Johann Jost Harbaugh (1699 - 1762)

Born Apr 1699 in Otterberg, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Margaretha (Klein) Herbach — married 3 May 1725 in Otterberg, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Coppenhoffer) Herbach — married Jul 1745 in Pennsylvania Colony

Descendants

Died 3 Apr 1762 at about age 63 in Kreutz Creek, Hellam Township, York, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Jost was born in in the German Palatinate, 1699. His last name at birth was not "Harbaugh," it was Herbach. Harbaugh is an anglicized version of the name. He passed away in 1762.

Yost Harbaugh migrated from Germany to USA.

Biography

•Birth: APR 1699 in Aspach, Kaiserslautern, Germany

•Death: 3 APR 1762 Kruetz Creek, in Hellam Twp., York Co., PA

•Baptism: 21 APR 1699 Aspach, Germany

•Burial: Hellam Township, Adams Co., PA

•Immigration: ABT. 1736 From Germany to US

•Religion: Reformed

•Note:

He was perhaps the first to come to America. According to family tradition, he came with his family in 1736. Rev. Henry Harbaugh heard his grandfather say that he came to America when he was six years old, and Jacob was born in 1730. Some descendants reported that Yost came in 1735, but they were unable to authenticate the story. Neither has anyone found an immigration record for Yost Harbaugh. --Harbaugh History, by Cora Bell Harbaugh Cooprider, 1947, p. 14

In the first Warrant he made in 1739, "Jost Herbogh" took out a Warrant (process at the time consisted of a Warrant, then a Survey, then request for a Patent) for one hundred acres in Maxatawny Twp., at that time Philadelphia County, and later Berks County. This farm was midway between Reading and Allentown. This land was then Vacated, no Patent being issued. In his 1856 Annals, Rev. Henry Harbaugh thought that his ancestor came to America in 1736, from Switzerland. There is a record in York Historical Society showing he was born in Kaiserslautern. We had reported to us from Kansas, that Yost went to Switzerland about 1720 and from there to Philadelphia. We have never located an immigration record, nor the name of his father. It may be a coincidence, but we did find another immigrant, John Peter Harbaugh in 1741, and who settled in Berks County, Pa. It was about 1743 that Yost removed to his new settlement at Kreutz Creek, in York County. It was in 1742 that another immigrant Casper Harbaugh came to America, and the deeds show he settled in York County also. John Peter remained in Berks County, Casper went to Somerset County, and Yost died east of York, Pa. Yost was a pious person. He loved the church and brought up his children in it. He helped to found the church at Kreutz Creek, which was near his homestead, an organization which still exists. He was a man of stout physical frame, energetic sprit, and great courage.

Joost Herbach aka Yost Harbaugh

FindAGrave Memorial link^[1]

--As posted on Harbaugh RootsWeb site 8/17/06

Father: Johannes Peter Herbach b: 1674 in ? Netherlands Mother: Anna Maria Singer

Marriage 1 Maria M. Klein b: ABT. 1707 in Ulmey, Palatinate, Germany
Married: 3 MAY 1725 in Reformed Church, Otterberg, Germany

Children

1. George Harbaugh b: 10 FEB 1725/26 in Kirschweiler, Kaiserslautern, Germany c: 11 FEB 1725/26 in Ulmet, Germany

2. Ludwig Harbaugh b: 1727 in Europe c: 11 FEB 1726/27 in Otterberg, Pfalz, Bayern

3. Jacob Harbaugh b: 5 FEB 1729/30 in Europe c: 15 FEB 1732/33

4. Maria Margaretha Harbaugh b: 30 AUG 1730 c: 3 AUG 1830 in Ulmet, Palatinate, Germany

5. John Harbaugh b: 6 MAY 1735 in PA c: 8 MAY 1735 in Ulmet, Palatinate, Germany

6. Henry Harbaugh b: 1740

7. Yost Harbaugh b: 11 OCT 1741 in Berks Co., PA

Marriage 2 Mary Elizabeth ? b: ABT. 1720 in Germany
Married: ABT. 1747 in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Children

1. Leonard Harbaugh b: 10 MAY 1749 in Hellam Twp., York Co., PA

2. Mary Elizabeth Harbaugh b: 1753

3. Anna Margaret Harbaugh

4. Anna Catharine Harbaugh b: 13 AUG 1759

Jost was born in 1699. He passed away in 1762.

Source

• Harbaugh History, by Cora Bell Harbaugh Cooprider, 1947, p. 400

• Yost Harbaugh, record of whom is found in the land office at Harrisburg, where it is shown that in 1739 Joast (as the name was then spelled) Harbaugh owned a tract of 100 acres of land in what is now Berks county. He is supposed to have come to America in 1736. Cooprider tells that Yost Harbaugh was twice married. Her account gives the same marriages and children as that repeated for the Harbaugh Rootsweb site quoted above.

• "Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania", prepared in part by George O. Seilhamer, published by Genealogical Pub. Co., Chicago, 1905, p. 567. Sent by mail by Cathy Pentola, 7/5/05

-- Yost Harbaugh, the elder, was a Swiss immigrant who first settled in Maxatawny Valley, (now) Berks County, in the year 1736, from whence, about the year 1743, he removed to Hellam Township, on Kreutz Creek, this county, where he became the owner of a tract of nearly 200 acres of land near where Kreutz Creek Church now stands. The land was originally taken up (in 1736) by John Huntzecker, and after passing through various ownerships, became vested in---Stoner, in the possession of whose descendants it still remains.

• The page for Michael Hahn [1] has an interesting notes concerning Harbaugh. But there is also provided, a note by Peter Hoover concerning the Swiss origins:

"We Anabaptist Hubers came from Zürich, and we all fled the canton in the mid-1600s. We came first to the Elsass (Alsace) and later to the Kraichgau in Baden, Germany (the Sinsheim, Heidelberg area) by around 1665. By this time there were NO remaining Anabaptists in Zürich, except a few old ladies that were married to Reformed men. No congregations were left and emigration was totally forbidden and contacts cut off. Hence anyone claiming an Anabaptist background, and who says he or she left Zürich after 1650 is confusing something. Yes, our origin is Zürich, and yes we are of Swiss roots, but we came to America from Germany, not from Switzerland. " (Further reference is given.)

--Taken from the book, "History of York County, Illustrated 1886" by John Gibson, Historical Editor

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41787009/yost-harbaugh
• LDS file, family history books, my 5th gr grandfather

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #41787009