Jacob Hinkle

---

---

Husband Jacob Hinkle

---

           Born: Apx 1730 - New Hanover, Pa
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: George Rudolphus Henckel (1701-1788) 1
         Mother: Anna Maria (      -      )

---

---

---

Wife

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

Children

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Jacob Hinkle

---

CENSUS:

<pre>1790 Rowan Co., North Carolina
Jacob Hinkle 100; no slaves
males >= 16 1
males < 16 0
females 0 </pre>

<pre>1800 Rowan Co., North Carolina, Salisbury
Jacob Hinkle 00001 -- 0011; no slaves, one other free person
male female
<10
10-15
16-25 1
26-44 1
1 >45 </pre>

RLH:

The following is from a research article sent to me by Robert L. Hess of Oakland, California. See notes under George Rudolph Henckel. According to The Henckel Genealogy (pgs 154-55) the children of George Rudolph were George, John Balthasar, Philip Christopher, Jacob, Margaret, Henry, and other daughters. Recent research shows that this list was correct, though incomplete. Numbers in brackets indicate notes.

Jacob[57] Hinkle, born about 1730 (estimate[59]) in New Hanover Township, (now) Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He moved to the Monocacy Settlement in Maryland with his parents about 1737 and grew up on his parents' farm there. It appears that for most of his life Jacob remained near his parents. On 30 Sep 1767 Jacob Hinkell accompanied his father George Hinkell to Annapolis, where they were both naturalized as citizens.[48] Four months later Jacob Hinkle received from his father, in Jan 1768, a deed to part of the latter's land (Narrow Bottom and George's Lot) in Frederick County, Maryland,[8] and received a gift deed for his parents' house and personal belongings.[49] Jacob Hinkle paid the quit-rents on these two tracts each year from then until the end of the tax records there in l773.[43] On 3 Jun 1769 he was a communicant at newly established St. Peter's Lutheran church at Woodsboro, Maryland.[51] By 1772 Jacob had moved to what is now Davidson County (until 1822 part of Rowan County), North Carolina and lived there through at least 1800.[52,60,61] In the meanwhile, the lands of Jacob Hinkle and his father George in Frederick County, Maryland, showed evidence of their owners' absence, for the deed books there showed these lands were sold and re-sold by persons who, it turned out, did not own them. In 1797 Jacob Hinkle of "Roan" [Rowan] County, North Carolina, visited Frederick County, Maryland, to sell his lands (Narrow Bottom and George's Lott) and his interest in his deceased father's land (Long Bottom) there.[62,63] Jacob "signed" these deeds by making his mark (X). He is probably the Jacob Hinkle of Rowan County who died in 1814; his will dated 29 Jan 1814 left everything he owned (which was very little) to three friends.[64] There is no evidence that Jacob married or had progeny.[65]

NOTES for JACOB HINKLE:

8. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book L, page 346:
20 Jun 1768, George Hinkle of Frederick County, Maryland, conveyed to Jacob Hinkle of same county a tract called Narrow Bottom on Israel's creek above fork of said creek, 25 acres; also land called George's Lot in Frederick County bounded on land called Long Bottom taken up by William Lux, 31 acres. Consideration 30 pounds. Mary, wife of George released her dower right. (Annotated later, "examined and a copy delivered to Jacob Hinkle 16 Dec 1784").
43. Maryland Debt Books (original manuscript volumes at the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, that list land tracts, their owners, and quit-rents owed each year 1756 through 1773):
George Hinkle (of Israel Creek):
1766 and 1767, Narrow Bottom, 25 acres
1767, Georges Lott, 31 acres
1769 through [end of the records] 1773, Long Bottom, 120 acres. (In 1770 this tract was annotated "ch[arge] to John Hopkins")
1769 through 1773, part of Resurvey on Coopers Alley, 3 acres. (In 1770 this tract was annotated "Frederick House's land.")
Jacob Hinkle:
1769 through 1773, Narrow Bottom, 25 acres
1769 through 1773, Georges Lott, 31 acres
William Lux:
1756 through 1766, Long Bottom, 120 acres
48. Maryland Provincial Court Judgments, Book DD-13, Oct 1767.
49. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book L, page 345 (20 June 1768, George Hinkle deeded to son Jacob all personal belongings, including the former's house).
51. Register of St. Peter's Lutheran church, Woodsboro, Frederick County, MD, under communicants:
12 May 1768 (at the first communion held at this church):
Margr. Barbara Hinkel, wife of George,
3 Jun 1768:
Georg Hünkel
Jacob Hünkel
Henrich Hünkel
Georg Henrich Hünkel and wife Anna Barbara.
52. Tax rolls of Rowan County, NC (as published by J.W. Linn, Rowan County, North Carolina, Tax Lists 1757-1800, 1995):
1772, Tax List of James Smith, (whose area was what is now Davidson County): George Hinkle and Jacob Hinkle, 2 polls.
1778, Tax List of Capt. D. Smith's District (in what is now Davidson County): George Hinkle, 253£; Jacob Hinkle 1 poll.
1784, Tax List of Capt. Frederick Smith (in what is now Davidson County): Jacob Hinkle, 200 acres; no George Hinkel listed.
57. Correspondence from John F. Dern of Redwood City, CA, to Robert L. Hess, Oakland, CA, 6 Aug 1993:
"About 1787, #521 [Rev.] Paul Hinkel listed the children of Georg Henkel, son of the 'ersten Henkel' [the first Henkel in America, Anthony Jacob Henckel], as: George, Balser, Jacob, Margret Schmit, Philip, Jo___. He knew them all ... I have never settled on ... a plausible reason for the order in which he listed them."
59. Henckel Genealogical Bulletin; page 1422 (in 1787 a letter from the Rev. Paul Henckel, great-grandson of Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, reported that his father's cousin Jacob of Rowan County, NC, was "already an old man," suggesting that Jacob was perhaps the same generation as Paul's father, Jacob Henckel, who was born in 1733).
60. U.S. Census, Rowan County, NC, 1790:
Jacob Hinkle: 1 male over 16 years of age (alone)
61. U.S. Census, Rowan County, NC, 1800:
Jacob Hinkle: 1 male over 45 years of age; 1 female
26-45, and 1 female 16-26.
62. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book WR-16, page 116 (19 Dec 1797, Jacob Hinkle of "Roan" County, NC, to H. Nelson of Frederick County, MD, for 40 pounds, 26 1/2 acres part of Georges Lott, and Jacob's one-third undivided interest in Long Bottom, 120 acres.)
63. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book WR-16, page 115 (19 Dec 1797, Jacob Hinkle of Roan [Rowan] County, NC, sold to J. Iler of Frederick Co., MD, for 40 pounds, 4 1/2 acres part of Georges Lott, and 25 acres called Narrow Bottom.)
64. Jacob Hinkle's will, Rowan County, NC, Will Book G, page 327; probated Nov 1814.
65. No wife appeared in court to give consent when Jacob sold the land in Maryland in 1788,[63,64] and in the 1790 census in North Carolina, Jacob Hinkle was obviously living alone.

HENCKEL GENEALOGICAL BULLETIN:

The following description is part of an article by Robert L. Hess in the Spring 2005 (Vol 36, No 1) issue of the Henckel Genealogical Bulletin about George Rudolphus Henckel (q. v.) and his children. Numbers in brackets indicate notes which follow.

Jacob Hinkle[89] [HG#44] was born about 1730 (estimate),[90] probably in New Hanover Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. No date of birth, baptism, or death found in available Lutheran church records. He moved to the Monocacy settlement in Maryland with his parents about 1737 and grew up there on his parents' farm.

It appears that he remained with his parents, as his name was documented in close association with that of his father George over the span of many years. On 30 September 1767, Jacob Hinkell accompanied his father George Hinkell on a trip to Annapolis, where they presented affidavits of their communion at the Lutheran church at Frederick and were naturalized as citizens.[91] Four months later Jacob Hinkle received from his father on 20 June 1768, a deed to the latter's 25-acre tract of land, Narrow Bottom, and the 31-acre tract, George's Lot, both in Frederick County, Mary1and.[92] And that same day George Hinkle made the following gift deed to his son Jacob:

I, George Hinkle of Frederick County . . . in consideration of the love, good will, and affection which I have and bear towards my son Jacob Hinkle of the county aforesaid have given . . . to [him] . . . all and singular my goods, wares, ready money, household stuff, implements, chattels, leases, and all the other things to me belonging, . . . both real and personal . . . as well as the messuage or tenement with the appurtenances wherein I now dwell . . . absolutely without any manner of condition, as I the said George Hinkle have of my own accord set and put the said Jacob Hinkle in full possession of the above mentioned premises the 20th day of June 1768.[93]

On 3 June 1769, Jacob "Hünkle" was a communicant at newly established St. Peter's Lutheran church, Woodsboro, in company with [his father] Georg "Hünkle," [brother] Henry Hünkle, and ["the other"] Georg Hünkle with wife Anna Barbara.[94] Jacob Hinkle paid the quit-rents on the Narrow Bottom tract, 25 acres, and Georges Lott, 23 acres, each year from then until the end of the tax records there in 1773.[95]

Jacob then moved to what is now Davidson County but until 1822 was part of Rowan County, North Carolina. There he and [his father] George Hinkle were listed as "polls" (white adult males) when the tax rolls began there in 1772. In 1778 Jacob Hinkle was again listed as a "poll" in the Rowan County tax list, while George Hinkle was taxed that year on property assessed at 253 pounds. In 1784, George Hinkle was gone from the Rowan County tax rolls, but Jacob continued to be listed there in 1784 and 1796.[96] In the 1790 Federal Population Census, Jacob was enumerated in Rowan County, and again in 1800.

In the meanwhile, the lands of Jacob Hinkle and his father George Hinkle in Frederick County, Maryland, showed evidence of their owners' absence, for deed books in Frederick County showed they were sold and re-sold by persons who, it turned out, did not own them.[99]

Then in 1788, Jacob's father -- now residing in Virginia -- died, leaving to his wife Mary "the third part of the land that is in Maryland that my son Jacob has in hand. . ."[100] In 1797 "Jacob Hinkle of Roan [Rowan] County, North Carolina" was in Frederick County, Maryland, for the purpose of selling his lands there (including a part that had been appropriated by the sheriff in 1781, already twice sold). Jacob evidently succeeded in establishing his legal case of ownership, for it is recorded that on 19 December 1797:

Jacob Hinkle of "Roan" County, North Carolina, sold to Henry Nelson of Frederick County, Maryland, part of George's Lott, 26 1/2 acres, and Jacob's one third undivided interest in Long Bottom, 120 acres. Consideration 40 pounds. And on the same day Jacob of "Roan" County, North Carolina, sold to John Iler of Frederick County, Maryland part of Georges Lott (4 1/2 acres) and the tract of 25 acres called Narrow Bottom. Consideration 40 pounds. Jacob "signed" both of these deeds by making his mark (X).[101]

He is probably the Jacob Hinkle of Rowan County who died in 1814; his will dated 29 January 1814 left everything he owned (not much) to three friends.[102] There is no evidence that Jacob ever married or had children.[103] Nevertheless, he played a key role in this genealogy, for through him we have confirming evidence that his father George Hinkle of Israel Creek was (HG#4] George Rudolph Henckel.[104]

NOTES:

89. Jacob was identified as a son of [HG#4] George [Rudolph] Henckel in Rev. Paul Henckel's letter of about 1787 and was thus identified (correctly) in The Henckel Genealogy. Articles in the Henckel Genealogical Bulletin agreed that the Jacob Henckel described here was a son of the George Hinkle who in the 1760s resided on Israel Creek in Frederick County, Maryland, but disagreed that the latter could have been [HG#4] George Rudolph Henckel (9:340, Spring 1978). Further research and analysis, however, showed that it was not necessary to preclude this possibility (Henckel Genealogical Bulletin 35:1385-86, Spring 2004).
90. Rev. Paul Henckel's letter of 1785 reported that his father's cousin Jacob of Rowan County, NC, was at that time "already an old man," suggesting that Jacob was perhaps of the same generation as Paul's father [HG#52] Jacob Henkle, who was born in 1733.
91. Maryland Provincial Court Judgements Book DD-13, October 1767. Doubts were expressed previously that these two could have been [HG#4] George Rudolph Henckel and his son Jacob; Henckel Genealogical Bulletin 9:340 (Spring 1978) and 27:1067 (Fall 1996). However, in view of the fact that [HG#7] Catharine Appel is known to have gone through the same naturalization process six months earlier, it is very difficult to see why not.
92. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book L:346.
93. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book L:345
94. Register of St. Peter's Church at Woodsboro, Frederick County, MD.
95. Maryland Debt Books.
96. Rowan County, North Carolina Tax Lists, area now in Davidson County: 118-20, 138-40, 238-39, 343-44.
99. At some time between 1773 and 1781, one Valentine Iler appears to have somehow come into possession of part of this land, for on 6 July 1781 the sheriff of Frederick County seized from him the 120 acres of Long Bottom, 26 1/2 acres of Georges Lott and 8 1/2 acres of adjacent Carmacks Advice as a fine for payment of a misdemeanor committed by Iler (Frederick County, MD Special Court, 6 July 1781.) The sheriff then sold this land to someone named B. Musgrave in October 1781 (Frederick County Deed Book WR-2: 1116). Musgrave then sold this land to H. Nelson in 1787 (Frederick County Deed Book WR-7:375), the year before George Hinkle died. Nelson then caused Long Bottom, the 26 1/2 acres of Georges Lott, and some additional acreage to be resurveyed in 1793 and re-patented as Long Bottom Extended (Maryland Land Records Book IC-G:444; and Book IC-I:678): 239 acres, based on a survey on 4 December 1793 and a special warrant to resurvey "120 acres (originally to Wm. Lux 10 August 1750)." In March 1795 Henry Nelson obtained, for the nominal charge of 5 shillings, a legal release of claim to Long Bottom from heirs of the original owner William Lux (Frederick County, MD, Deed Book WR-13:89).
100. Will of George Hinkle, Frederick County, VA, Will Book 5:199.
101. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book WR-16:115-16.
102. Rowan County, NC, Will Book 0:327; probated November 1814.
103. No wife appeared in court to give consent when Jacob sold land in Maryland in 1788 (Frederick County, MD, Deed Book WR-16:115-17). In the 1790 census of Rowan County, NC, Jacob Hinkle was obviously living alone.
104. Paul Henkel's letter of 1785: Jacob Hinkle of Rowan County, North Carolina, "was my father's first cousin" ("Henckel Genealogical Bulletin" 3:101, Spring 1972). Family historian Mary Harter proposed that the Rev. Paul Henckel may have intended to write Lincoln County, rather than Rowan County, implying that he referred to "Jacob Hinkle of Spread Eagle," who in 1785 resided in Lincoln County, NC ("Henckel Genealogical Bulletin" 14:553, Spring 1983). It turns out that the latter was also a first cousin of Paul's father (see Henckel Genealogical Bulletin 33:1306-7, Fall 2002); however, there is no reason to assume that Paul was referring to the latter, rather than to the Jacob Hinkle who during the 1780s did then reside in Rowan County.

THE HENCKEL GENEALOGY:

The following is on page 155 of The Henckel Genealogy:

44 Jacob Hinkle, probably born in Frederick County, Maryland. No date of birth, baptism, death, or marriage found in available Lutheran Church records. Jacob Hinkle received from his father on January 20, 1768, a deed to a 25 acre tract of land called "Narrow Bottom" and a 31 acre tract George's "Lot" both in Frederick County, Maryland (Deed Book L, page 345). Jacob Hinkle moved to North Carolina, where he resided in Rowan County in 1797. Note the following land transactions:

"(Deed Book W R 16, page 115). On December 19, 1797, Jacob of Roan (Rowan) County, North Carolina deeded to John Iler of Frederick County, Maryland: part of 'George's Lott', four and one-half acres, and a tract of 25 acres called 'Narrow Bottom'. Consideration 40 pounds. Recorded Frederick County, Maryland December 23, 1797. (Signed) Jacob (X) Hinkle. Witnessed: Jno. Gwinn; Ja. Sim Smith.

(Same Book and date, page 116). Jacob Hinkle of Roan (Rowan) County, North Carolina deeded to Henry Nelson of Frederick County, Maryland: part of 'George's Lott', 26 1/2 acres, and tract of 120 acres called 'Long Bottom'. Consideration 40 pounds. Recorded Frederick County, Maryland December 23, 1797. (Signed) Jacob (X) Hinkle. Witnesses: Jno. Gwinn; Jos. Sim Smith."

Note: The above deeds not signed by wife of Jacob Hinkle, who was probably single or a widower on the above date.

1 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 21, 151-153.