HOCH, Aaron F.

Notes:

(Taken from the book "Briggs Heritage" by Clara Jean Whan, 1985)
Henry Hoch Jr. was born about the time that Thomas Jefferson and his committee were drafting the Declaration of Independence. Henry and his wife Rachel followed the westward migration moving to a farm between Newville and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
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The couple had 13 children on the farm known as "the old Hoch farm". Henry followed the same trade as his father, farming his land and weaving in the off-season.
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Henry and Rachel where buried adjacent to the Reform church in Shippensburg but later had to be moved to the Spring Hill Cemetery because of Church expansion. Their graves are marked with stone markers.

Henry married FACKLER, Rachel Bef 1799, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Rachel (daughter of FACKLER, Hans George and Susanna) was born 25 Feb 1779, Aboard A .. Ship Bound For Colonies; died 4 Sep 1865, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Rachel is said to have been born enroute to the colonies. this statement has come under some scutiny as some researchers believe the family had been in North America for some time prior to her birth. Thier hunch is that she may have been born abord ship while the family was traveling between Europe & the British Colonies, not a the time of the familys original immigration.
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She was the sponsor for Rachel Beck, the daughter of her sister Barbara (Fackler) Beck and John Beck, 1797.

Notes:

(Taken from the book "Briggs Heritage" by Clara Jean Whan, 1985)
Henry eventually settled at the foot of the North Mountain in theCumberland area near Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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A legend of the area is that George Washington visited a weaver near North Mountain to obtain cloth for the Continental Army, during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. This weaver may have been our Henry.
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They lived in Lancaster County from the time of their arrival until 1795. Henry joined the westward movement and crossed the Susquehanna, moved up the valley, and settled on a piece of land between the Middlesex and the Stirretts Gap. Henry worked as a farmer in season, and as a weaver during the winter months. Henry and Sarah raised several children. One son, Henry Hoch Jr.
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He lived to be 95 and was buried on his farm and a stone marker is at the place of burial.

Henry married KUNTZI, Sarah Abt 1767, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of KUNTZI, Jacob and Anna Margaret) was born 5 Oct 1755, Pennsylvania; died 1822, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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Hans George Fackler arrived at the port of Philadelphia on September 29, 1750 aboard the ship "Osgood". William Wilkie, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, with 480 passengers.
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Hans George and a younger brother, Johann Wendell, fought in the Revolution because they were on the militia lists of Lancaster County from 1777 to 1783.
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In fact, Joh. Wendell was listed as a "non-associator" and as such was on the fines list because of such non-association from 1777 to 1783. Non-associators were usually conscientious objecters, members of certain religious sects, among them the German Baptist Brethren (Dunkers, Tunkers or Dunkards). The non-participation of either of these two Facklers would have been in keeping with the religious beliefs of the German Baptist Brethren, a non-violent sect to which a number of their children belonged.
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The Pennsylvania Archives also show both Vendle (sic) Fackler and his brother, George Fackler, as contributing corn and wheat to the Continental Army.
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1790 census:
Dauphin County, Pa.
Foekler, George 3m 16+, 1m -16, 4f
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1800 census index: Dauphin Co., Pa.
Fackler, George DAU 16
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George Fackler found in: Bucks and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, 1682-1825 Land Records
Date: Nov 23, 1761
Residence: Earl Twp.
Land Record ID: 42178
Description: Mortgagor Book-Page: G-252
Property: 258 acres in Earl Township
Remarks: MORTGAGE.
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George was buried in Raysor's U. B. Cemetery, near Susquehanna H. S., off Union Deposit Road, Dauphin County, Pa.

Hans — Susanna. Susanna was born Abt 1739, Germany; died 17 Jan 1806, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; was buried , Raysor's Upper B. Cemetery, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Jacob — Anna Margaret. Anna was born May 1732; died 1801. [Group Sheet]