Johann Jacob Hake

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Johan Jacob Höck was born in Burgholzhausen, Hessen, Germany. Eventually the name came to be spelled Hake in America. Jacob and his sister Anna Catharina were the first members of the family to immigrate to America in September 1748. Their parents Johann Friedrich Höck and Anna Catharine Fortbach, along with their two younger siblings Anna Phlippina and Johann Conrad, arrived the following September.

Jacob was 24 and Catharina was 22 when they landed in Philadelphia and settled in Lancaster. Both were married in Lancaster's Trinity Lutheran Church before the rest of the family arrived. On April 23, 1749 Jacob married Susanna Dorothea Hamme and on July 23 of the same year Catharina married Johann Valentine Hamme - a brother of Jacob's wife. Catharina died in April 1752 just two years after her marriage. She had no children and was buried on the Hamme family farm. Valentine married Louisa May for his second wife and they had six children and many descendants.

There is a historical outline of the Hake/Höck family written by Dr. Edward Good Hake, MD in John Gibson's Biographical History of York County, PA (1886). Edward was the son of Elias and Susan (Good) Hake and from Elias the line back is (Jacob Andrew, Andrew, Johan Jacob the immigrant). This account includes the following bits of information about Jacob:

"September 15, 1748, Foreigners imported in the "Two Brothers," Thomas Arnott, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Portsmouth:' Jacob Höck." Catharina is not listed as was the custom with accompanied females and children.

"The earliest record of said Jacob Höck, in York County, is the baptism of his daughter, Maria Barbra, April 26, 1752, at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York. April 9, 1761 he bought of Sebastian Fink (ed. Jacob's granddaughter Anna Maria daughter of Andrew, married a man named Sebastian Fink who was probably born about the time this transaction took place) of Dover township, twenty acres of land 'by little Conewago.' Feb 23, 1762, he sold to George Stevenson, of York Town, Esq., 'The plantation and tract of land whereon I lately dwelt situate on a branch of Codorus Creek in Codorus Township.' The same was surveyed to Tobias Amspoker in pusuance of warrant, dated at Philadelphia, March 9, 1753. He must have moved to Manchester Township from Codorus Township between April 9, 1761 and Feb 23, 1762."

"He received his naturalization papers from the supreme court held at Philadelphia, Sep 24, 1762, under King George III, King of England. 'Before William Allen and William Coleman, Esqs., judges of the said court between the hours of 9 and 12 of the clock, in the Forenoon of the same Day, Jacob Heek, of Manchester, in the county of York, being a Foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the Space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been absent out of some of the said colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time during the said seven years; and the said Jacob Heek having produced to the said Court a Certificate of his having taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within Three Months before the said court,' etc. This interesting document was found among a number of old papers, which have passed down directly through the several generations, and are still in the possession of the family."

Wouldn't it be nice to know if the documents still exist.

Children of Johan Jacob and Susanna Dorothea (Hamme) Hake:

1. Anna Catharine (Peter Quickel)
2. Maria Barbara
3. Andrew (Anna Maria Wintermeyer)
4. Maria Elizabeth (Johann Georg Neiman)
5. John Frederick (Catherina Crone)
6. Louisa (Jacob Barr).

John Jacob Hake was one of the trustees of Quickel's Church in 1770 when the land was purchased on which the building now stands.

He was a soldier in the American Revolution serving in the 10th Penna Regiment.

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Birth: May 5, 1724, Germany
Death: 1803
York County
Pennsylvania, USA

Johan Jacob Höck was born in Burgholzhausen, Hessen, Germany. Eventually the name came to be spelled Hake in America. Jacob and his sister Anna Catharina were the first members of the family to immigrate to America in September 1748. Their parents Johann Friedrich Höck (1701-1770) and Anna Catharine Fortbach (~1700-) and younger sister Anna Phlippina (1 John Adam Schedle 2 Phllip Wintermeyer) and brother Johann Conrad (1730-1785) arrived the following September.

Jacob was 24 and Catharina was 22 when they arrived. Both married before the rest of the family arrived. Jacob in April 1749 and Catharina in July. Their spouses were also siblings of each other. Jacob married Susanna Dorothea Hamme on 23 Apr 1749 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, PA. Anna Catharina married Johann Valentine Hamme on 23 July 1749 in Lancaster, PA. Catharina died two years later in April 1751 and was buried on their farm.

John Gibson's Biographical History of York County, PA (1886) inlcudes the following bits of information about Jacob:

"September 15, 1748, Foreigners imported in the "Two Brothers," Thomas Arnott, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Portsmouth:' Jacob Höck." Catharina is not listed as was the custom with accompanied females and children.

"The earliest record of said Jacob Höck, in York County, is the baptism of his daughter, Maria Barbra, April 26, 1752, at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York. April 9, 1761 he bought of Sebastian Fink (ed. Jacob's granddaughter Anna Maria daughter of Andrew, married a man named Sebastian Fink who was probably born about the time this transaction took place) of Dover township, twenty acres of land 'by little Conewago.' Feb 23, 1762, he sold to George Stevenson, of York Town, Esq., 'The plantation and tract of land whereon I lately dwelt situate on a branch of Codorus Creek in Codorus Township.' The same was surveyed to Tobias Amspoker in pusuance of warrant, dated at Philadelphia, March 9, 1753. He must have moved to Manchester Township from Codorus Township between April 9, 1761 and Feb 23, 1762."

"He received his naturalization papers from the supreme court held at Philadelphia, Sep 24, 1762, under King George III, King of England. 'Before William Allen and William Coleman, Esqs., judges of the said court between the hours of 9 and 12 of the clock, in the Forenoon of the same Day, Jacob Heek, of Manchester, in the county of York, being a Foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the Space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been absent out of some of the said colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time during the said seven years; and the said Jacob Heek having produced to the said Court a Certificate of his having taken the Sacrament of the lord's Supper within Three Months before the said court,' etc. This interesting document was found among a number of old papers, which have passed down directly through the several generations, and are still in the possession of the family." This account in John Gibson's 1886 book was written by Dr. Edward Good Hake (Elias, Jacob Andrew, Andrew, John Jacob). It would be nice to know if the documents still exist.

Children of Johan Jacob and Susanna Hake: Anna Catharine (18 Feb 1750 Lancaster), Maria Barbara (24 Jan 1752 York), Andrew (Anna Maria Wintermeyer), Maria Elizabeth (Johann Georg Neiman), John Frederick (Catherina Crone) and Louisa (Jacob Barr).

John Jacob Hake was one of the trustees of Quickel's Church in 1770 at which time the land was purchased on which the building now stands.

Jacob served in the 10th Penna Regiment during the Revolution.

Family links:
Parents:
Anna Catharine Forbach Hake (1700 - ____)
Johann Friedrich Hake (1701 - 1770)

Children:
Andrew Hake (1754 - 1832)*
John Frederick Hake (1759 - 1830)*