NINTH GENERATION
Johan Michael Huber (relationship unknown)
275. unknown
| Hohleysen seems to be a Dutch form of a Danish (="Hollesen", "Son of Holler") name. There were Danes in both New Netherland and New Sweden from the mid-1600s. (137) Susanna Hohleysen was called a "Lutheran" on the DRC records.
"Lutheranism took root in the new world in the seventeenth century, in two different places: the New Sweden Colony along the Delaware River, and the New Netherland Colony in what is now the State of New York... In New Netherland, however, the Lutherans were persecuted by the Dutch Reformed authorities, and they were forbidden to call a pastor and formally organize themselves. Despite these hardships the faithful Lutherans in New Netherland did succeed in preserving their confessional identity. They met privately in homes, and resisted the efforts of the authorities to convert them to Calvinism. Their national and ethnic backgrounds were very diverse. Among them were Frisians, Germans, Swedes, Finns, Danes, Poles, and Norwegians."
-- http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutheranheritage.falckner.html
"...in 1735, Danish converts to Moravian pietism established a mission at Bethlehem, Pa., and after 1750 many more Danes of that faith joined the predominantly German settlements there..."
-- http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson23.htm
There was a considerable Scandanavian Lutheran community on the lower Delaware River around the time that Susanna Hohleysen converted from Lutheranism to join the Walpack church. At Wilmington, DE, which grew out of the New Sweden settlement of Christina, Trinity Lutheran Church was the only church in 1742. At the other end of New Sweden, in "Upland County" (the modern-day SE Pennsylvania, as far as Bucks Co.) included a church at Wicaco in what is now Philadelphia. There were other churches in the former colony as well, which also included SW New Jersey. These had originally been established to serve the mostly Swedish, Finnish and Dutch settlers, but now increasingly served as well new English- and German-speaking arrivals to William Penn's colony. It is very possible that (137) Susannah and her parents were part of this Lutheran community, which also had contact with the multilingual Moravian community at Bethlehem to which Johan Michael Huber probably belonged. Because (136) Johan Hendricus Huber immigrated at Philadelphia, it is even possible that (136) Johan married Susanna in Johannes Dylander's Lutheran church (see below) or some other church in the area which was in communion with Pastor Dylander:
"The church of Wicaco had been without a minister since the latter part of the year 1733, having been served by Eneberg from Christina and by Tranberg from Raccoon and Pennsneck, but on the 2nd of November 1737, a minister, the Rev. Johannes Dylander arrived to Philadelphia from Sweden. At this period the position of the Swedish ministers was getting difficult, for the reason that (a) great part of their congregations did not understand the Swedish language... At the arrival of Mr. Dylander, the congregation preferred the English language for their church and many had united with the English churches. The Wicaco congregation had only sixty families left on the arrival of the minister, but after Dylander had acquired the English language and was preaching on the Sunday afternoons in that language, he could increase his congregation into one hundred families. He also preached in the Wicaco church during more than a year, early in the morning in the German language, to that nationality, who were without minister. Mr. Dylander was an industrious man and was so well liked, that the English ministers of Philadelphia made a complaint against him because the English had acquired the habit of celebrating their marriages in the Wicaco church...
"Besides taking good care of his congregation Mr. Dylander travelled in the outlying Finnish, German and English settlements, delivering as many as sixteen sermons weekly. This however soon broke his health, (so) he had on account of sickness to give up the German and English services, and his entire work was terminated by death on the 2nd day of November 1741... Pastor Eneberg of Christina church having left for Sweden on August 10, 1741, the Rev. Tranberg of Raccoon and Pennsneck was the only Swedish minister left in America.
"Mr. Tranberg had requested the Consistory of Upsala to be appointed for the Christina congregation after the departure of the Rev. Eneberg. This had been granted to him and while Mr. Eneberg still was in the country, Tranberg became the minister of the Christina Church, on August 1, 1741. Although the Christina people were pleased to receive a minister, the people of Raccoon and Pennsneck were much displeased for his transfer, especially as they felt that Mr. Tranberg had been well treated and had massed a fortune during his fourteen years with the New Jersey congregations. In a resolution entered into the Raccoon church book the congregation resented the arbitrary manner of the transfer by the Swedish king and bishop, declaring that the congregation alone had to do with the ministers, and that no more ministers (were) to be ordered from Sweden...
"Like in the Wicaco congregation, here too the Finnish descendants had not had enough opportunity since the coming of the English people to keep up their understanding of the Swedish language, despite the efforts of the Swedish ministers. English had become the language of communication between the old settlers and the English, German and other new immigrants. A large part of the Finnish descendants preferred the English language to the Swedish in their church, besides there were many English non-Quakers in Wilmington who did not have any church at all; therefore, by the desire of the congregation, services were held in the morning in Swedish and in the afternoon in English. Mr. Tranberg also attended several English churches and sometimes also preached in the German church at Lancaster."
-- E. A. Louhi, The Delaware Finns or The First Permanent Settlements in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey, and Eastern Part of Maryland New York, The Humanity Press Publishers. 1925, 331 pages c/o http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/article298se.htm
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| Other possibilities for the origin of (136) Johan Hendricus Hover are as follows:
"In my family tree I found only one entry that might be relevant:
(272?) Joannes Huber (c. 30 Aug. 1663 Dokkum, Friesland, Neth). No data are available about profession, marriage, children or date of death. He might have emigrated to America."
-- Axel Rosendahl Huber
"Most Hovers in the US", on the other hand, "are descended from Norwegians named Hover. The name means crow, the bird, I understand. There is a town in
Norway named Hover.
-- Pierre Haver, Plymouth, OH phaver@willard-oh.com (cf. also http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/o/l/Leroy-D-Holm/)
"It is believed that a (273iii) Johan Michael Huber who married Elizabeth Mennes, Catharian Huber who married Peter Conterman (Countryman, Gunderman, etc) and (273ii) Maria Juliana Huber Wintermute were perhaps siblings to Johan Hendricus (Henry). In the “Memorial of the Moravian Church” it is related that the brethern (Moravians) kept and preached a school in the upper valley of the Delaware on the Jersey shore in 1746 and 1747 and were ministered to by a Joseph Shaw who came on the same ship as (prob. a different) Johan Michael Huber and were the first colonists who arrived at Bethlehem, PA in June 1742. On page 75 in speaking of Johan Michael Huber it says “lost a sea in a hurricane on the passage to St. Thomas in Oct 1747 along with the missionaries Joseph and Mary Shaw. There was another Johan Michael Huber who arrived 21 Aug 1750 on the ship “Anderson”. He is perhaps the one who married Elizabeth Mennes and had a son Johannes baptised Feb. 1753 Walpack sponsored by Peter Counterman and Catharine Huber.
"The Hubers are mentioned in the parish registers of Trippstadt situated at or near Holzwald, six miles south of Kaiserslautern (Rheinland-Pfalz). Several Hubers came to Philadelphia in 1740’s and 1750’s.
"Information from J. Kelsey Jones, Genealogy committee person."
-- Windemuth Family Organization
December 1998 Newsletter http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:c2BXrW2z3k0J:windemuth.org/Newsletter1998.htm+walpack+lutheran+hover&hl=en
Friedrich Riedel and Peter Rose were among the first group of Moravian settlers in Georgia in 1735. Riedel died of a fever, the first Moravian to perish in the colony. Peter and Catherine had twin daughters, Anna Catherina (who died in Sep. 1737) and Mary Magdalena. After doing missionary work among the Indians there, he and his small family went with the other Brethren to PA, where he died in Germantown.
-- http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/northamerican/TheMoraviansinGeorgia/chap6.html
The greatest concentration of Hovers in Germany today are in Köln, Krefeld and Essen, all in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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[LAST REVISED 5 Jan. 2010]
Haplogroup DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS DYS HGP #87354 (Hover) I2b1 Continental I2a Modal Haplotype I2b1* Of the above 25 markers, 22 match the "Continental I2a modal" haplotype (I-M223-Cont2a). The area of (I-M223-Cont2a)'s most dense presence is Northwest Germany and Netherlands, then up into Denmark, and even Southern Sweden and Norway. This is consistent with the current distribution of the surname primarily in Rheinland-Pfalz, and corroborates the notion that this clan was one that may have first fled to Switzerland, or "Hooghduytschland", but then returned to its original homeland in W. Germany.
Of the 36 users of The Hoover Family Genetic Genealogy Research Project (HGP), only one used the spelling "Hover" The first 25 markers were:
393
390
19/
394
391
385a
385b
426
388
439
389-1
392
389-2
458
459a
459b
455
454
447
437
448
449
464a
464b
464c
464d
276. Peter /Pieter Van Garden /Van Gordon /Van Gorder
SRC: Decker, Benton Weaver, THE DECKER GENEALOGY (1980).
"[(276) Peter Van Garden] moved to Shippekonk, at the 'smooth rocks,' in Montague, three miles from Port Jervis"
SRC: DeCourcey Family Notes and Chronology, 1700-1750, by William DeCoursey, 1735 19th Terr. NW New Brighton, MN 55112 (612) 633-5759; "Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830" by R. W. Vosburgh (1913)
-- "The Rosenkrans Family in Europe and America," by Allen Rosenkrans, published in 1900, page 54
277. Margaret/Margariet Decker
22 Aug. 1763 Machackemeck D.R.C., Minisink Twp., Orange Co., NY
s/o Isc & Styn Kerper
278. Pieter Hendricksen/Hendrickson Van Kortright/Kortrecht
279. (553v) Mary/Marytjin/Marretje Van Garden
18 Sep. 1747 RDC Smithfield Twp., Monroe, PA ("j.m.", "j.d.")
= siblings
