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Author: geneworker
Surnames: Hattabaugh and Patrick
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Your name is familiar, so perhaps you are already a member of our Fleenor & Hattabaugh
family research website. If not, email me at geneworkers(a)yahoo.com and I'll send you
an invitation. The Hattabaugh family that came from DE. descend from Jacob Hattenbach who
arrived in Philadephia in 1749 and settled in DE. His line ended up in Washington Co.,
IN. with the settlement of Jacob Hattabough/Hattabaugh about 1809. Jacob's father was
Warwick. Warwick's brother Isaac came from DE to Maysville KY with his wife Ruth and
children. Isaac died there in Dec. 1801. Jacob settled first in Maysville, Kentucky
after his father died in DE. and his mother remarried. When he moved from Maysville to
the Louisville area, the widow Ruth and her daugters moved with him. Jacob was in
Maysville KY. area from around 1798 to 1807-08. Jacob moved to Louisville for a short
time where he was visited by George Hattabaugh and his wife and family who were migrating
from Augusta Co., VA. to the w!
est. This second Hattabaugh line who settled in the same area of southern Indiana at the
same time Jacob did so, is my ancestor, George (Johan Georg Hettenbach) who was born in
PA. in 1761, son of Johan Michel Hettenbach who was born there in 1731. George settled in
during the winter of 1808 in Kentucky near Jacob but had built a fort in the Indiana
wilderness in the spring of 1809. Perhaps George's family enjoyed the hospitality of
Jacob's home while the two men explored and made ready their homesteads in Indiana.
George's oldest daughter Mary was already married to Thomas Denny who moved with the
family from Augusta Co., VA. and was among those who helped George build his fort. George
from VA. family and Jacob from DE. family intermarried in Washington County, so many of
the Hattabaughs can claim both ancestors as their own, even if we never discover what
their earlier family connections are. There has to be a close connection or they'd
never have been together in KY.!
and then settled together in IN. Jacob married Jane Logan Spears, th
e widow of Thomas Spears. Both Jacob and George served as Indiana Rangers during the
Indian troubles. Jacob's family took refuge in Logan's Fort near Kossuth, and
George built Hattabough Fort near Plattsburg that sheltered his family along with several
other families.
As for Ebeneezer Patrick, according to "Pioneer Pickings No. 63, The Salem Democrat
Newspaper Aug 2, 1876, he published a newspaper in 1818-1819 called the Toscin. In his
paper, he advocated temperance. It was the first paper in Salem. After a fire burned the
building, he reopened the paper with another name Indiana Times and later Indiana
Phoenix). Ebenezer served on the Board of Trustees in 1822 passing various city
ordinances for the peace and safety of citziens. In 1819 he served as Secretary of the
Salem Debating Society. At some point he became a Judge of Justice of the Peace as
evidenced by the fact that he performed a marriage cermony between Robinson Doss and Mary
Robinson as reported in his newspaper, the Indiana Phoenix in 1832. All of this info
came from the book "Pioneer Pickings." He's mentioned several times in
"History of Washington County, Indiana 1884" as well as Pioneer Pickings. The
History mentions Ebenezer was made an Associate Judge of Wash. C!
o. Circuit Court to serve a 7 year term in 1824. It also mentions that Ebenezer was a
teacher in early times in Salem. Sarah is not mentioned in either book.
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