Johann Jacob Ziegenfuss

John Jacob Ziegenfuss is the most likely candidate for being Peter Zickafoose' father. There has been no proven connection at this time.

Johan Jacob Ziegenfuss arrived in Philadelphia Port on the 16th of Sept. 1751 on the ship "Brothers'. On this date he took the Foreign Oath of Allegiance, PA as witnessed by the ship's Captain William Muir. He is noted as being either from the Palatine area of Germany or the Rhinish Provinces of Switzerland.

Jacobs's estate was appraised on 23 Sept 1780 in Augusta County, VA and settled on the 19th of Novemeber 1783. Virginia Reports, Vol. 1, page 217, 19 September 1780 stated that the widow of Jacob, Christiana, refused to be the administrator of his estate.

A son to this Jacob is noted in Crayton Hail Sigerfoos' booklet of 1912, stated that Jacob had a son named Jacob. Jacob, the younger, served in the Revolutionary War, Northumberland Co., PA Militia, and had at least three sons: Jacob, George, and John. That would place Peter's possible brother in the Pennsylvania area circa 1776- 1780.

It is speculated that the Zickafoose names that appears in the early Maryland records also belong to this family group (The Ziefenfus Families, Newsletter No. 2, Sept 1981, Mark Amanns).

If Peter Zickafoose is the son of Johan Jacob Ziegenfus he could well have been born in Germany if his birth date is as early as 1750 or if this birth date is after 1751 he was probably born in the Philadelphia, PA area. Most accounts mark Peter as being born circa 1754-1755.

His last land purchase, found to this date, is 1805 in Pendleton Co., VA and his estate is being probated in Nov. 1814. This would place his death circa 1808-1812 allowing at least two years for the estate to settle. He is noted as dying intestate showing his death in Pendleton Co.

Peter married Catherine (Catharine) Margaret Hull (born: circa 1780, probably Lancaster Co., PA - died: after 1814, probably Pendleton Co., VA), the daughter of Peter Thomas Hull (born: c. 1706, Pfalz, Germany - died: Feb 1776, Crab Bottom, Pendleton Co., VA) and Susannah Margaritha Dieffenbaugh (born: 31 Oct 1725, Pfalz, Germany - died: 31 Jan 1790, probably Pendleton Co., VA, married: 25 Nov 1750, Lancaster Co., PA).

The children of Peter Zickafoose and Catherine Hull are:

Susanna (Susan) Zickafoose, born 1775, Pendleton Co., VA - died: 1835, Pendleton Co., VA - married: Reuben Rudulph Buzzard in 1797, Pendleton Co.,

Mary Susannah Zickafoose, born; 1786, Pendleton Co., VA - died: 1850, Highland Co., VA - married; Henry Jones Fleisher on 1803, Highland Co., VA

Their children: John, born 1805 Warren Co., OH; Joseph, born 1811 Pendleton Co., VA; Peter born, 18 Mar 1808 Gilmer Co., WV;

Family Gedcom and notes show the oldest yet found child as being born in 1805 in Warren Co., Ohio but the later children as being born in WV. Most likely John Fleisher was born in WV then removed either with family or as an adult to Ohio.

Henry Jones Fleisher was born 1777, Pendleton Co., VA and died 1852. Records only show his death as in Virginia.

George Zickafoose, born: 1780, Pendleton Co., VA - died: 1872 - married: Catherine Lance.

George Zickafoose is noted as being an elder son who owned land in the Augusta County Court Record of 1814, concerning Peter Zickafoose's estate.

George Zickafoose appears as both George and as George Sr. in the records. By 1833 George and his family are in Greenbrier County, VA (WV.)

George Zickefuse, 13 August 1810, Giles County, VA, 259 acres on the west side of New River on the Pipe Stem, Office Grants No. 61, 1810-1811, p. 156 (Reel 127)

Their children: Benjamin, born: 1800 and George, born: 1810

George Zickafoose, 25 Dec 1799, 13 acres at Straight Creek, South Branch of Potomack. Grants 44, page 65

George Zickafoose, 25 Dec 1799, 130 acres at Straight Creek, Grants 44, page 61.

Elias Zickafoose, born: circa 1782-1790, Pendleton Co., VA - died: before Nov. 1814 - married: Sarah Elizabeth Armentrout.

Elias is noted as being an elder son to Peter Zickafoose and as owning land in the Pendleton County, WV area at the time of his father's estate. See notes with Peter Zickafoose and the Augusta County Court Records. Elias is also noted as having died soon after Peter Zickafoose. With Peter's death circa 1808 and 1810 and the estate being finalized in the 1814 Augusta County Records, this would place Elias' death after 1810 but before Nov. 1814. Elias was still living during the Pendleton Census 0f 1810.

Their children: Susannah, born: before 1814, Pendleton Co., VA - married George Wimer, Jr.: Elias Zickafoose, born c. 1804, Pendleton Co., VA -married Sarah (?): Elizabeth Zickafoose, married Henry Wimer on 6 Mar 1827, Pendleton Co., Va.: Henry Zickafoose: Mary Zickafoose

Elias appears on the 1810 Census for Pendleton Co., VA as Elias Secafuse, 2 adults and 4 children.

Sarah Elizabeth Armentrout Zickafoose married (2nd) Moses Arbogast on 21 Oct 1819 in Pendleton Co., VA.

Their Children: Hannah V., Allen, Pricilla, and Alicey (Elsey)

Moses Arbogast, born: 30 Nov 1799, Pendleton Co., VA - died: 26 Mar 1869, Randolph Co, WV, son of John C. Arbogast and Hannah Davis.

Sampson (Samson) Zickafoose, born: 5 Aug 1792, Pendleton Co., VA - died: 20 Mar 1885, Pendleton Co., VA - married: Sarah Wade on 19 Jun 1817, Pendleton Co., VA

Sampson Sycafooze, 16 Oct 1837, Pendleton County, VA With George Mullinax, 1900 acres on top and east side of Allegheny Mountain, Grants 87, page 356

Samson Sycafuse, 1 Nov 1817, Pendleton County, VA, 107 acres adjoining John Hyde, Philip Wimer, Mullonax, and Gums lands in Crab Bottom, Grants 67, page 65

Sampson Zycafoose, 28 Nov 1839, Pendleton County, VA, 2 acres on the south point of Snowy Mountain, Grants 90, page 711

Sampson Zycafoose, 31 July 1840, Pendleton County, VA, 120 acres on east side of Allegheny Mountain, Grants 90, page 8

Sampson Zycafoose, 31 July 1840, Pendleton County, VA, with George Mullinix, 251 acres on west side of Middle Mountain, Grants 90, Approx. page 7

Sampson Zickafoose appears in "Ritchie County, West Virginia, Chapter XXI, Indian Creek Settled". He arrived in the county during the mid-forties (1840's), married Miss (Sarah) Wade and they were the parents of the following named children: Otho who married Katharine Drake; Peter who married Mary Hammer and went to Kansas; and Asbury Zickafoose (this may be A. W. Zickafoose that married Mary Simmons); Mrs. (Katherine) Nimrod Kuydendall, who went West; Mrs. (Matilda) William T. Mitchell; Mrs. (Martha J.) James Westfall; and Mrs. Phebe White.

Sarah Zickafoose, born: noted as infant in 1814 estate settlement for father

Francis (Fannie) Zickafoose, born: Pendleton Co., VA - died: - married: Western Mills on 11 June 1811, Pendleton Co., VA

Isaac Zickafoose, born: - died: 1803, Pendleton Co., VA

References/sources:

The Ziegenfus Families Newsletter, Mark Amanns, 1981- 1984, http://members.tripod.com/~ziegen/ziegfnl.htm

West Virginia Marriage Records, 1863-1900

West Virginia Census Records, 1860-1890

Gene Pool Individual Records, http://www.ancestry.com

Virginia Census Records, 1800-1890

Virginia marriages, 1851-1900

Virginia Marriage Records, 1740-1850

Ritchie County, West Virginia, Chapter XXI, Indian Creek Settled

West Virginia History, Chapter VI South Fork Settlers, Chapter XXI Indian Creek Settled

Chronicles of the Scotch Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Circuit Court records, Section I

Land Grants and Land Grants of the Northern Neck, Virginia Digital Library, Card Index, http://www.lva.lib.va.us/collect/index.htm

Pennsylvania Foreign Oaths of Alliance, 16 Sept 1751

LDS microfilm #818705 of Pendleton County, West Virginia records. Volume II Deeds 1833-38, page 390 recorded on 30 December 1835