Johan Christian Biebel in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985
Name:Johan Christian Biebel
Birth Date:7 Jan 1752
Event Type:Baptism
Baptism Date:9 Feb 1752
Baptism Place:New Hanover, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA
Baptism Age:0
Father Name:Adam Biebel
Mother Name:Eva Margaretha Biebel
Denomination:Lutheran
Organization Name:New Hanover Evangelical Lutheran
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Married in 1775 to Catherine Folman
Six Children were born to the marriage:
John Bible 4 Oct 1777
Elizabeth Bible 1778
Mary Bible 10 Jan 1780
Christian Bible 1782
George Bible 3 Oct 1783
Adam Bible 8 Jan 1786
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Married about 1787 to Margareth 'Peggy' Folman Speagle, a sister of his first wife
Six children were born to the marriage:
Lewis Bible (1788-89 - 1843)
Catherine Bible (1789 - 1842)
Jacob Bible (1791 - 1850)
Sarah Bible (1795 - ?)
Abraham Bible (1798 - 1869)
Isaac Bible (1800 - 1872)
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January 7, 1752, the birth date of Christian was recorded in the New Hanover Lutheran Church record book of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. This record also indicates he was baptised February 9, 1752, sponsored by Christian Kurtz and Elizabeth Borchart and the parents were listed as Adam and Eva Margaretha Biebel (Pennsylvania German Church Records, Vol. II, Page 157, Genealogical Publishing Company).

1782, Christian was living in Hampshire County, Virginia . Michael Stump was the census taker. There were 6 white souls in Christian's household. [Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 - Records of the State Enumerations: 1782 to 1785, Virginia, Government Printing Office,1908, Page 25].

1784, Christian was living in Hampshire County, Virginia . Michael Stump was the census taker. There were 7 white souls in Christian's household. [Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 - Records of the State Enumerations: 1782 to 1785, Virginia, Government Printing Office,1908, Page 72].

1787, Christian owned land and lived in Abel Randall's District in Hardy County, Virginia (Now West Virginia). [The 1787 Census of Virginia - Hardy County, by Netti Schreiner-Yantis, Page 817].

1791 and 1792, Christian was living in Greene County, Tennessee in Captain Walker's Company and owned 100 acres of land (Greene County, Tennessee Genealogical Society, "Pioneer", Volume 5, Number 1, Page 8, Dated February 1989).

1794, Christian owned 100 acres of land in Captain Anderson Walker's Company in Greene County [Rootsweb.com - Greene County, Tennessee 1794 Tax List on the Web].

August 15, 1795 Christian was ordered to serve with others to lay off a road running from Warrens Mill on Little Chucky to Greeneville via John Biggs plantation. [Greene County, Tennessee Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1783-1795, by Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 212].

November 16, 1796 Christian purchased 152 acres of land located on Little Chuckey Creek from John Wilson (Greene County, Tennessee Deed Book number two and page 531). This deed indicated that Christian was already a resident of Greene County. [Greene County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts, 1785-1810, by Joyce Martin Murray, Page 61]. Deed recorded in Court of Common Pleas 11/19/1796. [Greene County, Tennessee Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1783-1795, by Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 256].

1796 Christian was living in Greene County in Captain William Whites Company and owned 152 acres of land on Little Chuckey, 1 White Poll (Greene County, Tennessee Genealogical Society, "Pioneer", Volume 10, Number 1, Page 62, Dated May 1994).

January 26, 1798, Christley Bible appointed overseer of the road from John Lathrells to David Wilson's. [Greene County, Tennessee Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1797-1807, by Sandra Kelton Houston, Page 46].

1798 Christian was living in Greene county in Captain William Whites Company and owned 152 acres of land on Little Chuckey (Greene County, Tennessee Genealogical Society, "Pioneer", Volume 6, Number 1, Page 9, Dated February 1990).

1799 Christian was living in Greene County in Captain William Whites Company and owned 152 acres of land on Little Chuckey, 1 Free Poll (Greene County, Tennessee Genealogical Society, "Pioneer", Volume 6, Number 3, Page 65, Dated August 1990).

January 28, 1800, Christian purchased 100 acres of land in Greene County from John Love, Attorney from Knox County, Tennessee. [Greene County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts, 1785-1810, by Joyce Martin Murray, Page 68, 69].

April 28, 1800 Christopher purchased 33.5 acres of land located on Johnston's Branch of the waters of Little Chuckey from George Ritesell. [Greene County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts, 1785-1810, by Joyce Martin Murray, Page 61].

1800 Christian was living in Greene County in Captain John Kestersons Company and owned 285 acres of land on Little Chuckey (Greene County, Tennessee Genealogical Society, "Pioneer", Volume 6, Number 4, Page 116, Dated November 1990).

October 28, 1805, Christian served on a Grand Jury in Greeneville, Tennessee. [Greene County, Tennessee Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1797-1807, by Sandra Kelton Houston, Page 201].

October 29, 1806, Christian Bible, Sr., Philip and John Bible and others ordered by court to approve a new road being proposed by John Bowers to accommodate his new saw mill on Little Chuckey River where Conway's Road crosses the river. [Greene County, Tennessee Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1797-1807, by Sandra Kelton Houston, Page 247].

January 27, 1807, Christian provided security for John Bible to be administrator of the estate of Christian Bible, Jr., son of Christian. [Greene County, Tennessee Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1797-1807, by Sandra Kelton Houston, Page 266].

1809-1810, Christian owned 468 acres of land on Little Chuckey River in Greene County in Captain Daniel Coffman's District. [Greene County, Tennessee Tax Digests, 1809-1816, Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 2, 44].

October 20, 1810, Christian purchased 43 acres of land located on Little Chuckey River from Michael Neice. [Greene County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts, 1810-1822, by Joyce Martin Murray, Page 4].

July 1811, Christian purchased 200 acres of land located on south side of Little Chuckey from Michael Dittemore. [Greene County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts, 1810-1822, by Joyce Martin Murray, Page 13].

1811, Christian owned 465 acres of land on Little Chuckey River in Greene County in Captain Daniel Coffman's District. [Greene County, Tennessee Tax Digests, 1809-1816, Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 62].

1812, Christian owned 308 acres of land on Little Chuckey River in Greene County in Captain Daniel Coffman's District. [Greene County, Tennessee Tax Digests, 1809-1816, Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 91].

1813, Christian owned 268 acres of land on Little Chuckey River in Greene County in Captain Daniel Coffman's District. [Greene County, Tennessee Tax Digests, 1809-1816, Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 125].

1814-1815, Christian owned 270 acres of land on Little Chuckey River in Greene County in Captain William Smith's District. [Greene County, Tennessee Tax Digests, 1809-1816, Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 178, 209].

1816, Christian owned 270 acres of land on Little Chuckey River in Greene County in Captain John Bible's District. [Greene County, Tennessee Tax Digests, 1809-1816, Goldene Fillers Burgner, Page 217].

1828, Christopher owned 190 acres of land in Captain Reed's Company in Greene County. [Greene County, Tennessee Tax List, microfilm at McGee Lawson Library, Knoxville, Tennessee].

1830, Christopher owned 190 acres of land in Captain Reed's Company in Greene County. [Greene County, Tennessee Guardians and Orphans Court Record, 1783-1870 and 1830 Tax List, Sandra Kelton Houston, Page 108].

1830, Christian and his wife were living in Greene County, Tennessee (Census) with a male born 1800-1810 and a female born 1810-1815.

January 28, 1833, the inventory of Christian's estate was recorded. (Greene County, Tennessee Inventory of Estates: January 1828 to June 1843, page 305 dated January 28, 1833).

Christian's homestead was supposedly located across the Little Chuckey River from the present day covered bridge linking the Warrensburg Highway with Denver Bible's farm. Denver apparently owns part of Christian's old homestead(1986).

July 13, 1824 Christian wrote his Will and it was probated in Greene County, Tennessee on October 22, 1833. Christian's Will mentions his children by name including Christian Jr. who had died in 1806 and also his second wife Margareth. The death date of Christian is recorded in the family Bible belonging to his youngest son Isaac(Greene County, Tennessee Pioneer May 1990 issue).

"I, Christian Bible, of the county of Greene, and the State of Tennessee, being in a state of good health and perfect mind and memory, but calling to mind the mortality of mankind that it is appointed for all men once to die, I therefore make this instrument of writing to be my last will and testament in the manner and form as followeth:

I will that all my lawful debts shall first be paid out of my estate.

Secondly, I give and bequeath unto my dear beloved wife, Margareth, the dwelling house, the well and milk house, the garden and as much fruit as she is in need of, likewise five bushels of wheat, five bushels of rye, and two bushels of corn, one hundred weight of pork, fifty weight of beef, one bushel of salt, one quarter of an acre of flax, two pairs of shoes annually, one cow and two sheep, the same shall be kept for her own use and purpose in the summer pasture and in the winter they shall be feed for her as long as she keeps my name and be my widow, further it is my will that my wife Margareth, shall have all the household furniture the same or such as she brought into my house when I married her, for her own self.

I give and bequeath unto my oldest son, John Bible, one hundred acres of land, the same plantation whereon he now dwells.

And unto my son, George Bible, I give and bequeath a certain tract or parcel of land, the same whereon he now lives, the number of acres not known, it being a tract I bought of George Reitzel with an addition of a part of my old tract beginning at a sugar tree to divide the part of the old tract before mentioned between George and Adam, then to a Branch, thence with the same to its mouth into the creek to a pin oak stump, thence to a box elder on the line of the aforesaid Reitzel tract.

And to my son, Lewis Bible, I give and bequeath a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred acres the same whereon he now lives.

And to my son, Jacob Bible, I give and bequeath a certain tract or parcel of land containing eighty-three acres, the same more or less adjoining John Bible's land and the old place.

And to my son Abraham Bible, I give and bequeath a certain tract or parcel of land, the number of acres not know, be it begins on John Bible's upper corner, a hackberry tree from thence north to a cedar stake corner to Adam's, thence with Adam's line to Daniel Coffman's line, Thence with said Coffman's line west to the creek, thence up and with said Creek to the beginning.

And to my son Isaac Bible, I give and bequeath the old plantation and all appurtenance thereunto belonging, except what is herein willed aforesaid unto my wife, Margareth, during her life or widowhood.

And my will and desire is that every part of the land herein bequeathed to my sons John, George, Adam, Lewis, Jacob, Abraham and Isaac Bible shall be valued by three good and sensible freeholders what every part of land may be worth, and that one whose land is valued higher shall and must give to the other whos land is not worth so much, that they may all be equal in sharing of the land, they may pay other as well as they can agree together.

And my son John Bible shall receive of my moveable estate the just and full sum whatever he has paid to John Nehs Senior up to the present time for the land which I bought from Michael Dettemore. The plantation of one hundred acres lying and being on Wolfs Creek shall (if I do not sell it before my decease), and equally divided amongst all my children and likewise my moveable Estate shall be sold and divided amongst all my children namely, John, George, Adam, Lewis, Jacob, Abraham and Isaac Bible, Elizabeth, Catherine and Sarah Bible.

And it is my will and desire that every one of my daughters (Mary excepted) shall receive after my decease twelve months the sum of fifty pounds in good trade at cash price.

And to my two Grand Children, daughters of my son, Christian Bible deceased, I give and bequeath five dollars to the eldest, Elizabeth, and to the youngest, Anny, one dollar.

My daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Isaac Crezilies, shall receive the sum of fity-pounds as aforesaid, and Mary, the wife of Jacob Easterly, one dollar, and Catherine, the wife of Phillip Easterly, the sum of fifty pounds as aforesaid, and to Sarah, the wife of Jacob Bortle, the sum of fifty pounds as aforesaid, and those payments equally paid by my sons agreeable to the valuation of their lands as aforesaid.

And it is my will and desire that my two youngest sons, Abraham and Isaac Bible shall receive first out of moveable estate each of them a good horse saddle and bridle and a good home made rifle gun.

And further it is my will and desire that my daughter, Sarah shall receive out of my estate the same furniture as one of her sisters has received.

And it is my will and desire that whatever I have herein bequeathed unto my wife Margareth, shall be delivered unto her annually by my sons agreeable to the valuation of their lands, except the flax, wintering and pasturing of the aforesaid stock which my son Isaac shall do and also to find her in firewood, do her milking, to prevent her from that which would be unfit for her to do.

And I do appoint and constitute my two trusty friends and sons John Bible and Philip Easterly, Executors of this my last Will and Testament in order that this and no other instrument of writing is but this my last Will and Testament. I renounce and revoke all others and do certify that this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Four.

Signed and sealed in the presence of: George Easterly Lewis Stolz his Christian (X) Bible mark

And thereupon came John Bible and Philip Easterly, The Executors named in said will and entered into bond with Adam Bible and Jacob Bible Securities in the sum of four thousand dollars with conditions as the law direct and having taken an oath to execute said will, it is ordered that letters testamentary issue to them accordingly."

Christian and Margareth are buried in the Gum Springs cemetery located down the Warrensburg Highway from Christian's homestead. A worn and weathered stone marks their final resting place and because of the nature of the tombstone selected, any inscriptions on the rock have long since disappeared. The late D. T. Jones, great-great grandson of Christian Bible, learned from his mother Ellen Smith Bible Jones the location of Christian's tombstone in the Gum Springs cemetery.

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