Johann Jacob Hill (abt. 1687 - 1739)

Born about 1687 in Enkirch, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Elisabetha (Mueller) Hill — married 8 Jan 1709 in Frankenthal, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died 9 Aug 1739 at about age 52 in Windsor, Berks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Lutheran Farmer originally from Scotland. Fled to Switzerland during the rein of James II. Expelled from Switzerland along with Swiss protestant s and French Huguenots, and sought refuge in the Palatinate in Germany.

Merged profiles offered different possible birth dates from 24 Aug 1679 (prior to parent's marriage) to 1685 to 1687 to 1698. Selected 1687 as most likely. But none of the suggested birth dates offered valid source.
Merged profile suggested alternate death date of 2 Nov 1774.
There are conflicting sources of birth/death dates, and birth country (Swiss vs. German) that may be a result of misinformation or generations getting confused

Name

Name: Johan Jacob /Hill/^[1][2][3]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 15 Jul 1685

Place: Enkirch, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany^[4]

Birth:

Date: 15 Jul 1685

Place: Enkirch, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 15 Jul 1685

Death

Death:

Date: 9 Aug 1739

Place: Windsor, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

Death:

Date: 9 Aug 1739

Place: Windsor, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 9 Aug 1739Array

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1740-1909

Place: Berks, Pennsylvania, USA^[5]

Residence:

Date: 1740-1909

Place: Berks, Pennsylvania, USA^[6]

Event

Event:

Type: Arrival

Date: 1709

Place: England or America^[7]

Death

Death:

Date: 09 AUG 1739

Place: Windsor, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA

Death:

Date: 09 AUG 1739

Place: Windsor, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

Source: #S48

Page: Database online.

Data:

Text: Record for Johan Jacob Hill

Death:

Date: 09 AUG 1739

Place: Windsor, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

Source: #S48

Page: Database online.

Data:

Text: Record for Johannes Jacob Hill

Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 09 AUG 1739Array

Marriage:

Date: 08 JAN 1709

Place: Heuchelheim, Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Marriage:

Date: 08 JAN 1709

Place: Heuchelheim, Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Source: #S48

Page: Database online.

Data:

Text: Record for Johan Jacob Hill

Evidence indicates that Johannes Jacob (PA) Hill arrived with / or followed extended family members including children Johannes Jacob (the younger), Johannes Daniel and other family members including at least 1 cousin and his family and 1 nephew. .[gap in records].. Berks County church records appear to have family members present by 1728.

How and when the Hills settled in Germany is unclear, but they seem to have been established by the mid to later 1500's. It is possible they moved from Switzerland to the area around Enkirch as suggested by a Lycoming County History, but how and when they were in Switzerland, if at all, is presently unknown ...

A Jacob Hill owned property in the Maxatawny Valley prior to 1734. This is believed to be Johannes Jacob Hill the immigrant and head of the extended Hill Family that migrated from the Frankenthal area of the Palatine.

Johannes Jacob Hill is one of three sponsoring founders ( Also Christopher Kuhn and Sebastian Kraemer), of [Zion] Moselem Lutheran Church in 1739, Richmond Township, Berks County. He died before church was completed and dedicated in 1742.

1728 settled as famer in Maxatawney Valley near site of Kutztown. 1734 - Inhabitant of Maxatawney Valley, Philadelphia County, PA. 1734 - Land Warrant - Maxatawney Valley, Philadelphia County (200 acres on 7 May) 1735 - Witness with wife for Abraham Zimmerman, 27 July 1735 in Maxatawney Valley. 9 August 1739 - Letters of Administration taken by Elizabeth Mueller Hill (Philadelphia County, Book D, P. 93). Inventory apparantly done on ( 18 July 1739). 14 May 1774 - Settlement of Jacob Hill Estate (Upon death of Elizabeth Hill - wife). Identified children as (Johann) Daniel, Frederick, John (Jacob), (Maria) Christina, (Ann) Elizabeth, and Ann (Hannah Marta).

It is likely that Johann Nicolaus Mueller, husband of Anna Maragaeha Hill (sister of Johannes Jacob Hill), is the brother of Anna Elizabetha Mueller Hill.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1698

Place: Switzerland

Source: #S-926516926

Death

Death:

Date: 2 NOV 1774

Place: Windsor Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Source: #S-926516926

Death:

Date: NOV 1775

Place: Windsor Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 NOV 1774Array

Source S-926516926

Title: OneWorldTreeSM

Note: www.ancestry.com

Other information (from bergergirls)

Baptism 24 Aug 1679

Immigration about 1720 Port of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/beersproject/h/hillfamily.html

Children:

1. Jacob Hill, b. 13 Nov 1709, Lambsheim, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, d. before 1716, Lambsheim, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany

2. Johannes Hill, b. 12 Jan 1711, Lambsheim, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany d. Jan 1786, Maxatawny Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

3. Deobold Hill, b. 09 Nov 1713, Lambsheim, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany

4. Jacob Hill, b. 17 Jan 1716, ambsheim, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, d. 20 Dec 1775, Windsor Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

5. Peter Hill, b. 16 Jul 1718

6. Philip Hill, b. 1 Nov 1719

7. Elisabeth Hill, b. about 1720, Heuchelheim, Germany

8. Hannah Marta Hill, b. 1725

9. Christina Hill, b. 24 Sep 1726, d. 16 Nov 1803

10. Daniel Hill, b. about 1728, d. 1 Jul 1794

11. Frederick Hill, b. about 1729, d. 10 May 1795, Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

12. Anna Maria Hill, b. 24 Feb 1732, d. 30 Apr 1791, Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Johannes was born in 1679. He passed away in 1739.

Unsourced family tree handed down to Dylan Troy.

Johannes and Anna were the parents of: Johan Jacob, Ann Elizabeth, John Fredrick and Anna Christina.

One of three founders of Moselem Lutheran Church. Johannes died before the church was completed and dedicated in 1742.

Burial: Zion Moselem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Berks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-1861468318 Page: Place: England or America; Year: 1709; Page Number: . Note: Ancestry Record pili354 #952645 Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1685Birth place: Arrival date: 1709Arrival place: England or America APID: 1,7486::952645
2. ↑ Source: #S-1845077236 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genealogy-glh16394867&h=41&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1740-1909Residence place: Berks, Pennsylvania, USA APID: 1,14571::41
3. ↑ Source: #S-1845077236 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genealogy-glh16394867&h=889&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1740-1909Residence place: Berks, Pennsylvania, USA APID: 1,14571::889
4. ↑ Source: #S-1861468318 Page: Place: England or America; Year: 1709; Page Number: . Note: Ancestry Record pili354 #952645 Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1685Birth place: Arrival date: 1709Arrival place: England or America APID: 1,7486::952645
5. ↑ Source: #S-1845077236 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genealogy-glh16394867&h=889&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1740-1909Residence place: Berks, Pennsylvania, USA APID: 1,14571::889
6. ↑ Source: #S-1845077236 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genealogy-glh16394867&h=41&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1740-1909Residence place: Berks, Pennsylvania, USA APID: 1,14571::41
7. ↑ Source: #S-1861468318 Page: Place: England or America; Year: 1709; Page Number: . Note: Ancestry Record pili354 #952645 Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1685Birth place: Arrival date: 1709Arrival place: England or America APID: 1,7486::952645

• 1687-1739: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/46496473/person/6922097581 FYI only. public family tree lists more than 20 children, two john jacobs merged?
• 1687-1739: But virtual findagrave entry
• History of Berks County lists execution of will 1775-1776 but this really may be execution after wife's death. Alternative its referring to John Jacob junior b. Jan. 17, 1716 d. Dec. 20, 1775 per findagrave zion cementary was married to Maria "Appolonia" Merkel Hill (1719 - 1774) http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/18039968/person/18032589042/photo/e72fabb2-e3eb-4eb1-bba7-4ca25d6bc0f4?src=search
• -1774 http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/47058389/person/6854548055. Public family tree, also has birth in Switz. Lists three wives.
• 1698-1775. Sons of Amer Rev application. Lists Switz as birth indicating parents were refugees (e.g. from Germany). Confirms william as grandfather
• * Strausstown
• Immigration records Lists 1627-1727 as arrival year. this presumably could be father as well.*1668-1739. This is probably more accurate findagrave since its virtual (no tombstone pic) but is actually from the correct cemetery. However, this may have been referencing the father (son of William) as it indicates he was a founder of the church - I think that was the father see biography. that implies the father's dates on wikitree are incorrect https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71345338/hill
• 1685-1774. public family tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/27784034/person/27329145809
• 1679-1739. Local township historical online site. http://www.bergergirls.com/getperson.php?personID=I040777&tree=Strausstown. Note it also includes more detail baptism information of 24 Aug 1679 but doesn't have baptism location. It is possible he was baptized later in life and the birthdate was incorrectly inferredf rom that.
• b. 1720 immigration record arriving 1750. This is likely for the son that married Apollonina. So he left a son when he emigrated who came later?
• Partial Biography written by Richard Hill
• Source: S-1845077236 Repository: #R-1864321417 Title: Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania : embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - Montgomery, Morton Luther,. Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania : embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical and biographical Note: First published 1886, under title: History of Berks County in Pennsylvania. APID: 1,14571::0
• Source: S-1861468318 Repository: #R-1864321417 Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Author: Gale Research Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenge Note: APID: 1,7486::0
• Source: S-1864320709 Repository: #R-1864321417 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/15024057/family
• Christian Hill
• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-353086141-1-502662/johannes-jacob-hill-in-myheritage-family-trees?s=130604771&indId=individual-130604771-1500152

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Hill-4071 created through the import of Stough Family Tree.ged on Nov 2, 2011 by Lindsay Coleman.
• This person was created through the import of Smith-Hunter.ged on 10 March 2011.
• WikiTree profile Hill-4071 created through the import of Stough Family Tree.ged on Nov 2, 2011 by Lindsay Coleman.
• This person was created through the import of Smith-Hunter.ged on 10 March 2011.
• This person was created through the import of Smith-Hunter.ged on 10 March 2011.
• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-97252170/john-jacob-hill-in-geni-world-family-tree?s=130604771
• WikiTree profile Hill-3409 created through the import of Andy Askey Family Sandbox_2011-08-20_01_01.ged on Aug 20, 2011 by Andy Askey. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Andy and others.

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