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- Name Suffix: Junior
died 27 Jun 1825
or 19 Jul 1825
Johannes 1783, sp Johannes Hager Jun, and Magdalena Haefnerin
Heinrich 1787, sp Johannes Kohler and wf Maria
Hana 1798, sp Jacob Haefner Jr and Hana Dreibebisin, single
Henry, w/o Catharine, mentioned in will of Mag. Rothermel, 1787, Richmond Twp
1800 census, Windsor, 22111-01101
(Hepner/Hefner)
Johann Heinrich Heffner. grandfather of Abraham, was born Nov. 23, 1754, and
died June 27, 1825. He was the first born of his parents, and was a farmer in
Richmond township, living on his father's land, which was acquired by patent
from the Commonwealth in 1784. He married Anna Katherine Kohler,
daughter of John and Anna Maria Kohler. of Greenwich township. They
had ten children, namely: Daniel; John;Henry; Abraham; Samuel;
Solomon; Polly, who was lame and died single aged sixty-six years;
Kate, m. to Lansing Knapp, of West Penn township, Schuylkill county;
Hannah, m. to Daniel Underkoffler, of Mohrsville; and Jacob.
While Heinrich Heffner was a prisoner during the Revolutionary war,
he was confined in a church in New Jersey, and there a great-uncle
of Samuel Heffner, of Moselem Springs, was frozen to death.
The following legal document is on
record in the Court House of Berks county: 'Berks County, ss: Whereas
Heinrich Heffner, of Jacob Baldy's Co., in Col. Philip Gehr's
Battalion, has made complaint to us, the Subscribers, Commissioners
of said county that he could not attend at Muster and Field days in
1777-1778 as he was a prisoner of War and not exchanged, and we find
his complaint just, do therefore, agreeable to an Act of General
Assembly, passed the 27th day of March. 1789, acquit and exhonerate
the said Henry Heffner from the fine which he might have incurred
from not attending said Muster and Field days. Given under our hands,
the fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
seven hundred and ninety. (Signed) JohnKeim. Henry Speyker. Jacob
Beyer.'
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1754 - 1825 (70 years)