Person:Johan Hachenberg (1)

Facts and Events
Name Johan Peter Hachenberg
Gender Male
Birth? 10 Apr 1741 Hachenburg, Coblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, GermanyCitation needed
Residence[2][3] 1764 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage Abt 1765 New JerseyCitation needed
to Anna Elizabeth SEYFERT
Military[10] 1776 DAR Patriot
Census[4] 1790 Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
Census[5] 1800
Census[6] 1810
Census[7] 1820 Freeburg, Snyder, Pennsylvania, United States
Death[8] 4 Mar 1820 Middleburg, Snyder, Pennsylvania, United States[from headstone]
Burial[8] Saint Peters Cemetery, Freeburg, Snyder, Pennsylvania, United States

Research notes

  • Note: proof of parentage is needed
References
  1.   Family Notes per User:GRANDMAPIGGY, in Sources needed.

    - embarked for America at Rotterdam, Holland in the British Ship "Jeneffer"
    - arrived at port of Philadelphia PA where he took oath of allegiance to the British Government on 5 Nov 1764
    - served as officer in Rev. War, was Ensign in Baxter's regiment and was taken prisoner by British at Trenton and confined at LOng Island camp

  2. .

    Source Information
    Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.

    Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.
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    Name: Johann Peter Hachenberg
    Arrival Year: 1764
    Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
    Source Publication Code: 1804
    Primary Immigrant: Hachenberg, Johann Peter
    Annotation: Taken from original manuscripts in the state archives. Names given throughout pages 1-677. Foreigners arriving in Pennsylvania named on pages 521-667. No. 3776, Kelker, supplements this.

    Source Bibliography: EGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, editor Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2, vol. 17.) Harrisburg [PA]: E.K. Meyers, 1890. 787p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967.
    Page: 468

  3. Pennsylvania, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890 [database on-line].

    Name: Johann Peter Hachenberg
    State: PA
    County: Philadelphia County
    Township: Philidelphia
    Year: 1764
    Database: PA Early Census Index

  4. Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. 1790 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    Year: 1790; Census Place: Bucks, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 251; Image: 671; Family History Library Film: 0568148
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    Name: Peter Hackenberg
    Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Bucks, Pennsylvania
    Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 1
    Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 2
    Free White Persons - Females: 3
    Number of Household Members: 6

  5. 1800 census.
  6. 1810 census.
  7. Union, Pennsylvania, United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    1820 U S Census; Census Place: Freeburg in Washington, Union, Pennsylvania; Page: 115; NARA Roll: M33_113; Image: 211
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    Name: Peter Hackenberg
    Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Freeburg in Washington, Union, Pennsylvania
    Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
    Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
    Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
    Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 18: 1
    Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
    Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
    Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
    Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2
    Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
    Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
    Free White Persons - Under 16: 4
    Free White Persons - Over 25: 3
    Total Free White Persons: 9
    Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 9 [i.e., no slaves]

  8. 8.0 8.1 Grave recorded , in Find A Grave
    [Includes headstone photo], last accessed Feb 2017.

    "In Memory Of
    Peter Hachenberg
    Born in Europe
    Died on the 4th March 1820 in
    the 79 year of
    his age"

  9.   .

    The following is from the Book, "Johann Peter Hachenberg and Descendants" by Roberta Hachenberg Albrect (Mrs. Harold A.) & Jacqueline S. Rotering (1984):

    "Peter Hackenberg enlisted in Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania under Captain Valentine Opp, First Sergeant, 1st Battalion of Col. Hart's Flying Camp. In August of the same he was commissioned Ensign and Quarter-master of the Battalion of the same company. Captain Opp was cashiered. The company marched to Fort Lee. Colonel Baxter commissioned Peter Hachenberg to act as Captain. He was promised a commission but was taken prisoner before receiving it. In the Archives of Pennsylvania, Second Series 15:652 we find his name among the list of Officers who absented themselves from the "Camp" contrary to their parole but returned to captivity agreeable to orders. List of officers belonging to the Continental Army Flying Camp of the Militia of the State of Pennsylvania who were prisoners and not exchanged since - list Peter hackenberg. Pennsylvania Archives 6th Series 2:88-884 gives Baxter's Regiment.wing, "

  10. Family notes, in Sources needed.

    Per his military records we find him listed as follows:
    Ensign Peter Hachenberg" in Colonel Baxter's Regiment, Flying Camp. Marched to New York via Fort Lee, New Jersey. In New York, at the Battle of Fort Washington, he was taken prisoner by the British and imprisoned at Long Island.

    He is listed as a Patriot with the Daughters of the American Revolution, # A0488489.