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Note: Notes from Tague Trails database (Gary Tague gtague111451@@msn.com) at Ancestry.Com:
Theobald (Dewald/David) Pfautz, age sixteen or under, arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Davy in October 1738. He appears on the ship's list as "Theevia Fautzen." Fautzen is the German feminine form of the surname Fautz. Fautz = Pfautz. Strassburger and Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers (Norristown Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), 3 Vols, 2255, list "Theevia" as a "doubtful" name. The ship's list certified that there were 94 men, 47 women - a total of 141 on board. Theevia Fautzen must be included with the list of men in order to make the total 94. No others on the list of men have "-en" on their surnames. Hence, the name was that of a male named Fautz, or in German Pfautz. "Theevia being aural English spelling of a German-pronounced German name can be transliterated phonetically into "Thebchd," which is recognizable as Theobald. Strassburger and Hinke, 1233, List 61A only. The ship's list included all males by name regardless of age and totaled 94 men. Only 40 men, those over age 16, signed the Oath of Allegiance (list 61B) and the Oath of Abjuration (list 61C). Per later data, Theobald Pfautz was a Lutheran when he arrived; hence would not conscientiously scruple the taking of the oaths if he were of age. Inasmuch as he married in 1743, his age then was most likely 21, for he also obtained a Maryland head right in the same year. His name was Theobald. However, he used Dewald, the German diminutive of that name. The German pronunciation of Dewald to an English ear resulted in Diobult, Devalt, Davaselt, Devault, and David appearing in various records. He appears as Theobald twice in Maryland records. In North Carolina he appeared either as Devaselt or David. In Randolph County NC Deed Book 5:66, two of his younger sons described him as "Old David Fouts." However, all records translated from German in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina are consistent in identifying him as DeWald. Hence the reader will not here be subjected to the agony of the fluctuating given name suffered in research. Theobald Pfautz is DeWald: Pfautz in Pennsylvania, Fouts in Maryland and North Carolina, regardless of the name variation in English-language records. Once the given name problem was resolved, DeWald Fouts was readily traceable as the progenitor of most of the Fouts in post-Revolutionary North Carolina, of the present Mountain Fouts of North Carolina; of the Fouts of Clark County, Indiana Territory; of the strongly Dunker Fouts of Randolph Township, Montgomery County, Ohio; and of the the Fouts who were in Oregon by 1852. From 1744 until his death [1787?] in North Carolina, he moved in concert with and lived adjoining to Michael (son of Hans Michael Pfautz who married Catherine Varner, daughter of John Adam Varner). 27 May 1743 - Register of St Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania, 1743-1865, 2:375, German text; 2:262, English translation: The pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in present Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, officiated at the marriage of Dewald Pfautz and Catrina Spengel. May 1744 - Register of St Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania, 1743-1865, p.10: Dewald Pfautz again appears in Pennsylvania Lutheran records for the baptism of his first child and eldest son, John Daniel Pfautz, with Daniel and Margareta Spengel as sponsors, at St. Matthews in York County. Until he finally sold out in Maryland in 1762, DeWald was active in expanding his land holdings, selling his early lands and securing additional lands (all on waters of Great Pipe Creek and simultaneously with similar activity of Michael). (Maryland Patents BY&GS #2:308-9; T1 #4:594-6; BC&GS #10:474-5 and Frederick County, Maryland Deeds B:26-8; B:492-3; H:5-6). 1762 - Frederick County, Maryland Deeds, H:5-6: Dewald Fouts sold out to Gasper Rowland, a Dunker minister (In 1767, Rowland provided the communion certificate for Daniel Spengel in naturalization proceedings before a Maryland Provincial Court). 17 Feb 1763 - Rowan County, NC Deeds: Dewald (David) Fouts, Sr., 292 acres, 5:332; John (John Daniel) Fouts, 200 acres, 5:333; Jacob Fouts (third son of Dewald), 200 acres, 5:334; Michael Fouts (son of Jacob, grandson of Hans Michael Pfautz), 260 acres, 5:335; Dewald (David) Fouts, Jr., 230 acres, 5:335; Andrew Hoover (husband of Margaret Fouts, the sister of Michael), 275 acres, 5:342; all deeds dated 17 Feb 1763. On the same day, buying land near or adjacent to the Fouts and Hoover were Adam Varner (brother-in-law to Michael Fouts), 289 acres, 5:415; Jacob Schwartz (a neighbor to Andrew Hoover in Maryland who sold out in Maryland on the same day that Hoover did), 200 acres, 5:483; and John Mast (of the Amish Mennonite family of Berks Co., Pa., who was apparently unrelated to any of the others, for his sons and daughters married Fouts and Hoovers almost exclusively), 233 acres, 5:338. On 22 Feb 1763, Hoover bought an additional 213 acres, 5:342. 1768 - Rowan Co., N.C., Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes, 2:17: Dewald Fouts was appointed overseer of the Trading Road, from the Painted Springs across the Uwharrie to Caraway Creek. 1771 - Diary of The Rev. George Soelle, March 23, 1771 - April 12, 1773 (translated by Bishop Kenneth G Hamilton): Brother George Soelle, a Moravian missionary from Salem (George Soelle was a Danish-born minister and missionary who spent much of the 1760s with the settlers of Broad Bay, Maine, and encouraged them to move to NC. He came to Wachovia himself in 1770, and died in Salem in 1773), visited the Uwharrie and went first to Dewald Fout's home, where he stayed and held his first service. Soelle recorded his impressions of the visit: "I often experience among such folks what Solomon says "A fool often asks more questions than a wise man can answer." This is a unique species of people. They appear to me like Aesop's crow which inflated itself with other birds' feathers. They have Moravian, Quaker, Separatist, Dunkard principles, know everything and know nothing, look down on others, belong to no one, and spurn others." No further documentation concerning Dewald has been found in North Carolina after the Randolph County Tax List of 1779. Based on the pattern of dissolution of his family in the 1780's, it is believed that he was dead by 1787. He most likely died during the period after September 1782 and before September 1787 for which the Randolph County Court Minutes are lost.
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Notes from Tague Trails database (Gary Tague gtague111451@@msn.com) at Ancestry.Com:
Theobald (Dewald/David) Pfautz, age sixteen or under, arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Davy in October 1738. He appears on the ship's list as "Theevia Fautzen." Fautzen is the German feminine form of the surname Fautz. Fautz = Pfautz. Strassburger and Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers (Norristown Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), 3 Vols, 2255, list "Theevia" as a "doubtful" name. The ship's list certified that there were 94 men, 47 women - a total of 141 on board. Theevia Fautzen must be included with the list of men in order to make the total 94. No others on the list of men have "-en" on their surnames. Hence, the name was that of a male named Fautz, or in German Pfautz. "Theevia being aural English spelling of a German-pronounced German name can be transliterated phonetically into "Thebchd," which is recognizable as Theobald. Strassburger and Hinke, 1233, List 61A only. The ship's list included all males by name regardless of age and totaled 94 men. Only 40 men, those over age 16, signed the Oath of Allegiance (list 61B) and the Oath of Abjuration (list 61C). Per later data, Theobald Pfautz was a Lutheran when he arrived; hence would not conscientiously scruple the taking of the oaths if he were of age. Inasmuch as he married in 1743, his age then was most likely 21, for he also obtained a Maryland head right in the same year. His name was Theobald. However, he used Dewald, the German diminutive of that name. The German pronunciation of Dewald to an English ear resulted in Diobult, Devalt, Davaselt, Devault, and David appearing in various records. He appears as Theobald twice in Maryland records. In North Carolina he appeared either as Devaselt or David. In Randolph County NC Deed Book 5:66, two of his younger sons described him as "Old David Fouts." However, all records translated from German in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina are consistent in identifying him as DeWald. Hence the reader will not here be subjected to the agony of the fluctuating given name suffered in research. Theobald Pfautz is DeWald: Pfautz in Pennsylvania, Fouts in Maryland and North Carolina, regardless of the name variation in English-language records. Once the given name problem was resolved, DeWald Fouts was readily traceable as the progenitor of most of the Fouts in post-Revolutionary North Carolina, of the present Mountain Fouts of North Carolina; of the Fouts of Clark County, Indiana Territory; of the strongly Dunker Fouts of Randolph Township, Montgomery County, Ohio; and of the the Fouts who were in Oregon by 1852. From 1744 until his death [1787?] in North Carolina, he moved in concert with and lived adjoining to Michael (son of Hans Michael Pfautz who married Catherine Varner, daughter of John Adam Varner). 27 May 1743 - Register of St Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania, 1743-1865, 2:375, German text; 2:262, English translation: The pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in present Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, officiated at the marriage of Dewald Pfautz and Catrina Spengel. May 1744 - Register of St Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania, 1743-1865, p.10: Dewald Pfautz again appears in Pennsylvania Lutheran records for the baptism of his first child and eldest son, John Daniel Pfautz, with Daniel and Margareta Spengel as sponsors, at St. Matthews in York County. Until he finally sold out in Maryland in 1762, DeWald was active in expanding his land holdings, selling his early lands and securing additional lands (all on waters of Great Pipe Creek and simultaneously with similar activity of Michael). (Maryland Patents BY&GS #2:308-9; T1 #4:594-6; BC&GS #10:474-5 and Frederick County, Maryland Deeds B:26-8; B:492-3; H:5-6). 1762 - Frederick County, Maryland Deeds, H:5-6: Dewald Fouts sold out to Gasper Rowland, a Dunker minister (In 1767, Rowland provided the communion certificate for Daniel Spengel in naturalization proceedings before a Maryland Provincial Court). 17 Feb 1763 - Rowan County, NC Deeds: Dewald (David) Fouts, Sr., 292 acres, 5:332; John (John Daniel) Fouts, 200 acres, 5:333; Jacob Fouts (third son of Dewald), 200 acres, 5:334; Michael Fouts (son of Jacob, grandson of Hans Michael Pfautz), 260 acres, 5:335; Dewald (David) Fouts, Jr., 230 acres, 5:335; Andrew Hoover (husband of Margaret Fouts, the sister of Michael), 275 acres, 5:342; all deeds dated 17 Feb 1763. On the same day, buying land near or adjacent to the Fouts and Hoover were Adam Varner (brother-in-law to Michael Fouts), 289 acres, 5:415; Jacob Schwartz (a neighbor to Andrew Hoover in Maryland who sold out in Maryland on the same day that Hoover did), 200 acres, 5:483; and John Mast (of the Amish Mennonite family of Berks Co., Pa., who was apparently unrelated to any of the others, for his sons and daughters married Fouts and Hoovers almost exclusively), 233 acres, 5:338. On 22 Feb 1763, Hoover bought an additional 213 acres, 5:342. 1768 - Rowan Co., N.C., Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes, 2:17: Dewald Fouts was appointed overseer of the Trading Road, from the Painted Springs across the Uwharrie to Caraway Creek. 1771 - Diary of The Rev. George Soelle, March 23, 1771 - April 12, 1773 (translated by Bishop Kenneth G Hamilton): Brother George Soelle, a Moravian missionary from Salem (George Soelle was a Danish-born minister and missionary who spent much of the 1760s with the settlers of Broad Bay, Maine, and encouraged them to move to NC. He came to Wachovia himself in 1770, and died in Salem in 1773), visited the Uwharrie and went first to Dewald Fout's home, where he stayed and held his first service. Soelle recorded his impressions of the visit: "I often experience among such folks what Solomon says "A fool often asks more questions than a wise man can answer." This is a unique species of people. They appear to me like Aesop's crow which inflated itself with other birds' feathers. They have Moravian, Quaker, Separatist, Dunkard principles, know everything and know nothing, look down on others, belong to no one, and spurn others." No further documentation concerning Dewald has been found in North Carolina after the Randolph County Tax List of 1779. Based on the pattern of dissolution of his family in the 1780's, it is believed that he was dead by 1787. He most likely died during the period after September 1782 and before September 1787 for which the Randolph County Court Minutes are lost.
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