John Henry Gebhart

A Patriot of the American Revolution for PENNSYLVANIA. DAR Ancestor # A043933

JOHANN HEINRICH 'HENRY' GEBHART WAS BORN IN TULPENHOCKEN, PENNSYLVANIA. HIS FAMILY HAD IMMIGRATED FROM DESLOC, RHEINLAND-PFALZ PALATIMATE (Germany in 1850) ON 9 SEPT 1738 ON THE 'GLASGOW. HIS FATHER WAS 29 YEARS OLD WITH A WIFE AND ONE CHILD. JOHANN WAS THE 5TH CHILD IN THE FAMILY. IN 1768 HE MARRIED MARY MILLER HE SERVED IN THE BERKS CO. MILITIA IN CAPT. BRETZ'S SIXTH BATTALION DURING THE REV WAR AND RECEIVED HIS LAND GRANT IN OHIO. AT THE END OF THE WAR, HE AND THREE OF HIS BROTHERS WERE AMONG 21 FAMILIES THAT SETLED MIAMISBURG, OHIO BETWEEN 1805-1815. THERE JOHANN HENRY,JOHAN GEORG, PETER AND VALENTINE ALL RECEIVED THEIR LAND GRANTS BUT..THE BROTHERS ALSO BUILT A TAVEREN. IT IS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REG. OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS. WILL WAS DATED 27 SEPT 1815 AND RECORDED 9 OCT. 1815, BOOK A, PAGE 113 MONTGOMERY CO., OHIO. NAMES WIFE MAGDALENE, SONS PHILIP, HENRY, JOHN, GEORGE, JACOB AND DAUGHERS MARGARET WEAVER, MAGDALENE SCHNEPP AND EVE APPLE. EXECS WERE SONS PHILIP AND JACOB--WITNESSES, PHILIP MIKESEL, BANIEL BOWSER, MICHAEL HUBLER.

THERE 42 OTHER LEGAL DOCUMENTS LISTED WITH OTHER CONNECTED FAMILY NAMES IN THESE PAPERS THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH HENRY & JOHN APPLE, JACOB WEAVER,JOHN SCHNEPP/SNEPP,GEORGE ELY, ALL BETWEEN 1867-1822. ONE HALF OF THE FIRST 100 MARRIAGES IN MIAMISBURG, OHIO WERE GEBHARTS.  JOHANN HENRICH GEBHART IS LISTED IN THE FILES OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REV. AS WELL AS HIS BROTHERS, JOHNA GEORGE, PETER AND VALENTINE WHO ALL SERVED TOGETHER.