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John Nicholas Hetrick
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John Nicholas Hetrick 3 4
- Born: 4 May 1752, Pennsylvania 4
- Marriage (1): Anna Catarina Brosius on 4 May 1772 in Christ's Lutheran Church, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania 1
- Marriage (2): Anna Maria on 30 Dec 1800 in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania 2
- Died: 3 May 1806, Pennsylvania at age 53
- Buried: Himmel Church Cemetery, Washington Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
General Notes:
His parents were Christopher Heydrich and Magdalena Sontag. Nicholas was one of the founders of Himmel's Church in Rebuck, Pennsylvania located in lower Mahanoy Township (Now Washington Twp.), Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The church was organized in 1773 and Nicholas and Anna Catherine's son John Peter Hetrick was baptized there on July 3, 1774 - the second baptism held at the newly formed church according to the Baptismal Reports available from 1774 through 1846.
Nicholas owned at least 356 acres of land in Mahanoy Twp. at the time of his death, which was willed to his children, share and share alike. His wife was willed 100 pounds and articles necessary for her personal needs.
Nicholas fought in the Revolutionary War with the First Battalion, Northumberland County Militia in the Fourth Company, he was commissioned 12 April 1782. He is also listed in the DAR Patriot Index, Page 320. Nicholas' uncle Peter Heyderich was a Lt. Col. in the Revolutionary War
Nicholas was buried in Himmel's Church Cemetery, Rebuck, Pennsylvania. The original headstone was lost around 1960 when it was temporarily moved for a Church reconstruction project after a fire in 1959. A new headstone was re-erected around 1998 by Jack K. Hetrick of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. 5
Additional Information:
• Military Service: Ensign, 1st Battalian, Northumberland Company, under Capt. Michael Sheffers and Col. John White: the Revolutionary War. 6
John married Anna Catarina Brosius, daughter of John Nicholas Brosius and Anna Barbara Schaffer, on 4 May 1772 in Christ's Lutheran Church, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.1 (Anna Catarina Brosius was born on 15 Sep 1753 in Atolhoe, Berks County, Pennsylvania,4 died in 1801 in , Northumberland County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.)
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Alt. Marriage, 8 May 1772. 4
John next married Anna Maria on 30 Dec 1800 in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.7 (Anna Maria was born about 1770 and died about 1810.)
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Sources
1
Weiser, Records of Pastoral Acts at Christ Lutheran Church, Stouchsberg, Pennsylvania, Part II (Translated and edited by Frederick S. Weiser, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania German Society, 1990 Denver Public Library Call Number: G929.374816 C461re pt.2), pg 42 (pg 571 of original record).
2
Frieda (Hetrick) Ried, compiler, Hetrick Family History of Sandusky County, Ohio (Second Edition; Engler Printing, Fremont, Ohio, May 2004), page 20. Her primary sources were Himmel's Church Baptismal Records, Rebuck, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Himmel's Church Records. Wilma Hetrick Koelling - Hetrick file, Crawford County, Pennsylvania Library. Himmel's Church- List of Members reporting for Confession and Holy Supper by year. Northumberland County Abstracts of Vital Records. LDS Films. Reeds Church, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Compiled in 1745). Alfred Smith, Abstract of Wills and Administration, Berks County, Pennsylvania 1752-1798,
3
Herbert Willard Brosius, Brosius Family Tree (Brosius 2009 Gedcom).
4
Frieda (Hetrick) Ried, compiler, Hetrick Family History of Sandusky County, Ohio (Second Edition; Engler Printing, Fremont, Ohio, May 2004), page 5.
5
Frieda (Hetrick) Ried, compiler, Hetrick Family History of Sandusky County, Ohio (Second Edition; Engler Printing, Fremont, Ohio, May 2004), page 19.
6
U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 (National Cemetery Association), Repository: Ancestry.com.
7
Frieda (Hetrick) Ried, compiler, Hetrick Family History of Sandusky County, Ohio (Second Edition; Engler Printing, Fremont, Ohio, May 2004), page 20.