Christophel Utilia Probst

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His exact birth date is not known; the Mar 31 1661 date is of his christening. Bill Brobst has a copy of the birth and marriage records, in the German Pfalz file.

Christophel was a master potter (Meistertopfer) in Middle Kandel. Church records call him a Burger and Haffner in Kandel.

Church records show his name as Christoph, as do several historical reports.

The birth dates shown for his children (except Eva Christina, Maria Sara, and Eva Christina II) are actually the baptism dates; the exact birth dates are not known

Will was probated 1 Apr 1727 in Kandel; wife not living at that time. Actually, she had died a few weeks earlier. Why it took so long (8 years) for probate is not known, except perhaps that the younger children were not yet of age.

Christophel married Eva Christina Hofmann 14 Feb 1719, Kandel, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. Eva (daughter of Hanss Michael Hofmann and Anna Maria Rimpler, daughter of David Corpening and Caspar Schuffert) was born 15 Sep 1670, Kandel, Der Pflaz, Germany; was christened 25 Sep 1670, Kandel, Pfalz, Bvr; died 2 Mar 1727, Kandel, Der Pfalz, Germany; was buried Mar 1727, Kandel, Der Pflaz, Germany. [Group Sheet]

David married Caspar Schuffert Between 1732 and 1735, Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, PA. Caspar was born , Germany. [Group Sheet]

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<p> </p><p><p>He came to America in 1732, arriving in Philadelphia on the pink (ship) John and William on Octobert 17, 1732. He came with his brother Philipp Jacob (and family) and his sister Elisabetha Margaretha (and her husband). Since winter's onset was near, they probably remained in Philadelphia over the winter, gathering supplies and equipment, and left for the Allemaengle in early spring.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>When he came to America, he was already 31 years old. Since it would be most unusual for a man not to have married and started a family in his early 20s, it is possible that he already done that, and left a wife and some children behind. It is possible they might have died, and that released him to come to America, or he might have been so driven to start a new life he just left them behind. They might not have wanted to face the unknowns of the American wilderness. However, according to German records, in 1727 Michael was a travelling potter, not married, and was listed on the ship's manifest as still single when he emigrated, so it is assumed that he did not marry in Germany.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Another record says his birth date was Mar 13 1707. This must have been a mis-reading of the German script "1" which often looks like a "7". The 1701 birth date is verified in the baptismal records in Kandel and in the Lineage Succession List from Kandel.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Sometime between his arrival in Philadelphia and mid-1735, Johann Michael married. He might have married during the winter in Philadelphia, or might have found his future wife in the Allemaengle. Birth and baptismal records of his children indicate that her name was Maria or Anna Maria, a name quite common in those days. The marriage record has not been found, and her maiden name is still unproven; several long-time Brobst researchers believe her maiden name to be Kerr (or Kehr), and that is what is shown here.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>William Crouch believes her name was Anna Maria Grimm, but there is apparently no supporting evidence for this.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>For a long time, it has been assumed that her name was Anna Maria Keller, but that hypothesis has been proven wrong. Anna Maria Keller was the widow of Peter Keller, and she lived in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County in the early 1730s. Her marriage to Johann Michael Probst is recorded at the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church on December 25, 1733. That was not "this" Johann Michael Probst.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>In order for that to be true, it would have meant that Johann Michael left his brother and sister and their families and went to Lancaster Co instead of Berks/Lehigh Co. Why would he have done such a thing? And then to come to Berks/Lehigh Co a year or so after his marriage, for his first child was born in Lynn Twp in 1836. Would he have left his family with whom he had been through so much and struck off on his own to find a wife in Lancaster County, rather than accompanying his family to the Allemaengle and looking for a wife there? And, in fact, that was not the case.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>It was once thought that Johann Michael may have met Anna Maria Keller on the ship enroute to America, but there was no Keller, and no Anna Maria, listed on the ship's manifest. There is no indication that he had any knowledge of Anna Maria Keller prior to or during the voyage, or in Philadelphia over the winter. Given that, there would be no reason for him to go to Lancaster to marry her and bring her to Lynn Township, Lehigh County. There is no evidence that he even knew she existed.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>There is no evidence that Johann Michael Probst ever went to Lancaster, nor that if he did he stayed in Lancaster County for some time, perhaps a year, and then moved to Lynn Twp, Northampton (Lehigh) Co, PA to rejoin the rest of his immigrant family. All indications are that he left Philadelphia with his brother and sister in the spring of 1733 and moved directly to Lynn Twp. His children are all recorded as having been born in Northampton (Lehigh) County.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>So who was the Johann Michael Probst who married Anna Maria Keller in Lancaster County? Johann Michael Propst (b abt 1712) arrived in America in 1733 on the ship "Samuel", and moved to Lancaster County with his parents and sister. This Johann Michael Propst actually signed his name "Probst", not "Propst" on his immigration and oath of allegiance papers, and apparently used that same spelling on the marriage record in Lancaster County. His signature is quite clear written with the "Probst" spelling. He remained in Lancaster County for some years, and had four children with Anna Maria Keller from 1735 to 1738. After Anna Maria died in 1738, he quickly married a second time there, before migrating southward to what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia. Accordingly, I have recorded the marriage of Anna Maria Keller to Johan Michael Propst in the Propst family file.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>History still has to tell us something about this wife -- Anna Maria Kehr/Kerr -- of Johann Michael Probst. We do know that Johann Michael and Anna Maria lived in Lehigh County, having founded the village of what became Hynemansville.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>He received his citizenship papers on September 10 1761 in Philadelphia.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>His farm was in Lynn Township, Northampton County (now Lehigh County), about 7 miles southeast of his brother's (Philipp Jacob's) farm which was in Albany Twp.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p>His death date is not certain. Most records show "about 1771"; one says "after 1790". His death location is also uncertain, but was most likely in a private cemetery on his farmsite</p>

Johann married Anna Maria Kerr Between 1732 and 1735, Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, PA. Anna was born Between 1710 and 1715. [Group Sheet]

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His exact birth date is not known; the Mar 31 1661 date is of his christening. Bill Brobst has a copy of the birth and marriage records, in the German Pfalz file.

Christophel was a master potter (Meistertopfer) in Middle Kandel. Church records call him a Burger and Haffner in Kandel.

Church records show his name as Christoph, as do several historical reports.

The birth dates shown for his children (except Eva Christina, Maria Sara, and Eva Christina II) are actually the baptism dates; the exact birth dates are not known

Will was probated 1 Apr 1727 in Kandel; wife not living at that time. Actually, she had died a few weeks earlier. Why it took so long (8 years) for probate is not known, except perhaps that the younger children were not yet of age.

Christophel married Eva Christina Hofmann 14 Feb 1719, Kandel, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. Eva (daughter of Hanss Michael Hofmann and Anna Maria Rimpler, daughter of David Corpening and Caspar Schuffert) was born 15 Sep 1670, Kandel, Der Pflaz, Germany; was christened 25 Sep 1670, Kandel, Pfalz, Bvr; died 2 Mar 1727, Kandel, Der Pfalz, Germany; was buried Mar 1727, Kandel, Der Pflaz, Germany. [Group Sheet]

Eva married Christophel Utilia Probst 14 Feb 1719, Kandel, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. Christophel (son of David Corpening and Caspar Schuffert, son of Bartholomew Probst and Susanna Fischer) was born 31 Mar 1661, Kandel, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany; was christened 31 Mar 1661, Kandel, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany; died 14 Feb 1719, Kandel, Der Pflaz, Germany; was buried , Kandal, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet]

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Built Walnut Grove, also call Calico in 1856.

John married Emily E A? 1855. Emily (daughter of Gus Little and Barbara Propst) was born 1831; died 1920. [Group Sheet]

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In 1774, shortly after their marriage, Albert and Barbara began a trip to North Carolina. They were held up by a snow storm and stayed the winter with a farmer where Albert helped with the farm work for a shilling and board per day, and Barbara helped the wife. They finally arrived in Lincoln County, North Carolina, where their first child, John, was born April 3 1775.

Coming into what is now Caldwell County, NC, they purchased a large acreage on both sides of Lower Creek in the Copenhagen section on the present Calico Road from Christopher Beckman.

All of this information is from "The Heritage of Burke Co, NC", 1981, pp 149-153.

According to Elaine Schwar and Carolyn Price (noted Brobst historians), Barbara was a daughter of Johann Michael Probst (1701). Some other records do not show her in that family, but those records do not show her anywhere else, either.

Other records (Lee Ann Propst) show that she had a brother, Henry, who moved with her and Albert from Pennsylvania to Rowan County, North Carolina shortly after their marriage. Because of bad weather, they had to lay over in Western Virginia for some time before moving on to NC in 1775. But Johann Michael Probst didn't have a son named Henry. Henry may have been a cousin or a nephew.

It was once thought that she might have been a daughter of Johann Michael Propst (1712), not Probst, and so belongs to the West Virginia Propsts. However, if in fact, she was born in Lynn Township, Northampton (Lehigh) County, PA, then she is probably correctly placed in the family of Johann Michael Probst (1701). Considering the date of her reported birth -- 1754, and marriage in Penna in 1774, when Johann Michael Propst was already in Pendleton Co, WV (Rockingham Co, VA) by then, so she could not have been his daughter.

The 1713 German Bible which belonged to Barbara Probst is in a vault in the Asheville [Pack Memorial] NC Library. In that Bible, her name is shown as Probst. The Bible does not contain any ancestry data; only the statement: "Bible belonging to ancestors of Barbara Probst (Mrs. Albert Corpening) mother of David Corpening and Catherine Corpening (Mrs. John Shuford) of North Carolina".

Pending any further evidence, I have shown her as a daughter of Johann Michael Probst (1701) and Anna Maria Kerr (abt 1710).

Another record shows that she lived as a widow in Somersettown, PA, in 1796, 1804, and 1814, and died in Somerset, PA. But Albert didn't die until 1827, and she was still alive -- named in his will. This record appears clearly to be in error; must have been some other Barbara Probst/Brobst.

Her will was probated in January 1830 in Burke (now Caldwell) Co, NC.

Ancestor of Daniel Conley , Nell Wise , Nita Shephard , Charles Brinkley Sedona, AZ

Barbara married Gus Little 3 Feb 1803. (son of Lucinda Corpening and John Eli Corpening) [Group Sheet]

Barbara married Albert F. Corpening 23 Jun 1774, Northampton County, PA, USA. Albert (son of Hendrick Courpenning, son of Lucinda Corpening and John Eli Corpening) was born 16 Mar 1747, Youmpts, United Netherlands; died 30 Oct 1827, Johns River, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States; was buried , Corpening Cem., Caldwell Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

David married Caspar Schuffert Between 1732 and 1735, Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, PA. Caspar was born , Germany. [Group Sheet]

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<p> </p><p><p>He came to America in 1732, arriving in Philadelphia on the pink (ship) John and William on Octobert 17, 1732. He came with his brother Philipp Jacob (and family) and his sister Elisabetha Margaretha (and her husband). Since winter's onset was near, they probably remained in Philadelphia over the winter, gathering supplies and equipment, and left for the Allemaengle in early spring.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>When he came to America, he was already 31 years old. Since it would be most unusual for a man not to have married and started a family in his early 20s, it is possible that he already done that, and left a wife and some children behind. It is possible they might have died, and that released him to come to America, or he might have been so driven to start a new life he just left them behind. They might not have wanted to face the unknowns of the American wilderness. However, according to German records, in 1727 Michael was a travelling potter, not married, and was listed on the ship's manifest as still single when he emigrated, so it is assumed that he did not marry in Germany.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Another record says his birth date was Mar 13 1707. This must have been a mis-reading of the German script "1" which often looks like a "7". The 1701 birth date is verified in the baptismal records in Kandel and in the Lineage Succession List from Kandel.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Sometime between his arrival in Philadelphia and mid-1735, Johann Michael married. He might have married during the winter in Philadelphia, or might have found his future wife in the Allemaengle. Birth and baptismal records of his children indicate that her name was Maria or Anna Maria, a name quite common in those days. The marriage record has not been found, and her maiden name is still unproven; several long-time Brobst researchers believe her maiden name to be Kerr (or Kehr), and that is what is shown here.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>William Crouch believes her name was Anna Maria Grimm, but there is apparently no supporting evidence for this.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>For a long time, it has been assumed that her name was Anna Maria Keller, but that hypothesis has been proven wrong. Anna Maria Keller was the widow of Peter Keller, and she lived in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County in the early 1730s. Her marriage to Johann Michael Probst is recorded at the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church on December 25, 1733. That was not "this" Johann Michael Probst.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>In order for that to be true, it would have meant that Johann Michael left his brother and sister and their families and went to Lancaster Co instead of Berks/Lehigh Co. Why would he have done such a thing? And then to come to Berks/Lehigh Co a year or so after his marriage, for his first child was born in Lynn Twp in 1836. Would he have left his family with whom he had been through so much and struck off on his own to find a wife in Lancaster County, rather than accompanying his family to the Allemaengle and looking for a wife there? And, in fact, that was not the case.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>It was once thought that Johann Michael may have met Anna Maria Keller on the ship enroute to America, but there was no Keller, and no Anna Maria, listed on the ship's manifest. There is no indication that he had any knowledge of Anna Maria Keller prior to or during the voyage, or in Philadelphia over the winter. Given that, there would be no reason for him to go to Lancaster to marry her and bring her to Lynn Township, Lehigh County. There is no evidence that he even knew she existed.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>There is no evidence that Johann Michael Probst ever went to Lancaster, nor that if he did he stayed in Lancaster County for some time, perhaps a year, and then moved to Lynn Twp, Northampton (Lehigh) Co, PA to rejoin the rest of his immigrant family. All indications are that he left Philadelphia with his brother and sister in the spring of 1733 and moved directly to Lynn Twp. His children are all recorded as having been born in Northampton (Lehigh) County.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>So who was the Johann Michael Probst who married Anna Maria Keller in Lancaster County? Johann Michael Propst (b abt 1712) arrived in America in 1733 on the ship "Samuel", and moved to Lancaster County with his parents and sister. This Johann Michael Propst actually signed his name "Probst", not "Propst" on his immigration and oath of allegiance papers, and apparently used that same spelling on the marriage record in Lancaster County. His signature is quite clear written with the "Probst" spelling. He remained in Lancaster County for some years, and had four children with Anna Maria Keller from 1735 to 1738. After Anna Maria died in 1738, he quickly married a second time there, before migrating southward to what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia. Accordingly, I have recorded the marriage of Anna Maria Keller to Johan Michael Propst in the Propst family file.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>History still has to tell us something about this wife -- Anna Maria Kehr/Kerr -- of Johann Michael Probst. We do know that Johann Michael and Anna Maria lived in Lehigh County, having founded the village of what became Hynemansville.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>He received his citizenship papers on September 10 1761 in Philadelphia.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>His farm was in Lynn Township, Northampton County (now Lehigh County), about 7 miles southeast of his brother's (Philipp Jacob's) farm which was in Albany Twp.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p>His death date is not certain. Most records show "about 1771"; one says "after 1790". His death location is also uncertain, but was most likely in a private cemetery on his farmsite</p>

Johann married Anna Maria Kerr Between 1732 and 1735, Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, PA. Anna was born Between 1710 and 1715. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Andrew Jackson Corpening 7 Jan 1847. Andrew (son of John Corpening and Elizabeth Mason, son of Gus Little and Barbara Propst) was born 4 Feb 1818, Burke, North Carolina, USA; died 31 Dec 1904. [Group Sheet]

Emily married John Eli Corpening 1855. John (son of David Corpening and Caspar Schuffert, son of John Corpening and Elizabeth Mason) was born 28 Apr 1826, North Carolina; died 29 Sep 1890. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married John Chorpening WFT Est 1840 1871. John (son of John George Chorpening and Anna Maria Ingrason) was born WFT Est 1778 1807; died WFT Est 1784 1886. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Catherine Elmira Robinson 18 Dec 1845. Catherine (daughter of Mary Perkins and Hendrick Courpenning) was born 8 Jan 1822, Lincoln County, North Carolina; died 7 Oct 1870, Caldwell County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Ola married Henry Chorpening WFT Est 1840 1873. Henry (son of John George Chorpening and Anna Maria Ingrason) was born 10 Nov 1779; died 21 Feb 1865, Lavansville, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Ola married Albert F. Corpening. Albert (son of Hendrick Courpenning, son of Lucinda Corpening and John Eli Corpening) was born 16 Mar 1747, Youmpts, United Netherlands; died 30 Oct 1827, Johns River, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States; was buried , Corpening Cem., Caldwell Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

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"Coming to this section they purchased from Cristopher Beckman, one of the prominent men of this section, a large acreage on both sides of the Lower Creek in the Copenhagen section on the present Calico road. This was one of the earliest grants of land in the county, first being conveyed to Phillip Kurr November 30, 1753, by the Earl of Granville, to Conrad Mitchell in 1762, to John and Conrad Kerns in 1774, and to Beckman in 1780.

"First Albert built a home on the northwest side of the creek, where his grandson Joseph Corpening later built a house, then built another one on the southwest side. In 1808 he gave this land to his eldest son, John, and purchased land from General Joseph McDowell on John's River where he and his wife lived and died.

John married Elizabeth Mason 3 Feb 1803, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Lucinda Corpening and John Eli Corpening) was born 18 Jun 1783, Burke County, North Carolina; died 24 May 1865, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

Susan married Nelson Alloway Strange WFT Est 1840 1873. Nelson was born WFT Est 1777 1813; died WFT Est 1843 1899. [Group Sheet]

Anna married Mary Vernoica Schaaff 1846. Mary (daughter of John Schaaff and Veronica Frederick) was born 2 May 1782, Washington County, Maryland; died 8 Oct 1855, Somerset, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Anna married Mary Ann Chorpening 27 Feb 1853. Mary (daughter of Henry Chorpening and Mary Vernoica Schaaff) was born WFT Est 1798 1823. [Group Sheet]

Andrew married Mary Kincaid 7 Jan 1847. Mary (daughter of Gus Little and Barbara Propst) was born 1825; died 1924. [Group Sheet]

Rebecca married John H Corpening 1846. John (son of Mary Ann Chorpening and Anna Corpening) was born 28 May 1826; died 1850. [Group Sheet]

Rebecca married Daniel Murchison Puett 27 Feb 1853. Daniel (son of Dora A E Puett and Alphonso A Harshaw) was born 28 May 1828, Burke County, North Carolina; died 16 Feb 1914, Caldwell County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Abraham married Lettia Estes 1810. Lettia was born 23 Nov 1790; died 29 Oct 1851. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Jacob Forney, Jr WFT Est 1806 1832. Jacob (son of Jean Jacob Forney and Maria Margartha Bergner) was born 6 Nov 1754, Ingleside, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; died 7 Nov 1840, Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, United States; was buried Nov 1840, Jacob Forney Jr Cemetery, Burke, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet]

Jacob married Elizabeth Whitner Nov 1818. Elizabeth was born 28 Feb 1786; died 12 Apr 1864. [Group Sheet]

Jacob married Elizabeth Whitner 9 Dec 1808. Elizabeth was born 28 Feb 1786; died 12 Apr 1864. [Group Sheet]

George married Mary Polly Estes WFT Est 1830 1846. Mary (daughter of Robbie Conners) was born 6 Nov 1796, North Carolina; died 20 Feb 1867, Burke, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

George married Mary Polly Estes 14 Nov 1818, Burke, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Robbie Conners) was born 6 Nov 1796, North Carolina; died 20 Feb 1867, Burke, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married George Summey 1817. George was born WFT Est 1771 1791; died WFT Est 1816 1877. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married George Summey WFT Est 1816 1850. George was born WFT Est 1771 1791; died WFT Est 1816 1877. [Group Sheet]

Catherine married John J Shuford 1817. John was born WFT Est 1770 1797; died WFT Est 1822 1883. [Group Sheet]

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These sketches were originally written by Col Thomas George Walton (1815-1905). 1st published in the old Morganton Herald in 1894

"DAVID CORPENING, the youngest of the CORPENING family, married MARY PERKINS, a daughter of JOHN PERKINS, and inherited the John's River plantation from his father, ALBERT; a warm friend of mine, a man of sterling worth; remarkable for his strong common sense, high moral character, and was in my opinion, and in that of many others, one of the best and most skillful farmers of the county. I was guardian of two of his daughters. He was happily married to a lady, who was a helpmeet in the true sense of the word. I have attended many sales of the property of deceased persons in Burke County, but never one evincing so much order, care, thrift and prosperity as his; a house erected for the purpose, neatly kept and filled with cloth of home manufacture; flax, tow, and cotton; baskets and other useful utensils of the farm; gamon sticks of white oak, drawn and shaped by his own hand, ready for use at hog-killing time; every article, tool and implement used in the cultivation of land, clean, bright and in perfect order; a place for all, and all in it's proper place. Well, did he deserve the name of a model farmer?"

Albert married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Albert married Mary Perkins WFT Est 1830 1846. Mary (daughter of John Perkins) was born 7 Sep 1799; died 26 Aug 1848. [Group Sheet]