Hans Hubner

NOTE: SCHWENKFELDER BOOK page 1558 does not list an Hans as a brother to Christoper Heebner of Nieder Harpersdorf

• Birth: ABT 1684 in Laubgrund, Silesia
• Death: 17 SEP 1754 in Frederick Twp, Philadelphia Co. (now Montgomery Co.) PA
• On Jan. 14, 1710, he m. Maria SCHOLTZ, of the Konigliche Kammergut in Ober Harpersdorf in Silesia.
• Hans Hubner with wife and three children fled from Hockenau in 1726 and came to Pa. in 1734.

Hans 'made his mark' to the Oath of Allegiance. He was naturalized June 21, 1743, having previously settled in "Falckner Schwam" near Society Run, Frederick Twp, Montg C., Pa.

Hans Hubner died Sept. 17, 1754, and his wife died July 16, 1745. Both are supposed to be buried in a private burying ground on the old Hubner farm in Frederick Twp, although only common field stones without any lettering mark the graves. Hans Hubner is said to have died of injuries received from falling from a wagon while assisting his son, Melchior, to take in the second crop of hay. This occurred in Worcester Twp, now Montgomery Co, Pa, then Philadelphia Co.

(Source: "Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families: Seekers of Religious Liberty who Fled from Silesia to Saxony and Thence to Pennsylvania in the Years 1731 to 1737". Edited by Samuel Kriebel Brecht, A.M. Printed for The Board of Publication of the Schwenkfelder Church, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Rand McNally & Company, 1923.)

Silesia was an area of Europe which is now in southwestern Poland. Germany ceded this province to Poland after WW II. The area borders present day Germany and the Czech Republic. The founder of the Schwenkfelder Church, Caspar Schwenckfeld, was born in Ossing, Silesia, which was changed to Ossig (Osiek in Polish), and is still a small town outside of Lubin, Poland, which is outside of Legnica (Liegnitz in German), Poland.

~• possibly: ~• Non-Associator (1779) The term Non-Associators was applied to American colonists who refused to support and sign "military association" charters. They were not affiliated with associators, or would choose instead, to pay a fine and suffer possible retaliation. (see pg.33 of book w/list; url in in <journals> project (Frederick Township)