Friday, August 9, 2019

52 Ancestors - Week 290: #498 Henry Pickel (1729-1765) of Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Henry Pickel (1729-1765) is #498 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married  #499 Elizabeth --?-- (1731-1803) in about 1760, probably in Hunterdon County, New Jersey..

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #249 Elizabeth Pickel (1764-1849) who married  #248 Jacob Sovereign (1759-1851) in 1781.
*  their son, #124 Frederick Sovereign (1786-1875) who married #125 Mary Jane Hutchison (1792-1868) in 1810.
*  their son, #62 Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907) who married #63 Elizabeth Putman (1818-1895) in 1840.
*  their daughter, #31 Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874), married  #30 James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) in 1861.
*  their daughter #15 Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952)  married  #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916) in 1898.
*  their daughter #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977), married #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) in 1918.
*  their daughter #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 
   
*  Name:                      Henry Pickel[2-3]    
*  Alternate Name:      Henry Pickle[1]

*  Sex:                          Male    

*  Father:                     Johann Balthasar Pickel (1687-1765)    
*  Mother:                   Anna Gertrud "Charity" Reiterin (1684-1761)   

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                       15 February 1729, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[1,3]    

*  Death:                      5 December 1765 (age 36), Readington, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[1-2]    
*  Burial:                      after 5 December 1765 (after age 36), Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Oldwick, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[2]    

*  Probate:                   19 April 1766 (age 37), Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States[3]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                  Elizabeth --?-- (1731-1803)    
*  Marriage 1:               before 1760 (before about age 31), Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States    

*  Child 1:                    Baltus Pickel (1760-1765)    
*  Child 2:                    Gertraut Pickel (1762-    )    
*  Child 3:                    Elizabeth Pickel (1764-1849)    
*  Child 4:                    Henry Baltus Pickel (1765-1833)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  
The early generations of the Pickel/Pickle families of New Jersey were documented in Chambers book, The Early Germans of New Jersey[1].

Henry Pickel was born 15 February 1729 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey[1-2], the youngest child of Johann Balthasar and Anna Gertrud (Reiterin) Pickel.  

He married Elizabeth --?-- in about 1760, and they had four children, all born in Hunterdon County[1]:

*  Baltus Pickel (1760-1765).
*  Gertraut Pickel (1762-????), married Caleb Farley (1751-1844) in 1781.
*  Elizabeth Pickel (1764-1849), married Jacob Sovereign (1759-1851) in 1781.
*  Henry Baltus Pickel (1765-1833), married Mary --?-- before 1784.

Henry died on 5 December 1765, at the age of 36, in Hunterdon County[1-2], leaving his wife with four small children.

He is buried in the Zion Lutheran Church cemetery in Oldwick, Hunterdon County, New Jersey[2] between his son Baltus Pickel and his father Johann Balthasar Pickel, who died on the same day that Henry died.  The gravestone inscription on the stone says:

In Memory of
HENRY PICKEL
who was born Febr^y 15
A.D. 1729.
he died Decem^r 5 1765

Henry Pickel's estate was administered on 19 April 1766 in Hunterdon County.  The administrators were his brother Baltus Pickel and John Melich, both of Hunterdon County.  Phillip Wise of Roxbury in Morris County posted a thousand pound bond.  An inventory, totaling £663-3-3 was made by Waland Van De Vander and Samuel Wyckof on 31 December 1765[3].
 
5.  SOURCES

1. Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: their history, churches, and genealogies (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982), pages 462-464, Pickle family sketches.


2. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Oldwick, N.J., Henry Pickel memorial # 27040543.

3. A. Van Doren Honeyman (editor), Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. XXXIII; Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc.  Volume IV, 1761-1770 (Somerville, N.J. : Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers, 1928), page 329, Henry Pickel estate abstract, 1766.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2019 to 312 Ancestors in 312 Weeks.


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