Hans Jacob Bechtel

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He has a cenotaph in Washington County, Maryland, click here to see.

His Bachtel family relatives are being identified 2 centuries after his time via DNA matching. (See 2019 in the timeline below for explanation). John Jacob Bachtel, his siblings and descendants include: - JOHN JACOB BACHTEL, b.1750- b.1815
- Isaac Bachtel, b.1754 - d.1843
- Elizabeth (nee Bechtel) Wenger, b.1765- d.1831 See her FindAGrave memorial (click).
- Jacob Bachtel, b.1770- d.1823 See his FindAGrave memorial (click).
- Samuel Bachtel (potential nephew), b. about 1780- d. unknown. Husband of Mary A. Hershey, bp. PA.

John Jacob purportedly lived in Washington County, Maryland, during the late 1700's, though there are scant family baptismal records and no records of him in Maryland's 1776 census; 1778, 1783 tax assessments; nor land transfer records of that period. Record gaps are known as county borders were in flux; Washington County was increasing and Frederick County was decreasing as Maryland redistricted county boundaries to better balance their population.

In 1778 Jacob Bakell of Frederick County, Maryland, voiced the state's Oath of Fidelity and Support in open court, joining with others in their support of the Colonial effort (see confirmation photo image).

The Aug 28, 1793, Frederick County birth and later baptism of their son Daniel were recorded at Apple's Church near Thurmont, Maryland; original records are in the collection of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, Lancaster, PA.

In 1805 he (Jacob Baghtel) was listed in the public land land survey of the Ohio River Base meridian. He was a property owner in Range VIII, Township IX, Section 10 (aka Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio); ref: ancestry.com's U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898. His acreage neighbored land owned by the Failor and the Flora families, surnames that would both become sons-in-law.

In December of 1813, his Will was recorded in the Probate Court of Stark County, Ohio. He listed his residence as Canton Township. He had moved from his Pike Township farmstead.

Circa 1815 John Jacob Bachtel died in Stark County, Ohio, the exact location, e.g., Canton city or Canton Township, unknown.

In 1904 his grandson Moses A. Bachtel's family biography was published in BIOGRAPHIES, Biography-Memoirs of Men and Women of Stark County. Compiled by JOHN DANNER. B.F. Bowen, Publisher. Excerpts are: "My grandfather, John Jacob Bachtel, was born March 6, 1750, and his wife, Catharine (Letch) Bachtel, was born April 15, 1755, while their marriage was solemnized on the 16th of March, 1773 ... they lived for some time in Washington county, Maryland, and from that locality they are supposed to have removed to either Bedford or Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania... In the spring of 1813 John J. and Catharine Bachtel, with their son John and his family, their sons Daniel, Thomas and David, and their daughter Anna Mary, all single, came from Pennsylvania to Stark county, Ohio, and here Grandfather Bachtel purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Pike township, one and one-half miles south of the north line of the township... John Jacob Bachtel lived less than two years after he came to Ohio, and he was buried in the old cemetery between Tenth and South streets, west of McKinley Avenue, in what is now the city of Canton. He was between sixty-five and sixty-six years of age."

In 1928 John Jacob Bachtel was listed in The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of The First Families of America; Vol III, page 43, col. 1; edited by Frederick Virkus, published by F. A. Virkus & Company, Chicago, Illinois.

In 1939 he was nominated as a Sons of the American Revolution Patriot for his 1778 signing of the Oath of Fidelity. He was accepted as SAR Patriot # P-106287.

2019 Ancestry.com DNA testing of Bachtel\Bechtel family descendants has found shared 5th cousin genetics uniting into common 4th great-grand parents. These would be John Jacob Bachtel's parents. His siblings projected from these results are listed in the opening paragraph.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 16 2022, 21:30:05 UTC