres of this land and had it surveyed Oct . 23, 1710 and divided the 27th
of April 1711 . This may be found in a map called “ Plot of Original Tract of Old Rights
in Lancaster County ” in the Office of Internal Affairs at Harrisburg . The remainder was
divided later . (See Mennonites of America by C. Henry Smith , p. 146.) The division was

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as follows: Beginning on the west Martin Kendig 530 acres — Martin Mylin 265 acres
—— Jacob Miller 1 ,008 acres
—
— John Funk 530 acres —
—
Christian Herr 530 acres John Bundely 500 acres Christian Franciscus 530 acres
Martin Kendig 1 , 060 acres. The
tracts extended nearly north and south and are of regular parallel form , the whole plot
reaching from West Willow on the west to Strasburg on the east . Upon this tract also
are the remains of the original settlers in the private grave yards on the same-one on the
bank of Pequea Creek , known as Tchantz’ s Graveyard , afterwards called Musser’ s, where
are found tombstones ( practically intact today ) over the resting places of the Mylins and

— —
Millers one adjoining the brick Mennonite Willow Street Church , Where aline the Herrs
and one just east of the Willow Street , where repose the Kendigs and some of the Mylins.
The division lines of the old original farms , determined the public road of today of that
whole section of ten square miles , five miles from east to west and two miles or more
from north to south ; the roads being located precisely on the old property lines. Much
of the original tract is today owned and occupied by descendants of the original owners.

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INDEXED G S
L &, I
. . AUG 1 2 1354

ennonite

DY

J. S. HARTZLER ,
INSTRUCTOR IN GOSHEN COLLEGE .

AND

DANIEL KAUFFMAN.
.
AUTHOR of "MANUAL OF BIBLE DOCTRINES " "ONE HUNDRED
.
LESSONS IN BIBLE STUDY " "A TALK WITH
CHURCH MEMBERS " ETC. .
GEN EALOG iCAL SOC! ETY
OF THE CMUKCM OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER- DAY SAINTS

5091.5
PUDUSHED DY
Mennonite Book and Tract Society,
.
SCOTTDALE PENNSYLVANIA.
1905.

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i So MENNONITE CHURCH HISTORY .

Services are held in both German and English languages, and

Sunday school every Sunday.
On York Street, about three miles east from Hanover, stands
the old Mennonitc church , known as Bear's Meeting House. The
land on which it stands was given by Tolm and Thomas Penn to
Michael Danner, for the benefit of the Mennonite Church at that
place, on August 8th , 1774, containing 12 acres : the purchase
.
price was set at i6, Pennsylvania currency Previous to this they ,

held their church services in private houses for many years.

John Shenk, of Manheim township, and Jacob Keagy, of
Heidelberg township, were their ministers, and John Welty and
James Miller were deacons at the above mentioned time. Later,
Martin Moyer, minister, John Hofstetter, bishop and Samuel
Eechler, deacon. About 1358 or 1S60 Abraham Hofstetter was
ordained to the ministry. Later Isaac Herschv and Samuel
Moyer .
In the year 1861 the old meeting house was pulled down and
a new brick church house erected in its stead .
The Pear's congregation stands in conjunction with the Han -
over congregation , Hofstetter congregation in Adams county,
Zimmerman’s congregation in Maryland , and Garbers congrega-
tion at Mcngcs Mills ; they altogether form a congregation of one
hundred members. Services arc held in the German and English
languages .
Among the tombstones in the cemetery arc found the names
of the following persons of a very advanced age, namely : Mary
M. Ruidcsil!, died Dec. 17, 1S81, aged 98 years ; Andrew Ruide-
sill, died Nov. 1, 1880, aged 92 years ; Barbara E. Wildasin, wife
of Andrew Ruidesill , died July 28, 1889, aged ill years, 9 mo.,
22 days.
The Condorus Meeting House is located about six miles west
from York. It is quite an old building.
The Meeting House near Stony Brook Station on the Penn
.
sylvania R. R , about four miles east from York, was erected in
-
the year i 8 i 6 i"out since then it was enlarged and remodeled This .
congregation ( Witmer’s ) is in a thriving condition.
•Translated from Casscl's “ Geschlchtc dcr Mcnnonltcn /' by S. D. Gucngcrich.

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 CONFERENCES. i8 t

Herschy's Meeting- House is in Dover township. On May io,

1825, John Lettera, Henry Seip and Joseph Herschy, trustees of
their congregation, bought of John Brubachcr eighty rods of
land on which to erect a meeting house. The consideration of
the purchase was one dollar.
This congregation stands in connection with the Condorus
congregations, one in Washington township, and one in Condorus
township. Daniel Bear and Abraham Roth were among the first
ministers in this church , which was organized in the year 1753.
Later ministers were Josiah Herschey, Benjamin Herschy, John
Frantz, Isaac Kauffman, Jacob Herschy and Samuel Roth .
Kralltown congregation also belongs to the Condorus district,
and is located in Washington township. In the year 18SS there
was a new church erected here. It is named the Union Church.
Near the north end of Abbottstown street, Hanover , stands
the neat, plain Mennonite Meeting House , which was erected in
the year 1881 at a cost of $2,500. The first church at Hanover
was built in 1870 ; but as the membership rapidly increased , it
was seen that this house was too small ; therefore it was pulled
down and a larger one erected in its place.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY .
-.
The history of the Mennonite Church in Cumberland county
dates from about the beginning of the nineteenth century Our
informant gives the names of Henry Rupp and Henry Martin as
the first Mennonite ministers in the county, but Cassel , in his
“ History of the Mennonites,” tells of ministers named Hauser and
Westhauser, who were there sooner. From the year 1807 there
were regular services ‘held in private houses until about 1816,
when the first Mennonite meeting house in the county was erected
at Slatehil!. This was replaced in 1876 by a more substantial build
.
ing There arc now three organized congregations in the county
-
.
having a combined membership of nearly 200 The church in this
county was the first in the district to take active steps in the way
of holding continued meetings, Sunday school conferences, etc.

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 THE FAMILY IN YORK COUNTY
1750 - 1? 68
Verena b 1714 Mrd 1734 ? John Roth
Abraham 1734 ?
>
C h r i s l e y 17 !5?
Elizabeth 1715? 1734 ? J a c o b Guth
Peter 1735 ?
Ursula 1717 ? 1735 ? Benjamin Landis
Benjamin 1737 ?
Henry 1738 ?
Jacob 1739 ?
John 1740 ?
P a r e n t s probably s t a y e d Pennsylvania . Grandson Benjamin ap
p a r e n t l y went with o t h e r family members e v e n t u a l l y t o Union
-
County , I l l i r r o i s.’
Anna 1719 ? 1736 ? Louis Mohlar
Henry 1736 ?
J a c o b 1737 ?
Family a p p a r e n t l y s t a y e d in Pennsylvania
Mary 1721? 1739 ? Casper Rowland
Jacob 1740 ?
Isaac 1741?
John 1742 ?
.
Family t o Row an County , No Carolina , 1768
John 1728 1750 Magdalena B i e r i
Abraham 1751 1752 -
.
John J r .1 752 -
Barbara 1754
Nicholas 1756
Hartman 1758 1759 -
J a c o b 1759
J o s e p h 1761
Abram 1763
George 1766
Catherine 1733 ? 1753 John Bieri
Jacob 1754
Daniel 1755
Anna 1756
Eva Cocghenhower John Weldy Sr
Cathereena 1760
Peter 1761
Barbara 1763
Mary 1764
Frena 1767
Eva 1768
Family t o Rowan County , No. Carolina I 768
Elizabeth Cocghenhower Abraham B i e r i
Abraham 1762
Mary 1763
Nicholas 1764
John 1767
Family t o Shenandoah Valley , Virginia about 1768
Magdalena Cocghenhower 1739 A b r a h a m WP 1 riv

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 Chart of the Family’ s
Travels in York County

EAST MANCHESTER TWP

Magdalena born 1732
Nicholas acqrd land
John <L Magdalena mrrd 1750
John acqrd 137 sc 1750 bit cabin iphn
Abraham b 1751 5 ® ter Co
John Jr b 1752
Barbara b 175
^
Nicholas b 1756
A John retrd 1763
George b 1766
To Manheim 1767 HELLAM TW?
Hartman become John acqrd
200 acres 1736 died
Land transfrd to Jacob
Jacob sold to Herbach

MANHEIM TWP
John acqrd 100 A 1750 Jacob acqrd land
moved to Manchester M Danner set up Dunkard
Congreg I76O
* Hartman b1756
Returned
1?57 Jacob joined ?
Jacob b 1759 Jacob d 1762
Acqrd 210 A 1760 John joined ?
v

" 180
Joseph b 1761
Abraham b 1763 Marriages
Sold 180A 1763 -
Elizabeth Jacob Guth 1733
Retd to Manchester
Retd to Manheim 1767
Verene John Roth 173
^-
Ursula benj Landis 1735
- -
Mary Casper Rowland 1737
^
* Land put in Md by IC&D Line £liz C Abraham Eieri I76O
- -
Eva C John Welty 1762
Catherine John Eieri 1752
Eva <’& John and
John -
Magdalena & Chldrn Eliz Abraham
d; Mary & Casper to
-
Ursula 3enj Landis
to Maryland 1768 ( by
to Edom Va 1768 Rowan Co Ho Car 1768
Mc;D Line)
-
Verene John Roth

v
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 IANCASTERYORK COUNTY LAND HOLDINGS
TOWNSHIP COUNTY TITLE PARTIES
YEAR MON DAY ACRE PLACE
200 Kreutz Creek Hellam Iancas Squatter Hartman become John
1732
ti n n tl
Licence Blunston to John ( Hartman
1733 ?
Oct 30 n ii ti ft
Patent Penn to John
1736
John to Jacob
• 1736 37 - ti tt tt ti Assign ?

tt tt n Jacob to Beitler
1743 May 16 tt ti

tt Oct 5 tt n ft It tl Beitler to Herbach

1749 /~ York County created from Lancaster /

137 Codorus Creek E Manchester York Gift? Bieri to Our John
1750?
•> Mary Ann Furnace West' Manheim "
" Grant Penn to Our John
1750 Jun
tt tt tt
tt Sep 10 100 Manheim ti Grant ti

1755 or beforel37 Codorus Creek East Manchest " Our Jo n to ?

'

/transfer by Bieri # /
1756 Mar 1 110 Codorus Hdwater? Manhe - m tl Warrant Penns to Our John

1759 Dec 13 210 tt ti 11 Survey Our John for Kautzman

1760 Jan 13 100 tt It tl Deed Our John to Kautzman

1760 Mar 10 200 Kreutz Creek Hellam tt Deed Jacob to Herbach

tt
/Deed recounts history of land
tt tt ft
7 tt Herbach to Stoner
l76o

1760 Nov 1 ISO Codorus Manheim II tt Shivel y to Our John

1763 Jul 11 110 Codorus Manheim York Warrant Confirmedto Our John
/
Received 1 Mar 1756/ #4776
1763 Sep 9 ISO tt 11 tt Deed Our John to Welty

1763 Oct 2 243 tt tl tt Survey Our John on Warrant of

#6653 10 Sept 1750

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 YI FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND
Presuming my conclusion is correct that our John’ s Pennsylania land was placed in
Maryland by the Mason and Dixon Line , our ancestors were now Marylanders. After
1769 children were born in Pipe Creek Township , Frederick County , Maryland , as follows:
Catherine 5 Mar 1769 and Magdalena 24 Mar 1770.
There are minor problems here . Maryland uses the word “ hundred ” for the small
political subdivision known as “ township ” in many states. As these birth records are in
old family records , not offical archives , maybe the person writing them continued to use
the Pennsylvania word “ township ” not knowing it should be “ hundred ” in Maryland .
Modern maps do not show any stream in this area that could be identified as Pipe Creek ,
but an old map , date unknown , shows a “ Big Pipe Creek ” in Frederick County running
almost into the headwaters of Codorus Creek in Pennsylvania . Presuming this old map
to be more correct for the time than modern maps , we can better understand how John ’ s
children were born in Pipe Creek .
—
In 1768 the years newly restrictive British trade laws and Redcoats to enforce them
— caused rumbles of discontent to reach from New England to the Middle Colonies. Did
those sounds of strife add impetus to the Hunsaker scattering further south and west ?
In History of Leitersburg , Herbert C. Bell , 1898 , which I found in the reserved book
section of the Washington County Library at Frederick Md . , under Call Number
975.291 / 21 H 2b was the following information:

The Pennsylvania Germans came to Leitersburg from Lancaster and York

via the Cumberland Valley and were Baptists and Mennonites. Washington Coun-
ty was formed on 6 Dec 1781 [should be 1776] . The courthouse was destroyed
by fire . The present courthouse was built in 1872-74.
The Mason and Dixon Survey started at Susquehanna on 8 May 1759 and
created a temporary line . In 1760 Pennsylvania and Maryland made an agree-
ment and in 1763 Mason & Dixon made a new survey which reached the Sus-
quehanna on 17 Jun 1765. It was finished in 1767 but established very vague lines.

Can you believe that while we were in this quiet and peaceful little library in the small
quiet bucolic town of Frederick , Maryland in the Year of our Lord 1976 two hundred
years after the U .S. had declared its independence , that all of the occupants of the library
had to leave the building because someone threatened to blow it up?
On 25 April 1772 Our John bought 200 acres from David and Abraham Stoner ac-
cording to the County Clerk . The land was located in Frederick County , Maryland , 7
1 / 2 miles southeast of Waynesboro , Washington Township Pennsylvania and 2 1 / 2 miles
southeast of Leitersburg , Frederick County , Maryland . I have the deed of acquisition for
this land , Folio P , p 22-23 , Maryland State Archives , Annapolis , Md . , but no record that
John paid taxes on this land , and I have never found a document by which our John
divested himself of this land . On the deed there is appended a notation that on 18 May
1772 John paid an Alienation Fee of eight shillings. An Alienation Fee is paid by a person
“ alienating ” or divesting himself of property . I believe this indicates something went wrong
and John could not go through with the deal, paid a fine as a penalty , the deal was cancelled
and the land reverted to Stoner , and the money paid refunded to Our John .
I find this deed , the manner in which it is worded , the subjects it takes care of , the

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concern it shows for the wives of the parties , and its complete thoroughness and exac-
titude to be of interest . Hoping you will find it equally interesting , let me present it in
its entirety , but copied on a typewriter for your convenience in reading:

At the Request of John Hunsaker the following Deed was Recorded May
18 1772 TO WIT:
This Indenture made this 25th Day of April in the year of our Lord One Thou -
sand Seven Hundred and Seventy two Between David Stoner and Abraham Stoner
both of Cumberland County and Province of Pennsylvania in Antrem Township
of the One part and John Hunsacker of Frederick County and Province of
Maryland Farmer of the Other part Witnesseth that the said David and Abraham
Stoner for and in Consideration of the Sum of Four hundred Twenty Pounds
Pennsylvania Money to them in hand Paid the Receipt whereof they do hereby
Acknowledge hath given greanted Bargained Sold Alliened Enfeofed Confirm -
ed and Made over and by these presents doth Absolutely give grant Bargain Sell
Allien Enfeoff Confirm and make over unto the aforesaid John Hunsacker his
heirs and Assigns forever all that part of a Tract or Parcel of Land Called the
Resurvey on Consent Beginning at the original Beginning tree and Running
Thennnce North thirty three Degrees West Eighteen Perches North Eighty six
Degreed west twenty four Perches South Twenty three Degrees West Twenty Per-
ches South Twenty one Degrees East sixty two Perches South forty two Degrees
West thirty Eight Perches South fifty six Degrees East fifty Perches south Eighty
Eight Perches south Eighty Degrees East fifty Perches North one hundred and
Twenty Eight Perches South Seventy six Degrees East Seventy Eight Perches South
thirty two Degrees East Seventy four Perches North Eighty seven Degrees East
one hundred and Twenty four Perches North Thirty Eight Degrees East ninety
two Perches North Seventy two Degrees West one hundred and Seventy seven
Perches to the end of four Perches on the South Line of said land then south
Eight Perches south fifty three Degrees West sixty Four perches North Seventy
six Degrees West one hundred and Twenty Perches then by a Streight Line to
the Begining (tree ? ) containing Two hundred acres of land More or Less
Together with all and singular the Improvements and Appurtenances thereunto
Belonging or in any Manner or way Appertaining to have and to hold the aid
land and Premises with the Appurtenances unto him the said John Hunsacker
his heirs and assigns for ever and to or for no other Intent or Purpose What- 1
*t
C
soever and the said David and Abraham Stoner and their heirs and from & againist
him all Persons Whatsoever Claiming or to Claim the same from by or under
them or their heirs shall and will Warrant and forever Defend by these Present V H

in Witness whereof the said David & Abraham Stoner hath Hereunto set their
hands and seals the day and year above written Signed Sealed and Delivered In
Presence of David Stoner Seal
Thomas Prather Thomas Brooke Abraham Stoner Seal
May 18 1772

On the Back of which Deed was the following Indorsement :

To Wit April 26th 1772 Received of John Hunsacker four hundred and Twenty
Pounds Pennsylvania Money the Consideration of the Within Deed

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 Thomas Prather Thomas Brooke David Stoner Abram Stoner
April 25th 1772 then came the within named David and Abraham Stoner before
me one of his Lordships Justices for Fredk County and Acknowledged the within
Deed to be their Act and Deed and the Land therein Conveyed to be the right i
and Estate of the within named John Hunsacker for his heirs & Assigns for ever
and at the same time came Margarett and Mary wifes of the said David &
Abraham Stoner who Being Privately Examined apart from their said Husbands
Declared they freely Relinquished their Right of Dower to the Within Land
without being Induced thereto by fear or threats of their said Husbands or for
fear of their Ire

Acknowledged Before Thomas Prather

May 18th 1772 Reed of John Hunsacker Eight Shillings Stirling for and Aliena-
tion Fine on the within mentioned land For Wilm M Beall Geodcott

Frederick County Maryland

Deeds , Folio P , Pags 22-23
Hall of Records
Annapolis, Md

In 1776 , the same year that John and Nicholas Hunsaker stood up as conscientious
objectors , the civilian George Washington stood up to have his portrait painted
— wear-
ing full military dress. Were all three reacting to the signs of potential war with Mother
England ?
While John was involved in this land deal , Magdalena stayed at home in their cabin
that had once been located in Pennsylvania but its land got moved to Pipe Creek , Maryland ,
where their next to last child , Andrew , was born on 5 Jul 1772.
Whether in the State of Maryland , or of Pennsylvania , on 8 May 1776, John and
Nicholas were fined for failure to do their military service because , as Dunkards , they
were opposed to war . This is reported in “ Procedings of the Committee of Observation
for Elizabethtown District ” as recorded in Maryland Historical Magazine , Vol 12 & 13.
Elizabethtown is now Hagerstown . Incidentally , the fine of five pounds assessed John
and Nicholas indicated , from our reading of the assessment notice , that they each had
property worth more than thirty pounds .

PROCEEDING OF THE COMMITTEE OF OBSERVATION FOR ELIZABETH TOWN

DISTRICT
[ WASHINGTON COUNTY ] .
Wednesday the 8 th of May 1776

The committee met according to Adjournment all the Members present as on Yester -
day except Capt Hughes , Capt Hogmyer , and Capt Cellar appear ’ d Mr John Rench .
Ordered that the sundry Person do pay the sums annexed to their Names in one Month
from the Date hereof , and deliver up their fire Arms immediately , if they have any , ex-
cept Pistols, to the several Persons appointed to recieve the same vix . Christian Newcomer
to pay 7 .. 10 Common Money to Capt Jams Wallen .

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 The Committee adjourns for an Hour .
The Committee met according to Adjournment.
And continued to assess the non-associators and non-enrollers as aforesaid .
Ls
Peter Hick to pay 5..00 to Captn Sam Hughes
John Huntzaker Do 5..00
Nicholas Huntzaker Do 5..00
Jacob Shockey Do 5..00
Chrisn Hyple Do 4..00 a Gun to be deliver’ d to Do
Philip Smith Do not worth 30 f
Jacob Good
Abm Good Do 5. . 00
Christopher Good to pay 5..00 to Captn Sam Hughes
John Hoover Jun . Do 2..00 Do
Peter Newcomer Do 4.. 00 Do
Nichl Myer 50 yrs
Leonard Baugh Not worth 30 L
Philip Stambaugh to pay 4.. 00 to Captn Hogmyer
Again relying upon birth records to fix the family’ s location , we know that John
and Magdalena were in Waynesboro , Washington Township, Cumberland (now Franklin )
County , Pennsylania where their last child , Samuel , was born 22 Nov . 1777. On 21 Aug
f
1778 John ’ s son Jacob , whom we will refer to as Jacob Sr for clarity , married Catherine
Huffman in Hagerstown , Maryland . The birth Record of Catherine , the first official birth
record I have encountered in the archives so far , is in the All Saints Protestant Episcopal
Parish Register , Frederick County , Md., US MD N21, and is as follows:
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All Saints Protestant' Episcopal Parish Register
Frederick County , Md . , US MD N21
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 Jacob Hunsaker Sr . and Catherine Huffman had the following children born in
Washington Township , Franklin County , Pennsylvania ;
Henry about 1779 who died at birth or early in infancy.
Anna 1780
John and 1781 ( twins) John apparently died at birth ,
>>
Jacob Jacob survived to become Jacob Jr
[and my Great Grandfather . ]

In 1779, according to a tax roll in Pennsylvania Archives , Series 3 , Vol 20 , P 240 , John
Hunsacker had 300 acres of land , three horses and three cattle in Pennsylvania . The follow-
ing tax assessments recorded back in Maryland indicate frequent moves between Maryland
and Pennsylvania .

1783 Assessment , Washington County ,

Maryland Lower Antietam and Sharpsburg Hundred .
Orginal in No . 1443 , with the records of the house of Delegates.

Jacob Huffman
81 acres wooded land
16 acres arable land
100 total acres
37 pounds 10 shillings value
3 pounds value of improvements

John Honsinger
7 horses
91 black cattle
15 pounds value
7 pounds value of other property
52 pounds total amount of property

As there might be confusion regarding these similarly named townships and coun-
ties, let me trace their development . In Pennsylvania , what is now Franklin County was
created from Cumberland County , Cumberland had been created from Lancaster Coun -
ty in 1750 a year after York County had been created from Lancaster . No doubt the in -
habitants of the time paid scant attention to these changes. Washington Township is in
Frankilin County.
In Maryland , Washington County was created from Frederick County in 1776.
Frederick had been created from Prince Georges in 1748 and Prince Georges was created
from the original county of Charles in 1695. Charles was created in 1658. The area of
Maryland where our ancestors were when , apparently , the Mason and Dixon Line moved
them into Maryland , was then Frederick County , but has now become Carrol County .
Clear ? In 1769 Our John’s son , John Jr ., at the age of 17 , Left this area . . . . either
Maryland or Pennsylvania — and went to Western Pennsylvania with Andrew Huber Jr ,
and his brothers George and Jacob . Alex Clegg may also have been with these four young
men on the journey to Western Pennsylvania .
Between 1769 and 1784 the various families must have heard favorable news from

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their boys regarding the land in Fayette or some other Western Pennsylvania County and
the families began preparations to migrate westward . This migration , and the apparent
dates when each family , John Sr . , Jacob Sr . , and Nicholas made this move , are traced
in the next chapter . We are not sure what route they took . Possibly they went northward
to Harrisburg and then west , following what was becoming a well established road to
Fort Duquesne (under the French , ) Fort Pitt (under the British) or Pittsburgh (under the
U . S . ) . I believe they went directly westward from Hagerstown on the Maryland side of
the Pennsylvania- Maryland border via what is now Cumberland , Maryland , This later l
became known as the National Route and I think our ancestors were among the trailblazers
of this major route westward through the mountains .

THE FAMILY IN FREDRICK COUNTY , MARYLAND — 1768 - 1777

Verena b 1714? Mrrd 1734? John Roth ((Rhoades)
Abraham b 1734? 1

Chrisley b 1735?
Probably went to Somerset County , Pa . , with main Rhoades family in about 1762. Probably was with
Dundards at Brothersvalley , Pa .
i

John b 1728 Mrrd 1750 Magdalena Bieri

John Jr b 1752 Went early to Fayette County , Pa , 1769
Barbara b 1754
i
Nicholas b 1756
Jacob b 1759
Joseph b 1761
Abraham b 1763
George b 1766
Catherine b 1768
Magdalena b 1770
Andrew b 1772
Samuel b 1777 in Washingto Twp, Cumberland County , Pa.

Catherine b 1733 Mrrd 1747? John Bieri

Jacob b 1747 ? ? Diller
To Virginia then Ohio
Daniel b 1755 ? Mrrd 1795 Mary Roots Locke
To Virginia then North Carolina
\ Anna b 1756? Louis Seitz
To Virginia then Ohio

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 VII FAYETTE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
Fayette County , in the southwest part of Pennsylvania , was created from
Westmoreland County in 1783 and the county seat is Uniontown . Westmoreland County
was created in 1773 from Bedford County and the county seat is Greensburg . My wife
and I found records at both Uniontown and Greensburg . Both courthouses are wonder -
ful examples of the solid granite , expensive mahogany and luxurious red velvet draperies
of courthouses of yesteryear . Both have been beautifully and meticulously restored and
are maintained in perfect condition . That at Greensburg has been declared a National
Historical Monument and that at Uniontown should be , they are well worth a visit for
beauty’ s sake as well as history’ s sake . Both courthouses are just a short drive off the
Pennsylvania Turnpike , Greensburg north and Uniontown south , from the Youngwood
Interchange.
In 1776 on the fourth of July , in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , the American land
became free from England by act of Congress. On that same date in Uniontown , Penn-
sylvania , John Hunsaker got a piece of that land by buying a city lot by act of the county
recorder . In 1769 Daniel Boone first cast an approving eye over Kentucky. His optimistic
advocacy of trans- Allegheny colonization fell on eager ears. Hunsakers heard too , but
they just moved further west in Pennsylvania for now .
John Hunsaker Jr . , with Jacob , Andrew Jr . , and George Huber and perhaps Alex
Clegg , led the way to Fayette in 1769. In 1770 Jacob Huber acquired land on the ridge
between Dunkard and Fish Creeks in Monongalia County , West Virginia , then part of
Virginia. According to Wiley’s History of Monongalia County , “ In 1773 Alex Clegg settled
in the Battelle District of Fayette County , along with a Hoontsacker ” . “ Hoontsacker ”
of course was John Jr . , but no record of land ownership by him has been found . On
25 Nov 1775 John Waller sold land in Menallen Township , Fayette County , to Andrew
Huber and John Hoontsakar (Deeds Book A , p 192) On 8 Sep 1780 Andrew and John
assigned this land to Henry Hoover ( Book A , p 192) Andrew Sr . , his son Henry , and
presumably other members of the Huber (Hoover ) family including Elizabeth , who was
to become John Jr’ s wife , arrived in Fayette in 1775.
On July 4th 1776 , when American Independence was being declared in Philadelphia
(and of which fact the settlers in Western Pennsylvania were obviously ignorant ) John
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Jr ., and his friend Andrew Huber Jr , received building lots in Beesontown , now Union -
town , in a lottery held in order to get the town started . Could it be the origin of the word
“ lottery ” came about when towns were being started ? The developer put slips of paper
numbered to correspond to lots , into a hat . Each person desiring a lot drew a slip to deter-
mine the lot he could buy , or the order in which he could choose a lot , or , in some cases ,
the lot he would receive free in order to get a town started . When John Hunsaker Sr . ,
and his son Nicholas and their families arrived in Fayette in 1784 they settled in Springhill
Township . The 1784 arrival date is based on the fact John Sr ., and Nicholas were still
on Maryland tax rolls in 1783 but appear on Fayette rolls in 1785.
Jacob “ Handsecker ” Sr . , apparently went to live in Georges Township , very close
to Springhill Township as he bought land “ adjacent to Hohn Hoontzacker ” . These two
townships were next to each other and both were bisected by the only road in the area .
Other than for legal purposes I doubt that any one at the time paid much attention to
which township they lived in . In the 1790 Census figures the total number for the people
listed works out correctly , but not exactly so in the families concerned according to sex.

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Jacob Sr’ s six year old daughter Barbara is not counted in the Census , but four sons are
listed and we only have names for three of them . I think it is perfectly safe to say that
in the very first US Census the census takers were not (even ) trained , probably could not
write very well , and mistakes were certainly bound to happen .
In 1796 civilization was catching up to western Pennsylvania . In Uniontown Hun -
sakers watched in awe as the first major American suspension bridge was built to span
Jacobs Creek . Time to cross that new bridge and move on to Kentucky ? In 1790 the first
census by the new United States government showed a population of nearly four million
Americans — Hunsakers included . Indians didn ’ t need to see the figures to know they
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were being squeezed ; they launched murderous raids on frontier families the Hunsakers
included .
Our Dunkard group did not all leave Fayette at the same time . The Rhoads were
the first to leave in 1785 , just a year after the Hunsakers had arrived . Not all the Rhoads
left in one group . Andrew Hunsaker married Mary Rhoads in Fayette in 1793. Andrew
and Mary , after having a son in Fayette in Dec. 1794 , must have left Fayette soon as their
next son was born in Muhlenberg County , Kentucky in July 1796. We believe Andrew
and his brother Joseph left Fayette in 1795 , slightly ahead of the rest of the Hunsakers.
Magdalena Bieri died 9 Aug 1796 and probably was buried in a Mennonite or Dunkard ,
or more probably German Baptist , churchyard in George Township because there were
none in Springhill Township . In all probability Elder George Wolfe , an early leader of
the Dunkards, presided at the service . Twenty-four days after Magdalena died Our John
sold his only piece of land in Pennsylvania . Had it been for sale for some time in an -
ticipation of moving to Kentucky , or did John sell it because of Magdalena ’ s death and
again head Westward ? Whatever the reason , I feel that the Hunsakers left Fayette Coun -
ty in the early fall of 1796 in order to make the long voyage to Kentucky and arrive there
in time to get some land cleared and maybe a crop in for harvest in 1797 .
As the principal and easiest mode of travel in this area at this time was via the rivers ,
and the Wolfe family were flatboat builders , I presume our Hunsaker ancestors acquired
a flatboat from the Wolfes and set off down the Monongahela ( northward ) to Fort Pitt ,
now Pittsburgh , which was the only semblance of real civilization in the area . Fort Pitt ,
despite its “ civilization ” had a reputation as a rough and ready tough frontier town .
However , here they presumably could have added to their few supplies for the long voyage
and then pushed their flatboat into the currents of the Ohio River , which , being joined
here by the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers , becomes a very large river flowing
westward to join the Mississippi .
Some historians and some Dunkard writers believe the Dunkards trekked overland
from Western Pennsylvania to Kentucky. That would have been an arduous and dangerous
route indeed .

The History of Fayette County and Georges Township, Vol 2, p 574 describes the
early churches of the township:

One of the earliest churches of the county was on the Phillip Rogers Farm ,
in the township , the property being now owned by the Fairchance Iron Co . The
log Church was built upon the summit of a hill , near the Morgantown Road
and the Old Cherokee Trail... This church was built before the revountionary
war . It was a German Baptist [ Dunkard ] Church . Nothing is left to mark the
location but a very ancient graveyard .

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 Woodbridge Seventh Day Baptist Church . This church was a log structure
and was built by the Reverend Samuel Woodbridge , somewhere near 1790.

Woodbridgetown is just barely across the township line in Georges Township. Fair -
chance Boro , just north of which is the Oliphant Furnace , I presume to be the property
now owned by the Fairchance Iron Co. The first road in Springhill Township was built
in 1783, being part of the road from Uniontown to Morgantown. Springhill Township
has no cities; Point Marion , Morris Cross Roads , Springhill are just tiny villages. New
Geneva , population 400 , is the largest town in the township.
In Fayette County the Hunsakers became associated with the Wolfe family . This fami-
ly , which had arrived in Fayette in 1787, originally from Lancaster County , but more
directly from Brothersvalley , Somerset County , just east of Fayette County , were then
a very prominent family in the Dunkard religion and remained so for many years. The
two families , Hunsaker and Wolfe, also associated with the Rhoades family , also originally
from Lancaster County.
The Wolfe family , under the leadership af Elder George Wolfe Sr . , settled in Georges
County about ten miles west of Uniontown on the eastern bank of the Monongahela River .
The family engaged in the building of flatboats and in farming , The Wolfes eventually
left Fayette on 1 Apr 1800 and went by flat boat , undoubtedly one of their own manufac-
ture , down ( north) the Monongahela River to Pittsburgh , then south and west on the Ohio
to Western Kentucky , Because this family is important to us, a listing of its members at
this time is in order , as given in Some Brethren Pathfinders by J , H . Moore.

Elder George Wolfe Sr , Married ca 1776 Catherine Schroeder

b 1750 Lancaster Co ,, Pa

Jacob b 1777
George Jr b 25 Apr 1780
Margaret Married John Wigle

The Hunsaker family settled generally south of Uniontown . John Jr . acquired land
in Springhill Township on 6 Jun 1784 when he bought 200 acres from Samuel Paine(Book
A p 20). He sold this land to his father , at a profit , on 24 Feb 1790 (Book A p 315 . Item
373). Nicholas Hunsaker is on Springhill tax rolls in 1785 and 1786 as the owner of a saw
mill.

AN HONEST MAN

An interesting document of 22 April 1788, Deeds Book A , p 231 , recounts that Jacob
Hoontseker found a stray horse which he turned over to the authorities . The value of
the horse was appraised by Jacob Knapp and Henry Hoover and in a few days Jacob
bought the horse. Who says there aren’ t any honest men any more?
Incidentally , have you noted the weird spellings of our name after the family arrived
in Western Pennsylvania ? Whereas before in Eastern Pennsylvania the spellings hovered
around a reasonable facsimile of “ Hunziker ” , in the wild and wooly West the spellings
stray far away from the original; Hoonsacker , Hoontsacker , Hansacker , Handsecker , etc .
I wonder if this was because the bulk of the people in Fayette County were of non -German
speaking origin ?
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60 acres in Georges Township , Jacob paid only five shillings for the land . I presume it
was either some sort of a Quit Claim Deed , or perhaps part of the land was to be used
by the Dunkard Congregation . We know the Dunkard Church was in Georges Township
so maybe we can presume Jacob was acting as intermediary for his Dunkard group.
However , an undocumented reference indicates Jacob sold this land to Richard Brown
on 2 Aug 1797. The first deed says in its description of the land , “ Adjoining John Hunt-
zacker ” . I have found no documentation of John Sr ., or Jr ., owning land in Georges
Township.

John Hunsaker Jr . , and Elizabeth Huber married about 1778 and had the following
children in Fayette County: \
Isaac 8 Apr 1779
Catherine 1781
Jacobl 8 Apr 1784
Son 1785? i
Son 1787?
Son 1789?
Nicholas 1792

The above information was provided by the 1790 Census. No names are provided
for three of the sons , nor is a definite birth date given . Apparently the three unnamed
sons died prior to 1792.
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John Jr . , Elizabeth and Nicholas were killed by Indians in Monongalia County, West
Virginia . There are a number of versions of this tragedy and they do not all agree with
each other . There follows the account I have woven together from these various versions
which was published in the 1980 Hunsaker Family Bulletin , and with which Bob agrees:

THE INDIAN MASSACRE

As some of you are probably aware , ’ way back in the early days of our
family’ s history there was an Indian massacre in which John Hunsaker Jr . , his
wife and baby were killed and his sons Isaac and Jacob carried off by the In-
dians. This tragic event was briefly mentioned in a footnote in the History of
Abraham Hunsaker . Since publication of that book , we have learned a great
deal more of what happened .
This additional information has come from a number of sources; two
published histories , John Sr .’ s bible , correspondence with family members , land i
records , and information from genealogists. These sources do not agree exactly
with each other on details and some sources repeat material from other sources.
A gathering together of this information to present the most probably accurate
and complete version is as follows; I
When our ancestors were living south of Waynesboro , Pennsylvania , near
what is now Leitersburg , Maryland , they became associated with the family of
Andrew and Catherine Huber , who probably were members of thr same group
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of Dunkards as our ancestors. In 1769 Jacob , Andrew Jr ., and George Huber
migrated westward to what is now Springhill Township , Fayette County , Penn -

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sylvania . John Hunsaker Jr . , must have gone with the Hubers, Alex Clegg may
also have been in their group. Andrew Huber Jr . , and John Hunsaker Jr . , jointly
acquired a piece of land in Menallen Township for 168 pounds from John Waller
on 25 November 1775 . In 1780 they assigned this land to Henry Hoover . Both
young men received city lots in Beeson ’ s Town , nowUniontown ,on 4 July 1776 ,
a day which was becoming famous further east in Pennsylvania . The rest of the
Huber family , including daughter Elizabeth , arrived in Fayette in 1775 , John
Jr . , and Elizabeth were married in about 1778 and immediately began a family;
Isaac born 8 April 1779, Catherine 1781 , Jacob 18 April 1784 three sons whose
names and birthdates are unknown, and Nicholas born 1792, Our knowledge of
the three unnamed sons comes from the first US Census in 1790 which listed
John Jr . and Elizabeth as having one daughter and five sons and John Sr ’ s bible i

which says John Jr , , had six sons.

The family leader , John Sr . , the only son of our original immigrant ancestor
Hartman , and the rest of his group arrived in 1784, John Jr , bought 200 acres
of land on 4 June 1784 for a hundred pounds which he sold to his father on
24 February 1790 for 270 pounds. Not a bad profit!
Jacob Huber and Alex Clegg had acquired land , two pieces almost joining
each other , just barely in Pennsylvania , two or three miles west of what is now
Blacksville , in what was then called the Batelle District and is now Wayne
Township , Green County . Here Clegg had cleared some land and built a cabin.
Whether they knew it or not , this area was athwart the main trail the Indians
used when they went on the warpath and left their camps along the Ohio River
to raid the white settlements west of present day Morgantown , West Virginia .
Anyway , on the fateful day of 18 April 1792 according to John Sr .’ s bible
and “ late June 1791 ” according to two histories of the area , John Jr ., wife
Elizabeth , baby Nicholas , who was dependent on his mother for his food supp-
ly , and sons Isaac and Nicholas who , at ages 13 and 8 respectively , were con-
sidered old enough to do a man’ s work went to tha area to help Clegg work
his land . One source thinks John Jr ., may have been on his way to Kentucky ,
but this seems doubtful . Daughter Catherine must have been left in Springhill
with her uncle Jacob Huber nearby . Although one history says a “ Honsaker ”
settled here , there is no land record available , Clegg’ s wife Margaret and their
two daughters , Peggy and Susan , were also in the area.
The men and boys were working in a cornfield and the women and children
off beyond the cabin when an Indian war party came along and attacked them .
John Jr . , was wounded and quickly captured . Clegg and Isaac and Jacob ran
•!

for the cabin , Clegg entered the cabin , where his daughter Susan was , and tried
to defend it but when the indians set fire to it he surrendered rather than be
burned with the cabin . Isaac and Jacob ran on a ways to where their Mother
and her baby were , but upon reaching the spot found other Indians had already
captured them and were lying in wait for the two boys. Margaret Clegg , upon
seeing the attack , hid in some bushes but was eventually discovered by the In -
dians and tried to run away from them . One Indian pursued her , but being out-
distanced by the fleetfooted Margaret , took a shot on the fly and wounded her
in the shoulder , Eventually she made her way two or three miles to Baldwin’ s
Blockhouse at what is now Blacksville , West Virginia . Somewhere in this wild
melee was the other Clegg daughter , Peggy , but none of the sources know what

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happened to her other than that she was taken prisoner along with her sister
and father .
The Hunsakers , and apparently Clegg and his two daughters, were then mar-
ched westward , slightly south of the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border seven
or eight miles to a ridge between the eastward flowing Dunkard Creek and the
westward flowing Fish Creek . Apparently John ’ s wound and Elizabeth carrying
the baby were slowing the pace of the march and John and Elizabeth were told
the baby was going to be killed . They were also told that if they did not cry out
at the death of their infant their lives would be spared . But , when the Indians
killed Nicholas , the parents did cry out and they were killed , first the mother
and then the father . Another version is that Nicholas was to be left to die in
the crotch of a tree and when the parents remonstrated about this they were kill-
ed . At any rate, Isaac and Jacob were marched with the Indians to Niagara Falls
or Quebec, Canada . During the trip Isaac was made to carry a heavy pot on
his head . The Indians killed a possum and stuffed its carcass with pumpkin pulp.
They then hung the animal in a tree and when the boys wanted to eat they squeezed
pumpkin out of the possum carcass. This unpleasant food made Isaac sick . Upon
arriving in Canada , the boys were turned over to , or sold to , a Chief Walker
who apparently raised them as his sons .
Clegg and his two daughters , who were also taken captive by the Indians ,
apparently were taken to someplace other than where Isaac and Jacob were taken .
Through the intervention of Simon Girty , an Indian trader who himself had been
captured by Indians some forty years previously , the Cleggs were given their
freedom in exchange for a rifle and money which Clegg procured upon his return
to civilization and which Girty took back to the Indians. And that is truly an
example of someone keeping his word . When Alex Clegg later sold his land it
was called “ Indian Prisoner ’ ’ .
Isaac and Jacob lived with the Indians under Chief Walker for seven or
eight years. As they grew up they were allowed to go hunting on their own . Over
the years they gradually extended the distances they roamed from camp on these
hunting expeditions until they ranged quite far away and for considerable periods
of time . Eventually they took advantage of this stratagem to escape from their
Indian captors. Somewhere enroute back to their home the boys became separated
and never saw each other again . Isaac managed to reach a trading post , apparently
juat ahead of his former captors , and hid among bales of furs while the Indians
unsuccessfully searched for him . He then was able to get a ride in a boat with
fur traders who were heading south . We do not know any details of Jacob’ s
manner of escape.
Isaac apparently got back to Fayette County before Jacob , only to find his
family had left during the winter of 1796-7 to move on westward . Isaac , then
about 20, somehow made his own way through the wilderness to rejoin his family
in Muhlenberg County , Kentucky. Here he married Perthina Christina Spikner
(Spikeman ? ) in about 1800 and had ten children , one of whom he named Jacob
after his lost brother . Isaac was killed by a falling tree and was buried at Paradise,
Muhlenberg County , Kentucky , in November 1819. In the 1978 Hunsaker Family
Bulletin there was reproduced a photograph of Isaac’s tombstone within the roots
of a giant Beech tree which has grown over his grave . Apparently he had trouble
with trees.

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 Jacob must have arrived back in Fayette after Isaac had left , otherwise it
is presumable Isaac would have taken his younger brother on to Kentucky with
him . Being younger , Jacob must have assimilated ’ Indian ways more than Isaac.
Jacob wore a ring in his nose , Indian fashion , and was soon given the sobriquet
“ Indian Jake ” which he carried all his life. Perhaps because of derision of his
Indian ways by whites in Springhill , Jacob left Pennsylvania and migrated to
Ohio. In 1804 in Fairfield County , Ohio he married Elizabeth Huffman , whose
father had been killed while serving with General “ Mad Anthony ” Wayne in
1704 in a battle with Indians at Fort Defiance. Jacob’s descendants today con-
stitute a sizeable number and disprove one version of Indian Jake’ s life which
says “ he went completely Indian and married a squaw. ” Catherine , the daughter
who escaped the massacre , eventually married Isaac Welty and her record ends
except we know she died in 1816.
The place where this massacre occurred is now known as Hunsaker ’ s Knob.
It lies just east of the village of Hundred , Wetzel County , West Virginia , on
top of the ridge which divided that county from Monongalia County and bet -
ween Fish and Dunkard Creeks. The location can be reached by going nor -
thwestward from Fairmont , West Virginia on US Highway 250 about 24 miles
to Hundred , then northeast on State 69 one mile to an unnumbered road leading
to Wadestown , then two or three miles to the ridge. Hunsaker Knob is the highest
point on the ridge which is about 1650 feet high . In the two histories of this
portion of West Virginia it is noted that this was the last massacre of whites
by Indians in West Virginia and ended a long and bloody period of fighting bet -
ween the Red Man and the White settlers.

SOURCES: History of Monongalia County , West Virginia , Wiley Chapter XXXIV .

Chronicles of Border Warfare , Withers , P 398-399. A . H . Hunsaker , Fairmont , West
Virginia 1946 letter to Horace Hunsaker. Naomi Hunsaker Johnson , MT. Pleasant, Texas
1978 letter to Q M. Hunsaker . Luella Schaumburg Hoover , 1972 letter to Judith Beery
Garber . Dates from John Hunsaker Sr ., Bible . Huber ( Hoover ) Family History . Land
Records , Pennsylvania and West Virginia .

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 1785 TAX LIST / SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP

TAXPAYER PROPERTY PNDS SHLGS PNC

John Hansacker 0 4 10
John Hoonsaker Jr City Lot , Beesontown 0 1 10
200 acres from Paine
Nioholas Hoonsacker Sawmill 0 16 5
1786 TAX LIST
John Hoonsacker 0 1 5
John Hoonsacker Jr City lot , 200 acres 0 6 11
Nicholas Hoonsacker Sawmill 0 10 0

1790 CENSUS, SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP

MALES
HEAD OF FAMILY OVER 16 UNDER 16 FEMALES
HANDSECKER 3 1 2
JOHN SR John Sr -62 Samuel -13 Magdalena-58
George-24 Magdalena-20

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John Jr-38 Issac-11 Elizabeth-22
Jacob-6 Catherine-5
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Nicholas-33 Catherine-22
JACOB SR 1 4 2
Jacob-31 John-9 Kathrine-29 Jacob Jr-9
Anna-10 George-4
[where is Barbara counted? Where is other son ]
JOSEPH 1 1 2
Joseph-29 George- 1 Margaret -23
Mary ” Polly ” -2
ABRAM 1 0 3
Abram-26 Mary Jane-24
Elizabeth -5
Catherine-1
GEORGES TOWNSHIP
JACOB 2 3 3

1800 CENSUS, SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP

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Nicholas

LAND AND CHRONOLOGY, FAYETTE COUNTY

1769 George , Jacob and Andrew Huber and John Hunsaker Jr . arrive Western Penn -
sylvania . Alex Clegg may have been with them .

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1770 Jacob Huber got land on ridge below Fish & Dunkard Creeks, Monongalia
County, West Virginia.
1773 Alex Clegg settled in Batelle District , Fayette County with a “ Honsaker ” ( John
Jr .)
1775 25 Nov John Waller sold land Menallen Township, Fayette to Andrew Huber Jr and

1776 4 Jul
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John Hoontsaker Bk A P 192
Andrew Huber Jr and John Hunsaker Jr got lots in Beesontown in lottery.
1778 Andrew Huber Sr family arrives Fayette
1779 18 Apr John Jr and Elizabeth married
1780 8 Sep Andrew Huber Jr and John Hoontsaker Jr assign Menallen land to Henry
Hoover
1784 Andrew Huber Sr died
1785 Rhoads family left Western Pennsylvania
1784 4 Jun John Jr bought 200 acres from Paine Bk A , p 20
1785 Tax Record John , John Jr , Nicholas , Springhill Nicholas on tax rolls for
Sawmill Springhill
1786 Tax Record John , John Jr , Nicholas , Springhill Nicholas on tax rolls for
Sawmill Springhill
1786 8 Mar Warrant to John Wells 60 acres adjacent Hoontzacker , Georges Township
1786 Tax list , John , John Jr , Nicholas Springhill
1788 22 Apr Stray horse found by Jacob Hoontzacker , Fayette , Deeds Book A, p 231
1788 Barbara Hunsaker died
1789 1 Oct Walls to Jacob H 60 acres Georges Twp adjoining John Huntzackar , Fayette
Deeds Book C p 1050, GSF863 , 550
1790 24 Feb John Jr . to John Sr . , 200 acres Springhill , Fayette Deeds Book A p 315, Item
# 373
1790 First US Census, John Sr., John Jr. , Abraham Springhill Nicholas, Jacob Sr ,
Georges Twp
1791 John Sr . and Jacob Jr . working in Georges Township
1792 Jun John Jr , Elizabeth & Nicholas killed by Indians
1795 ? Andrew Hunsaker to Kentucky
1796 9 Aug Magdalena Bieri died
1796 2 Sep John Sr . sold 200 acres Springhill to Peter Walty, Fayette Deeds Book 0, p 784,
Item # 561
1796? John Sr . leave for Kentucky
1797 2 Aug Jacob H to Richard Brown , 60 acres bought from Wells in
1789 8 Aug Recording of 1789 deed , Walls to Jacob
1800 Wolfes leave Fayette
1800 Census, Nicholas and Jacob (? ) only Hunsakers listed

THE FAMILY IN FAYETTE COUNTY 1784- 1797

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John b Pal 1728 1750 Magdalena Bieri 1732-1796

John Jr. b 1752 Pa d 1792 W Va 1778 Elizabeth Huber 1752-1792

Isaac b 1779 W Va

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Jacob b 1784 W Va [family moved to Ohio, see separate sheet ]
Son
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Nicholas b 1790 d 1792 W Va

Nicholas b 1757 d 1843 1790 Catherine Sneider 1768-1851 Henry b 1791

Jacob b 1792
Magdalene 1794
John b 1796
[ Nicholas family remained Fayette when rest of family went to Kentucky . See separate sheet for full
listing of family ]

Jacob Sr b 1759 1779 Kathrine Huffman 1761

Henry b 1779-1779 Pa
Anna b 1780 Pa
John b 1781 Pa
Jacob Jr . b 1781 Pa
Barbara b 1784 d 1788 Ps
George b 1786 Pa
Catherine b 1792 Pa
Mary b 1795 Pa

Joseph b 1761 Pa 1787 Margeret Stevenson 1767

Mary “ Polly ” b 1788 d 1790 Pa
George b 1790 Pa
Elizabeth 1793 Pa [Family may have left Fayette 1793, because] David b 1795 Christian Co. , Ky ?
Nancy b 1797 Ky?

Abram b 1764 Pa 1784 Mary Jane Sneider 1766

Elizabeth b 1785 Pa
Catherine b 1790 Pa
John 1793 Pa
Samuel b 1795 Pa

George b 1766 Pa 1786 Susanns Moesure

Catherine b 1768 - died young

Magdalena b 1770 Md 1792 Valentine Leslie

John b 1794 Pa

Andrew b 1772 Md 1793 Mary Rhoads 1795

Samuel b 1777 Pa

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 JACOB HUNSAKER

In History of Allen County , Ohio , Chicago; Warner , Beers and Co., 1885 , p 639,
640 , we find the following regarding Jacob and his family:

Jacob Hunsaker , was born where Pittsburgh , Penn . , now is about the year
1783 , and was a descendant of the early Swiss settlers of the State . At the age
of eight years he was captured by the Indians , his parents being murdered at
i
the time and scalped , and the scalps sold . After his capture he was taken through
the wilderness of the eastern part of the State of Ohio , and finally over to Canada ,
near the Falls of Niagara , and there resided with an Indian chief named Walker ,
who kept a trading post at the time . At the death of the chief he was exchanged
as a prisoner , having been with the Indians nine years, returning to Pennsylvania .
In the year 1804 , he was married to Elizabeth Huffman , a native of Lancaster
County , Penn . ( Her father was a soldier in Gen. Wayne’ s expedition against
the Indians, through the western part of the now State of Ohio , and settled ten
miles east of Lancaster , in Rush Creek Township , and resided there to the time
of their death , which occurred in 1853 and 1854 respectively . By the occupation
he was a farmer and auctioneer . There were born to them three sons and three
daughters . George Hunsaker , their eldest son , was born May 12, 1809; Mary
Stemen , his wife , was born August 20 , 1800. Her parents came from Greene
County , Penn , to Fairfield County , Ohio , in the year 1803 . In October , 1841 ,
they settled in Allen County , Ohio , and there died , the mother August 23 , 1844 ,
and the father in October , 1855. George Hunsaker and Mary Stemen were mar -
ried June 16, 1831 , and settled in Fairfield County , Ohio, and Samuel Hunsaker ,
their eldest son , was born May 20, 1832. In the year 1834 they moved to Perry
County , Ohio , and there the rest of the family were born , four daughters and
one son , the son dying in infancy , April 25 , 1849. In the year 1852 they , with
their family of one son and four daughters, came to Allen County , Ohio , and
settled in the then forest , and now the farm where their son Samuel now resides ,
three miles east of Delphos , on October 20 , 1852, and there continued to reside
till the death of George Hunsaker , who died January 8, 1877 ; his widow , Mary ,
died June 12 , 1883; they are intered in the Mennonite cemetery in Sugar Creek
Township , this county . They were members of the Missionary Baptist Church ,
their three daughters are residents of the county; the eldest daughter died in Iowa ,
in April 1881. Samuel Hunsaker was married December 13, 1866, to Petra Nella
Huyesman and settled in Monteray Township, Putnam County , Ohio. After their
marriage they settled on the farm where they now reside , known as the old Hun -
saker Farm . There were born to them the following children : Augusta , Born
November 11 , 1867; Nella W . , born January 10, 1860; George Henry , born
September 29, 1870; Louisa , born March 12, 1872; Mary , born January 31 , 1874;
Emma H . , born January 27 , 1876 ; Samuel , born May 2, 1878 (died September
1 , 1878); Aaron , born March 11 , 1880; Lydia E . , born September 11 , 1882.

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 FAMILY OF JACOB HUNSAKER

Jacob Hunsaker 1784 Fayette 1854 Ohio Mrd 1804 Elizabeth Huffman 1779-1855
John 1805-1805 Ohio
Caty 1806 Ohio 1881 Iowa 1837 Joshua Beery 1810-1895
Leah 22 May 1832 stepdaughter Abraham Stemen
David Poling 1845 ? orphan Welty
George 1809 Ohio 1877 1831 Mary Stemen 1806-1883
Samuel 1832 1866 Petra Nella Huyesman 1844
Augusta 1867
Nella W 1869
George Henry 1870
Louisa 1872
Mary 1874
Emma 1876
Samuel 1878
Aaron 1880
Lydia 1882
Daughter
Daughter
Son 1894-1894
Elizabeth 1834
Six children
— 1881 Samuel C Howell

Lydia 1835 Penrose Herring

Thirteen children
Anna 1837 Martin Brenneman
Mary 1841 James Carman
Henry 1847 — 1849
John 1811 Ohio —1883 Catherine Hufford
Margaret
Abraham
— 1835 Abraham S Beery
Rebecca
Caleb 1848 Ohio
Thomas
—
1933

Harold Frances
Isaac 1814
Son 1816—
Anna 1817
1816
Jacob Mowery
Elizabeth 1821

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 The family of Nicholas and Catherine Sneider Hunsaker remained in Fayette Coun -
ty , Pennsylvania when the majority of the family moved further westward to Kentucky.
From Fayette their children moved into West Virginia , Ohio , Indiana and Iowa . The family
membership , so far as we know it , is as follows:

Mrrd
f Nicholas 1757 d 1843 Pa 1776 Catherine Sneider 1768-1851
7 Henry 1791 1815 Rebecca Barnett 1794
David B 1816-1841
Katherine 1818-1855
Anne 1820-1821
3 John 1822-1896 Magdaline Johnson
Elizabeth 1822-1874
Anne Barnett 1827
Henry S 1829
Harriet Ann 1836

> Jacob 1792-1864 Mary Troutman 1794-1832

3 Uriah 1813 Pa
-> Sarah Ann 1815-1890 1838 Isaac M Waters
Joseph R 1839 Ohio
Mary E 1841 Ohio Peter Custer
Stephen C 1843 Ohio
H Granville H 1844 Ohio
Laura W 1847 Ohio Joseph Jackson
Olive J 1851 Ohio Charles Lewis
Calvin Bradfield
Martha 1853 Ohio Miles Cook
Emma 1856 Ohio Joe Harlan
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^George Troutman 1820 Pa 1903
Anna 1845 Ill
Emeline Coddington
j Abbie 1847 Ill Easterday
Walter J 1857 Iowa Alma Clark
Robert L 1859 Iowa

Magdalene 1794
^
f “ John 1796 Pa 1886 W Va
John Clemmer
1821? Jane Swearingen 1795-1865
^ George W 1822 Pa 1895 W Va
William E 1850 W Va 1905
1850 1-Sarah Loughery ( 1826- 1851

1859 2-Eliza D Fleming 1828-1914

Harry G 1861-1916 Amanda Criss
Frank L 1863-1935 Eve Winter
L'
Edward J 1866-1940 Alice Jolliff
Gertrude R 1869- Samuel Manley
Thomas A 1872-1934 Elizabeth Vander Voort
1 Sarah Ann 1824 Pa
James 1846-1906 W Va
—
1895 Joseph Nuzum
Jane Huff
H Mary 1849- 1929 W Va John Sample
Anna 1852-1912 W Va J . Hamilton Barnes

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 FAMILY OF JOHN HUNSAKER AND JANE SWEARINGEN
i Catherine 1826 James F. Hough
William 1844 W Va
Mary 1846
ly Pitcher
'
Alice 1848 L . P . Carr
John 1850 Georgia Crane
4 John 1828-1900 1860 1-Isabel Wilson
Henry 1861 W Va Sarah Martin
Robert 1863-1929 Mary R Linn
Thomas 1865-1937
Benjamin 1867-1886
Nancy 1869-1873
1875 2-Tyletha E J Sipe 1840-1906
Albert H 1876 Bessie Rankin
4 iGeorge R 1878 Addie Clayton
Bessie M 1881
‘V Martha 1829-1854 Richard Watson 1830- 1908
* Kate 1853 W Va 1925
Isaac 1831-1911 1866 Mary Ann Fleming 1845-1917
Tsaac F 1867 Rose B Welch
John S 1869 -1938 Forda Kirschman
Elizabeth M 1871- 1939
U Jane B 1873- 1898 Rolfe Hite
Charles K 1874 Mary Jane Lamb
James F 1876 Davinnia M Brown
j William F 1877 Avarilla S Brown
l Neil C 1880-1923 Myrtle Lewis
Madge B 1888-1932
'
Mary 1833- 1911
Arlington Palmer

^^
. Elizabeth 1837-1896 W Va
Martha 1873
1872 Granville Shaver
Nathen Richards
Catherine 1875- 1927 Chester Frum
Howard 1877-1944 Blanch Dietrich
'Dane 1839- 1921
^ Joseph 1798-1866
Had nine children , names unknown
sf- Barbary 1801 -1889 Peter Johnson
Solomon 1803-1873
^ Mattie
Elizabeth Johnson 1815
Bowers
Catherine Poundstone
Barbara
Nicholas
David
Jacob
John
Josiah
Solomon
William
.Mary 1807
^ Baer

FLATBOATING THE OHIO

J . H . Moore , a highly respected author and editor for the Church of the Brethren ,
was a great admirer of Elder George Wolfe, husband of Anna Hunsaker , and made him
one of the principal characters of his book Some Brethren Pathfinders. He describes in
detail the lives of the people who were associated with the Dunkard group that moved
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County , Pennsylvania to Muhlenberg County , Kentucky in 1796-1800 and the manner
in which he imagines they made their way down the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers . As
our ancestors were members of this Dunkard group, I would like to include here a series
of excerpts from Moore’ s book as being the best description , and closest to our own
ancestors , of such a flatboat trip in that era of our country’ s history .

“ It was early in the spring of 1800, in Fayette County , Pa . , on the eastern

bank of the Monongahela River , that three men might have been seen hard at
work completing a large flat bottom boat . It was at a point about ten miles west
of Uniontown , the county seat , a town that was laid out in 1776 but not incor -
porated until 1796. In the southeastern part of the county is the district known
as Great Meadows, where George Washington constructed Fort Necessity in 1754,
and where General Braddock was buried after the defeat of his army by the French
and Indians in the war of 1755 , In fact , it was on historic ground where our
three earnest men were employing their time on their well designed boat .
“ By occupation they were farmers and boat builders, working with their
crops in the growing season and building boats when not needed by their farm
work . They had been in the county thirteen years , having crossed the great
Allegheny Mountains in 1787 , coming from the southeastern part of the state.
The country was then new and covered with forests in their virgin state . Here
and there were small settlements , with now and then an isolated village . The
Revolutionary War had closed only a few years before , and all of the country ,
much of it in its wild state , extending from the Great Lakes on the north to near
the Gulf on the south , and west from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River , was
what then constituted the United States of America .
“ While Eld . Wolfe and his two sons were completing their boat , the building
of boats was beginning to assume considerable importance in the little but growing
town of Pittsburgh . The place had been incorporated as a borough in 1794 and
was destined to become a leading commercial center for goods to be transported
in great Conestoga wagons from Philadelphia and even Hagerstown , Md ., and
— —
then to be sent by boat that is flat bottom boats down the Ohio River and
on to New Orleans.
“ But as work on the flatboat progressed the situation the country over grew
daily the more interesting . Washington , the “ Father of his Country ” had died
the year before. John Adams had succeeded him as President ...The Indians were
still making trouble farther west , in parts of Ohio , Indiana and at other
points... Past this section where the Wolfe family lived there was a steady flow
of emigrants , coming from the east and passing overland seeking homes in the
unsettled west , especially in Ohio . Most of them loaded their families , a few
household goods and some provisions into covered wagons drawn by oxen .
There was another class that made their way down the Ohio River , aiming
to settle in Kentucky or southeastern Missouri .
For this class the Wolfe and Sons firm had been making boats.
“ To the Wolfe family things were getting interesting and even exciting. Fami-
ly after family of members , some of them preachers, had gone down the river
and scores in covered wagons were passing day after day. Everyone passing had
some news to tell , while letters from those who had already selected homes had
much to say about the new and untamed country they had entered .

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 “ The two young men made a splendid team for handling a boat . For years
they had been schooled in making and managing boats on the river . We do not
know the size of the Wolfe boat . It was probably twelve feet wide , may have
been three feet wider , and near forty or fifty feet long , on the side of which
one of the young men may have inscribed THE WOLF. A part of it , as was
the custom for such boats , was enclosed and covered so as to protect the family
from rain . On it were stored a wagon , some horses , a few cattle, some chickens,
household goods , farming utensils and provisions for months , There were rests
for long sweeps (oars) with which to propel the boat as needed , and a large steering
paddle in the rear . Besides there were long steering poles to be used where the
water was not deep .
“ To step aboard and carefully examine an emigrant boat of this type, just
when it had been loaded and everything made ready for the long trip through
wilderness stretches , must have been a matter of interest. It was , so to speak ,
a floating house that was to be the home of the family for weeks . But by and
by all things were ready . ., The day and the hour had been set for leaving the
state and the community to which those occupying the boat were never more
to return .. . There was a brief but pathetic season of prayer , the last song sung ,
‘be with us till we meet again ’ ...Amid the tears , the farewell tokens, and the
waving of handkerchiefs, the boat was shoved from the shore , guided into the
swift current of the winding Monongahela River , and rounding the bend , with
its precious cargo , disappeared forever .
“ At the start the course was north , then west , past the present city of Pitts-
burgh , and then north and west until the Ohio River was reached . The speed
of the boat was regulated largely by the swiftness of the stream. There were other
boats on the river , many going and some returning .
“ We are not advised of the number of persons occupying the boat . It may
have been of sufficient size to accommodate another family or two, at least there
were in all likelihood other men besides the elder and his two sons. These would
have been a help in handling the boat in the spring when the waters were high
and the current swift . Day after day the boat wended its way southward and
westward as flowed the great Ohio River between Ohio and what is now known
as West Virginia . There were no cities to grace the banks on either side . Here
and there , miles apart , a small village , just a few houses , might be seen .
One great almost unbroken forest lines the stream for hundreds of miles.
Here and there mountain slopes on the Virginia side came into view , and on
the other side were vast stretches of unoccupied , untamed and fertile lands. The
scenery , with everything in its virgin state , must have been beyond description
— a trip never to be forgotten.
“ Daily life on the boats as the weeks slipped away was not without its charm
and interest . It was anything but monotonous .
“ With the ever -changing scenery the lover of the beautiful and fascinating
might have wished that the voyage could go on forever . In the passing woodlands
were plenty of deer , wild turkey and other game. An hour on shore with the
unerring aim of the rifle of either Jacob or George might easily have meant enough
venison or wild turkey for the better part of the week or longer . With a bit of
fishing tackle an ample supply of the best of fish at any time was an easy and
sometimes an exciting propostion . At one end of the boat , probably the stern ,

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was a low log pen , say five feet square , filled with earth to the depth of eighteen
inches , and lined with stone around the edges.
“ Over a blazing fire on this temporary hearth , the mother hung her cook -
ing pots, and here she , assisted by her daughter or daughters , prepared the daily
meals and baked the corn pones to satisfy the craving appetites of the active
crew that manned the floating vessel that was her home , her kitchen , her dining
room , parlor and sleeping apartments all combined . Or , she may , on leaving
her Pennsylvania home, have insisted on taking on board her nice cooking stove ,
and with that properly installed , she could have done her cooking with more
ease and comfort .
“ The mother , like most of the elderly women of her generation , loved the
knitting needle , and while enjoying the constantly changing scenery , seated in
her rocking chair , passed many an afternoon hour with her knitting. She did
the knitting for the different members of the family as well as for the help.
“ There was the wash day and drying the clothes on a line reaching part of
the way across the deck , but no ironing , we imagine.
“ At night the boat must be anchored at some point in still water , possibly
tied to an overhanging tree by means of a strong rope . Supper would be eaten ,
all lights extinguished , the low humming of a German hymn , the evening prayer ,
and then quiet and sleep for the night .
“ Such trips, however fascinating , were not without their dangers. Here and
there were roving bands of Indians , some wild animals , the panther , the bear
and wildcat . . , By and by , as one day succeeded another , and a week or more
had passed , all those on board realized that they were passing between Kentucky
and Ohio , the former their proposed destination . . .Of all the vast west gradually
opening up for settlement , no section had been more widely and more favorably
advertised than Kentucky. Eight years after Boone and his brave comrades entered
the territory , 1777 , the entire white population only slightly exceeded 500, and
these were found mainly in the eastern part of the state .
“ So far navigation had been attended with little danger , but on reaching
the point opposite where Louisville now stands the whole family realized that
they faced a serious proposition , one dreaded by all those doing business on the
river . Here the river has a drop of twenty-six feet in two miles, a wonderfully
swift current for large flat boats. For the Wolfe boat it meant every man at his
post with poles , sweeps and steering paddle to keep the floating craft rightly
headed in the rushing current .
“ To safely steer a well loaded boat through these rapids for two miles was
no child ’ s play. It required nerve , skill and strength , but the father as well as
the young men was brave , almost daring , and performed the feat with perfect
safety to the great relief of a nervous mother .
“ Another hundred miles and they were where Green River enters the Ohio
from the Kentucky side. Now began the real tug of war , for with sweeps, poles
and even ropes handled from the shore the boat must be worked up the stream .
This called for strength , patience and physical endurance. The destination of
the family. ..in the southern part of the state meant a river trip of at least sixty
miles. Just why Elder Wolfe selected this part of the state ... must remain a mat-
ter of conjecture. He must have known something about the members who had
located here five or so years before he did . Some of them were from Pennsylvania,

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but most of them had emigrated from Virginia and North Carolina. The former ,
of course , made the trip on the Ohio River , while the latter made their way into
the state over what was then known as the Mission Road , that is, through the
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 Chart of Family Travels in
Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia

Niagara Falls
Isaac & Jacob held p r i s o n e r s
^ by Indians from 1792 to about
1800
Ursula & Benjamin Iandis
Benjamin
Henry
Ja cob
John
John S r & Magdalena
John J r
Nicholas
Ja cob
VO Joseph
-u Abram
George
For't Pitt
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—- Andrew to Ky 1795
Magdalena died 1796
Main family T J KY 1796
Catherine
Magdalena
Andreu »
Samuel
Nicholas stayed Fayette I
te PENNSYLVANIA
Jacob to Ohio
K ^
Jsaac toKy 1805 John J r to Fayette 1769 Franklin York
V Main family " 1784
MARY LAND
West Va
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John J r Elizabeth
Nicholas , k i l l e d by
Indians .
Isaac and
Washington < — Frederick

- Jacob taken prisoner

Main family to Kentucky 1796 7 - ^
f - -
John Sr ; Jacob Kathrine Huffman ; Abram Mary Jane Sneider ; -
- -
George Susanna Moesure ; Magdalena Valentine Leslie ; Andrew Mary Rhoades ; -
Rhoades ; Samuel
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Joseph Margaret Stevenson to Kentucky in 1793?

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VIII MUHLENBERG COUNTY KENTUCKY

During the travel from Fayette County to Muhlenberg County , there are a few occa-
sions where names of Hunsakers , in various spellings , show up in the records which we
can not identify . It is possible that these names belong to some of the Hunsingers of Rowan
County , North Carolina , who were also making the trek to Muhlenberg at this same time ,
although we think we have them fairly well identified . In 1797 maybe Hunsaker farmers
found their work easier by availing themselves of that brand new cast iron plow just
patented this year . The country was plowing new ground with a new president , John
Adams , just inaugurated . Joseph and Margaret Stevenson Hunsaker apparently were the
first to go to Kentucky . The only definite knowledge we have is that Joseph was listed
on tax rolls in Mason County , Kentucky in 1793 , and their son David was born in Chris-
tian County , just south of Muhlenberg County , in 1795 . Joseph and Margaret had a
daughter Elizabeth who was born in either February or June 1793 ( both months are listed
in records) . She may have been born in Fayette in February before Joseph and Margaret
started their journey , or perhaps they interrupted their trip to go ashore in Mason Coun -
ty , which lies on the Ohio River , for the birth of Elizabeth in June . Joseph and Margaret
obviously proceeded westward however as their next child , David , was born in 1795 in
Christian County , where all the rest of their children were born . Andrew and Mary Rhoades
Hunsaker and son John left Fayette for Kentucky in 1795 . We know only that they arriv-
ed there because their son Joseph was born in 1796 in what was then Logan and is now
Christian County.
In Fayette County we had an unidentifiable Jacob . A Jacob Hunsaker appears in
court records in Mason County in August 1796 and on 3 July 1797. We can ’ t identify
ff
him any better in Kentucky than we could in Pennsylvania . The Hunsakers settled on :

the Green River . Jacob Sr . eventually acquired a tavern , a shop and a ferry at Skilesville ,
at the junction of the Muddy with the Green . The rest of the family settled a bit north
/ •«
at Paradise .
In Muhlenberg the Hunsakers remained associated with the Kimmel , Rhoades, Wolfe ,
Danner and Bower families who were friends and co-religionists from early Pennsylvania
days . In Muhlenberg they became associated with the Luce , Stump , Studebaker , Shutts
and other Dunker families . There were two families of Hunsakers in Muhlenberg . The
family of our John , who now began spelling the name “ Hunsaker ” and a family from
North Carolina who spelled their name “ Hunsinger ” . Perhaps these spellings were
deliberately chosen and standardized at this time to differentiate the two families. We
know a Johannes Huntzinger arrived from Germany in Philadelphia in 1738 and went
to North Carolina . Dunkard history states a family of Hunsingers from Rowan County
were among the early settlers in Muhlenbeg County . Also , according to Steven V. Den -
nehy (a descendant of Benjamin Hunsaker and Sarah “ Sally ” Hunsinger who married
in Muhlenberg in 1821 ) his ancestor Mathias Hunsinger arrived in Philadelphia in 1780
from Germany , went to Rowan County and then migrated to Muhlenberg in about 1797-8.
Eller , on page 91 of his manuscript , states these Hunsingers were also Dunkards .
Rowan County was also the destination of Mary Hunsaker and Casper Rowland and
Eva Cocghenhower and John Welty when they left Pennsylvania about 1768. Casper
Rowland and John Welty are documented landowners in Rowan County . Ursula Hun -
saker and Benjamin Landis could have gone too as a Landis family is mentioned in Rowan
County records , and there is no mention of Benjamin Landis in Pennsylvania for the time

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period 1768 to 1797. Ursula and Benjamin must have moved to Muhlenberg because later
in Union County there is documentation of a Benjamin Landis , possibly a grandson , in
connection with the Hunsaker family there. Apparently Eva Cogenhouer and John Wel-
ty stayed in Rowan County .
David Eller , in his role of historian for the Dunkard Church , believes that Casper
( he spells it Gasper ) Rowland may well be a great Dunkard leader and pioneer who has
not been recognized as such by the Dunkards. In the various Dunkard publications his
name pops up every so often in different places. When one sorts them out into chronological
and geographic order it shows that he was creating a Dunkard Church in the South of
the newlyborn United States and carrying it overland westward to spread into the
wildernesses of Kentucky and perhaps Missouri . At the same time Elder George Wolfe,
Sr . and his group were doing much the same thing further north in Pennsylvania , Virginia ,
Ohio , Kentucky and later his son George in Illinois.
When we think of the wonderful methods of communication we have today , despite
which we sometimes have family estrangements and long absences, it is indeed remarkable
to realize that way back in the 1700’ s our ancestors , with no means of reliable and regular
communications , were able to maintain contact . And , even more remarkable , after many
years and hundreds of miles of separation , could find each other at a remote point in
the then uncharted wilderness. Squire Boone , a brother of Daniel , was also in the
Muhlenberg settlement . Daniel Boone , originally from Pennsylvania , settled in Rowan
County and from there began his explorations to discover the Cumberland Gap and blaze
the Wilderness Trail into Kentucky .
In 1976 my wife and I found almost no original Hunsaker documents in Muhlenberg .
At the courthouse in Greenville we found nothing . At the Logan Courthouse in Russelville
(Muhlenberg was formed from Logan in 1798) we found references to land transactions
but could find none of the original documents. We were told by county officials that the
original land records had been destroyed by fire during an indian raid . Luckily , we were
able to find information in secondary books and registers ( which appeared to be indices
to original records) , that had not been destroyed . This secondary information along with
Federal census information and tax records form the basis of the knowledge of most Hun -
saker land transactions acquired in Kentucky in 1976. Courthouse personnel in Green-
ville and Russelville were notably lacking in “ southern - hospitality ” . They were not in -
clined to search their records for us. In Greenville we could not get permission to examine
the records ourselves and in Russelville permission was given reluctantly. I talked by
telephone to the retired Logan County Clerk , Mrs. Boraden , who told me land was given
to early settlers by Military Warrants, not only as a reward for military service but also
as an inducement for people to settle on unbroken land in what was then hostile Indian
country.
Other researchers give us intimations the early Dunkard settlers were victimized by
dishonest officials who helped more prominent people assert “ prior ” rights to land settl -
ed by the Dunkards . Eller , on pgs 89 and 90 , says, “ The Wolfes apparently had a tenuous
claim to their headright land in the Green River country . Within a few years they moved
to Illinois . Family tradition indicates that their Kentucky land was lost in the days of in -
stalments , which could mean they failed to pay necessary fees . Another possibility is that
an individual with a superior ( military ) warrant , assignment of such a warrant , or other
previous claim may have taken their land . It is clear that the Wolfe family did not sell
out and that their lands were entered upon by other settlers. ” It is quickly noticeable and
most sadly apparent in the rather long listing of land claims made by Hunsakers as reflected

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in the tax rolls that most of the Hunsaker , and other Dunkards, land was “ third rate
land ” . Apparently the tax collector made some attempt to be honest about the value of
the land . Obviously , our ancestors did not get red carpet treatment in Muhlenberg Coun -
ty. It was also unavoidably noticeable in the records that one man , who held several im -
portant county positions during the time our ancestors were there, acquired hundreds of
parcels of land at very low prices which he later sold at very high prices. It appeared to
me that this official acquired most of his land at tax time when the owners were not able
to come up with the hard cash for their taxes . In 1978 this man still had a reputation
as a highly respected pioneer who had become very prominent and very wealthy by dint
of much hard work . This was good farmland in an area with a reasonably pleasant climate
and everyone seemed to be getting along fine with each other . There were no religious
dissensions or problems as those who were not Dunkards were Baptists. After only a short
time however , our ancestors sent out scouts looking for other land . There must have been
a reason.
Dunkard history intimates military land warrants may have been secured in Louisville.
This seems unlikely as Dunkards are pacifists and opposed to military service of any kind .
Also , it appears warrants were issued only to very prominent people , particularly high-
ranking officers , who then allowed less important persons to occupy portions of the war -
ranted land on a share crop basis, with a promise of future ownership. Human nature
being what it is , I doubt many share-croppers ever received the land promised them . Few
written records of these warrants still exist . Mrs. Boraden said settlers selected land in
areas designated for settlement by the military , built a cabin , cleared some land , and then
with a metes and bounds description requested a “ Resurvey ” . Apparently an original survey
had never been made , and the “ resurvey ” was never done, but this procedure helped
establish some sort of claim to the land . Mrs . Boraden told me that because of the destruc-
tion of early records I should consult “ Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds” or “ Land Grants”
by Willard Rouse Jillson , which did contain some information . I found no Hunsaker names
in “ Military Warrants , 1782-1793, ” “ Land Entries 1784-1797 ” nor “ Court of Appeals ,
Deeds , 1769-1850 ” .

JILLSON KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS

Page Name Amt Bk Page Surveyed County Location

337 Honsawker , Andrew 200 1 223 9/19/ 1796 Logan Anderson Creek
340 Hunsaker , Isaac 200 19 359 11 /21/ 1799 Muhlenburg Pond Creek Muhlenburg
340 Hunsaker , George 200 19 362 11/ 14/ 1798 Logan -
340 Hunsaker , Joseph 300 13 143 4/2/1803 Mulenberg Long Creek Christian
600 Hunsaker , Benjamin 150 L 108 3/27/ 1802 Muhlenberg Green River
600 Hunsaker , Samuel 50 E2 429 12/ 18/ 1834 Muhlenberg Green River
600 Hunsaker , Samuel 70 F2 3 12/18/ 1821 Muhlenberg Anderson Run

1822-1858

832 Hunsaker , Samuel 160 1 430 NE 1 / 4 S4 T5 R 1W

832 Hunsucker , Samuel 160 2 207 NW 1 / 4 S4 T6 R 1W
832 Hunsaker , Samuel 160 5 152 SW 1 / 4 S33 T6 R 1 W
832 Hunsaker , Andrew 160 6 132 SE 1/4 S30 T6 R 1 W

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 In 1978 Bob and I were fortunate to make the acquaintance of Mr . Gayle Carver ,
a member of the Board of Directors of Harbin Memorial Library at Greenville, Mr . Carver
is an avid historian and over the years has come to know the contents and locations of
records in the courthouse . Mr . Carver was most courteous and helpful in enabling us to
find records stored in a basement vault at the courthouse which we previously had been
unable to enter. However , even with this expert help, it was possible to find only a few
original documents although we found many secondary documents , reference and index
materials.
I was especially anxious to find documents by which our ancestors disposed of their
Muhlenberg land . In particular did I search for the deed of Jacob Sr ’ s land to William
Luce through Jacob Jr . I am convinced this document no longer exists. Deed Book II ,
which covered that time period , is missing from the archives. This strengthens Mrs.
Boraden’ s explanation that records were destroyed . The lack of sale documents strengthens
the conclusion the Dunkards were unfairly deprived of their land by other prominent people
or county officials .
Through the combined results of two separate trips each to Muhlenberg and Logan
Counties by Bob and I , plus a joint third trip , the record of the Hunsakers in Kentucky
is now reasonably complete. The information which follows must necessarily be presented
in somewhat disorganized fashion based on secondary documentation as the courthouse
records here are not truly in well organized form .
Although the operation of a tavern by Jacob Sr ., seems out of pattern for a Dunkard ,
this fact is substantiated by documentation in the first written record of this area . We
should presume this “ tavern ” primarily offered food and lodging to weary travellers and
only secondarily offered spirituous liquors, if at all . Skilesville as a town has disappeared .
There is a bridge across the Muddy , a water control gate , and little else . The Green makes
a hairpin turn here and almost reverses its course from southeastward to northeast.
Muhlenberg County is today the largest strip coal mining area in the US. In 1796
it was a heavily forested land of rolling hills and small valleys lying between large rivers
flowing northward to empty into the Ohio . In 1978 when I was inquiring of local folk
the location of the town of Paradise, one of them said , “ See that big mountain of loose
dirt yonder ? That ’ s Paradise ” . It has all been turned upside down by the coal shovels.
Although still shown on current maps, the Town of Paradise no longer exists.
The county was named by Henry Rhoades in honor of his commanding officer in
the Revolutionary War . Peter Muhlenberg. The Rhoades (Rhodes , Rhoads) family became
prominent here , were leaders of the Dunkards and first settled just east of Browder .
The first cabin in the area was built by Henry Rhoades Jr ., in 1785 . It burned and
a second cabin was built in 1790. This cabin , which served as the Dunkard Meeting House ,
had two large rooms on the first floor and five rooms on the second floor . A wall in the
center of the cabin on the first floor was hinged at the ceiling so it could be raised out
of the way to form one very large room when meetings were held . In later years the ex-
terior was covered by clapboard . The cabin is still in daily use as a residence. In the 1940’ s
Louise Rhoades built nearby a near duplicate of the 1790 cabin . This cabin , which also
is in use today , now presents a better example of what the original and 1790 cabins look -
ed like than the 1790 cabin does.
In 1978 Bob and I had a difficult time finding the Paradise Cemetery . Because the
town of Paradise had once existed , and we knew cemeteries had to be left during the strip
mining process , we knew the cemetery had to exist somewhere in this area of upheaval .
We searched westward from the Green River in every area through which we could make

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our way . We found the old Oakland Church Cemetery close by but it contained no Hun -
saker markers. After spending most of one day fruitlessly looking we finally gave up in
despair and headed for our abode of the night . As we were driving southward along a
mine road we encountered a young local couple entering a wooded area . ( I don’ t think
they were looking for cemeteries.) They informed us there was a cemetery ‘just back aways
down the road ’ . We retraced our steps and this time , driving very slowly , we espied a
small cleared plot with two headstones visible alongside the highway , excuse me, slightly
graded dirt road , that we had missed seeing before.
Entering the cleared area we found that it was just the ‘front porch ’ of a fairly large
cemetery in the thick grove of trees behind it . We knew from some bit of family lore that
‘a birch tree had grown over the grave of Isaac Hunsaker ,’ one of the two boys kidnap-
ped hy the Indians in West Virginia . After searching out the birch trees , and clearing away
the leaves around their bases , sure enough we did find the tombstone of Isaac, deeply
embedded in the trunk of a tree , but as the photographs indicate, still legible. Incidental-
ly , Isaac had been accidentally killed at the age of 40 when a tree fell on him . We believe
there are other Hunsaker graves in this large cemetery, but the area was so badly overgrown
with weeds, trees and bushes we simply could not find them . It would be a noteworthy
project if someone in the area could spark a campaign to clean and refurbish this cemetery .

OLD MIDWAY BAPTIST CEMETERY

Bob and I knew there were other ancestral cemeteries in this general area. At Rochester
the kindly storekeeper of a quaint old general store steered us on to Road 369 where we
found many cemeteries, but none with occupants interesting to us . We did find , sitting
in a rocker on the porch of his house an old man and his wife , who knew a woman in
Morgantown , who was a Mormon , who was a descendant of some Hunsakers. With the
aid of the old couples’ small grandson we took a most circuitous ride of many unne-
cessary miles through the woods to Morgantown . The young fellow didn’ t get much chance
to ride in cars and took advantage of this opportunity to stretch the ride as long as possible.
At Morgantown , which was really quite close had we followed our own instinct and
the map , we met Lila Hammer Morgan who did prove to be a Mormon and a distant
Hunsaker kin . She then gave us detailed instructions how to find the cemetery where we
believed the Luces ( parents of Polly Luce , Abraham ’ s mother ) , [The cemetery is on the
main road , No . 70 , from Morgantown to Rochester . ] were buried . Again , although we
knew exactly where to look this time , we drove by the cemetery several times because
it was sufficiently off the road and at such an angle through a clearing in the trees that
it could only be seen from one spot on the road as one drives westward , and not at all
going eastward . This turned out to be a well kept cemetery , planted to grass , no poison
ivy , and not even used as a pasture by the local cows . This cemetery , in various writings ,
has been placed in various places. It is , as the map indicates , in Butler County , slightly
over a mile east of Rochester and .65 of a mile west of the Junction of Highway 70 with
Highway 106.

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TAX LISTS — MUHLENBERG COUNTY

1799
Hunsinger , Mathis 200 acres (3 rd rate land ) Muddy River
August 6, 1800
Honsacker , Jacob 200 acres ( 3rd rate land ) No location given
Honsacker , Andrew 200 acres (3rd rate land ) No location given
Honsacker , Joseph No further information provided
Honsacker , George No further information provided
Honsacker , Abram No further information provided
Honsacker , Samuel No further information provided
Roth { Roades}
Alexander No further information provided
Henry No further information provided
Luce Abner No further information provided
William No further information provided
Miller George No further information provided
Newman Thomas No further information provided
Revolutionary War Soldier , father of Nancy Ann Newman the wife of William Luce , who
were the parents of Polly Luce who became the wife of Jacob Hunsaker Jr .]

April 20, 1801

Hunsaker , Jacob 200 acres (3rd rate land ; Mud River

April 22, 1802

Hunsaker , Jacob 400 acres (3rd rate land ) Mud River
Hunsaker , George 200 acres (3rd rate land ) Green River

The 1800 census indicated the United States population center was near Baltimore .
Hunsakers were off to the west of center , in Kentucky for example —
adding their repr -
ductive mite to the 5.3 million total. John Hunsaker was to die in 1815 , and the year saw
the birth of an American legend as Andrew Jackson gained national fame as the victor
of the lop-sided Battle of New Orleans . Peace didn’ t bring Canada into the Union , but
it did bring a sense of American pride at having stood up to the British bullying .

KENTUCKY CENSUS FIGURES

1800 MUHLENBERG

Andrew Honsacker Abram Hunsacker

Jacob Honsacker Mathew Hunsinger George Hunsacker
Mathew Honsacker Joseph Hunsacker
Samuel Hunsacker
Samuel Hunsacker
(All listed as Heads of Families .)

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Isaac Hunsaker Grave

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 1810 MUHLENBERG

Name Males Females

1-16 16-25 26-45 1-16 16- 25 26-45

HUNSACKER
Abraham 4 2 1 1 1 1
[ Nicholas -4 John 17 Abraham 47 Nancy 7 Elizabeth 25 Mary 47]
[ Abner 9 ? Catherine 20?
[Samuel 15
Andrew 4 1 1 1 1
[John 16 John 16 Andrew 38 Elizabeth 7 Mary 35]
Joseph 14 Polly 6
Samuel 13
Jacob 8
Enoch 3
Isaac 2 1
Isaac 40
Samuel 2 1 3 1
[ John 7 Samuel Margaret 1 Hannah 24]
Andrew 4 Rachel 6
[ Hyrum 3 9

HUNSINGER
Adam [1 Adam
George [1 George
Jacob 3 [ 1 Jacob
9 Elizabeth
Shull

1810 CHRISTIAN COUNTY

HUNTSUCKER
Joseph 1

Names and figures in brackets [ ] represent my best effort to provide identifica-

tion of person and that person’s age.

MARRIAGES

The following marriages were found in “ Marriages , Muhlenberg County , Kentucky

Records , 1799-1901 , Book 2, ” at the pages shown .

Page Hunsaker Name Spouse Date

1 Jacob Hunsinger Betsy Shull Apr 1805
Mary Hunsinger John Stewart Jan 1807
Caty Hunsinger Michael Hensley Dec 1806

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2 Samuel Hunsaker Hannah Rhoads Dec 1799

[should be 29 Apr 1802]
Elizabeth Hunsaker John Brown Oct 1803
3 Annie [Anna ] Hunsaker George Wolfe Mar 1803
Jacob Hunsaker Polly Luce 15 Feb 1808
4 George Hunsaker Elizabeth A Baughanon 1809
C [Catherine] Hunsaker D. Kimmel 20 Nov 1808
5 Susannah Hensinger Phillip Groves 6 Apr 1812
7 John Hunsaker Louanna Shaw 5 Aug 1813
10 Polly Hunsaker John Vaught 27 Sep 1818
12 John Hunsaker Mary V Shull 19 Oct 1819
[Magdalena]
13 Benjamin Hunsaker Sally Hunsinger 18 Nov 1821
Sally Hunsinger Benjamin Hunsaker
15 Jacob Hunsaker Barbara Eby 30 Mar 1823
Polly [Mary ] Hunsaker James Cockrum 27 Jul 1823
Elizabeth Hunsaker Joseph Wood 4 Sep 1823
17 Jacob Hunsaker Peggy Taylor 1824
Enoch Hunsaker Nancy Eaby [Eby] 15 Feb 1825
Elizabeth Hunsaker John Campfield 9 Oct 1824
21 Nancy Hunsaker Nicholas Kenley 6 Mar 1828

ELDER GEORGE WOLFE AND ANNA HUNSAKER

Moore , in his Brethren Pathfinders , pgs 39 , 40 and 41 , has an interesting account

of the marriage of Anna Hunsaker and George Wolfe, who was to become one of the
greatest leaders of the Church of the Brethren .

“ So far the junior George Wolfe , twenty years old when he entered Ken-
tucky with his parents , has not figured very prominently in this narrative . He
is soon to come to the front , and in several chapters play an active , far - reaching
and interesting part . In the rush of emigrants from the east into Kentucky , there
were many more unmarried men than single women , so that getting wives for
the men was a problem . It is said that when young George reached the age of
twenty three there was in his community but one single woman of matrimonial
age , and that her hand was most earnestly sought by two men , one a young lawyer ,
and the other George Wolfe . The woman was of typical Dunkard ancestry , and
so was George , both raised on farms , and this gave the farmer young man the
advantage in the contest for the young woman’ s affections. Well , George won
out , so on March 3 , 18&3 , George Wolfe and Anna Hunsaker became husband
and wife. This so exasperated the young lawyer that he threatened to give Wolfe
a thrashing and told him so. George tried to reason the case with him , saying
that Anna had made her choice, that the knot was now tied , and that there was
no use in having any trouble over it . Finding that the lawyer would not listen
to reason , George told him that if he thought a little spindling lawyer could whip
a strong man like himself , he could have the satisfaction of trying it . This settl-
ed the matter for all time. Young Wolfe was a man of peaceful methods , almost

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 to the extreme , but he was large enough , strong enough and brave enough to
take care of himself and his right should it become necessary to resort to the
physical .

REGISTER OF WILLS

Adam Hunsinger [From North Carolina , married Mary Vaught

Andrew Hunsaker
Anna Hunsaker [ Daughter of Samuel Thorpe Hunsaker ]
Betsy [Elizabeth ] Hunsaker [ wife of Jacob Hunsinger ]
Catherine Hunsaker
Christiana [Perthinia] Hunsaker [wife of Isaac]
Delila Hunsaker [ Daughter of Isaasc]
)>
Eleanor Hunsaker
Enos Hunsaker
George Hunsinger [From North Carolina , married Elizabeth Bohannon]
Isaac Hunsaker [ Husband of Christiana]
Jacob Hunsaker [Son of Issac]
John Hunsaker
Mathias Hunsinger [From North Carolina , married Mary Ann Gears 1782]
>J
Mathew Hunsinger
Nancy Hunsaker [ Daughter of Samuel Thorpe Hunsaker ]
Phoeby Hunsaker [ Daughter of Isaac ]
Polly Hunsaker
>>
Susanna Hunsaker
[My additions]

MUHLENBERG COUNTY , KENTUCKY

ORDER BOOK No 1 [ begun 7 May 1797]

Page 102 June 24 th 1800

The report of the jury summoned by the Sheriff to view and examine the place on
Mud River where Jacob Hunsaker is desirous of building a Water Grist mill was returned
and it appearing to the Court that the Sheriff had not in this Case summoned and Im -
paneled a proper Jury It is ordered that the said proceedings be quashed

Page 103 June 24th 1800

On the motion of Jacob Hunsaker who is desirous of building a Water grist mill on
Muddy river near where the said Jacob now lives and owning land on both sides thereof
It is ordered that the Sheriff summon and impanel a Jury of the Vicinage to meet upon
the premifes aforesaid on the fifth day of July next to view and examine the same agreeably
to Law and make report whereof to the next Court

Page 153 March 23 rd 1801

Item 45 George Hunsaker This day claimed a right to forty three aces of land on Pond
Creek agreeably to entry filed which is granted accordingly

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Page 187 July the 27th 1801

Item 146 Matthias Hunsinger this day Claimed a right to two hundred acres of land on
Cyprefs in addition to his former Claim agreeably to entry filed which is granted accordingly

Page 197 July the 27 th 1801

Item 188 Joseph Hunsaker this day claimed a right to four hundred acres of land on Long
Creek agreeably to entry filed which is granted accordingly

Page 199 July the 27th 1801

Item 200 Abraham Hunsaker this day claimed a right to four hundred acres of land on
Mud River agreeably to entry filed which is granted accordingly

No page No May the 24th 1802

Item 250 At a County Court held for Muhlenberg County at the Courthouse in Green -
ville on Monday the 24th day of May 1802

Present
William Bradford
Charles Lewis and Esquires
Elisha Wizzale ?

Item 305 Samuel Hunsaker this day Claimed a right to two hundred acres of Land on
the Waters of Bateast in addition to his former claim agreeably to entry filed which is
granted him accordingly

ORDER BOOK 1 Continued

Page 285 April the 18th , 1803

Item 388 Jacob Hunsaker this day claimed the right to two hundred acres of Land on
Clifty agreeably to entry filed which is granted accordingly.

Page ?? 5 No date
No Item No On the peitition of Jacob Hunsaker who is desirous of building a Water
Gristmill on Mud River he owning the land on both sides thereof Ordered that the Sheriff
summon and impanel a Jury agreeably by Law to meet on the place aforesaid near where
Hunsaker lives and examine the same & make report thereof as the Law directs .

Page 303 Oct 17 , 1803

Jacob Hunsaker granted the right to have a tavern at his ferry on Mud River

ORDER BOOK NO 2

Page 12 22 Oct 1804

Entry 569 Adam Hunsinger lays claim to 50 acres . Granted

Page 25 25 Feb 1805

Item 620 Adam Hunsinger lays claim to 100 acres on Pond Creek . Granted

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 Page 42 24 Nov 1805
Claim 667 Jacob Hunsaker this day claimed a right to two hundred acres of Land in addi-
tion to his former claim on Clifty agreeably to entry filed which is granted accordingly

Page 48 27 Jan 1806

On the motion of Mary Hunsinger who made Oath as the law directs certificate is granted
her for obtaining letters of Administration on the estate of Mathias Hunsinger deceased
upon her giving bond and Security as the law directs who thereupon together with William
Crofs & Lenore Rose her securities entered into & acknowledged their bond in the penal-
ty of six hundred dollars conditioned as the law directs

Page 54 24 Feb 1806

An Inventory & Appraisement of the estate of Mathias Hunsinger deceased was returned
into Court by the Administrators which being examined is ordered to be recorded .

Page 155 17 Oct 1808

Andrew Hunsaker Apellant
agt (on an appeal from a
Frederick Philips judgment rendered up by
William Campbell , Esquire

Appelle
Ordered that this suit be Continued until the next Court by and at the Costs of the plaintif

ORDER BOOK 2A

Page 200 4 May 1818

Andrew Hunsaker security for George Adams ferry at Littlepage

Page 302 1 Dec 1819

.
Isaac Hunsaker will recorded Christiana Hunsaker & John Vaught Executors

Page 309 7 Feb 1820

Isaac Hunsaker Estate inventory approved .

THE FAMILY IN MUHLENBERG

1797-1808 (and later for those who did not go to Union )

Hartman
1 John 1728- Mrd
> John Jr Desendants
Isaac 1779- 1819 Paradise Perthena Spiker 1779-1855
Elizabeth 1801 -1854 Ind 1823 Joseph Wood 1798-
Delila 1802- 1823 Muhl Not married
Jacob 1805- 1869 Pike Co Ky 1823 1- Barbara Eby -1830 Ind
3 children

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 1834 2-Nancy Shoulders
6 children
Ellen 1808 not married
Nancy 1811 Axley Rice
Pheba 1811-1852 Samuel Shoulders
Catherine 1813-1862
Susannah 1815-1858 Stephen Parry
Polly 1817-1821
Perthena 1820 Isaac Welty
Catherine John Welty
Jacob Sr . 1759 -1831 1779 Catherine Huffman 1761-1845 Kimmel
* Anna 1780-1841 Kimmons 1803 George, Wolf Kimmons
Mary 1804-1877 >-VIM *-1 55 '
Jacob Jr. 1807-1845 - ' To >'

% Joseph 1761 -1844 Adams 1781 Margaret Stevenson 1767-1852 Adams

George 1790-1875
Elizabeth 1793-1879
David 1795
Nancy 1797
Joseph Jr. 1799-1879
Daniel 1803-1897
Delila 1805
Isaac 1807
Abram 1763-18 41 Jsbro Mary Jane Snyder 1765-1843 Jsbro
^ Elizabeth 1785
Catherine 1790
John 1793
Samuel 1795
Abner 1801
Nancy 1803
Nicholas 1806-1860
HJeorge 1766-1845 Sull Co Mo Susanna Mosure
Family moved 1828 to Edgar Co , Ill then Sullivan Co , Mo
Benjamin 1795-1855 1821 Susan “ Sally ” Hunsinger
John 1797-1848 1819 Magdalena “ Mary ” Shull
Rebecca 1799
Mathew 1801-1877 1829 Elizabeth Trogdon
Susannah 1805-1881 1831 Solomon Trogdon
Thomas Jefferson 1808 1830 Carry Wood

£
— Andrew 1772-1843 Marion Co Mo
John B 1794
11 Children
1793 Mary Rhodes 1775-
1816 Anna Beggs 1799

Joseph 1796-1863 1819 Nancy Boyd

Malinda 1821
This family to Union 1823 then Warick Co Ind 1825
-
Samuel 1797 1871 1820 Elizabeth Loveless
Louisa 1824

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 Jacob R 1802-1864 1824 Peggy Taylor to 1110 1830
Elizabeth 1803- 1849 1824 Joseph Wood
This family to Missouri then to Adams Co Ill in 1846
Polly (Mary)1804- 1823 James Cockrum
Andrew 1805-1855 1830 Nancy Carruthers
Enoch 1807-1878 1825 Nancy Eaby
Allen 1828
Jeptha 1830
Francis 1834
This family to Union Co Ill then Warrick Co , Indiana
George 1836
Ann Eliza 1838
Nancy 1844
Nancy 1811-1876 1828 Nicholas Kimby
Bradford 1812-1870) Twins 1835 Laodicy Stice
Delila 1812 ) Twins 835 Elijah Johnston
Absalom 1816-1897 1841 Electa Sykes
Huldah 1821-1890 1839 George Cockrum
Samuel 1777-1864 Adams 1799 Hannah Rhoades 1786-1854 Adams
John 1803-1873 Fanny Limbaugh 1808
Rachel 1804-1833 Union George? Daugherty 1799- 1877
Andrew 1806
Hiram 1807-1867
Margaret 1809- 1849

Members of the family who came from Rowan County , North Carolina to Muhlenberg
Mary Hunsaker Casper Rowland
Jacob
Isaac
John
Verena John Roth ( Roades? )
Chrisley
Ursula Benjamin Landis
Benjamin
Henry
Jacob
John

Because Ursula and Benjamin drop from the Pennsylvania records after 1768 there
is reason to believe they also went to North Carolina . Then In 1805 and 1807 John and
Daniel Landis , who came to Muhlenberg via Virginia acquired 12 ,000 acres of land in
conjunction with a number of others, according to Eller’s MS p 93 The name Benjamin
Landis occurs in Union County records so one can presume Ursula and Benjamin were
in Muhlenberg county but we have no record .
Anna Hunsaker Louis Mohlar
Henry
Jacob

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 Eller , on p 99 of his MS has a Molar family in Rowan County , N . C. We do not
have an idea if they came to Muhlenberg .

THE HUNSINGER FAMILY

of
ROWAN COUNTY , NORTH CAROLINA
and
MUHLENBERG COUNTY , KENTUCKY

Mathias Hunsinger b ca 1757 Germany mrd 1782 Mary Ann Gears

B ca 1757 Germany
B Ca 1762 Maryland of German parents
D ? (Estate settled Nov 1805, Ky) D
(arrived Philadelphia 1780, In Rowan County, North Carolina 1782, In Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
abt 1797 /78)
Jacob 1783? Mr’ d Elizabeth “ Betsy ” Shull
Adam 1784 ? Mary Vaught
Catherine 1785? Michael Hensley
George 1786? Elizabeth Sullivan
David 1787?
Susan 1789? 1812 David (Philip? ) Groves
Mary “ Polly” 1790? John Stewart
Samuel 1791? Patsy Hubbard
Daniel 1793? Margaret Stewart
Elizabeth 1795? Peter Mathews
—
Sarah “ Sally ” 1802? 8 Oct 1844
Died Arthur , Douglas Co . Ill
1821 1- Benjamin Hunsaker

John 1824-1900 Zipporah Wheeler 1827-1908

Christopher 1849-1906 Anne Schwatka 1853-1928
Laura 1870-1916 Willian J . Kelly
John A . 1891-1966 Edith S. Katella 1879-1960
Virginia 1925 Edward C. Dennehy 1925
Stephen V 1954
(Source of genealogical information on this page )
(Sarah, second marrage) 2-Goodman
Jacob
Mathew

Mathias Hunsinger is on 1799 Muhlenberg tax list ; Mathew Honsacker and Mathew
Hunsinger are in 1800 Census and Mathias and Mathew Hunsinger are indexed in
Muhlenberg as having had wills ( but the wills are no longer in the archives) . The Huns-
inger land records found were a claim by Mathias for 200 acres on Pond Creek on 27
June 1799 ; 200 acres on Mud River on 10 July 1880; 200 acres on Cypress Creek on 27
July 1801 and on 19 and 22 March 1802 claims for 200 acres each on Pond and Cypress
Creeks , probably a verification of claim of the original claims.

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 T

TRAVELS OF HUNSAKER FAMILY IN KENTUCKY

From penr. gyiTEr. la

Joseph k Margaret 1793
George
El i ze be th ?
An dr e v & Mary 1795
John
i
Our John

( Children ofJohn Jr )
Isaac
\
\
Catherine
Jacob stayed in Fayette ,
/eventually
\ Muhlenberg
moved to Ohio /
\
Our John Jacob Sr L Catherine fiuffmm$ n
John Jr descdendants Anna
Elizabeth Isaac k Ferthena Spikner *
Delila Catherine Abraham k Mar7 Sneider
Ja cob Andrew & Mary Elizabeth
"lien Jchn Catherine
.
Joseph
Samuel
John
Samuel
Ja cob
Elizabeth George k Susannah Mcsure
Folly ( Mary )
Andrew Samuel
Enoch
Safiruel & Hannah Rhoades
*

John
Rachel From North Carolina
Hiram Mary Hunsaker k Casper Rowland
. Margaret Ja cob
Ja cob k Catherine Isaac
i Anna « George Volfe Joh n
, Ktry
Ja cob Yerena Hunsaker k John Rhoades ?
Jacob . Jr A Polly Chrisley
Kancy Abraham
_L °J hn L
Ursula Hun sake r & Benjamin Landis .
Joseph £ Margaret
>

George Joseph Jr Beniamin

Elizabeth Daniel Henry /sen
Kay have been
David Delila Ja cob Benjamin cnly 7
To Missouri Haney Isaac John
Abram < Mary Jane Mathias 3unsinger k Mary Ann Gears
Elizabeth Abner Ja cob
Catherine Kan <y Adam
John Nicholas Catherine
Samuel George
George k Susanna David
Benjamin Susan
John Mary r Polly*
Rebecca Samuel
i
Mathew Daniel
Susannah
Thomas Mathew Hunsinger

Jacob Hunsinger

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 IX UNION COUNTY ILLINOIS
In 1803 Abram Hunsaker and George Wolfe left Muhlenberg and re-traced the route
down the Green to the Ohio , down the Ohio to a point west of the present city of Paducah ,
then overland on the north side of the Ohio probably to Fort Massac , Illinois , then In -
diana Territory . From here they went overland , or possibly via the Cache River , to the
area now known as Jonesboro. Dunkard history indicates there was a small Dunkard set -
tlement at Cape Girardeau , Missouri for which they may have been heading , or they may
have been on their way to Fort Kaskaskia . I personally doubt either of these conjectures
as I believe they would have followed the water route to both these places rather than
make a laborious trek over rough rolling country where their progress would have been
much impeded by brush and heavy vegetation . The fact that they ended up at Jonesboro
makes me think they went overland to Fort Massac, the nearest point of civilized life in
the area , and from there followed an open area south of what is now the Shawnee Na-
tional Forest , along what is now State Road 146 , to the Jonesboro area .
When they reached the Jonesboro area they must have liked what they saw and stayed
there . The great abundance of wild game in the area was apparently a major attraction
to these two pioneering scouts. They built rude shelters on Clear Creek , about two and
a half miles northwest of present-day Jonesboro and thus started the first white, non-
military settlement of Southern Illinois. In 1806 or 1807 they returned to Muhlenberg ,
told the other members of the group of their new found land , and began preparations
to move the rest of the group to establish what is now Union County , and the town of
Jonesboro, Illinois.
In 1803 Abram Hunsaker looked over potential farm sites in near-empty Illinois , Lewis
and Clark ’ s expedition headed off for the totally empty reaches of the upper Missouri
to explore part of the just - bought Louisiana Purchase. Almost next door to the east , Ohio
was so filled with folks that it became the 17th state of the Union .
Robert H. Mohlenbrock , in his article “ Union County” in Outdoor Illinois, The
Magazine of Illinois , June-July 1974 , states:

The first permanent settlers to come into what is now Union County were
making their way to Kaskaskia, where most of white man ’ s activities in the Il-
linois Territory centered at the turn of the nineteenth century . It was in 1803
that George Wolf , a Dunkard Minister , and Abram Hunsaker , and their families ,
came from Ft . Massac across Union County by way of the Cache River . Legend
has it that these early adventurers camped one night south of the present com -
munity of Jonesboro, and , finding the hunting excellent , decided to establish
their permanent home .

There are several mistakes in this: George Wolfe was not yet an ordained minister ,
George and Abram left their wives in Muhlenberg and were alone on their trek , we are
not sure they were heading for Kaskaskia , they camped northwest , not south , of what
is now Jonesboro. James H . Lehman in The Old Brethren , p 190 says of this trip:

On March 3, 1803 , George Wolfe and Anna Hunsaker became husband and
wife. Sometime after George was married , he and his brother Jacob, three years
older , along with Abram Hunsaker , talked matters over and decided on looking

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 beyond Kentucky for a place of residence. They had heard of the wonderful pro-
sperity of the country around Kaskaskia and Cahokia , where more than half
of the white people in Illinois Territory were then living , and decided on looking
into the situation . So it was decided that George and Abram should take a hun-
ting trip up through Southern Illinois , and if practicable , pick out a good place
for a settlement . But there we have these two young hunters , within less than
two miles of where the town of Jonesboro, the County seat of Union County ,
now stands , feasting on bear meat and wild turkey , the only two white men in
all the wild untamed region round about.
Here in the fall of 1803 they constructed two log cabins , notched at the ends
and put together in order . Clapboards for roofing had to be split , punching split
and dressed down for the floors , fireplace built and plastered with clay , and all
this done without the driving of a nail ...They had no neighbor , did not see a
human being inside a year or more ... In all this time young George Wolfe had
no word from the young wife he left in Kentucky , nor could she hear from him .
She simply knew that he was somewhere in the dense forest of Illinois Territory ,
dead or alive , she did not know which , and that it might be a year or even more
before she could have the pleasure of greeting him ...In due time things were work -
ed into living shape , and in some way they got in touch with their families and
friends. Possibly by use of the boat they had kept at a safe place they made their
way back to Kentucky and then began the preparations for moving . ”

The favorable reports from Abram and George regarding the country; the fact that
in 1808 the U .S. had secured control of the area and had made treaties , or at least an
agreement of peace , with the Indians ; added to the apparent mistreatment and land swindl-
ing the Dunkards had suffered in Muhlenberg County , all impelled our ancestors to move
once again . We believe this family migration occurred between 1807 and 1811; Katherine
Hunsaker and Daniel Kimmel were married in Union County in 1808, and that the route
to Union County naturally followed that pioneered by Abram and George . We are not
sure at what time various family members made this move and it appears the entire Dunkard
group did not move at one time . We know Jacob Jr stayed behind in Muhlenberg and
lived with his in-laws, William and Ann Luce , after he married their daughter Polly in
1808. In 1811 he sold his father’ s land to William Luce , although this deed has never
been found . We know also that not all the Hunsakers moved to Union County. Some
stayed in Muhlenberg and some moved to different places. These moves will be discussed
at the end of this chapter .
We are not sure who the leader of this Dunkard group was at this time. We read
from Dunkard history that George and Jacob Wolfe and John and Jacob Hunsaker Sr . ,
were the lay leaders , but none of them were ordained Dunkard ministers. George Wolfe
was not ordained until 1813. Until then the leadership was apparently provided by itinerant
ministers who were active over a large area surrounding the Clear Creek Settlement . Later ,
other people settled in the area and some chose the higher ground where Jonesboro , nam -
ed for a Baptist Minister of the time , was established . The Dunkard group remained at
Clear Creek . Here they built a church , set up a cemetery , and for a while had quite a
thriving little community. As there was no legal authority in the new area , there were
no land grants . Our ancestors settled , “ squatted ” was the word used at the time , on the
land they desired , built cabins and started a new community.
The lack of a formally organized church in Union County must have been of con-

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siderable concern to our ancestors. They attended a Methodist Revival in about 1812,
and for a while our little group formed their own Methodist Bible Class with George Wolfe
as its head . However , after studying the Methodist doctrine , George told his little group ,
as recorded on page 196 of Lehman’ s The Old Brethren:
“ Brethren and sister , we are now organized into a church . I have pondered
and prayed over this matter , and I conclude that if John Wesley is the savior
we are all right , but if Jesus Christ is the Savior we are wrong . ”
After the group confirmed their belief that Jesus Christ was the Savior , they sent
Jacob Hunsaker , Sr ., back to Muhlenberg to fetch a Dunkard preacher to come and bap-
tize them . Luckily , a few miles down the road , Jacob met Elder John Hendricks who
was on his way to visit the Clear Creek colony , and Jacob was back with his little group
in a day or two. So , without further ado , Elder Hendricks held a meeting for our group
of Dunkards and the adult members were baptized in the waters of Clear Creek and thus
was created the first Dunkard Church in Illinois in 1813.
We know from Dunkard history that fourteen adults were baptized . My best effort
to reconstruct a list of who those fourteen were is as follows:

George Wolfe and wife Anna Hunsaker

Jacob Wolfe and wife Barbara Houser
Abram Hunsaker and wife Mary Jane Snyder
Samuel Hunsaker and wife Hannah Rhoades
Joseph Hunsaker and wife Margaret Stevenson
Jacob Hunsaker Jr . , and wife Polly Luce
George Davis and wife whose name is not known .

There is a tradition in the Wolfe family that Jacob Wolfe was married to Barbara
Hunsaker , but Hunsaker records show his wife as Barbara Houser . I can not find a Bar -
bara Hunsaker who would have been of a logical age to have married Jacob. At first
this area was under the jurisdiction of Randolph County , Indiana Territory . After Illinois
Territory was created in 1809 , Johnson County was formed in 1812 and Union County
was created from Johnson in 1818. With the establishment of a civil government , our
ancestors made formal claim to the lands they had occupied . The only record we found
in 1976 was the Land Entry Book in which our ancestors are listed . Apparently , the “ en -
try of claim ” gave them title to their land . These records do not appear to be complete
and it also appears this “ record keeping ” was a rather haphazard affair for some time .
In 1810 over seven million Americans were tallied by the third national census. Hun-
sakers were listed all over the west . Concurrently , the Pacific Fur Co . was organized to
make money for John Jacob Astor , but its principal result was to open the Mountain
west for pioneers of a generation yet to come
In 1811 nature
— Hunsakers yet to be born .
welcomed Hunsakers to Illinois by heaving the earth up 25 feet in
some places , the effects of the worst earthquake in American history . The best news of
the year was that telling of Gen . Harrison’ s victory over Tecumseh at Tippecanoe.
In 1812 newborn Abraham Hunsaker cooed in his crib , unaware that the U .S. and
Great Britian were at war again as the War of 1812 began . His parents worried about
the American defeat at Ft . Dearborn (Chicago ) and the outbreak of Indian hostilities.
Meanwhile out west , Astor ’ s men unknowingly were blazing the Oregon / Mormon trail .

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 In 1813 , Dunkard church elders, Hunsakers among them , praised God for the
American victories over the British at Lake Erie and the death of the dreaded Tecumseh
at the Battle of the Thames.
In 1978 I acquired from the Archivist of the Illinois State Archives at the Capital
in Springfield his copy of a long-lost document listing those who secured land in 1808
and 1813 through official recognition of their claims as “ squatters ” on the land . These
records verify the claims of many of our ancestors and their associates. As an indication
of the difficulty of finding records in official archives, can you believe these records were
“ lost ” in the National Archives of the United States in Washington from the 1800’ s until
1977? In Springfield the one copy of this document was not in the stacks , where it should
have been , but was in the desk drawer of the Archivist who gave it to me. I am sure ,
however , that there are other copies available .
There are a great many more “ Land Entries ” than there are deeds showing eventual
transfer of ownership of land . The early settlers laid claim by “ Land Entry ” for as many
pieces of land as they hoped to possess . In order to secure title to the land through patents
or warrants , they had to show improvements or residence on the land . Although they
obviously could not farm all the land they claimed , they laid claim to as much as they
could get away with immediately upon arrival , then later selected the best to farm and
live on and forfeited the rest . Sometimes they let some one else take over a claim , usually
for a small fee , or traded their claims to others in return for labor . They established their
claims by a system of “ reciprocal testimony ” whereby each testified to the truthfulness
of the other’ s statements.
By this time the Hunsaker family had become a fairly large one. They obviously were
very active in local affairs , bought and sold considerable real estate and must have pro-
spered . We have records that George Hunsaker was Sheriff for many years , was a county
commissioner and a state legislator . Court was held in Jacob Sr’ s., home . Samuel was
a delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention and ran for President of the United
States. Unfortunately he received only 31 votes , probably those of his family and best
friends. Abram was a Justice of the peace. Several men who married Hunsaker girls were
prominent in the State.
Magdalena Hunsaker , daughter of Our John , married Valentine Leslie in Fayette
County , Pennsylvania in 1792 and they had a son John in 1794 or 1798. The family made
the trip to Muhlenberg where Leslie died in 1802. Magdalena married Abner Keith in June
1804 and they had Delilah in about 1809. Keith was a Justice of the Peace in Union County .
Magdalena’ s son John married Catherine Wigle in 1820 who was the daughter of Margaret
Wolfe , sister of George Wolfe who married Anna Hunsaker , daughter of Jacob Sr . I note
this to demonstrate how the early families intermarried
— — Hunsaker , Wigle , Wolfe , Keith
mainly because they either married within their little group or they didn ’ t marry.
A Benjamin Landis appears in Union County records. I presume a son or grandson
of Ursula Hunsaker , daughter of Hartman , and her first husband who were probably
married about 1735 in then Lancaster County . Usula would have been 94 years old by
the time the family arrived in Union County in 1811 , so it is rather doubful the Benjamin
Landis of record could have been her husband . And , as a clincher , Ursula married ,
sometime , somewhere a second time to a man named Kopf . We do not know for sure
when or where Ursula died , but one member of her family must have made it as far as
Union County . This according to Eller on page 117.

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 The Hunsakers were the most numerous brethren related family in Union
County . There are eleven enumerated in the 1818 state census: George , George
Jr . , John , John Jr ., Samuel , Samuel Jr ., Jacob , Jacob Jr . , Joseph , Abraham
and David . This family played an important role in settling and developing the
county.

John and Jacob Sr ., remained in the Clear Creek area and they and Jacob’ s wife .
Katherine Huffman , and Polly Luce , the first wife of Jacob Jr ., are buried in the Old
Dunkard Kimmel Cemetery on the top of the hill above Clear Creek . Many of the younger
members of the family moved to the newly bustling city of Jonesboro , and its later born
twin , Anna.
To those of you who may be sufficiently interested to visit the area , I want to offer
an explanation . On present day maps Clear Creek is a fair sized man - made channel runn -
ing north and south and crossing highway 146 about four and a half miles west of the
area where the old Dunkard (Kimmel) Cemetery is located . This recent man -made chan-
nel drains the area in which our ancestors originally settled , there is a medium sized mill
pond just west of the cemetery which feeds into Clear Creek Channel , and which in turn
is fed by , among others, a creek which runs directly north of the old cemetery . It would
seem plausible that before this area was drained by the man- made channel , and the in-
stitution of the mill pond , that the original Clear Creek was undoubtedly larger than it
is today , and thus was able to provide enough water for the baptisms of 1813.
Today , there are far more Hunsakers buried in the Jonesboro City Cemetery than
live in all of Union County. In addition , there are Hunsakers buried in the Anna City
Cemetery , the Cobden Cemetery , and numerous small cemeteries in the area .
In 1959, on my first trip to Jonesboro , I met Everett Kimmel , then the only survivor
of the Kimmel Family in Union County , who took me out into the boondocks to the Old
Kimmel Cemetery . This cemetery first became known to Utah Hunsakers when Aleen
Hunsaker Hansen found it in 1949 as recorded on P . 19 History of Abraham Hunsaker .
In 1951 Everett had the cemetery cleared off and it was in good condition . He showed
me three rocks in the ground which he said marked the graves of Hunsakers and em -
phasized to me that the stones were not carved tombstones but were just natural field stones.
In 1976 on my second trip to Jonesboro , I met Finnis A . Hunsaker of Cobden , a
few miles north of Jonesboro , and took him to the cemetery which he did not know of
despite having lived a long life in the area . The cemetery was then completely overgrown
with weeds and bushes , and poison ivy , and we could find but one tombstone, the in -
scription of which we could not read .
In 1978 , through the efforts of Finnis, the cemetery had again been cleared off , an
access path made through the surrounding brush , and Bob and I found the cemetery in
reasonably good shape . And , Finnis also had the county working on a county-wide pro-
ject to clear and clean old abandoned graveyards. Bill Hudson , unofficial historian of
Union County , was engaged in the very large project of inventorying the occupants of
all the old graveyards of Union County . Fin tells a story . “ At one point a county official
took a crew of two or three young men out to clean up old cemeteries. The boys had
the usual rakes and shovels . At one small cemetery overgrown with long grass the official
told the boys , ‘Clean off this old cemetery’ , and departed to take care of other business
elsewhere . Upon his return a few hours later the cemetery was cleaned off spic and span
and all the tombstones were neatly piled in a corner ” . Through the knowledge and good
offices of Finnis and Bill , Bob and I had great success in finding original documents in

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the old courthouse at Jonesboro in 1973. As a result , we came up with many records never
found before, Marriages , births , wills , deeds, etc. , amounting to a rather staggering quantity
of information.
But , to go back to the three “ field stones ” in the Old Dunkard Cemetery . When
Bob and I re-found the three stones marking the Hunsaker graves (although four Hun-
sakers were buried there) , this time my curiosity impelled me to dig down around one
of the stones — they were just barely visible on the ground — and to my amazement a
few inches of digging revealed what appeared to be carved letters. I then went to work
with great zeal and found the markers were not just field stones but were large carved
rocks. The stones did not have a proper base and their weight had caused them to sink
into the ground until just their tops were protruding. The many years in the ground had
nearly obliterated the carving on John’ s and Jacob’ s stones and completely obliterated
that of the third stone . The stones of John and Jacob Sr ., were in one line , the third stone
was in front of them , forming a triangle . We know Polly Luce , the first wife of Jacob Jr . ,
and Katherine Huffman , wife of Jacob Sr ., were buried here . Which one is under the
third stone is a mystery that probably never will be solved . We simply could not find a
fourth stone. Jacob ’ s stone was broken in half with one portion lying at one end of the
grave and the other portion lying at the foot of the grave . The portions are now rejoined
and placed at the head of the grave. A complete account and photographs of this wonderful
experience is contained in the 1978 issue of The Hunsaker Family Bulletin . It is repro-
duced here for the readers’ convenience .

NEW FINDS OF FAMILY HISTORY IN ILLINOIS AND KENTUCKY

By Q Maurice Hunsaker , Family Historian

I have just returned from a month-long trip to Kentucky and Illinois where
I made a further search for relatives , family records and burial grounds. I was
most fortunate to be able to join forces on this trip with Robert H . Hunsaker
and his wife Edna , of Joplin , Missouri . Bob is the Historian of the Hunsaker
Family Organization in Illinois and has been researching family history for 30
years. He has an extensive file of information , and between the two of us , we
now have a combined store of information perhaps greater than any one person
has ever possessed before .
As you know from past issues of the Bulletin , I have become intensely in -
terested in ascertaining the history of our ancestors. Not from the genealogical
aspect , which is being covered most admirably by Faun and Ruth Hunsaker ,
but from the historical aspect of the role our ancestors played in the develop-
ment of the United States .
As it is obvious that errors have crept into our past knowledge of the fami-
ly , I have set as my goal the documentation of each occurence in the lives of
our ancestors by copying original records in courthouses , churches , etc. , and
by locating and photographing tombstones.
I am most happy to report I have found the engraved tombstones marking
the grave of John Hunsaker , born in the Palatinate in 1728, died in 1815 , the
engraved tombstone of Jacob Hunsaker Sr . , born in Pennsylvania in 1759, died
1831 , and a plain stone for Polly Luce , first wife of Jacob Hunsaker , Jr . who
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 The graves of these three ancestors are in the Old Dunkard (Kimmel)
Cemetery just northwest of the present city of Jonesboro, Union County , Il-
linois. I first visited this graveyard in 1959 with Everett Kimmel , a Hunsaker
relative , who had cleaned up the cemetery , who showed me the three Hunsaker
graves apart from the main portion of the cemetery . Everett said he had careful-
ly examined the Hunsaker grave stones and that they were only field stones and
had no markings on them but that his family tradition said they were Hunsaker
graves . I accepted Everett’ s statement at the time as being true .
In 1976 I returned to Jonesboro, and as reported in the Bulletin of 1977 ,
found the graveyard completely overgrown . Only one tombstone in the main
part could be found in the dense underbrush , and the Hunsaker stones could
not be located . I took Finnis A , Hunsaker , of Cobden , Illinois to the cemetery
and since then Finnis has been waging a campaign with Union County officials
to get the graveyard cleaned up and maintained as a State Historical Monument .
This is apparently the first graveyard in Union County and is one of the oldest
graveyards in all Illinois.
In early spring of 1978 Finnis had gotten the graveyard cleaned out , but
by June the grass and bushes , and lots of poison ivy , had grown about two feet
high . However , the Hunsaker gravestones were found , in the form of a triangle ,
near a big oak tree where I had first seen them in 1959.
Bob and I felt impelled to dig around the rocks . After a bit of scratching
with a stick , it became obvious the rocks were not just field stones lying on the
ground but were large stones. A bit more scratching with the stick revealed some
lettering on one stone. I then went back into town and got a small garden trowel
as I was afraid to use a shovel for fear of damaging the stone . The first stone
turned out to be of granite nearly three feet high , six inches thick and about
18 inches wide . It took four people to lift and pry it out of the ground . When
the stone was on the surface and cleaned up, there was the clear inscription
“ JOHN HUNSAKER ” but nothing else was legible . The stone had sunk of its
own weight during the 163 years it had been in place until just a small tip of
the stone was visible , The stone was reset and the grave cleared off .
I then started on another piece of rock lying on the ground . It turned out
to be the tombstone for Jacob Sr . It was a sandstone and when it was gotten
out of the ground was found to be split right down the middle with only half
the stone present . I then searched around and about ten feet away found another
piece of sandstone which , when dug up , was the other half of the stone . Both
halves were then placed together and reset and the grave cleared off .
At the apex of the triangle was another stone . I dug this up and although
it was a large granite stone , there was no inscription on it . This stone has to
mark the grave of Polly Luce, the only other Hunsaker we know died in Jonesboro
at the time this cemetery was in use. Apparently Everett Kimmel had examined
Polly’ s stone , found no writing on it and had presumed the other two stones
were also without engraving on them . All three graves are marked with tomb-
stones properly reset , the graves cleared off , and the writing on the stones of
John and Jacob Sr ., is clearly legible . By fortunate happenstance , Mr . William
Hudson a historian -researcher in Union County was with us the entire day spent
digging up these tombstones. As we were leaving the cemetery I found another
stone, far removed from the main portion of the cemetery which , when uncovered ,

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proved to be the tombstone of an ancestor of Jonesboro’s leading family. Huelson
has been trying to find this grave for many years for this family . Huelson felt
finding this stone would gain the support of this prominent family for the renova-
tion and maintenance of the cemetery .
Shortly after the visit to Jonesboro , Finnis Hunsaker and Bill Huelson were
to meet with the County Commissioners and the County Historical Society to
further discuss that the cemetery be declared of historical value and be main-
tained as a monument in the future by the County . With these new finds, it is
now more probable that this goal will be achieved .
Elsewhere in Union County we found many other graveyards in which Hun-
sakers are buried . Some of these have been cleaned up, some are in process of
being cleaned thanks to Finnis’ efforts, and some are still in poor shape . We
managed to find and photograph all the Hunsaker graves for those of our
ancestors we know died in Union County . Many more graves were found in 1978
than I found in 1959 which were described in Hunsaker Burial Grounds in Illinois.
In Muhlenberg County , Kentucky , another significant Hunsaker grave was
found . Kentucky records list only one Hunsaker burial in Muhlenberg County ,
that of Isaac, aged 4. We had never known for sure who this Isaac was. In later
years we have learned that Isaac and Jacob , the two sons of John Jr . had not
been killed by Indians along with their father and mother , but had been taken
prisoner by the Indians and taken to Canada . After eight years they escaped ,
or were allowed to go free , and returned to where the family had lived in Fayette
County , Pennsylvania . Jacob remained there and eventually moved to nearby
Ohio , Isaac somehow followed the main Hunsaker family to Muhlenberg County ,
where he was killed by a falling tree when he was 40 years old .
In the Old Paradise Cemetery we found a rather large graveyard in a deep
forest heavily overgrown with bushes. We knew Isaac’ s grave had been covered
by a large Beech tree. Down deep between the roots of an enormous Beech , Bob
Hunsaker spotted a small piece of rock . After we cleared out the dirt we found
the small rock to be the tombstone of Isaac who had died , not at age four , but
at age 40 , in 1819.
In addition to searching graveyards , Bob and Edna and I searched cour -
thouses. All of us , and other historians , have not found much documentation
in Kentucky and Southern Illinois Courthouses. Despite the fact they are keepers
of “ Public Records ” the officials there in the past have not been cooperative
in letting outsiders research their files . This time we were very fortunate in mak -
ing the acquaintance of Bill Huelson in Union County and Gayle Carver in
Muhlenberg County who are both historical- researchers, who have access to the
files and know what is in them . With their help we were able to secure complete
documention of land transactions , marriages , etc. , that we have never been able
to find before. Also , in Adams County , Illinois , we found additional documen -
tation not discovered on previous trips because our past documentation enabled
us to more exactly pinpoint what we were looking for .
As a result of my three trips and three trips by Bob and Edna to these areas ,
and the combining of Bob’ s 30 years of research and my research for about the
same period of time , we now have complete documentation of every single writ -
ten record beginning with John Hunsaker in Western Pennsylvania down to the
disposition of Abraham’ s land near Nauvoo when Abraham left with the Mor -

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 mon exodus in 1846.
I have almost complete documentation of John Hunsaker in Eastern Penn -
sylvania and Maryland . I have considerable documentation of Hartman from
his arrival in 1731. I have employed a researcher in Pennsylvania who is now
looking for the specific documents I lack . I hope soon to be able to completely
document every facet of the lives of all our direct Hunsaker ancestors from Hart-
man to Abraham . When that point is reached , the material will be published
for the benefit of family members.

NOTE:
This article in the Bulletin places Polly Luce , mother of our ancestor Abraham , in
the third grave in the Old Kimmel Cemetery. I am not sure of this now as I was then .

Katherine Huffman , wife of Jacob Sr ., could be buried here . We have no record

of when or where she died . As we know Polly Luce died in Jonesboro , it is my feeling
that she occupies the third grave .

EMANCIPATION OF A SLAVE

Before we go into the voluminous documentation of landholdings of the Hunsakers

in Union County , and to give our readers a view of how seriously the Dunkards regarded
their attitude against slavery , let me show you a most interesting , and quite unique , docu -
ment , a Deed of Emancipation of the Slave Absalom , which is contained in Deed Record
# 3 , p 436-437 at the Courthouse in Jonesboro.
In addition to their basic opposition to slavery as Dunkards, I have a feeling the slave
Absalom must have been an exceptional person , or that his master , Johathan Husky , must
have grossly mistreated him to cause five of our Hunsaker ancestors and relatives and
nine other people to contribute funds for the purchase of Absalom the slave from his
master in order to give him his freedom . The foregoing was a little difficult to read in
the original handwriting , here it is for you in type:

“ Know all men by these, that we George Woolf for himself and Attorney
for Micajah Littleton , Peter Woolf , John Price, Abraham Hunsaker , Jacob Hun -
saker Snr , Michael Limbaugh , Benjamin A . Parson and John Vancil and Ed -
mund Vancil George Hunsaker Jacob Hunsaker Jnr and Christian G Flack
Samuel Hunsaker Snr for themselves being convinced that it is contrary to the
privileges which man enjoys from his Creator that he should become the slave
of his fellow creatures subject to his dominion and control without receiving
for his labor a just and equitable compensation therefor , being also convinced
that the Emancipation of those unfortunate Affricans who have by the hand
of power been made the Slaves of our Countrymen would not only be an act
of humanity to the Slaves but would be remembered by heaven with peculiar
pleasure and rewarded with the bountiful munificence of a wise and omnipotent
Creator , Being influenced therefore by the considerations above stated we do
by these presents Manumit Emancipate Set at perfect liberty a certain inden-
tured Servent callad Absalom who was Indentured under the Territorial Govern -
ment of Illinois by Johathan Husky then of the County of Johnson and Ter -

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 ritory aforesaid and now of the County of Union State of Illinois, and whose
term of Service was purchased by us with the Consent of the Said Absalom from
the Said Jonathan Husky , who executed his bill of Sale to us on the fifteenth
day of November one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty four which Bill of
Sale is duly recorded in the Recorders Office of Union County , Illinois, we do
solemnely declare by these presents that we relinquish all Claim to the Said In -
tentured Servant ’ Absalom giving him perfectly liberty to do in all things as
he may think proper hoping that in all his action that he may do Justice to his
fellow creatures and that he may pursue a course that will gain him the esteem
and confidence of those that know him . ”

“ Given under our hand and Seals at Jonesborough this 19th day of April
1825-

George Woolf Seal

Signed Sealed and
delivered in presence of Michjah Littleton Seal
by Woolf his Attorney
B G Helms?
J F Kalfus Peter Woolf by Seal
Geo Woolf his Attorney
Ben Parsons by Geo Seal
Woolf his Attorney John Price by Seal
Geo Woolf his attorney
Edmund Vancil Seal
Calvin Price by Seal
George Hunsaker Seal Geo Woolf his Attorney
Sami Hunsaker Seal Abraham Hunsaker Seal
by Geo Woolf his Attorney
Jacob Hunssker Seal
Jacob Hunsaker Seal
his mark by Geo Woolf his Attorney
John J Wigle Seal
Michael Limbaugh Seal
Christian G Flack Seal by Geo Woolf his Attorney
his
John X Vancil
mark
George Hunsaker
Sam’ L Hunsaker
Jacob Hunsaker
by mark
John Wigle
Christian ?
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UNION COUNTY
Jacob Hunsaker Sr died 1831 to Kathrine Huffman
locate .
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Listed in index but could not

Joseph Hunsaker died 1841

Andrew Hunsaker died 1855 Box A , Packet 356
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Samuel Hunsaker died 1857 Box 6 Packet 120-121 , misc papers of administration 7»,
Nicholas Hunsaker died 1860 Box B Packet 23 not in file , stolen or lost
Samuel T Hunsaker died 1867 Box A Packet 60 misc papers
George Hunsaker died 1875 Box A Packet 102

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PROBATE

Samuel 1842, Box 3 Packet 103

1847-49 , Box A Packet 126

UNION COUNTY MARRIAGES 1818-1880

Compiled by Ernst Harding Jackson ,
Rte 1 Box 211 Thomson , Ill 61285

HUNSAKER
Abraham (Abram ) Mary Snyder c 00
Abraham Polly Price 4 May 20
Abraham J Elvina Homes 27 Nov 39
Andrew Nancy Cruthers c 30
Andrew J (21) Matilda Me Elhany (20) 6 Mar 77
Andrew (26) Mary E . Hunsaker ( 18) 26 Sep 80
B . M . (39) Maggie E . Goyer (29) 20 Apr 76
Benjamin (Franklin ) 1-Mary Ann DeWitt 31 Aug 49
Benjamin F (50) 2-Sarah E . Rice (25) 23 Apr 78
Catherine Robert Hargraves c 15
Catherine Henry Barkhausen 24 Jan 43
Catherine John Grammer 21 Mar 64
Catherine Michael Ransmoir 24 May 70
Charles Rebedda Me Lure 1 Sep 25
Charles W (21) Edna S Stokes (17) 25 Jun 76
Cinthia A Marion Sitter , Jr 14 Oct 66
Cornelia (20) James E Brasnell (27) 1 Oct 76
E . Belle (17) Henry P Cozby (22) 28 May 76
Elijah W . Emeline Hammonds 28 Feb 50
Elizabeth John Brown , Sr 03
Ellen James P Milliken 21 Apr 61
Elvira Levi Clutts 23 Mar 54
Emeline (Hammond , Wid Elijah) Thomas W Lence 12 Nov 70

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Emily Enoch Hunsaker 4 Feb 41
Enoch Emily Hunsaker 4 Feb 41
Hiram Permelia Roberson 7 Aug 28
Isaac (28) Sarah E Wood (18) 10 Aug 76
Jacob (Jr) Elizabeth Brown 9 Mar 20
Jacob Z Polly Ann Treese 8 Oct 57
James W Eliza A L Musgrave 5 Jan 59
James J Nancy Davis 3 Mar 39
Jane William C Masters 14 Nov 64
Jennie (20) Thomas N Roberts (31) 14 Sep 76
John Fanny Limbaugh 13 Feb 25
John Shophia Craig 8 Jan 37
John F Martha Anderson 13 Feb 67
Joseph Susan L Sams 22 Oct 57
Joseph Mary E Weaver 1 Apr 73
Julia F Edward F Hargraves 25 Mar 74
Katherine Drake Harris Redleman 23 Apr 29
Lydia Alexander Keller 30 May 69
Mahuldah William S Clark 12 Mar 57
Margaret John L Hodges 10 Nov 33
Martha Lorenso D Kelly 6 Nov 53
Martha Jane John Hileman 31 Dec 67
Martha (18) Addis Robinson (19) 15 Nov 76
Martha J . (18) William G Davis (17) 16 Jul 78
Martha A (17) John Grissom (24) 4 Feb 79
Mary Samuel White 4 Oct 36
Mary Jane Aaron Lyerle 13 Jan 37
Mary Ann David Craver 8 Mar 49

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 THE FAMILY IN UNION COUNTY , 1808-1826

GENERATIONS MRRD SPOUSE

4
— Benjamin Landis
John
Jacob Sr . 1778 Katherine Huffman
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* Anna 1803 George Wolfe
Mary
Jacob
John
David
Barbara
Samuel
Six other unidentified children
Jacob Jr 1808 1-Polly Luce
Nancy
John L
Abraham
Catherine
Jacob T
1820 2-Elizabeth Brown
Mary
Barbara
George
George 1808 1 -Elizabeth Cokenhower
Catherine D H Rendleman
Mary 1836 Samuel White
Emily
1820 2- Isabel Ellis
Sarah 1842 John B Hunsaker
Caroline Wahinngton C Bullock
Eleanor 1847 John Imbler
Susan 1847 Andrew Hunsaker
Catherine 1808 Daniel Kimmel
Mary 1835 Young E Brown
George 1842 Eliza Jane Smith
Katharina Lovisa 1839 1 -John goodwin
1861 2-Samuel Fry
Phillip 1847 ? Susan Henderson
Anna Minerva 1846 Crawford Trees
Melvina 1847 John Henderson
Five other unidentified children
Mary 1813 Louis J Simpson
Phoebe
William
Green
Juliaett
Mary Ann

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Mary Augustus Spring 16 Nov 54
Mary I (17) John F M . Weaver (22) 23 Dec 75
Mary E ( 18) Andrew Hunsaker (26) 26 Sep 80
Montgomery Emily R Woods 24 June 63
Mortimer Mary E Stanns 1 Mar 55
Nancy Josephus Seeley 28 May 40
Nancy E (16) John D Watson (21) 25 Jan 77
Nicholas / Olivia rAoiVC ^ owe )- Lj( u ) -
3 /?KixJa. AWigowerji
Rachel George Dougherty 3 Aug 20
Rosannah James P Me Clain 5 May 61
S Eleanor William Penninger 26 Jan 54
Samuel T Susan Millis 31 Oct 43
Samuel Rachel Farris 28 Nov 52
Samuel Elizabeth Ellen Lence 1 Nov 55
Samuel T Martha Jane Barringer 20 Nov 64
Sarah Jacob Tope 18 Jul 39
Sarah Ashborn Davie 15 Sep 40
Sarah N John M Darrow 7 May 63
Sarah A Thomas W Spence 25 Jun 65
Sarah C (19) Kenneth Tripp (26) 15 Mar 77
William Sarah Hodges 16 Feb 32
William John Sarah Grammer 22 Apr 61
William J Mary Ann Walker 25 Feb 66

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 Catherine
Lewis J
Sarah Joh Hughes
Abraham 1820 Polly Price
Joseph 1781 Margaretha Stevenson
George 1811 Nancy Wilkins
James
Margaret
Alexander
Mathilda Ann
George Wahsington
Polita Jane
Elizabeth 1810 Joseph Cox
David 1818 Mary Husky
Eliza Elina
Daniel Wilson
William
Jonathan
Columbus ft
Nancy 1814 George Goodwin
Joseph Jr 1820 Elizabeth Jane King
Infant died near birth
Thomas Howard
Daniel 1823 Charlotte M King
Elizabeth
Nicholas
Delila “ Delia ”
Isaac Sarah Wilson
Elijah
Abram 1784 Mary Jane Snyder
Elizabeth 1803 John Brown
Mariah
Isaac 1824 Cynthy Davis
David
Catherine
Anna
John
Abraham
Martin
Elizabeth
Samuel
Jeremiah
Rachel
Catherine 1812 Robert Hargrove
Willis
Hezekiah
Nancy
Abraham

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 Samuel
Catherine
John 1813 Louannah “ Annie ” Shaw
Samuel Tharp Thorpe?
Abraham Franklin
Zerilda
Mary Jane
Nancy Celia
Catherine
Young Hanibal
John Newman Newton ?

Abram Hunsaker and Mary Jane Snyder Continued

Samuel 1814 Nancy Shaw
Robert
William G
David S
Maria Jane
Jackson
Mary Ann
Abner

Rachel Montgomery
Nicholas 1826 Adelia Worthington
Nancy
Charles 1825 Rebecca McClure
William
Nicholas 1826 Olivia Montgomery
Amanda M
Abner Rachel Montgomery
Nicholas 1826 Adelia Worthington
George 1793 Susanna Moesure
Nancy
Benjamin 1821 Sally Hunsinger
James J
John
Isaac
John Magdalena Shull
Benjamin F
Peter Shull
Elizabeth
Rebecca
Matthew
Susannah
Thomas Jefferson
Catherine John Biere
Nicholas
Magdalena 1792 1 Valentine Leslie

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 John 1820 Catherine Wigle
1804 2 Abner Keith
Nicholas 1821 Elizabeth Thornton
Francis Peter Haigler
Dorcas
Delila
Andrew 1793? Mary Rhoades
John B 1816 Annie Reggs (Not sure of spelling)
Mary Wilkeson
Mary ¥
Elizabeth
Hannah
Alexander
Joseph 1819 Nancy Boyd
Malinda
Mary
Jefferson
Samuel Elizabeth Loveless
Louisa
Andrew
Jacob Rhoades Margaret “ Peggy” Taylor
Manula
Quincy
Elizabeth 1824 Joseph Wood ?
Mary “ Polly ” 1823 James Cockrum
Andrew Jackson

(Andrew Hunsaker and Mary Rhoades continued

Enoch 1825 Nancy Eaby

Nancy 1828 Nicholas Kimley
Delila 1829 Elijah Johnston
Bradford
Absalom
Huldah
Samuel 1802 Hannah Rhodes
John 1825 Fanny Limbaugh
Rachel 1820 George Dougherty
Margaret
John
Andrew 1826? Nancy Stockton
Hyrum Wike
Margaret
Daniel
Susannah
Elizabeth
Catherine
Samuel Young
Samuel Rhodes
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 By the time of the next , and final, move of the family, from Union County in Southern
Illinois to Adams County in West Central Illinois, the number of people comprising the
family had dwindled considerably . Apparently Our John had been a strong family leader .
He maintained his own family in a close group during the time of their travels from York
County , Pennsylvania to Western Pennsylvania , to Kentucky , to Southern Illinois . In the
few cases where members of the family left the main group , as when some went to North
Carolina , some method of communications must have been set up so that when the fami-
ly made the big move westward to Kentucky , those in North Carolina knew of the move
and joined the main family in Kentucky .
Dunkard history states that some of the Wolfe congregation of Dunkards began mov-
ing to Adams County in the 1820’ s. Jacob Hunsaker Jr . , and his family of children from
two wives moved to Adams County in 1826 , Andrew and Mary Rhoades Hunsaker left
Union County in for Missouri . Joseph and Margaret Stevenson Hunsaker had already
left Muhlenberg in order to go to Missouri . George and Susanna Mosure Hunsaker had
gone to Missouri in 1828 from Muhlenberg .
We do not know exactly why the Wolfe Dunkards moved to Adams County . Dunkard
history indicates it was because the Dunkards were trying to get away from their close
proximity to slave states ( Kentucky and Missouri) in Union County . I think it is possible
that Jacob Hunsaker Jr . , acted as a scout for the rest of the group as he was apparently
the first to go to Adams County in 1826 , and then others began following. Elder George
Wolfe moved to Adams County in 1831 and he and his wife Anna Hunsaker went direct -
ly to where Jacob Jr . , had located and Elder Wolfe set up the Mill Creek Dunkard Church
near what is now Liberty , Adams County, Illinois. Lehman , in Some Old Brethern , pgs
204 , 205 , provides slavery as the reason for the move:

Eld . Wolfe was soon to grapple with two other big propositions. A number
of his Union County members had moved to Adams County and it looked as
though the rest of them might follow suit . When Illinois entered the Union in
1818 she came in as a free state . A little later Missouri was admitted as a slave
state . Kentucky was also a slave state . A large percent of the early immigrants
came from slave territory and now began agitation in favor of so changing the
constitution as to pernit the owning of slaves. The legislature decided to put the
question of amending the constitution up to the people .. .Fearing the possibility
of freedom losing out , Eld . Wolfe took the field in opposition to making Il-
linois a slave state , and such an influence did he wield that a writer in the Quin -
cy , Ill , HERALD , some years later , said that Wolfe did more to make Illinois
free soil than any other man in the state . The slave- holders were defeated , and
the Brethren as well as others congratulated the Dunkard preacher , as he was
called , for the part he had so ably taken in the interest of freedom .
After having resided in Illinois for twenty-eight years.. . there came to Eld .
Wolfe a turn in the road . For him the hand of destiny pointed to Adams Coun -
ty , to which part of the state the majority of his flock had already emigrated .
He sold his possessions in Union County and the year 1831 finds him domiciled
on a large tract of fine farming land eighteen miles east of Quincy. He was then
fifty-one years old , right in the prime of his physical and mental manhood , and
one of the most brainy preachers in all the region round about . In a little while
a love feast was held on the premises of one of the well-to-do-farming members.
A meetinghouse was erected near the village of Liberty and the work of the Church
started in good earnest .

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 Anna and George Wolfe
12 children

ADAMS
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COUNTY John L
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Catherine
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Elizabeth Brown
Mary
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Anna -George Wolfe
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Abram Mary Snyder
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George Susanna Mosure
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 X ADAMS COUNTY
Upon arrival in Adams County in 1826, the Hunsakers settled 15 miles east of the
recently established port city of Quincy on the east bank of the Mississippi . They settled
between what are now the small towns of Liberty and Payson . Abraham ’ s description
of the journey from Union County to Adams County , and the style of life at the time ,
is interesting :

My father lived here in Union County till I was 14, fourteen , years old . He
then moved to Adams County and settled some 15 miles east of Quincy . I had
lived on bread and milk and vegitables till I was 14 years old . When we started
on our journey to Adams County , being near 300, three hundred , miles they
way we had to go at that time , I could not get milk and vegitables and I was
taken sick haven to change my diet . I had to commence eating meat ; I got well
in a few days , The road was mudy , it being in the month of March , We traveled
over flat wet country where I first beheld prairy country . I had lived in very heavy
timbered country where the large poplar , oak , and gum grew .

In 1826 Hunsakers moved into Adams County , Illinois , and John Adams died on
the 50th anniversary of U .S. Independence. In the far west , Jedidiah Smith , also a man
of independence , began to explore the Great Basin — a future Hunsaker home.
Dunkard History tells us that after Elder Wolfe established the Mill Creek Dunkard
Church he became a most powerful preacher and people flocked from miles around to
hear him speak . There are accounts of day -long open -air “ preachings ” which attracted
nearly 2,000 people , although this does seem a little high considering this was but recently
established territory. No one now knows the location of the Mill Creek Church .
Wolfe’ s highly successful activities in 1855 caused a delegation from the Eastern
Mother Church to investigate him and “ bring him back in line ” . After encountering Wolfe
the delegation returned to Germantown with the recommendation that the “ old guard ”
follow Wolfe’ s practices.
In Adams County the Utah Hunsakers immediate ancestor Abraham took his first
wife . Little did he know that he eventually would have five wives
— as a Mormon polygamist .
— and fifty children

LAND ACQUISITION
As there is no legal documentation of a land transfer to Abraham at this time, I believe
Jacob Jr ., made a wedding gift of some land to Abraham . This land would have to have
been in Section 9, T2N R 5W or Section 18, T2s R 7W which were the only pieces of land
Jacob owned . Although Abraham said “ I sold out and bought me a farm ” , there is no
record of a sale deed by Abraham . Jacob sold both these pieces of land by 1836 and I
presume Jacob gave Abraham the value of the land he had given him and the value of
the cabin Abraham had erected on it .
Jacob Jr . , acquired considerable land , and along with it considerable legal problems ,
Part of the legal troubles grew out of land Jacob purchased from an estate in which the
heirs apparently were squabbling among themselves. Additional problems arose in a pur -
chase from out of state owners, A final problem , after Jacob’ s death , arose when one
of his sons-in -law thought he and his wife had not been given a fair share of land by Jacob’s

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will . The son -in-law sued Jacob’ s estate and eventually the son -in-law and his wife receiv -
ed exactly the amount of land Jacob had originally devised to them. Other than the above,
land dealings in Adams County were quite prosaic and easily understood purchases and
sales. Jacob acquired only one piece of land , in 1831 , by Preemption or Patent , as most
of the “ free ” land was long taken by earlier settlers.
In 1833 Abraham entered into wedded union ( for the first of five times) , the national
union showed signs of disharmony. South Carolinians talked of ceceding
— until Presi
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tion . By the way , did you hear about the new John Deere steel plow ? Just $10 , and it
cuts through the tough prarie sod like a knife through butter! It was here in Adams County
that Abraham and his brother John Luce left the Dunkard faith to join the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [Mormons] . These defections are among the first , if
not the first , ever recorded from the Dunkard faith into the Mormon faith . John Luce
was baptized first , early in Nov 1840 but from Abraham’ s diary it appears John L was
a reluctant convert , although he probably stayed in the Mormon Church the rest of his
life. Abraham and Eliza were baptized on 15 Nov 1840 and remained stalwarts for the
rest of their lives.

JOHN LUCE HUNSAKER

John Luce , the older brother of Abraham , left the Quincy area some time after 1845
and went to Texas . He married Martha Lemmons and had four children , Melvina ,
Adolphus , Oscar and Walter , but we do not know when these events occurred nor where .
We have a record of John L and his family in the 1850 census in Calaveras Break ,
Bexar County , which is now a small suburb of San Antonio . The information in the cen -
sus is obviously incorrect , for it gives John L’ s age as 40, his wife’ s age as 35 , and his
children range from 17 years to 10/ 12 months . The only information that is correct is
that it gives John L’s birthplace as Kentucky , and his wife’ s occupation as “ housewife. ”
In his diary Abraham said he was expecting John L to move to Utah . According
to Israel Hunsaker , John L started for Utah with a herd of cattle and sheep and one of
his sons to help him , and got as far as the very first little town , Santa Clara , in southwest
Utah where he died on Christmas Day 1863 and was buried on New Year ’s Day, 1864.
We have never been able to find any record of him or his burial in either Santa Clara
or the nearby County seat , St . George .
Belle Yates, a granddaughter of John L . informed that Oscar Fitzallen , a son of John
L . , and his wife Julia and their son “ Gov , ” came to Utah in about 1891. There is an
indication Oscar F. and Julia came to Utah 30 years after John Luce from California .
They made their home in Brigham City , apparently in what is now Rees Pioneer Park .
Oscar practiced law in Brigham until he died on 15 July 1893 and was buried in the family
plot in the Brigham City Cemebery. His widow Julia and son Gov went back East to live .

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Jacob Jr ., died on 27 Jan 1845 and is buried in this Kimmons Cemetery , A large
number of Hunsakers are buried in the Kimmons Cemetery , which is also known as the
“ Old Dunkard Burial Ground ” but which is owned by the Craig family . Hunsakers are
also buried in other small cemeteries in Adams County . Jacob Jr’ s second wife , Elizabeth
Brown married James McKellips in 1848 after Jacob’ s death . We know she died on 11
Nov 1862 at New Liberty , we have never located her grave .
In 1840 the census reveals that there were about 17 million Americans . Several thou -
sand of the ones called Mormons were congregating around western Illinois. Some Hun -
sakers , already in Illinois , listen to the “ Word of Mormon ” and are impressed . They think
about “ convert ’ n .’ Tn 1842 Nauvoo is at the peak of its’ prosperous well- being as the
Hunsakers park their wagons and look around a bustling town . Surely , this is the place
to stay. The newcomers probably don ’ t care much that John C. Fremont is just heading
west on the first of several expeditions to explore the potential of the Great Basin . In
1845 Texas joins the Union , the U .S. Government is negotiating for a clear title to the
Oregon Country , and the Great Basin is ripe for picking from hapless Mexico . Within
twelve months , some of the ever - restless Hunsakers will be setting off for all three far-
away places .
For your interest , I present a partial copy of the voluminous inventory of Jacob’ s
estate down . Note the cost of his handmade coffin , the fees of his doctors (Dr , Hollon -
brush must have been a high priced specialist ) , Note also what Jacob’ s widow received
for her years’ expenses. Jacob was a wealthy man for the times , but it seems executor
son-in -law Jacob Wigle did right well for himself .

FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF JACOB HUNSAKER JR

The account and final settlement of Jacob W Wigle

administrator of the goods and estate of Jacob Hunsaker
late of Adams County , Deceased
The Administrator charges himself with the following to wit—
1845 May 15 The amount of Sale filed in the Court on the day of the above date 373.16
With amount of Inventory of Notes and accounts Filed in this Court on said Date $1175.52

1548.68
Inventory No 2 462.00
$2010.68
With Amt of Property see paper on file 363.07
marked A 2353.75
Said Adm asks allow
the following _
With amount of Greenbery Majers
claim (See Inventory of Notes & accounts)
not collected or realized by the Administrator 237.54
By amt of note on Jacob Hunsaker Jr?
collected & No 1 106.00
With amount paid Robert
Schuyler & others on Land Contract
Sec Re 5 No3 4 1066.60

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Paid Johnsons Note against
Estate of Intestate No. 5 58.12
Amt pd toward coffin of
deceased (residue to widow)
No 5 3.95
Paid William Hearst Physicians
Bill No 6 6.50
Paid William Lesle No 7 1.00
1471.71
(Over)

Amount forward 1479.71 i

Paid A Williams Land Redemption No 8 10.00
“ William Johnston “ No 9 47.60
“ Jacob Conners to
Land is also one of the appraisers No 10 4.00 i
“ John C re Estate No 13 10.58
No 14 42
“ Bill No 15 43.44
“ J G Hollo n brush Physician Bill No 16 26.50
“ David Wolfe No 17 22.46
“ John Wolfe No 18 1.00
“ J H No 19 1.50
“ No 20 16.00 i

“ Williams U Johnston No 21 30.00

“ Widow for one year Support No 22 100.00
“ Expenses for cemetery No 23 5.00
“ Judge Miller Fees 7.65
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Gordon Fees 5.66
“ Admis commission Probate? 100.00
$1922.17
so Admis is
2353.75
Ex 1922.17
$431.58 in hand of Adm
for distribution
Sept 5th 1848
Jacob W Wigle Adm

A full and perfect inventory of the good and the cattles and personal property of
Jacob Hunsaker decased late of the County of Adams , as presented by the undersigned
John C Broady , David Uhler and Jacob Conner appraisers appointed by the Probate Court
of Said County . By Jacob W Wigle , adminstrator of said estate I

This 14th day of April A . D . 1845

$
1 Red Cow 8 00
1 Red Cow and calf 6 00
1 White Cow 10 00

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1 Brindle Cow 8 00
1 Spotted Cow 8 00
1 Brindle Cow 8 00 K
1 Red Heifer 3 00
1 Red Heifer 3 00
1 Red Steer 3 00
3 Calves $2 each 6 00
1 Fall calf 1 50
27 Sheep 14 By Widow 41 25
13 Hogs in Bottom 2 25
8 ” in the woods By widow 9 00
12 Geese 12 1 /2 cts each 3 00
1 Fanning Mill 5 00
1 three year old colt By Daniel Hunsaker 3 00
2 Colts $10 each one By G B Hunsaker 20 00
1 Sorrel Horse By Widow 50 00
1 Bay Horse By Widow 45 00
1 Ball Horse By Widow 35 00
1 Bay Horse 30 00
1 Roan Mare By G B Hunaker 30 00
1 Waggon By Widow 35 00
1 Waggon 35 00
1 sled 25
428 25
Appraisement Bill Continued
1 Grind Stone 3 00
1 Plough 3 00
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3 00 \
1 Mattock 50
1 Hay fork 25
3 Axes 2 00
3 Ploughs $ 1 each 3 00
2 pair of harnefs 2 00
2 pair of harnefs collars lines & c By Widow 12 00
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12 00
1 pr harnefs and traces 75
1 pr trace chains 1 00
1 box of tools 38
1 Saw 50
1 Scooop Shovel 2 00
8 Vol . Rollins Ancient history 2 00
1 Feather Bed 4 00
1 Bedsted and Beading By Widow 4 00
n
5 > 10 00
1 Beasted 1 50
6 Weaver Reeds 7 50
1 Saddle By Widow 2 25
6 Winsted chairs 10 00

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1 Cook Stove 4 00
2 Beehives $ 2 each 4 00
1 Spider 2 00
1 Kettle 25
1 pr Double trees 2 00
2 Scythes & Cradles 1 25
1 Mowing Sythe 37
1 plough 0 50
Rifle Gun
101 30
Appraisement Bill Continued
1 Patent Right for thressing Machine 125 00
1 Saddle 75
1 Harrow 4 00
1 Bedsead & Bedding By Widow 3 00
1 pr Saddle Bags 1 50
1 Doctor Book 1 50
History of the United States 1 25
1 Bake Oven 50 i
1 Clevis And iron arage? 75
Waggon Boxes 25
half of a crowbar and pick 1 00
1 Gallon Jug 10
1 pair of Hames and traces 1 00
21 1/ 2 Acres of wheat $ 1 per acre 21 50
1 Baker 50
162 60

John C Broady
David Uhler
Jacob Conner

A full and perfect inventory of the Notes and accounts belonging to the Estate of Jacob
Hunsaker deceased as has come to my knowledge May 14 1845

One Note against William J Simpson

Lewis J Simpson & Elizah B Rhoades 62 50
doubtful
one Note against Jacob Conner doubtful 500 00
one Note against Jacob Hunsaker (desperate) 106 00
one Note against Wm P Harris W R Harris
desperate 6 18
1 Note on Greenbery Majors payable to Nathanial Perkinson 100
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Charles O Seaton 60
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State Bank of Ill 45

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Francis Stow Doubtful 4 00
John Leslie do 2 50
A Collins do 9 00
Wm Vanderlip do 2 50
F wheeler do 3 00
Lease against E Stow estate
now filed in Judge Probate Office 57 50
1175 52

A further Inventory one Note on Joseph Beale

Lease to Land in November 1846 Good 100 00
Jacob W Wigle Admr
The above return is Correct
J Huff ?
administrator on the estate of Jacob Hunsaker Deceased

Property retained by the Widow of Jacob Hunsaker dec

27 Sheep (14 by widow ) (whole amt ) $47.25
8 Hogs in the woods (widow ) 5.00
13 years old by Daniel Hunsaker 30.00
One Colt by G. B . Hunsaker 10.00
One Sorrel Horse by Widow 50.00
**this one is crossed out
One Bald Horse by Widow
— One Bay Horse by J Hunsaker 45.00
35.00
One Roan Mare by G . B. Hunsaker 30.00
One Wagon by Widow 35.00
One pair Harnefs collars lines &c by Widow 12.00
do do do do do do do 12.00
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Bedstead & Bedding by ? 4.00
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One Saddle 7.50
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Bedstead & Bedding (widow ) 3.00
363.07

Received of Jacob Wigle administrator of Jacob Hunsaker

deceased the sum of one hundred dollars for my years groceries and clotheing
July 2nd 1848
Elizabeth Hunsaker

Received of Jacob W Wigle administrator of Jacob Hunsaker deceased one Hundred and
Fifty Dollars & Fifty two cents
this the 4th day of September A D 1848
Elizabeth Hunsaker

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Received three dollars of Jacob W Wigle admr . of Jacob Hunsaker deceased being my
charge for making the coffin for Jacob Hunsaker dec.
Jacob Klingensmith

Jacob Huntsuker Dr to Wm Hearst for medison & attendance in his last sicknefs
January 1845 $
13 to Self visit 2 powders pills & drops 1 50
14 to 5 powders 2 drops 1 50
15 to 6 powders 1
17 to 6 powders 2 drops 1 50
18 to 1
6 50
Columbus June 20 1845
Jacob Huntsucker deed

To J W Hollonbush Dr
To Medical attention in last illness
Medicin and 10 visits $26.00

THE FAMILY IN ADAMS COUNTY , ILLINOIS 1826-1845

Anna Hunsaker 1803 George Wolfe b 1780 d 1865

son b/ d 1807
twin dtrs b/d 1809
Mary 1832 Elijah Ebert [Everett ? ]
Jacob d 1841 suicide
John 1 - Amanda Wheeler
Peter 2 - Elizabeth Wheeler
David G b 1814 1879 Permelia Ann McKnight
Barbara John McClintock
Samuel

Jacob Hunsaker Jr (1st Mrge) 1808 Polly Luce

Nancy 1828 Jacob Wigle
Catherine
Peter
Mary
John L .
Margaret
Anna
John Luce 1832 Martha Lemmons
Melvina Yates
Adolphus
Oscar
Walter
Abraham 1833 Eliza Collins
Jacob

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Mary
Elizabeth
Lewis
Allen
Catherine John Wigle
William
Jacob
Mary

Jacob T 1837 Emily Collins

Horton
Joseph
Mary
Araminta
Jacob

Jacob Hunsaker Jr (Second Marriage) 1820 Elizabeth Brown

Mary Ann
Barbara 1840 William J Simpson
Mary Jane
Elizabeth
George B Sarah
Sarah
Joseph
Daniel
Elizabeth
Eliza Jane
Matilda
Minerva

Mary Hunsaker 1813 Louis J . Simpson

Phebe George Clyner
William J Barbara Hunsaker
Green B Margaret ?
Juliaett William F Ramsey
Mary Ann Elijah Hunsaker
Catherine Andrew McClintock
Lewis Joshua
George Helen ?
Sarah “ Sally ” Hunsaker John Hughes
No record of children , but had large family
Abraham Polly Price
No further record , believe had nine children
George 1793 Susannah Mosure
Benjamin 1821 Sarah Hunsinger .
John 1845 Zipporah Wheeler
James
Issac

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 Mathew
Samuel
Benjamin
Mary Ann
Thomas Jefferson
George W
Emily J
John 1819 Mary Magdalena Shull
Benjamin F
Peter Shull
Susanna
Elizabeth
Sarah A
George Washington
David J
Mary E
John Calvin
Emily Kasssandra
Rebecca 1821 John Embler
Mathew 1829 Elizabeth Taylor
Levi
Lovinia
George
Susan
Benjamin
Mary Elizabeth
Cynthia
Susannah Solozon Trogdon
Thomas Jefferson 1830
Sampson
William W
Samuel J
9
9
9

Samuel 1799 Hannah Rhoades

John 1823 Fanny Limbaugh
Daniel Charlotte Simpson
Catherine
Serenas
Michael
Samuel F
Betsey
John Y Margaret Potter
Fanny
Rachel Hunsaker 1820 George Dougherty
Margaret 1841 Benjamin Wigle

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John W
Mary Manerva
Daniel D
Martha Agnes
Samuel
Andrew Nancy Stockton
Sarah Jane
Hiram David
Susan Matilda
Nancy Angeline
Hannah Matilda
Hyrum Wike 1829 Parmelia Roberson
Minerva P
Daniel Franklin
Sarah Jane
Margaret Hunsaker John McBride
Andrew
Huldah Jane
Marion
Samuel M
Elizabeth Emily
Richard
Daniel 1836 Martha Ann McClintock
William S
Mary L
Joseph A
Susannah Hunsaker Joseph Rhoads
Daniel
Uriah
William Cornelius
Sarah Margaret
Hannah Lovina
Samuel Young
Jacob
Shaby Jane
Elizabeth Caroline
Nancy Ellen

Elizabeth Hunsaker 1831? Allen M Pond

Samuel Y
Susan
William E
Hiram F
Joseph S
Hannah L
Margaret P
George 0
Catherine

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 Samuel Young 1844 Matilda Angelina Dinsmore
Joseph Rhodes 1844 Elizabeth Malone

JACOB T HUNSAKER AND OTHERS TO THE OREGON TERRITORY 1846

Jacob T Hunsaker 1st Marr Emily Collins

Horton
Joseph
Mary
Araminta
Jacob

Note: There is a fairly strong indication that Emily Collins died soon after reaching Oregon
— —
or perhaps enroute and that Jacob T then married M . A . Campbell and they had
the following children , all apparently born in Oregon Territory:

Sarah
Lycurgus
Katherine
Martha C
Alice
John
Emily

Jacob Wigle M Nancy Hunsaker

Catherine
Peter
Mary
John L
Margaret
Anna

John Wigle M Catherine Hunsaker

William
Jacob
Mary

George Brown Hunsaker

Joseph Hunsaker Jr M Eliza Jane King

Daniel Hunsaker M Charlotte King
Elizabeth
Nicholas
Joseph
James
Harrison K

Daniel Kimmel M Catherine

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 k

The following names appear in “ Oregon Donation Land Claims. ” I can not identify
and I do not know the meaning of “ Donation Land Claims ” . There is some indication
that Mary Ann , the blind daughter of Jacob Hunsaker Jr . and Elizabeth Brown went
to Oregon with one of the above families . She died in Sep 1860 but I do not know where .

Jacob T
Nancy
Mary Ann ?

John L to
Texas —
Later to Utah

Abraham to Nauvoo
Mormon Battalion
Utah

Jacob T t
Mary Ann

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 Anna and George Wolfe
12 children
Jacob J r - Family and Travels in Adams ,
ADAMS Nancy
COUNTY John L Union , and Muhlenburg Counties
Abraham
Catherine
Jacob
Elizabeth Brown
Mary
Barbara
George
Daniel Kimrarael & Catherine Hunsaker

UNION John
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Verena John Roth ( Rhoades )
& Mary Rhodes
^ Andrew COUNTY Tsaac- Perthena Snikner >
' to Missouri
Jacob Sr - Kathrine Huffman
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j Anna George Wolfe
j -
/ j Jacob J r Polly Luce
US Catherine -Danl Kimmel
/ Mary From
Sarah Fayette
Abraham
-
Joseph Margaret Stevenson
-
Abram Mary Snyder
— -
George Susanna Mosure
-
—— -
Magdalena Abner Keith

-
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Andrew Mary Rhodes
Samuel Hannah Rhodes
?

MUHLENBERG - Feniamin Landis

^ Ursula
Mary Casper Rowland
COUNTY -Descendant From
4 North Carolina

X Mathias Hunsinger
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" Mathew Hunsinger
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THE FINALE — AT LONG LAST!

Here, alongside the great Mississippi River , in Adams County , Illinois , we come to
the end of a History of the Hunsaker Family in Early America and Switzerland .
Up to this point the ever forward , ever westward movement of an integral Hunsaker
family whose activities and achievements could be followed and recorded so as to provide
a cohesive written account of their joint lives . But , here in the riverport city of Quincy
and the agrarian Adams County , Illinois , the family separated .
George and his family , and other descendants of Jacob Jr . , and his second wife , stayed
in Adams County , where descendants still reside. As we have noted , some family members
had branched off in Kentucky to go to Missouri . In the case of Jacob Jrs’ family all the
children by Polly Luce left Adams County and scattered in three directions; Abraham
joined the Mormon Church , made the historic march with the Mormon Battalion to Califor-
nia and eventually went to Utah in 1848 and to Nevada in 1849, and some of his sons
went to Arizona in 1875-84; Jacob T. , accompanied by sisters Nancy and Catherine who
had married Wigle brothers , went to the Oregon Territory ; John Luce went originally
to Austin , Texas and eventually tried to join Abraham in Utah but died just as he reached
the state at Santa Clara .
This present work compiles into one volume — —
an encyclopedia all the facts , in-
formation , beliefs and some guesstimates that several historians of various branches of
the family and other researchers have acquired over a cumulative total of perhaps a hun -
dred years regarding the Hunsaker family.
I owe a very special debt of gratitude to my nephew , Dr . Donald B . Croft , who came
to the rescue when the completed manuscript got bogged down in the quagmires of a com -
puter for three years until he got the project again afloat and through much tedious ef -
fort this final computer format was produced from my old -fashioned typewritten
manuscript .
It has been an interesting , difficult , rewarding and sometimes a maddening process
to ferret out this information and try to make sense of it all . I wouldn ’ t give up the ex-
—
perience for anything but I wouldn’ t do it again for anything either .

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 The Author
Q Maurice Hunsaker , the researcher -collector -writer of this History of the Hunsaker
Family , is one of twenty-two (1993) surviving grandchildren of Abraham Hunsaker , the
polygamous Mormon pioneer ancestor of the Utah Hunsakers . All Q ’ s life was wrapped
up in tales of the life and doings of Abraham as told to Q by his father Benham .

Benham wanted Q to write a

History of Abraham , so in 1957 Q co-
edited A History of Abraham and His
Family , in 1960 he researched and write
Hunsaker Burial Grounds, and now has
finally completed this encyclopedic
history of the entire family ( including a
translation of Die Hunziker von Aarau )
and traced the family from Hartman ’ s
arrival in 1731 across the then growing
US to Illinois in 1845 where the integral
group separated and some members went
to other parts of the country .

Q was born in 1916 and raised in

Ogden , Utah where he attended schools
through Junior College . He went to
Washington , D . C. in 1937 , worked for
the US Government and graduated from
Law School in 1941. In 1941 he was
assigned to the US Embassy in Buenos
Aires, Argentina , and was commission -
ed a Naval Officer in 1942 and became
an Assistant to the Naval Attache.

He married Hortensia Hartman in 1945 and returned to the US. They have three
children , Emilie , Michael and Sandra , and three grandchildren by Sandra , Taryn , Lind -
sey , and Hartman .

Q and Hortensia moved to San Diego in 1945 where Q remained active in the Navy
( with a sideline real estate business). He transferred to Washington , D .C. in 1949 and
transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency as a Career Officer in 1950. He served in
various Western Hemisphere locations until he retired in 1973.

In addition , Q was vice president of the Utah Family Organization from 1953-58 ,
president from 1958-61 , and was appointed Family Historian of the organization in 1965.

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 DIE HUNZIKER
VON AARAU

FAMILIENGESCHICHTE

EINES ALTEN AARAUER GESCHLECHTS

Aarau 1962

THE HUNZIKERS OF AARAU

Family History of an old Family of Aarau

This book was commissioned by the brothers Robert ( deceased ) and Guido Hunziker ,
written by Robert Oehler and printed by the firm of H. R. Sauerlaender & Co. in Aarau .

Introduction

My brother Robert Hunziker in Rheinfelden knew the many aspects of our closer family
relationships. He had the desire to gain a deeper insight into the relationships of the whole clan .
In 1957 he assigned Dr. Robert Oehler of Guemlingen to research and record the history of the
Hunzikers of Aarau . In that same year my brother passed away . He was not able to witness the
creation of the book .

His desire was a bequest to me . I renewed the assignment . It seemed worth the effort to
collect all the information available about the Hunzikers of Aarau and to show it in context .

In doing this the prevailing conditions of our hometown Aarau should be considered :
economical and political and their influence upon the family . Mr . Oehler has fulfilled this assign -
ment with the thoroughness for which he is known . He has shown an untiring thirst for know-
ledge. He has been very diligent . For all this I want to thank him at this time.

I owe a special debt of gratitude to my friend Professor Dr. Karl Schmid , old principal of
ETH, for the checking of the manuscripts , also to my cousin Gerold for his help in the designing
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of the book . The book about the Aarauer Hunzikers may now start its journey to those close
and distant relatives and other interested parties in city and country , who are filled with the
knowledge of their mutual origin and a love of their mutual hometown .

In the younger generation of our clan may it awaken and deepen a sense of tradition .

In any instance it will be able to give an overview of the clan whose roots can be traced
back to the middle ages. This may not represent an extraordinary family , but a family that
according to Gottfried Keller , belongs to the ‘"unmarked tribal wood of the nation .” This book
is dedicated to the grateful memory of my parents and my brother Robert .

Baden , AG , October 1961 Guido Hunziker

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 The Name

The family name Hunziker can without a doubt be traced back to a place name . In Swit-
zerland there are three places from which it can be derived : ( 1 ) The village of Hunziken in the
town of Rubigen in the Bern District of Konolfingen . ( 2) The hamlet Hunzikon in the town of
Geuensee in the Lucerne District Sursee on the slope of “ Hoehenzuges, ” which is the border of
the Suhrental in the east . ( 3) The small village of Hunzikon in the town of Waengi in the Nlurg
Valley of Thurgau halfway between Frauenfeld and Wil . *
Hunziken on the Aare is mentioned in a document of Sankt Gallen dating back to the 10 th
century: Bishop Eginold of Lausanne gave in May of 982 his own building at “ Huncinga in
pago Aregeuwe ” to the cloister of Sankt Gallen .

This village gave its name to the Hunzikcnbridge , the crossing of the Aare to Belp and the
Guerbe Valley .

Hunzikon near Waengi in Thurgau was formerly called Hunzikofen . The name of the
clan at Wil and the surrounding area and at Winterthur can be traced to it . Persons with this
name can be found between the 13 th and the 15 th century , Herr Henrich the Huntzinchower
was in 1271 at witness with the mayor of Wil . In 1407 Hans Hunzikofer , the miller at Bron -
chhofen near Wil , is documented .

Conrat der Huntzykoner was in 1313 a citizen of the city of Winterthur ; Heinrich of Hun -
zikon , kitchenmaster of the duke of Austria and mayor at Winterthur , is documented in 1405
and 1412.

As knights the city council clan of Winterthur has the name of the place with the origin
designation “ von ” ( of ). With all others having this name the place name was changed into a
family name by adding the ending - or

The place name itself , Hunzikon and Hunziken , the older form is Hunzingen ( Latin Hun
cinga ) can be traced back to the old German personal name of Hunzo. A Hunzo is mentioned as
-
a witness in a Sankt Galler document issued in Stammhcim in 822.

1 Place names according to

the “ Ortsbuch der Schweiz ” ( Gazetteer of Switzerland ), pub-
lished by the PTT in 1928. and the Ortslexikon ( Gazetteer ) published by Jacot , edition of 1933
On the new map oi Switzerland there is a difference in spelling: Hunzigen bei Rubigen (Sheet
Muensingen ) ; Hunziken near Geuensee ( Sheet Sursee) and Hunziken near Waengi (Sheet Wil ).

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 *

The name of the settlement goes back to the first settler Hunzo and the clan named after
him , the Hunzinge .

A different interpretation traces the place name Hunzikon back to the official designation
Hunno , Supervisor or Captain of a hundred ( Latin centenarius or tribunus). An attempt has
been made to trace the place name back to the national name of the “ Hunnen ” (Huns). However ,
the derivation from the personal name Hunzo is the most simple and believable one .

The town of Hunzcnschwil between Suhr and Lenzburg (in 1201 : Hunzeliswiler ) received
its name from the same personal noun .

Hunzikon near Geuensee and the First Persons Named After It

In a document of 996 the village of Geuensee is mentioned for the first time as Geinwiesen
In records of gifts to the cloister of Einsiedeln of the 10 th to the 14 th century , is the note that
a nobleman Werner gave to the cloister farms near Geinwiesen and Huntzingen The first list of
income of the cloister of 1217 / 22 notes the gift of a pound of the farm of Hunzikon : “ de Hun -
zingin talentum . ” In another record of 1272 two farms (Shuposen ) are mentioned in Huntzin-
gin , which were leased by Ulrich of Aarburg to a priest .

The name of the village up to the 15 th century is Hunzingen . Later on , it is changed to

Hunzikon .

The large settler listing of 1331 lists also the income “ Heimo of Huntzingen gives from the
farm at Tuna 8 shilling , from the farm of Schoenis 2 shilling and from Mr . Hugcs farm of Muen -
ster 2 shilling.” In Wetzwil , a settlement located two kilometers north of Hunzikon , lived in
1324 a Nycolaus de Huntzingen who from his farm gave a “ Maker Spelt ” ( I am not sure what
—
this means. A measure of something. Translator ) to the “ Stifts-schaffner ” (convent supervisor )
of Beromuenster . There also lived a Heimo de Huntzingen with 22 pfenningen tax ( or interest ) .

At about 1346 / 47 a Katharina de Huntzingen owned a farm at Wetzwil which had to pay
tribute to the city of Beromuenster. The same records show an H . ( Heinrich ? ) and Jo (hannes
de Huntzingen .

In Etzelwil , a village still further north near the Canton border between Lucerne and Aargau ,
a Rjchi of Krumbach had a farm . C (onrad ) in der Schuera and Johann Zimmermann were his
sponsors. A supplemental entry by a third person ( about 1400 ) mentions Johannes Rot as the
next owner and as his sponsor Jost Rot and Conradus Hunzinger

Since several persons with the name of Huntzingen live in Wetzwil in the 14 th century , can
this designation be interpreted as the family name ?

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PLACES OF RESIDENCE OF THE HUNZIKERS

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 Here again the older form is given with the preposition “ of ’ (von ). The younger form
with the ending -er about 1400. When the place name Hunzingen became Hunzikon , the family
name received the same form : Hunziker .

The spelling of the family names \vas at that time not strictly regulated but left up to the
opinion of the clerk until the 19 th century . Hence the records show the various spellings all
mixed up: z changes to tz ; k with ck and gck . Thus we find the various spellings: Hunziker ,
Huntziker , Hunzicker , Huntzigcker , etc . As can be said of family names which have been derived
from small settlements , the family name of Hunziker was first mentioned in the close vicinity of
the name giving hamlet of Hunzikon near Geuensee and has spread from there . At first , and this
already very early , the Suhren Valley downward to the villages of Reitnau , the two Leerau ,
Staffelbach , Schoeftland and Muhen ; in the side valleys to Kirch - and Scholssrued and to Botten -
wil into the valley of the Uerke , then turning east in the upper Wynen Valley to Gontenschwil ,
Leimbach and the two Kulm ; to the west into the valley of the Wigger , to Mauensee , Wauwil to
Zofingen and Oftringen .

The map of the old burgher places of the Hunzikers , which were found there as burghers
prior to 1800 and where their families were still represented in 1938 lists besides the already
mentioned villages the villages of Hendschiken , Unterboezberg , also Schwarzhaeusern and Wynau
in the Upper Aargau and Arisdorf in Baseband .

Population movements in the 19 th century led the Hunzikers to ten additional places, and
since 1901 to thirty more.

LEGEND FOR MAP ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF PAGE

* The name giving place - Hunziken near Geuensee

Former places of residence of Hunzikers , with the year when the family was first mentioned
there

• Old hometowns of the Hunzikers , still in existence

o Younger hometowns , Hunzikers became burghers in the 19 th century ( not marked are the
places where Hunzikers settled after 1900)

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The Council Clan of Hunziker of Sursee *

In close vicinity of Hunzikon , not quite an hour ( to walk ) lies the small city of Sursee ,
near the exit of the Sempacher Lake , founded by the count of Kyburg in the first third of the
13 th century . Here first mention is made of the council clan Hunziker .

P . X. Weber , the former city archivist of Lucerne , mentions in his paper “ To the Oldest
Family History of the City of Sursee ” as the first person of which the name can be documented
LLSBETH VON HUNTZINGEN She lived in 1361 as a Dominican in Neuenkirch near Sempach i
and 1390 as Priorin ( abbess of this small cloister).

At that time she purchased two farms at Geuensee for the cloister Her origin is not men -
tioned . However , at that time only members of nobility or city families were chosen as abbesses
of cloisters , thus it is reasonable to assume that Elizabeth belonged to the Hunzikers of Sursee.

The first person carrying the name known as a burgher of Sursee is Jenni Huntzinger ,
prefect in Michelsamt .
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The city of Sursee purchased in July of 1415 , shortly after it was conquered by the Lu -
cerners , from the barons of Gruenberg , the right to judge over Michelsamt for 650 guilders
Michelsamt was the district around the Cloister of Beromuenster , St . Michael . The city council
of Sursee appointed as prefect over this area their fellow citizen Jenni Huntzinger In January
i
of 1417 Prefect Jenni received from the city of Zuerich penal judicature , the higher jurisdiction
of Michelsamt . By paying the sum of 4500 guilders the city of Zuerich had received from King
Sigmund the penal judicature over all villages and towns which had formerly belonged to the
dukes of Austria , and was thus able to delegate part of it
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Jenni or Johann Huntzinger is mentioned in a document in connection with the abbot of
the Cloister of Beromuenster

He is probably identical with the Jenni Huntzinger , the innkeeper “ Zur Sonne ” (To the r
Sun ) in Sursee , who is listed in a “ Jahrzeitstiftung ” ( seasonal gift ) of his son -in -law Johann
Ulrich Schnider “ Zur Sonne ” and his daughter Gertrud Huntzingerin Also listed is his wife
Elisabeth and another daughter Anna Huntzinger. The daughters husband Hans Schnider was
mayor in Sursee in 1463. At that same time lived Uolmann or Ulrich Hunxingcr , who was mayor
in 1461 and with his wife Verena made a large gift .

A contemporary of Jenni ’s was Cueni von Huntzingen , who in the record of 1417 concern-
ing the Court rights of the Meierhofs of Sempach , is listed as a witness.

His name is in second place , right after that of the mayor of Sursee.

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 Other name carriers such as Werner de Huntzingen , Heimo de Huntzingen , Walter Huntzin -
ger , and Johannes Huntzinger the younger , are listed in the season book of the Church of Sursee
with their wives and daughters .

These entrees testify that in the 15 th century in the small city of Sursee the Hunziker clan
blossomed and was represented in the city council and had some importance .

The parish registers of Sursee , which are available from 1598 , show that the clan was still
living there at the beginning of the 17 th century .

In the city of Willisau a Bendicht Huntzinger is documented in 1561

A burgher of Willisau by the name of Kaspar Huntzigker , a tailor , was accepted as burgher
of Luzern in 1589.

The first Hunziker in Aarau can be documented about 1520. The main part of this book
deals with him and his descendants.

The First Three Generations:

Father of the Clan , Children and Grandchildren

The beginnings of the Hunziker clan in Aarau are in the dark , and little can be done to shed
light upon them

Only a single entry lists the name of the father of the clan . In the roll of the Severus
Brotherhood on page 11 the name Hans Huntziger is written on the margin

Prior to the reformation brotherhoods were well -liked ecclesiastical associations of priests
and lay members for the purpose of mutual worship services , to take care of graves , to read masses
for the deceased There were ten brotherhoods in Aarau . The roll of the Brotherhood of the holy
Severus or Severinus was started about 1516 and contains about 150 names of living and deceased
members .

Next to a few ministers and noblemen , as the priest Mr. Balthasar Hupli or Hans v . Hallwil ,
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tiie majority are names of burghers. Hans Huntzinger ( 1 ) is entered next to the name of Ulli
Blaeuenstein . Perhaps he lived in his house or was in some other connection with him . From the
proceedings and following names no conclusions can be drawn .

1The numbers in parenthesis after the name of the family fathers refer to their number on
the pedigree and overview charts.

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There is only one thing for sure , that is that the father of the clan lived prior to the intro-
duction of the reformation in Aarau . The entry was made between 1520 and 1525.

Nothing is known of him besides his name . Neither the reasons for his coming to Aarau ,
nor profession or home . Concerning his origin only guesses can be made . The oldest son Niklaus
married in the first marriage Dorothea Wirz from a well-respected family in Schoeftland . Perhaps
the Aarauer Hunzikers lived prior to this time in Schoeftland . However , any records that could
confirm this assumption , are not available there .
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On the other hand one could assume from the position of the sons in society - their quick
promotion to officers , the fact that Niklaus had his own seal and that one of his sons achieved
the highest office in the city , that of mayor - the Hunzikers could be a branch of the council clan
of Sursee . But again all proof is missing The question remains unresolved .

In 1880 in his notes of the family history , Hermann Hunziker -Springer mentions this prob-
ability concerning the origin of Sursee .

Tlie parish registers beginning in 1534 and other archive records of the city archive of Aarau
give some information about the second and third generation :

First we meet three Hunziker daughters: Verena , wife of Laurenz Staeglin or Imsteg , whose
six children are born between 1536 and 1546 ; then Kuengold with her husband Hans Brunner
and two children of 1 538 and 1544 , and finally Ursula as godmother at the baptism of Simon
Suter in April 1548 .

Then follow the two family fathers Niklaus with baptisms of nine children from July 1548
to June 1 580 from two marriages and Hans , who had his children baptized between July 1 55 1
and August 1567 .

All of the five name bearers may be considered as sons and daughters of the father of the
clan , Hans. Their births fall in the time between 1505 and 1525

More detailed information cannot be obtained , since there are no records of baptism and
marriages prior to the reformation . The season books ( Jahrzeitbuecher ) from time to time men -
tion the names of deceased relatives of the contributors, but no years.

NIKLAUS HUNZIKER ( 2) about 1510/ 20 to 1587 , presumably the oldest son of the clan
father , is the first Hunziker of Aarau , whose image is fairly clear . It is that of a respectable and
successful man , who besides his occupation served the city over four decades in different capa -
cities.

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 In 1544 his name is first listed on a tax list . At that time he was already married to Doro-
thea Wirz , for she is mentioned in April of 1544 as godmother of Hans Schmuziger as the wife
of Klaus Hunziker .

In 1547 Niklaus became a member of the court , 1550 as a burgher of the large city coun-
cil ; three years later he became a member of the middle council of the thirty and in 1566 in the
closer council . He received smaller offices such as that of a “ Stubenmeister ” (Chamber Master ) ,
Chorrichter ( ? ) , Einigers ( building master ). In 1561 he was given the important office of the
“ Seckelmeister ” ( treasurer ). He held this title from 1573 until his death .

As far a * the military is concerned , he was classified among the “ Scharwaechter ” (one
watching the group of people or group of soldiers) In 1561 he was a watchman at the Lauren -
zen Gate On the rolls ( Reisroedeln ) of 1 557 and 1560 he is listed as one who is equipped with
a spear In 1568 he is promoted to ensign . Most of these civil or military offices were voluntary
or rendered for a small remuneration .

His income must have come from his occupation , which unfortunately is not mentioned
in the archive records.

The tax lists show that Niklaus advanced economically and that his assets increased con -
stantly . His tax in 1544 was 4 shilling , in 1545 one pound or 20 shilling , in 1583 it increased
to 7 pounds. This would be equivalent to assets of 7000 guilders . From 1544 to 1 548 Niklaus
lived in a house on the old Ringwall near the Kaufhaus ( now a department store) , presumably in
the first house of the Pelzgasse next to the inner Laurenzen Gate . Heini Lengnauer , and then
Felix Goldenberg paid 18 pounds of rent to him ( Herrschaftszins). The tax records list before
and after him as neighbors: Squire Hans Wilhelm v . Muelinen , Agnes Hallwiler , Hans Buchser
and Margret Kallenberg , Squire of Wildenstein and Master Constans , the tanner . He was in good
company .

Two original letters of Niklaus Hunziker have been preserved in the letter collection of the
Zuerich State Archive , one of the 27 th of February 1549 to the mayor of Zuerich , Johannes
Haab , the second of 6 March 1549 to Heinrich Lochmann , the brother -in -law of Hunziker in
*
Zuerich .

The following can be learned from these letters: Hans Beat Holzhab, the son -in -law of
Mayor Haab , wanted to move with his family to Aarau , since he had had a fight with his brothers.
Through intermediaries he had purchased , for 500 guilders in the year 1548 , in Aarau the house
which Niklaus Hunziker had to sell . In accordance with the city laws of Aarau every buyer of a

1 Both letters are cited in full in the appendix of The Huntzikers of Aarau” ( pp . 173-176).

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house had to bring an affidavit from his hometown . Holzhab didn’ t present the affidavit , even
though the city council granted him extra time , since he had very respectable relatives in Zuerich .
He arrived with wife and child and four carriages of household goods in Aarau in the beginning
of 1549.

The rumor went around that Holzhab had been given a guardian in Zuerich and that he
was not able to spend his money without the guardian ’s approval .

-
Hunziker now asked the mayor ( his brother in-law) in Zuerich for more information . The i
Aarau city council asked Gregor Wolffhart to be his counsel , who was to take care of this matter
with Holzhab ( Letter of the city council of Aarau to the mayor of Zuerich of 18 March 1549).
How this matter was resolved is not known .

It is certain that Niklaus Hunziker since 1 550 ( the tax list for 1549 is missing ) lived in the
second story of a house ( in the block surrounded by the Pelzgasse , the Rathaus and Kronengasse
He also owned a barn in 1578 with a walled yard near the Laurenzen Gate.

A small ( Urbar ) tax list shows Niklaus Hunziker as owner of a property tax (or rent ) of i

the Zuercherhof in Egliswil , which annually brought 3 “ Muett Kernen ” (grains). Of his orchard
near the Aar he paid in 1551 io the Spital of Aarau 2 pounds. The first letter of Niklaus Hunzike
contains , besides the signature in his own handwriting, a seal: a coat -of-arms with a climbing dog
and the initials N . H . (see page 172) . The second letter indicates the relationship with Lochmann
The letter was addressed to Heinrich Lochmann ( 1511-1571 ), Council and Flag Lord of Zuerich
who had married Mergeli Wirtzin of Schoeftland in 1 534 .

Mergeli ’s sister was Dorothea Wirz , the first wife of Niklaus. He married Anna Huber in a
second marriage. Ursula Huber , who is called stepmother of the son Samuel in 1594 and 1 598
can be considered as the third wife .

The minutes of the city council of Aarau recorded the death of its treasurer : “ In the be-
ginning of February 1 587 died Herr Niklaus Hunzikdr , treasurer . ”

Hans Hunzikdr ( 3) about 1512/ 20 to 1579/ 80 can be considered as the younger son of the
father of the clan , in spile of the fact that his name is mentioned for the first time seven years
^
before that of Nicolaus . In the first “ Vaetzzehntrodel ” is an entry that states that a Junghans
Hunziker paid 18 shilling rent for his field in place of Rudolf Imhoff . The name Junghans ( the
young Hans) can only have reference to a son of the father of the clan , Hans.

1 Listing of barrellmush tithing. The rent for ground on which legumes ( beans , peas, len
-
tils) were raised , from which a well-liked mush was prepared , which was kept in barrels.

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 In the second “ Vaetzzehntrodel ” of 1542 Hans Hunziker is recorded several times and is
listed as a saddler. In 1556 and 1557 Hans was a fire watcher on the second floor . This floor
/

must not have reference to a floor in a house but to a certain part of the city . In 1571 he was
one of the judges in a trial .

On the tax rolls Hans Hunziker is mentioned for the first time in 1547, three years after his
brother . He lived in the house of his father-in -law , Urs Duerr , who was the prefect of Solothurn
at Goesgen and who , at the time of the religious upheaval in Solothurn , moved with his family to
Aarau .

In 1560 Hans paid 3 pounds interest from his farm near the Aar , which had been owned
by his father - in -law , the prefect Duerr .

His tax was 10 shilling in 1547 and climbed to 2 pounds and 5 shilling in 1560. In 1580
an additional tax is noted . In the following year the children of Hans are listed in the tax list .

He died presumably in 1579. His wife , Anna Ursula Duerr , died probably before him.

Both brothers, Niklaus and Hans Hunziker , took part in the great Aarauer festival of 1551 .

In response to an invitation of the Aarauers to Brugg on Shrove-Tuesday ( Fastnacht ) of 1540 ,

Aarau on the Tuesday next to the May Day of 1551 , on 28 April , invited the burghers of Brugg
as well as representatives of the cities of Lenzburg, Aarburg and Zofingen , as well as the nobility
and officials of the surrounding area . The guests were greeted by a delegation of the city council ,
among them Niklaus Hunziker , and accompanied to the Telli. The festivities and dinners took
several days. The dramatic story of Jephta was also performed under the open sky .

Hans Hunziker was among the burghers who watched from the tower and greeted them .
Both brothers are also mentioned among those burghers who served on the tables.

For their overnight stay the guests were , in accordance with their rank , distributed to the
various houses . The most prominent one came to the house of the mayor v Heidcgg and in that
of the city recorder , then in the houses of Jochem Schmuziger , Bastian Kueniger and Hans Haberer .
The house of Hans Hunziker was on sixth place . He had five guests: Jakob Blum , Hans Burkart ,
Ulrich Singenberg , Ulrich Knuchler and Ulrich Puerli . On ninth place , after Hans Lauber and Hans
Saxer , followed Niklaus Hunzikdr with six guests: Adam Ertlieb , Konrad Wyss , Lienhard Kraft ,
Heinrich Saegissenmann , Jakob Haus and Junghans Zimmerman . The houses of Rudolf Buchser
and Bastian Hammerschmied were mentioned after him .

This was one of the few great festivals on which the Aarauer burghers interrupted their day -
to-day chores and their work to enjoy with their guests some happy hours and to share their wealth
with them .
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 The city recorder Gabriel Meyer , which is called the most important city recorder of old
Aarau by Walther Merz , has described in the minutes of the city council this unique festival in
all its details .

Since both Hunziker brothers starting in 1550 until their death owned houses in the second
story , we want to list from the tax register of 1550 this entire section : Co ^
1) Cunrad Berwart , 5 shilling
2) Uli Hammerschmied , 3 shilling
3) Marti Pfaff , 3 shilling
4) Niclaus Hunziker , 1 pound 5 shilling
5) Uli Pcyer , 12 shilling
6) Meister Peter Hanz , 3 shilling
7) Cunrad Fellenberg , 10 shilling
8) Hans Huntziker , 14 shilling
9) Bartli Kramer , 4 shilling
10) Melchoir Richener , 10 shilling
11 ) Heinrich Wadtlich , 4 shilling
12) Jochem Schmuzinger , 2 pounds 5 shilling
13) Marquart Pfister , 1 pound
14 ) Hans Stuber , 3 shilling
15) Bastian Kuniger , 4 shilling
16) Hans Buchegger , 1 pound 4 shilling
17) Hans von Kulm , 1 pound
18) Urs Barger , 3 shilling
19) Uli Haas , 4 shilling

The third generation includes 21 grandchildren of the father of the clan , 15 sons and 6 dau -
ghters. We list here the name bearers of which more is known than just the name and the baptis-
mal date .

The pedigree in the second mainpart gives a complete overview .

The first son of Niklaus and Dorothea Wirz , Hans Rudolf ( 2a ) , born in 1548 , was obviously
called Hans and to differentiate from his uncle was called Junghans. In the tax lists from 1565 to
1567 a Junghans appears immediately after Niklaus, with a tax of 1 pound and 16 shilling. Accord
ing to the tax list of 1569 Junghans paid a tax of 2 guilders for the defense of the city . In 1572
he is mentioned among those who are equipped with an armour and a halpart . Nothing is men -
tioned about him after 1572. He died single or moved away from Aarau .

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 Katharina born in 1552 , the first daughter of Niklaus , married Hans Kyburz from an Aarau
family that is first mentioned in 1401.

Three other daughters can be put in the gap between baptisms of 1552 and 1562: Mar -
garctha born about 1553/ 55 , the wife of Leonhard Kasthofer , whose father , the coppersmith
Leonhard Kasthofer , was adopted as a burgher in 1572. Dorothea , born about 1557/ 58 , the
first wife of Hans Rudolf Imhoff , of the older Aarauer branch . She died prior to 1598. Barbara,
born about 1559/ 60 , the wife of Jakob Baerwart , who in 1590 and 1591 was the mayor of the
city .

Niklaus ( 4 ) 1563 until 1627 inherited his father ’s abilities . He was first given smaller
offices , Kaufhausmeister (overseer of the store) , meat estimator , and caretaker of the church .
He became treasurer in 1597 , a year later governor (StatthJter) of the mayor and in January of
1600 mayor . Alternately with his predecessor Isaak Koelliker and later with Heinrich Eger ,
Niklaus was the first Hunziker to hold this highest office of the city during seven turns in office
until 1627.

Some documents issued during his tenure , bearing his seal , have been preserved. In the
weapons list of 1582 Niklaus is listed as a bearer of a rifle and in 1589 as the owner of a musket.
In 1597 he participated on the Aarauer expedition to Muehlhausen . He became Flag Lord in
1603. He is first listed in the tax list in 1584 , at the end of the last circle on the Ringwall . After
the death of his father he moved into his house on the second story . According to Rychner’s
Genealogy , he received as a gift , while renovating his house , a window with the coat -of -arms.

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 Hunziker Pedigree

Introduction

To avoid too many names and dates in the text , this pedigree has been added. It contains,
according to individual families, the names and exact biographical data of the Hunziker marriage
partners and their children , in addition biographical notes , source references.

The family fathers and husbands carry a number ( 1 - 205) according to their position
within the fourteen generations. The children in their groups of brothers and sisters have been
designated with a letter in lower caps. All godparents are given for families 2 and 3. Down to
die eighth generation only those godparents are mentioned which came from the Hunziker
Family or which give special information .

The sons who got married have at the end of their line a number , under which they appear
as husbands . Single sons and all daughters are designated by the number of their father and their
position letter .

The most important genealogical sources for the families of Aarau are the original parish
registers in the city archive . They start in 1534 with baptismal entries , 1544 with marriages and
1673 with deaths. They are replaced in 1876 by civil registers . Hereto are added the official
burgher registers of the city started in 1820 , and the family registers started in 1928.

The city archive possesses two private handwritten genealogical books for the Aarauer
families: Daniel Rychner 1790 - 1849 has in his Burgher Register of the City of Aarau from the
oldest to the present times , for the first time compiled pedigrees of the Burgher Families. Wilhelm
-
Hcmmeler 1843 1915, a clerk in Aarau , has in years of volunteer labor indexed all parish reg -
isters up to 1816 The loose leafs are filed according to families in folders and in 24 boxes . This
Family Register of the City of Aarau indexes the parish registers and gives an overview of the
contents of the originals.

- -
The Coat -of Arms Book of the City of Aarau by Walther Merz 1868 1938 , printed in
-
1917 , contains besides the coats-of arms and seals pertinent historical explanations about every
generation and practical abbreviated pedigrees up to 1800.

A pedigree with an historical introduction and overview concerning the living Hunzikcrs
is found in volume VII of the Swiss Family Book ( Schweizerisches Geschlechterbuch ), 1943 ,
pages 783-791.

Checked besides the genealogical sources were the documents from the printed document
book and many archive records of the city archive. Many council manuals from the 16 th to the

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 18 th century. Also Orphan books , apprentice books, records about the trades, commerce and
some tax records, etc. Also the folder “ Hunziker ” in the family records of the city archive.

The tax records were checked systematically for the time from 1534 to 1797 for Hunziker
entries. Thus it was possible to determine the year of death for most of the family fathers , even
.
for the time prior to the beginning of the death records , at least approximately The fact that
from a certain year on taxes are paid by the wife and children instead of the husband gives an
indication of the year of death . The tax records also indicate in which area the taxpayers had
their residence .

More exact information about the houses has been able to be obtained through the
“ Herrschaftszinsrodel ” ( tax records of the landowners) , as far as they have listed the houses in
the city and their owners They have been prepared in the following years : No. 6: 1536 ;
No . 7: 1578 ; No . 8: 1591 ; No . 9: 1603 ; No . 10: 1625 ; No . 11 : 1633 ; No. 12: 1642; No. 13:
1651 ; No. 14: 1660.

Besides sources in the city archive of Aarau and a few pieces in the state archive , two fam-
ily archives of the Hunzikers have been checked . One of the family archives of the branch of
Johann Georg by Gerold Hunziker in the Laurenzenyorstadt and that of the Berner branch by
Mrs . Ruth Hunziker PhD in Bern .

The individual sections of the pedigree are organized as follows:

The. name , the number of the individual family father and the relationship (son of ) , the
date of birth ( prior to 1800 the baptismal date ) and the death date. Age in years (j), months
(m ), weeks ( w), and days ( t ) are added , if they are contained in the parish registers prior to
1875 . Then in key words occupation , as far as known , the officers with year . From the tax
registers (St ) the residence , and length of time the family father is mentioned there . In parenthe-
sis the amount of the first and last tax in pounds and shillings , after 1750 in guilders and farthings .
Then follows what can be taken from the Herrschaftszinsroedeln ( Hzr ) from the time from prior
to 1660 concerning the houses of residence and those who owned them prior to and after the
time owned by Hunzikers .

The information about the place and date of marriage introduces the section for the wife ,
second and third marriages are included . Then follows the child group with the names and dates
of birth and death. With the married sons also the name of the wife and the number of sequence .
With the daughters their marriage date and information about the son -in -law.

The name by which the person is called is set in italics. At the end are data about the
genealogical sources and short critical remarks. The following signs and abbreviations are used:

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With the dates: * - born ; —— —
christened ; oo married ; o /o
godparent ; . . . . date or place missing
— divorced ; t — died ; P —

——— —
St A City Archive Aarau ; St Tax REgister (City Archive III , No. 36 51);
Hzr Herrschaftszinsroedel (City Archive III , No 62)
-
—
BR Burgher Register of the City ; FR Family Register ( both located in the civil registrar’s
office in Aarau )
—
Ry Rychner ’s Burgher Register (City Archive IV , No . 4 )
He - Hemmeler ’s Genealogy Book (City Archive IV , No . 5)
Mz - W Merz , Pedigree Hunziker in the Coats-of - Arms Book of Aarau , 1917

Father of the Gan

HANS HUNZIKER ( 1 ) , born ( about 1480/ 90)

In Aarau prior to 1 S 26 Mentioned only once in the register of the Brotherhood S Severi
at Aarau , about 1 S 20 / 25 -

Wife unknown

Children ( Sequence uncertain )

a ) Niklaus , born ( about 1 510/ 20) ; died February 1587 ; oo 1 ) Dorothea Wirz , — 2

b) Hans , born ( about 1 51 5 / 20) , died about 1579/ 80; oo Anna Ursula Duerr , — 3

c) Verena , born . . (prior to 1520), wife of Laurenz Staegli or Zumsteg; they have six
children baptized between August of 1536 and February 1546

d ) Kuengold , born . . . ( prior to 1 520) , wife of Hans Brunner , ( they have two children
baptized between 1538 and 1 543)

e) Ursula , born . . . ( about 1 525 ) , mentioned as godmother of Simon Suter 15 April 1548

Mz , The History of the City of Aarau , p. 128; Coats-of -Arms Book , p . 131 ; Sta ; Brotherhood
list D 1 , No. 17, p . 11 .

The origin of the father of the clan is uncertain The social position of the sons , their relationship
with tiie Wirz of Schoeftland and Prefect Duerr as well as the quick advancement of the descen-
dants in the council and the office of mayor leads to the assumption , that Hans came from the
Hunzikers of Sursee.

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 4

-
—
HANS HEINRICH IIUNZIKER (43), Sohn von Hans Rudolf ( 24) und Anna Ehr
sam. Aarau , 21.Marx 1652, t
Seckler (Sattler )
... ( um 1689)

St : Ringmaucr 1673-1687 ; III. Stock 1688/1689 (100 bis 1 U )

..
oo ( vermutlich ) I ) . ( um 1674 )

—
ANNA BAUR , Tocbter des Georg Baur und Margreth Scnger
Aarau , 17. M 5 rz 1644
oo II ) ... (vermutlich um 1684 )

—
SARA KYBURZ, Tochter von Josua und Susanna Pflegel
Aarau , 23. Dezember 1660
& ie co II ) Aarburg, 16. August 1695 Jakob Fahlmann , von Aarburg PERTINENT
— —
Kinder , Aarau , von I :
..
——
a ) Hans Jakob , 4. Juli 1675, f . ( vor September 1679)
b ) Johanna , 18. Februar 1677
c) Hans Jakob, ~~ 13.September 1679 ( P. Hans Jakob Hunzikcr )
d ) Daniel, 3. Dezcmber 1682
GENEALOGY
PAGES
t> on II :
e) HANS HEINRICH,
— 5. Juli 1685, f 15. Februar 1764

——
<» .Anna Katbariua Buefi, = 67
f ) Katbarina , 16.0ktober 1687
g ) Hans Rudolf , l . Januar 1689, lebt vermutlich 1725 nls Schulmeister zu
Waltbeim bei Landau ( Pfalz )
.
Ry, He 42, Mz Nacb Mx Sobn von Hans Heinrich (27 )

FELIX HUNZIKER (44), Sohn von Ham Rudolf (24) und Anna Ehrsam
— Aarau , 29. April 1655, f ... ( urn 1688)
-
St : I. Stock 1677 1689 (10 0 )
co Aarau , 15. Januar 1677

— —
MAGDALENA KYBURZ, Tochter von Josua und Susanna Pflegel
Aarau , 21.0 klobcr 1655

—— —
Kinder ,
a ) Felix ,
b ) Anna ,
Aarau :
25. Dezember 1678
4. April 1680 ( P: Jakob Hunziker , Metzger )

—
Sechsie Folge

— ——
c ) Hans Jakob, 12. November 1682
d ) Josua, 5. Januar 1684
e) Johanna , 1. August 1686
f ) Katbarina , 12. Mai 1689
( HANS ) JAKOB HUNZIKER ( 45), Sobn von Hans Heinrich (26 ) und Anna Maria
Camper , Aarau , 30. April 1654,\ Aarau , 14. August 1705, 52 j.
Metzger , zu Burgern 1704, Cborrichter 1706
St : IV. Stock 1675 1689 ; Ringmauer 1690 1704 (3 U bis 5 U 10 0). 1704-1719
- -
Ry, He 39, niebt Mz seine Frau
co Aarau , 31. Mai 1675
206

— —
MARIA LUPOLD, Tochter von Samuel und Katbarina Frank
Aarau , 31. Mai 1657, f Aarau , 19.0 ktobcr 1719, 62 j .

-—
Kinder , Aarau :
a ) Daniel , 14. Mai 1676, f Aarau , 24. August 1704
...
——
b) Jakob, 17. Februar 1678, f 1696
c) HANS GEORC, 5. September 1680, f 18. Januar 1766
°° Maria Jakobea Rychner, = 68

— ——
d ) Katharine , 23. Juli 1682, f ... ( vor Juni 1696 )
.
e ) Hans Heinrich , 13. April 1684, f . . ( vor Miirz 1701 )
f ) Samuel, 24. April 1687
g ) Anna Maria , 8. Dezember 1689 ( P: Daniel Hunziker )

——
co ... Johann Anton Frey, 1668, von Lenzburg
*
..
b) SAMUEL, 12. April 1692, f . 1773; co Margaretba Jenner , = 69

——
i) Johannes ,
k ) Katbarina ,
27. Januar 1695

Bern , Salzkommissar in Aarburg

..
14. Juni 1696 ; <o ( vermutlich ) . April 1720 Abraham Jaggi,

—
1) Hans Jakob, 12. Dezember 1697
ra ) Hans Heinrich , 13. Mara 1701, f Aarau , 8. November 1767, 67 j. 8 m ., ledig,
des Rats ( P: Heinrich Hunziker )
Ry, He 37, Mz

—
HANS RUDOLF HUNZIKER (46 ), Sohn von Uriel ( 27 ) und Ursula Pfaff
..
Aarau , 5. Februar 1671, f . ( vermutlich um 1693)
Schulmeister in Erlinsbach (1690 1693) -
co Erlinsbach , 4. Juli 1690

—
MAGDALENA RICKLI von Brugg, Tocbter von Balthasar und Barbara Beck ,
Brugg, 23. Juni 1665

—— —
Kindts , a Erlinsbach , b-d Aarau :

—— —
a ) Johanna , .. Marz 1693 ( P : Hans Heinrich Hunziker )
b ) Barbara , 1. September 1695
c) Magdalena , 14. Februar 1697 ( P: Magdalena Hunziker )
d ) Veronika , 10. April 1698 ( P : Hieronymus Hunziker )
Ry , He 44, niebt Mz. Laut Ry Sobn von Hans Rudolf (45)

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