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- According to the "Family Gazette" of Elkton, Virginia. Stephen came from Zurich Switzerland. While trying to leave the country he was placed under many "false" arrests and imprisoned. For passage to the Virginia colony, he and his parents worked as an indentured servants at the Germanna Colony for Colonel Alexander Spotswood. They settled first at Orange Co., Virginia. He acquired 150 + 400 Ac. at St. Georges Parrish. Stephen located in Augusta (now Rockingham) County in about 1751 as his name appears on a list of tithables liable to work on the road from the Shenandoah River to the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Swift Run Gap. Stephen acquired land about1 1/2 miles southwest of the present town of Elkton and 1/2 mile from the river. In his will Stephen gave his son Adam the power to split his estate 1/3 to his 2nd wife Ursula and 2/3 to be split among the 5 boys. In addition to the 1/3 Stephen gives to Ursula her bed, spinning wheel, a chest and the benefit of living in the family home the remainder of her days and the garden.
Some sources state that Stephen was a member of the exploration party headed by Alexander Spotswood known as the "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe" this story however can't be correct as the expedition occured in 1716 when Stephan would have been a young child still living in Europe. He did however survey the road sthough Swift Run Gap at a later date.
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CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
DEED BOOK NO. 13.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
page 449
Page 201.--17th March, 1767. Stephen ( ) Hernsberger and Arsley ( ) to John Miller, £53, 200 acres on Shanand River, part thereof being a tract of 176 acres sold to Stephen by Phillip Long, 19th June, 1764, the other part being part of 304 acres patented to Stephen, 31st October, 1765, line of Henry Sellers. Teste: Jacob Pirkey.
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CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
DEED BOOK NO. 11.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
page 413
Page 665.--19th June, 1764. Phillip Long, eldest son and heir-at-law of Paul Long, who was eldest son and heir-at-law of Phillip Long, of Frederick County, to Stephen Hemsburger, £40, 176 acres purchased by Phillip, Sr., of Joseph Phillips (deed recorded in Orange) on Shannando River. Teste: George Carpenter. Delivered: Stephen Hansberger, November, 1766.
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CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
ABSTRACTS OF WILLS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY VIRGINIA. AUGUSTA COUNTY COURT. WILL BOOK No. 4.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
page 110
Page 241.--26th November, 1767. Stephen Conrad's estate sold to, viz: John Coutch, Lewis Fisher, Stephen Hensbengar, Zachariah Rexrode, Henry Tamewood, Peachey Gilmore.
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Copy of Will of Stephen Harnsberger
In the name of God Amen, December the 26, in the year of our Lord 1774.
I, Stephen Hanceberger of the County of Augusta in the colony o fVirginia being in health and perfect mind & memory & calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is apointed for all men once to die do make ordain & appoint this my last will & testament that is to say first & principally of all I give & humbly recommend my soul to God who gave it & for my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a Christian like & decent manner and as touching my worldly estate that it hath been Pleased God to bless me in this life with. I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner,
first, I order all my lawful debts to be paid, which I have legally contracted. Imprimis I give & bequeath to my well beloved wife Uachel (sic) her bed & spinning wheel, & chest & the benefit of my dwelling house & garden during her natural life time also 1/ 3 part of my whole estate land & movables & debts
also I give & bequeath to my well beloved sons, Adam, Henry, Stephen & Conrad & Robert the other 2/3 of all my estate of lands, debts & moveables to be equally divided between them at my decease & this I trust will be done & truly fulfilled & I do hereby constitute make & ordain my son Adam Hanceberger sole Executor of this my last will & testament & I do hereby utterly disalow revoke and disannull all & every other former testaments wills & legacies, bequests & Executors by me in any wise before this time named & bequeathed. Ratifying & confirming this & no other as my last will & testament. In witness I have hereunto set my hand & seal day & year above written.
his mark
Stephen x Hansberger
Published & Declared as his last will & testament in presence of
John Zimmerman
George Zimmerman
Adam Carpenter
Jacob Miller
Leonard Zimmerman
Probated March. 19, 1776, in the Clerk's Office of Augusta County, Staunton, VA
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CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
ABSTRACTS OF WILLS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. WILL BOOK NO. V.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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Page 479.--18th March, 1777. Recorded. Steen Hansbaig's appraisement by Geo. Carpenter, John Zöller (Seller?).
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
Aft 1712 - Abt 1774 (< 60 years)