Hans Adam Stieffel [1]

  General Notes:

Trudy Shenk to L. Ellingham (professional genealogist, report, 20 & 25 Jan 2004):
'Johann Adam Stiefel' birth & baptismal data; birth year approximation from N. Mill Creek Luth. Ch. records. (Grant Co. WV);

Barbara Whiting (pro-researcher): investigated baptismal & death records at Kirchenkirnberg (Württemberg) Germany - found not to be those of subject; "PA German Passengers": crossed Atlantic (to Philadelphia) 2 Nov 1752 "Phoenix", w/Hans Melchior Stieffel; Lutheran Church records. [@ UWV] for most birth, marriage & death dates (age at death said to be '69 years, 9 months' [which would make birthdate 18 Nov 1733];

"Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War" p. 106: 'Frederick County' [7 Mar 1776] Capt. Henry Boteler; Lt. Thomas Odle, etc.;

rank & file, Adam Boot (Henry Ault, Wm. Ault, John Ault, etc.);

p. 237: 'Washington County' [1 Jul 1777/5 Oct 1778] List of Officers and Men in Capt. Henry Botelers Company: (4th class) George Boot, Adam Boot ('6th Class' Henry Ault, Lieut. Thomas Odel, inter al. familiar surnames) "Washington Co., MD 1783 Tax Assessment" (Vol. 7, No. 4, Oct 1991, p. 69) 'Lower Antietam Hundred': Adam Boote, 3 horses, 30 black cattle (no land);

'Hans Adam Stieffel': recorded signature as passenger arriving on ship "Phoenix" in 1752 at Philadelphia (see Daniel Rupp's "A Collection of Upwards of 30,000 Names or German, Swiss, Dutch, French & Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776" [1980 reprint, p. 293])

  Birth Notes:

Anhausen (Jagstkreis), , Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Baptism: Sulzdorf (Jagstkreis) Württemberg (Germany), 29 Apr 1732.

2. Occupation: farmer.

3. Religion: Lutheran.

4. Will. Will of Adam Boots (Born Hans Adam Stieffel)
As recorded in Will Book 1, page 265, Hardy County, Virginia
IN THE NAME OF GOD AN, I, Adam Boots, of the County of Hardy and being weak and sick but of Perfect Mind and Memory , thanks be given to God, calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a christian manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing (?) but at the general resurection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of it in the following manner and form. First. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Garret Boots the lower part of the plantation whereon I now live including up to Mill Creek to Coopers Mill Road in a square line crop (across?) which I freely give unto him his heirs forever.
Secondly. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Adam Boots the upper part of my plantation above mentioned including down Mill Creek to the said Coopers Mill Road aforesaid which I freely give unto him and his heirs forever and I desire that my two sons namely Garret and Adam pay unto my son Martin Boots the sum of fifty pounds part out of the land to be paid after my death and I futher desire that the said Garret and Adam Boots pay unto my daugher Mary Ault's children, namely Elizabeth Ault, Mary Ault, Susannah Ault, Michael Ault, Jacob Ault and Barbery Ault the sum of 300 pounds each aftr my death and as they become of age and I futher desire that the said Garret and Adam pay unto my son George Boots Children the sum of 500 pounds each after my death and as they become of age and do nominate and appoint my beloved wife Barbary and my son Adam Boots Executor and Executrix of this last will and testament and I do utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other forever testament will legacies bequeaths me in any wise before willed and bequeathed, ratifying and conforming (confirming?) this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th day of April 1802.
Sealed signed and acknowledged in the presence of us
Adam Boots (Seal)
(Seal) Conrod Carr
(Seal) Leonard Hagler

5. Emigration: Passanger on the ship "Phoenix," 2 Nov 1752. ² "Pennsylvania German Pioneers"-Vol. 2, page 601 shows Hans Melchior Stieffel and Hans Adam Stieffel as passangers on the ship "Phoenix", Nov. 2, 1752. Records of the Old North Mill Creek Lutheran Church now in the vaults of the Lutheran Church, Petersburg, West Virginia, show on march 21st 1799, at communion service: Adam Stieffel Sr. , Adam Stieffel Jr. , Barbara Stieffel "frau", Elizabeth Stiffel "frau", and Marte (Martin?) Stieffel. Frau indicated a married woman. Barbara and Elizabeth were probally the wives of Adam Sr. and Adam Jr.

Hans married Barbary [14281] [MRIN: 5698] about 1760 in ?PA. (Barbary [14281] died after 1808 in , Hardy, Virginia, USA and was buried in N. Mill Creek Lutheran Church, Hardy Co., West Virginia.)