Melchoir Heffner

DAR has last name as Heebner.

Melchoir was a soldier in the Revolutionary War

The name Hefner (Havner, Heavner, Heaffner, Heffner, Hubner, Hiebner) is a German dialect word meaning potter, and is still standard Pennsylvania German. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Holland one can still read this name in shop windows and telephone directories.

Melchoir Hefner (Melcar Havner) arrived in the US on 1 Sept 1734 on the ship St. Andrew Galley with Captain John Steadman from Rotterdam, Holland. With many other German immigrants seeking a new life in America, Melchoir landed at a port in Maryland. At age 16, he found that new home in Frederick Co, MD. From Maryland land records we find that Melchoir Hefner and his wife, Anna Catharina, owned tracts of land in Frederick County called “Peace” and “New Germany,” which they sold, in 1772, after moving to what is now Catawba County.

Why they left Maryland for North Carolina we have no record, but they must have heard from relatives who had preceded them of the good life in this area.

On December 13, 1770, Melchoir and Catharina purchased 350 acres of land in Lincoln County which was named “The Plantation.” A year or so later in December 1771 or 1772, they arrived in North Carolina to make their home. All of this couple’s children were born in Maryland. Fortitude and courage were shown in traveling through Indian territory to make a home for this group.

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Elizabeth Hefner (born Keller) by SmartCopy: Oct 31 2014, 5:45:15 UTC
• Residence: Lincoln, North Carolina, United States - 1790
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• Updated from [undefined WikiTree] via Philip Jacob Hefner by SmartCopy: Oct 31 2014, 5:44:03 UTC