John Madison Hypes

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CIVIL WAR SERVICE
Private John Madison Hypes
Co K, 22nd Virginia Infantry
Resident of Craig Co., began service in the 108th Militia, McNeer?s Company, Co. E. Integrated into 22nd Virginia Infantry May 1, 1862 at While Sulphur Springs, VA
Brother of Jacob Lewis and George Asbury Hypes.

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John married Sarah Elizabeth Crawford 23 Dec 1877, Roanoke Co. VA. Sarah was born 29 Jan 1844, Craig Co. VA; died 05 Jun 1891, Craig Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

1. John Alexander Hypes was born 16 Nov 1878, Craig Co. VA; died 22 Jan 1959, Preble Co. OH; was buried , Sugar Grove Cemetery, Preble Co. OH.
2. Charles Edgar Hypes was born 10 Aug 1880, Mercer Co. WV; died 16 May 1967, Montgomery Co. OH.
3. Mary Etta Hypes was born 19 Jun 1882, Craig Co. VA; died 25 Jan 1968, Darke Co. OH.
4. Unknown Hypes was born 15 Aug 1885, Craig Co. VA; died 15 Aug 1885, Craig Co., VA.
5. Minnie Custer Hypes was born 14 Sep 1886, Craig Co. VA; died 13 Jun 1966, Roanoke Co. VA.

John married Sarah Francisco 27 May 1830, Botetourt, Co. VA. Sarah was born ca 1803, Botetourt Co. VA; died 28 Feb 1885, Craig Creek, Craig Co., VA . [Group Sheet]

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John married Elizabeth Wimond 13 Oct 1796, Botetourt, Co. VA. Elizabeth was born 18 May 1777, Virginia; died 11 Nov 1857, Craig Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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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.