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Jacob married Mary Barbara Teter. They were the parents of Jacob, Abraham, Paul, Moses, Elizabeth, Hannah, Christena, Benjamin, Isaac, Joseph, and John Henkle. He was born in Bucks co., Pennsylvania which is now Lehigh co. He died Hampshire co., Virginia which is now Pendleton co., West Virginia Jacob Henkle at the age of 17 accompanied his parents, in 1750, to the settlement on Dutchman's Creek then in Rowan County, North Carolina. It is likely his marriage to Barbara Teter occurred in rowan County as their first child Reverand Paul was born in that locality in 1754. In the return of John Justus Henckel, Sr., and family in 1760 to Virginia it is not clear that the emigration included the eldest son Jacob. If in the party he left them in Virginia and stopped August 1760 in Loudouin County for the winter. The following spring he crossed the Potomac River into Fredrick County, Maryland and later in the year [1761] continued to Hampshire County, Virginia [now West Virginia]. Here he entered land but because of Indian outbreaks he was forced with his family to seek refuge in a fort [probably Upper Tract] where he remained for about three years. |
Jacob Hinkle