Cornelius Dehart
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1707-1708 - Brooklyn, New York
Christening:
Death: Bef 13 Jan 1779 - berks Co, Pennsylvania
Burial:
Cause of Death:
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Parents
Father: Elias Simon Dehart (1677- )
Mother: Catherine (Catalinka) Lane (Lanen) (Van Pelt) ( - )
Spouses and Children
1. *Maria Catherine ( - )
Marriage: in berks Co, Pennsylvania
Status:
Children:
1. Catherine Dehart ( - )
2. Isaac Dehart ( - )
3. Mary Dehart (Abt 1743-1821)
4. Johanna (Hanna) Dehart (1745- )
5. Cornelius Dehart (1748- )
6. John Dehart (Abt 1750-1805)
7. Samuel Dehart (1752-1824)
8. Abraham Dehart (Abt 1755-1834)
9. Jacob Dehart (Abt 1756-1791)
Notes
General:
b 1707/8 Brooklyn NY d bef 1/13/1779 BERKS CO Sources aren't certain if he was son of Elias or Elias' brother Cornelius, and b Six Mile Run, Monmouth Co. Many people think former, many think latter. That is why different genealogies have this person and descendants n different locations. Cousin has him pretty well pinned down as son of Elias. Berks Co Pa
m Maria Catherine who pd taxes as widow Amity TWP 1779 Noone knows who she was.
With Cornelius and his children, one must keep in mind that Berks County wws created from Philadelphia and Montgomery and I think even Chester counties. The people didn't move, the place where they lived changed its name.
He with his family moved from Brooklyn to New Jersey, and lived there for several generations. Then portions of the Dehart family left for Virginia, the CArolinas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and the northern midwest. A number of Cornelius' brothers and sons held land in Berks County, then Philadelphia County, but the majority of them moved on sooner or later, usually transferring their land to those of their fmaily who remained there. It is possible that some of these Deharts left no record at all that they were ever in Berks County, and this has made life fun, for instance, for the half dozen people trying to figure out who were the parents of "George W. Dehart", born in Berks Co, Pennsylvania, allegedly, married into several of the larger and better known of the German families of the area. There are Deharts named GEorge in other places where Deharts were settling at that time, none known in Berks County. Not even anyone obvious with a name that might have been anglicized to George. To further complicate matters, Cornelius Dehart's exact place in the Dehart family is uncertain; Elias Simon is most widely held to have been his father, but it could have been another Cornelius or a brother of Elias Simon, his father may have been Cornelius son of Elias Simon.
He had a large farm, and a large and very nice looking brick house.
The land went from Gilbert to Cornelius and was called Chestnut Flat in Amity. "Some of his c's were chr in New Hanvoer Lutheran ch ...sometimes called "Swamp Church". This was the first GErman Lutheran Congregation establ'd in the Colonies....." "Cornelius Dehart's name appears on Berks Co tax lists for 1754, 1759,1767,1768. The widow DeHart was taxed...in 1779 and 1780.
"Most of what is known abou the children and their families comes from theland deedsof property inherited, bought and sold. John bought shares of brothers Jacob and Samuel. It is written John son of Cornelius. 1783, Samuel bought the shares of his brother Isaac and three of his sisters. "The sons of this family were weavers"
The background of the story is given in an article "Oley Valley Heritage" from Pennsylvania German Society: "By 1708 the [Swedish first settlers] had been joined in the Amity twp vicinity by the lst elements of a migration from Monmouth Co and neighboring areas of central New Jersey. These people incl Netherlanders (ie from the Netherlands or Holland), Scots, and Anglo-Americans of New England Heritage. Prominent in this group were the DeHart, Winter, Bord, Sadowski, Campbell, Warren, and Lincoln families.
"The next signif group of settlers was a large group of acquainted or related families from the Platinate, including some families of Swiss derivation and some of a least partial French extraction. The first of these people settled in the northern part of the Oley Valley by 1712. Ist is likely that most or perhaps all of these pioneers were members of the perfectionist "New Born" sect. ..."
"Quaker fmilies from Gwynedd and Abington meetings outside Philadelphia, led by the Boone family, composed the last of the four identified settler groups. They began arriving in 1718, choosing to settle along Monocacy Creek, below the Oley Valley Proper. [Two Welsh families] were also prominent among this group."
Montgomery cites a tradition, good for a good laugh, that the ancestor of Deharts of lower Berks was Jacob Dehart. He had a large family, left France during religious upheavals, left seized estates in France, and two sons to look after them. Another son, Samuel, went back to France to join them. During Revolutionary war all three came over with Marquis de Lafayette or with the army he sent. (Another general, not him, was sent with that army.) This is quite a tale. It isn't true. The Deharts as a whole have more from France tales. I have a third cousin who insists her mother said my John B's FATHER was from France! I don't yet know why Debra Clear thinks the Deharts came from Brest of Heart, France, but we do know it didn't happen later than that.
An Article on Oley Valley Heritage from Pa German Soc cites presence of a small number of people of part French extraction among all the Germans and Dutch in Berks Co and exaggeration of proportion of French ancestry among the people contributed to the French ancestry tradition.
According to cemetary, church, probate records dug up by my Berks Co cousin, Susanna Dehart dau of JOhn Nicholas Knabb was b 7-12- 1783, d June 1853. C;s Mary Samuel, Sarah, Catherine, Susan, Elizabeth, Harriet, Rebecca. jShe married Jacob in Oley, June 3, 1806. (Also BErks Co Gen. Soc. Publication). So the following version of Dehart history cannot possibly be true.
Jacob b. 1729 (?) m Susannah Knabb, dau Nicholas and Susannah. owned land in Oley, Alsace, Exeter TWP's orig owned by Nicholas Knabb.
At one time wealthy, owned much real estate d 1828 Elijah b 1747 of Exeter Simon b 1749 of " Gilbert b 1751 " " Cornelius b 1753 " " Samuel b 1755 " " the one who returned to France Jacob b 1757 " " Isaac b 1759 " " lived Alsacae TWP John b 1761 of ____ My actual ancestor. married Mary/Polly Horner/Harner. ACtually son of John Dehart m Weidner son of Cornelius Dehart and Maria Catherine son of Elias Simon. Montgomery lists another founder as Cornelius, a large landowner in Amity 1752, 1759. This man was actually my ancestor; the son of Elias Simon Dehart and Catherine Lane, b in New Jerse or even Brooklyn, died in Berks County before 1/13/1779 and left a widow paying taxes there. The wife was Maria Catherine. Montgomery lists the following as the children of Cornelius. I don't yet know who they actually were.
The man did actually have a son named Cornelius. Cornelius Jr. m ? a son left home at age 12, never heard from again David b 1800 d 1865 weaver and butcher m Susan Gerber lived in Earl TWP, buried Amityville. Samuel d young Charles G. Amityville David G. b 6/18/1831 d 3/4/1904 Amity, a plasterer Lutheran, Amityville Church, official in the church. m 1859 Harriett Breidenbach (her f had a shop) dau John and Hannah (Good). William d age 3 Harriet m Amos Auman Ann m J McGee (?) Rachel m William Keppler Susan d young Montgomery lists as a third line that of Cornelius Dehart, b Delaware 1/15/1777, moved to Berks Co on reaching adulthood. Amity. A weaver. d 7/8/1858 Robeson/ Amityville m 10/27/1795 Mary Miller b 11/17/1779 d 7/17/1845 Noone yet knows who this is. I wonder if he is a member of a line little is known of; son of a Peter whose existence is only "supposed", b ll/15/1772 - in New Jersey.
My fifth cousin believes he is the son of Jacob m ___ Warren, his will lists about five minor children, at a date when someone b 1777 would have been a minor, included Cornelius.
Montgomery says his children are: Ann b 10/1/1797 Thomas b 8/21/1799 William b 12/16/1801 Margaret b 10/19/1817 Michael b 7/17/1804 d Reading 1893 m Harriett Bechtel dau of Jacob Bechtel of Reading, b 1806 Reading Tamsen Angeline Matilda Maria Amelia b abt 1835 m David Buxton George Ansom B b 1839 John b 2/23/1807 Amity TWP Harriett b 3/20/1822 Charles M. b 5/30/1809 machinist Reading, Altoona, Nashville m Mary W Davies dau Benjamin Davies of Farmers National Bank of Reading, b 1807 Reading William H machinist m Agnes Speir dau of John Speir, Brooklyn Agnes Bessie B m Wm E Feger Robert Frederick Alice Helen m Harry Fox Arthur a machinist Davies (Philadelphia)/ David Edward alive 1909 in Reading Charles d Iowa b 1832 Reading m Mary W Davis, of Reading, dau Benjamin Davis Elizabeth of Reading Emily/ Emma Mary m George W Chaney of Lebanon Pa Andrew b 9/14/1812 m Julia A. Levi b 2/13/1815