Display Patriot - P-285864 - Johannes/John Michael SCHWENCK/SWANK
Johannes/John Michael SCHWENCK/SWANK
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P-285864
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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 1729/1732 Miesbach / Bavaria / Germany Death: 05 Aug 1804 Lovettsville / Loudoun / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
1782-1783 he paid supply tax in Loudoun County
Additional References:
Loudoun County Personal Property Tax List:
1782B, pg 21
1783A , pg 38
Spouse: Eva Catharine Huber Children: John Michael; John George; Henry Peter; Gottlieb; Mary Bagdalena; George Joann; Eva Elizabeth; Anna Margareta; Susanna; Phillip;
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It is unknown when Johann Michael "John" Schwenck was born, but estimates are from 1729 to 1734. The place of this birth was Miesbach, in Bavaria, Germany; his parents were Hans Michael and Anna Elizabeth (Hexamer) Schwenck.1
On 7 February 1758, John married Eva Catharina "Anna" Huber (or Hubner) at New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, Upper Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.2 The following are their known children:
John Michael was born in 1759
John George was born in 1761
Henry Peter was born in 1763
Gottlieb was born in 1764
Mary "Polly" Magdalena was born in 1765
George Johann was born in 1765 and married Catharine Roller.3
Eva Elizabeth was born in 1766
Anna Margareta was born in 1770
Susanna was born in 1772
Catharina was born in 1776
Michael was born in 1779
Susanna was born in 1780
Philip was born in 1782
"John" Schwenck first appeared on the Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables list in 1760 and also is found in 1761, 1765, 1768, 1769, and through the 1770s.4
He apparently occupied property by the mid-1760s, probably on an informal lease from George William Fairfax. In 1765 John's tract was listed as adjoining the property of Simon Shoemaker.5 On 16 February 1803, Ferdinando Fairfax, a nephew to George William Fairfax, executed a quit-claim deed, transferring the title to 121 acres of land to John Swank, most likely the land he had been farming for 40 or so years.6
John paid the supply tax in Loudoun County in 1782 and 1783, where the tax collector listed him as "John Swink."7 In the Personal Property Tax list of 1787, sometimes referred to as the 1787 "Census," John Swank and George Swank are listed together.8
The Patriot died on or before 5 August 1804. The New Jerusalem Lutheran Church burial register for that date lists "Johann Michael Schwenck, 72 years."9 His wife appears to have died in 1821. The burial register lists, for 22 January 1821, "Old Widow Schwenck, at 84 years, 11 months.
Sources:
Johannes "John" Michael Schwenck," Ancestry.com.
Donna R. Irish, Pennsylvania German Marriages (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), p. 589.
"George Swank Sr.," Find-a-Grave.
Hiatt, Marty, Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables, 1758-1786 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Col, 1995).
Loudoun County Deed Book D, pp. 636-639.
Loudoun County Deed Book 2C page 228.
Patricia B. Duncan, Loudoun County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2004) 1782B, and 1783A, p. 38.
1787 Loudoun County Personal Property Tax list. (This list is referred to as the "1787 Census of Virginia" because it was the first time that the tax commissioner was directed to call on every taxpayer; prior to this, taxpayers took their payment to the commissioner.) Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia, Loudoun County (Springfield, Virginia: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987), "Preface" and page 70.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, "Burials," 5 August 1804 and 22 January 1821.
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