Johannes Jaeger  Heinrich (Henry) Jaeger son of: Heinrich (Henry)(Heini) Jaeger and Maria Heinimann- Born 1690 in Switzerland Heinrich (Henry)(Heini) Jaeger son of Hans Jaeger and Magdalena Hodel, born 1641 in Switzerland |
These records are found in the Swiss Reformed Chuch records, once the state church of Switzerland, in the various towns and villages of Canton Basel-Land Switzerland. The marriages are confirmed by baptismal records in the town or village where noted. The village of Arisdorf is about 5 miles ESE from the city of Basel,Switzerland. Wenslingen is about 5 miles SE of Arisdorf.
ANNA Buss, daughter of Zachariah and Maria (Schaffner) was baptised at Wenslingen on March 21, 1682.
1. HANS (Johannes) Imbert married Anna Waltisberger at Wenslingen July 2, 1667. Their son, Hans (Johannes) W was baptized at Wenslingen August 6, 1671.
1a. Johannes (Hans) Imbert married Anna at Wenslingen on January 30, 1700.
URSULA WURST, daughter of Hans and Anna, was baptized at Wenslingen on June 21, 1716.
2a. MAGDALENA (Madla) Hodel, daughter of Hans and Ann Martin Hodel was baptized at Arisdorf, Basel-land, Switzerland on November 20, 1641 and married:
2. JOHANNES JAEGER on January 29, 1675 at Arisdorf.
3. Heini (HEINRICH) Jaeger is the son of Johannes and Magdalena (Hodel) Jaeger and was baptized at Arisdorf on Oct 7, 1679. He married Maria Heinimann of the village of Bennwil, Basel-Land. She was age 40 when the family was granted permission to leave Switzerland in 1740.
4. Heini (HEINRICH) Jaeger, son of HEINRICH (above) and Maria was baptized at Arisdorf, Basel-Land on July 6, 1715. He married URSULA WURST.
5. ***JOHANNES JAEGER son of Heinrich and Ursula was baptized at Arisdorf, Basel-Land on May 14, 1737. He later adopted the English translation of his name and became John Hunter and married Barbara Bowman, dau of John and Varena Bowman. He eventually settled on Cherokee Creek in Washington County,Tennessee.
At a public auction, the only legal means of disposing of property in Switzerland at that time, Heini and Maria Jaeger sold their property and after paying their taxes were granted permission to immigrate from Basel-Land on March 5, 1740. They traveled by ship down the Rhine River, through Germany and Holland. They sailed from Rotterdam on the ship FRIENDSHIP, arriving in Philadelphia, PA on Sept. 23, 1740.
The family who sailed together:
Those immigrants, who arrived in 1740, suffered through severe storms, probably hurricanes, while crossing the Atlantic. These storms delayed their arrival and Ursula Jaeger was among the approx 40 people who died on board, probably from starvation.
4. HEINRICH (Heini) JAEGER married Anna Maria Scheublin (2ND WIFE) in Heidelberg Township, Lancaster, PA about 1742. Anna Maria had been baptized at Oberdorf, Basel-Land,Switzerland on Oct 6, 1723. They had two children, Anna Barbara and Heinrich. Anna Maria was the dau of Christian and Barbara (Spitteler).
4a: Christian Scheublin was a blacksmith whose family immigrated from Oberdorf in 1736, He arrived in Philadelphia, PA on the ship PRINCESS AUGUSTA on Sept. 16, 1736. He had been in trouble in Switzerland because of his religious beliefs and his association with those of pacifist religious persuasions.
4. Henry Yeager Jr, as he was now called, was issued a warrant by the Proprietary of the Colony of Pennsylvania, Richard Penn, son of William Penn, for a tract of land containing 100 acres in Heidelberg Township, Lancaster Cnty, Pennsylvania. When YORK county was created in 1749, this land fell into it. Henry Yeager Jr died in 1748.
5. John Yeager, formerly JOHANNES JAEGER, was orphaned and on June 6, 1749 John Heckendorn was appointed his guardian. Heckendorn had immigrated from Langenbruck, Basel-Land, Switzerland, in 1736 and had arrived also on the ship PRINCESS AUGUSTA on Sept 16, 1736 along with Christian Scheublin. Shortly after the guardianship was settled, John Yeager, was apprenticed to another blacksmith and remained a blacksmith all his life.
4a: After the death of Henry Yeager Jr, Anna Maria Scheublin Yeager married Henry Wirt, who had arrived in Philadelphia on the ship JAMACIA GALLEY on Feb 7, 1738. They had a daughter, Catherine Wirt, among other children.
Catherine Wirt married Peter Ruble and settled in Washington County, Tennessee and their son, Henry Ruble married Barbara Hunter, daughter of John and Barbara (Bowman) Hunter.
5. JOHANNES JAEGER, sometimes referred to as John Yeager, changed his name to JOHN HUNTER and married Barbara Bowman , probably on Plum Run, a tributary of the Concocheague Creek in present day Washington County, Maryland about 1760 Plum Run is about 5 miles WSW from Hagerstown, Maryland. Jacob Bowman had settled on Plum Run in 1755.
JOHN HUNTER and his father in law, Jacob Bowman, were naturalized as citizens of England at a court held in Philadelphia in 1767. They did not take the oath of allegiance but were affirmed, signifying they were part of a pacifist religion, probably Church of the Brethren. He was still Johannes Jaeger or John Yeager and did not take the name JOHN HUNTER until 1773.
During the Revoluntionary War, he served as a private in the Virginia Militia in the company commanded by Capt.
Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of the president. His service indicates that, like many of his contemporaries, he decided there was a "time to pray and a time to fight" and by serving in the militia he was no longer welcome in the pacifist church so he joined the Baptist Church.
JOHN HUNTER and BARBARA BOWMAN remained on Plum Run until 1773 when they sold their Maryland property and moved to Augusta County, Virginia, settling in what later became Rockingham County in 1778. In Augusta county, they purchased land which had been patented to Valentine Sevier, father of John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee. This property was about 1/2m west of the community of Broadway, Virginia on the south side of the north branch of the Shenandoah River. The land included Cedar Creek, a very small tributary of the Shenandoah River and Val's Spring. Val's Spring is still located on topographic maps.
In 1783, he sold the property in Rockingham County, Virginia and moved to Washington County, Tennessee where he settled on Little Cherokee Creek. He was among the founding members of the Cherokee Creek Baptist Church. By 1787, through purchases and grants, he owned 939 acres centered around the present (1994) Union Church on Little Cherokee Creek and he also held an additional 300 acres, in trust, for Peter Ruble. He was a successful blacksmith because he left each of his children a sizable estate.
In 1795 a road was built from what is now Johnson City, Tennessee to Telford, Tennessee and which is now the approximate route of Tennessee Highway 67. Those appointed to lay out the road were:
JOHN HUNTER died at Cherokee Creek, Washington County, Tennessee June 7, 1823 and Barbara died there on November 22, 1831. John's will was dated Feb 25, 1809 and with a codicil dated Jan 27, 1819. In the will he mentions only children, Barbara and Isaac, the other children having already received their portion of the estate.
In the codicil to his will, his faithful slave Bet (Betsy) is to be set free after the death of Barbara. Her emancipation was on July 23, 1834 and is recorded. In the 1850 census she is now called Betsy Hunter and was living with her
grandson, Henderson Hunter, who was 17. She was then 70 years old and was born in Maryland.
JOHN and BARBARA are buried in the Cherokee Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Washington County |
From passenger list:
Heinrich Jeger, Sr. variation spelling Geager
Heirich Geager, Jr.
