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BONNETT. Arms-Azure a bull or, in chief three mintllers of five points of the second arranged in fess. ( Crozier : "General Armory.")
GEBHARD (GERHARDT).
Arms+Argent in saltire two swords azure the points in base. Crest A man issuant habited and coiffed azure holding in each hand a sword azure, the points upward. (Rietstap: "Armorial General.""
GARBE (GARBER) (GARVER).
Arms -- Azure a chevron sable between three mullets of six points or in chief and in base a garb of the last. Helmet crowned.
Crest-The garb between a pair of wings conjoined sable, each wing charged with a fess azure, bearing a mullet of six points or.
Rietstap : "Armorial Général.")
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Arms-Argent, a tent between two mantles, gules, lined ermine ; on a chief
azure, a lion passant guardant. or, Crest-A paschal lamb, radiated, proper.
Supporters-Two camels, or.
Motto-Concordia parvae res crescunt.
(Prof. Joshua Dorsey Warfield: "The Warfields of Maryland" ( 1898), p. 7-)
HUGHES (HUGŪS) (HUGO).
Armis Or a cross, sable. ( Rietstap: "Armorial Général.")
BICKLEY ( BICLET).
Arms-Argent a chevron engrailed between three martlets sable.
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( Burke : "General Armory.")
PIERPONT
Arms-Sable semée of cinquefoils a lion rampant argent. (Burke: "General Armory.")
RIGGES (RIGGS).
Arms- Gules a fess vair between three water spaniels argent each holding; in the mouth a birdbolt or, "feathered of the third:
CrestA talbot passant gules eared or, holding in the mouth a birdbolt gold.
feathered argent."
( Burke: "General Armory,")
HENTZ.
Arms-Azure a crescent or, within the points a fleur-de-lis argent. Crest-The device of the shield between two buffalo-horns, the dexter per fess or and azure, the sinister per fess azure and or, Dentz Mantling Azure and or.
( Siebmacher: "Wappenbuch," Vol. V-VI, pp. 84-89.)
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(II) MALINDA CATHERINE DOM, daughter of Phillip and Margaret (Ger- hardt) Dom, was born in Berlin, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1835, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1896. She married William Walter Gaither. (Gaither VIII.)
(Ibid. Family data.)
(The Gerhardt Line).
(I) CASPER GERHARDT lived in Germany, Hesse Darmstadt, and married Cath- erine Hentz. (Hentz III.) Children :
1. Margaret, of whom further.
2. Christine; married Casper Dom, and their descendants are the well-known Weaver and Moore families of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Phillip and Casper Dom were brothers.
The Gerhardt name was well known in the early eighteenth century in Germany. They were university men with leanings toward the church; devout and earnest in their attitude of life; a number of them became ministers of the Gospel of Christ.
(Family data.)
(II) MARGERET GERHARDT, daughter of Casper and Catherine (Hentz) Ger- hardt, married Phillip Dom. (Dom I.)
(Ibid.)
(The Hentz Line).
Hentz has been spelled in many different ways, as Henz, Hinze, and Hintsch. It is a German personal name found in many parts of Germany. Our family was located in the Electorate of Hesse. An estate known as the Hentzer Hof, in the vicinity of Statbach, was the home of the Hentz ancestors, in the fifteenth century and members of the family still occupy the estate.
(I) JOHN HENRY HENTZ was born in Statbach in the Electorate of Hesse, March 10, 1703. He was educated at the University of Marburg. He went to Beuern as a civil magistrate and died May II, 1775. He had a son, John Jacob, of whom further.
(Ida Belle Gaither : "Ancestry of Jessie Gaither Fownes.")
(II) SIR JOHN JACOB HENTZ, son of John Henry Hentz, was born July 16, 1742, and died February 16, 1829. He succeeded his father in office and estate. Margaret remembered with affection her proud old grandfather, who was regarded as one to be feared as well as loved. She enjoyed many delightful walks with him and remembered the deference shown him. As they passed through the Electorate of Hesse the villagers doffed their hats and saluted them. He married, in Beuren, Hesse Darmstadt, Glenora Krouch. Among other children they had a daughter, Catherine, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(III) CATHERINE HENTZ, daughter of Sir John Jacob and Glenora (Krouch) Hentz, married Casper Gerhardt. (Gerhardt I.)
(Ibid.)
(The Hugus Line).
Hugus is the surname derived from Hugh. In France it is spelled Hugo. They were French Huguenots.
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(I) MICHAEL HUGUS, a lineal descendant of the royal family of France, proven by a letter written to the Hon. Isaac Hugus, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, from the pen of the illustrious Victor Hugo. Michael came to Pennsylvania about 1743 with two brothers. In 1807 he was a county commissioner and in the census of 1810 was listed as the head of a family in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsyl- vania. He married, May 31, 1801, Elizabeth Ankeny. (Ankeny IV.) Children :
I. Lydia, of whom further.
2. Isaac, born in the Hugus homestead, Somerset, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1814, was educated in the school given to the town by his grandfather, Captain Ankeny, and read law under Samuel Gaither, Esquire. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, and the next year was appointed deputy attorney-general. He was quoted as a second Gladstone, a brilliant lawyer of exceptionally distinguished appearance. The family remembers the following :
Of him, who was of small stature, has been quoted the case where his adversary was badly defeated by Isaac. The former was a man of large stature and quick temper: he shonted in court : "You, why I could put you in my pocket." Isaac quickly replied: "Then you would have more brains in your pocket than you have in your head."
He and his sister, Elizabeth, lived in a modest little home built on ground which they inherited from the Ankeny estate, taken care of by a woman attendant who had been employed by the family for many years.
Isaac lamented, until he passed away, the decrease in their fortune. He had great expecta- tion of a return to prosperity, through the marble quarries which belonged to the family. They also passed into the hands of strangers.
He and Elizabeth never married and are buried in "Ankeny Square."
In recent years a number of the captain's and Rosina's descendants have organ- ized as "The Ankeny Square Association" and have been granted a charter. Fur- ther interment in this cemetery is prohibited. It is now a little park of which the quaint old town can be justly proud. Cora Baer Ogle, a lineal descendant of Peter Ankeny, and the wife of Hon. John G. Ogle, descendant of Hon. Chauncy For- ward, also interred in "Ankeny Square," is a leader of this organization.
(Ida Belle Gaither : "The Ancestry of Jessie Gaither Fownes.")
(II) LYDIA HUGUS, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Ankeny) Hugus, was born August 25, 1812, baptized September 13, 1812, and died October 19, 1897. She married Samuel Gaither. (Gaither VII.)
m Somerset, (Ibid.)
(The Ankeny Line).
According to tradition the Ankeny family were Huguenots, adherents of Prince Conde and Admiral Coligny, whose territory was part of ancient Flanders. The name was derived from "Enghen," a narrow strip of land in Flanders.
(I) CHRISTIAN ANKENY was a French Huguenot who had fled to Germany for religious peace. His wife's maiden name was Dewalt. Child :
1. Dewalt, of whom further.
(Ida Belle Gaither : "The Ancestry of Jessie Gaither Fownes.")
(II) DEWALT ANKENY, son of Christian Ankeny, was born in Württemburg, Germany, in 1728. He came to America in 1746, to escape further religious wars. With his Uncle Casper he sailed in the ship "Neptune," in command of Captain Thomas Wilkinson, and landed in Philadelphia. Dewalt located at Clear Springs, Washington County, Maryland, near Hagerstown. On January 19, 1773, he was granted a patent for five hundred acres of land in Frederick County, Maryland,
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ELIZABETH GAITHER
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called "Well Pleased" by the Right Honorable Henry Harford. Dewalt Ankeny and his sons were granted large tracts of land in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1774. His sons continued to acquire additional patents in that county as late as 1796. On April 7, 1781, he left a will, leaving his land to be given to four of his seven sons, by lots. He provided for his wife in every thoughtful manner, as to a lifetime supply of food, shelter, warmth, servants, horses, cows and poultry. The sons who did not receive land in the original tract, received a tract apiece in Milford Township, Pennsylvania. His money was to be divided among his wife and his children.
Dewalt Ankeny married, in 1750, Mary Jane Dormer. (Dormer II.) He married (second) Mrs. Margaret Fredericks. Children of first marriage:
1. Christian, fought in the Revolutionary War.
2. Peter, of whom further.
Children of second marriage :
3. John.
4. Henry.
5. David.
6. Jacob.
7. George.
8. Mary D.
9. Margaret.
10. Elizabeth Ancony.
(Ibid.)
(III) PETER ANKENY, son of Dewalt and Mary Jane (Dormer) Ankeny, was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, in what is now Washington County, on his father's plantation, "Well Pleased," March I, 1752. He died in his home in Som- erset and was buried in Ankeny Square, December 23, 1804. He gave to the town a lot for a schoolhouse, a church and a graveyard, besides other public bequests. In the early days of his life there the town was beset by Indians and he, with his wife, Rosanna Bonnet, were compelled to flee to Maryland for a time. On their return to Somerset, Peter Ankeny and others erected a blockhouse, near a road known as "Old Forbes Road," later called "National Turnpike," which led from Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) through Milford Township to the east. The first of the celebrated Conestoga wagons that crossed the Allegheny Mountains passed over that road. He was captain of the Fifth Company of Foote, Third Battalion, Penn- sylvania Militia, in the Revolutionary War, and in view of this the street on which Ankeny Square lies is named "Patriot Street," and the street crossing it, "Ros- anna," in honor of his wife. While building the "Mansion" Peter and Rosanna were compelled to live in a little place as a temporary shelter, and a refuge from the Indians; the remains of this shelter are a few mouldy old boards; some of their descendants humorously call this their ancestral home. Peter Ankeny married Rosanna Bonnett. (Bonnett V.) Children, all born in the "Mansion" in Somerset :
1. Catherine, born February 28, 1777. She enherited a tract of land called "Ulrich," valued at $3,212.42.
2. Elizabeth, of whom further.
3. Peter, born February 28, 1785. He inherited a tract of land called "Fairview," in Som- erset, Pennsylvania, valued at $4,339.
4. John, born September 15, 1787.
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5. Jacob (twin), born January 12, 1790, inherited a tract of land called "Choice Addi- tion," valued at $2,383.
6. John (twin), born January 12, 1790, inherited a tract of land valued at $1,849.36.
7. Isaac, born September 5, 1792. He inherited a tract of land in Somerset Township called "Richland," valued at $1,276.
8. Rosanna, born December 22, 1794.
9. Susanna, born November 6, 1796, inherited a tract of land in Milford Township called "Fairview," valued at $2,059.371/2.
10. Joseph, born June 30, 1802. He inherited the "Mansion" in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, valned at $3,352.
(Ibid.)
(IV) ELIZABETH ANKENY, daughter of Peter and Rosanna ( Bonnett) Ankeny, was born in her father's home in Somerset, Pennsylvania, called the "Mansion." She died at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth, in 1835. Elizabeth Ankeny, Sr., married Michael Hugus. (Hugus I.) He was made executor of the captain's estate; he and Elizabeth lived in a home in "Hugus Grove," now called "Edge- wood Park"; this place was burned to the ground ; it was not far from "The Man- sion." Here Elizabeth's and Michael's children were born. The blockhouse of Revolutionary fame was a stone's throw from "The Mansion." Only the founda- tion of the blockhouse remains today.
(Ibid.)
(The Bonnett Line).
The Bonnett family were a French family of noble birth. They were Hugue- nots, which later necessitated their fleeing from France to Holland, upon the revo- cation of the Edict of Nantes.
(I) LOUIS BONNETT was born in 1630 and lived in the village of Throngue, France, in the Province of Pointon, now Deux Leon. He had a son, Daniel, of whom further.
(Ida Belle Gaither: "The Ancestry of Jessie Gaither Fownes.")
(II) DANIEL BONNETT, son of Louis Bonnett, was born in 1655. He and his wife had two children and made their escape from France during the persecution of the Huguenots by the Catholics. Upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes they fled to the coast and found a temporary home, first in Holland, and later in Switzerland. The story of their escape is interesting.
Daniel Bonnett, his wife and their two children, lived in the village of Throngue, France, in 1686. They were Huguenots and their children were deeply impressed of the glory of holding by their faith and, if need be, dying for it. The troops were sent into the village to convert the Huguenots to Catholicism at the sword's point. Daniel Bonnett and his wife then made this effort to reach the coast. They loaded the donkey as if for market and hid their children in the panniers, charging : "As we value our lives, do not speak."
Monsieur Bonnett, with a basket of vegetables, trudged on before and his wife drove the donkey. Just outside of the village they met a trooper. He called in French: "Who goes there?" The father answered: "We are humble people taking to the market our vegetables." "Are your carrots tender?" He plunged his sword into one of the panniers. Not a motion was made, not a sound was heard. "Wherever you go, bon voyage mes amies," he shouted, and galloped · off. The wretched parents waited until the trooper was out of sight before they
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opened the slashed pannier. They found their five-year-old boy with his thigh slightly stabbed with the point of the sword. "Father, I did not speak," he said, then fainted from loss of blood. Without another adventure the Bonnetts escaped to Holland and thence to Switzerland. The blood of that little boy still runs in the veins of many good men and women in America. Daniel Bonnett married Jeanne Coliver, from the Province of Charente-Inferieure, France. They had two children, of which one was Jean Jacques, of whom further.
(III) JEAN JACQUES BONNETT, son of Daniel and Jeanne (Coliver) Bonnett, was the hero of his parents' escape to Switzerland. In 1733, Jean Jacques and his wife came from Switzerland to Pennsylvania, settling in Paoli, Chester County. He married Marie, and they had a son, Jean (John), of whom further. (Ibid.)
(IV) JEAN (JOHN) BONNETT, son of Jean Jacques and Marie Bonnett, was born in 1728. He lived on the Old Forbes Road, near where Captain Ankeny owned a large tract of land. He was a squire at Paoli and the first schoolhouse was called "Bonnett." His will is dated April 30, 1793, and is recorded in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. In this, he divided his property among his wife and his children. To his son-in-law, Peter Ankeny (Ancony), he left six hundred pounds of good and lawful money and his share of the movables. He married (first), in 1751, Mary (Bickley) Bićlet (Bickley II) ; he married second, Dorothy. Children of Jean (John) and Mary (Bickley) Bonnett :
I. Jacob, inherited plantation "Snake Spring."
2. John, inherited £ 400 and plantation named "Support."
3. Isaac, inherited a homestead and plantation "Toddsburg," out of which he was to pay Peter Ancony £ 600.
4. Elizabeth, inherited a plantation of two hundred and fifteen acres.
5. Rosanna, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(V) ROSANNA BONNETT was born in Washington County, near Hagerstown, Maryland, September 17, 1757. She was the daughter of Jean (John) Bonnett and his wife, Mary Bickley (spelled Bićlet in France).
Rosanna Bonnett married, in 1773, Peter Ankeny. (Ankeny III.) On Febru- ary 6, 1834, she died, at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth Hugus, in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Rosanna and her husband, Peter Ankeny, are interred in Ankeny Square, Somerset, Pennsylvania. She lived a pious and exemplary life, was long a member of the Presbyterian Church and her attention to the sick of her acquaint- ance will long be remembered with feelings of gratitude.
(The Bickley (Bićlet) Line).
(I) JOHANNES BICKLEY came from Hesse Castle, Germany, where he was born of Huguenot parents, who fled from France to Germany. He settled in Washington County, Maryland, and had a daughter, Mary.
(II) MARY BICKLEY (BICLET), daughter of Johannes Bickley, was born in Washington County, Maryland. She married Jean (John) Bonnett. (Bonnett IV.)
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(The Dormer Line).
(I) CHRISTIAN DORMER is listed in the 1790 census of Maryland as the head of his family. According to family records he was of Clear Springs, Maryland. Washington County, in which the village of Clear Springs is situated, was taken from Frederick County, September 6, 1776; and it follows all records, prior to lat- ter year, pertaining to Washington County would be found in Frederick County. According to family records, Christian was the father of Mary Jane, of whom further.
("Brumbaugh," Vol. I, pp. 237, 253. Census of Maryland, 1790, p. 119. Census of Fred- erick County, Maryland, August, 1776. Ida Belle Gaither : "The Ancestry of Jessie Gaither Fownes.")
(II) MARY JANE DORMER, daughter of Christian Dormer, was born in Clear Springs, Maryland. She married, in 1750, Dewalt Ankeny. (Ankeny II.)
(Ida Belle Gaither: "The Ancestry of Jessie Gaither Fownes.")
(The Garver Line).
(I) SAMUEL GARVER is mentioned in the deed books of Washington County, Maryland, where he is shown to have exceedingly large farm lands. Samuel Gar- ver had a daughter, Elizabeth, of whom further.
("Deed Libers of Hagerstown, Maryland.")
(II) ELIZABETH GARVER, daughter of Samuel Garver, was born in Hagers- town, Washington County, Maryland, in 1786, and was buried in Clear Springs, Maryland, February 12, 1827. She married Zachariah Gaither, Jr., son of Zach“ riah and Sarah Riggs (Warfield) Gaither. (Gaither VI.)
("Washington County, Maryland, Marriage Licenses," p. 21.)
(The Warfield Line).
From the time of the Norman Conquest, the family of Warfield was one of consequence in England. Pagen de Warfield, a Norman gentleman of the retinue of William the Conqueror, won a knight's fee and the estate of Warfield Walk, at the Battle of Hastings, 1066, in consideration of his services to the King on that eventful occasion. Our family is descended from the family in Berkshire, England. 2
("Maryland Heraldry.")
(I) RICHARD WARFIELD emigrated from Berkshire, England; in America, in 1662, and settled west of Crownsville, in Anne Arundel County, his estate reach- ing to Round Bay. He died in 1703. There is no doubt that they were gentlemen and in the will of Captain John Howard they are referred to as "my loving brothers, Mr. Richard Warfield and Mr. Alexander Warfield." Before his death, he held "Brandy," "Warfield's Range," and seven tracts located around the same locality. In 1670 he married Elinor Browne, heiress of John Browne, of London, who, with his brother, Perequine, had a fine merchant transport trade from Annapolis with London. Among their children was John, of whom further.
(Prof. Joshua Dorsey Warfield: "The Warfields of Maryland," p. 81. Mackenzie: "Colonial Families of the United States of America,", pp. 550-51.)
(II) JOHN WARFIELD, son of Richard and Elinor (Browne) Warfield, was born in 1674, and died in 1718. His brother, Alexander, inherited the plantation
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called "Brandy," near Millersville, Maryland. John was the eldest son of Richard Warfield and married, in 1696, Ruth Gaither. (Gaither II-second child.)
The sons all located in the frontier lands in Howard County. They belonged to the same church, in the same pew. They were members of the Queen Caroline Parish. The sons were :
I. Phillip.
2. Alexander.
3. Edward, of whom further.
(Warfield : "Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland," p. 84.)
(III) EDWARD WARFIELD, son of John and Ruth (Gaither) Warfield, married, October 6, 1741, Rachel Riggs. (Riggs IV.) They had twelve children, among whom was Sarah, of whom further.
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(Ibid. "Queen Caroline Parish Records.")
(IV) SARAH RIGGS WARFIELD, daughter of Edward and Rachel (Riggs) Warfield, was born May 16, 1762. She married Zachariah Gaither, Sr. (Gaither V.) (Ibid.)
(The Riggs Line).
Rigge is the medieval spelling of ridge and the name atte Rigge is found in all early English records, soon turning to Riggs.
(Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.")
-{I) FRANCIS RIGGS came from England in 1663 and took up a grant of land in Ivert County, Maryland. He died in 1664. He had a son, Richard, of whom further.
(Virkus: "The Abridged Compendium of American Biography.")
(II) RICHARD RIGGS was the son of Francis Riggs. He had a son, John, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(III) JOHN RIGGS, son of Richard Riggs, was born in 1687 and died in 1762. He settled at "Riggs Hall." He married Mary Davis. (Davis II.) They had a daughter, Rachel, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(IV) RACHEL RIGGS, daughter of John and Mary (Davis) Riggs, died April 16, 1794. Her marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. James Macgill, of Queen Caroline Parish. She married Edward Warfield. (Warfield III.)
(Ibid.)
(The Davis Line).
Early members of the Davis family in Maryland were from Virginia. The records show that several of the Davises came from the old Dominion into Mary- land. On both sides of the Chesapeake members of this distinguished name were large landholders and lived in the lavish way peculiar to the Colonial gentry.
("Maryland Archives," Vol. X, p. 532, 1657. Warfield: "Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland," pp. 113, 114, 356. "Maryland Historical Magazine," Vol. IX, p. 180.)
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(II) THOMAS DAVIS married Mary Elizabeth Pierpont, as is shown by the abstract of his will, given in Warfield's "Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland," p. 114. (Pierpont II.) The personal estate, after the death of his wife, was to go to his five daughters. Children :
1. Richard, deceased, leaving son, Caleb.
2. Thomas.
3. John.
4. Samuel.
5. Francis.
6. Robert.
And five daughters, one of whom was Mary, of whom further.
(Warfield : "Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland," p. 114. "Mary -. land Archives," Vol. V, p. 45.)
(III) MARY DAVIS, daughter of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Pierpont) Davis, was born in 1702 and died in 1768. She married John Riggs. (Riggs III.) (Ibid.)
(The Pierpont Line).
Pierpont is universally Latinized by "DePetro-Ponte" and is equivalent to the English Stonebridge.
(Lower: "Patronymica Britannica.")
(I) HENRY PIERPONT was of English descent, and among the early settlers of Maryland in 1665. He made application for his rights, which were fifty acres for each of his family that he brought into the colony. The following lists relate both his coming to America and his land rights.
Henry Pierpont enters rights as followeth : Henry Pierpont and Elizabeth, his wife. Amos Pierpont, oldest son of said Henry Jabez Pierpont, son, Elizabeth, daughter.
(Mary)
Hannah, Moses, son. This warrant granted to Henry Pierpont for three and fifty acres of land bear- ing date of November 1, sixteen hundred and sixty-six.
Henry Pierpont married Elizabeth. Children :
I. Amos.
2. Jabez, who devised to his sister, Mary, in his will.
3. Mary Elizabeth, of whom further.
4. Hannah.
5. Moses.
("Will Book," Land Office, at Annapolis. "Early Settlers," Maryland. Index page 965. Annapolis Land Office, Liber 8, "Early Settlers," p. 34.)
(II) MARY ELIZABETH PIERPONT, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Pierpont, came to Maryland with her father in 1665. She married Thomas Davis. (Davis II.) (Ibid.)
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