Person:Anthony Hornbeck (1)

Anhony Hornbeck was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Page 282.--20th March, 1770. John Colley's estate settled, by Christopher Ermentrout--Paid Valentine Butcher, Paul Shover, Jacob Goodman, Ludwick Fridley, Peter Hole, Jacob Grub, Jacob Fred. Couters, Michl. Hornbeck, Anthony Hornbeck, Mary Colly, Elizabeth Colly, Wm. Glassgo, Susannah Powers; paid Elizabeth Glassgow the specific legacies due by the will of her deceased husband. (Note: John Colley (or Callan) is the probable father-in-law of Anthony Hornbeck).

1.   Anthony Hornbeck, to whom Margaret(last name probably Colley) was married, was baptized June 21,1741, in Kingston, seat of Ulster County, New York, on the west bank of the Hudson River, where Dutch traders established a trading post in 1615 and a group of Dutch families settled in 1653. It was then known as Esopus. When the English took over New York afterwards, the name was changed to Kingston. It seems that Anthony Hornbeck was the second oldest child of Jacobus, or James as it later written, Hornbeck and Margreta Helm. The family, including Anthony and two brothers, Simon and Michael, and a sister, Margrita, apparently moved to Virginia in the 1750s, which was pretty much the same time as Andrew Sadowski moved his flock from Amity Township, along the Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania, to Augusta County, Virginia. According to Mrs. R. H. Sayre, Anthony Hornbeck was on the payroll of William Claypoole. As the records show, Andrew Sadowski was one of the appraisers of Claypoole’s estate in 1758. The Claypoole estate was not settled until 1761.
   
   Looking back, then, Anthony Hornbeck was about the same age as Andrew Sadowski’s son, Emanuel, and several years older than Samuel, one of the four Sadowskis born in Amity Township, now Douglassville, Pennsylvania, in the 1740s. Andrew Sadowski was murdered in 1767 by a horse thief on the South Branch of the Potomac River between Moorehead and Romney, now West Virginia. The Hornbeck family was one of the first settlers of Moorehead, now the seat of Hardy County, West Virginia, which means that Anthony Hornbeck and Margaret(Colley?) met somewhere in the vicinity in the 1760s. As Shirley Hornbeck listed their children, their first child, James, was born about 1765, then Barbara in 1770, Tobias(or whatever his name was) in 1775, Catherine(year of birth unknown), Solomon in 1779, Anthony C. Hornbeck in 1785, and Mary Ann Hornbeck.
   
   Samuel Sadowski was first married about the same time. His first child, Jacob, was born in 1768. The other children were Anthony (1771), Andrew(1772), John(1774), Hannah, Elizabeth and Sarah(1783) twins. When Samuel Sadowski and Margaret Hornbeck were married, all these children became half sisters and brothers. In March, 1770, when the estate of John Colley was settled, Anthony Hornbeck was one of the beneficiaries. Hence, it led to speculation that he was married to John Colley’s daughter, and his brother, Michael Hornbeck, was married to another Colley daughter.
   
   Whatever the case, Anthony Hornbeck evidently raised his seven children on the South Branch of the Potomac River in what became Hardy County in 1785. According to a county history, he had a lease for 81 acres of Lord Fairfax land . He died intestate in 1787, thereby leaving each of the seven children with one seventh of an interest in a slave named Alexander. He was listed as a “Negro Boy” in the appraisal of Anthony Hornbeck’s estate. The item with the highest value in his estate, valued at 309 pounds, 4 shillings, was the slave.
   
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