Catherine HAMMAN

Catherine married Daniel Prunk 17 Jan 1818, Botetourt, Co. VA. Daniel was born 21 Jul 1796, Botetourt Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

1. Martha P. Prunk was born 11 Nov 1818, Botetourt Co. VA; died 14 Jan 1889, Waveland Township, Griswold, Cass Co., IA ; was buried , Flint Cemetery, Cass Co., IA.
2. Jane Prunk was born 26 Jun 1820, Botetourt Co. VA.
3. John Prunk was born 19 Feb 1822, Botetourt Co. VA.
4. Hamman (Hammon) Prunk was born 08 Apr 1824, Botetourt Co. VA.
5. Madison Prunk was born 23 Apr 1826, Botetourt Co. VA.
6. Magdalene Prunk was born 29 Jan 1828, Botetourt Co. VA.
7. Daniel Prunk was born 03 Nov 1829, Botetourt Co. VA.
8. George Prunk was born 03 Feb 1834, Botetourt Co. VA.
9. Washington Prunk was born 21 Mar 1836, Botetourt Co. VA.
10. Lavender Prunk was born 15 Aug 1838, Illinois; died 27 Nov 1839, Illinois.
11. Catherine Prunk was born 15 May 1841, Illinois; died 15 Dec 1881.
12. Mary M. Prunk was born 31 Jul 1843, Illinois.

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Although several family trees on Rootsweb and Ancestry.com connect this Peter Hamman as the the son of Georg Adam Hamman of Kürnbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, recent DNA evidence from the Hamman DNA project shows this not to be the case.
http://www.brian-hamman.com/Hamman_Y_chromosomeResults.htm

Peter is connected to the southeastern Hessen-Darmstadt group, which leads to an interesting possibility. The evidence strongly suggests that this is the Johann Peter Hammann born on 5 Sep 1753, in Langstadt, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany; if so, then this is the long lost Peter Hamann who deserted the Hessian Army in 1781 after seven years of service. Please see the following link for more details as John Helmut Merz has extensively researched Hessian soldiers who settled in the US and Canada. John was the list moderator for the Rootsweb American Revolution Hessian mailing list and provided a wealth of information and expertise.

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.hamann/122.1/mb.ashx

The Hammans from Langstadt serving in the Hessen-Hanau troops included:

Hamann, Jacob, 1752/53 born in Langstadt/Hessen, returned to Langstadt, married and lived a long and happy life.
Hamann, Konrad, 1754/55 born in Langstadt, married and is the progenitor of the Canadian Hammans, and died in Canada,
Hamann, Peter, 1752/53, Langstadt, deserted 1781 in the US.

The military records that "Peter" disappeared in the U.S.A. in 1781 just as the American Revolution was ending.

It is possible and plausible that this is the Peter who was a Hessian deserter. He would have found a large German population in the Shenandoah Valley, but his service as a Hessian soldier would have made him an outcast.

According to the Hammond Genealogy, Peter supposedly came from PA into Valley of VA, settled in Botetourt Co., then part of Augusta Co. and became owner of Heibst/Hypes/Hipes estate. Fiske Edwards Hammond, author of the Hammond Genealogy, uses the stereotypical genealogical convention of three brothers coming from x, in this case Pennsylvania, settling in y, the Valley of Virginia, Botetourt County. In this instance, instead of the other brothers migrating to other sections of the country never to be heard from again, these 2 brothers die without marrying, and no offspring, leaving Peter being the progenitor of this family.

Fiske Edwards Hammond indicated Peter was known to enter shooting matches and horse races and was middle aged when thrown from a horse and killed. [Source: The Hammond Genealogy, 1919, p.12] As a skilled, professional soldier Peter would have been an excellent shooter and perhaps rider. So this bit of biographical information has a ring of truth to it.

Also it makes sense that Peter would provide general information about coming from PA which had large German settlements and be evasive about his past since he married into a German Palatinate family who supported the American Revolution. Having Hessian military connections would not endear one to some of the patriot populace. He marched through PA as a prisoner of war, so he came "from" PA to Virginia. While not a complete lie, it disconnected him from his role in fighting for the British, and in all probability, he wasn't too enthusiastic to be fighting against German-speaking colonists.

With the results of the DNA tests, the likely ancestors of Peter are provided at the following link:

http://www.brian-hamman.com/ANCESTORS-OF-27019.htm

Information from Dr. Ernst Hamman, Hessen-Darmstadt on Hessian soldiers from Langstadt, Hessen-Darmstadt who fought in the American Revolution has Peter listed as a soldier in the Hess-Hanaulschen Regiment, with the word "erbprinz or Crown Prince," also known as the Prince Hereditaire Regiment He enlisted July, 1774 and was active until July, 1781. He is listed as a deserter.

There was a Hesse Hanau Erbprinz Regiment that was one of the units from Hesse-Hanau that fought in the American Revolution. The Hessian soldiers were regular or professional army units hired out by the German leaders to Great Britain. The Germany of the 1700's was not a unified country like it is today. It was divided up into many different principalities, each one with their own ruler. These princes often found themselves running short of money. One method they had of making money was to rent out their armies to other countries.

The Hessians made up about 25 percent of the forces sent by the British in the American Revolution. The use of Hessian troops angered the American colonists, and pushed more Loyalists to be in favor of the revolution. The British use of non-English speaking foreign troops to put down the rebellion was seen as insulting.

Family records of Johann Nicholas Bahner(t), one of the Hessians captured in the Battle of Trenton, indicate that some of the Hessian soldiers enrolled in the service of King George III of England under the false pretense that they were needed to defend the American Colonies against Indian incursions. It was not until after they arrived upon American shores that they discovered they were enlisted to fight against, rather than for, the colonists.

About 30,000 of these men served in America with the majority returning home. Hesse-Hanau sent 2,422 men and officers with 981 not returning to Germany from death or desertion.

The Patriots enticed Hessians to desert and join the large German-American population. The US Congress authorized the offer of 50 acres of land to individual Hessian soldiers to encourage them to desert. Most of the former Hessian solders married and settled amongst the population of the newly formed United States.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_soldiers

The Hesse-Hanau Erbprinz Regiment was taken at Saratoga on Oct. 17, 1777. They made up part of the left wing of Lt. General Burgoyne's army as part of the 2nd Brigade under Brigadier General Wilhelm von Gall. After the fall of Fort Ticonderoga, the Infantry Regiment Erbprinz was left behind as a garrison, and most likely did not see combat.

There were over 2,000 German troops who were part of the British surrender. All British, German, and Canadian troops had to leave their weapons on the field of surrender, and from there march to Boston, Massachusetts, to be put aboard ships and never return to fight again. They were known as the Convention Army. At Cambridge, called the Winter Hill prison camp, Brunswick and Hessen Hanau Regiments were kept in barracks for a whole year. The American Congress did not ratify the surrender agreement. British ships that came to pick up the prisoners according to the original agreement, were refused entry into Boston harbour. Some of the prisoners went out to work by special permits. Some deserted or joined the American forces. The soldiers themselves were still under the command of their officers, and kept together within their regimental units.

In November 1778, these surrendered troops started their march towards Virginia, arriving in Charlottesville on Jan.14, 1779. They found unfinished barracks and deplorable conditions. The Brunswick and Hesse Hanau prisoners stayed until the end of Feb.1781, when they were ordered to march north towards Winchester, VA, and Frederick, MD. Hessian solider prisoners were kept in Lancaster, PA, York, PA, Carlisle, PA, Lebanon, PA, Philadelphia, PA, and Reading, PA. Since Johan Peter's last record is July, 1781, we assume he deserted somewhere in PA. He made his way from PA, escaping as a prisoner of war, to Botetourt County, VA where he married into the prosperous Heibst/Hypes family in 1789.

Source: http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~amrevhessians/hpnah.htm

Until there is newer evidence to contradict the DNA indications, I will assume Peter is the lost Hessian soldier and these are his ancestors.


Birth:
Information from Dr. Ernst Hamman, Hessen-Darmstadt on Hessian soldiers from Langstadt, Hessen-Darmstadt who fought in the American Revolution. He provides Peter's date of birth.

Johann married Anna Barbara Heibst 15 Dec 1789, Botetourt Co. VA. Anna (daughter of Johann Nicholas Heibst and Apolonia Abigail Wamser) was born 02 Jul 1771, Botetourt Co. VA; died 1829, Botetourt Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Marriage date: Early Marriages, Wills, and Some Revolutionary War Records: Botetourt County, Virginia. Anne Lowry Worrell . (1958) p.21 Surname was spelled Hammond in this source.

Last name was sometimes spelled HYPES/HIPES

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Married:
Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Name: Peter Hammond [Hamman]
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 8 Dec 1789
Marriage Place: Botetourt, Virginia
Spouse: Barbara Hypes Or Hipes
FHL Film Number: 30734
Reference ID: pg 51
Household Members
Name: Barbara Hypes Or Hipes
Name: Nicholas Hipes
Name: Peter Hammond

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His last name was spelled Hammann. His occupation was listed as "Feldgeschworener."

A Feldgeschworener (usually there were 7 of them in a community) marked the borders of fields in order to prevent or to settle land disputes. These men set boundary stones. As a means to find out, whether the boundary stones had been moved (in case of a dispute),they put a secret sign on the stone itself or together with the stone. Each community and each team of Feldgeschworener had its own secret of
course. This secret was known by them only. They were sworn in (=geschworen) to keep the secret, only the seven of them knew about it. And only when one of the seven died, another one was sworn in and told the secret sign. So he was a settler of boundary disputes, a "field juryman"

He was most likely employed by the local court to check the boundaries of the fields and settled boundary disputes to make sure no one was plowing a tract of land that actually belonged to someone else. There were no fences, just stones marking where one property started and someone else's ended.

Peter was born and died at Kleestädter Straße im Haus Zum Kloster.

Johann married Anna Catharine Sauerwein 21 Jan 1749. Anna was born 21 Feb 1724, Langstadt, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hessen, Germany; died 24 Feb 1787, Langstadt, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet]

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Born Hintergasse 20

Died Haus Zum Kloster

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Land records: James River Communities in Botetourt Co.
12 August, 1788, Nicholas Hipes, Grant 400 acres, adjoining Robert Harris on Spreading Springs Branch.

Source: Kegley's Virginia frontier: the beginning of the Southwest: the Roanoke of colonial days, 1740-1783, Frederick Bittle Kegley, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1938. p. 444.

1792 Nicholas Hypes, Grants 112 and 62 acres, adjoining Elias Linkenhager, Joseph Kyle, and others.

Source: Kegley's Virginia frontier: the beginning of the Southwest: the Roanoke of colonial days, 1740-1783, Frederick Bittle Kegley, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1938. p. 415.

April 9 1799, George and Rosanna Rule, his wife, sold to Nicholas Hipes, on the waters of Spreading Branch (a
branch of the James River)

Source: Botetourt County Deed Book Vol. 6 pg 646)

Member of the militia, Captain Cartmill's Company, 1783
Nicholas Hipes, 5 horses, 9 cattle, no slaves, no tithable
p. 438

Source: Kegley's Virginia frontier: the beginning of the Southwest: the Roanoke of colonial days, 1740-1783, Frederick Bittle Kegley, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1938.

Last Will and Testment
Nicholas Hipes, Botetourt Co., VA
Annotation: Taken from original manuscripts in the state archives. Names given throughout pages 1-677. Foreigners arriving in Pennsylvania named on pages 521-667. No. 3776, Kelker, supplements this.

Botetourt County, VA Wills Book B pages 14-15

In the name of God, Amen, I, Nicholas Hipes of the County of Botetourt and State of Virginia, a farmer being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be unto God calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise, and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:
1. I give and bequeath to my sons, John, Peter, and Henry, and to my daughters, Elizabeth, now Elizabeth Abel, and daughter Barbary, late Barbary Hammond, the lands and houses ... for which each have a deed.
2.I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Magdalon, now Magdalon Gross, thirty acres of land joining said Jacob Gross land.
3.I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Apollonia Hipes, all my movable estate both within and without doors to her sole use and behoof during her life only reserving my just debts and my burial to be paid out of the same and after her death the same to be equally divided among all my children, viz., John, Henry, Peter, Elizabeth, Barbara, Magdalon, Margret, Maria Elizabeth Hipes or their heirs.
Lastly I make constitute and ordain my son, Peter Hipes, and my son-in-law Jacob Gross, my sole executors of this my last will and Testament ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two. Signed, sealed and declared by the said Nicholas Hipes as his last will and Testament in the presence of [Signature] George Rule [Translated]Signature and seal [Signature] Jacob Young [Translated]Nicolaus Heibst John George Butler

At a Botetourt County Court in September, 1802, an inventory of Nicolaus Heibst personal is recorded in Will Book B, pages 19 and 20. The following items were listed in the Will Book: 12 head meat cattle, one colt, one waggon, one cutting (I), two old saddles, two small rings, one hand saw, drawing knife, one dung fork hook, one pair steelyards, two hammers, one shovel plow, one oven, one frying pan, one pot rack, and pot hooks, four chairs, tin ware, one dresser, one pair gears, one tub half bushel, one wheat sieve, to an account against James Murray fifteen pounds, three baggs flour, cask, one cheek reel, a parcel of books, one chest and padlock, one felt hat, lone large kettle, one heafer [heifer], bond on Peter Hipes due 1806, bond on Henry Hipes due 1806, 10 head sheep, one filley, one crosscut saw, one windmill, two iron wedges, parcel of old irons, one foot adze, two hoes, one flax hackle, four chisels, one wheat sieve, three iron pots, one skillet, three ladies, one flax wheel, pair of fire irons, parcel of pewter delf ware, one spice mill, one log chain, one church crockery ware, one bed and furniture, five bread baskets, one eight plate stove, one table, one clothes press, waring apperal, thirteen hogs, one gun, bond on John Hipes due 1804, note on Henry Hipes due 1800, cash six pounds. The total value of all appears to be two hundred and twenty pounds, four shillings.


Name:
The spelling was changed to Hypes or Hipes, both spellings used interchangeably. Some descendants spell it Hypes and others Hipes.

Johann married Apolonia Abigail Wamser 20 Oct 1767, New Hanover, PA. Apolonia (daughter of Nicholas Wamser and Magdelina) was born 22 Mar 1739/40, Palatinate, Germany; died 1833, Botetourt Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Apolonia arrived in Philadelphia, PA on 16 Sep 1748 aboard the ship, Patience. She came with her parents, Nicholas and Magdalena and her siblings, Anna Barbara and Hans Peter.

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Married:
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH
New Hanover, Montgomery County, PA.
1745-1809
1767, Oct. 20, Heibst, Nicholas, and Appolonia Warmser.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Nich Wamser
Year: 1748
Age: 35
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1713
Place: Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 1804
Primary Immigrant: Wamser, Nich

Annotation: Taken from original manuscripts in the state archives. Names given throughout pages 1-677. Foreigners arriving in Pennsylvania named on pages 521-667. No. 3776, Kelker, supplements this.

Source Bibliography: EGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, editor Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2, vol. 17.) Harrisburg [PA]: E.K. Meyers, 1890. 787p.
Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967.
Page: 273


Pennsylvania Census, 1772-1890
Name: Nicholas Wamser
State: PA
County: Philadelphia County
Township: Philadelphia
Year: 1748
Database: PA Early Census Index

Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Pennsylvania Census, 1772-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT

Nicholas married Magdelina. Magdelina was born ca 1713, Palatinate, Germany; died ca 1760, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]