Johann Nicholas Heibst

1727 - 1802  (75 years)

• Name	Johann Nicholas Heibst
  	The spelling was changed to Hypes or Hipes, both spellings used interchangeably. Some descendants spell it Hypes and others Hipes.
  Born	8 Mar 1726/27	Bingen, Germany
  Gender	Male
  _UID	EED284EFB78E40D6BD65D0D8B34FB4122033
  Died	Apr 1802	Botetourt Co. VA
  Notes	circa 1750 left Germany for America. Wife died on the voyage. Upon arrival in New York City, purchased land about 8 miles from the wharf. Met a gentleman who was the operator for a pigiron furnace near Pattonsburg, now Buchanan, VA. He hired Nicholas as the manager of the wagon-making and repair deparment of this furnace. Eventually bought land in the Spreading Spring, later known as Horsefly Valley in Botetourt Co. Paid $30 cash, one small bay filly, and a bushel of onions to an English bachelor for the land. [1] Nicolaus and Apolonia married Oct 20, 1767 in New Hanover, PA. They moved to Botetourt before June of 1775 where he bought 400 acres between Fincastle and Buchanan. Nicolaus was paying taxes in Botetourt by 1784. Nicolaus also owned 700-800 acres of land near Winchester, VA Nicolaus died by April 1802 in Botetourt Co., VA. His will was dated March 1, 1802 and it mentioned his wife, Apolonia and the following children: John, Peter, Henry, Maria, Elizabeth - md. ___Able, Barbary, Magdaline - md. Jacob Gross, and Margaret. The estate was not settled until 7 years after Apolonia died 1833, in 1840. Nicolaus signed his will using the German spelling of Heibst. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Name: Johan Nickel Heibst Year: 1764 Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source Publication Code: 7820 Primary Immigrant: Heibst, Johan Nickel Annotation: An index by Marvin V. Koger, Index to the Names of 30,000 Immigrants...Supplementing the Rupp, Ship Load Volume, 1935, 232p. is inferior to Wecken's index in the third edition (above). Page 449 contains "Names of the First Palatines in North Carolina, as Source Bibliography: RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia, Chronologically Arranged, Together with the Necessary Historical and Other Notes, also, an Appendix Containing Lists of More Than One Thousand German and French Names in New York prior to 1712. Leipzig [Germany]: Page: 357 Namen von Einwanderern in Pennsylvanien aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Holland, Frankreich u. a. St. von 1727 bis 1776 (Names of immigrants in Pennsylvania from Germany, Switzerland, Holland, France and other countries from 1727 to 1776) Record for Namen von Einwanderern in Pennsylvanien aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Holland, Frankreich u. a. St. von 1727 bis 1776 (Names of immigrants in Pennsylvania from Germany, Switzerland, Holland, France and other countries from 1727 to 1776) Sept. 19, 1764, Ship: Polly, Robert Porter, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, Six Roman Catholics, 184 passengers. On passenger list, p. 357 Johan Nickel Heibst Pennsylvania Census, 1772-1890 Name: Johan Nickel Heibst State: PA County: Philadelphia County Township: Philidelphia Year: 1764 Database: PA Early Census Index Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Pennsylvania Census, 1772-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, Virginia Census, 1607-1890 Name: Nickles Hipps State: VA County: Botetourt County Township: Mases Dist Year: 1785 Record Type: Tax List Page: NPN Database: VA Early Census Index Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Virginia Census, 1607-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, 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.
  Person ID	I5808	Master File
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2011

  
  

  Family	Apolonia Abigail Wamser,   b. 22 Mar 1739/40, Palatinate, Germany ,   d. 1833, Botetourt Co. VA  (Age 92 years)
  Married	20 Oct 1767	New Hanover, PA
  	THE LUTHERAN CHURCH New Hanover, Montgomery County, PA. 1745-1809 1767, Oct. 20, Heibst, Nicholas, and Appolonia Warmser.
  Children	+ 1. Mary Magdalene Heibst,   b. Botetourt Co. VA + 2. Maria Elizabeth Heibst,   b. ca 1768, Botetourt Co. VA ,   d. 1840  (Age ~ 72 years) + 3. John Heibst,   b. ca 1770, Botetourt Co. VA ,   d. 1845, Botetourt Co. VA  (Age ~ 75 years)   4. Anna Barbara Heibst,   b. 02 Jul 1771, Botetourt Co. VA ,   d. 1829, Botetourt Co. VA  (Age 57 years) + 5. Peter Heibst,   b. ca 1773, Botetourt Co. VA ,   d. 1850, Botetourt Co. VA  (Age ~ 77 years) + 6. Henry Heibst,   b. 12 Jun 1775, Botetourt Co. VA ,   d. 01 Oct 1854, Xenia, Green Co., OH  (Age 79 years)   7. Margaret Heibst,   b. ca 1780, Botetourt Co. VA
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2011
  Family ID	F3380	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S88] The Hammond Genealogy, 1919, Fiske Edwards Hammond, (Self published), pages 7-13.