Individual Details
Johann Justus HENCKEL
(10 February 1706 - August 1788)
John Justice was born on February 10, 1706 in Daudnezell, Germany. He was baptized on February 17, 1706, in Daudnezell, Germany. He died in 1778. The first record found on Jost Henkel appeared in the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Daudenzell, Germany, in the original handwriting of his father, the pfarrer or pastor, translated as follows:
" John Justus Henkel born at Daudenzell on February 10, 1706; baptized on Feb. 17, 1706; Godparent Herr John Justus Berthold, the Palatinate Collector of the Minnenburg tax district in Guttenback.
SOURCE
http://www.co.catawba.nc.us/otheragency/ccgs/henkel/d490.htm
He and his brother, Anthony Jr., are mentioned by the Exile in his Will as " my two youngest sons, " and acquired the homestead in New Hanover at their father's death in 1728. About 1750, there was a heavy migration of Germans from Eeastern Pennsylvania to Virginia and North Carolina. John Justus HENKLE Sr., followed the tide and soon the name appeared in Rowan County, North Carolina,near the Forks of Yadkin in North Carolina. About 1760, the Indians of North Ccarolina became troublesome that many German settlers determined to move further north for saftey. John Justus removed the first to Rockingham County, Virginia, where he remained but a short time and thence th Pendleton County, in 1760, where he and his sons Abraham, Isaac, and John Justus Jr., and a family by the name of TEETER acquired large tracks of land on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River. John Justus Henkle Sr., and his stalwart sons were, in every sense, pioneers. They were brave, earnest, representative men, and did much for the weal of Northern Virginia. There is no doubt but that the family was well represented in the War of Independence, and that they were prominent in coloinal days of the civil life. The moral charater of the family may be inferred fron the fact that all six sons of Jacob, son of John Justus, became ministers. As examples, we may cite the noted Reverend Paul HENKLE, oldest son of Jacob, whose fine sons were ministers; some of national reputation.
John Justus HENKLE died in the year 1778. His home was at Upper Track, and his house still standing, it is said within the memory of persons now living.
REF: THE HENCKEL GENEALOGY 1500-1960. Published by C. W. Hill Printing Company, Spokane, Washington, 1964 by the Henckel Association; paGES 188-190.
Page-188 " He accommpanied his parents to America at the age of eleven on one of the "three little ships" that landed at Philadelphia in the Fall of 1717,and located with his parents the following Spring on the 250 acres farm pruchased by his father. This property was situated in the New Hanover Township about three miles from Pottstown in what is now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Page- 189 " The first improvement in Germany Valley by Jost HENCKEL was the construction of the stockade with an enclosed area sufficient to house the families of his sons and sons-in-law as well as other settlers in the immediate vicinity. The structure was known as Hinkle's Fort and was used as an out-post prior to and during the American Revolution War. The attacks of the Indians during this period caused all settlers in the vicinity to seel shelter and saftey in this fortess."
Page-190 " The services of John Justus HENCKLE, Sr., as Commander of Hinkle's Fort, and in furnishing supplies to the Colonial Forces has been recognized officially by the Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution , and other patriotic orders as a qualification for membership."
Page-190 " The name in Germany has been shown as HENCKEL but it is recorded the Emigrant Reverend Anthony Jacob HENCKEL, on arrival, dropped the letter "c" approving the spelling HENKLE. Descendants of John Justus HENKLE, Sr are known at the present time, throughtout the nation as HENKLE, HENKEL, or HINKLE."
FROM "PENDLETON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA,PAST & PRESENT" page 61:
HINKLE'S FORT Hinkle's Fort, built 1761-62, was located in Germany Valley, near Riverton
The Fort was built by John Justus HENCKEL,Sr., , who came in 1760 from North Carolina with most of his 12 children,some with families, in search of a new home where Indians were less hostile and the soil more fertile. After a jourey of weeks, they caught sight of their "Promise Land" when they reached to top of the North Fork Mountain. Three sons, Abramham, Sr., John Justus, Jr., and Isaac, and three TETER sons-in-law with him. John Justus Sr., son of Reverend Anthony Jacob HENCKEL, had immigrated to America in 1717 with his parents who settled near Philadaelphia, Pennsylvania. He later moved to North Carolina.
The Fort was built as a protection against the Indians not only for the Hinkle Family but for other settlers in the area. The settlement became known as Germany Valley because the families, all of German descent, conversed in their native German. Unlike Fort Seybers and Fort Upper Track, Hinkle's Fort was spared destruction.
During the Revolutionary War, Hinkle's Fort became the only outpost in Pendleton County, Virginia for the patriot forces. John Justus Henckel, Sr., had been officially recognized for his services as commander of the Fort and in furnishing supplies to the troops quartered there. The Fort was headquarters and training grounds for the North Fork Military Command which had been organized by settlers erly in the Revolutionary War and whose first captains were sons-in-law and sons of John Justsu Henckle Sr's. Afetr the Revolutionary War and when danger of Indian raids was past, the fort was torn down and some of the timbers used tobuild a large house on the site.
The family of John Justus Henckel, Sr., became leading one in the eraly settlement and history of Pendleton County, Virginia. Most of his sons and grandsons served in County Offices. Isaac Hunkle and his nephew, Moses Hinkle, were two of eleven justices commissioned by the Governor of Virginia to organize the new county of Pendleton, 1778. Eleven years earlier, Isaac Hinkle had been similary commissioned to assit in the formatiuon of Rockingham County, Virginia.
Markers at the site of the Fort and at the graves of John Justus Henckel, Sr., and wife were dedicated on September on september 19, 1939 at a Henckel family reunion with several hundred descendants fron throughtout the United States in attendance who came to pay a lasting tribute to the memory of one on their patriarchs. #
" John Justus Henkel born at Daudenzell on February 10, 1706; baptized on Feb. 17, 1706; Godparent Herr John Justus Berthold, the Palatinate Collector of the Minnenburg tax district in Guttenback.
SOURCE
http://www.co.catawba.nc.us/otheragency/ccgs/henkel/d490.htm
He and his brother, Anthony Jr., are mentioned by the Exile in his Will as " my two youngest sons, " and acquired the homestead in New Hanover at their father's death in 1728. About 1750, there was a heavy migration of Germans from Eeastern Pennsylvania to Virginia and North Carolina. John Justus HENKLE Sr., followed the tide and soon the name appeared in Rowan County, North Carolina,near the Forks of Yadkin in North Carolina. About 1760, the Indians of North Ccarolina became troublesome that many German settlers determined to move further north for saftey. John Justus removed the first to Rockingham County, Virginia, where he remained but a short time and thence th Pendleton County, in 1760, where he and his sons Abraham, Isaac, and John Justus Jr., and a family by the name of TEETER acquired large tracks of land on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River. John Justus Henkle Sr., and his stalwart sons were, in every sense, pioneers. They were brave, earnest, representative men, and did much for the weal of Northern Virginia. There is no doubt but that the family was well represented in the War of Independence, and that they were prominent in coloinal days of the civil life. The moral charater of the family may be inferred fron the fact that all six sons of Jacob, son of John Justus, became ministers. As examples, we may cite the noted Reverend Paul HENKLE, oldest son of Jacob, whose fine sons were ministers; some of national reputation.
John Justus HENKLE died in the year 1778. His home was at Upper Track, and his house still standing, it is said within the memory of persons now living.
REF: THE HENCKEL GENEALOGY 1500-1960. Published by C. W. Hill Printing Company, Spokane, Washington, 1964 by the Henckel Association; paGES 188-190.
Page-188 " He accommpanied his parents to America at the age of eleven on one of the "three little ships" that landed at Philadelphia in the Fall of 1717,and located with his parents the following Spring on the 250 acres farm pruchased by his father. This property was situated in the New Hanover Township about three miles from Pottstown in what is now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Page- 189 " The first improvement in Germany Valley by Jost HENCKEL was the construction of the stockade with an enclosed area sufficient to house the families of his sons and sons-in-law as well as other settlers in the immediate vicinity. The structure was known as Hinkle's Fort and was used as an out-post prior to and during the American Revolution War. The attacks of the Indians during this period caused all settlers in the vicinity to seel shelter and saftey in this fortess."
Page-190 " The services of John Justus HENCKLE, Sr., as Commander of Hinkle's Fort, and in furnishing supplies to the Colonial Forces has been recognized officially by the Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution , and other patriotic orders as a qualification for membership."
Page-190 " The name in Germany has been shown as HENCKEL but it is recorded the Emigrant Reverend Anthony Jacob HENCKEL, on arrival, dropped the letter "c" approving the spelling HENKLE. Descendants of John Justus HENKLE, Sr are known at the present time, throughtout the nation as HENKLE, HENKEL, or HINKLE."
FROM "PENDLETON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA,PAST & PRESENT" page 61:
HINKLE'S FORT Hinkle's Fort, built 1761-62, was located in Germany Valley, near Riverton
The Fort was built by John Justus HENCKEL,Sr., , who came in 1760 from North Carolina with most of his 12 children,some with families, in search of a new home where Indians were less hostile and the soil more fertile. After a jourey of weeks, they caught sight of their "Promise Land" when they reached to top of the North Fork Mountain. Three sons, Abramham, Sr., John Justus, Jr., and Isaac, and three TETER sons-in-law with him. John Justus Sr., son of Reverend Anthony Jacob HENCKEL, had immigrated to America in 1717 with his parents who settled near Philadaelphia, Pennsylvania. He later moved to North Carolina.
The Fort was built as a protection against the Indians not only for the Hinkle Family but for other settlers in the area. The settlement became known as Germany Valley because the families, all of German descent, conversed in their native German. Unlike Fort Seybers and Fort Upper Track, Hinkle's Fort was spared destruction.
During the Revolutionary War, Hinkle's Fort became the only outpost in Pendleton County, Virginia for the patriot forces. John Justus Henckel, Sr., had been officially recognized for his services as commander of the Fort and in furnishing supplies to the troops quartered there. The Fort was headquarters and training grounds for the North Fork Military Command which had been organized by settlers erly in the Revolutionary War and whose first captains were sons-in-law and sons of John Justsu Henckle Sr's. Afetr the Revolutionary War and when danger of Indian raids was past, the fort was torn down and some of the timbers used tobuild a large house on the site.
The family of John Justus Henckel, Sr., became leading one in the eraly settlement and history of Pendleton County, Virginia. Most of his sons and grandsons served in County Offices. Isaac Hunkle and his nephew, Moses Hinkle, were two of eleven justices commissioned by the Governor of Virginia to organize the new county of Pendleton, 1778. Eleven years earlier, Isaac Hinkle had been similary commissioned to assit in the formatiuon of Rockingham County, Virginia.
Markers at the site of the Fort and at the graves of John Justus Henckel, Sr., and wife were dedicated on September on september 19, 1939 at a Henckel family reunion with several hundred descendants fron throughtout the United States in attendance who came to pay a lasting tribute to the memory of one on their patriarchs. #
Events
| Birth | 10 February 1706 | Daudenzell, Mosbach, Baden, Germany | |||
| Christen | 17 February 1706 | Daudenzell, Mosbach, Baden, Germany |  | ||
| Marriage | 1730 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Mary Magdalena ESCHMANN | |||
| Death | August 1788 | Germany Valley, Augusta, Virginia | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Magdalena ESCHMANN (1711 - 1782) |
| Father | Reverend Anthony Jacob HENCKEL (1668 - 1728) |
| Mother | Maria Elizabeth DENTZER (1672 - 1744) |
| Sibling | Johann Nicholaus HENCKEL (1693 - 1693) |
| Sibling | Johanna Frederica HENCKEL (1694 - 1739) |
| Sibling | Johann Melchoir HENCKEL (1696 - 1706) |
| Sibling | Johann Gerhard HENCKEL (1698 - 1736) |
| Sibling | Maria Elizabetha HENCKEL (1699 - 1746) |
| Sibling | Georg Rudolph HENCKEL (1701 - 1788) |
| Sibling | Anna Maria Christina HENCKEL (1704 - 1708) |
| Sibling | Benigna Maria HENCKEL (1707 - 1708) |
| Sibling | Jacob Anthony HENCKEL (1709 - 1751) |
| Sibling | Maria Catherina HENCKEL (1711 - 1785) |
| Sibling | Johann Philipp HENCKEL (1713 - ) |
Endnotes
1. (Delna Powell Powell Family Genealogy delpow@juno.com).
2. (Delna Powell Powell Family Genealogy delpow@juno.com).