[38-5] HANS HEINRICH JACKEL[E 45], b Feb. 19, 1708; d Dec. 21, 1781; s David and Susanna (Heydrick) Jackel [88]; m 1733 or 1735, in presence of witnesses and elders to SUSANNA HEYDRICK [E 126]; b Sept. 19, 1710; d Sept. 23, 1793; dau Melchior and Barbara Heydrick. Hans Heinrich Jackel came to Pa. in 1734; settled in Macungie, Pa. [Plate B IV]. He was naturalized June 21, 1743; both he and his wife are buried in the Yeakel Private Cem., Hosensack.
There is much confusion about the date of marriage of Hans H. Yeakel. B. H. Record gives date of marriage as 1735. Christopher Schultz in 1774, in a letter to Von der Smissen mentions amongst those married at time of immigration was ‘“Hans Jakkel.” The arrangement of names on immigrant list also points to this direction. The Editor cannot account for these discrepancies.
Hans Heinrich Yeakel became a large landowner in the Hosensack Valley, in Lower Milford Township, now Lehigh Co., Pa. He purchased what was then known as the Hamilton tract, containing about 500 acres of excellent farm land, which at his death he divided among his sons. It is stated that he attended the sale of ““Hamilton tract’”’ on horseback, having ridden there from Macungie. When the Auetioneer intimated that he should have some evidence of his financial ability to consummate a sale, Mr. Yeakel went to his saddlebags and pulled out sufficient cash to pay the entire sum. His descendants beeame quite numerous, and much of his property is still owned by them. He had gone with his ‘brother-in-law, Gregorius Sehultz, to the Jordan in Lehigh County, but the location being too much exposed, on account of Indian depredations, he returned i in a short time afterwards and settled permanently in the Hosensack Valley.
Children (7):
Susanna Heydrick Yeakel, wife of Hans Heinrich Yeakel, had brothers and sisters living in Harpersdorf until near the close of the 18th century.
From chureh and town records we learn that Anna Hoffman, widow of Sigmund, Freyhdusler in den Feldhdusern, sister of Helena Heydrich and of Susanna Heydrich, wife of Hans Heinrich Yeakel, died Dec. 14, 1792, intestate and without direct heirs, aged 74 years. She had been very generous during her life time and had distributed most of her property amongst her relatives unto the third generation, and had also frequently expressed to her sister her desire to have the residue of her property given to Ober Harpersdorf to establish a legacy for her nearest kin and for the aid of the poor of the town in general.
In accordance with this desire her sister, Helena Heydrich, devised the residue of her deceased sister’s property as well as part of her own to the following charitable purposes: . 1. Twenty Reichsthaler is given to Ursula Fliegner, widow of George Fliegner, in the Feldhauser and sister of Anna Anders [161]; their parents were George Hoffrichter and wife Anna Wiegner, sister of Adam Wiegner. :
2. Thirty Reichsthaler is devised to the family who cared for her during her last illness.
3. One hundred Reichsthaler to be invested at 4% interest to establish the legacy desired by her deceased sister for the aid of the poor of the town.
This legacy was still active in 1911, the principal amounting to about $75. In the books of the town council it is known as the “Anna Hoffman Stiftung.” [For complete account of legacy, vid. “Schwenkfeldian,” Voi. VIII, p 28.]
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