4 JOHN2 HOTSENPELAR Sr. (as signed in will) (Stephen1) was born about 1739. On Mar. 2, 1760, his parents gave him 175 acres of their Opequon land, a part of their original grant. He was married to Barbara Schurf [Snapp] on Nov. 26, 1767, by the minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md., who may have been on a preaching mission in Frederick Co.
He purchased more land from his father in 1772, and in 1773 reconveyed the land his father gave him in 1760. He received no additional legacy from his father, who had given him support, education, training and land in his youth. He was soon a well established citizen as shown by the inventory of his estate. He died at 41, after some years of ill health. He wrote his will in Aug. 1777. It was probated Mar. 7, 1780. In it he stipulated that any questions which might arise about debts should be settled by arbitration. He followed his father’s smith’s trade and had a collection of tools valued at 300 pounds. He gave his sons their choice of trades. He left his plantation to his sons, money to his daughters.
His personal estate was appraised at 1,077 pounds. His eight books were set at 10 pounds and he had a “chart” of the same value. His wardrobe included a big coat, a strait coat, a hunting shirt, three jackets, underwear and shoes, also a good saddle, saddle bags and bridle.
Should Barbara remarry she was to retain her dower. The other property, even her bay mare, was to pass to the children.
Barbara had two spinning wheels, a reel, hackle and flax on hand.
She made John’s linen underwear. She also had the daily care of ten hogs and three cows. For cooking, there were three pots and a pot rack, frying pan valued at five pounds, earthen pots, skimmer and flash fork. There was also a lot of old knives and forks, tinware and a parcel of pewter. There were adequate beds, a cradle and a trundle bed, a “chist”, good table and chair, lamp and candle stick and a horn looking glass. Barbara had made plenty of bedding. The farm equipment bespeaks a busy life. We find a plough, plough gears, single trees, hoes, shovel and maul, wedges and a variety of small tools, altogether a well stocked farm. Barbara cared for her young family for five years and then married Joseph Jones on June 16, 1785. His curious will, probated May 7, 1793, deserves mention. He thought “Barbary” was likely to remarry. He made provision for her two boys “called by my name,” though later he calls them his sons. He had a young daughter, Rachel, who must have been Barbary’s child. He estimated Barbara’s remaining dower from John at only 25 pounds. If she remarried she was to receive 100 pounds from his estate. He left a bequest to the Methodist Church in Winchester and set his negro man, Sam, free after ten more years of servitude. Barbara did not re-marry and reported the estate accounts to the court for many years.
Children, all born in Frederick Co., Va.
11 i John Hotsenpelar, Jr.; b. about 1768
ii Elizabeth Hotsenpelar; well provided for in father s will; after mother’s remarriage, selected her father’s brother Jacob as her guardian; m. Mar. 11, 1794, Joseph Fry, said to be a grandson of Benjamin Fry who came in 1744 to Cedar Creek neighborhood; no decendants identified. (See No. 2, ii).
12 iii Christina Hotsenpelar; b. Nov. 26, 1770.
13 iv Jacob Hotsenpelar; b. Oct. 3, 1771.
