Johann Herlass
Johann Philipp Herlass, Male 1716 - 21 March 1772
Born, Muehlhofen, Palatinate, Germany.
Died, Montgomery Co., Virginia, USA.
Father of Ferdinand Harlass and Mary Harlass and John Harlass and Johann Harless and Edmund Harlass and David Harlass and Margaret Harlass and Henry Harlass. Son of Ferdinand Herlass and Anna Catharina. Brother of Anna Herlass and Maria Herlass.
Notes By Elke A. HallMuehlhofen was confirmed at age 15 (later emigrated to America), as was Anna Catharina Herlass, age 13, who also emigrated to America.married in Offenbach, Germany, to Miss ANNA MARGARETHA PREYSCH.Albert and Related Familiesaccompanied by the following symbols are of one immediate family.first of the family of German origin in the New River settlement. He arrived in Philadelphia Sept.5,1738 and was one of the first settlers with the Prices and Walls on on Tom's Creek. Born Ca 1716, he died 1772 survived by his wife Margarette. He was granted patents for 1000 acres on the waters of Tom's Creek. Upon his death, he devised 600 acres to 1-B Samuel Harless; 113 acres to 2-B Phillip Jr.; and the balance to 3-B David Harless;4-B Henry Harless received cash; 5-B Martin Harless received 100 ac. in Clover Hollow on the waters of Sinking Creek. His daughters, 6-B Margarette who married George Williams; and 7-B Mary who married (???)Shelor, received cash from the estate.Montgomery Co., Va. (E.A.)1797, Montgomery Co., Va.He married Elizabeth Nash. Their children are: 1-D Henry Harless, whose daughters married George and Pearis Albert. (See Albert line.)merchant and postmaster at Long's Shop,married Amanda McCoy, dau. of Moses. Their dau. Lula m. C.E. Jonesmany years at Long's Shop.and state pensioner as a school teacher, married Ella Brown. Their children: Byron, Montana, Juanita, Nevada, Lancelot and Kenneth.estate just above where the original Shilch Lutheran Church stood. This old cemetary contains the earthly remains of many of the original settlers on Tom's Creek.Big Falls in Piney Grove on the Harless estate near the site of old Wake Forest Church established by the colored ex-slaves of the Kents in 1757. When torn down, this congregation joined with Shilch Church in the village of Long's Shop in 1874. This church was also torn down and a modern church erected at the site of the original Long's Shop on land donated by the family of Professor R. H. Price.Nov 4, 2000]generation #10 Mar 28, 1998Kampbell home page....died 1772 in VA. He was the son of Ferdinand Herlass and Anna Catharina. He married Anna Margaretha Breisch/Price February 17, 1737/38 in Offenbach, Palatinate, Germany.Offenbach/Landau/Palatinate/Germany; died 1784 in VA. She was the daughter of David Breisch and Agnes Hoffman.Muehlhofen was confirmed at age 15 (later emigrated to America), as was Anna Catharina Herlass, age 13, who also emigrated to America.in Offenbach, Germany to Miss ANNA MARGARETHA PREYSCH.Wood's River Company. In July 1748 Lorton sold to Michael Price and Philip Harless 400 acres at the mouth of Jones' or Tom's Creek and 400 acres to Augustine, Henry and Daniel Price at the Horsehoe Bottom. These men, including Lorton with Caspar Bargar, Adam Wall and Stephen Lang, were all German immigrants who had arrived September 5, 1738 in Pennsylvania on the Winter Galley out of Rotterdam. All came to New River.With him were Augustine, aged sixteen and brother-in-law Philip Harless married to Anna Margaretha Price the elder sister of Michael. Not on the ship's passenger list because they were under age were Daniel, fourteen and Henry, twelve. Nor was the name of Anna Margaretha. Although there were 113 women and children on board their names are not listed. This Price family were the children of David Preisch (Breisch) and Agnes Hoffman of Offenbach, Landau, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany. Their father David had recently died in 1735.Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for the first child of Philip and Anna Harless was christened in a Moravian church in Lancaster town though the Harlesses had been Lutherans at Muhlhofen....
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