15 BENJAMIN3 HUTSENPILLER (same as above) was born in 1768. We use the form of spelling adopted by his descendants. He paid taxes in Frederick Co., Va., from 1785 to 1789. By 1791, he was paying taxes in Greenbrier Co., Va. He always paid on a number of horses. On Oct. 18, 1788, in Frederick Co., he married Margaret Wax (1770-1839), the third of the children of Capt. Henry and Margaret (Geschwin) Wax, who served in the Revolutionary Army from Berks Co., Penn, and moved to Botetourt Co., Va., where he died in 1796. (Seep. 287.) In 1805, Mr. Hutsenpiller purchased 80 acres in Greenbrier Co. In 1808, his parents gave him 325 acres. In 1814, he got a grant of 46 acres on Milligan Creek, “joining his own land on the state road.” His property lay to the west of his brother Anthony’s land. In 1838, he got another grant for 145 acres in this same neighborhood. But there are not enough recorded purchases, gifts and grants to account for all his land. In 1840, he gave his son John 761 acres on Milligan Creek, “the tract on which he now lives,” 741 acres of which John deeded back to him in 1842. In 1840, he gave his son-in-law, Henry Surbaugh, 300 acres on the north side of Meadow River. This land lay on the west side of Muddy Creek mountain in the Blue Sulphur District. In 1846, Mr. Surbaugh purchased the above 741 acres. In 1850, Mr. Hutsenpiller and his second wife, Nancy, sold 240 acres, five miles west of Lewisburg, but reserved the use of the sugar trees and camp. Back in 1797, his father got a grant of land which boasted of sugar trees so this last sale might have been land given him by his father in 1808. Two diary entries of Moravian missionaries emphasize the hospitality of the Hutsenpillers. In 1806, Mr. and Mrs. “Hazenbiller” loaned a side-saddle to the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Henkel who were traveling to Ohio. On Aug. 1, 1817, they entertained Thos. and John Moorman who came on horseback from Fincastle. The Rev. Sharman Butt delayed writing his records for several years, by which time his memory was slipping. He reported he married Benjamin Hutsenpiller and Sally Parker, July 7, 1838. In a later entry he calls her Mary. Mr. Hutsenpiller always called his second wife Nancy. In 1850, a Katherine Parker was part of Benjamin’s family and in 1870, a 75-yr.-old Nancy Hutsenpiller was living with David Parker. We can assume Benjamin’s second wife was the Widow Parker with at least two children, Katherine and David. Benjamin Hutsenpiller died Sept. 5, 1854. He and his first wife are buried at Bunger’s Mill. His will was made in 1851. He mentions only personal property. Nancy was to have her choice of the household and kitchen furniture. She was to select any two cows and have all the sheep. She was also to have the 7-yr.-old bay horse which she claimed. He left a bureau to a granddaughter, Caty (No. 84), wife of Andrew Burns. If Nancy should “choose to keep” the bureau, she was to pay Caty $20. The residue was to go to his son John’s sons, David, Anthony and Henry. John was appointed executor and he was not to give surety. However he did give surety for $1,200, which indicates there was a considerable estate. The will was probated in Sept. 1854.
Children:
34 i John Hutsenpiller; b. 1789.
35 ii Mary Hutsenpiller; b. Dec. 27, 1795.
iii Rebecca Hutsenpiller; m. to Richard Bunger, Feb. 14, 1815, by the Rev. Mr. McElhenny.
