Francis Hilliard

• HILLIARD, FRANCIS DAR Ancestor #A056226
• Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
• Birth: 2-1-1722 GERMANY
• Death: 8-19-1797 UPPER MT BETHEL NORTHAMPTON CO PENNSYLVANIA
• Service Source: OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE OF NORTHAMPTON CO, PA 1777-1784, P 41
• Service Description: 1) TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, 1778
• 2) NORTHAMPTON CO

Received from Patrice Schadt: pschadt@tampabay.rr.com via electronic mail on April 05, 2001. Copied by Ellen Louise Gruver-Magee on April 25, 2001.

Johan left the town of Argental in the District of Simmern, which is about 30 km west of Mainz. He received manumission from serfdom on March 15, 1751. For this he had to pay 40. He immigrated in September 1751 on the Ship Edinburgh. Master of The Edinburgh was James Russell. Johan took the Oath of Allegiance to the King at Philadelphia on September 16, 1751. He settled in Centerville, Upper Mt. Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Sources: Werner Hacker, Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im 18 Jahrhundert, (Stuttgart, 1987) p. 413.

See C. Shirey file on family of Johann "Frantz" Hilgert/Hilliard.Arrived in Philadelphia from Germany aboard the "Edinburg" in 1751. Itis believed that the descendants of Johann changed the name toHILLIARD. The Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society (WPGS) mayhave additional information about this family.

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!DAR: APPLICATION NATIONAL NUMBER 63604

!NAME: ABOVE APPLICATION HAS HIS NAME AS "Von Johann Franz Hilgirt"

!grave stone: it reads: "HIER RUHET DER LEIB VAN JOHANN FRANZ HILGERT

ER WARD ZUR WELT GEBOREN DEN 1ST FEBRUAR 1722. 1ST GESTORBEN

DEN 19T AUGUST 1797 ALTER 75 I 6M 4 T

!BOOK:F157 f.NYE9 EYERMAN , JOHN. THE OLD GRAVEYARDS OF

NORTHAMPTON

Facts about this person:

Burial

CENTERVILLE, NORTHAMPTON, PA

Registrar of Wills

Northampton County Government Center

669 Washington St.

Easton, Pa. 18042-7486

289 HILGERT, Francis Upper Mt. Bethel yeoman

16-5-1796 - 21-9-1797

wife Christina

son Peter

son Isaac

son John

son George

dau Ann-Mary wife of Abraham HOUCK

son Jacob

dau Catharina wife of Adam MAN(U)NY

son Abraham (deceased) his widow and 4 children

ex. son Peter and friend Jacob RICK

wit. Dietrick BERG, Cathn. BERG and Hugh FORESMAN

DAR Ancestor #: A056226 Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 2-1-1722 GERMANY Death: 8-19-1797 UPPER MT BETHEL NORTHAMPTON CO PENNSYLVANIA Service Source: OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE OF NORTHAMPTON CO, PA 1777-1784, P 41 Service Description: 1) TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, 1778 2) NORTHAMPTON CO