270Jacob’s younger brother, Frederick, and his family moved from Bedford County, Pennsylvania to Miami County, Ohio in 1829.271 That year he purchased 82 acres of land on the Stillwater River in Newberry Township272 where he built a brick home,273 probably the attractive old house that is still there. Frederick and his wife, Catherine Hay, were married in Pennsylvania. Their eldest son, Jacob would have been about 20 years old when they came to Ohio, and other children at the time were sons John, Andrew, Peter, Samuel and James, and daughter, Easter. Two younger daughters, Francis and Judy, were born in Ohio.

Frederick Hartle, grandson of Hans Georg Hertel, was 21 years of age when his father, Frederick, died in 1811. After the will of his father was declared invalid, Frederick was appointed as one of the executors of the estate on 13 April 1812. Bond was posted, and one of the sureties for the bond was Michael Hay. On 4 November 1819 in Orphan’s Court of Bedford County was filed the “petition of Frederick Hartle intermarried with Catherine one of the daughters and coheirs of Michael Hay deceased of Woodberry Twp. Michael Hay your petitioner’s said father-in-law died intestate on or about the first day of July in 1816 leaving a widow, to wit, Barbara and lawful issue five children to wit: Valentine, Jacob, John, Catharine intermarried with your petitioner and Barbara. The evidence would indicate that the Frederick Hartle, who was executor of his father’s estate, and Frederick Hartle, petitioner of the estate of his father-in-law, Michael Hay, are one and the same.270

As previously noted, Frederick was one of the executors of his father’s estate. He married Catharine Hay [Docket Book #3, p. 118, Orphan’s Court, Bedford Co., PA] around 1808, as their first child, Jacob, was born in 1809, calculated from census records. Catharine’s father, Michael Hay, signed as a surety for a bond for Frederick as executor of his father’s estate.

Frederick Hartle, Jr. appears in the 1811 Triennial Assessment for taxes in Woodberry Township. He was not taxed for any land, but had one horse and one cow valued at $29 for which he was taxed fifteen cents.

Frederick and Catharine’s second son, born in Morrison’s Cove in 1813, was John K. Hartle. In the Federal Census of 1820 Frederick is listed with two males under 10, one 10-16 and two females under 10. Jacob would have been about eleven years old and John seven. According to his age in later census records the next son, Andrew J., would not have been born until about 1822. Even with an error in Andrew’s age we are still unable to account for the two girls under ten years. Perhaps they were nieces or a neighbor’s children.

The other children born in Morrison’s Cove were Peter, Easter, Samuel and James B.

On 4 April 1827 Frederick and Catharine sold a 100-acre property that she had inherited from her father [Deed Book W, apr. 5, 1827, Bedford Co, PA]. Their son, James B. was born on 28 Janary 1828 in Pennsylvania. They moved to Miami County, Ohio in 1828 or 1829. The only land purchase of a sizable amount that I have found in Miami county was for 82 acres on 22 June 1829 [Deed Book Q, p. 14, Bedford Co., PA]. That was not likely the first land purchased there, as he transferred over 300 acres to his children in the last few years of his life. On 18 April 1829 he sold 148 acres in Pennsylvania by an appointed power of attorney [Deed Book Q, p. 14, Bedford Co., PA], so he must have been born in Ohio before that date.

The family is found in the 1830 census in Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio, under the name of Frederic Harter. The children’s ages match fairly closely. In the 1840 census he is listed as Frederick Hertell.

Son Jacob later married Hannah Dale in Miami County, Ohio. from there Jacob moved to Indiana for several years and finally settled in Illinois. John K. married Henrietta Petersime, and the remained in Miami County. Andrew J. married Ana Eva Petersime. Peter married, first Hanna C. Gilbert, and after she died three years later, he married her sister, Mary C. Gilbert.

Easter married Mahlon Martin. Samuel never married. James B. married Catherine Lehman. The children born in Miami County were Frances, Judith, Ida and a child born in 1835, living only about 18 days. The tombstone of the last child, located beside the parents’ graves, has only the initials E.H. [Joseph H. Bosserman, Sr., Cemetery Inscriptions of Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio (Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Pub., 1987), p. 84]. One of these girls married a Tobias, but there is some discrepancy in different family records whether that was Frances or Judith. Most, if not all, of Frederick and Catharine’s children, except Jacob, remained in Ohio.

Catharine died on 8 August 1835 with the birth of the last child [Liebegott Collection, Vol. 178, p. 157], but Frederick lived until 14 December 1861 [Joseph H. Bosserman, Sr., Cemetery Inscriptions of Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio (Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Pub., 1987), p. 84].66

1840 Census, Richland Township, Darke County, Ohio

2 males under 5
1 male 5-10
1 male 10-15
1 male 30-40
2 females under 5
1 female 5-10
1 female 30-40