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***Descendants of *Hans Michael Pfautz, Sr.***

Generation No. 2
2.*JACOB² PFAUTZ, SR. (*HANS MICHAEL¹) was born 1705 in Rohrbach, Rhenish, Palatinate, and died 1762 in North Carolina.He married *ANNA MAGDALENA KUNTZ Abt. 1719 in Europe, daughter of *JOHN JACOB KUNTZ.She was born 1705 in Rohrbach, Rhenish Palatinate, and died Abt. 1763 in Hanover Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
Notes for *JACOB PFAUTZ, SR.:
Jacob and Anna Magdalena arrived at Philadelphia September 18 1727 on the ship "William and Sarah" from Rotterdam with a total family count of three and one-half freights (children under age eight were counted as one-half freights)
Came with father Hans Michael Pfautz, Sr.
Previous readings of Jacob's old, weather-beaten tombstone have
been recorded as giving 1716 and 1720 as birth years. Evidence,
based on date on Grandparents' mar., possible birthdate of
Father, and John Michael as first sons throughout this Pfautz
family -- plus circumstantial evidence that John Jacob Knutz was
Jacob's father-in-law--Kuntz came from Lower Neckar Valley also,
on same ship as the Pfautz in 1727, moved to Digges' Choice (now
York-Adams Co., Pa.) at same time that Jacob Pfautz located
nearby, ca 1741-2 -- suggests that Jacob belongs here in Family
Order.)"
2 Oct. 1743 took communion at the Conewago Lutheran Church
Naturalized on 18 Oct. 1743 by the Provincal Court of Maryland.
Name: Pfautz, Jacob
Description: Sponsor
Event: Baptism
Church: Records of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Penn Township, York County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799
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Name: Pfautz, Anna Madlena
Description: Sponsor
Event: Baptism
Church: Records of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Penn Township, York County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799
Name: Pfautz, Maria Elizabeth
Description: Born
Event: Birth
Date: 4 December 1743
Church: Records of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Penn Township, York County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799
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Name: Pfautz, Jacob
Description: Father
Event: Baptism
Church: Records of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Penn Township, York County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799
Philadelphia County, New Returns, 1734-1758, being Volume 9, "Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania Including The Three Lower Counties 1759" (9:55-56): Jacob Pfautz remained in the Skippack area of Frederick Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, taking out a survey warrant for 150 acres on Perkiomen Creek (bounding Wyan Tul, Gerard Zin, and Christian Stinebough) on 29 October 1734. On 7 March 1738 he had the tract surveyed, but did not follow through on the procedures required for patent. On 21 April 1741 (just 11 days after Jacob had sold the tract purchased from his father in Lancaster County to Samuel Cunningham), all of his rights under the Philadelphia County warrant were forfeited and his tract was patented instead to Jacob Free.
It is doubtful that Jacob and his family lived on the Hans Michael Pfautz tract on Conestoga Creek in Lancaster County for longer than a year (if at all), for the Philadelphia County forfeiture implies haste and expediency atypical to the times. (The warrant and survey each had value and could have been sold, time permitting). Whatever, by December 1741 Jacob was settled west of the Susquehanna River in the four-mile stretch of land north of the Temporary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland and south of Digges Choice, a Maryland patent which was legally a part of and administered by Baltimore County, Maryland. He was a neighbor to and associated with those Germans who carried on the battle with John Digges and his heirs, 1735-1795, but his land was clearly south of the disputed area. The Mason-Dixon Line established later (1769) passed through it. By 1763 Jacob's family was located either in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or in Rowan (now Randolph) County, North Carolina.
Burial: Lutheran Cem, Strasburg, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
More About *JACOB PFAUTZ, SR.:
Immigration: September 18, 1727, Ship "William and Sarah"
Notes for *ANNA MAGDALENA KUNTZ:
Fouts, Jacob Michael
Father: Pfautz, JacobMother:,
Birth Date:1724 City: Rohrbach
County:State:
Country:
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Fouts, John Michael
Father: Pfautz, JacobMother: Kuntz, Anna Magdalena
Birth Date:1724 City: Rohrbach
County: Rhenish State:
Pfautz, Andrew
Father: Pfautz, JacobMother:,
Birth Date: 18 August 1736 City: Skippack
County: Philadelphia State: PA
Country: USA

Children of *JACOB PFAUTZ and *ANNA KUNTZ are:

JACOB MICHAEL³ PFAUTS, JR., b. 1724, Rohrbach, Rhenish, Palatinate (Germany); d. 1800, Strasburg Village, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; m. EVA ELIZABETH ECKMAN, November 22, 1748, New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; b. Abt. 1723, New Holland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Notes for JACOB MICHAEL PFAUTS, JR.:
Widow of Lawrence Slaymaker. Jacob Pfautz farmed the Slaymaker estate
in Strasburg Twp., PA

3.	ii.		*JOHN MICHAEL PFOUTS, SR., b. 1724, Rohrbach, Rhenish, Palatinate,; d. September 24, 1803, Uwharrie Waters, Rowen, Randolph County, Pennsylvania.
	iii.		MARGARET CATHERINE PFOUTS, b. 1725, Zweibrucken in the Palatinate, Germany; d. 1797, Uwharrie River, Randolph County, North Carolina; m. ANDREAS (ANDREW HOOVER) HUBER, 1745, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; b. January 23, 1721/22, Ellerstadt, Bad Durkeim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; d. 1794, Randolph County, North Carolina.

Notes for MARGARET CATHERINE PFOUTS:

More About MARGARET CATHERINE PFOUTS:
Burial: Old Hoover-Mast,Tabernacle Township

Notes for ANDREAS (ANDREW HOOVER) HUBER:
BIOGRAPHY: Andreas Huber, b. 1-23-1723, at Ellerstadt, district Dunkheim, in the Palatinate the 9th and youngest child of Gregor Jonas Huber, a well-to-do landowner and vintner. An entry in the old Lutheran church book at Ellerstadt gives the record of his baptism: "Anno 1723. Den 29 Jan. 1st, Jonas Huber und Seiner frau ,Anna Maria ein sohn gebohren und den 7ten Feb. Andreas getauft." The house of his birth, number 17 Fleissgasse, was demolished in 1900, but the barn and vintner's building were left.
When he was 15 years old he emigrated to America, where two of his brothers him, preceded him,6 Johannes on the Mortonhouse, 8-24-1728, and Christian on the Dragon 9-30-1732. Andreas arrived at Philadelphia, 9-9-1738, on the Two Sisters. He stayed with his brothers and friends in the rich farmland of Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania until he was 22 years old when he marrled Margaret Pfautz, who came to America with her parents on the William and Sarah, arriving 9-8-1727. In 1746 Andreas and Margaret moved to Carrol County, MD, and, in 1750, patented fifty acres of land called Mirey Spring along Little Pipe Creek at the head of Chesapeake Bay near Uniontown. Here their children, except probably the youngest were born. During these years Andreas Huber changed his name to Andrew Hoover.
About 1772 Andrew took his family through the wilderness by oxcart to the Uwharrie River in Randolph County, NC. In 1779 he bought 200 acres on the east side of the river. Much land was available because the new state of North Carolina had taken it away from the British and Tories. Andrew and his sons subsequently acquired many acres of the best land in the state. 16, 43 They cut an empire out of the wilderness, established a dynasty, and prospered.Daniel Boone was a neighbor on the Yadkin, of which the Uwharrie was a tributary. Many of the traditions of the Uwharrie are Hoover traditions. "The story goes that Andrew Hoover was not afraid of man, beast, or devil, that he climbed to the top of Eagle Nest Rock when others were afraid to, that he swam the raging Uwharrie to save the lives of his horses, that, while others in the settlement were home in fear, he set out to face the headless horseman on the Uwharrie trails and brave the other ghostly figures that moved like lost souls down the valley. "
Andrew built a grist mill at the fork of the Uwharrie, and this was an important granary of the Revolution. The family also gave $500 to the Revolutionary cause --a large sum of money in those days. But there is no record of these Hoovers as soldiers in the Revolution.
A small business center grew up at the forks around the Hoover mill, where the big wheels operated a sash mill to hew logs into slabs when not turning to grind corn. This mill remained in the Hoover family for more than a hundred and fifty years. In 1792 Andrew left the mill for his son Jacob to run, and he retired to a farm where Cedar Run joins the larger river. In 1794 he made a Will, appointing his wife and eldest son, Jonas, as executors. Shortly afterwards he died and was buried near Back Creek on the Uwharrie. His widow died three years later, in 1797.
Andrew Hoover's ancestry was Swiss. The Huber famlly goes back to Bertoldus Hubere, b. about 1185, a citizen of Bern and the younger son of a minor landed knight or baron of Switzerland. His son, Burchard dictus Hubere, b. about 1222, acquired a fief from Sir Ludwig von Liebegg in 1268 in the Valley of the Wyna River, Oberkulm, in the present Canton Aargau, Switzerland. His descendant, Hans Huber, was deputy sheriff of Oberkulm, where he was granted a fief by Lord Hans Friederich von Hallwyl.
Georg Huber, son of Hans Huber, was deputy sheriff at Lensberg, 1641, and
miller of Oberkulm. Georg's son Johan Heinrich Huber (b. about 1644 in Oberkulm, d. 1744; m. Margaretta Hoffman) was a linen weaver of Oberkulm. Because,of the Swiss Pietist persecution, he migrated to Ellerstadt in the German palatinate.
Andreas's son, John M. Hoover, is the GG Grandfather of Herbert
Hoover.
So, even though the name means a person working a farm/land or
is an old German word Hube', pronounced "Hubay", meaning the possessor of a tract of
land or a small farm, this line above did come from Switzerland
1.Jacob Hoover,born 1754 , MD, died 1821, ,
Place: Ueharrie River NC 1787, 1792; inherited family
grist mill.Floods washed house away and crippled him. Fire
destroyed grist mill, which he rebuilt. Married Elizabeth
3 Rachel Hoover, born about 1758, Mirey Spring, MD. Married George Sinks, born 1735,
Germany, died Apr 1819, OH.
4 John Hoover, born 1760, Uniontown, , MD, died
18 Nov 1831, West Milton, Miami, OH. Place: MD in youth; 25
years in NC; OH 1801 to escape slavery problem Job: mill-
wright & farmer Married 1784, , Randolph, NC, Sarah Burkhart
born 20 Sep 1767, died 29 Dec 1843, , , OH.
5 Susannah Hoover, born 1763, Mirey Spring, , MD, died 1 Jan 1813. Married John Mast, born
1762, died 2 Sep 1832.

More About ANDREAS (ANDREW HOOVER) HUBER:
Burial: near Back Creek on the Uwharrie

iv.

JOHN LUDWIG PFAUTS, b. May 20, 1730, Skippah, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 1806, Washington County, Maryland.

Notes for JOHN LUDWIG PFAUTS:
Baptized by the Rev. John Caspar
Note: Stoever, who identified Jacob Pfautz 'am de Bergfarmen' -- of
Note: the hill settlement -- as the father.
The Rev. John Casper
Note: Stover, a Lutheran minister, recorded in 1730 the baptism of
Note: Ludwig Pfautz at Skippack, and identified Jacob Pfautz, the
Note: father, as 'am de Bergfarmen - of the hill settlement' ('Church
Note: Records and minutes for the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation

More About JOHN LUDWIG PFAUTS:
Christening: August 15, 1730, by Rev. John Casper Stover at Skippach

	v.		FREDERICK FOUTS, b. 1732, Philidelphia County, Pennsylvania; d. 1806, Maryland, Washington County.
	vi.		CHARLOTTE PFAUTS, b. 1734, Skepach County, Pennsylvania; d. Lancaster Burough, Pennsylvania; m. JOHN MICHAEL LENTZ, 1754, Lancaster Burough, Pennsylvania; b. 1730, Skepach County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for JOHN MICHAEL LENTZ:
LENTZ, JOHN
State: PA Year: 1746
County: Philadelphia County Record Type:
Township: Philadelphia Page:
Database: PA Early Census Index

vii.

JOHN ANDREW PFAUTS, b. August 18, 1736, Perkiomen Creek, Frederick Township, Pennsylvania; d. July 25, 1808, Brooke County, West Virginia; m. NANCY ANN LEMEN, 1772, Berkeley County, Virginia; b. March 4, 1754, Frederick County, Virginia; d. December 30, 1836, McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio.

Notes for JOHN ANDREW PFAUTS:
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Dec. 1975, Vol. 61,No. 4: "Earliest Pfautz/Fouts Families in America" By John Scott Davenport. P. 249: " . . . (Brooke Co., Va. now W. Va.) In Berkeley Co., Va., 1772; to Ohio Co., Va., 1775, in frontier service during Revolution; active in local government. Familymoved to Moran Gco., Oh., before 1820. Ch.: 13, 9 sons
including two named Jacob (first one d. age 5). Episcopalians (Andrew was a vestrman). Andrew first appears in records in same area and at same time that John Pfoutz (see below) sold his
Frederick (later Berkely ) Co., Va. land, but Bible records indicate he was too old to have been a son of John Pfoutz." ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D., 14 June, 1972: Corroborating
Andrew of being of Michael, in the Randolph Co., N. C. Tax Lists of 1779, Andrew Fouts, jacob Fouts, John Mast, FRederick Waymire, and Andrew Hoover (Jr.) are shown on the List of
William Cole as refusing to Take the Oath of Allegiance or to give an Inventory of taxables. They all lived on the southern edge of the Uwharrie Dutch community on waters of Jackson Creek
and Cider Run and on the South Side of the Trading Road. In the Census of 1790, correlated with land records, they are all still there except that Elizabeth and her brood shows in the place of
Andrew. The Jacob Fouts adjacent to Andrew-Elizabeth is clearly identifiable as the third son of Michael who married Eleanor Malinda Waymire." ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D., Sep.
16,1976: " . . . Brooke Co., Va. (now W. Va.). Bible records say that Andrew was born in 1738

Notes for NANCY ANN LEMEN:
BIRTH/DEATH:microfilm#1035957, VOL 9, Genealogy of Jacob Pfautz,
buried Bloom Twp Cem

viii.

ANNA MARIA PFAUTS, b. November 3, 1738, Skepach, Pennsylvania; d. 1814; m. JOHANN ADAM WERNER, 1768, York County, Pennsylvania; b. 1732, Massenbach, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany; d. Bef. 1783, Rowan County, North Carolina.

Notes for ANNA MARIA PFAUTS:
Anna Maria was baptized by the Rev. John Casper Stoever,
who gave her birthdate as three months later than the 1738
birthdate for Andrew Fouts, as given in the Fouts Bible

More About ANNA MARIA PFAUTS:
Christening: November 8, 1738, by Rev. John Casper Stover at Skippach

Notes for JOHANN ADAM WERNER:

	ix.		CATHERINE PFAUTS, b. 1740, Little Conewago, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1815, Hanover Township, York County, Pennsylvania; m. JOHN ECKERT (ECKMANN), 1758.
	x.		MARIA ELIZABETH PFAUTS, b. December 4, 1743, Little Conewago, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1815, York Co, Pennsylvania.

Notes for MARIA ELIZABETH PFAUTS:
Baptized at Lutheran Church with Jacob Kuntz and Maria Elizabeth Kuntz as sponsors.
She was baptized by the Rev. J. Waldeschmidt.
Baptism was recorded at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church

More About MARIA ELIZABETH PFAUTS:
Christening: December 4, 1743, St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania