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Descendants of Peter Hildebrand

Generation No. 5

6. PETER⁵ HILDEBRAND (JOHN H.⁴, JACOB³, JACOB², PETER¹)⁵ was born 1758 in Monongahela, Washington, PA⁵, and died August 1784 in Cedar Hill, Jefferson, MO⁵. He married MARIA GARLA OR GARLOCK?⁵ in Monongahela, Washington, PA. She was born 1750 in Monongahela, Washington, PA, and died 1840 in Big River, Francois, MO⁵.

Notes for PETER HILDEBRAND:
He settled on Big River at Cedar Hill with his wife Maria Garlock, and was killed by Indians in 1784.

Info from Elroy F. LUCAS <lucas@tiadon.com>.

The "Wilderness Road" by Speed speaks of the movement down the Ohio River: "It required courage of the highest order to put out from that post of Pittsburg for a river voyage of weeks, and no friendly shelter or harbor at which to stop on the way. It was known that the banks were infested with Indians, and to be attacked on the water was more dreadful than upon land. The boats were crude and small; they were crowded with human beings, and their baggage and stock. It was task enough to make the voyage unmolested, and a terrible fate to encounter savages on the way. A more pitiable plight is not conceivable than a cargo of emigrants on the rude, drifting craft, 15' wide by 40' or 50' in length, helpless on the bosom of the river, receiving a murderous fire from the banks . . . The Ohio River is a beautiful river, and as you sail along, you have some beautiful views . . . The Chief attraction for immigrants was fertile land of Kentucky. Bound together by ties of common interest, dangers, hopes and privations, they strengthened bonds by intermarriages."

(Missouri Historical Review Booklet; Committee on Landmarks, Old Settlers Assn, Jeff. Co., MO, 1903, Vol. I, p. 141): Peter Hildebrand settled on a tract of land on Big River on the opposite side of what became the Cedar Hill mill. He was killed by the Indians a short distance below the mill, on the bank of the river, tradition giving as the exact spot, the corner of Radecker's pasture fence. He opened the first clearing in the Big River valley in 1784

Peter's daughter, Elizabeth gave this account of his death: In August, 1784, while Peter took his gun and tomahawk and horses and went hunting. Nearly two miles below his cabin a gun fired and killed him. His horse which he was riding at the time, came home with its saddle. One of his elder sons was sent some 15 miles to what was afterwards known as Morgan's Lick on Saline Creek, four or five miles above the mouth of the Meramec. Several Americans resided there then. The men came to Hildebrand's and found the body. It was not stripped nor scalped. They buried him on the spot.

After Peter's death, Maria married Robert Owens, 1786. (Draper's Notes, Vol. 24, p. 192) Robert Owens had a place known as Owen's Station. Owen was pretty well off, had a good house, with porch all around, (p. 194) Robert Owen was from Maryland and moved among the French settlers in the St. Louis area. He could speak French and probably lived at Viude Poche (Carondelat). He was a shoemaker by trade and then became a farmer. Bellon's Annals of St. Louis (p. 298) gives the place of residence as Marais de Liards, or St. Ferdinand. St. Ferdinand was a French village between Florissant and St. Louis. The French system was to build the houses together in a village and the farm tracts would stretch out in narrow tracts behind the village.

In 1800 Robert Owen became the guardian of the minor heirs of Adam House who was massacred in March of 1800. Two of the House children, Marguerite (Peggy) and Elizabeth (Betsy), married his Hildebrand stepsons that same year.

Owens soon moved to Big River in Jefferson Co. MO. He died there about 1840 and Maria died about 1840. They had no children by this marriage.

More About PETER HILDEBRAND:
Record Change: October 29, 2000⁵

More About MARIA GARLA OR GARLOCK?:
Date born 2: 1750, Monogahela, Pennsylvania⁵
Burial: 1840, Big River, Francois, MO
Record Change: October 29, 2000⁵

More About PETER HILDEBRAND and MARIA GARLOCK?:
Marriage: Monongahela, Washington, PA

Children of PETER HILDEBRAND and MARIA GARLOCK? are:

10.	i.		JAMES⁶ HILDEBRAND, b. 1772, Ft. Jefferson, Darke, OH; d. 1790, MO.
	ii.		MOSES HILDEBRAND, b. 1774, Ft. Jefferson, Darke, OH ⁶; d. 1780, Ft. Jefferson, Jefferson, MO.

Notes for MOSES HILDEBRAND:
The second child of Peter and Maria Garlock Hildebrand was born about 1774 probably in Pennsylvania. His story is told in the preceding chapter. He died in the autumn of 1780 at Fort Jefferson in what became Ballard Co., Kentucky.

The two males listed above are reported here as the first two sons of Peter. This is likely incorrect as it was reported by their sister that Peter's eldest sons were sent for help when he was killed. Moses had died in 1780 and according to her account, James was still in Illinois until 1790.

More About MOSES HILDEBRAND:
Burial: Jefferson Co., MO

11.	iii.	ISAAC HILDEBRAND, b. 1779, Ft. Jefferson, Darke, OH; d. 1809, Jefferson Co., MO.
12.	iv.	DAVID HILDEBRAND, b. 1780, Jefferson Co., MO; d. January 04, 1834, House Springs, Jefferson, MO.
13.	v.	ABRAHAM HILDEBRAND, b. 1782, near Cedar Hill, MO; d. Abt. June 1837, Dec 1836? Jefferson Co., MO.
14.	vi.	JONATHAN HILDEBRAND, b. 1783, Cedar Hill, Jefferson, MO.
15.	vii.	ELIZABETH HILDEBRAND, b. February 1784, District of Louisiana on Negro Fork (Cedar Hill, MO); d. 1877, Franklin Co., MO.

7. JONATHAN⁵ HILDEBRAND (JOHN H.⁴, JACOB³, JACOB², PETER¹) was born 1762 in North Carolina in an area that became Tennessee, and died Aft. 1849 in Jefferson Co., MO ⁷. He married MARGARET.

Notes for JONATHAN HILDEBRAND:
Jonathan Helterbrand served as co-administrator with Margaret Helterbrand (John's widow) in the probation of his father's estate. We have birth dates for 1762 and 1783 for Jonathan or John. The only date which can be documented is the 1783 found in the census. There is enough of a gap in the dates to indicate two generations. Also with John who md Margaret given the birthdate of 1733 from Henry's history, there is space for two more generations. Jonathan's sister, Ann, was probably born between 1760- 1775.

The first mention of John's wife's name is in the land record of 1807. Margaret is also listed as widow when John died in 1814. Prior to that time we have no record to identify his wife.

The only date we can confirm for Jonathan is 1783. The birthdate of 1762 is from Anna Sartori's work. Jonathan was listed in the 1850 census, living with Drury Rogers and he gives his birth as 1783 in TENNESSEE. Is it reasonable that this birth was by Margaret who was married to a man born in 1733? It is possible that there are two generations represented, both named John or Jonathan. John the pioneer removed to Kentucky about 1780 and took his family with him. We do not know if his son, John had married by this time or if he married while gone. There is no marriage recorded for him in St. Louis. He could have even been married in Tennessee and a son born there. There is almost a 20 year gap between 1780 when the family left and 1799 when they took out land again on Big River.

We need to look for the earliest marriage records in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Orleans for HILDEBRAND/HELTERBRAND or any variation.

The John born 1762 (if truly there was one) may have decided to fight with Clark in the struggle for the west. There is a record from Illinois that a John Hildebrand and David Hix fought with Clark and then was granted land in Illinois. If he did join the group who were trying to defend Kentucky, it is said that some of them went downriver after they abandoned Fort Jefferson. Downriver we have Tennessee and Natchez.

The book EARLY INHABITANTS OF NATCHEZ DISTRICT by Gillis gives many tax lists of the area. American settlements began there about 1763. Rosalie was renamed Fort Panmure and then renamed Natchez. In 1776 there were 78 people and about that many slaves there. Some people came to Natchez down the Ohio River (p.4) The 1792 Spanish census of Natchez district listed a David Hildebrand at Villa Gayoso (p.27) Another listing on p. 49 of settlers gives David Helterbrand age over 21 and 5 females over 21 in Franklin (Co.?). A John Herrington is in Adams and a William Herrington in 1805 in Wilkinson. There were King, Owens, Parker, Williams, Wilson, and House families listed. (Note: The Ancestral File has the David Hildebrand from Natchez but they did not know his parentage, Apr. 2000)

Wherever their journeying took them, they returned to Big River and took up land there about 1799.

In St. Louis, 13 Dec 1811, Jonathan Hildebrand sold 24 acres on Little Rock Creek to Mathias Brinley. (C471)

In 1817 & 18 there are two land records at the St. Louis Court house that Anna Sartori noted. A John with wife, Mary, sold land to a Caldwell. This should be researched. If this man was a Hildebrand, this is the only record we have for the wife's name.

The plat book shows a Spanish survey No. 556 granted to John Hilderbrand for use of Jonathan Hilderbrand, Veteran Survey #359.
This is in Range 3, Township 42 in the current sections of 23, 24, 25, and 26. (Why was this called a veteran survey? Could this relate to service in the Revolution?)

The land owned prior to the Louisiana Purchase remained in litigation for many years. Land speculators jumped in and cheated many pioneers out of their land. Testimony was being presented for many years. Missouri Land Claims by Polyanthos (1976) records some of these testimonies. In 1808 Jonathan (assignee of of Jesse Cain, assignee of Robert Owens, assignee of John Megar) claimed 200 acres on Negro fork of the Merimack. William Bellen swore that John Helderbrand in about 1778 made improvement on the land, inhabited and cultivated it for five years before selling to John Megar (who by his tenant, David Helderbrand, cultivated the same one year more). The board denied the claim because John Helderbrand had already had a grant of 400 arpens.

John, born 1762 had two sons that we know of: John, born 1783 in Tennessee (and perhaps a David, born in the 1780s in Kentucky). A Samuel Hildebrand testified for William Drenan in 1823. He probably belongs to one of these Johns as there are no Samuels in Peter's family that are known. There was also a Christian Terwalt Hildebrand in the area who signed petitions regarding land claims and government in MO Territory in 1805 and 1806 along with John, Jonathan, Isaac, and David Hilderbrand. He lived on Big River and also in Marais de Liards. Peter's David purchased land that had been Christian's.

There is also Benjamin who lived in Madison County, just below St. Francois Co. This man was born in 1777. He named his sons Henry D., Benjamin and George. He was first in the Cape Girardeau court records which would indicate a tie with Daniel's family there. However, Madison was cut out of Cape Girardeau and he may always have been in the same location. More research is needed on this connection. His daughter, Barbara Anna who md Griffith Stegall was erroneously placed as a possible child of Jonathan but is now know to belong to Benjamin. One researcher has his father as John Hilderbrand who md Barbara Eaker. This needs to be investigated further.
1. JONATHAN HILDERBRAND

Jonathan was born 1783 in North Carolina (what became Tennessee), married about 1810 (record?) In the 1830 census he is listed with children's births:

(From other sources:

Male 1810/15--1811 (-John (who md S. Holt)

Female 1810/15

Male 1815/20 (probably the William C. Jones in 1850 census)

Male 1815/20

(might be Solomon Jones?) Female 1820/25 --1821 --Elizabeth who md Drury Rogers

Male 1820/25

Male 1820/25

Male 1820/25

Female 182530

Male 1825/30

There may have been a few more born after the 1830 census.

Because there have not been located any probate records for either of the two above Jonathans, we are left without confirmation of their descendants or a clear record to separate them.

In 1824 Jonathan purchased land in Jefferson Co. at a Sheriff's sale, property of Sam. Hammond. No wife mentioned.

Jonathan's first wife died between 1825 and 1828. He married Mrs. Sarah Jones (nee Wickerham) 22 March 1829. She was born 1792 in Ohio. Since the census (above) was taken in 1830, one year after this marriage, it is possible that some of the children listed by ages are Jones children by her previous marriage. She had been married to Marshall Jones who died before 6 Mar 1828. She was administratrix of his estate in Jefferson County.(Allan Huskey) We need to know the names and birthdates of the Jones children.

Some of the Jones family are listed on p. 433 of the 1850 census of Jefferson Co. There is a William C. Jones who married Ann Drennen 2 May 1838, Jeff. Co. and a younger William Jones living with Sarah Hildebrand. They had a daughter, Mariah Jones who married DeLafeyette Huskey. Who were Sarah's other children by the first husband?
In 1834 and 1840 Jonathan and wife Sarah, are listed in the Jacob Wickerham estate papers. (V214) They, with the other heirs of Jacob, sold some of the land from the estate to D. Pitzer for $60 in 1840. (Bk E, p.412)

In 1835 they sell land in St. Louis County. In 1840 Jonathan (no wife's name) sells 400 arpents in Jeff. Co. to Claiborn Thomas for $237.13. (E361). In 1848, Jeff. Co. Jonathan sells an Original grant to T. H. Maddox for $30, no wife mentioned. (I190) In 1849 Jonathan and Sarah sell land in Jefferson Co. to T. H. Maddox: 340 acres, cemetery excepted) for $1,203, an original grant, conferred to John Hildebrand who conveyed it to Jonathan from a St. Louis Co. record. (I378)
Some of the above records without a wife's name may belong to his father, Jonathan. A study of the original records needs to be made

In 1834 Jonathan gave testimony for John Payett's land claim (see Polyanthos, 1976, p. 203) ". . . being duly sworn, says that he is in his fiftieth year; that, in 1801 or '02, he cannot say which of those years, he passed by said Payett's house, but did not see any white person; there he found an Indian, with whom he passed the night in said Payett's house, the said Indian being a friendly one, and not an Osage; that in 1805, he saw the said Payette living on said place; that he knows said Payett lived on the land claimed till his death . . . " This would place Jonathan's birthday at about 1784. Also, this land was located on Negro fork.

In 1850 Jonathan, age 67, was living with his daughter, Elizabeth and her family, the Rogers. (Entry #408) His wife, Sarah, age 58, was in another house (entry #397) not far away. She had two children with her, possibly grand-children: William Jones, age 9 and Jane Fife, age 8. (The entry for Jane is in error because the sex is given as male). These were from her previous marriage. We do not know the reason for the separation but perhaps Jonathan was ill and the daughter was caring for him.

More About JONATHAN HILDEBRAND:
Burial: Jefferson Co., MO

Child of JONATHAN HILDEBRAND and MARGARET is:

16.

JONATHAN⁶ HILDEBRAND, b. 1783, North Carolina (what became Tennessee); d. Abt. 1862.

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