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Descendants of Peter Hildebrand

Generation No. 6

10. JAMES⁶ HILDEBRAND (PETER⁵, JOHN H.⁴, JACOB³, JACOB², PETER¹) was born 1772 in Ft. Jefferson, Darke, OH ⁹, and died 1790 in MO.

Notes for JAMES HILDEBRAND:
The first child of Peter and Maria Garlock Hildebrand was born ca 1772 probably in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Bedford included all of S.W. Pennsylvania in 1772, James participated in the family's adventures as in the article, "Hold the Fort." He grew up in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania and Kentucky. He did not come to Missouri when his father did but went into Illinois probably taking up land awarded to his family for military service or perhaps joining his uncle, John. He married there and had two children. In 1790 he attempted to come to Missouri and was attacked by Shawnee Indians when his party was crossing the Mississippi River in canoes. He, his wife and two children were killed.(Draper Man.)

THE MILITARY RECORDS OF JAMES HILDEBRAND
During Clark's campaign of 1778-9, a James Hildebrand (spelled Helderbrand, Heldebrand and Heldbrand on the rolls) served. He enlisted 21 July 1778 and was on payrolls until 31 July 1782. We have no way to prove the relationship of this James to Peter who served in 1780. This James would have had to be born in 1762 at the latest and probably earlier than that. If he was born in 1762 he would have been 16 years old at the time. So it is more likely he was born in the 1750s as was Peter. This could mean that James was a contemporary of Peter, and possibly his brother. We do know that Peter named his first son James but his estimated birth was ca 1772. If and when a marriage record is found for Peter and Maria, some of these problems could be cleared up.

Margery H. Harding has compiled a listing of the payrolls along with some clarifying history of the Clark campaigns. She has published under the title: George Rogers Clark and His Men; Military Records, 1778-1784, The Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY. (copies donated by Bob Hildebrand). The following excerpts are interesting.

"1778: Capture of Kaskaskia, Cahokia and Vincennes. In Williamsburg Clark was commissioned Lieutenant colonel by Gov. Patrick Henry and authorized to raise seven companies of militia. . . His public orders were to defend KY, but his secret orders were to proceed against the English forts on the Mississippi and Wabash river. He hoped to recruit soldiers from the upper Ohio and Monongahela River areas, but when he arrived at . . . Brownsville, PA on 1 Feb 1778, he found the men in no mood to leave their own settlements undefended. The Indians had attacked Wheeling Fort on 1 Sept 1777. . . With recruiting help from William Harrod in the Shenandoah Valley, from Joseph Bowman in Frederick Co., from Capt L. Helm in Farquirer Co. in VA and from Maj. Wm. B. Smith on the Holston River settlement in southern VA and N.C., Clark had 150 volunteers, far short of the number authorized. . . Col. Clark had planned to redezvous at Corn Island in the Ohio River, but recruits from the Holston River Valley in N.C. (became Tennessee) and KY were few. 50 men deserted when told where the expedition was going. Only four companies volunteered to go. They were those of Joseph Bowman, Leonard Helm, Wm. Harrod, and John Montgomery. But these officers had serving with them some of the finest subordinates in the service of Virginia: John Williams. . . these men left Corn Island with Clark and went to Kaskaskia in the Ill. country on 24 June 1778. . . "

The payroll of John Williams' Company of Infantry stationed at Kaskaskia under command of Colo. Geo Rogers Clark commencing July 12th. 1778 & ending May 31st. 1779: James Helderbrand (served 328 days and was paid 21 L, 10 s, 8 d) Clark was commissioned from Virginia. Before the Revolutionary war the whole Northwest Territory was considered Virginia Territory all the way to the Mississippi River. The southwest border of Pennsylvania was disputed as part of Virginia at another time. Clark was recruiting from Pennsylvania, Virginia and what became Tennessee and Kentucky.

James Heldebrand is also on a payroll of Kentucky Militia under William Hogon in active service in Defence of Bryans Station in the year 1780, 15 May to 18 Aug. in Kentucky. This was also the period that Fort Jefferson at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi was under attack.

James was on another payroll 30 May 1780 to 30 Nov 1781: A payroll of Capt Richard Brashears Co. in the Illinois Regiment commanded by Col. John Montgomery in the Va State Service. John Montgomery was from the frontier area of Virginia. His family was prominent in Greenbrier County. Capt. Brashears may have come from some place else. James Hellebrant was listed as a private.

This James Hildebrand served under George Rogers Clark in the war for the west as did Peter. There is also record that when Peter's brother, John, left Missouri in 1780 that he signed on with Clark at Kaskaskia.

There were early Hildebrands in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Tennessee was considered part of North Carolina before 1797. It is interesting that Jonathan (b. 1783) gave his birthplace as Tennessee. Until other records surface, we can only wonder at the family connections of our Hildebrands

Children of JAMES HILDEBRAND are:

	i.		UNKNOWN⁷ HILDEBRAND, b. Abt. 1790; d. 1790.
	ii.		UNKNOWN HILDEBRAND, b. Abt. 1791; d. Abt. 1791.

11. ISAAC⁶ HILDEBRAND (PETER⁵, JOHN H.⁴, JACOB³, JACOB², PETER¹) was born 1779 in Ft. Jefferson, Darke, OH, and died 1809 in Jefferson Co., MO. He married MARGUERITE HOUSE March 03, 1800, daughter of ADAM HOUSE and ANNA WHEAT. She was born 1781, and died 1851.

Notes for ISAAC HILDEBRAND:
III. ISAAC HILDERBRAND
The third child of Peter and Maria Garlock Hilderbrand was born about 1779 probably in Kentucky or at the Falls of the Ohio. He came with his family to Missouri and was a participant in the struggles of pioneering new lands. After his father was killed Isaac lived with his mother and stepfather, Robert Owen near St. Ferdinand. Perhaps it was here that he was educated.

1800 was an eventful year in Isaac's life. On March 3rd, he married Marguerite House, the daughter of Adam and Anna Wheat House. They were a family from Big River (known as Negro Fork). They were natives of Virginia who had come to Missouri early. Adam House took the Oath of Allegiance to the Spanish crown in 1796 at New Madrid where they must have lived for several years. Adam House moved up to Big River, purchasing the springs from James Head in 1789.

This marriage was registered at St. Charles. It is interesting to note that Isaac was a "free thinker" politically and a protestant by faith. Marguerite was listed as an Anglican. Witnesses to the marriage were Mrs. Thomas Halfpenny, William Clark, Joshua McDonald, John Chitwood, and Robert Owen. This record states that he was a son of Peter Hildebrand and Maria Garla of St.Ferdinand.

Isaac and Marguerite had hardly begun to set up house keeping when tragedy struck the family. It was told that Marguerite's father, Adam House had seen two Indians steal two of his horses on their way to trade furs in St. Louis. Adam House followed them and before they could complete their sales, Mr. House had them arrested. After serving their time in jail, the Indians returned to their tribe, gathered aid and stormed the House cabin. A bitter battle ensued. Adam was inside with his two sons, John and Jacob, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Polly. The night was rainy and dark and the two girls escaped through a hole and by the next morning reached Morgan's Lick. Meanwhile the Indians broke into the cabin at daylight, shot and scalped Adam. John tried to run for water for his father but the Indians shot and wounded him. He escaped to Morgan's Lick. The little son, Jacob was killed and scalped.

Pierre De Treget, commandant at Carondelet arrived at the scene on 19th of March, 1800, with a few militia and described it: "I found an old man dead, head cut off, and laid at his side, scalps taken and body full of wounds from musket shots and a few paces off a boy of eight or nine years, head cut off and lying near him, face smeared with blood with a small piece of maple sugar in his mouth, no wound on his body, from either musket or knife; a dead cow, one horn carried off, dead calf, head cut off, house cut to pieces, utensils broken, and strewed about the house."

A posse had formed and given chase to the Indians. Here accounts differ. One states that they followed the Indians back to their camp in Washington County and gave fight, killing some. Another account states that the posse, seeing that the murderers had a large band, did not follow, so the Indians were never punished.

On March 25th, Paschal Leon Cerre, Ensign of Militia, under orders of the Governor, was sent to the Adam House place to make disposition of the property. John Cummings and Joshua McDonald were appointed witnesses to inventory the effects, and Robert Owen appointed guardian of the minors, Betsy, John and Polly House. Other witnesses were: Matthew Lord, James Craig, Andrew Park, John Johnston, James Gray, Adam Stroud, Judathan Kendall, and Thomas Williams.

Not long after their marriage, Isaac and Margaret moved back to the Big River area, perhaps about the same time that the Owens family moved. They did not sell their land in St. Ferdinand. In 1808 the family had to go before the Board of Land Commissioners of the Territory and prove their claim of 1012 arpens on Negro Fork (Big River) of the Merrimac. Christian Twalt Helterbrand swore that Isaac settled in the month of October, 1803 and planted apple seeds and that he had inhabaited and cultivated the land ever since. (Land Commissioners Minutes, Vol. 3, p. 332.

Isaac and Marguerite had three children that we know of: Betsy (no doubt, Elizabeth), Abraham, and Isaac Jr. Isaac lived only nine or ten years after his marriage so it is likely that these were his only offspring.

Isaac died about 1808 on Big River in what became Jefferson County. (See Deed C549) At the time he died, it was Louisiana Territory, District of St. Louis. If there were a record of the disposition of his property, it would probably be in the early St. Louis records. There was a deed dated 26 Jan 1810 in which half of his land had been deeded to William Russell for $125 for as long as Isaac should live. This sale had taken place in 1805.

Isaac had two tracts of land that were confirmed by American authorities after America bought the territory from the Spanish and French. One was the tract of 1000 arpents in Marais de Liards, confirmed in 1808 (Asic Ellebrande) and the other was on Negro Fork of the Merimac, confirmed in 1811 after his death. These are filed under St. Louis.

Isaac's widow, Margaret, then married Michael Null who had been their next door neighbor when they lived in St. Ferdinand. This marriage had taken place before June of 1810.

SOURCES:

Register of St. Charles Marriages by Collett MHS, 1965

Draper's Manuscripts, Vol. 24.

Missouri Historical Review, Vol. I, p. 278+

History of Missouri by Houck

Land Claims in the Missouri Territory, The Spanish Regime in Missouri, Vol. 2, by Houck

Billions' Annals of St. Louis, MHS, 1965.

Among My Pioneer Ancestors, by Anna Sartori

Land Commissioners Minutes, microfilm from MO State Archives

Notes for MARGUERITE HOUSE:
8 known children (with Null?)

More About MARGUERITE HOUSE:
Religion: Anglican

More About ISAAC HILDEBRAND and MARGUERITE HOUSE:
Marriage: March 03, 1800

Children of ISAAC HILDEBRAND and MARGUERITE HOUSE are:

18.	i.		ABRAHAM⁷ HILDEBRAND, b. 1801, MO; d. Abt. 1840, MO.
	ii.		BETSY ELIZABETH HILDEBRAND, b. 1803, probably at Marais de Liards (St. Ferdinand), Louisiana Territory; m. BARTLETT HERRINGTON, June 28, 1829; b. Abt. 1800, or Null?.

Notes for BETSY ELIZABETH HILDEBRAND:
2. ELIZABETH HILDEBRAND
The second child of Isaac and Marguerite House was born approximately 1803 probably at Marais de Liards (St. Ferdinand), Louisiana Territory. She moved with her family to the Big River when she was quite young. She grew up in that Meramec community. Her father died when she was about five years old. Her stepfather, Michael Null, reared her.

The Jefferson County Marriages give an Elizabeth Hildebrand marrying Bartlett Herrington 28 June 1829. The Herringtons were relatives as "Pioneer John" had a daughter who married Isaac Herrington. (Mg. Bk 1, Jeff. Co., MO) A census check needs to be done to locate the children.

More About BARTLETT HERRINGTON and BETSY HILDEBRAND:
Marriage: June 28, 1829

	iii.		UNKNOWN HILDEBRAND, b. Abt. 1805.
19.	iv.		ISAAC HILDEBRAND, b. Abt. 1806.

12. DAVID⁶ HILDEBRAND (PETER⁵, JOHN H.⁴, JACOB³, JACOB², PETER¹) was born 1780 in Jefferson Co., MO, and died January 04, 1834 in House Springs, Jefferson, MO ¹⁰. He married (1) ELIZABETH HOUSE April 21, 1800, daughter of ADAM HOUSE and ANNA WHEAT. She was born Abt. 1787. He married (2) HANNAH MCCOURTNEY 1809 in Jefferson Co., MO, daughter of JAMES MCCOURTNEY and SALLY. She was born 1780 in South Carolina¹⁰, and died March 1855 in Jefferson Co., MO.

Notes for DAVID HILDEBRAND:
IV DAVID HILDEBRAND
The fourth child of Peter and Maria Garlock Hildebrand was born about 1780. The location of this birth is not known because the family was migrating at the time. Since the birth date is only approximate, David could have been born in Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River, or at Fort Pitt where families stayed waiting for a flotilla to form, or it could have been in Kentucky.

David lived with his family on Big River, called Negro Fork of the Meramec, from about 1783 until his father was killed by Indians in Aug. of 1784. The family probably did not stay there for fear of the Indians. Perhaps they stayed with their uncle John for a while. Also, there were two other Hildebrands who had land on Big River early: Abraham in 1780 and David in 1785. There were very few American settlers in the whole of St. Louis region at the time. The population was primarily French with a few military, judicial, and administrative personnel of the Spanish government. Two years later, David's mother, Maria, married Robert Owen who had a large place at Marais de Liards (it became St. Ferdinand).

The Americans kept their own community and American ways. This family kept their ties with the Meramec settlement. David's brother, Isaac, courted Adam House's daughter, Marguerite, while David courted Elizabeth. The third of March 1800, Isaac took his bride to St. Charles, MO to be wed. No doubt the whole family was there as his stepfather, Robert Owen was a witness.

The wedding celebrations were hardly over when tragedy struck this family. Adam House's family was attacked by Indians. The three remaining children were taken back to Owen's Station and by the end of the following month, David married Elizabeth House. Again they took the wedding to St. Charles, MO., crossing the Missouri River and back again. (Register of St. Charles Marriages by Collett.)

David purchased a tract of land at Marais de Liards as had his brother. The author has seen a plat of that land in the St. Louis archives. It was a long, narrow strip stretching from Cold Water Creek toward the Missouri River, through the Missouri Bottom land, a very fertile spot.

We do not know the circumstances of the marriage but there were no known children born to David and Elizabeth House. Perhaps her health did not permit it as she died before 1809. David then married Hannah McCourtney. Record of this marriage has not been located. Civilly, it could have only been recorded at St. Charles or St. Louis as Franklin and Jefferson Counties had not yet been formed. Perhaps we will yet find some of the early records in church records of the area. Protestant ministers were sometimes tolerated during the Spanish Regime but could establish churches only after the Purchase in 1803. (BiCentennial History of Old BonHomme Church.)

Hannah McCourtney was born in the 1780s in South Carolina. Her father, James McCourtney and wife, Sally, had established themselves in Creve Couer in 1803. His father, John and wife, Hannah, appear to have remained in Shelby Co., KY. Hannah's father, James, died in 1807. Most of the McCourtneys of Missouri resided in Franklin Co. about 1830-40. (See: Missouri Territorial Papers)

By 1810 David had moved to a farm on Heads Creek, a branch of the Negro Fork of the Meramec, purchased from the heirs of Adam House, containing 400 arpents. (Deed Bk D, p. 90 at St. Louis, see appendix). David's wife, Hannah, is on the deed in 1810 so we know they were married by then and had relocated.

In 1811 David and Hannah sold 160 arpents on the north side of the Meramec River, "where David Hildebrand now lives" to John Coons. This land was a Spanish claim where Christian Hildebrand formerly lived. About that time Christian Hildebrand purchased land at Marais de Liards from Robert Owen. We do not know just how Christian Hildebrand is related to David's family. He was born in 1778 so is of the age to be a son of Peter but he is not mentioned in any of Peter's records. However, the fact that he and David and Isaac all purchased land from the stepfather, Robert Owen might indicate a close relationship.

David and Hannah had 12 children there on Big River: Francis, Abraham, William, Mary, Lucinda, Meranda, Phillip, Caleb, Belinda, Peter, Anna Eliza, and David R. (Bible record in possession of the J. E. Wease family of Paragould, Ark. gives birth dates of these children.)

David died 4 Jan 1834 at his farm near House Springs. Hannah continued to live there until her death about Nov 1848. Hannah was made the administrator of David's estate. It is interesting that she was paid out of the estate for the rearing of her children. The estate papers are on the following pages.

When Hannah died fourteen years later, Philip was made administrator. He paid the other heirs $27 each for their interests and obtained the land. Several had already moved out of Jefferson County to other locations. Hannah's probate records follow David's. They are lengthy and have not been presented in their entirety.

It is interesting to note that Isaac Herrington was a security in Hannah's estate and Samuel Herrington had a note signed in David's papers. There appear to be close ties with the John Hildebrand descendants.

We do not know the burial place for this family. No markers are yet in existence for these early pioneers that the author knows about.

More About ELIZABETH HOUSE:
Burial: Jefferson Co., MO

More About DAVID HILDEBRAND and ELIZABETH HOUSE:
Marriage: April 21, 1800

More About DAVID HILDEBRAND and HANNAH MCCOURTNEY:
Marriage: 1809, Jefferson Co., MO

Children of DAVID HILDEBRAND and HANNAH MCCOURTNEY are:

20.	i.		FRANCIS⁷ HILDEBRAND, b. December 29, 1810, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; d. August 1878, Dallas Co., MO, near Nianga River.
	ii.		ABRAHAM HILDEBRAND, b. May 06, 1811, what became Jefferson County; d. Abt. 1856, Jefferson Co., MO.

Notes for ABRAHAM HILDEBRAND:
The second child of David and Hannah McCourtney Hildebrand was born 6 May 1811 on the family farm on Big River in what became Jefferson County. It is not known what happened to Abraham. By the 1850 census there is not one Abraham Hildebrand listed as a head of household anywhere in Missouri (1850 c. index). He was not listed as an heir in his father's probate records in 1834. His sister, Anna Eliza, said that he had moved from Jefferson Co. (possibly with his brother, William?)

More About ABRAHAM HILDEBRAND:
Date born 2: May 06, 1811
Burial: Jefferson Co., MO

21.	iii.	WILLIAM HILDEBRAND, b. October 16, 1812, Jefferson County, MO.
22.	iv.	MARY HILDEBRAND, b. April 23, 1816, Jefferson County, MO; d. Bef. September 1848.
23.	v.	LUCINDA HILDEBRAND, b. March 14, 1817, (16 March 1817?) Jefferson County, MO; d. February 05, 1881, Jefferson Co., MO.
	vi.	MERANDA HILDEBRAND, b. October 17, 1818, Jefferson County, MO; m. WILLIS CHANDLER; b. Abt. 1816, TN.

Notes for MERANDA HILDEBRAND:
Moved To Houston, Texas,
One Child???

The sixth child of David and Hannah McCourtney Hildebrand was born 17 Oct 1818 in Jefferson County, Missouri. She married Willis Chandler who was born in Tennessee. (See 1850 c. Jeff.Co. (entry #306) Her brother, Philip was living with them then. Anna Sartori notes that they moved to Texas.

24.	vii.	PHILLIP HILDEBRAND, b. March 10, 1822, Jefferson County, MO; d. Bef. 1870, Jefferson Co., MO.
25.	viii.	CALEB HILDEBRAND, b. July 03, 1824, Jefferson Co, MO; d. Abt. November 1853, Jefferson Co., MO.
26.	ix.	BELINDA MALINDA? HILDEBRAND, b. December 13, 1825, Jefferson County, MO.
27.	x.	PETER HILDEBRAND, b. May 20, 1828, Jefferson County, Missouri; d. November 1867, Dallas County, MO.
28.	xi.	ANNA ELIZA HILDEBRAND, b. May 06, 1830, Jefferson Co, MO; d. November 15, 1891, Big River, 5 miles north of House Springs, MO.
	xii.	MARTHA A. HILDEBRAND¹¹, b. Abt. 1831, Jefferson Co, MO.
29.	xiii.	DAVID RILEY HILDEBRAND, b. August 14, 1831, Jefferson Co, MO; d. Abt. January 04, 1934.

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