Volume 14 , Issue 47

NW Okie's Corner

This week we continue with more information concerning my 5th great grandfather, Peter Thomas Hohl, born 1706, in Desloch, Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, and died 19 March 1776, in Crab Bottom, Augusta, Virginia. At the age of 35 years (30 May 1741) Peter Thomas Hohl came to the New World on the Ship Francis and Ann, Thomas Coatam, master, from Rotterdam, last from St. Christophers, settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Those aboard the ship were Peter Hohl (Holl), Geo. Philip Clem, Johannes Immel, Jacob Kipper, Martin Bittner, Michael Bigler, Johan Peter Herbel, George Adam Koch, Hans George Koch, Samuel Georg Tossler, Johan Conrad Schmidt, Georg Adam Ernst, Johan Wendel Hornung.

Peter Thomas Hohl was a widower and miller on the Susquehanna. We do not have any records of his first wife or how she died, but believe they had a son named Peter. The son is named in his father's will and refers to Susanna Margaretha as the sons (step) mother.

The Trinity Lutheran Church records reveal, page 200, "85. Peter Thomas Hohl, a widower and miller on the Susquehanna, and Susanna Margaretha Tieffenbachin, a single person, were publicly proclaimed different Sundays and married on the 24th Sunday after Trinity, November 25, 1750."

The Hull Family Association posted the following update to the Hull Family Association website, 23 January 2010: "Notice to the German Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull Descendants: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist - If you are carrying Francis Hull, Henry Hull, William Hull, Robert Hull, David Hull and John Hull as sons of the German Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull, your information is incorrect. Please do not be misled by multiple sites on the Internet, which state that these men are the sons of Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull. Both our research and the DNA analysis have shown that Peter Thomas Hohl/Hull had only these four sons: Peter Hull, Adam Hull, George Hull, Jacob Hull. This is confirmed, not only by DNA analysis, but also by the original land records, probate records, tax records and a wide study and analysis of the children in this family, conducted for over twenty-five (25) years. Please pass this information on to any correspondent who is listing the above incorrectly named sons."

Besides the four sons mentioned above, Peter Thomas & Susanna Margaretha had the following four daughters that I know of: Catherine (1750-1823), Margaret Catharine (1757-1820), Mary Magdelena (1762-1840), Phebe Anistasia (1768-1815).

Last Will & Testament of Peter Thomas Hohl (1706-1776) In the name of God Amen: The twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

I, Peter Hohl, of Augusta county and Colony of Virginia, being sick in body but sound of mind and Memory, thanks be to Almighty God for the same, do make and declare this my last will and Testament, in manner and form following, first to my dearly beloved wife, Susannah Margaret, I give and bequeath the third part of the estate, after all my just debts are paid any [and] my Eldest son Peter shall according to my will and desire after my decease give unto his (step) Mother the third part or share of the increase of Grain to the land produces and shall bring the same into the Barn and Thresh it for her. I likewise bequeath further unto my wife to have choice of two milk cows and the Pennsylvania Mare also a horse for her to ride and to work, which horse is to remain upon the plantation and not to be disposed of, likewise the choice of two sheep; the division of my land shall be in the following manner:

(1st) the land be surveyed from the lower end on the line up to the Dry Run.

(2nd) from the Dry Run up to the corner tree.

(3rd) from the corner tree on up to the Middle Corner tree on the upper land.

(4th) from the Middle Corner Tree on up to the upper Corner Tree.

(5th) The three of my eldest daughters shall be made equal. I bequeath unto them after my decease the sum of Twenty Pounds Current money each, and my youngest daughters shall also receive, each of them the sum of Twenty pounds Current Money, as soon as they shall attain their age.

(6th) I also desire that the three different pieces of parcels of land, viz., the first at the upper trace, the second in the (Vanderpool) Gap, third on Jackson's River, besides an entering, shall be sold at Public Vendue, and put to the estate. I empower hereby my Eldest son Peter to sell and dispose of the same as my Executor to this my last will and Testament and desire that Susannah Margaret, my wife and my son Peter shall educate my younger Children, in a Christian-like manner, as long as they behave dutiful; otherwise they shall have power to bind them out the this proviso to pay them interest on their money from the day they are bound out.

His Mark, Peter (X) Hohl (L.S. Witness present) ~ Bernard Lantz, Leonard Simon, Peter Flesher.

"Certify hereby the above is an Exact Copy Translated from the German Tongue into English this nineteenth day of March, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six. ~ signed by John William Lee."

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