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About Johann Adam Heeb
In the mid-eighteenth century, the Holy Roman Empire (later Germany) consisted of dozens of sovereign states of varying sizes. Falkengesäß was in the sovereign County of Erbach under the rule of the Count of Erbach (Graf von Erbach). In the early part of the nineteenth century, Erbach became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Großherzogtum Hessen). Today Falkengesäß is in the state of Hesse (Land Hessen). Though legally a community within the town of Beerfelden (Stadt Beerfelden), Falkengesäß is still a village distinct from neighbouring but quite separate Beerfelden. There is no mill there today.
Johann Adam Hebb
born July 1710 Michelstadt, Hesse, Germany his parents of Wendelin & Anna.
He married Anna Margaretha Franck 1735 Germany. On January 31, 1739, in Saxony, Germany a tragic death in the saw mill which was indirectly responsible for the arrival of the ancestors of the Nova Scotia Hebbs. Just five months after the birth of his first-born child, while at the age of 27 years, Adam Heeb was involved in a deadly accident while working in the saw mill in Germany. At 11AM on January 31 1739, the body of Johann Adam Heeb I was found under the wheel of the saw mill where supposedly he wanted to sharpen the axe of the saw mill and fell into the wheel. He was buried two days later on February 2, 1739. This left his wife, Margaretha, a young widow set the stage for what was to come. She took her little son Adam Heeb II & found residence in the nearby village of Wilhelmsfeld Rhein-Neckar-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg in Germany where she met Hans Adam Eisenhauer, 6 years later on 14 Jun 1744 were married at the Parish of Heiligkreuzsteinach. Ironically, had Johann Adam Heeb I, did not die in the mill in 1739, the Hebb family in all probability would not have immigrated Abt 12 years later to Nova Scotia, but sadly he did. In 1751, on the ship, The Pearl. Recorded in the ship's passenger lists sailing with this family was a 13-year-old boy, "Johann Adam Heeb" Margaretha's only child by her first husband Adam Heeb I. From "Planters and Pioneers" by Esther Clark Wright (rev. ed. 2007), pg. 134: "HEBB, ADAM, LUNENBURG, from Palatinate, Pearl, 1751, ae 13, son of and Margaretha Hebb.
CONQUERALL BANK, August 16 -- The following is a copy of an inscription on one of the grave-stones in the cemetery, near Cove Marsh, two miles below Bridgewater, (in German):
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Johann Adam Heeb's Timeline
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1711
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Mangelsbach, Sovereign County of Erbach, (later Hesse), Holy Roman Empire
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August 14, 1738
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Falken-Gesäß, Sovereign County of Erbach, (later Hesse/Darmstadt), Holy Roman Empire (later Germany)
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| 1739 |
January 31, 1739
Age 28
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Falken-GesaB, Odenwaldkreis, Sovereign County of Erbach, Holy Roman Empire
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