Person:Mathias Houshal (1)

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Mathias Houshal
b.1733 New Jersey
d.30 Mar 1818 New Jersey, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. x-Rachel HauschildtAbt 1727 - 1807
  2. x-Katherine HowsellBet 1730 & 1735 - Abt 1796
  3. Catherine HoushalAbt 1732 - Aft 1774
  4. Mathias Houshal1733 - 1818
  5. Peter Houshal1736 - 1784
  6. Martin HouselAbt 1742 - Bef 1805
  7. Mary HoushalAbt 1747 -
Spouse and Children
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  1. Mary Housel1762 - 1818
  2. Agnes Housel1763 - 1831
  3. John Housel1767 - 1811
  4. Anna Housel1770 - 1840
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Facts and Events
Name Mathias Houshal
Gender Male
Birth? 1733 New Jersey
Marriage to Anne Williamson
Death? 30 Mar 1818 New Jersey, United States
Burial? Amwell Ridge Cemetery (aka Larison's Corner), Ringoes, Hunterdon, New Jersey
References
  1.   The WILL and Inventory of Jacob Houshall (1761).

    Mathias, named in his father's WILL.

    "Item I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved son Mathias HOUSHAL one half of the plantation I now dwell on that is to say he is not to have that part where on the buildings stand but the other part to him or his heirs and assigns forever and to have the sum of ten pounds procklamation money to be paid him three years after my deceas by my soninlaw Jacob CASE."

  2.   Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States. Will of Mathias Houshill (d. 1818).

    Mentions:
    Wife Anne
    "son and daughters namely...four shares, one share each of them"
    James Covert, his grandson: son of Bergun and daughter Anna (Housel) Covert.
    deceased son John Housel and his children Ann (Housel) Wolverton and William Housel
    His daughter Agnes (Housel) Salter
    his daughter Mary (Housel) Case.
    his son Jacob Housel
    Nominates Executors: John Lequear "and Jacob Williamson my brother-in-law and also my brother-in-law Abraham Williamson of Amwell"
    Witnesses: Nathaniel Higgins, James S. Sutphin, Abraham R. Sutphin

    The Will of Mathias Houshill, son of Jacob
  3.   Findagrave memorial for Matthias Houshell.

    Source location with images at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6204682/matthias-houshell

    Grave marker confirms date of death March 30, 1818 at age 84 years.

  4.   Apparently Involved in the Ambush of Coronet Francis Geary
    Hunterdon Historical society spring2001.

    "Schenk and his neighbors stripped Cornet Francis Geary's uniform off and buried him where he had fallen, near Matthiais Housel's house."

    ALSO

    per John Schenck, before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon at Flemington:
    "There was at that time some British [at] Pennyton,... went the next day down as far as New Market (5 miles above Pennington)... got information that some of the British light horse were coming up the next day to Flemington... where Colonel Thomas Lowery then a commissary had a large quantity of beef and pork salted down for the army. I, Jon Schenck returned with the information to his father and uncle Garret Schenck and that night Captain John Schenck returned from Pennsylvania to his family and got the information and they selected a few men... The next morning a Cornet and 8 light horsemen came up past Ringoes and went up to Flemington found that the beef and pork was there and returned to meet a part of about 500 troops of the British that planned that day to come up and take these provisions, by that time there was 8 men - deponent's father, Esq. Abm. Prall, Capt. John Schenck, Jacob Schenck, William Van Syckle and deponent and two others who had collected and stationed themselves by the road side in a wood about 5 miles below Flemington, in the afternoon the light horse came back and the militia fired on them as they passed and killed the officer - a Cornet, his name "Frederick Geary" was engraved on a silver plate on his cap which deponent got and his shoes, Cpt. Jno. Schenck got his sword, and Wm. Van Syckle his watch, when he fell his horsemen fired on the militia and whirled out of the road and took a course across the far ns toward Somerset and the cornets horse followed them. After sunset the British came along and a little past where the officer was killed they stopped at a farm house (Matthias Housels) to inquire of them had been any light horse along, he told them the officer was killed a little below, they made him get a lantern and go back to the place where they found the blood, they interrogated him and he told them fictitious stories of Washington's having crossed the Delaware and there being a great many of the militia about and that alarmed them, and the regiment wheeled about and marched directly off towards Somerset without going on to Flemington and the provisions were left untouched."

    see http://www.doublegv.com/ggv/battles/geary.html for other versions.
  5.   COMPOSITION NOTES:
    Named in his father's WILL.
    Involved in Amwell Ambush.
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