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Hench Johannes Christian
Male 1711 - 1801

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  • Birth  1711  Moselle, Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 21:46:54 GMT-5 
    Died  09 Dec 1801  [1] 
    Buried  Acedemia Cemetery, Juniata County Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID  I4008  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Family  Schneider Christina,   b. 1730, Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1790, Chester County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Hench George,   b. 1754, Chester County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1815
    Family ID  F1648  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • Bio : Johannes Christian Hench, Because of the religious and ethnic persectutions his parents fled France,
      shortly after his birth in Moselle France 1711 he died Dec 9, 1801 Acedemia Cemetery, Juniata Co. PA.
      Johannes was a Blacksmith by trade and farmer. He married Christina born 1713 Wuerttemburg, Germany
      and died 1789 Chester Co. PA she was the daughter of Johannes Schneider married Christina.

      Johannes while serving on board the British ship the " Lydia " as a young man, for all his hard work he had
      recieved passage to America about September 20, 1743, their he became a blacksmith and saved his money
      to return to Germany married Christina booked passaged on the ship " The Chesterfield " and emigrated back
      to America in 1749. About 1770 they purchased a farm from John Millhouse in the Pikeland Township area
      just adjacent to Johannes Hartmans property, and just across the road was the farm owned by Zachariah
      and Maria Hartman Rice.
      During Washingtons retreat in 1777 the men of General Waynes division camped there in the meadow's of
      the Hench farm.He supplied fresh meat, fruit and firewood to the soldiers. and like their good neighbor
      Maria Rice, Christina to helped the sick and injured soldiers where she died from Typhus in early 1790.
      After loosing his wife and land in 1789 - 1790 Johannes C. Hench at the age of 75 moved to Chester Co. PA
      Johannes Christian Hench died in July 1801 and is buried in Academia Cemetery in Juniata Co, PA
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S210] http://lukens1.homestead.com/HenchFamilys.html (Reliability: 3).

  

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