Henicus Viets (1709 - 1779)

Born 1709 in Manhattan, New York County, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Austin) Viets — married 22 May 1751 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1779 at about age 70 in East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

He obtained a practical education. His account book, still in a good state of preservation, was last known to be in the custody of his descendant Jonathan M. Viets of Bryan, Ohio. Itshows that Henry was a good penman and accountant. He made use of Latin expressions, which he may have learned as a lad from his father. On the first page of the old book may still be seen the following: Henry, alias Henricus Viett, of Simsbury, Connecticut, his book of accounts or accompts, 1729. Henry Viets and his brother John are both said to have been stout, strong young fellows and given to practical jokes, as was the case with young men in frontier settlements in those days. Henry, afterthe death of his father, which took place when he was but thirteen years old, was for a time connected with the copper mining industry at Newgate. He soon, however, came into possession of considerable real estate, and settled down in the northern part of the town, at what is now the little village of Copper Hill, where he was a shoemaker as well as a farmer. Henry's house is no longer standing. The home now on this property was built by Henry's son, James, and stayed in the family until 1915.

Henicus was born in 1709. He passed away in 1779. Burial: East Granby Cemetery, Connecticut. Children of Henry and Margaret Hoskins; Henry, Margaret, Luke, David, and Jonathan.

Henry and Margaret Austin, parents of Janes.

Sources

Find A Grave, Memorial # 30237646. Hartford, Connecticut.

• A VIETS GENEALOGY: DR. JOHN VIETS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. By Dorothy Dean Viets Schell, Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1990.
• https://www.myheritage.com/research?action=query&formId=master&formMode=1&qname=Name+fn.Henry%2F3+fnmo.2+fnmsvos.1+fnmsmi.1+ln.Viets+lnmo.4+lnmsdm.1+lnmsmf3.1+lnmsrs.1&oft=ppc+data
• Viets, Francis Hubbard. A Genealogy of the Viets Family with Biographical Sketches (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, 1902) Page 20
• Family ancestry.