Person:Gregory Hydenrich (1)

He was a paper maker. He was first recorded at Frederick County, Virginia at the time of his 1814 marriage. He probably moved west into Berkeley County, now West Virginia, where (his sisters?) Margaret and Fanny Hydenrick were married in 1824.

However, he might have been in Tennessee as early as 1821. Records give Tennessee as the 1821 birthplace of his daughter Margaret. He appears on the 1830 census at Greene County, Tennessee, but seems to have moved or returned to Montgomery County, Virginia about 1832. From 1832-34 and possibly earlier, he operated a paper mill at mouth of Peak Creek on New River, about 1-1/2 miles south of New Bern, in what was Montgomery County until 1839 and is now Pulaski County.

The inventory of his estate listed several reams of both Imperial and Royal paper, as well as a $250 note from Samuel D. Nelson and James Trovillo. Nelson and Trovillo purchased the paper inventory from the estate. Jane (Chapman) Hydenrich, administratix of the estate, filed a law suit in Montgomery County against Samuel D. Nelson and James Trovillo to collect on the note. They were ordered to pay. To do so, they borrowed $1,500 with a trust deed on a 110-acre tract at the mouth of Peak Creek "known as the paper mill tract."

The relationship between Nelson and Hydenrich had been cordial at other times. Samuel D. Nelson was a surety on the marriage bond of Hydenrich's daughter Elizabeth to William J. Saul in 1833.