Notes for Solomon Hoover




			The Ancestors of D O N N A J O Y J O H N S O N of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Notes for Solomon Hoover

Arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 23, 1749. Migrated to North Carolina prior to 1756. [Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 3, Ed. 1, (Release date: February 9, 1996), "CD-ROM," Tree #1366, Date of Import: Jul 14, 1997.]

Solomon Hoover and wife Sybella came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 23, 1749 from the German Palatinate. A few years later Solomon's parents Jacob Hoover and wife followed their son to Pennsylvania and died there. On April 5, 1750, H. Thomas Hoover, the only child of Solomon and Sybella, was born in York Co., PA. His birth and baptism are recorded in Christ Lutheran Church, York, PA. Solomon and Sybella removed to North Carolina. They purchased a grant of 135 acres from the state on Oct. 13, 1756, on Killian's Creek in Anson County, the part of which is now in Lincoln Co., NC. [Terry R. Young, Our Wyant Family, (Gateway Press, Inc., 1986), 189]

The above referenced grant is recorded in North Carolina Patent Book 15, page 198.

Solomon Hoover was granted 135 acres of land "on the north branch of Killian Creek" by His Majesty's Patent dated October 13, 1756, in Anson County, NC (in what is now Lincoln Co., NC.) [Helen W. Peeler, The Descendants of Thomas Hoover, 1981]

"On the eastern side of the county, Henry Dellinger, Robert Ellis, George, Henry and William Hager, Solomon Hoover, Casper Keener, Andrew, John and Leonard Killian, Michael Miller, Peter Sealer, William Taylor and John Turner. [William L. Carpenter, Lincoln County Sketchbook, 25 August 1975, "The First Families of Lincoln"]

"January Court 1786. Pp. 796-797: John Jones & Martha Jones of Rowan Co., to Hugh Robison of same, farmer, for £50...land in Lincoln Co.,...including Solomon Hovers improvement, on W side Catawba, W side N branch of Killions Creek, adj. William Hagar, 135 A granted to Solomon Hoover 13 Oct 1756...13 July 1784...John Jones {seal}, Martha Jones {M} {seal}. Wit: John Montgomery, George Robison. Rec. Jan. term 1786." [Brent Holcomb, Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln & Rutherford Counties North Carolina 1769-1786 Tryon County Wills & Estates, Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1977, 122]

Sometime during the 1750's, a list was compiled of the members of the militia of Captain Samuel Cobrin (NC Archives Mil. TR 1-9). The original list is undated, but researchers have examined the names on the list, the known ages of some of the men and the time of arrival in North Carolina of others, and have determined that the list was not made in 1748 as some have believed, but later. The list includes the name of Solomon Hoofer. [Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, (Forest City, NC, 1993), 102-106]

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