John Back, of Madison County

Biography

John Back (Bach), Sr. was born circa 1738 in Culpeper, VA, United States, or more likely, Thüringen, Germany. His parents were John Henry Bach and Anna Maria Back (Hoffman).

John married Margaret Hoffman before July 19, 1779 in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. Together they had the following 5 known children:

1. Susannah Floyd (Back);
2. Anna Bach;
3. Sarah Back;
4. Frances Floyd (Back);
5. Elizabeth Embrey (Bach).

He died circa 1793 in Madison County, VA, United States.

"Bache" became "Back" at some point

• Predicted Y: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Bach_to_Back?iframe=yresults J-Culpeper Co VA to Wayne Co KY John Back b. 1760 Culpeper VA d. 1845 Monroe Co IN R-M269
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167918055/john-back shows his parents as Anna Maria Hoffman & Johann Heinrich Bach (John Henry Back, of Culpeper County & Anna Maria Back and the entity maintaining the memorial has added and maintains ONLY this memorial and posits that this is a Johan Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach cousin and they are from Thuringia, not Freudenberg.

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Notes

20 November 1766 John Back purchased one acre from John Bunger "surveyed for John Back adjoining his mill site whereupon his mill house stands" (Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book E, 204)

16 February 1767 John Back, millwright of Culpeper, mortgaged his mill and other property to William Allason of King George County (Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book E, 422)

15 February 1768 John Back sol to William Allason land on the Rappahannock River on lease from Robert Beverly, part of a tract called Elkwood, along with the grist mill built by John Back (Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book E, 529)

19 July 1769 John Back of Culpeper County sold a horse and "bote at my mill on the Rapphannock River" to Joseph Blackwell (Fauquier County, Virginia Deed Book)

1779 John Back owned 150 acres in Culpeper County, Virginia ("The Little Fork Colony From Siegen: Culpeper County, Virginia," The Story of Germanna Descendants in Reunion, (1960).).

12 May 1779 John Back signed petition requesting Culpeper County be divided into three separate counties ("Inhabitants: Petition," Culpeper County, 12 May 1779, Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA. Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 317, Folder 5. Library of Virginia, (https://www.lva.virginia.gov/: accessed 9 April 2019), Virginia Memory > Digital Collections > Collections A to Z > Legislative Petitions Digital Collection.).

19 July 1779 John Back and wife Margaret sold 20 acres to Peter Clore for £20. (Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book I, p 382-384)

14 January 1783 John Back and wife Margaret and Peter Clore and wife Mary sold to John Wayland Jr. 20 acres for £10. (Culpeper County Virginia Deed Book L, p 240-243)

18 March 1803 Margaret Back, John Embry and wife Elizabeth, Anna, Sarah, Frances and Susannah Back sold land that had belonged to John Huffman (Margaret's father) to Lewis Crigler (Madison County, Virginia Deed Book 3, 395)

Sources
"The Little Fork Colony From Siegen: Culpeper County, Virginia," The Story of Germanna Descendants in Reunion, (1960), possible son.

[S0040278] Germanna Record No. 5: Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750, B. C. Holtzclaw, (Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1964, Sixth Printing 2002), 38.

[S0040277] Germanna Record #3: John Hoffman, 1714 Germanna Colonist and His Descendants, B.C. Holtzclaw, (Culpeper, VA: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, April 1963, reprinted July 1989), 69.
date of administrator's bond, cites WB 1: 27, 44

[S0040278] Germanna Record No. 5: Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750, B. C. Holtzclaw, (Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1964, Sixth Printing 2002), 39.
date of administrator's bond, cites Madison County, Virginia WillBook 1, 27, 44

[S0040277] Germanna Record #3: John Hoffman, 1714 Germanna Colonist and His Descendants, B.C. Holtzclaw, (Culpeper, VA: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, April 1963, reprinted July 1989), 69.
date they sold land together, cites Culpeper County, Virginia DeedBook I: 382

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