Person:Anthony Henckel (1)

Ordained as a pastor Feb 28 1692 at Eschelbron, Germany; gave last service in Germany Jun 3 1717. 1717 came to Philadelphia PA from the German Palatine. aka Antonius Jacobus Henckel, in Germany the name was spelled Henchle but was changed upon arrival in PA. Cause of death was a fall from his horse

The first of the family in America was the Rev. Anthony Jacob Henkel, a "hofprediger" -- preacher to a royal court, -- who came from Frankfort on the Main to Mongomery county Penn. arriving 1717. He was killed by a fall from his horse in 1728. His son Justus, or Yost, went to N.C. and thence in 1761 to the North Fork, settling a little above Harper's mill.

LDS AGI has him as Anthonius Jacobus A Henckel. Anthony was the founder of St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania. From Harman-Harmon Genealogy: "Rev. Anthony Jacob Henkel, son of George, was a descendant from Dr. John Henkel, Chaplain to Queen Marie of Hungary, a friend of Erasmus, and recommended by Luther himself as "a man of great learning and piety"...he was a student at Geisen University, Germany, from which he graduated in 1692. He became a minister, and , in 1717 left Germany and settled in what was known as Falckner's Swamp (now New Hanover), Montgomery County, PA."

1. ↑ Oren Morten's History of Pendleton Co.
2. ↑ Email: Diane Wolford, mar 2003, snowberi@@aol.com.