Person:Jost Heimbach (1)

JOST HEIMBACH was perhaps the son of "Jost Scheffe" of 1599 and grandson of Henne of the 1563 record.

Jost married ANNA SEELBACH in 1604 in Seelbach, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.

Jost paid the defense tax at Seelbach in 1624 and 1626, which would normally indicate that he was over 50 years of age, but this can scarcely be the right inference in view of the date of his death. He must have been excused from military service for some other reason.

In 1624 he also paid a tax for an apprentice living in his house. On March 20, 1626 Jost was appointed one of the associate justices of the Hain Court. By 1638 his first wife had died and he had married the widow of Hans Latsch of Gosenbach, who owned ironworks property and had been an associate justice of the court since 1613. The "Handwerkbuch" of the Guild of Smelterers and Hammersmiths in 1638 permitted him to engage in the iron industry and profit by his wife's property during her life, name unknown. The earliest certain appearance of ancestors of the Nassau-Siegen immigrants to Virginia was in 1624, when the Treasury Accounts show Jost Heimbach at Seelbach and Johann Heimbach at Trupbach, villages very close together two or three miles west of the city of Siegen. These two men were probably brothers.

Jost was an associate justice of the Siegen district court.

1. ↑ Germanna Record No. 5: Ancestry & Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714 - 1750
   Pages 175 - 184.