Johan Friedrich  HIELEGASS

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Johan Friedrich HIELEGASS was born November 24, 1685 in Sinsheim, Rhine-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Johan Friedrich HIELEGASS was the child of Johann Peter HIELEGASS   and   Anna Regina TRIEGELS and the grandchild of: (maternal)  George TRIEGELS and Anna BARBARA

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Johan Friedrich  married  Elizabeth Barbara TRIEGELS August 23, 1712 in Eppingen, Heibronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elizabeth Barbara TRIEGELS  was born October 24, 1694 in Eppingen, Heibronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.  Elizabeth Barbara died March 4, 1769 in Upper Hanover, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA.  Elizabeth Barbara was the child of George TRIEGELS and Anna Barbara METZER.

Johan Friedrich HIELEGASS died January 6, 1765 in Upper Hanover, Montgomery, Crown Colony of Pennsylvania.






John Frederick Hillegass, the progenator of the Montgomery County branch of the Hillegass family now distributed over the U.S., was born in Alsace, Germany (now part of France) with his wife Elizabeth Barbara and younger children, he sailed from Rotterdam to America with the company including the Rev. George Michael Weiss, a reformed minister. They arrived at Philadelphia from Rotterdam on September 12th or 18th, 1727 on a ship called the William & Sarah and settled in the region then known as Goshenhoppen. The family founded Hillegassville which later became Red Hill in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.


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