Johannes Häner (1675 - abt. 1759)

Born 22 Jan 1675 in Storndorf, Vogelsbergkreis, Hessen, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Catherina (Schneider) Häner — married 17 Jan 1703 in Unterreichenbach, Fürstentum Isenburg-Birstein, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Husband of Catharina (Mussier) Hänor — married 27 Jul 1710 in West Camp, New York

Descendants

Died about 1759 at about age 83 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York

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Biography

JOHANNES HANER, baptized 22 Jan 1675 in Storndorf. Godfather: Johannes, son of Hanß Matthes^[1][2], s/o Curt Häner, a miller at Storndorf, Hesse, and his wife Katharina, who was born a Schaub. Johannes was a miller in Birstein when he married (1st) on 17 Jan 1703 Anna Catharina Schneider, d/o Johann Schneider of Fischborn. If there were children, we do not know their names or dates. Anna no doubt died before Johannes left Germany; Johannes would hardly have remarried so soon if she died in 1710.

JOHANNES HÄNER married on 17 Jan 1703 in Unterreichenbach Anna Catharina, surviving daughter of Johann Schneider from Fischborn.^[3]

JOHANNES HANER, bp 22 Jan 1675, as a widower married (2nd) on 27 Jul 1710 at West Camp Catharina Monsieur, b 3 Oct 1693, d/o Hans Jacob Monsieur and Anna Catharine Bohmer of Steinsfurt, Germany.^[4]

Johannes Haner/Hoener/Hener/Heiner was one of the four trustees to whom 6000 acres were granted on Livingston Manor at present Germantown, NY for use of the Palatines; he died about 1759 probably at Rhinebeck, NY. According to tradition his wife Catharina lived to be 102. There is no definitive Bible record of the births of his 12 children, whose order of birth is not entirely certain[Johannnes Haner.FTW]

Johannes Haner migrated to America in the year starting in the year 1708 at the age of 24. Many families in southwestern Germany decided to emigrate to America for various reasons. Historians give four motivating causes: freedom from burdensome taxes, security from devastating wars, religious freedom, and desire for land of their own.

A key figure in the migration was Rev. Joshua Harrsch, a first-rate entrepreneur who did, however, take his pastoral duties seriously in later years in the New York settlements of the Palatines. In 1706, for reasons still not entirely understood, he changed his name to Joshua Kocherthal and became an agent for landowners in British North America. In 1708 he took a small group of colonists to America where they founded present-day Newburgh on the west side of the Hudson River in 1709. Returning to England in summer 1709, Kocherthal found that a large number of Palatines, Hessians and others had come to London to ship out to the New World. Many came by way of the Dutch port of Rotterdam, others were on their own. It is estimated that as many as 13,500 emigrants were camped on Blackheath south of the Thames, on Greenwich Heath on the Thames, and at other sites near London. The British found the mass of Palatines on their doorstep more than they had anticipated or could handle.
About 3000 were chosen to go to New York, to work in the "Tar Project" (to cut pine for tar and spars for the British ships at the New World) - among them our Johannes. They boarded ten ships (some say 11) about December 25, 1709, but the first ship did not sail until April 10, 1710; food and water on the ships were bad, and 470 of the emigrants, many of them children, died on board or soon after arrival in America. Palatines arriving in New York City in 1710, including our ancestor, were treated by British authorities as faceless, nameless commodities.
After a quarantine period in tents (brought from England) on Nutten Island (now Governor's Island), 1,874 Palatines were sent in early October, 1710 into service on Livingston Manor (Robert Livingston 1654-1728), a huge tract of land on the east side of the Hudson River, across from and south of Albany. Many of the Palatines lived on the Manor itself; other on 6000 acres bought back from Livingston by the Crown in 1710.

In 1724 Queen Anne granted the 6000 acres to four Palatines in trust for the 63 families remaining there; Johannes Hoener (Heiner) was one of these four leaders of the group ^[5] (see Colden map of 1740-1741)^[6], and he was the sole surviving trustee in a deed dated 1758. Alida Livingston ran the daily operations of Livingston Manor. The first winter the Palatines spent in New York, 1710/1711, was very severe; the grist mill on Roeloff Jansen Kill (Livingston Manor) was crushed by an accumulation of ice that was 19 feet thick. She wrote that she employed Hanor, Zipperle and Rau to help her rebuild the mill and the brew house. Johannes' background at the mills in Germany made him a useful person in the community. Heener, Hener is also mentioned in Alida's letters dated 1717 and 1720. In 1751 Jury Mosseer of the West Camp and Johannes Heaner of Rhynbeeck purchased 660 acres on the west bank of the Hudson River, just a mile or so from West Camp.^[7] The two brothers-in-law purchased this land for 400 pounds from Vincent Mathews, the original Patentee of the Crown.

Johan and Catharina were married by Reverend Joshua Kocherthal in St. Peters Lutheran Church.^[8]

Marriage Record: On July 27, 1710 Johannes Haner, from Birsen, in the Offenbach sovereignty, a widower, was married to Catharina, legitimate daughter of Johann Jacob Mussier form Steinfort in the Creichgau.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism: Kirchenbuch Storndorf, Archion (subscription required) > Hessen > Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau > Dekanat Alsfeld > Ober-Breidenbach Storndorf > Taufregister 1673-1775, Trauregister 1673-1775, Beerdigungsregister 1673-1775, Konfirmandenregister 1673-1775, Pönitentenregister 1675-1775 > picture 7 (accessed 20 April 2024)
2. ↑ "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N842-G65 : 25 February 2020), Haener, 1675.
3. ↑ 1st Marriage: Kirchenbuch Unterreichenbach, Archion (Abonnement erforderlich) > Hessen > Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck > Kirchenkreis Gelnhausen > Unterreichenbach > Kirchenbuch 1662-1770 > side 181 picture 1220 (accessed 19 April 2024)
4. ↑ "New York Marriages, 1686-1980", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HWV5-9NZM : 21 January 2020), Johann Haner, 1710.
5. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4R-W3ZG-N
6. ↑ Cadwallader Colden 1740-1741 map of Germantown, courtesy of the Germantown History Department, https://nyheritage.org/collections/1740-1741-colden-map
7. ↑ "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JGF-63P8 : Sun Dec 31 00:43:23 UTC 2023), Entry for <Unknown> and Johannes Hayner, Haner, Haynor, Hahner, Hahnar, Heaner, 10 Apr 1751.
8. ↑ https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/18Jh/Kocherthal/koc_ki03.html
9. ↑ Apparently from A Haner/Hayner Family in America. Compiled by Franklin Miller, Publication: 1991 by The Hayner Family Association. Page: page 33

• "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H79J-HY6Z : 14 February 2020), Hannes Heiner in entry for Johannes Heiner, 1726.
• "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H79N-BVW2 : 14 February 2020), Hannes Heiner in entry for Samuel Heiner, 1726.
• "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDY7-8NG : 14 February 2020), Hannes Heiner in entry for Henrich Heiner, 1728.