George Hain

George Hain¹

• Marriage*: Spouse=Veronica (?)¹
• Death*: 1746; Berks Co., Pennsylvania²
• Burial*: Saint John's Hains Cemetery, Wernersville, Berks Co., Pennsylvania²

Family:

Veronica (?) d. 1756

• Marriage*: Spouse=Veronica (?)¹

Children:

Anna Sabilla Hain+¹² d. 1785
John Christian Hain+¹³ d. 25 Oct 1771
Joseph Hain¹⁴
John Adam Hain+ ¹⁵ d. c 1783
John Frederick Hain+¹⁶
Elizabeth Gertrude Hain+¹⁷ b. 1711, d. 4 Jun 1768
Peter Hain+¹⁸ b. bt 1713 - 1715, d. 1757
John George Hain+¹⁹ b. 8 Feb 1716
John Casper Hain+²⁰ b. c 1724, d. 2 Oct 1762
John Henry Hain+ ²¹ b. c 1729, d. 5 Feb 1795

Notes

• Immigration*: 1710¹
• Note*: 1709 Palatines
  
  George and Veronica Hain were among the fifteen-thousand German speaking refugees, called the Palatines, who came down the Rhine River in 1709, motivated by poverty, an especially severe winter and the unfounded promise of free land and transportation to America. Twelve thousand or more immigrated to London creating a humanitarian crisis. In 1710 ten ships carried about three thousand to New York; a quarter died on route. Settled in camps along the Hudson River, indentured for several years, they were to produce naval stores. The Hains were among those who settled in the Schoharie Valley, a tributary to the Mohawk River, probably about 1712-1713.
  
  In 1723 thirty three families famously traveled from the Schoharie to the Tulpehocken region of now Berks and Lebanon counties Pennsylvania. A second group of fifty family followed in 1728. George Hain was not part of the first group; he probably came with the second, or shortly thereafter. He was instrumental in those moves, having met with the governor of Pennsylvania, probably in 1722.^3,4
• Note: New York
  
  Johann Georg Hähn appears in the Subsistence Lists submitted by Governor Hunter of New York, who provided food for the Palatines in the camps, and later invoiced the government:
  4 Oct 1710, 2 persons over 10 years, 1 person under 10
  29 Sep 1711, 3 persons over 10 years
  27 Mar 1712, 3 persons over 10 years, 1 person under 10
  
  The 1710/11 Ulster County West Camp Census listed George Helen, 2 men, 1 woman and 1 maid 9-15 years.
  
  On April 1713 son Johann Christ was baptized at Albany.
  
  On 3 Jan 1715/16 Johannis Jury Heyn was naturalized (Albany naturalizations).
  
  In 1717 Ulrich Simmendinger upon returning to Germany published a list of the German families in New York, including Hanss Jurg Hayn and Veronica with 5 children at Neu-Cassel (now Gerlachsdorf, two miles south of the junction of Cobleskill Creek and the Schoharie River).
  
  On 6 June 1717 Johann, son of Johan Georg Höhn and Veronica, was baptized in Schoharie.
  
  Jones wrote: "A deposition of Godfrey Fidler dated 6 Oct 1726 mentioned that George Haine met with Sir. Wm. Keith and then encouraged his fellow Germans to move to PA." Fidler was among the first party that traveled to Tulpehocken in 1723. This meeting between Haine and Keith is thought to have occurred while Keith was attending the Treaty of 1722 at Albany.^5,6,7
• Note: Pennsylvania Lands
  
  It is not clear when George Hain removed to Pennsylvania. Historian I. D. Rupp places the Hoehns there in 1729. George Hain's earliest recorded land purchase was in 1735, but that is about when the Penn government obtained clear title from the Indians and could lawfully sell.
  
  The Hain Family booklists the lands as:
  Date of Title
  Nov. 25, 1735 of William Allen 300 acres
  Nov. 27, 1735 of the proprietors 222 acres
  Nov. 1735 of the proprietors 400 acres
  Nov. 19, 1741 of the proprietors 198 acres
  Nov. 1741 of the proprietors 227 acres
  Sept. 2, 1742 of the proprietors 292 acres
  totaling 1639 acres
  Land held by Peter Hain at his father’s death and paid for by the father 100 acres
  Total 1739 acres
  
  This land generally encompasses what is now the Berks county town of Wernersville.
  
  Also George Hain donated land for a church, listed in the inventory of his estate, called Hain’s Church and St. John's Reformed Church.
  
  "In 1729 there was an important accession. Among these were the Holms, Fischers, Lauers, Anspachs, Batdorfs, Spichers, Christs, Cadermans, Noacres, Lebenguths and the Weisers. Some of these families remained in the Tulpehocken section, while some moved eastward to Womelsdorf, and still others farther eastward to what was known as the Cacoosie section [Cacoosing Creek], among whom where the Hains, Fischers, Spohns and Laucks."^8,9,10
• Note: Will abstract from Philadelphia County records:
  
  HEN, GEORGE. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Yeoman.
  November 16, 1743. April 8, 1746. H.111.
  Exec: Wife Veronica and Thomas Edwards.
  Children: Anna, Sibilla, Elizabeth, John Christ, Peter, George,
  John Henry, John Meredith, and John Caspar.
  Wit: Joseph Crell, William Burg and Alettar Crellins.¹¹