Genealogy Report: Descendants of *Hans Michael Pfautz, Sr.
Descendants of *Hans Michael Pfautz, Sr.
3.*JOHN MICHAEL3 PFOUTS, SR. (*JACOB2PFAUTZ, SR., *HANS MICHAEL1) was born 1724 in Rohrbach, Rhenish, Palatinate,, and died September 24, 1803 in Uwharrie Waters, Rowen, Randolph County, PA.He married *EVA CATHARINA (VANER) WERNER Abt. 1746 in Lancaster County, Germany Township, Pennsylvania, daughter of *JOHANN WERNER and *CATHERINE SIGLER.She was born December 15, 1727 in Massenbach, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany, and died Abt. 1800 in Randolph County, North Carolina.
Notes for *JOHN MICHAEL PFOUTS, SR.:
DAR Patriot Index:
FOUTZ , Michael
Birth: GR Circa 1724 Rank: PS
Service: NC
Death: NC p 9-24-1803
Patriot Pensioned: No
Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No
Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: (1) Catharine Varner
Had land on Great Pipe Creek, Frederick (now Carroll) Co., Md., 1745-1754; moved then to father's plantation until 1762 when moved to Uwharrie waters in Rowan (now Randolph) Co., N. C.; Plantation adjoined DeWald Fouts (see below); Deeded all his lands to his eldest son John in 1801, then disappers from records; Sons and daughters with families moved to Ohio in late 1803. Children: 10, 5 sons. The Varners were Mennonites. Michael is cited in one source as being a Quaker in 1789, but is not mentioned in Quaker records extant. Family was predominantly Dunker after move to Ohio.
REFN: 3175
!DEATH:5 Generations of the Pfautz-Fouts Family by Woodruff,in Randolph Co, NC or in Montgomery Co, OH.
Born as Jacob Michael but went by Michael. Anglicized name to FOUTS when he obtained land at Pipe Creek, Prince Georges County, MD in 1744. Lived on Little Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick (now Carroll) Co, MD from 1744 to 1762. Family moved to Uwharrie Waters in Rowan Co, NC. Arrived in PA abt 1726 with parents and sister, Margareta. Settled in Skippack, a German village about 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
He and Catherine were Dutch Friends (Mennonites)
REV WAR:pay voucher from state of NC dated 20 March 1782, original in NC Archives
TAX:1779 Randolph Co, NC, on William Millikan's list of persons who had not taken the Oath of Allegiance
LAND:260acres, 17 Feb 1763, NorthCarolinaLandGrants, 19:445-449
'List of ye Palatine Passengers, Imported on ye Ship William & Sarah, Willm. Hill, Mar. from Rotterdam Philad ye 18th Sep., 1727' (Strassburger & Hinke List 1 A) which includes not only 'Hans Michl
Phauts, Skibach' with 5 persons in the family group, but also a 'Jacob Pause' with 2 1/2 persons in the family group. (The '1/2' person meant a pregnant woman)! National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Dec. 1975, Vol. 61, No. 4: "Earliest Pfautz/Fouts Families in America" By John Scott Davenport.
More About *JOHN MICHAEL PFOUTS, SR.:
Immigration: 1726, Ship "William and Mary" came with parents
Notes for *EVA CATHARINA (VANER) WERNER:
From JimVarner (JimVar1):Baptised Eva Catherina Werner in Massenbach,Germany on Feb 26, 1727. Emigrated to US on the Johnson to
Philadelphia on Sep 8, 1732 with parents Hans Adam and Catherina Werner. He has a copy of the baptismal record.
Dau of Adam Varner & Catherana of Germany Twp, Lancaster (later York), PA
Will:Book C:302-3, will of Adam Warner, York Co 1775
From JimVarner (JimVar1):Baptised Eva Catherina Werner in Massenbach,Germany on Feb 26, 1727. Emigrated to US on the Johnson to
Philadelphia on Sep 8, 1732 with parents Hans Adam and Catherina Werner. He has a copy of the baptismal record.
More About *JOHN PFOUTS and *EVA WERNER:
Marriage: Abt. 1746, Lancaster County, Germany Township, Pennsylvania
Children of *JOHN PFOUTS and *EVA WERNER are:
| i. | REVEREND JOHN MICHAEL4 FOUTS, JR, b. March 8, 1746/47, PipeCreek Waters, Frederick (now Carroll) County, Maryland; d. November 11, 1821, German Twp, Montgomery Co, Ohio; m. MARY MAGDALENE YOUNCE, August 13, 1769, Salisbury, Rowen County, North Carolina; b. October 12, 1747, York Co, Pennsylvania; d. June 12, 1812, Schaeffer Cem, German Twp, Montgomery Co, Ohio. |
| Notes for REVEREND JOHN MICHAEL FOUTS, JR: DAR Patriot Index: FOUTZ , John Birth: MD Baptized 23 Jun 1747 Rank: PS Service: NC Death: OH Before (ante) 11 Mar 1823 Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No Spouse: (1) Mary Younce Baptized 23 Jun 1747 by Rev J. Waldeschmidt and recorded at St.Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, York Co, PA. His children were Dunkers (Church of the Brethren) Will Bk A, pg 225, Montgomery Co, OH, I have a copy of the will in my will fileMarriage info-original bond at NCArchives; Rowan Co, NC MarriageBonds, Part I, pg 136; PFAUTZ NEWSLETTER, No 4, Oct, 1981, pg 8 Known as the miller. Family built grist mill in NC. TAX:1779 Randolph Co, NC, on William Millikan's list LAND:200acres, 17 Feb 1763, NorthCarolinaLandGrants, 19: 445-449 Written by Charles Merit Fouts, c1935, with copies to members of his family: John Fouts and his family moved from Randolph County, North Carolina, and located on a 160 acre tract in what is now Preble County, Ohio, within a triangle drawn through Eaton, Germantown and Johnsville and about 6 miles southwesterly from Johnsville. [R. Brown finds Eaton in Preble Co, Germantown in Montgomery Co, but Johnsville is not to be found in that area] Here were gathered his family and the families of his descendants, especially Michael 1st and Michael's son Michael until he was married to Mary Etter, grandmother of Charles M. Fouts, and especially by Aaron Fouts youngest son of Michael 1st and his family. [The land] was recently sold to a Mrs. Myers, the mother-in-law of Harry M. Wolfe, an attorney at law offices in 401 Reibold Building, Dayton, Ohio. John Fouts and wife Mary, Michael Fouts 1st and wife Elizabeth Sinks Fouts, Aaron Fouts and others of the Fouts tribe and of the Etter tribe are buried in the same graveyard within said triangle. When said John Fouts and family were moving from Randolph County, North Carolina, to Ohio, they crossed the Ohio River near where Cincinnati is now located. The city was then being laid out. The John Fouts family had in their possession a very fine young horse and the founders of the said city offered 30 lots in what is now the business district of Cincinnati for the young horse. The proposition was not accepted. |
| More About REVEREND JOHN MICHAEL FOUTS, JR: Burial: November 13, 1822, Schaefferch Cem, Montgomery Co, Ohio Christening: July 23, 1747, St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania Military service: Revolutionary War |
| Notes for MARY MAGDALENE YOUNCE: Daughter of Frederick Janss (Younce), of Hanover, York Co., PA Her bro, Lawrence wed Catherine Fouts, Lawrence buried next to Mary |
| More About JOHN FOUTS and MARY YOUNCE: Marriage: August 13, 1769, Salisbury, Rowen County, North Carolina |
| ii. | CATHERINE PFOUTS, b. May 11, 1749, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick County, Maryland; d. Unknown, German Twp., Montgomery Co., OH; m. LAWRENCE YOUNCE, 1771, Guilford, Randolph Co, North Carolina; b. 1745, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick County, Maryland; d. 1814, German Twp., Montgomery Co., OH. |
| Notes for CATHERINE PFOUTS: Catherine mar. Mary's brother Lawrence Younce. For some reason during the Revolution, she left Lawrence and took up with William Trusty. Lawrence took their children and moved to Lincoln Co., N.C. In 1786, William Trusty and Catherine Younce were indicted by the Randolph Co. Grand Jury for adultery and bastardy. Lawrence had a 200-acre entry, which he apparently turned over to Catherine as a stettlement--anyway, she got the State Grant. I've never been able to find her conveyance of the land, but Jacob Garron had it by 1790. I suspect that Catherine is the femal head of household, Catherine Yontz in the Frederick Co., Md., Census of 1790, which shows but one young male child. Laurence Younce had moved from Lincoln Co. to Wilkes co., N.C., before the Census of 1790, is enumerated there in what could well be a motherless family. "Whatever, Laurence, Sr., apparently mar. off Lawrence, Jr., in Wilkes (now Ashe) Co. and went back to Lincoln Co., but he did not stay there for long. After a few yrs. of land and slave activity he sold out in Lincoln Co. Lawrence, Jr., sold out in Wilkes Co. to his brother-in-law Peter Fouts, who mar. Catherine Younce, likely Lawrence, Sr.'s eldest daughter. Then, the two Lawrences moved to Ky., locating in what is now Muhlenburg Co. Lawrence, Jr., remained in Muhlenburg Co., died there. Around 1815, William Younce, a younger brother of Lawrence and Mary, movd to Muhlenberg Co. from Rowan (now Davidson) Co., N.C. William had been in Lincoln Co. with Lawrence in the 1780's. William also died in Muhlenberg Co., Ky. "Lawrence apparently died in German Twp., Montgomery Co., Oh., for he is burid in the same plot, one grave away, from Mary YOunce Fouts in the Schaeffer CEmetery. The tombstone reads, 'LAWRENCE YOUNCE, August 1814, Aged 75 years.' He was nine yrs. older than Mary. He is the only Younce buried among a great many Fouts. Younce (also Yonce, Younts, Yonts)William was Lutheran-Reformed in N.C. church records. John was a Moravian Society Brother who became a Dunker and died in Ashe Co., N.C. Most of John's children went either to Ohio or to the Cherokee Country in present-day |
| More About CATHERINE PFOUTS: Burial: Unknown, Schaeffer Cem, German Twp, Montgomery Co, Ohio |
| More About LAWRENCE YOUNCE: Burial: Unknown, Schaeffer Cem, German Twp, Montgomery Co, Ohio |
| More About LAWRENCE YOUNCE and CATHERINE PFOUTS: Marriage: 1771, Guilford, Randolph Co, North Carolina |
| 4. | iii. | *ANDREW FOUTS, b. March 9, 1750/51, Pipecreek Waters, Frederick (now Carroll) County, Maryland/Frederick Co., MD; d. August 15, 1813, Tabernacle Twp., Randolph County, North Carolina. | |
| iv. | ELIZABETH PFOUTS, b. March 7, 1753, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick County, Maryland; d. Unknown, Fayetteville, Lincoln Co., TN.; m. JOHN YOUNT, 1772, Guilford County, North Carolina; b. 1749, Niederbronn, Alsace-Lorraine, France; d. 1811, Fayetteville, Lincoln Co., TN.. |
| Notes for ELIZABETH PFOUTS: Emigration: 1798 Wautaga Waters, Wilke Co, North Carolina, then Shelby Co, Ky, then Lincoln Co, Tn |
| More About ELIZABETH PFOUTS: Religion: Church of the Brethren |
| Notes for JOHN YOUNT: Brother to Jacob Yount |
| More About JOHN YOUNT and ELIZABETH PFOUTS: Marriage: 1772, Guilford County, North Carolina |
| v. | SUSANNAH FOUTS, b. April 1755, Germany Twp., York (Now Adams) County, Pennsylvania/York Co., PA; d. July 18, 1817, Ashe Co, North Carolina; m. CUTLIFF HARMON (GOTTLIEB HERMANN), 1772, Guilfornd County, NC (nowRandolph County, NC); b. 1748, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina; d. 1839, Cove Creek Township, Ashe County, North Carolina. |
| More About SUSANNAH FOUTS: Burial: Unknown, Old Harmon Homeplace, Watauga Co. North Carolina |
| Notes for CUTLIFF HARMON (GOTTLIEB HERMANN): Cutliffe Harman was a Revolutionary War Soldier. He and his wife Susan were the first Harmans in Watauga Co., NC according to "A Family History of Watauga Co." They came from Rowan Co. (now located in Randolph Co.) in 1791 and bought 522 acres in Cove Creek from James Gwynn. His mother was thought to be a Wiley by elder descendents. He, wife Susan and children supposedly lived in a natural rock cave called Shupe's Rockhouse at the mouth of Phillips Branch until his house was built. Cutliff was employed by Daniel Boone to help transport goods and purchase Indian lands. Susan died several years before her husband who lived to the ripe age of 90. She, he and his second wife, Elizabeth are all buried in Cove Creek at the Cutliff Harmon homeplace. Minutes of the Ashe County, North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1806 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*Note. Despite the fact that Ashe County, North Carolina was created in 1799, the first extant court records begin in 1806. Ordered by the court that Samuel Hix be overseer of the lower end down the Wawtaga and then hands from his up & Jas. Dobson and up Cove Creek ending, Cutliff Harmon to work thereon. Marriage Records of Ashe County, North Carolina 1801-1872 GROOM BRIDE DATE SOURCE OF INFORMATION Harman, Cutlif Parker, Polly 12/28/1817 2,3 ADMINISTRATOR BONDSMAN WITNESS(ES) David Dugger David Holden, B. Baird John Baker, Duke Ward Brother to Matthias |
| More About CUTLIFF HARMON (GOTTLIEB HERMANN): Burial: Unknown, Old Harmon Homeplace, Watauga Co. North Carolina |
| More About CUTLIFF HERMANN) and SUSANNAH FOUTS: Marriage: 1772, Guilfornd County, NC (nowRandolph County, NC) |
| vi. | MARY MAGDALENA PFOUTS, b. June 1759, Germany Twp., York (Now Adams) County, Pennsylvania/York Co., PA; d. November 25, 1822, Clark County, Indiana; m. MATTHIAS HARMON, December 25, 1775, Randolph Co, North Carolina; b. 1750, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1856, Clark County, Indiana. |
| Notes for MATTHIAS HARMON: Bother to Cutliff Harmon |
| More About MATTHIAS HARMON and MARY PFOUTS: Marriage: December 25, 1775, Randolph Co, North Carolina |
| vii. | JACOB "BLACK JACK" "YACUP" PFOUTS, b. August 1751, Pipe Creek Waters, Frederick County, Maryland; d. July 15, 1835, Wayne County, Indiana; m. ELEANOR MALINDA WAYMIRE, May 1, 1772, Guildford (now Randolph) Co., NC; b. 1749, Germany; d. February 11, 1827, Wayne County, Indiana. |
| Notes for JACOB "BLACK JACK" "YACUP" PFOUTS: per Pfautz newsletter was a Quaker, moved from Randolph Co.,NC, to Montgomery Co., OH, in 1801-02; then to Dearborn (now Wayne) Co.,: IN Territory, in 1806. 1820 census in Wayne Co.,IN. |
| More About JACOB "BLACK JACK" "YACUP" PFOUTS: Burial: Unknown, Wayne County, Indiana |
| More About JACOB PFOUTS and ELEANOR WAYMIRE: Marriage: May 1, 1772, Guildford (now Randolph) Co., NC |
| viii. | JONAS PFOUTS, b. November 1763, Forks-Uwharrie, Rowan County, North Carolina; d. Bef. 1779. | ||
| ix. | ESTHER PFOUTS, b. July 17, 1766, Forks-Uwharrie, Rowan County, North Carolina; d. 1825, Montgomery County, Ohio. |
| Notes for ESTHER PFOUTS: ! 6 ch., dau. Catherine mar. David Hoover ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D. Working Draft May 1, 1981: "Patrinymic Code Bf8 Esther FOUTS-Jacob YOUNT, of Montgomery Co., Oh. Family #3-008" ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D.: 1 June, 1985: " (7 children) md. Jacob Yount, b. 1743 d. 1813 or 1805 - bur. Germantown, Oh." ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D.: 1 June, 1985: " . . . On 27 Aug., 1940 Rev. H. R. Burkett wrote John M. Burkett of Washsington, D. C., describing his trip from Wabasha, Minn., of copying from an old family Bible at the home of John E. Fouts, 324 Infermary Rd., Dayton, Oh., the . . . list of ch., saying the top of the page was torn off and that is was written in German script. The list is copied verbatim from the handwriting of Miss Sarah Ida Williams, Rt. #1, Cambridge City, Ind. . . Ester . . . "On the next page Miss Williams says: 'I could not make out the first one. It looked like this ---'---hannes ist geboren -----' This mustmean 'Johannes was born ----' The first two letters of Johannes were lacking and the date was torn off. "Dr. William Reser has the same list and says that it is the family of John Fouts, the immigrant and is from the Bible of Jacob Fouts. "Lindsay M. Brien, writing in a Dayton Newspaper an artiel 'Our Forefather -- Fouts' in the second pgh says 'It was not long until the early Ohio Settlements attracted many of the fmaily. Andrew, David, and John, known to be brothers, with their sister, Esther, wife of Jacob (Young) settled in Montgomery Co., in 1801.' A glance at the . . . list of ch. shows that Andrew, David, John, and Esther, three brothers and a sister belong to the family of John Fouts, Sr. "Mr. (sic) Brien in the fourth pgh. lists the family of John Fouts, Jr. and Mary (Younce) Fouts. He (sic) says 'John Fouts stone states he died Nov., 1815, aged 75 yrs. but as his will was not recorded until 1822, this may not be correct. 'Tradition says that he was born 8 March 1747 and died 11 Nov., 1821. "Nowhere in these early records taken from the family Bible does the name John Andreww occur. In legal reference to ch., the males are listed first, then females. In this case the male list would be -- John, Andrew, Jacob and David, especially since the info. onJohn was only partial and on later lists his name is lacking. Hence I infer there never was a John Andrew in this family, but merely Andrew. (signed) Edgar A. Menk, Muncie, Ind., 26 Jan., 1958." "Archibald Henderson i his book 'The Conquest of the Old South West' writes of 'The two streams of immigration, the greater through Philadelphia, the lessor through Charleston, which poured into the Carolinas, quckly flooding the back country -- the former who had resided in Penn. long enough to be good judges of land . . . " "Between the years 1792 and 1805, John, Daniel, Andrew, Lewis, Michael, Joseph, Phillip, Absolem, David, Elizabeth, and Mary Fouts, all from Penn. entered land on the Uwharie River in No. Car. The name is found in various deeds as Fouts, Phouts, and Pfouts. It was not long until the early Ohio settlements atracted many of this famiy. Andrew, David and John, together with their sister Ester, wife of Jacob Yount, settled in Montgomery Co., while Frederick and Henry, sons of John, were in Miami Co., in 1801. "The old Fouts Bible in possession of descendants in Middletown, Oh., give the record of birth of this Fouts family, but does not give the names of the parents . . . record does not give the birth of John, whose will was recorded in Montgomery Co., in 1822, . . . mar. Jacob Yount . . ." ! Gen. Aid Bulletin, (This is from a Gen. Soc. in Ohio, sorry I can't recall which one! HGS) Vol. 15, Issue 3, Jan., 1986: states b. Randolph Co., N.C. ! "5 Generations of the Pfautz-Fouts Family" compiled and published by Audrey L. Woodruff, C.G.R.S.--Order from 1824 S. Harvard, Independence, Mo., 64052 -- pp.12, 22 |
| x. | DAVID THEOBALD PFAUTS, b. Abt. 1740, Forks-Uwharrie, Rowan County, North Carolina; d. 1831, Montgomery County, Ohio; m. ELIZABETH HOOVER, 1766, North Carolina; b. 1742, Frederick County, Maryland; d. Abt. 1825. |
| Notes for DAVID THEOBALD PFAUTS: Father of Hanna Fouts who married Andrew Fouts, Jr Brother of Andrew Fouts, father of Andrew Fouts, Jr |
| More About DAVID PFAUTS and ELIZABETH HOOVER: Marriage: 1766, North Carolina |