John Hinkle and Ursula Brightwell

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Husband John Hinkle

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           Born: 13 Apr 1746 - New Hanover, Pa
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         Father: George Rudolphus Henckel (1701-1788) 1
         Mother: Anna Maria (      -      )

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       Marriage: 25 Mar 1781 - Frederick, Md

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Wife Ursula Brightwell

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Hinkle

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CENSUS:

<pre>1790 Frederick Co., Maryland; pg 159
John Hinkle 204; no slaves
males >= 16 2
males < 16 0
females 4 </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.

John[1] (Johannes[26]) Henkel born possibly in the 1740s. A Johannes Henkel who might be he was born 13 Apr 1746 and baptized two weeks later in (now) Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.[26,61] A John Hinckel served as an ensign (junior officer) in a Frederick County, Maryland, militia company in 1776[84] and married Ursula ("Nussy") Brightwell on 25 Mar 1781 at Frederick, Maryland.[85] A house carpenter, he bought 58 acres of a tract called Nicholas' Chance in Frederick County in 1789.[86] In the 1790 census he was living in the Libertytown District of Frederick County apparently with a wife, a son over 16 years of age, and three daughters. In 1790 John Hinkle and Ursilla Hinkle with others of her family sold for 200 pounds to Richard Brightwell all rights to her inheritance in Maryland.[88] In 1792 this John Hinkle, carpenter, bought more land in Frederick County[89] three miles east of Libertytown.[90] In 1795 "John Hinkle son of George of Frederick County" sold all his household furniture and kitchenware to [his nephew?] "John Hinkle, son of Baltis."[91] About that time John and Ursula Hinkle moved to nearby Baltimore County. In 1796 John Hinkle, now of Baltimore County, and wife "Ursilla" sold their lands remaining in Frederick County.[93] In Baltimore County in 1798 a John Hinkle, who may be the same, was assessed as owner of 282 acres of a tract with a dwelling house in Soldiers Delight Hundred.[94]

NOTES for JOHN HENKEL:

1. In addition to the other names listed as children of George (Rudolphus) Henckel in Rev. Paul Henckel's letter about l787[57] is a name that is partially illegible but begins Jo___.
26. Register of the Lutheran church at New Hanover, (now) Montgomery County, PA (as translated by J.J. Kline in Proc. Pennsylvania German Soc., Vol. 20); under baptisms:
Jürg Henrich Henkel and wife Anna Maria had a son Johannes born 13 Apr 1746, bapt. 28 Apr 1746.
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."
61. The father Georg Henrich Henkel at this baptism was almost surely related to our Henckel family somehow. In 1746 there were not many Henckels in all of America, and New Hanover, home of the immigrant Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, was a small place, so, statistically, almost any Henkel visiting or residing at New Hanover would have some connection to the immigrant's family. There are three possible candidates for the father at this baptism, but none fits exactly, suggesting that the pastor may simply have made a mistake in recording the father's middle name, or the mother's name. A George Henry Hinkell arrived at Philadelphia in 1739, 32 years old at that time[76]; however, he seems to have married Agnes Wolf. Another George Henry Hinkle, related somehow to George (Rudolphus) Henckel, was a neighbor on Israel Creek in the 1760s; he has not been identified, but in any case his wife's name was Barbara.[69,77] Our George (Rudolphus) Hinkle of Israel Creek in Maryland did have a wife named Anna Maria but his middle name was not Henry; nonetheless, the last seems a convincing candidate, as he does seem to have had a son John, born during the 1740s.
84. S. E. Clements and F. E. Wright, The Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War, Family Line Publications, Silver Spring, MD, 1987; pages 87 and 168 (John Hinckel, ensign, commissioned 29 Nov 1775 and re-commissioned 28 Nov 1776, in Captain Baker's Company, Frederick County).
85. Marriage licenses, Frederick County, MD [only the index survives for this period]:
25 Mar 1781, John Hinckle & Nussy Brightwell.
86. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book 9, Pages 1-2 (7 Dec 1789, John Hinkle, house carpenter of Frederick County, bought 58 acres, part of Nicolas Chance, on the waters of Sam's Creek).
88. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book 10, page 461.
89. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book 10, page 530.
90. Pioneers of Old Monocacy; page 100 (map showing location of the Justice Delight tract, on the Clemson Branch of Sam's Creek).
91. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book 13, page 34:
17 Nov 1795, bill of sale, "John Hinkle son of George of Frederick County, Maryland," to "John Hinkle son of Baltis," for 150 pounds: all his [the former's] household furniture, kitchenware, and "other articles and things that I own, now in the possession of the said John Hinkle son of Baltzer."
93. Frederick county, MD, Deed Book 14, pages 547-548.
94. G. J. Horvath, The Particular Assessment Lists for Baltimore and Carroll Counties 1798, Family Line Publications, 1986; page 50.

THE HENCKEL GENEALOGY:

John Henkel is not mentioned in the The Henckel Genealogy on pages 154-55 among the children of George Rudolphus.

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