Johann Justus HENCKEL

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1. In 1750 John Justus Henchel sold his holdings in Pennsylvania andmoved to Rowan, North Carolina. In 1760 because of Indian depredationshe moved with his family to Augusta County, Virginia and settled in abeautiful section known as Germany Valley. This was included inRockingham County, Virginia, in 1778 and became part of PendletonCounty in 1788. In 1863 the State of West Virginia was formed, and itincluded Germany Valley in the Union District of Pendleton County,West Virginia. The first improvement in Germany Valley by John Justus Henckel was the construction of a stockade with an enclosed areasufficient to house the families of his sons and sons-in-law as wellas the other settlers in the immediate vicinity. This structure wasknown as Hinkle's Fort and was used as an outpost prior to and duringthe Revolutionary War. The attacks of the Indians during this periodcaused all settlers in this area to seek shelter and safety in thisfortress. John Justus Henckel, Sr, was the recognized commander of thefort at which Colonial troops were occasionally quartered. At hisdeath in 1778 he was succeeded by his son, Abraham Hinkle. 2. They first lived in Macumbie Creek, 10 miles from Allentown. In1750 John sold his land and moved to Cutchmans Creek in Rowan County(nowDavidson), North Carolina. Due to Indian threats they moved toGerman Valley Settlement, Pendelton County, Virginia. The first improvement in Germany Valley by "Yost" Henkle was theconstruction of a stockade wiith an enclosed area, sufficiient tohousehis family, the families of his sons and sons-in-law as well astheother settlers in the immediate vicinity. Known as "Hinkle's Fort"this structure was an outpost prior to and during theRevolutionaryWar. Attacks by Indians during this period caused allsettlers in thevicinity to seek shelter in the safety of the fort.Colonial Troopswere occasionally quartered here. The site of the fort near Riverton, Pendleton County, West Virginiawas located in 1925-27. In 1930 the Henckel Family Association erecteda marker on the site of the old fort. The services of John Justus Henckel as commander of Hinkle's Fort andin furnishing supplies to the Colonial forces has been recognized officially by the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution andother patriotic orders as a qualification for membership 3. The Hinkle Family, by Linda Adams In his will Anthony Jacob Henckel left to his two youngest sons, JohnJustus and Anthony Jacob, the 250-acre home farm in New HanoverTownship, then in Philadelphia County, now Montgomery County,Pennsylvania. John Justus' share was 150 acres. In about 1730, JohnJustus married Maria Magdalena Eschmann, daughter of Abraham andElizabeth Eschmann of German-Swiss origin, and settled on a farm nearMacungie Creek, now Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, paying taxes as lateas 1748 in Pennsylvania. By 1750 he sold his property in Pennsylvania and made the long journeydown the mountain valleys from Pennsylvania into North Carolina. In1751 he was living on Dutchman's Creek in the Fork of the Yadkin,approzimately 13 miles from Salisbury, Rowan County, now DavidsonCounty, North Carolina. He and his family lived there until dangerfrom Indians prompted him to move his wife and twelve children to whatis now Germany Valley, Pendleton County, West Virginia. Their new landwas near the Shawnee Indian Trail, so there the family built a logfort for protection in 1761-62, the site of which can still be seentoday. John Justus, his sons, and his sons-in-law participatedactively in the defense of the frontier during the Revolutionary Warand furnished supplies for the Continental forces. The Hinkle Fortfarm became the headquarters and training grounds of the North ForkBattalion. After John Justus' death in 1778, his son Abraham owned the propertyand carried on through the remainder of the war and until danger fromIndians passed. A granite marker was unveiled by the Henckel FamilyAssociation at the site of the Hinkle Fort on September 29, 1936. Amonument was also erected to the memory of John Justus and his wife inthe graveyard of the Henckel homestead at a spot near the grave ofAbraham Henckel. Children of John Justus and Mary Henckel were: Anna Maria Elizabeth,b. 1731, m. Moses Ellsworth; Jacob Henckel, b. ca. 1733, d. 1779, m.Mary Barbara Teter; Rebecca, m. Paul Teter; Catherine, m. Adam Biffel;Mary Magdalena b. 1739, d. October 18, 1829, m. John Skidmore; Abrahamb. ca. 1749, d. 1815, m. Mary Catherine Teter; Susannah Henkel,married Philip Teter; John Justus, Jr., b. January 14, 1752, d. 1794,married Christiana Negely; Hannah, m. Andrew Johnson in 1791;Elizabeth, m. Christian W. Ruhlman, d. 1754; Isaac, b. ca. 1756, d.October, 1824. Solomon and Ambrose Henkel, great grandsons of John Justus Henckelthrough his son, Jacob Henkel, established the Henkel Press in 1806 atNew Market, Virginia. They published, among other items, churchminutes and pamphlets, small graded school books, and hymnals. In1807, Ambrose Henkel began the publication of the first Germannewspaper in the South, "Virginia and New Market Popular Instructorand Weekly News." Nearly all the publications were in German; somepamphlets were in English. They were noted, however, for theirpublication of the works of Luther in the English language, sanctionedby the Tennessee Synod. Henkel family papers, correspondence, anditems printed by their press have been preserved in the rare books andmanuscripts collections at the College of William and Mary, theUniversity of Virginia, and Duke University. 4. Hinkle's Fort, Germanna Valley, Pendleton County, West Virginia Hinkle's Fort, built 1761-62, was located in Germany Valley, nearRiverton. It was built by John Justus Henckel, Sr. (1706-1778), whocame in 1760 from North Carolina with most of his twelve children,some with families, in search of a new home where Indians were lesshostile and the soil more fertile. After a journey of weeks, theycaught sight of their "promised land" when they reached the top ofNorth Fork Mountain. Three sons, Abraham, Sr., John Justus, Jr., andIsaac, and three Teter son-in-laws were with him. John Justus, Sr. sonof Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, had immigrated to America in 1717 withhis parents who settled near Philadelphia, PA. He later moved to NorthCarolina. The fort was built as a protection against the Indians not only forthe Hinkle family but for other settlers in the area. The settlementbecame know as Germany Valley because the families, all of Germandescent, conversed in their native German. Unlike Fort Seybert andFort Upper Tract, Hinkle's Fort was spared destruction. During the Revolutionary War, Hinkle's Fort became the only outpost inPendleton County for the patriot forces. John Justus Henckel, Sr. hadbeen officially recognized for his services as commander of the fortand in furnishing supplies to the troops (detachments of the VirginiaMilitia) quartered there. The fort was headquaters and traininggrounds for the North Fork Military Company which had been organizedby settlers early in the Revolutionary War and whose first captainswere son-in-laws and sons of John Justus Henckel, Sr. After theRevolutionary War and when danger of Indian raids was past, the fortwas torn down and some of the timbers used to build a large house onthe site. The family of John Justus Henckel, Sr. became a leading one in theearly settlement and history of Pendleton County. Most of his sons andgrandsons served in county offices. Isaac Hinkle and his nephew, MosesHinkle,were two of eleven justices commissioned by the governor ofVirginia to organize the new county of Pendleton, 1788. Eleven yearsearlier, Isaac Hinkle had been similarly commissioned to assit in theformation of Rockingham County, VA. Markers at the site of the fort and at the graves of John JustusHenckel, Sr. and wife were dedicated on September 19, 1936 at aHenckel family reunion with several hundred descendants fromthroughout the United States in attendance who came to pay a lastingtribute to the memory of one of their patriarchs. Written and submitted by Sarah Hinkle Warner From Pendleton County, WV Past and Present, page 61 5. JOHN JUSTUS HENKEL, from The Eller Chronicles, Volume 8, February1, 1994 John Justus "Jost" Henkel, son of Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel, was bornin Daudenzell, Germany, 10 February 1706 and died August 1778 inGermany Valley, Pendleton Co., WV. He was eleven years of age when hereached Pennsylvania where he grew to manhood on his father's farm inNew Hanover Township. After he married Maria Eschmann, a German-Swiss, about 1730, theyremoved to Upper Milford Township in Bucks (now Lehigh) County,. nearDillingerville, Pennsylvania where they joined the GossenhoppenCongregation. Until 1748 he paid taxes there, but in 1750 he sold hisland, and by 1751 he and his family, which then included ten children,were living on Dutchman's Creek in the Forks of the Yadkin in Rowan(now Davidson) County, North Carolina. Two more children were born inRowan County, North Carolina. After only ten years in Rowan County, NC, John Justus Henkel in 1760removed to Germany Valley on the north fork of the South Branch of thePotomac River in Augusta, later Rockingham County, VA, and nowPendleton County, WV. All of his children including three of hismarried children and their families were said to have accompanied himto Germany Valley, but there is doubt that his daughter Catherine whomarried John Adam Biffle made the move. The successful arrangementsfor the migration of so many individuals required the mind andleadership of a remarkable individual. The records of his familyclearly indicate that John Justus Henkel was indeed an exceptionalman. A careful study of Henkel and Biffle records raises serious doubt ifCatherine Henkel and her husband Adam Biffle accompanied her father toGermany Valley. A daughter Mary was born ca. 1758 in Rowan Co., NC;son John, their eldest son, was born there in 1760, the same year ofthe removal, and their youngest son, Jacob, was born there in 1763. Ifthe couple did remove to Germany Valley, they must have soon returnedbecause other Rowan County records place Adam in that county as lateas 1779. By 1779 he removed from Rowan County and entered land on thesouth bank of the Holston River Valley in what is now Sullivan County,Tennessee. In this move, as already mentioned, he was accompanied byhis son-in-law, John Jacob Eller, Jr. Among the married children who removed to Germany Valley with JohnJustus Henkel were his oldest daughter, Anna Maria Henkel and herhusband Moses Elsworth, his oldest son, Jacob Henkel, and his wifeBarbara Teter, and daughter Rebecca Henkel and her husband Paul Teter.Among the three couples were several grandchildren, including youngPaul Biffle, son of Jacob and Barbara Teter Henkel, who was destinedto become a most distinguished Lutheran minister, printer andpublisher of the southeastern frontier. All of his sons-in-law, his sons and some grandsons were active in theRevolutionary War. His family fort became a military fort and was usedto quarter and drill the militia. The Henkel Family Association in1938 placed a handsome granite arrow-head monument honoring JohnJustus Henkel near the site of his fort. Also a West VirginiaHistorical marker which mentions the Hinkle Fort is placed adjacent tohighway # 33 overlooking Germany Valley. (Note: My wife and I visitedthese sites soon after Conf III but were advised not to attempt toreach the Henkel cemetery without making prior arrangements.) One reason often mentioned for the move of the Henkels from RowanCounty was to escape Indian problems associated with the uprisingamong the Cherokees in 1760. This explanation seems implausible sincethe land on which they settled in Germany Valley was adjacent to theSeneca and Shawnee Indians trail along which much Indian traffic stillpassed between the northern and southern tribes. The first task facingthe family upon their arrival was the erection of a fort large enoughto protect the large extended Henkel family from Indian attack. Itseems unlikely that John Justus Henkel would not have known thatIndian problems existed in Germany Valley prior to his arrival there. A more logical explanation suggested by some for his move to GermanyValley, was his concern about the legacy he would leave his largefamily of children and grandchildren. He was past fifty years of agewhen he decided apparently that sufficient fertile land could not beacquired in Rowan County to insure the future security for hischildren and grandchildren. He was attracted to the more fertilelimestone soil in Germany Valley where cheap land was abundant. Hisdecision then sprang apparently from that same impulse, common to allearly settlers of that period - the desire for more and better landthat would provide economic security for his immediate family andfuture descendants. John Justus Henkel and members of his family are buried in a grave onthe hillside overlooking the site of the fort. The dimensions of thecharacter, intelligence, and accomplishments of John Justus Henkel arerevealed in part by his great courage and skill in safely removingsuch a large number of family members from Rowan County to GermanyValley and building a historic fort. Equally revealing was his concernfor his families future, and his acquisition of much land to insurethat future. Perhaps the major revelation about this remarkable manwas the transmission of the essence of his own character and moralvalues to his children and grandchildren.

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