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Descendants of John Jacob
StutzmanGeneration No. 1
1. JOHN JACOB1
Stutzman was born
Abt. 1700 in Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, and died 1752 in At Sea.
Child of JOHN JACOB
Stutzman is:
2. i. JACOB2
Stutzman, b. 1727, Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany; d. 1813,
Clark County,
Indiana.
Generation No. 2
2. JACOB2
Stutzman (JOHN JACOB1) was born 1727 in Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, and died 1813 in
Clark County,
Indiana. He married BARBARA
YODER 1753 in
Pennsylvania. She was born 1736 in
North Carolina, and died Bef. 1800 in
North Carolina.
Notes for JACOB STUTZMAN:
In 1752, a family named
Stutzman left the lower Neckar Valley of Germany. This is an area near Stuttgart, from which the family appears to have derived their name. This family consisted of the father, mother, a sixteen year old son and an unknown number of younger children. During the voyage on a ship named Nancy, the father of the family died and was buried at sea. When the ship arrived in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, the family was denied entrance because there was no male family head, and a female could not act in the capacity of head of household. Jacob, the oldest son was a serious sixteen year old, dedicated to becoming a minister of the
Dunker congregation (also know as German Baptists). Jacob was allowed to then sign as the head of the family. In 1753 the young minister married a girl named Barbara
YODER. The Dunkers refused to take an oath, respond to court orders and some other seemingly senseless customs. When the American Revolution began Jacob followed his conscience and refused to ally himself with the colonists, even though he and his family had been given the hospitality of this new land and had enjoyed the safety denied to them in the native Germany.
He may have been in Bern Township,
Berks County,
Pennsylvania prior to 1757 when he was settled in Coventry Township,
Chester County,
Pennsylvania. By late 1759, Jacob had 60 acres on the Meadow branch of Great Pipe Creek in Frederick (now Carroll) County, Maryland.
In early October of 1764 he sold out in Maryland and moved to
North Carolina. He settled on the forks of the Uwharrie River in Rowan (now
Randolph Countyy,
North Carolina and started the Ewarry Congregation of The Brethren. Within 10 years he had a congregation of 19 families. During the American Revolution, the number of families increased by two or three fold due to refugees from
Pennsylvania.
He advocated the doctrine of "universal salvation" and introduced it for consideration at an Annual Dunkard meeting in 1799. For this belief, he was excommunicated in 1799 and on appeal, in 1800. He sold out in
North Carolina and moved to Washington Township,
Clark County,
Indiana after 1801. The Olive Branch Brethren congregation was organized in 1802 and their meetinghouse (built in 1821) and cemetery were across the road from his homestead. He was the minister for this congregation.
Jacob
Stutzman of Uwharrie, accompanied at least by his sons Jacob Jr. and John, took up land in Brothersvalley Township, Bedford (now Somerset) County,
Pennsylvania, in 1784. Elder
Stutzman did not stay in
Pennsylvania.
In the 1790 Federal Census for
Pennsylvania, Jacob
Stutzman (Jr.), John
Stutzman, and brothers-in-law Philip
Harmon and Thomas
Hutchinson were enumerated in the same cluster of heads of households in Bedford County. In the 1790 Federal Census for
North Carolina (taken in early 1791),
Hutchinson and
Harmon were back south in time for enumeration there also. Shortly thereafter, both Jacob Jr. and John returned to
Carolina also. John to stay until he moved to
Indiana in 1803, Jacob to recruit his younger brothers David and Samuel for
Pennsylvania settlement.
What occurred during the ensuing few years is still vague because Jacob
Stutzman Sr., his sons, and his sons-in-law spent the 1790s in acquiring land in both
North Carolina and
Pennsylvania. By 1798, the family group held approximately 6000 acres in both states. In
Pennsylvania, Jacob Jr., Samuel, and David all married Bergey sisters, then sold out in 1798 and moved west where all three were on the Henry County,
Kentucky, tax rolls of 1800.
Certainly with the presence or connections of the
Carolina Stutzmans with the Hostetlers, Yoders, and Bergeys, all of whom were rooted in the Bern Township,
Berks County,
Pennsylvania, Amish settlement, the southern
Indiana Stutesmans had to have had Amish roots.
When
Stutzman moved north in 1801-1802, he. gathered up his sons in Henry County,
Kentucky, for they joined him in purchasing a tract in the
Illinois Grant on March 22, 1802 and all four were sued when they failed to make payments as agreed. Youngest son Joseph died shortly upon arrival. Sons John and Daniel remained in
North Carolina until the Fall of 1803 when they both moved to the
Illinois Grant. With the exception of son-in-law Jacob Hoover. son of Andrew Hoover Sr., who succeeded his father as the miller at the Forks of Uwharrie and was one of the wealthiest men in
Randolph County, all of Stutzman's children and in-laws had moved to southern
Indiana or northern
Kentucky by 1812. After Jacob Hoover's death in 1821, his widow (Stutzman's daughter Elizabeth) moved to Boone County,
Indiana, where she died in 1840.
The public records of-pioneer Dark County,
Indiana Territory, 1802-1816, are full of the Stootsmin Statesman presence. All of the Elder's sons were active in public and court affairs. If they were not being sued, they were suing someone. They sat on both grand and petit juries, and at least two of them participated in death verdicts. There was some public washings of dirty linen as family members filed suits and cross-suits over who had called whom a "hog thief." They still scrupled, however, against bearing arms. They did not participate in militia musters or the War of 1812 although the Pigeon Roost Massacre was virtually on their doorstep.
More About JACOB STUTZMAN:
Burial: Olive Branch Cemetery, Washington Township,
Clark County,
Indiana Children of JACOB
Stutzman and BARBARA
YODER are:
i. ANNA3 STOTTSMAN, b. Abt. 1754,
Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. Daviess County, Indiana; m. PHILLIP DANIEL
Harmon,
Abt. 1774,
Rowan County, North Carolina; b. 1752, Salisbury,
Rowan County, North Carolina; d. 1811, Salisbury,
Rowan County,
North Carolina.
Notes for PHILLIP DANIEL HARMON:
He was the eldest son of a Lutheran-Anglican father who disowned him for becoming a
Dunker. He and his family lived in Bedford County,
Pennsylvania around 1790 but lived on Sandy Creek waters, Rowan (now Davidson) County,
North Carolina, 1791-1812.
ii. JACOB
Stutzman, JR., b. Abt. 1756,
Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. 1832, Dubois County, Indiana; m. MAGDALENA
BERKEY, Pennsylvania; b. 1773,
Berks County,
Pennsylvania.
iii. ELIZABETH
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1758,
Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. 1840, Boone County, Indiana; m. (1) JACOB HOOVER; b. Abt. 1758; d. 1821,
Randolph County, North Carolina; m. (2) BENJAMIN SANDERS, 03 March 1809,
Clark County, Indiana; b. Abt. 1758.
iv. BARBARA
Stutzman, b. 1759,
Frederick County, Maryland; d. 1832, Oldham County, Kentucky; m. CHRISTIAN SEARS, 1777,
Rowan County, North Carolina; b. 1742, Switzerland; d. 19 September 1834, Oldham County,
Kentucky.
v. JOHN
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1761,
Frederick County, Maryland; d. 1804,
Clark County, Indiana; m. MARY ELIZABETH SEARS,
Abt. 1786; b. Abt. 1761.
vi. DANIEL
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1763,
Frederick County, Maryland; d. 1843, Van Buren County, Iowa; m. (1) LYDIA COLLINGS; b. Abt. 1763; m. (2) MARY KERN,
Abt. 1795; b. Abt. 1763.
vii. SAMUEL
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1767,
Rowan County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1842,
Clark County, Indiana; m. SARAH
BERKEY,
Abt. 1795, Pennsylvania; b. 1776,
Berks County,
Pennsylvania.
viii. DAVID
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1769,
Rowan County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1837,
Clark County, Indiana; m. SUSANNA
BERKEY,
Abt. 1795, Pennsylvania; b. 1774,
Berks County,
Pennsylvania.
ix. HANNAH
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1771,
Guilford County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1838, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana; m. JOHN SHEETS, 1798; b. Abt. 1771.
x. SARAH
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1773,
Guilford County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1845, Washington County, Indiana; m. ANDREW SHEETS,
Abt. 1799; b. Abt. 1773.
xi. MARY
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1774,
Guilford County, North Carolina; d. 1824,
Clark County, Indiana; m. THOMAS
Hutchinson,
Abt. 1783; b. Abt. 1765.
xii. JOSEPH
Stutzman, b. Abt. 1776,
Guilford County, North Carolina; d. 1802,
Clark County, Indiana; m. RACHEL JANE KARN, 1800; b. Abt. 1776, North Carolina; d. Franklin County, Arkansas.
