Johann Heibst (1726 - 1802)

Born 8 Mar 1726 in Bingen,Germany

Husband of Appolonia Abigail (Wamser) Heibst — married 20 Oct 1767 in New Hanover County,Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died Apr 1802 at age 76 in Botetourt, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Johann Nicholaus Heibst was born on March 8, 1727, in Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He married Apollinia Abigail Wamser on 20 Oct 1767 in New Hanover, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. He died in April 1802 in Botetourt, Virginia, having lived a long life of 75 years.

Johann Nicolus Heibst was b. 3-8-1728 near Bingen, Germany. The family came to what was Nicholas. Hypes ws born in Germany March 8, 1728 and died in Botetourt County, Virginia in March 1802. Nicolaus and Apolonia moved to Botetourt before June of 1775 where he bought 400 acres between Fincastle and Buchanan. Nicolaus and Apolonia md. 10-20-1767 in New Hanover, PA. Nicolaus was paying taxes in Botetourt by 1784, where he managed a pig iron works near Pattonsburg, now known as Buchanan. Nicolaus also owned 700-800 acres of land near Winchester, VA. Nicholas was also a wagon maker and built wagons for the continental Army during the Revolution. Nicolaus d. by 4-1802 in Botetourt. His will was dated 3-1-1802 and it mentioned his wife, Apolonia and the following children: John, Peter, Henry, Maria, Elizabeth - md.___Able, Barbary, Magdaline - md. Jacob Gross, and Margaret. The estate was not settled until 7 years after Apolonia died (1833), in 1840. Nicolaus signed his will using the German spelling of Heibst. Some of the Hypes family settled in the Sinking Creek Valley, according to one of the Giles Co., VA History Books, it states thefollowing: By the late 1860's desc. of John and Henry had adopted the Hypes spelling and Henry moved to Ohio in 1811, John to Giles Co. (now Craig Co.) around 1822 and Peter remained in Botetourt. Full Context of Pennsylvania Foreign Oaths of Allegiance IMMIGRANTS INTO PENNSYLVANIA: Volume 1 Name: Johan NickelHeibst, Ship: Polly Place: Rotterdam Date: Sept. 19, 1704 Married: 20 OCT 1767 in New Hanover, Pennsylvania

Volume I. Clarence M. Busch State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1895. Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 8. Marriage Record of THE LUTHERAN CHURCH New Hanover, Montgomery County, PA. 1745-1809 1767, Oct. 20, Heibst, Nicholas, and Appolonia Warmser.

Sources

Nicholas Heibst Pennsylvania, Church Marriages, 1682-1976

Name: Nicholas Heibst

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 20 Oct 1767

Event Place: New Hanover, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States

Spouse's Name: Appolonia Wamser

• Ancestry.com. Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:Austin, J. William II. Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003.

• Source for the Heibst (Hypes ) family History of Nicholas County, West Virginia, by William Griffee Brwon, 1954, Dietz Press, 425 pages. A copy of the book can be obtained from Amazon.com

• Nicholas' descendants moved to Meiigs County , Ohio and some to Nicholas County, West Virginia.

• Nicholas is on the Tax List for Botetourt County, Virginia, USA in 1785. Ancestry.com. Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

• 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Botetourt, Virginia; Page: 60A; NARA Roll: M33_130; Image: 121

• Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985; Event Type Marriage, Spouse Appollonia Wamseren

• Pennsylvania, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890; Year 1764, Database PA Early Census Index

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1764; Page Number: 357

• FamilySearch.org. Recorded Will of Nicholas Hipes, 1802, Botetourt County, Virginia; Will books, 1770-1869; general indexes to wills, 1770-1972; Film # 007644336. Image 293 of 853 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89PH-TFF5