Display Patriot - P-182088 - Anthony Jacob HINKLE III
Anthony Jacob HINKLE III
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P-182088
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State of Service: PA/NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
The Primitive Baptist Church was founded in 1756. The old Church burned and a new brick building was built about 1980. It is located one mile north of Wallburg-High Point Road on the east side of Abbotts Creek Church Road and the corner of Curry Road
This is NOT the same cemetery as the Abbotts Creek Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, but is just down the road from it and the Missionary Baptist Church. Information and history of both churches can be obtained from the Missionary Baptist Church
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Author: Daniel Bernard Pourreau
Anthony Jacob Hinkle III P-182088
Anthony Jacob Hinkle, III, was born 10 September 1735 at New Hanover Square, Pennsylvania, the second son of Jacob Antonius Hinkle and Anna Margaretha Geiger. The family moved to Germantown shortly after the birth of Anthony III’s sister, Mary Barbara, in 1737. Anthony was 15 years of age when his father died. Anthony married Maria Magdalena Zwecker, 19 April 1756, most likely at Saint Michael’s Lutheran Church, which his grandfather founded at Germantown. After the birth of his fifth child, Catherine, in 1767, Anthony and his growing family relocated to New Holland, Lancaster County. There he made a living as a wagoner while Maria and their children farmed the land. They had seven more children before 1775.
Anthony and his son, Joseph, both joined the Continental Army. Anthony served in the First Pennsylvania Regiment under Captain William Wilson. Joseph served in Captain Karner’s Company of the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Militia. Joseph was 14 years of age in 1775, however; he was allowed to enlist with his father's consent when he was 15 years of age in 1776.
The First Pennsylvania Regiment participated in most of the major engagements of the Revolutionary War, from the battles of Princeton and Trenton, Matson's Ford, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Springfield and Stony Point in 1779. He again re-enlisted until his commission ended in March 1779.
Anthony likely fought Hessian regiments at Trenton. This is an account of how the battle started:
At 8 A.M., the outpost was set up by the Hessians at a cooper shop on Pennington Road about one mile northwest of Trenton. Washington led the assault, riding in front of his soldiers. As the Hessian commander of the outpost, Lieutenant Andreas Wiederholdt, left the shop. An American fired at him but missed. Wiederholdt immediately shouted "Der Fiend!" [The Enemy!] and other Hessians came out. The Americans fired three volleys, and the Hessians returned one of their own. Washington ordered Edward Hand's Pennsylvania Riflemen and a battalion of German-speaking infantry to block the road that led to Princeton. They attacked the Hessian outpost there.
The German Lutherans from Germantown defended their newfound freedom from their former northern neighbors, the Hessians, less than 50 years after they landed in Philadelphia. After 1781, Anthony moved his family to Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, where his brothers Peter and Charles had settled and died. A third brother, Michael, and his oldest sons Wendel and Nathan were also living at Salisbury at the time. Anthony and Maria settled at Abbott’s Creek, near High Point, where they lived out the rest of their lives. They are buried at the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery at Abbotts Creek, North Carolina.
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