| i. | Jacob Pfautz456, born 1703; died Unknown; married Anna Magdalena Kuntz in Pa456; born Abt. 1702; died Unknown. |
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Notes for Jacob Pfautz: John Scott Davenport, Ph.D., May 1, 1970: I call your attention again to the '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. P. 246" . . . arrived at Philadelphia 18 Sep., 1726, on the ship 'William & Sarah' from Rotterdam , with a total family count of three and one-half freights (ch. under age eight were counted as one-half freights. . . Jacob Pfautz was so nebulous to family researchers that they confused him with his eldest son Jacob, who resided in Strasburg Twp., Lancaster Co., ca 1749-1800. Jacob (2) was the missing link between Hans Michael (1) and his granddaughter Margaret (Fouts) Hoover.. " . . . He remained in the Skippack area of Frederick Twp., . . . "It is doubtful that Jacob and his family lived on the Hans Michael Pfautz tract on Conestoga Creek in Lancaster Co. for longer than a year (if at all) . . . Whatever, by Dec., 1741, Jacob was settled west of the Susquehanna River in the four-mile stretch of land north of the temporary Line between Penn. and Md. and south of Digges Choice, a Md. patent which was legally a part of and administered by Baltimore co., Md. . . . The Mason-Dixon Line established later (1769) passed through it. "On 2 Oct., 1743, he took communion at the Conewago Lutheran Church, received a certificate for doing so, then appeared before a Md. Provincial Court to present the certificate and take the requird oaths of loyalty and abjuration. On 18 Oct., 1743 the Provincial Court of Md. issued an order of naturalization to Jacob Fauz (sic), making him an English subject. . . "On 10 Sep., 1750, describing himself as Jacob Fouts of York Co., he took out a Penn. survey warrant . . . "On 2 July, 1762, as Jacob Pfoutz, of Germany Twp., York Co., Penn., he sole the 226 acres to Jacob Feezer. No trace of him had been found in any record thereafter. No wife signed when he sold the land. He was surely past age 60, for his eldest son Jacob (3) was born in 1720. He appears in Lutheran and Reformed records in the area from 1741 through 1751, always with wife Anna Magdelena. His last appearance was on 12 June, 1751 . . . for on 29 Aug., 1760 he appeared . . . " . . . His only court appearance was on 17 Jan., 1756 when he appeared before the York Co. Orphans Court and joined Francis Bardt to qualify as executors of the estate of Martin Bardt. decd. "By 1763 Jacob's family was located either in Lancaster Co., Pa., or in Rowan (now Randolph) Co., No. Car. No probate has been found for him either place or in York Co., Penn., or Frederick Co., Md. . . . "There are surely several daughters missing. In 1751 the tax list of Strasburg Twp., Lancaster co., included a Samuel Ffouts as a freeman. On the same list were Jacob Fouts (59) and Augustine Widder (84), husband of Anna Margaret Pfautz (81). With the exception of Michael (41) all of Jacob's sons appear to have married late: Jacob (62), age 18; Frederick (64), age 30?; Andrew (66) age c.33. Wills or distribution exist in extant rrecords for all three; none mentions or suggest the existance of any earlier families." ! Naturalized in the Lutheran Church at Cannewathe as Jacob Fauz of Cannewathe, Oct. 2 or Oct. 18, 1743 from "Colonial Maryland Naturalizations Part III" Wyand ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D., 14 June, 1972: Corroborating Andrew of being of Michael, in the Randolph Co., N. C. Tax Lists of 1779, Andrew Fouts, Jacob Fouts, John Mast, Frederick Waymire, and Andrew Hoover (Jr.) are shown on the List of William Cole as refusing to Take the Oath of Allegiance or to give an Inventory of taxables. They all lived on the southern end of the Uwharrie Dutch community on waters of Jackson Creek and Cider Run and on the South Side of the Trading Road. In the Census of 1790, correlated with land records, they are all still there except that Elizabeth and her brood shows in the place of Andrew. The Jacob Fouts adjacent to Andrew-Elizabeth is clearly identifiable as the third son of Michael who married Eleanor Malinda Waymire." ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D., Sep. 16,1976: "This is an update to provide you with information acquired since publication of "Earliest Pfautz-Fouts Families in America," in the National Gen. Soc. Journal, Dec. 1975: Revision in Family of Jacob Pfautz, eldest son of Hans Michael: Based on further records of the Rev. John Caspar Stoever and data provided by the REv. Frederick S. Weiser, noted Penn. Dutch Historian-Genealogist, of Hanover, York Co., Pa. I have revised Jacob's family . . . " ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D., Sep. 16,1976: "There still may be one, two, or three missing. This arrangement, excepting the enigma of Andrew--who named two sons Jacob (the second after the first had died), is logical, has the most documentation. The listing is still tentative--will remain so as long as there are circas (c.) and question marks (?)." ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D., May 29, 1979: " . . . Johann Michael Pfautz, Sr., of Rohrbach-Sinsheim, Rhenish Palatinate, WAS NOT the father of Jacob Pfautz, of Germany Twp., York Co., Pa. . . . Why this recantation after the article publ. in Dec., 1975? Relative to other Foutz work, I have had occasion to inspect the parish records sof Rohrbach-Sinsheim. With other facts, the German records make the Jacob Pfautz, of Strasburg, Lancaster Co., Pa. (previously identified as the eldest son of Jacob Pfautz of York Co.) the only possible identification as the son of Johann Michael Pfautz, Sr. The land patent of 1763 to Barbara Lyne which included a description of the land disposition and probate of Hans Michael Pfatz, St.'s estate had an INTENTIONAL ERROR in its identification OF Jacob Pfautz as the eldest son. Clearly, in retrospect, with all of the Pfautz being strong Lutheran (Ursula, the mother, was German Reformed before marriage and after her husband's death), the eldest son (Hans Michael, Jr., the Dunker minister) was disowned by his father. Hence, in Johann Michael, Sr.'s mind Jacob was the eldest son -- and he made his land deal with Jacob. "In Penn. in 1742/2 when Johann Michael, Sr., died, aliens still did not possess the right to devise by will, but a land conveyance to an eldest son was legitimate (the English had a thing about primogenitor) and land could be passed from father to eldest son without the question of naturalization arising. Hence, the conveyance of the father's land to Jacob had to be stated in deed terminology as a conveyance to an eldest son in order to make it legal and acceptable for patent. So, all parties participated in a charade -- and I got sucked into a whirpool of circumstantial evidence, for the only Jacob in the area who was obviously older than Hans Michael, Jr., was Jacob Pfautz of York Co., who just happened to be on the move when movement was indicated in St.'s land affairs. . . With Jacob Pfautz of Strasburg firmly identified as the son of St., ALL CORROBORATIVE DOCUMENTATION connect the No. Car. Fouts to the Lancaster Co., Pa., Pfautz DISAPPEARS. ". . . The only possible connection fo Hans Michael, Sr., to Jacob Pfautz lies in that fact that Hans Michael is shown on the passenger manifest of 1727 as destined for 'Skippach,' . . . and Jacob Pfautz was a resident of Skippach from at Least 1729 to 1740 . . . same ship;s list was a Jacob Mast, also diestined for Sksippach -- who did not sign the list of oaths of allegiance and abjuration. These lists were supposed to be signed by all males of sixteen years and older. But Hans Michael Pfautz, Jr., did not sign. No Jacob Mast is evident inthe Skippach area records -- but John Mast, who brother Jacob settled amont the Amish of Bern Twp., Berks Co., Pa., went to No. Car. with the Hoovers and the Fouts in 1762, and nobody has ever offered a satisfactory statment of the rleationship of the Masts to the Fouts -- or why Mennonite John Mast went to No. Car. with Lutheran Andrew Hoover, Mennonite Michael Fouts, and Denker Dewald Fouts, Sr." ! John Scott Davenport, Ph.D. Working draft May 1, 1981: "Partinymic Code B . . . of Germany Twp., York (now Adams) Co., Pa., first appeared in records at Skippach, Philadelphia ( now Montgomery ) Co., Pa., 1730; last appeared when sold land in Germany Twp., Work Co., Pa., in 1763. Family # 1-001" ! 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 ! Helen Wiley Lee, 1839 S. Lorraine, Wichita, Ks., 67211 ! "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.6-11, 16 " . . . The Rev. John Casper Stover, a Lutheran minister, recorded in 1730 the baptism of Ludwig Pfautz at Skippack, and identified Jacob Pfautz, the father, as 'am de Bergfarmen - of the hill settlement' ('Church Records and minutes for the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Beginning in 1730', compiled by John Casper Stover . . . Lancaster Co. Hist. Soc.) . . . believed that Ludwig died young, and there may be other children missing within the six years between LUdwig's birth and the two older children; or the possibility that Jacob's wife had died and Magdalena was his second wife. " . . . On 18 Oct., 1743, the Provincial Court of Md. issued an order of naturalization to Jacob FAUZ, making him an English subject " . . . 2 July 1762 - Jacob Pfautz of Germany Twp., York Co., Pa. deeded to Jacob Feezer . . . 226 acres in Germany Twp . . . /s/ Jacob Pfautz. (No wife signs) . . . To all appearances Jacob's wife Anna Magdalena, had died in Hanover twp., York Co., prior to 1762. (now Adams Co., Pa.) " Jacob's deed in 1762 was his last appearance in the York Co. (now Adams) records . . . He died after 1762, however, no probate has been found in either place, or in Frederick co., Md. " . . . list contains the known ch. of Jacob Pfautz, however, due to a six year span in their ages, there may be others; also, Magdalena may have been a second wife." ! On Fidonet 12 Feb., 1994 from Susan Stenberg of Carolina Gen. (918) 836-0125 (1:170/304) states born in Pa. ! Correspondence 19 Apr., 1993 Lowell E. Goar, 3262 Calif. ST., Costa Mesa Ca. 92626: :Lived in York Co., Pa. Emigrated from Germany ...1730." |
| ii. | John Pfautz, born Abt. 1708; died Unknown; married (1) Anna Klein; born Abt. 1710; died Unknown; married (2) Margaret; born Abt. 1720; died Unknown. | |||
| 416 | iii. | Hans Michael Pfautz, born May 21, 1709 in Coventry ywp; died March 21, 1767 in Warwick Twp, Lancaster Co, Pa; married Catharine Neff. | ||
| iv. | Anna Margaretha Pfautz, born Abt. 1714; died Unknown; married Augustine Widder; born Abt. 1710; died Unknown. | |||
| v. | Conrad Pfautz, born Abt. 1715; died Unknown. | |||
| vi. | Anna Barbara Pfautz, born Abt. 1716; died Unknown; married Jacob Heller June 25, 1734 in John Casper Stoever Records; born Abt. 1710; died Unknown. |
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More About Anna Barbara Pfautz: Lived: 1731, Leacock |
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Notes for Jacob Heller: According to a very detailed article in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 4, December 1975, The Jacob Heller/Hiller who married Anna Barbara Pfautz was a widower when they got married at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 23 June 1734. It says "Jacob Heller and his first wife were redemptioners who arrived in Philadelphia in the mid 1720's." It also states that he had one daughter by his first wife. It lists the five children of Jacob and Anna Barbara. My information came from Familytreemaker CD#210 This article is by John Scott Davenport and is very well documented. |