George Rudolphus Henckel
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 19 Oct 1701 - Daudenzell, Germany Christening: 23 Oct 1701 - Evangelical Lutheran Church, Daudenzell Death: Aug 1788 - (Frederick Co., Virginia) Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Anthony Jacob Henckel (1668-1728) 2 Mother: Maria Elizabeth Dentzer ( -1744) 3
Spouses and Children
1. *Anna Maria ( - ) Marriage: (New Hanover Tsp., Montgomery Co., Pa) 4 Children: 1. Jacob Hinkle (1730- ) 2. Henry Hinkle (1730- ) 3. George Hinkle (Abt 1734- ) 4. John Balthasar (Baltis) Hinkle (1737-1804) 5. Philip Christopher Hinkle (1740- ) 6. John Hinkle (1746- ) 7. Maria Margaret Hinkle (1758- )
Notes
General:
THE HENCKEL GENEALOGY:
The following is on page 21 of The Henckel Genealogy:
6. Georg Rudolph (George Rudolphus Henckel born October 19, 1701 Daudenzell, Germany; baptized October 23, 1701 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Daudenzell; died August 1788. (See Branch IV this genealogy)
RLH:
The following is from a research article sent to me by Robert L. Hess of Oakland, California and a descendent of George Rudolph Hinkle. That article expands and corrects the discussion of George Rudolphus Henckel on pages 151-55 of The Henckel Genealogy and is a slightly updated version of an article by the same author in the Spring 2005 issue of the Henckel Genealogical Bulletin (Vol 36, No 1, pgs 1408-32). There is a very useful map on page 1416 (not reproduced here). Numbers in brackets indicate notes which follow.
Georg Rudolph[83] Henckel was born 19 October 1701 and baptized 23 October at the village of Daudenzell,[1,2,3] located between the cities of Heidelberg and Heilbronn in the Kraichgau region of Germany. At that time this district was part of the independent country known as the Palatinate. He was sixth of twelve children of Anthony Jacob Henckel and Maria Elisabeth (Dentzer).[2,3] His godparents were two of his uncles: his father's brother Johann Georg Henckel and his mother's brother pastor Kraft Rudolph Dentzer.[1,2] As was the local custom, the boy was named for his male godparents.
Georg spent his early years in and around Daudenzell, where his father was pastor of a small Lutheran congregation. In 1714, when Georg was a teenager, his father left Daudenzell to become pastor at the church in the village of Monchzell, seven miles away, and the family moved onto a small farm his father acquired there.[2] Later that year his father was appointed pastor also at Neckargemund, a larger village on the Neckar River, and the family moved there.[2] In 1716 Georg's father lost the pastorate at Monchzell; he could not support his family with just the Neckargemund pastorate. With much trepidation, the whole family left Europe in the summer of 1717 and emigrated to America.[2,4]
In the New World, Georg and his brothers and sisters settled with the parents in New Hanover Township (now in Montgomery County, then still part of Philadelphia County), Pennsylvania, where his father acquired land which the family cleared and farmed. His father also officiated occasionally as a pastor in the surrounding countryside, serving the German community at New Hanover (also known as "Falckner's Swamp") and other nearby settlements.
If Georg Henckel married at about the same age his siblings did, this would have been during the late 1720s, when he was still residing in the vicinity of Colebrookdale Township in Pennsylvania. His wife's name in later Lutheran church records appeared as Anna Maria[5,6,7] (and in English-language documents, Mary[8,9]). Her maiden name may have been Dieter.[10] His first three children appear to have been born there in the early 1730s.
When George's father Anthony Jacob Henckel died in 1728, George shared with his six surviving siblings in the distribution from their father's estate.[11]
On 18 March 1735[58] "George Rudolphus Hengle" obtained from the Penn government a warrant to have 150 acres surveyed in (then) Philadelphia County, to be valid on the usual condition that within six months he would pay for it at the going rate.[12] Accordingly, a plat of 150 acres was surveyed for him on 5 December 1735 in Colebrookdale Township,[13] near where his brother Gerhard Henckel had settled[14] (and several miles west of their parents' homestead, which in 1728 had been inherited by brothers John Justus and Jacob Anthony[11]). George's warrant stipulated that the survey was to be on previously unclaimed land that "hath not been already surveyed or appropriated," and the tract surveyed for him was indeed joined on all four sides by "vacant lands."[13] But George never lived on this land[59] and soon moved away from Pennsylvania.
The province of Maryland during the 1730s was encouraging pioneers to settle in its sparsely populated western lands,[15] and Germans and English had begun moving there. In 1736, at age thirty-five, George Rudolph Henckel moved with his wife and children to Frederick County, Maryland, just south of the future city of Frederick -- probably at the same time as his sister Maria Catharine and her first husband George Geiger.[16] The Geigers and Henckels were close friends of Jacob and Balser Faut(h), who like them, had lived at Falckner's Swamp in Pennsylvania and who had moved to the Monocacy Settlement in Maryland two years earlier.[17] This was before the establishment of Frederick Town (31 December 1746) and the formation of Frederick County. When the Henckels arrived, this was still part of Prince Georges County. (Frederick County, when formed in 1748, included what are now Washington, Allegany and Garrett Counties.)
Georg and Anna Maria Henckel had at least five more children born there, between 1737 and 1758.
In Maryland the Geigers and Jacob Faut (hence presumably also George Henkel) settled on a tract called Rocky Creek, just south of what is now the city of Frederick.[16] In June 1738 George Henkell, George Geiger, and Jacob Faut put up a bond to guarantee their presence in court as witnesses to testify on their observance of someone illegally branding some local pigs.[18]
When Germans had begun settling in the Monocacy valley in the early 1730s, there had been no ministers to marry them or to baptize their children, and no one to guide them in their religious instruction, in their communion, or even in the organization of their congregations or building of their churches.[60] Visiting clerymen occasionally passed through the community, and on such occasions preached and performed marriages and baptisms. Prominent among these itinerant clergymen was the Rev. John Caspar Stöver, a Lutheran pastor from Pennsylvania who passed through the Monocacy settlement several times during the 1730s on his way to North Carolina and return.[20,21] Two children of George Hinckel of Monocacy were baptized by this pastor Stöver: Joh. Balthasar Hinckel, in 1737; and Philipp Christoph, in 1740.[22] (Catharine and Georg Geiger also had two children baptized at Monocacy by pastor Stöver, in 1737 and 1739; and Catharine with her second husband Peter Apfel had a child baptized by Stöver in 1742.[22])
About 1740 the Lutherans in the Monocacy valley built a log church about ten miles north of what is now the city of Frederick, and Baltzer Pfaut, Peter Apple, and Jacob Faut became members there.[23] In the late 1740s, the city of Frederick was laid out ten miles to the south, and construction of a new Lutheran church was begun there; this became the new meeting place of many of the Lutheran congregation who had been meeting at the Monocacy Creek site farther north.[24,25] Georg Hinkle and his sister Catharine Geiger (now the wife of Peter Apfel/ Apple) and their families transferred to the new Lutheran site in Frederick Town. George Hinckel and Peter Appel appeared on a list of names of members who helped build the parsonage of the new church.[25]
Possibly[61] our George Henkel was the Jürg Henrich Henkel who with wife Anna Maria had a son Johannes baptized 28 April 1746 at New Hanover, Pennsylvania (born 13 April 1746).[26] (Our George (Rudolph) Henkel and his wife Anna Maria had both been reared in the New Hanover vicinity, and they may have visited her parents there to have this child baptized; and in 1746 a widowed sister of Georg Henckel, Maria Elisabeth (Henckel) Kühn is known also to have been at New Hanover when she sponsored a baptism there that year.[26,27])
Back at Frederick, a George Hinckel with Catharine Fauth sponsored the baptism of a child of Maria Catharina (Henckel) Geiger Apfel on 1 July 1750.[28] It is not known whether this was our George Hinckel (and Maria Catharina's brother) or his son George Hinckel, Jr. (Maria Catharina's nephew).
About 1744 George's sister Catharina, with her second husband Peter Apfel/Apple, moved away from the Rocky Creek tract, and resettled about ten miles northeast of Frederick.[29] About that same time, it appears, George Hinckel and his family also resettled, to a neighboring area on or near Israel Creek, between today's Woodsboro and Libertytown. A bill of sale was recorded in 1754 showing that George Hinkle had put up his horses, cows, and all the grain on his plantation as security to assure his appearance in court to settle a dispute with a neighbor.[30] The neighbor, Stephan Richards and two of the witnesses (Joseph Wood and William Cormack) owned lands near to what are now the towns of Woodsboro and Libertytown.[31] (The court case was dismissed). Two years later, in 1756, George "Hankle" again put up a deed of trust worded similarly to the one in 1754, but this time including as security not only his farm animals and grain, but also "all that tract of land where I now live."[32]
George Hinckel and wife Anna Maria had a daughter Maria Margareta (birth date not given), baptized 26 March 1758 in the Reformed[62] church at Frederick.[5]
Indians and whites had gotten along together until increasing settlement by the whites constrained the hunting grounds. Then came the French and Indian War, which lasted almost five years (1755-60).[33] In the valley just west of where the Henckels lived, the settlers fled to Fort Washington or to Fort Frederick, until almost no one remained between the settlements of Conococheague and Frederick Town. George Henckel with his wife and children[63] seem to have gone during this period temporarily to Philadelphia, where the family of his deceased brother Jacob Anthony Henckel resided.[34] In Germantown, apparently, the sons and daughters of these two families became well acquainted.[64] On 26 November 1759 George and Anna Maria's son Balthasar was married in the Lutheran church at Germantown,[35] and Balthasar's first son was baptized there in April 1760.[36]
About 1760 hostilities with the Indians abated, and by 1763 the majority of the settlers who had abandoned the western Maryland valleys during the war were back on their farms.[33] On 30 September 1761, our[65] George Hinckle had a 25-acre tract of land called Narrow Bottom surveyed in Maryland.[37] This land was close to Israel Creek, two miles east of what is now the town of Woodsboro and about ten miles northeast of the town of Frederick[38] (see the map here). In December 1763 he received a patent for it, based on a warrant with "date of renewment" 23 August 1762.[39] (That the warrant for this land in 1762 was a renewal suggests he may have actually settled on it earlier -- perhaps the same farm he had put up as security in 1756.[32])
By this time George Hinkle had acquired also a 120-acre tract called Long Bottom, which was adjacent to Narrow Bottom (see the map). In June 1764 he officially requested that the county appoint a commission of four disinterested persons to determine the boundaries of this tract because the original boundary markers had been cut down and destroyed, and the court appointed a commission to do this.[40] Someone objected to the membership of this commission, however, so at the next meeting of the court that year George Hinckle presented a new petition[41]:
. . . pointing out that [he had] proferred his [first] petition to your worships the 23rd of June 1764 for a commission to perpetuate the bounds of a tract of land called Long Bottom, which commission was granted, . . . [but] appointing persons related to your petitioner, which is contrary to the tenor of the commission, therefore [he] hopes your worships will be pleased to grant your petitioner another commission . . .
The second commission was now appointed.[66] It met with George Hinkle at the site on 4 February 1765, finding that the beginning point for the survey of Long Bottom was on the south side of Israel Creek,[67] at a tree standing between the dwellings of George Hinkle and one Andrew Fogle.[42] William Lux, the original owner of record, continued to pay the quit-rents on Long Bottom until 1766, when George Hinkel took them over.[43]
Next, on 4 March 1766 George Hinckle had a 31-acre tract called George's Lott surveyed, and he received a patent for it that same date.[44] This tract was adjacent to Long Bottom (see the map). And a year later "George Hinkel, Sr., tile-maker," obtained a deed for 3 more adjacent acres.[45]
About this time many German settlers in the English colonies were arranging to turn their lands over to sons and daughters. As "non-citizens," Germans could lease lands or buy the rights to use them, but only English citizens could own them in perpetuity; specifically, German and other "foreign" residents could not convey lands to their progeny. To correct this disadvantage and make it possible to convey their land legally, arrangements were made for non-citizens in the colonies to be "naturalized." (This was very important to the German settlers, as the inability to leave land to their children in the colony of New York had been the cause of mass migration from that colony to Pennsylvania, earlier in the century.[46]) The naturalization process consisted of the applicant appearing before a colonial court of law, testifying that he or she had resided in (any of) the English colonies for at least seven years, and presenting evidence that he or she was not a Roman Catholic by presenting a signed affidavit attesting that he or she had attended communion in a Protestant church within the past year. All German-speaking residents who anticipated falling heir to land that had been patented to their parents were being advised to go through this process.[47]
Among those who took advantage of the naturalization opportunity in Maryland were our George Hinkle with his son Jacob. At the fall 1767 meeting of the provincial court at Annapolis, George Hinkell and [his son] Jacob Hinkell of Frederick County presented their proof that they had taken communion at the Lutheran church in Frederick on 30 September 1767, and they were naturalized.[48] Within a year, on 20 June 1768, George Hinkle then conveyed his land on Israel Creek to his son Jacob Hinkle, for thirty pounds.[8] And on that same day George Hinkle gave the following "gift deed" to his son Jacob[49]:
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 ... [I give him] ... all and singular my goods, wares, ready money, household stuff, implements, and all the other things to me belonging, ... as well as the messuage [building] ... wherein I now dwell ...
He signed both the above documents, as what appears to be "Jeordg Henkel." (As was customary, his signature on these documents was actually a facsimile of his handwriting in old German script, written by the county clerk.) It is not possible to tell exactly what the jumble of phonetics is trying to spell - most likely the given name he was trying to spell phonetically what would be pronounced, in English, "George."[68]
Despite having now conveyed all their personal property and lands in Maryland to their son Jacob, it appears that George and Mary Hinkle did not depart Maryland right away. In the fall of 1768 a Lutheran congregation named St. Peter's was established within a mile or so of George Hinkle's property, east of what is now the town of Woodsboro.[50] (Before that, the closest Lutheran congregation to George Hinkle's place had been in the town of Frederick, ten miles away.) On 3 June 1769 it was recorded that "George Hünkel" attended communion at St. Peter's, along with [his sons] Jacob Hünkel and Henry Hünkel and with another[69] George Hünkle and wife Barbara.[51] And on 22 June 1772 in Frederick County, Maryland, George Hinkel with wife Anna Maria sponsored the baptism of a child at St. Peter's Church.[7]
Beginning in 1769 George's son Jacob Hinkle paid the quit-rents on Georges Lott and Narrow Bottom, while George continued to pay the quit-rents on Long Bottom and 3 acres of Resurvey on Coopers Alley. But in 1770, the quit-rent book directed that the Long Bottom quit-rents be charged to a John Hopkins, and George Hinkle's former 3 acres of Resurvey on Coopers Alley was annotated "Frederick House's land."[43]
About 1772 George and Mary Hinkle -- then in their seventies moved from Maryland to Rowan County, North Carolina, and evidently their now middle-aged son Jacob went with them. In 1772, the year the tax rolls in Rowan County began, George Hinkle and Jacob Hinkle were listed there together, as two white males of taxable age ("polls").[52] The next tax roll there, in 1778,[71] showed separate entries for "George Hinkle, £253," and "Jacob Hinkle, one poll,"[52] suggesting that George now owned property assessed at 253 pounds but exceeded the age of persons who had to pay the personal "head tax," (age seventy?), while Jacob was a taxable white male whose estate was worth less than 100 pounds.[53]
By the year 1784, Jacob Hinkel was assessed on 200 acres in Rowan County,[52] but George Hinkel was permanently gone from the tax lists there.[72]
Now in his eighties, George Hinkle with wife Mary then evidently moved from North Carolina to Frederick County, Virginia probably to be near their son Henry Hinkle and his family.[73] George Hinkle/Hingle was listed in the personal tax records of that county from 1782 through 1784 but was assessed no tax on himself, and his name was omitted from the personal tax roll in l784,[55] yet he paid land tax there on 150 acres in 1787 and 1788[56] (suggesting, again, that he owned land there but exceeded the age of the men who had to pay the personal "head" tax).
George Hinckel died about August 1788.[74] His will, possibly dictated, was made on 1 February 1786 and probated at Winchester, Virginia, 2 September 1788, as follows[9]:
This I do certify and give from under my hand as my last will and testament and my dying words. I leave to my wife, Mary, my bed and bed clothes, cows, sheep, and hogs, and household goods and the half lot that I now live on to my wife Mary as long as she lives, and the stuff that is in the house to my wife Mary, [also] a horse and mare, and I leave to my wife Mary a third part of the land that is in Maryland that my son Jacob has in hand, and further after my wife Mary's death the half lot [here in Virginia] to my son Henry, and he is to pay as much to his brothers and sisters as I paid for the half lot and is to equally divide among his brothers and sisters, and further I leave my wife as executor .... Marked, George "X" Hinckel. Witnesses were William Patty and Johannes Keller.
Neither George Hinkle nor his widow Mary were listed in the land or personal tax records of Virginia after 1788, the year his will was probated. Their son Henry was taxed on 75 acres in 1789, 1790, and 1791.[56]
REFERENCES for GEORGE RUDOLPH HENCKEL:
1. Register of the (Lutheran) congregations at the villages of Daudenzell and Breitenbronn, Germany; under baptisms (photocopies of the original, in German, in The Pastoral Years of Rev. Anthony Henckel):
"1701 Daudenzell, natis die 19 8bris [October] renatis [baptized] die 23 dito
Parentes: Antonius Jacob Henckel, p[ro] t[empore] pastor [et] uxor Maria Elisabetha
Infant: Georg Rudolph
Patrini: Joh. Georg Henckel, frater mag. Jakobus, ...; Kraft Rudolph Dentzer, ... Hr. Nicholai den Pfarrers zu Frankenthals Sohn."
2. A.H. Gable, The Pastoral Years of Rev. Anthony Henckel 1692-1717, Pembscot Press, Camden, ME, 1991; Chapters 7, 10, and 12.
3. W.S. Junkin & M.W. Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500-1960, ancestry and descendants of Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel 1668-1728, C.W. Hill Publishing Co., Spokane, WA, 1964; pages 21-22.
4. C.H. Glatfelter, Pastors and People: German and Reformed Churches in the Pennsylvania Field 1717-1793, Pennsylvania German Society, 1980; Vol. 1, Pastors and Congregations, pages 59-61 (Anthony Jacob Henckel).
5. Register of the Reformed church at Frederick, MD (as translated by W. J. Hinke & E. W. Reinicke in Records of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Frederick Maryland 1746-1800, Family Line Publications, Silver Spring, MD, 1986); under baptisms:
George Hinckel and wife Anna Maria had a child Maria Margaret bapt. 26 March 1758 (birthdate not given). Thomas & Maria Margaret Schley were sponsors.
6. Register of the Lutheran church at Frederick, MD (original, in German,
on LDS microfilm #0020487, Items 1 and 2); under baptisms (and translated by F.S. Weiser in Maryland German Church Records, Vol. 3, Noodle Doosey Press, Manchester, MD, 1987. Note: the surname of both these Georg Hinckels is (mis)translated as "Ginckel" and the baptism date is given as 1768 rather than 1767):
3 May 1767, "Georg Hinkel, Senior," and wife Anna Maria sponsored the baptism of a child of Georg Heinrich Hinckel and wife Barbara.
7. Register of St. Peter's Lutheran Church near Woodsboro, Frederick County, MD (translation on LDS microfilm #383287, Item 13); under baptisms:
Georg and Barbara Hünckel had a son bapt. 4 May 1769. A sponsor was Jacob Hünckel son of Henrich.
Georg Hinckel and wife Anna Maria sponsored a baptism (for the Keller family) in 1772.
Balser Dörre (Derry) and wife Barbara had two children baptized, in 1768 and 1771.
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").
9. George Hinkle's will, Frederick County, VA, Will Book No. 5, page 199 (dated 1 Feb 1786, proved 2 Sep 1788).
10. Information extracted by Hazel Groves Henrote of Cumberland, MD, from "Dieter Hinkle Houser's records of Teeter Hinkle."
11. Anthony Jacob Henckel's will, Philadelphia County, PA, Will Book C, page 109 (dictated 12 Aug 1728, probated 17 Aug 1738):
Anthony Jacob Henckel of Hanover Township in this County of Philadelphia, clerk [clergyman], unto his two youngest sons John Justus and Anthony Jacob ... all his plantation ... After their mother's decease or marriage, ... they should pay ... the full sum of 100 pounds ... to be equally divided amongst the testators five other children, namely Gerhart Anthony, George Rudolphus, Johanna Frederica, Maria Elisabeth, and Maria Catharine ...
12. Pennsylvania Land Records (original manuscript documents now kept in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg); Philadelphia County Warrant No. 3 (7 Mar 1734, to George Rudolphus Henkel of Philadelphia County: 150 acres in Colebrook Dale Township "that hath not already been surveyed or appropriated.")
13. Pennsylvania Land Records; Survey Book C-182, pages 175-176 (later annotated, in 1740, "Now sold to Daniel Stover, and George Rudolph Hengle's warrant vacated the 11th of December 1740 in pursuance whereof it was returned the same day to Daniel Stover").
14. The Henckel Genealogy, page 63 (Gerhard Henckel).
15. D.W. Nead, The Pennsylvania German in the Settlement of Maryland, originally published in 1914, reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1975; pages 42-44:
"March, 1732, By the Right Honorable Charles, absolute Lord and Proprietor of the Province of Maryland ... Any person who shall ... come and actually settle with his or her family on any of the back lands ... between the rivers Potomack and Susquehannah [shall have] two hundred acres ... in fee simple ... and without paying quitrent [taxes] for three years ..."
16. The Henckel Genealogy, page 151 (George Rudophus Henckel); and page 1104 (Catharina Henckel).
17. G.L. Tracey and J.P. Dern, Pioneers of Old Monocacy, the early settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987; pages 161-164 (the Fauth/Fout family and George and Catharine Geiger).
18. Prince Georges County, MD, court records (as reported in the Henckel Genealogical Bulletin, page 1068).
19. Pioneers of Old Monocacy, pages 131-136 (the Monocacy settlement).
20. Pastors and People; Vol. 1, pages 139-145 (John Casper Stoever).
21. Pioneers of Old Monocacy, pages 133-139 (Johann Caspar Stöver at Monocacy).
22. Personal register of the Rev. John Casper Stôver (as translated by
F.J.F. Schantz in Early Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1982); under baptisms (Note: pastor Stöver's practice was to record the names only of the child, the father, and the sponsors, omitting the name of the mother):
John George Geiger (at Monocacy):
Maria Elisabetha, born 11 Dec 1736, bapt. 16 Jun 1737 (sponsors, Jacob Fauth and wife).
John Jacob, born 4 Mar 1739, bapt. 17 Jun 1739.
George Henckel (at Monocacy):
John Balthasar, born 25 Dec 1737, bapt. 7 Jan 1738 (sponsors, Balthasar Fauth and wife).
Philipp Christoph, born 7 May 1740, bapt. 21 May 1740 (sponsors, John Philipp Kuntz and wife).
Baithasar Fauth (at Monocacy):
Catharina Barbara, born 4 dec 1735, bapt. 28 Apr 1736 (sponsors, Jacob Fauth and Barbara Teuferbiss).
Jacob Fauth (at Monocacy):
Balthasar, born 1 Mar 1736, bapt. 20 Apr 1736 (sponsors, Baithasar Fauth and wife).
Catharina, born 30 Sep 1738, bapt. 24 Nov 1738 (sponsor, Catharina Geiger).
23. Register of the Lutheran congregation at Frederick; list of contributors to the first churchbook (as translated by F.S. Weiser in "Maryland German Church Records", Vol.3): ... Baltzer Pfaut, Peter Appel, Jacob Faut.
24. A.R. Wentz, The Lutheran Church of Frederick, Maryland, 1738-1938, Evangelical Press, Harrisburg, PA, 1938, page 119.
25. Pastors and People; Vol. 1, pages 188-190 (Frederick Lutheran Church).
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.
Maria Elisabeth [Henckel] Kühn sponsored the baptism of a child of Caspar and Barbara Kühn on 21 Oct 1746.
27. The Henckel Genealogy; page 150 (Maria Elisabeth Henckel).
28. Register of the Lutheran church at Frederick, MD (as translated in Maryland German Church Records, Vol. 3); under baptisms:
Peter Appel and wife Maria Catharina sponsored a baptism in 1741.
Peter Apple (wife's name not given here) had two children baptized:
• Peter, born 6 Mar 1744, bapt. 26 Mar 1744
• Anna Magdalena, born in Jan 1750, bapt. 1 Jul 1750 (sponsors were Georg Henckel and Catharine Fauth).
29. Pioneers of Old Monocacy; pages 199-200 (Peter Apfel/Apple).
30. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book E, page 416:
10 Apr 1754, ... "I George Hinkle of Frederick County in the province of Maryland, farmer, have ... sold ... one bay Gelding with a star in his forehead, and a clouded sorrell mare, ... and a black cow with a white face, and one brindle cow and two young calves ... and all my grain now growing on my plantation, ... [this deed] to be void if I make my personal appearance before the Justice ..." Signed: "George Hinkle."
31. Correspondence from John P. Dern (co-author of Pioneers of Old Monocacy) to R.L. Hess, Oakland, CA; 24 May 1993.
32. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book E, page 990 (11 Feb 1756, George Hankel of Frederick County, bill of sale for all that tract of land whereon I now live with all improvements, grain and all what is planted out, also, one bay horse, ... one black cow, to be void if I appear in court ...)
33. T.J.C. Williams, A History of Washington County, Maryland, reprinted by Regional Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1968; pages 40-56:
"The [French and Indian] war upon the defenseless settlers of this county was so ferocious that for a time scarcely a white person was left ... All had fled to the older settlements for safety ... A large number of the settlers appear to have returned by about 1763."
34. The Henckel Genealogy, page 882 (HG#6 Jacob Anthony Henckel).
35. Register of St. Michael's Lutheran church, Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), PA (original manuscript, in German, in the Lutheran archives, Germantown; translation in "Church Records", Vol. 761 at the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia); under marriages:
"den 9ten Nov? 1759 wurde in d. Stand der H[err] Pf[arrar] eingesegnet Balthasar Hinckel mit Elisabetha Graff(in)."
36. Register of St. Michael's Lutheran church at Germantown; under baptisms:
"d. 3ten April 1760 ist Balthes Henckel et Elisabetha ein
Sohnlein geb[ohren] welche per Pent[ecost] in d. heilige
T[aufe] den Nahmen Georg erlanget. Comp [sponsors] Georg
Reute(?) et Elisabetha."
37. Maryland Land Records (original manuscript books in the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis); Book BC&GS-21, page 285 (30 Sep 1761, survey of Narrow Bottom, 25 acres, for George Hinckle).
38. Correspondence from John Dern, 6 Aug 1993 (approximate location of the Long Bottom and Narrow Bottom tracts in Maryland, based on research by Arthur and Grace Tracy).
39. Maryland Land Records, Book BC&GS-22, page 348 (Dec 1763, patent to George Hincle for Narrow Bottom, 25 acres, on a warrant with "date of renewment" 23 August 1762.
40. Frederick County, MD, Judgment Records, Vol. M, page 232 (June Court 1764) appointment of first commission to determine the bounds of George Hinkle's tract Long Bottom; the commission consisted of Mathias Howard, Richard Simpson, Andrew Smith, and "George Hinkle, Jr."
41. Frederick County, MD, Judgment Records, Vol. M, pages 336-7 (November Court 1764) appointment of the second commission to determine the bounds of George Hinkle's tract Long Bottom).
42. Frederick County, MD, Deed Book J, page 1211:
7 Dec 1764, "... Whereas George Hinkle of said Frederick County, Maryland, is seized [in possession] of a certain tract in said county, called Long Bottom [he] petitioned for a commission to fix its bounds ... Commissioners and witnesses went with him to a small oak standing in a bottom on the south side of Israel Creek between the now dwelling house of Andrew Fogele and the now dwelling house of George Hinkle ... Jason Frizel, about forty years of age, being sworn, said 'about 12 or 13 years before, was in company with John Howard, who was then a sworn Surveyor of Frederick County, laid his hand upon a tree and said it was the beginning part of a boundary of the tract Long Bottom which he had laid out for Mr. William Lux of Baltimore County'."
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
[among others]
George Hinkle [Jr.] (of Bush Creek):
1756 through 1773, Cloudy Weather, 50 acres
1762 through 1773, Georges Delight, 49 1/2 acres
1766 through 1773, Duvalls Forrest, 150 acres
44. Maryland Land Records, Book BC&GS-30, page 275 (4 Mar 1766, survey of Georges Lott, 31 acres); and Book BC&GS-32, page 99 (4 Mar 1766, patent to George Hinkle for Georges Lott, 31 acres).
45. Frederick County Deed, MD, Book K, page 1258:
25 May 1767, Andrew Fougle of Frederick County, weaver, to George Hinkel, Senr., of same county, tilemaker, part of resurvey called Cooper's Alley in Frederick County on Israel's Creek, 3 acres, 1 pound, 2 shillings and 6 pence.
46. H.Z. Jones, The Palatine Families of New York, a study of the German immigrants who arrived in colonial New York in 1710, privately printed, Universal City, CA, 1958.
47. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 19, page 624.
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).
50. Pastors and People, Vol. 1, page 194 (St. Peter's alias Rocky Hill Lutheran church, near Woodsboro, MD).
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.
1796 and 1798, tax lists of Capt. Smith's Company (in what is now the Davidson County area): George Hinkle, 1 poll, with 180 acres (1796) and 190 acres (1798).
53. Rowan County NC Tax Lists 1757-1800; Introduction.
54. Rowan County NC Tax Lists 1757-1800; pages 159-167 (persons who kept guard of British prisoners at the gaol at Salisbury in 1778 ... George Henckele, 2 Oct).
55. Frederick County, VA, personal property tax rolls (photocopies of original manuscripts on microfilm at the Virginia State Archives, Richmond, VA); under Col. Thurston's [the southern] District:
Henry Hinkle was listed each year from 1782 (the first year of the records) through 1791: 1 taxable male with a few horses and cows; not listed after 1791.
George Hinkle was listed, but with no taxable males, 1782-1784.
56. Frederick County, VA, land tax rolls (photocopies of original manuscripts on microfilm at Virginia State Archives, Richmond, VA); under "2nd Battalion" [the southern district]:
Henry Hinkle paid taxes on 150 acres in 1787 and 1788, and on 75 acres in 1789 and 1790.
George Hinkle paid taxes on 150 acres in 1787 and 1788.
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."
58. This date was 7 March 1734 by the old (Julian) calendar, then still in use in the English colonies.
59. His warrant and survey were voided in 1740 and re-assigned to someone else,[13] and his former survey was annotated as unfarmed ("fallow") when in 1741 a patent for it was issued to the new owner.[75]
60. Pioneers of Old Monocacy 131-36.
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.
62. Although the Henckels by tradition were Lutheran, that this child's baptism was recorded in the Reformed churchbook is not surprising, since for some reason, in the years 1758-59 many of the Lutheran families at Frederick had their children baptized in the Reformed church. (The number of baptisms in the Lutheran congregation at Frederick had averaged 25 to 30 per year during the early 1750s; however, the number was down to only 15 in 1758, and two in 1759, while the Reformed church had more than 65 baptisms beginning those years -- many more than ever before.)
63. Except their son George, Jr., then in his twenties and a Quaker, and hence a conscientious pacifist, who remained with his young family at Monocacy and took God's chance with the Indians.
64. As evidence, when George Henckel's son Christopher died in North Carolina in 1810, he left all his belongings to his cousin Benjamin Hinkle[82] who had grown up at Germantown, Pennsylvania.
65. Early Henckel family researchers equated our George (Rudolph) Hinckle, son of the immigrant Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, with the George Hinckle who during the 1760s resided on Israel Creek in Frederick County, Maryland, and identified his children.[78] Subsequently, a series of reservations was presented in the "Henckel Genealogical Bulletin" over these identities.[79] More recent research and analysis, however, showed those reservations to be unwarranted and re-affirmed the original identifications.[80]
66. The first commission had consisted of Mathew Howard, Richard Simpson, Andrew Smith, and "George Hinkle, Junr."[40] The second commission, noted as now not including any person "in any way related to the Petitioner or any contiguous Proprietor," consisted of Thomas Beatty, William Carmack, William Beatty, and again Richard Simpson.[41] Of the first-appointed commission, only Richard Simpson was carried over to the second. It seems that Mathew Howard had probably been a "contiguous proprietor," and that George Hinkle, Junr., and possibly Andrew Smith had probably been the 'persons' [note the plural] who were "in some way related to the petitioner."
67. This is further verification of the location of George Hinkle's lands. Israel Creek runs generally northward from its confluence with the Monocacy until it reaches the location of what is now the town of Woodsboro, where it turns eastward (see the map here). Since Long Bottom was on the "south" (rather than the east or west) side of Israel Creek, this property, therefore, had to be east of today's Woodsboro.
68. In German documents, his given name was spelled "Georg." Using English phonetics this is pronounced "Gayorg" in standard German and as "Yorick" in Pennsylvania and some other German dialects. In German phonetics the English pronunciation of "George" is impossible to spell -- perhaps "Dschordsch" would come close.
69. This Georg "Heinrich" Hinckel (George Henry Hinkle), with wife Barbara, has not been identified. He and Barbara resided in Frederick County, Maryland near Woodsboro during a relatively brief period, 1764 to 1769. They had a child baptized at Frederick in 1767 (sponsored by our Georg Hinkle "Senior" and wife Anna Maria),[6] and another baptized in 1769 at the newly formed Lutheran church at Woodsboro.[7] He is the George Hinkle, "Jr.," who was appointed to the first, but not the second, committee commissioned to resolve the bounds of our George Hinkle's Long Bottom property on Israels Creek in 1764 -- hence evidently he was not a son of, yet somehow was related to, our George Henckel.[40,41] And he's the George Henry Hinckel who accompanied our George Henckel's sister Catharine Geiger to Annapolis in Oct 1767 to present their affidavits of attendance at the Lutheran church in Frederick; however, she completed the naturalization process, while for some reason he did not.[70]
70. Maryland Provincial Court Judgments, Book DD-12, May 1767.
71. During the Revolutionary War, when volunteers over 65 years and under 16 years as well as conscientious objectors and anyone else available were drafted to serve as prison guards, a George Henckel was recorded as having performed guard duty in October 1778 at the Salisbury District jail.[54]
72. Another, younger George Hinkle did appear in the tax rolls of Rowan County, later, in 1796 and 1798,[52] but the latter is readily identifiable as a George Hinkle, born about 1770, son of Anthony Hinckel.[81]
73. Personal tax records of the Southern District of Frederick County, Virginia, showed entries for Henry Hinkle/Hingle each year from 1782 (the first year tax records were recorded in that county) through 1791: 1 taxable male, with some horses and cows.[55]
74. He died after his land was taxed in the summer of 1788,[56] and before his will was probated on 2 Sep 1788.[9]
75. Pennsylvania Land Records; Patent Book A-9; page 395:
"... Whereas there was surveyed and laid out on the Fifth day of December 1735 unto George Rudolph Hengle ... 150 acres of land situate in Colebrook Dale Township ... under certain conditions, ... which have not been complied with, the said warrant and survey made in pursuance thereof are become utterly void ... "
76. R.B. Strassburger & W.J. Hinke, Pennsylvania Pioneers, original lists of arrivals at the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Genealogical Publishing Co.; reprinted 1966:
Arrived 3 Sep 1739 in the ship Friendship:
Hans Jurig Hinkell (ship's list)
Georg Henry Henkel (marked second oath "X")
77. Henckel Genealogical Bulletin; page 1432 (George (Henry) Hinkle, ("Jr.") of Israel Creek with wife Barbara).
78. The Henckel Genealogy; pages 151-155 (HG#4 George (Rudolphus) Henckel, with wife Anna Maria).
79. Henckel Genealogical Bulletin; pages 270 (Fall 1976), 340 (Spring 1978), 464 (Spring 1981), 520 (Fall 1982), and 1067 (Fall 1996).
80. Henckel Genealogical Bulletin; pages 1316-1317 (Fall 2002), 1379-1386 (Spring 2004), and 1404-1432 (Spring 2005).
81. The Henckel Genealogy; page 907 (HG #628 George Hinckel, son of Anthony).
82. Rowan County, NC, Will Book G, page 204:
26 Dec 1810, "... I Philip Hinkle of the county of Rowan and state of North Carolina ... do bequeath unto my cousin Benjamin Hinkle with whom I now live, one rifle gun, one cow, and all my wearing apparel of every description, ... and $65 in cash, ... and I do hereby ... make [him] my sole Executor ..."
83. Although he was given two names at baptism, Georg Rudolph was usually identified as simply Georg, in German records, and George, in English.
ANOTHER DAUGHTER?
Seven children (6 sons and 1 daughter) of George Rudolph Henckel have been clearly identified. In his will, George says that his son Henry is to inherit the half lot on which he now resides and that Henry is to pay his brothers and sisters (both plural) the amount that he (George) paid for the half lot. The term 'brothers and sisters' might just be a synonym for 'siblings', or it may imply that Henry had more than one sister. Robert L. Hess suggests 2 possible candidates. One is a Barbara Henckel, who was born about 1733 and who married Balthasar Dorry in the Reformed Church at Frederick, Maryland 27 Mar 1759. They had 2 children baptized in 1768 and in 1771 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Woodsboro, Maryland. Another candidate is an Elisabeth Hinckel, "daughter of George Hinckel", who married Albrecht Bayer on 26 Jun 1770 at Strayers Lutheran Church in York County, Pennsylvania. They had 9 children baptized between 1771 and 1789 at nearby Quickels Church in York County. Based on the marriage date and the birthdates of the children, she was probably born in the late 1740's. Robert L. Hess points out that apart from her father's name, there is no clue as to her identity and that there were no Henckels living in the part of York County where she married and lived.
1 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 21, 151-153.
2 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pgs 18, 26, 882.
3 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 882.
4 William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 151.
5
William Sumner Junkin, Minnie Wyatt Junkin, The Henckel Genealogy 1500--1960, 1964, pg 154.
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