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Gloucestershire: Dymock - Parish Registers, 1538-1790 Gloucestershire: - Inquisitions Post Mortem, Court of chancery in the reign of Charles I Gloucestershire: Dymock - Parish Registers, 1538-1790

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Source Citation: Place: New York, NY; Year: 1710; Page Number: 353.
Source Information: Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

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Name: Anna Maria Mercklin Heydt Year: 1709 Place: New York, NY Family Members: Wife Anna Maria Mercklin Source Publication Code: 3627 Primary Immigrant: Heydt, Hans Justus Annotation: Date of emigration and place of settlement. Extracted from the last page of a Lutheran churchbook in Bonfeld (part of the city 6927 Bad Rappenau, Landkreis Heilbronn, Baden-Wurtemberg). Source Bibliography: JONES, HENRY Z., JR., and ANNETTE K. BURGERT. "A New Emigrant List: Bonfeld, 1710-1738." In Der Reggeboge: Quarterly of the Pennsylvania German Society (Breinigsville, PA), vol. 14:4 (Oct. 1980), pp. 3-20. Page: 4
aka Justus, Joost, Heidt
IMMIGRANT, ABT 1710
SHENANDOAH VALLEY PIONEER
ONE OF THE FIRST MAGISTRATES IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY
Jost immigrated in 1710 on the ship "Fifth Party." He settled on Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley, west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
"Hans Joist Heydt (Hite), known later in America as Jost Hite, as born December 6, 1685, the second child Johann and Magdalena. A church in a village in the Necker Valley, not far from the Necker river and about 20 miles southeast of Heidelburg, records the birth to Johannes and Magadalene Heyd of a son Hans Justus, on December 5, 1685... Jost was a linen weaver by trade. On November 11, 1704, he married Anna Maria Merckle. She was the daughter of a prominent family of the Bonfeld-Wimpfen area. Two children of this marriage, Anna Maria and Maria Barbara, died shortly after birth. The third child, Mary, not listed in the Bonfeld church records, with a birthday of 1708 or 1709, may have been born after the family left for America. Records indicate that the families of Johannes Heydt and his son Jost (Hans Justus), emigrated in 1709. He lived in Strasbourg, Alsace, and migrated from France to Holland because of Religious persecution and the hardships of the Spanish Succession 1702-04. It appears that only four family members reached America: Jost, his wife Anna Maria, their baby daughter Mary and Jost’ stepmother, Maria. Probably typhoid, severe at the time, accounted for the rest. Entire families were known to be wiped out." --Pat Dameron
"Hans Justus was sometimes called the 'the Old German Baron' or 'Baron Hite' or the 'Captain' because of his sea-going days." --Pat Dameron
"Jost Hite led a group of 16 families to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and settled in Opequon. There were no settlements except along the seaboard. This little colony comprised the first white men to settle west of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia." --David Michael Johnson
"His will (written 1758-04-25) lists sons John, Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, and Joseph (deceased), but not his daughters. Joseph's heirs, who were to receive his part, were listed as John, William, and Ann. His property was appraised in 1761. A pre-nuptial agreement between Jost Hite and Mary Magdalena Neuschwanger (Nisswanger) was signed in 1741." --Henry Jones, "German Origins of Jost Hite, Virginia Pioneer"
"a native of Strasburg, in Alsace, emigrated to Pennsylvania, and in 1732 came with his three sons-in-law, George Bowman, Jacob Chrisman, Paul Froman, and others to the valley of Virginia. In 1734 he was appointed one of the first magistrates to administer justice in the valley. He greatly aided in stimulating the rapid settlement of that part of Virginia.
Joist Hite, who, with his three sons-in-law and their families, settled on Cedar creek, in the Shenandoah Valley, west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Together they owned forty thousand acres of land, which they obtained by purchase from Isaac and John Vanmeter, who had patented this tract in 1730." --Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
"Hans came to America in 1710 on the ship "Fifth Party". A weaver by trade." --Lorraine Dowdle Database
"A pre-nuptial agreement between Jost Hite and Mary Magdalena Neuschwanger (Nisswanger) was signed in 1741." --Lorraine Dowdle Database
"Anna Maria died in 1739 and in the fall of 1741, Jost married Maria Magdalena, widow of Christian Nuschwanger." --Pat Dameron
"The father was a butcher and Civic Councilor in Bonfeld. Hans Justus was called the "the Old German Baron" or "Baron Hite". He lived in Strasbourg, Alsace, and migrated from France to Holland because of Religious presecution and the hardships of the Spanish Succession 1702-04. He settled in the vicinity of Hudson, New York. His name orriginally Hans Joist Heydt, evolving into Jost: He was a weaver who came to America in 1730 by way of England on the 'Fifth Party' ship. Lived by the Hudson River, New York till he moved to the land on the Skippack River in Penn. He built a Grist Mill, sold this to a Pennypacker in 1730, because in 1728 an attack by eleven indians on a near by community. He moved to the Shenandoah Valley in 1831 with a grant of 40,000 acres from Isaac Van Meter. Jost moved with his entire Clan there." --Richard Powels
The original Hite house served as General Washington's headquarters after the Battle of Germantown.
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Name: Isaac Christman
Parent: Jacob Christman
Location: Opequon
Birth Date: 09 Nov 1736
Baptism Date: 05 Jun 1737
Sponsor: John Jost Heydt, his son, Isaac, and his wife, Anna Maria
LUTHERN CHURCH BAPTISMS PENNSYLVANIA