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• Name: Jacob HECKER
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1706 in Germany ^b
• Death: Abt Apr 1775 in Lebanon Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^d


Parents:

Family:
Marriage:

• Agnes DOERR on 25 Mar 1744/5 at Lebanon Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania .^m1
  
• Agnes DOERR

Children:

1. Anna Maria Barbara HECKER Birth: Germany
2. Michael HECKER
3. Anna Maria Charlotta HECKER Birth: Abt 1733 in Germany Death: 1791

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

abt 1706 [Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014],

place:

[Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

Sources for death Information

date:

will dated 25 Mar 1775, pro 15 Apr 1775 [Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014],

place:

[Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

Sources with Information about marriage to Agnes DOERR

date:

[Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014, Stoever Records p60],

place:

[Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

Warwick [Ref: Stoever Records p60],

names:

John Jacob HAECKERT & Agnes BOHRMAN [Ref: Stoever Records p60],

child:

[Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

Research Notes:
19 Sep 1743: arrived in America on ship Lydia [Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

1 May 1749: wife wife (unnamed) sponsor at baptism of Jacobina Schmeltzer, daughter of Johannes Schmeltzer of Swatara [Ref: Stoever Records p40]

16 Jan 1750: advertisement in a Pennsylvania German newspaper says that Jacob Hecker of Quitapahilla is looking for his daughter Charlotta who was indentured six years previous [Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

5 Jul 1752: wife wife (unnamed) sponsor at baptism of John Jacob Schmeltzer, son of Johannes Schmeltzer [Ref: Stoever Records p40]

Jul 1770: Frederick Heiser petitioned the Berks County Orphans' Court that he and jacob Heckert had been appointed guardians of the children of Gottlieb Thom and that jacob had the "effects" in his hands. Frederick requested an accounting [Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

Sep 1773: Agnes Magdalena, wife of Jacob Henning, and daughter of Gottlieb Thom, deceased, late of Tulephocken Twp, states that Jacob Henning will now be her guardian (she is above 14) taking over from Frederick Weiser and Jacob Hecker who have declined to act longer [Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

will dated 25 Mar 1775, proved 15 Apr 1775. Mentions wife Agnes, son Michael, daughters Anna maria Charlotta and Barbara [Ref: Oakey Mertz 10/26/2014]

---------- Will of Jacob Hecker, recorded in Lancaster Co PA Will Book C p205-6 Jacob Hecker, Decd.
In the Name of God Amen.
I Jacob Hecker of the Township of Lebanon in the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsylvania Yoeman being sick and very weak in Body but of Sound and Disposing mind Memory and Understanding do make and ordain this my Lasst Will and Testamtnt in manner and form following, that is to Say Principally and First of all I Recommend my Soul into the hands of God Hoping through the Merits and ___ ____ of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for forgiving of my Sins and an happy Admission into the Regines of Blis and Immortality and my Body I commend to the Earh therein to be buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereinafter Named and to such worldly Estate as it hath pleased my Heavenly Father to bestow me with I give devise and bequeath the Same as follows, to wit,
Impremis I will and desire that all my just debts and Funeral Charges and Expense be paid and satisfied of. It is also my will that I give and bequeath unto my Son Michael the sum of Five Shillings Sterling for his first Birth Right or for his first Portion and afterward it is my will that my Son Michael and Anna Maria Charlotte and Barbara Each of them to receive from my Executor hereafter named one Shilling Sterling for my Real and Personal Estate and no more
Three to the ___ of my beloved wife Agnes and Forder(?) I Impower my Executr Hereafter named to have full form and Authority to Sell Either by Public or private Sale and dispose of all my Lots and lands in or Near Lebanon Town for the best price that Can be gotten to any Person or Persons that are willing to purchase the Same and I hereby Impower my said Executor or the Survivor of them to give such Deed or Deeds for the same as will vest a Fee Simple Estate in the purchaser thereof.
Item I give and Bequeath unto my Beloved wife Agnes all the Remainder and Resi__ of my whole or whole Real and Personal Estate to my beloved wife Agnes as long as she lives and after her death my Real and Personal Estate shall be equably Divided unto my forementioned children or their heirs.
And Lastly I Nominate and appoint my Loving Friend John Resly ad my Friend Godfried Engleberner Executors of this my last Will and Testament, hereby Revoking and making null and Void all former will or wills by me heretofore made, Declaring this and no other to be and Contain my Last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof I the said Jacob Hecker have to this my Last Will and ___ my hand and seal this Twenty Fifth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred Seventy Five.
Jacob (H) Heckert
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and declared by the Above Named Jacob Heckert this to be his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who were present at the signing thereof Jacob Weaver, Casper Snevely, ___ ___.
Lancaster County SS. On the Fifteenth day of April Anno Domini 1775 Before me the Subscriber Personally appeared the above named Jacob Weaver and Casper Snevely two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the above and within with the said Casper Snavely on his Solemn according to law The said Jacob Weaver his Corporal Oath did depose and say that they were present and Saw and heard Jacob Heckert the Testator within Named Sign Seal Publish Pronounce and Declare the above and within writing as and for his Last Will and Testament and that at the time during thereof he was of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding to the best of their knowledge Observation and Belief. Jowd Shippen, DYR.
Be it rembered that on the Fifteenth day of April Anno Domini 1775 the Last Will and Testament of Jacob Hecker late of Lebanon Township in the County of Lancaster Yoeman deceased was proved in due form of Law and Letters Testament were issued to John Resly and Golford Eighalbermer, the two Executors therein named, they being first duly Qualified well and truly to Administer for the estate of the Testator and to Exhibit a true and perfect Inventory thereof into the Register Office at Lancaster on or before the fifteenth day of May and to render a true and just Account of their Administration when thereto Lawfully required. Given under the Seal of the said Office, Edw Shippen, DYR. [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills C-205]



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