Hans Ulrick Bachman (b. Abt. 1723, d. Bet. 1800 - 1810)
Hans Ulrick Bachman was born Abt. 1723 in Palatinate, Germany, and died Bet. 1800 - 1810 in South Carolina.
Notes for Hans Ulrick Bachman: According to family tradition, three Bachman brothers emigrated together from Germany, probably the Palatinate in the southwest part of the country, and landed at Philadelphia. One of the brothers went west, one stayed in or near Philadelphia, and the other one went south. This latter would have been our Hans Ulrick, who left Germany while still a very young man in order to escape the military regime of Frederick the Great.
Three men named Bachman were among the foreigners transported from Rotterdam in the ship Jamaica Galley Robert Harrison, Commander, which arrived at Philadelphia about February 7, 1739, as on that date these foreigners took the Oath of Allegiance to King George II of England, recognizing and acknowledging him as their Sovereign, renouncing their allegiance to the lands from whence they had come, and promising to make known to him and his successors all treasonable acts and traitorous conspiracies against the Crown that might come to their knowledge. All males over the age of sixteen were obliged to take the oath and declaration as soon after arrival as possible, being marched to the Court House, although in a number of instances they were qualified at the official residence of the magistrate.
These three Bachmans were Felix, Heinrich (Henry), and Hans. The latter must have been Hans Ulrick who made his way to South Carolina, to Congrees Township in old Berkley County, where he received a Royal Grant of one hundred acres on September 16, 1739. This tract of land was bounded by the Santee River on the northeast and tracts laid out to Anthony Stack and Roodie Cooplet to the northwest and southeast respectively. The grant was made out to Weldrish Bootman. This spelling for Ulrick Baukman must have been by an English-speaking person who knew absolutely no German and had no linguistic ability at all.
On February 22, 1743/44, Hans Ulrick Bauckmans received a Royal Grant from King George II of 150 acres of land in Saxe-Gotha Township in old Berkley County. This tract of 150 acres was bounded on the northeast by land part belonging to Anthony Stack and part (already) belonging to the said Hans Ulrick Baukmans, on the southeast by land part belonging to the heirs of Roodie Cooplet and part not laid out, on the northwest by land belonging to Jacob Haghebucher.
There is no doubt that Weldrish Bootman and Hans Ulrick Baukmans were one and the same man.
Saxe-Gotha was located on the Congaree River in what today is Lexington County, just a few miles due south of the city of Columbia. It was settled mainly by Germans and Swiss who came to America seeking religious freedom. As the years went by, the village was moved because of its unhealthful location and it had name changes. It finally became Grandby and prior to the selection of Columbia as the state capital, it was the most important town on the Congaree River; but like many another town, as the country developed and people moved to more advantageous locations, it disappeared from the map.
Nothing is known of the early life of Hans Ulrick Baukman except that in 1740 he was one of the twenty-eight signers of a pamphlet printed at St. Gall, Switzerland. It urged that "all who are adherents of the Reformed religion should settle in this country (presumably South Carolina) and can expect all that has been promised above, but Roman Catholics must stay away." Also signing were Herman Geiger, Hans Jacob Geiger, and Jacob Hagenbuch.
In June 1757, Hans Ulrick Baukman was listed as a planter in Saxe-Gotha Township with a plantation of 250 acres.
Ulrick Baughman's name appears a number of times in the book [UL:The Geiger Family Of South Carolina:UL] by Percy L. Geiger, and possibly he was a son-in-law of Herman Geiger, whose daughter Margaret married a Mr. Baughman. Ulrick sold land to Herman's son John Geiger, who bequeathed it to his son Abraham.
Herman Geiger's youngest son John, and his wife Ann Murff had a daughter Ann who married a William Baughman. They were the parents of eight children: Elizabeth, who married Robert Joyner; Mary, Sarah C., and Frances, who did not marry; William, who married Susan Moye; Belle and C. H., who did not marry; and Ellen, who married Joel Lowman.
The Geiger book shows that Margaret, who married a Mr. Baughman, had two daughters but no sons; so if Ulrick was her husband, she must have died while still a fairly young woman and he married again and had another family. Ray Baughman said many times that the Bachman/Baughman ancestors had always married German women until the generation of his father, John Benecke Bachman, who, like his three brothers, married a non-German. We do not know the name of Ulrick's second wife, and whatever children he had we know the name of only one son--John Baughman, born October 24, 1774, probably in Orangeburgh District.
During the last years of the American Revolution, the fighting was in the South, with the British capture of Savannah in 1778 and Charleston in 1780. The Redcoats swept through South Carolina but were soundly defeated at the Battle of Cowpens and at Kings Moutain. One thing led to another until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, October 7, 1781. Though the British had surrendered, the war was not over. There was much to be done to get them out of South Carolina.
We do not know what Ulrick Baughman was doing for the American cause before the early part of 1782, but we find that on May 6, of that year there was an Indent (1) issued to him for Five Pounds, Seven Shillings, and One Penny Half Penny Sterling (2) for seventy-five days' duty in the Militia in 1782. On June 16 Ulrick, with his commanding officer, Lt. Col. W. A. Thomson, went before the proper authorities to swear that he had never received any satisfaction for the claim of 5, 7, 1 1/2 for his seventy-five days' service; however, by that time Ulrick had decided to exchange his Indent for a watch and signed it over to Col. Jonas Nicholls, Esq., and apparently on November 23, 1790, the account was cleared.
One Joseph Baughman served forty-one days in the Militia and was paid 2, 18, 6 3/4 Sterling.
The story has come down in the family that one evening the militiamen were camped a little distance behind a thicket in an area thought to be occupied by British forces. As dusk came on, lights began to flicker over and about the thicket and the Carolinians braced themselves for an attack, thinking that the flickering lights were made when the flintlock muskets were being cocked. They waited for the attack but it never came. Finally, a detail was sent out to reconnoiter. It turned out that the lights were made by large fireflies flitting about, and as far as could be told there were no British soldiers anywhere around.
Nothing more is known about Ulrick Baughman except that he was listed in the 1790 Census and again in 1800. He was not found in the 1810 Census; so it is assumed that he died between 1800 and 1810.
1790 Orangeburgh District (North Part) South Carolina Ulrick Baughman 3 males over 16, including head of household 3 males under 16 4 females Harmon Baughman was shown living next to Ulrick, and Joseph Baughman was living nearby. Who Harmon and Joseph were to Ulrick is not known, though they could have been his sons.
1800 Lexington County, Saxegotha Township Orangeburgh District Ulrick Baughman 1 male from 10 to 16 1 male over 45 1 female under 10 1 female between 16 and 26 1 female between 26 and 45
OUR NAME Ours is an ancient name, dating back to the time when surnames, or family names, came into use for purposes of more specific identification. These names began to develop in the eleventh century. Probably the earliest of the four main sources was the patronymic, which used the father's name; e.g., a person named Johnson was John's son, a Mc or Mac Donald was the son of Donald, an O'Neal was the son of Neal, etc. A large number of people took surnames which showed their occupation or the office they held, as Baker, :Carpenter, Bailey (bailiff), Steward. The surnames of others showed some physical characteristic, as: Short, Broadfoot, Whitehead, etc.
Our name belongs to the fourth classification, which used place names, as Ford Rivers, Moorman, etc. Ours is of German origin and no doubt was first used by a man who lived near a stream: Bach-man
There is no set rule for spelling proper names nor is there a set rule for pronouncing them. Our immigrant ancestor was Hans Ulrick Baukman , and this spelling of his name appears on a Royal Grant for land in South Carolina, dated February 22, 1744.
By Revolutionary War times Ulrick was writing his name as Bauckman. However, other people in referring to him often spelled it Baughman, and that is the spelling found in the 1790 Census. The census taker in 1800 evidently was spelling the name "by ear" and we find it Baukman. In 1810 the census records also show Bokman, and Bookman. The spelling Baughman is a common one to this day, and there are many variant spellings.
NOTE: Hans is a German form of John.
A family story is that some time about 1806 a man inquired of John Baughman (son of Hans Ulrick) why he continued to cling to that old German spelling of the name. When John asked what spelling the man would suggest, he replied that the spelling Bachman would be much simpler. So in our family it has been Bachman ever since, and we pronounce the first syllable like the name of the German musical composer Bach. There is the German name Bachmann, though what relation, if any, there is between the Baughmans and the Bachmanns is not known. It could be that the second n was a matter of personal choice and distinction and that the names are the same.
The vowell sound in the first syllable of Baughman is pronounced aw as in awl, but the gh varies from area to area and from family to family. Some regard the gh as silent, others pronounce it like f, and still others sound it like: k. One comment on the name states that both Bauman and Bowman come from Baughman.
Some other variant spellings are Backman, Buckman, Bockman, Balkman, and Boughtman.
More About Hans Ulrick Bachman and <Unnamed>: Marriage: South Carolina.
Children of Hans Ulrick Bachman are:
+John Bachman, b. 24 Oct 1774, Orangeburgh District, Lexington County, South Carolina, d. 23 Jan 1860, Austin, Travis County, Texas.
Hans Ulrick Bachman (b. Abt. 1723, d. Bet. 1800 - 1810)
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