Johann Peter (Heÿl) Hoyle (abt. 1705 - abt. 1762)

Born about 1705 in Germany

Husband of Susanna Catharina (Müller) Heÿl — married 13 Jun 1730 in Jeckenbach, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died about 1762 at about age 57 in Anson County, Province of North Carolina

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Biography

“Genealogical proof rests on evidence from thorough examination of all known sources potentially relevant to solving a research problem. Genealogical proof reflects what that evidence shows after any conflicting evidence is resolved. Such proof, therefore, cannot be overturned by ‘might-have-beens.’ Possibilities for which no known evidence exists do not discredit a proved genealogical conclusion.

“Meeting the Genealogical Proof Standard [GPS] neither requires nor ensures perfect certainty. Genealogical proofs—like accepted conclusions in any research field—never are final. Previously unknown evidence may arise, causing the genealogist to reassess and reassemble the evidence, which may change the outcome.”^[1]

Evaluation of Traditional Resources: Pioneer Peter Heÿl (Hoyle)

Evaluation of traditional sources for North Carolina pioneer Peter Heÿl correlated with evidence revealed in current research establishes that the aged traditional sources are incorrect. For example, North Carolina pioneer Peter Heÿl was not the son of Adam Heyl, and Peter's wife was Susanna Catharina Müller, not Catherine Dales. These conclusions are supported point by point in the following Peter Heÿl (Hoyle) biography.

There are two revered narratives for Peter Hoyle: Laban Miles Hoffman, Our Kin published 1915^[2] and Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker, The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl published 1938.^[3] Although of different generations, the authors shared a mutual devotion to family history and exchanged findings and opinions. If Mr. Hoffman and Mrs. Rucker were alive today to study resources unavailable previously, their reactions likely would be delight.

Hoffman, unaware of his Hoyle heritage until beginning his genealogical investigations, acknowledges Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker and her father Rev. Maxwell Hoyle for supplying two sources on Peter Hoyle’s German ancestral background and early years in America. Those sources are Charles A. Proctor, “A Record of the Hoyle Family, 1837” and Jur Bernhardt Köerner, Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien.

1. Mr. Proctor, “A Record of the Hoyle Family.” This is a family tree compilation on cardboard “made by a Mr. Proctor,” who married into an East Tennessee branch of the family. Mr. Proctor prepared the lineage “under the direction and supervision of Judge John B. Hoyle of Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee.” Mr. Proctor's record was distributed widely among Hoyle descendants.^[4] Mr. Proctor was Charles A. Proctor, who married 18 December 1854 Sarah A. Mastin.^[5] Sarah A. (Mastin) Proctor was the granddaughter of Reverend John Hoyl.^[6]

The "Proctor Record" states Adam Hoyle was the father of North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle. Some of the most noticeable statements in the "Proctor Record" disproved by the family's Pennsylvania and North Carolina records are
a) that Peter arrived in North Carolina in 1744;
b) that Peter died in 1781;
c) that Peter's wife died in 1787;
d) that Michael was the eldest son;
e) that John was born in Germany and was the second son;
f) that Andrew was born 1743; and
g) that Jacob was not born until 1750.^[7]

2. Dr. Jur Bernhardt Köerner, Genealoglsches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien [German Genealogical Directory, genealogical handbook for families of the commonwealth], Band XIII [vol. 13] (Görlitz, Germany: C. A. Starke, 1907). Dr. Köerner published a series of undocumented German family lineage books for different regions of the former German empire;^[8] sources for Dr. Köerner’s facts are unknown. Dr. Köerner's 1907 publication includes a Peter Heyl born 14 May 1710 to an Adam Heyl, who was the son of Jürgen (George) Heil III. The wife of that Peter Heyl was named Catherine Dales. This lineage was reprinted in Mr. Hoffman's 1915 publication as a matter of information and as fact in Mrs. Rucker's 1938 publication.^[9]

Mrs. Rucker concluded that the Köerner lineage applied to North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle, but she also stated that Peter was the 1738 German immigrant on the ship Robert and Alice. The two sources cannot apply to the same man. The most obvious reasons the lineage published by Köerner is not relevant to North Carolina pioneer Peter Heÿl are these:

• If, as according to Mrs. Rucker, Peter Heÿl was born in England in 1710, he and his children would have been British subjects, and it would have been unnecessary for Peter to swear to oaths required only of non-English immigrants.^[10] These were an oath of allegiance to the British crown instituted in 1727 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Council and the oaths of abjuration and fidelity instituted in 1729. The oaths were required of males age sixteen and up and were not required of younger males or females of any age.^[11]

• “Petter Heÿl” was recorded as a Palatine on the captain's passenger list, on the clerk's list of those swearing the allegiance oath, and on the Provincial Council's list of those swearing to the oaths of abjuration. The captain's affidavit states “A List of Palatines on Board the Ship Robt & Alice, Walter Goodman, Master, from Rotterdam.” The clerk at the Philadelphia Courthouse labeled his list of those swearing to the oath of allegiance as: "Palatines imported in the Ship Robert and Alice, of Dublin, Walter Goodman, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Dover in England. Qualified the 11th Day of September 1738." The oath of abjuration signed by Peter in German script before members of the Council is headed: "At the Courthouse of Philadelphia, September 11th 1738. The Palatines whose Names are underwritten, imported in the Ship Robert and Alice, of Dublin, Walter Goodman, Commander, from Rotterdam, but last from Dover in England, did this day take and subscribe the Oaths to the Government."^[12] It is not plausible that three separate records compiled independently by three individuals (the ship captain, the clerk, and the Council's secretary) would all confuse a British subject with a German immigrant.

• Most of all, it is not logical that a British subject would consent to being herded to the courthouse with foreign immigrants, pay twelve pence to sign the oaths,^[13] and sign the oaths in German script.

Evidence Summary

Primary information in original records for Peter Heÿl in Germany and Pennsylvania agree without conflict with those of North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle. Each record is fully documented within the following biography of Peter Hoyle.

• Johann Peter Heÿel of Jeckenbach was the son of Michel Heÿel. North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle named a son Michael, who consistently signed his name in German script.
• The given name of Peter Heÿel's wife in Jeckenbach and Hundsbach is consistent with the name of Peter Heÿel's wife in Pennsylvania baptismal records.
• In Germany Peter Heÿel married and baptized his children at a Reformed church. In Pennsylvania Peter Heÿel's children were baptized at German Reformed churches.
• The names and 1731-1736 baptism dates of Peter and Susanna Heÿl’s children in Hundsbach parish records are consistent with the names and birth order of the children of North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle.
• When the Heÿels' son Jacob was baptized in 1731 at Hundsbach, one of the witnesses was Jacob Renner. In Pennsylvania, the 1748 baptism of Peter and Susannah Heÿel's daughter was witnessed by Maria Margaret (Renner) Schreyer, who was born at Hundsbach, the same parish of the Heÿels.^[14]
• The 1745 and 1750 Pennsylvania baptisms of Peter and wife Susanna's children are consistent with names of North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle’s children.
• During 1736–1738 Peter Heÿel owned a mill in Adenbach, Germany. The years of residence in Adenbach are consistent with Peter’s disappearance from Hundsbach parish records. The year he sold his mill in Adenbach is consistent with his emigration to Pennsylvania. A 1758 North Carolina record identifies Peter as a miller, the same occupation as that of Peter Heÿel of Adenbach, Germany.
• Immigration sources are consistent with applying to the same person:

a) The 1738 manumission record of Peter Heÿl, miller of Adenbach, states he was emigrating to Pennsylvania.

b) The Hundsbach church baptismal register states Peter Heÿel emigrated to Pennsylvania.

c) Peter’s 1738 oath of abjuration at Philadelphia Courthouse identifies him as a Palatine, and he signed as “Petter Heÿel” in German script.

• After son Andrew's 1750 baptism and before 1753, Peter Hoyle migrated to Anson County, North Carolina, where he claimed 800 acres on Hoyle’s Creek.
• In 1756, Peter Hoyle and Jacob Hoyle were members of Captain Samuel Cobrin's militia company. Age requirements for militia duty are consistent with the ages of Peter Heÿel and his son Jacob in Hundsbach parish records.
• Descent of North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle’s land to his eldest son Jacob agrees with the Hundsbach parish birth records that Peter Heÿel’s eldest son was named Jacob.

Biography of Peter Hoyle of North Carolina

Parents

Thanks to the research efforts and generous sharing of several genealogists, it is now established that the parents of North Carolina pioneer Peter were Michel and Anna Elisabetha (Unknown) Heÿl of Jeckenbach, present-day Bad Kreuznach, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany;^[15] see attached map image. Copyrighted photographs of Jeckenbach are available online.

Jeckenbach baptismal records are not extant until 1714; thus, Peter's birth record is not available. However, the church records do establish his parents. Following are some of the facts in the church book entries establishing Peter's parentage; Miles Philbeck's article (cited above) presents all the evidence.

• "Joh. Peter, Michel Heÿels lediger Sohn" [Johann Peter, single son of Michel Heÿel] witnessed the 1727 baptism of Johann Adam Paulus. The child’s parents were Johann Nickel Paulus and his wife Anna Maria Heÿel, daughter of Michel and Anna Elisabeth Heÿel. Anna Maria Heÿel, daughter of Michel and Anna Elisabeth Heÿel, had married Johann Nickel Paulus on 4 September 1725 (p. 245, Jeckenbach record).
• Later, Johann Nickel Paulus, brother-in-law of Peter, witnessed the 1733 baptism of Peter's second child, Elisabetha Catharina Heÿel.
• Maria Sara Heÿel, daughter of Michel and Anna Elisabeth Heÿel, was baptized 19 December 1719 (p. 194, Jeckenbach record).
• When Peter's daughter Maria Sara was baptized in 1734, one of the witnesses was Maria Sara Heyl "the child's father's sister of Jeckenbach."

Marriage

Peter married Susanna Catharina Müller in 1730 (see attached image). "Peter Heÿl ist diese [this] 13 Junÿ [13 June] mit Susanna Catharina Ulrich Müllers tochter [daughter] zú [of] Hundsbach." In English: Peter Heÿl married 13 June 1730 with Susanna Catharina, daughter of Ulrich Müller of Hundsbach.^[16]

Birth and Birthplace

The birth date 14 May 1710 traditionally attributed to Peter Heÿl of North Carolina belongs instead to Peter Heyl, son of Adam Heyl, as reported in Dr. Köerner's lineage book (cited above as item 2). The birth date and birthplace of North Carolina's pioneer Peter Hoyle are not established. If North Carolina's Peter Heÿl was around the typical age of twenty-five when he married Susanna Müller in 1730, then a birth year of 1705 would apply.

In 1731, Peter Heÿl of Jeckenbach received permission to move to Hundsbach.^[17]

Children

The children of Peter and Susanna Catharina (Müller) Heÿl were:^[18]

1. Johann Jacob Heÿl born 3 June 1731, baptized 10 June 1731^[19]
2. Elisabetha Catharina Heÿl born 4 January 1733, baptized 9 January 1733^[20]
3. Maria Sara Heÿl born 19 November 1734, baptized 24 November 1734^[21]
4. Anna Maria Heÿl born 1 January 1736, baptized 25 January 1736^[22]
5. Michael Hoyle born about 1738–1740 in Germany or America; no birth record yet located
6. John Hoyle born 1740–1741 in America; no birth record yet located
7. Anna Elisabeth Heÿl baptized 3 December 1745 at Muddy Creek Congregation in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.^[23] The church pastor at this time was Rev. John Conrad Tempelmann.^[24]
8. unnamed daughter Heill, child of Peter Heill and wife, born 10 March 1748, baptized 16 May 1748 during the ministry of Jacob Lischy at Christ (Conewago) Church, near Littlestown, Union Township, York County (present-day Adams County), Pennsylvania. Witnesses: John Schreyer and wife.^[25] Her intended name may have been Maria Margaretha for the witness at her baptism. Apparently the little daughter did not survive and was not named. Mrs. John Schreyer, who witnessed the child's baptism, was Maria Margaret (Renner) Schreyer, born in Hundsbach.^[26]
9. Andrew Heil, child of Peter Heil and wife Susanna Catherine, born 29 December 1749, baptized [blank] 1750 by minister Jacob Lischy at Christ (Conewago) Church near Littlestown, Union Township, York County (present-day Adams County), Pennsylvania. Witnesses Andrew Schreib(er) and wife.^[27]

Miller of Adenbach

"1738, Peter Heÿl, miller of Adenbach moves to Pennsylvania"; see attached image of his manumission entry.^[28] Possibly his manumission application is still extant in Germany. Confirmation that “Peter Heÿl, miller of Adenbach” is the same man who formerly lived in Jeckenbach and Hundsbach is a notation by the pastor of the Hundsbach Reformed Church. The pastor added his comment at a later date in the margin of the church book beside the 1733 baptismal information for Peter’s daughter Elisabetha Catharina: “dieses Kinds Vatter ist in Pensylvaniam gezogen,” meaning this child’s father has gone to Pennsylvania.^[29]

For a history of Peter's grist mill at Adenbach, see Adenbach Mill; in the left-hand panel, click on Litera A, scroll down to Adenbach. The history states Peter "Heÿel" acquired the mill in 1736 and disposed of it in 1738.
Reihenfolge der Müller [chronology of the mill's owners]:
- 1595 Michel, Müller Hanßens Sohn von Adenbach
- 1722 Johann Riegel von Gumbsweiler
- 1722/1727 Peter Oloffer
- 1727/1731 Johann Philipp Maurer aus Niedersaulheim
- 1731/1736 Johannes Schlicher, Unterschultheiß in Medard
- 1736/38 Peter Heyel
- 1738/40 Johann Peter Horbach

The Evangelical Reformed Church in Kusel served the towns and villages of Adenbach, Becherback, Gangloff, Roth bei Odenback, and Ginsweiler. The Family History Library microfilmed some of the church records but dating only 1743–1793 and too late for miller Peter Heyel. As he and Susanna resided in Adenbach from 1736 to 1738, it is probable that a child was born there. On-site research in Germany might answer the question.

Immigration

The Robert and Alice, with the Heÿls aboard, sailed from Rotterdam through the Straits of Dover and laid in at Dover harbor until clearing English customs. It departed Dover on 4 July 1738, maneuvering through the English Channel into the Atlantic Ocean. About two months later, the ship arrived on the North American coast. It navigated eighty miles through Delaware Bay and up the river and anchored in the Philadelphia harbor on 7 September according to The Pennsylvania Gazette^[30] or on 9 September according to Capt. Walter Goodman.^[31] September 7 is the date the ship was entered for customs; September 9 likely is the date the ship cleared customs. The journey from the Dover port in England to the port of Philadelphia had taken nine weeks.

Following inspection by health officer Dr. Thomas Graeme, the ship was allowed to dock. On Thursday, 11 September 1738, healthy male passengers age sixteen years and over were led in a procession to the courthouse. This was their first time on land since the ship sailed from Dover and their first experience on American soil. Because of his concern over the disastrous loss of lives on the 1738 ships and the threat of an infectious epidemic in the city, Governor George Thomas attended several of the oath swearings, including Peter Heÿel's. After swearing to immigration oaths and being recorded as alien immigrants, the passengers returned to the ship. Those whose passage was paid were allowed to gather their families and belongings and were free to explore America and seek their fortunes in a strange land.

Peter signed the abjuration oath in German script as "Petter Heÿel"; see attached image of his original signature.^[32] The ship's passenger list does not record family members who arrived with Peter Hoyle. None of his sons were old enough to swear to the required oaths; only Peter qualified at the courthouse.

Passengers on the Robert and Alice were much more fortunate than most who traveled during the horrific 1738 immigration season. Eighteen of the ship's passengers died compared to the overall total of 2,260 deaths reported for the season.^[33] Following the journey from Rotterdam and while still in port at Philadelphia, Captain Walter Goodman wrote a letter dated 19 October 1738 giving a brief account of the Robert & Alice. He reported that he arrived with both crew and passengers in good health and although many of his passengers were sick during the passage "not more than eighteen had died." He had sailed in company with four other ships that suffered a total of 425 deaths. As of 19 October, all but twenty families on his ship had cleared customs and disembarked.^[34] The Pennsylvania Gazette reported that Goodman cleared customs with permission to exit Philadelphia Port bound for Dublin on Sunday,16 November 1738.

America

Oral histories state that Peter and his family originally settled in northeast Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and that they also lived for some time in Frederick County, Maryland.^[35] The Hoyles' earliest American residences are not confirmed except for their children's baptisms in Lancaster and York counties, Pennsylvania (cited above). It is not likely that the family ever resided in Frederick County, Maryland.

After son Andrew's 1750 Pennsylvania baptism, Peter and Susanna migrated to North Carolina. They must have left Pennsylvania quite soon after Andrew's baptism as before March 1753 Peter had chosen the land he wished to settle upon. The first North Carolina record for Peter Hoyle is his 1753 entry for land in Anson County, present-day Gaston County. Peter's grants consisted of 300 acres "on the South side of the South Fork thereof on a branch" and another of 500 acres "lying on both sides of the South Fork of the Cataba River, including the mouth of Hoyle’s Creek and on both sides of the Creek for complement." Thus, the creek upon which Peter situated his homestead became known as Hoyle's Creek; see attached image. The survey has not survived, but a notation on the reverse of his warrant indicates surveying was completed on 4 May 1753. His title was final on 17 May 1754.^[36]

Hoyle Historic Homestead

Current research documents that the house known as Hoyle Historic Homestead in present-day Gaston County, North Carolina, was not constructed by Peter Hoyle. The land on which Hoyle Historic Homestead sits was never owned by Peter Hoyle. The tract was acquired by John Hoyle, son of Peter Hoyle, via a 1765 Mecklenburg County land grant,^[37] and was conveyed in 1794 by John Hoyle to his son Andrew Hoyle.^[38] Andrew Hoyle, grandson of Peter Hoyle, is the person who constructed the house now called "Hoyle Historic Homestead" more than thirty years after his grandfather's death.^[39]

In 2019, the Hoyle Historic Homestead Board of Directors sought an authoritative review of the ownership of Hoyle Historic Homestead land. The Board commissioned Michael T. Southern, Historic Preservation Specialist with the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Mr. Southern reviewed three separate studies submitted independently by Robert C. Carpenter, Bill Hoffman, and Kathy Gunter Sullivan. Mr. Southern’s final opinion, issued 21 May 2020, is that Carpenter’s and Sullivan’s research and documentation conclusively establish that “the Homestead site is within John Hoyle's 1765 patent and within the land he conveyed to Andrew Hoyle in 1794.” The Hoyle Historic Homestead announced these results in its December 2020 issue of Homestead News, stating “These conclusions put to rest unfounded suppositions and accurately document the Homestead’s owners from 1765 through the present.”

1756 Militia Roster

Captain Samuel Cobrin’s 1756 militia company roster includes Peter Hoyle listed among the married men. The militia roster date was documented in 2003 as 1756; earlier publications erroneously stated the date as 1748.^[40]

Hoyle's Mill

Peter continued his profession of milling in North Carolina. The first known mention of his mill is a 1758 grant to Alexander McCulloch for 200 acres "on the N. E. Side of the South fork of the Catauba River below Philip Rudiselses on Hoils Mill Creek, about a mile above the Mill."^[41]

Death and Burial

Peter died intestate (no will) circa 1762–1763 in Anson County, North Carolina. An undated estate settlement exists for him.^[42] The chronological arrangement of the records is haphazard, most are undated, and no date for Peter Hoyle's death can be determined from his entry. The clerk drew double lines between each entry to separate them; see image. Even so, because the entry preceding Peter's record is dated 20 January 1761, some people have misinterpreted it as applying to Peter Hoyle's death.

The burial site of Peter Hoyle is unknown. A memorial stone erected in 1938 repeats outdated information about his name, his parents, his wife, and children.^[43]

Estate

When Peter Hoyle died, the rule of primogeniture was in effect, meaning that any land he had not willed or disposed of prior to his death was automatically inherited by his eldest surviving son. That son was Jacob Hoyle, thus establishing him as Peter's eldest son. Jacob Hoyle died an untimely death in circa 1763;^[44] therefore, the land he inherited from his father Peter as well as land he acquired apart from his father went to Jacob's only surviving son Martin Hoyle. When Martin Hoyle became an adult, he sold the land formerly owned by his paternal grandfather Peter Hoyle to his paternal uncles.^[45]

Caution: Some people confuse primogeniture with the process of entail. Peter Hoyle's land descended to his eldest surviving son because of primogeniture. Peter Hoyle never entailed his land, which is entirely different from primogeniture.^[46]

Widow Susanna Catharina (Müller) Hoyle

Mrs. Peter Hoyle (Susanna Müller) survived her husband. She attended the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, estate sale of her son Jacob Hoyle on 2 August 1763. The estate sale account describes her as “Widow Hoil old woman” while Jacob Hoyle’s widow, Elizabeth, is referred to as “Widow Hoil” and as “Elesebeth Hoill.”^[47] When Susanna (Müller) Hoyle’s grandson Martin Hoyle executed sales on 26 October 1779 of land formerly belonging to Peter Hoyle, there were no references to Susanna’s dower interest, implying her death before then.^[48] When Susanna (Müller) Hoyle was born, when she died, and where she was buried is presently unknown.

Conclusion

Hoffman and Rucker agree that Peter Hoyle of North Carolina was of German descent, that he married, that he fathered at least eight children, and that he resided on Hoyle’s Creek. Many of their other conclusions, however, do not agree with newfound evidence.

Original sources refute statements asserted in twentieth-century genealogies of North Carolina’s Peter Hoyle.

Peter Hoyle was not the son of Adam and Nancy (Leister) Heyl.

He was not born 1710 in England.

He did not marry Catherine Dales in England or elsewhere.

None of his children were born in England.

He did not arrive 1744 in Bladen County, North Carolina.

He did not serve in a 1748 North Carolina militia company.

He did not construct the dwelling known as Hoyle Historic Homestead.

He did not die 1781 nor is 1 November 1761 documented as his death date.

His wife did not die 1787.

Family historians must evaluate the twentieth-century publications in conjunction with independently created original records, assess the evidentiary strength of each, judge which are most reliable, and conclude which most closely depict a coherent, reasonable chronology for Peter Hoyle. Accepting current findings does not disrespect early efforts of Hoffman and Rucker who were limited by available resources. Indeed, continuing their endeavors honors them and the Hoyle family.

Direct evidence is a rarity in eighteenth-century genealogy; however, original records of Germany, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina consistently support without conflict that Peter and Susanna (Müller) Heÿl of Jeckenbach, Hundsbach, and Adenbach in Germany, and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are the same couple who settled in North Carolina.

Sources

1. ↑ Board for Certification of Genealogists, Genealogy Standards (Nashville, Tennessee: Ancestry.com imprint, Turner Publishing, 2014), 1–3 (the five components of the Genealogical Proof Standard). View the required components of the GPS at Board for Certification of Genealogists.
2. ↑ Laban Miles Hoffman, Our Kin: Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families (1915; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., 1984), pp. 396–98; digital edition, Ancestry (https://ancestry.com). Mr. Hoffman (1846–1934) collected oral history from about 1908 until his 1915 publication. He conscientiously analyzed the information according to his available resources. Another value of his publication is that some of his informants were people with first-hand knowledge of recent generations. However, as was the custom of the day, Mr. Hoffman’s publication cites no sources, and with limited resources and being human, he made mistakes.
3. ↑ Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker (1872-1950), The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1100-1936 (Shelby, North Carolina: Z. J. Thompson and Others, 1938); digital edition, HathiTrust .
4. ↑ Laban Miles Hoffman, Our Kin, pp. 396–98.
5. ↑ Note that Mr. Hoffman's Our Kin states Proctor's compilation was dated 1837, a typographical error established by the fact that Mr. Proctor was merely age fifteen then. See "Tennessee, Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900”; database, Ancestry.com. See also, 1860 U.S. census, Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, p. 489; citing NARA microfilm publication M653, 530. See also, 1880 U.S. census, Westport, Jackson County, Missouri, ED 41, p. 273D; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 694; and Find A Grave memorial for Sarah A. Mastin Proctor.
6. ↑ See descendants no. 60 (Reverend John Hoyl) and no. 1497 (Sarah A. Mastin) in Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker, The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl.
7. ↑ Mr. Hoffman, Our Kin, was not convinced that the Proctor record applied to North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle and on page 400, he gives his common-sense explanation of why.
8. ↑ Digital versions are available on CD-Rom in many libraries (see WorldCat), at the Family History Library, and from the publisher C. A. Starke.
9. ↑ Hoffman, pp. 399–400. Mr. Hoffman agreed that the Köerner publication and the Proctor document appeared to apply to the same family; however, he diplomatically stated his concern that they did not apply to North Carolina pioneer Peter Hoyle. Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker, The Genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1100-1936, pp. 15–18.
10. ↑ English law in effect when Peter Hoyle was born stipulates that children born within Britain's dominion were natural-born British citizens without regard to the foreign births of their parents. See William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books 4th edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1770), Book One, The Rights of Persons, Chapter 10, Of People, Whether Aliens, Denizens, or Natives, pp. 354–355, 357–358.
11. ↑ See Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL.D., compiler, William John Hinke, Ph.D., D.D., editor, Pennsylvania German Pioneers (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992), pp. xxvii-xxviii; citing Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania, Vol. IV: 135-140. For a transcription of the oaths, see Strassburger, pp. 3-6.
12. ↑ Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, vol. I: 212, 215; vol. II: 220 (signature image), 223.
13. ↑ Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, p. xxvii.
14. ↑ Ray Yount citing William J. Hinke, “Church Record of the Conewago or Christ Church Congregation Near Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1747–1871,” September 1942 manuscript; digital edition, FamilySearch, digital page 6.
15. ↑ Miles S. Philbeck and Robert C. Carpenter, 2008–2010 research and translation of the Evangelisch-Reformiert Kirche [Evangelical Reformed Church] at Hundsbach (present-day Bad Kreuznach, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany), p. 279, Jeckenbach records; Family History Library microfilm 493320. The Hundsbach Church Book includes records for the villages of Desloch, Hundsbach, and Jeckenbach. These findings were published by Robert C. Carpenter in the Gaston County, North Carolina, Genealogical Society publication Footprints In Time, September and December 2010 issues. Miles Philbeck continued the study, located even earlier records, and published these in the Tryon County, North Carolina, Genealogical Society's Bulletin in February 2011.
16. ↑ Miles S. Philbeck and Robert C. Carpenter, 2008–2010 research, Heiraten [marriages] 1717–1773, Jeckenbach records, page 246 (stamped), page 251 (penned), Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Hundsbach, Kreis [district] Meisenheim, Rheinland, Preußen, Germany; Family History Library microfilm 493320, item 1.
17. ↑ Manumissionsprotokolle, 1724-1749, p. 59; Family History Library microfilm 250,235.
18. ↑ Baptisms of the children in Germany are from the Hundsbach Evangelical Reformed Church Register; Family History Library microfilm 493320.
19. ↑ Hundsbach Evangelical Church Register, p. 68.
20. ↑ Hundsbach Evangelical Church Register, p 8.
21. ↑ Hundsbach Evangelical Church Register, p. 11.
22. ↑ Hundsbach Evangelical Church Register, p. 209, Jenkenbach records.
23. ↑ FamilySearch index to "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"; citing FHL microfilm 20,363. The original records are at the Reformed Church Library, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
24. ↑ Rev. Daniel G. Glass, Rev. C. George Bachman, Rev. Harry E. Shepardson, Rev. John F. Frantz, Rev. J. N. Le Van, D.D, editors, History of the Classis of Lancaster of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1852-1940 (New Holland, PA: The New Holland Clarion, 1940), Part II, "Histories of the Congregations of the Classis of Lancaster," pp. 168–182.
25. ↑ Ray Yount (January 2011) citing William J. Hinke, “Church Record of the Conewago a.k.a. Christ Church Congregation Near Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1747–1871,” September 1942 manuscript; digital edition, FamilySearch, digital page 7. See also FamilySearch index to "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"; citing FHL microfilm Q974.842 LI V2Y.
26. ↑ Ray Yount citing William J. Hinke, “Church Record of the Conewago or Christ Church Congregation Near Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1747–1871,” September 1942 manuscript; digital edition, FamilySearch, digital page 6.
27. ↑ Ray Yount (January 2011) citing Adams County Church Records of the 18th Century (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1990). The published abstracts are from William J. Hinke’s derivative transcription of 1747-1871 Reformed Church records, available on microfische at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the York County Historical Society, and the Adams County Historical Society. See also, William J. Hinke, “Church Record of the Conewago or Christ Church Congregation Near Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1747–1871,” September 1942 manuscript; digital edition, FamilySearch, digital page 9. The FamilySearch index to "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950" gives only Andrew's 1749 birth without his 1750 baptism; citing FHL microfilm Q974.842 LI V2Y.
28. ↑ Zweibrücken manumission records, “Manumissionsprotokolle, 1724-1749” (Zweibrucken, Bayern, Germany), FHL microfilm 250,235, digital image 94. See also, Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants: The Western Palatinate (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1985), 372, citing Zweibrücken Manumissions Protocoll, transcribed from a microfilmed copy of the original record. Ms. Burgurt’s publication provided the clues leading to Heÿl records in the Hundsbach Church Book.
29. ↑ Miles Philbeck, Reformed Church Records, p. 8, Hundsbach.
30. ↑ The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia), Sunday, 7 September 1738, page 3, courtesy of donnduff.
31. ↑ Goodman's 19 October 1738 letter reported he arrived at "this river" [the Delaware] on 9 September; Klaus Wust, “The Emigration Season of 1738—Year of the Destroying Angels,” The Report, A Journal of German American History (Baltimore, MD: The Society for the History of Germans in Maryland), 40 (1986): 30.
32. ↑ Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, vol. II: 223; HathiTrust. Also see, pp. xxxix-xliii for explanations of flaws in I. Daniel Rupp's earlier ship list publication, A Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 and in William Henry Egle's publication, Names of foreigners who took the oath of allegiance to the province and state of Pennsylvania, 1727–1775, with the foreign arrivals, 1786–1800.
33. ↑ Klaus Wust, “The Emigration Season of 1738—Year of the Destroying Angels,” 21–56.
34. ↑ Captain Walter Goodman, 19 October 1738 letter published 18 December 1738 in Rotterdamse Saturdaagse Courant (Rotterdam); Wust, “The Emigration Season of 1738—Year of the Destroying Angels,” p. 30.
35. ↑ Wikipedia “Peter Hoyle House.” The article assigns an incorrect death date to Peter. The site has been updated with current research executed by Kathy Gunter Sullivan confirming the house was constructed more than thirty years after Peter Hoyle's death.
36. ↑ Secretary of State IX, Court of Claims, 26 March 1753; box 6, North Carolina State Archives (Peter Hoyle’s warrants), and Crown Patent Book 13: 6 (Peter Hoyle’s two grants totaling 800 acres); microfilm S.108.160.3, North Carolina State Archives. Duplicate records of the same 800 acres are also recorded in Crown Patent Book 15: 6.
37. ↑ 6 April 1765, Crown Patent Book 18: 143); indexed as John "Hail"; digital image, David M. McCorkle, NC Land Grant Images. A simple, free registration process is required to view the images at Mr. McCorkle's site.
38. ↑ 20 October 1794, Lincoln County deed book 17: 328, Register of Deeds, Lincolnton: John Hoyle to Andrew Hoyle [his son] conveyed land including the land granted to John Hoyle on 6 April 1765.
39. ↑ Kathy Gunter Sullivan, Certified Genealogist®, 29 September 2006 report to Hoyle Historic Homestead, "Andrew Hoyle Research Report 2," p. 1. One purpose of the Andrew Hoyle research was to document the title history of the land on which Hoyle Historic Homestead sits. These findings were announced by Robert C. Carpenter at a gathering on 7 September 2008 and in his 2008 article "New and Exciting Hoyle Research" in the Gaston County Genealogical Society quarterly Footprints In Time.
40. ↑ Kathy Gunter Sullivan, Certified Genealogist®, 1 October 2003 research report to Hoyle Historic Homestead Board of Directors, “Peter Hoyle,” pp. 17-23. See also, Kathy Gunter Sullivan, “1756 North Carolina Militia Law,” North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, vol. 34, no. 1 (February 2008): 51–52. See also, Kathy Gunter Sullivan, “Captain Cobrin’s Militia Roster,” Killian Family Website, Andreas Killian Descendants Historical Association, scroll down to AKDHA Newsletters, select the issue of February 2012, pp. 12–13. Sullivan cites and explains a 1755 North Carolina General Assembly Act recorded in Foreign Archives, British Records, Colonial Office, microfilm CO 5/333 (1734-1755), 141b-143; North Carolina State Archives.
41. ↑ Miles S. Philbeck, "Catawba River Basin Pioneers," Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, February 2003 issue, abstract no. 2025, Anson County land grant of Alexander McCulloch; citing Secretary of State Record Group, Land Office: Land Warrants, Plats of Survey, and Related Records, Anson County, file no. 1910, Alexander McCulloch, Esquire; recorded in Crown Patent Book 15: 298; North Carolina State Archives.
42. ↑ Anson County Record of Wills, p. 325; box CR.005.801.1, North Carolina State Archives.
43. ↑ Find A Grave, Peter Hoyle, memorial 29266159 created 24 August 2008 by E. Lankford; photograph by Mike Ervin. Find A Grave contributor Lankford explains the provenance of the memorial stone and that it contains information now known to be incorrect.
44. ↑ Mecklenburg County Estate Papers, Jacob Hoyle (1763); box no. CR.065.508.126, North Carolina State Archives.
45. ↑ Martin Hoyle's sales of land formerly belonging to Peter Hoyle state the land's title descent; Lincoln County deed book 2: 552–553 (Martin to Michael Hoyle), deed book 2: 526–27 (Martin to John Hoyle), deed book 2: 527–28 (Martin to Andrew Hoyle), Register of Deeds Office, Lincolnton, North Carolina.
46. ↑ Primogeniture. English Common Law that the eldest surviving son (the heir-at-law) inherited all land not disposed of by his father in a will or by other instruments such as a deed. Land inherited through primogeniture passed automatically and silently; no deed or other record was required. North Carolina abolished primogeniture in 1784.
    Entail. Entailed land is limited to inheritable succession by one particular person and his or her future heirs. Entail of land must be created by the owner in a legal instrument, usually in a will and sometimes by deed, and includes the phrase “heirs of his (or her) body forever” or “his heirs lawfully begotten of his body forever.” If the word “assigns” is included (as in “his heirs and assigns"), then it is not an entail. Entail restricts the heir and his/her subsequent heirs to only lifetime use of the land, and it can never be sold because title is always owned by the future heirs in that particular line of descent. North Carolina abolished entail in 1784. Peter Hoyle did not entail his land.
47. ↑ Mecklenburg County Estate Papers, Jacob Hoyle (1763); box no. CR.065.508.126, North Carolina State Archives.
48. ↑ Lincoln County deed book 2: 552–553 (Martin to Michael Hoyle), deed book 2: 526–27 (Martin to John Hoyle), deed book 2: 527–28 (Martin to Andrew Hoyle), Register of Deeds Office, Lincolnton, North Carolina.

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