Andreas Heinrich Maagd / Andrew Maught

of Maryland

and some of his descendants

Paul R. Swan

June 7, 2007

Preface

The research for this lineage was for the most part carried out before I had in hand the first reference cited below, American Patriot vs. Hessian Mercenary, by sisters Lynda Alexander-Fonde and Marsha Alexander-Groff, 1991. If any reader of this present work is descended from Andrew Maught, I heartily recommend that you read their story of the circumstances surrounding Andrew's conscription into his German regiment, the battles in which he fought in the Revolutionary War, his capture and treatment after the battle of Yorktown, Virginia, and life in early Frederick County, Maryland. It is a thoroughly researched and beautifully written account, and includes photographs of Andrew Maught, his son Daniel, and of many of his descendants. The book is available on inter-library loan.

Introduction

Andreas Heinrich Maagd was born Feb/Mar 1759, and was of Thiersheim, in the district of Wunsiedel, part of the Margravate of Ansbach-Bayreuth (later Bavaria), when he was conscripted as a private in one of the two Ansbach-Bayreuth regiments hired by England to fight in the American Revolution. Commanded by Col. August Vanentin von Voit von Salzburg at the battle of Yorktown, Virginia, these were known as Hessian soldiers because most of the men were either from Hesse-Cassel or Hesse-Darmstadt. Andreas was captured at Yorktown in 1781, and marched to a prison first in Winchester, Virginia, and then to Fredericktown, Maryland. He was listed as a deserter 13 May 1783, after he was released and chose not to return to Germany, along with many of his compatriots.

During his life in Frederick County, Maryland, Andreas became known as Andrew Maught. He married Maria Barbara Reicher in 1784, had seven children between 1785 and 1804, and was naturalized 12 Feb 1814. On his tombstone in St. Mark's Episcopal Cemetery it is recorded that he died 7 Sep 1840 at age 80 years and 6 months. Maria Barbara died before 1840, and nothing more is as yet known about her ancestry.

Andrew's name was recorded with many different spellings in Maryland. Williams and McKinsey [1910] unfortunately name him as John Maught, but correctly list his seven children by name. That county history simply gave "Mr. [Charles C.] Maught's great-grandfather" the name of his grandfather, Andrew's eldest son John, by mistake. (Two references I've seen, Reamy and Reamy [1993] and Schildknecht [1989], copy Williams and McKinsey and so propagate the error made there in his given name.) Alexander-Groff and Alexander-Fonde [1991] report his name as Andrew Maught, originally Andreas Heinrich Maagd, and list the seven identical children. Larry Gamby [2007] kindly provided me with his copy of an article from the Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society which records multiple spellings: Andreas Heinrich Maagd / Andreas Heinrich Macht / Andrew Mockett /Andrew Mock / Andrew Mott / Andrew Mocht / Andrew Macht / Andrew Maught. I accept the first and last of these as his birth name in Germany and his adopted name in America. That article is appended at the end of this report.

This present account of his life and descendants has been compiled from many sources, and I have attempted to cite the earliest source for each record in so far as possible. I am confident that all of these records pertain to the correct individuals. However, the precise spelling and citation is retained below for each individual record, as are the incorrect spellings, dates and ages to which, however, I add comments.

There were other Maughts living near these families whom I have not identified, but who are probably related. At the end of this report, I have listed records of these Maughts not (as yet) connected to this lineage.

Here is a maps.google.com image of the area around the city of Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, where place names mentioned in the text have been underlined for easier visibility. The family first settled near Petersville, towards the bottom-left corner of this image. The dashed line south of Petersville is the Potomac River border with Virginia.

Andreas Heinrich Maagd / Andrew Maught & Maria Barbara Reicher

Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff [1991] write that their Maught immigrant's birth name was Andreas Heinrich Maagd, and that he was born in Germany in 1758.

Weiser [1972] reports the 18 May 1784 marriage of Andreas Heinrich Macht and Maria Barbara Reichertin, proclaimed three times, witnesses Michael and Anna Maria Reichert, in the Evangelical Congregation (formerly the Monocacy Church) in the City of Frederick. It's unknown what the relationship was among these three Reicherts, but they were surely closely related. Two and a half years later, Michael Reichert married Marg. or Mary Lintch in the Middletown congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church on 9 Nov 1786 [FHL, "Transcript of church records, 1746-1887].

The seven children of Andrew and Maria Barbara given by Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff are the same as those listed by Williams and McKinsey [1910], except that neither source individually had enough birth dates to record the siblings in correct order. Both references state that Andrew worked as a weaver.

Andrew Mocht was naturalized 12 Feb. 1814, Frederick County, renouncing his allegiance to the King of Great Britain [Gamby, 2007]. Great Britain? Perhaps the American authorities concluded that all of their opponents in the Revolutionary War had in effect made allegiance to England.

Andrew Mock of Frederick Co. bought from Alexander Thomas Hawkins and wife Sarah of Frederick Co. part of Resurvey on part of Hawkins Merry Poop a Day for £129, 10sh. The tract is described in perches and bearings, beginning at a white Oak Tree, the beginning of a tract called Brothers Goodwill granted to James Hawkins [Frederick Co., MD Land Records; Recorded 20 Jul 1795, Liber A: Folio 37 and Liber 13, Folio 412]. Also at about this time, Andrew Mock purchased land from Frederick Nicodemus [Frederick Co., MD Land Records; Liber 20: Folio 425], but I haven't seen that record. That land might even have abutted the Hawkins parcel. I have not found any other records of an Andrew Mock in Frederick County before 1850. Therefore I think it certain that these land purchases were made by Andrew Maught. The metes and bounds on the Hawkins land are given by Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, who provide the entire text of the property deed. These bounds can be plotted, starting at the southernmost point, to show the size and shape of the property that Andrew purchased (the distance units are in perches, 16.5 feet, and the parenthetical 7^th bound was calculated in order to satisfy the specified "then by a staight line to the Beginning"). The computed area with these meets and bounds is 36.5 acres, reasonably close to the specified "thirty seven Acres of Land more or less".

The unusual shape happens to make it easy to locate this property. It's a convenient fact that property lines in Western Maryland, while they vary in detail, have kept their overall locations and orientations over the more than two hundred years since Andrew bought his property (except in areas of urbanization). If you examine a Google satellite image of the land around Petersville, MD, you will immediately notice that the NNE trend lines of his property are mirrored only by land to the north and to the southof the present town. A closer examination of those areas shows with little doubt where Andrew's land was located, and that the boundaries are still mostly intact. This can be demonstrated by superposing the outline of his property onto the Google hybrid map, as shown below, where the present town of Petersville is at the left bottom edge of the image. The only adjustment needed was to make sure that both images were drawn to the same scale before positioning the overlay. Notice St. Mark's Road to the east of his land. According to a USGS map, St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, where many of the family were buried, lay along the east side of the middle third of the section of this road between Rte. 180 and I-340.

The 1820 census for Andrew Mocht in the 3rd District of Frederick Co, MD shows the four eldest children absent from the home, and son Henry's age fudged a bit, probably so he would not be recorded also in the special 16 to 18 year male age bracket eligible for military duty. There was also in the household a female aged 10 to 16, thus born 1804 to 1810, who has not been identified as a daughter of Andrew and Maria Barbara. She also appeared, age 20-30, in the 1830 3rd District census, this time for Andrew Maught, in which only Samuel and Henry were still in the home. That year Andrew also had a male and female slave, 10-24 years of age, and a female slave 36-55 years old.

In the 1840 Petersville census for Andrew Maught, Maria Barbara did not appear, there was a female and a male born 1810 to 1820, another male born 1825 to 1830, and three slaves.

Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff present in their book all of the details of the final settlement of the Estate of Andrew Maught 28 Jan 1850 by his son Samuel, the surviving Administrator. After payments of debts and fees, the balance of the estate amounted to $436.49 which was distributed equally to the six living heirs, with a seventh share to the heirs of the eldest son John, by that time deceased.

The seven children of Andrew and Maria Barbara (Reicher) Maught were Catharina "Katy", Mary Ann, John Thomas, Daniel, William, Samuel and Henry:

i Catharina "Katy" Maught, daughter, born 14 Oct 1785, died 9 May 1853 [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991]. Catharina married George Rhodes, b 16 Aug 1782, d 20 Mar 1850; he and Catharina are buried in St. Mark's Episcopal Cemetery [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991]. (The authors throughout their book name this as the Petersburg Episcopal Cemetery, but I have corrected this in each case to read St. Mark's Epicopal Church Cemetery.) There is an IGI submitted record of a George Road/Rhodes, born about 1783 in MD, married 4 Mar 1806 in Frederick Co., MD. No wife's name is given, but I feel reasonably certain, although not positive, that this was a record of the marriage of Catharina. There is also record of a George Rhodes born "about 1786" to Heinrich and Catharine (Roth) Rhodes, of Maryland [FHL IGI submitted and Ancestral File], but the birth date is somewhat disparate. These were probably Catharina's in-laws, but with less than reasonable certainty.

ii Mary Ann Maught, daughter, born about 1787, died 1 Mar 1854, and was buried in St. Mark's Episcopal Cemetery [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991].

iii John Thomas Maught, son, born July of 1789 in the Middletown Valley of Frederick County, died 12 Sep 1848, and was buried in the Burkittsville Union Cemetery [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991; middle name from WorldConnect records]. John was married 5 Dec 1815 to Mary Magdalena "Polly" Easterday born 1 Nov 1792 Frederick Co., MD [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991], daughter of Conrad and Marie Barbara (Blessing) Easterday [McDaniel, 2007]. She died in Burkittsville aged 96 years, 2 month, 12 days [Obituary The Antietam Wavelett, Keedysville, MD newspaper].

John was killed "by a waggon and horses" [Manahan, 1996; citing The Jacob Engelbrecht Death Ledger].

The number of children born to John and Mary can be deduced from the census data. The 1830 District-3 census indicated three sons born between 1815, their marriage year, and 1820, and four daughters 1820 through 1830. From other sources we know that sons Andrew and Conrad were born 1818 and 1820, and from the 1850 census we know three of the daughters were Mary, Sarah and Juliann. The other one's name was found to be Catherine Ann Elizabeth. Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff at the time of their work were only aware of three or four children, Andrew, Phoebe, Conrad and, "possibly", Eliza.

In the 1840 Petersville census, however, in addition to one son born before 1820 still at home, as well as a daughter, (Eliza) born after 1835, we find four males also born 1820 to 1830 who did not appear in the 1830 census. That census also had mother Mary's age ten years in error, and I have to for the present ignore the four extra 10 to 20 year old males that year, who could have been teenage boarders or laborers living with the family.

In 1840 John was censused in the Petersville District as the owner of three slaves. Andrew C. H. Maught and his family were living with his mother in 1850, so probably he was also the son at home in 1840. Also in Mary's home in 1850 was George W. Easterday, a 29 year old laborer, probably a nephew of Mary's, while three households down in the census was an Elizabeth Esterday, 45, with a Juliann Esterday, 41 living with her. Mary's own daughter, Juliann, was 21 in that census. (Judging from the preponderance of the spelling Easterday in the IGI recorded births in Maryland, it's probable that the Esterday spelling is a typical census anomaly.)

John's wife Mary was censused as 30 to 40 years of age in both the 1830 and 1840 Petersville, Frederick Co. censuses, but as 58 years when the head of her own household in 1850. That year she owned real estate worth $5000, and her four daughters and son Andrew C. H. were each listed with real estate worth $1200, presumably their shares of John's estate.

In 1860 Mary was head of a household of nine Maughts in Petersville, Frederick Co., MD. These were herself, age 67, her daughters Sarah, 32, Juliah, 30, and Eliza, 24, her son Conrad's widow Mariah (Myra), 36, her son Thomas, 50, and Myra's three children, William, 12, Lucinda, 10 and Franklin, 7 (all listed in just that order). In 1870 in Burkittsville, Mary, age 77, had her daughter Julia, 41, and grandaughter Lucinda, 20 in her home, as well as 13 year old Jennie Ahalt. And in 1880 her daughter, Julia A. S. Maught, and Virginia Ahalt were still living with her.

The nine children of John and Mary "Polly" (Easterday) Maught were Thomas J., Andrew C. H., Conrad W., Mary A., Phebe A. R. (who died in infancy), Catherine Ann Elizabeth, Sarah Ann Ellan (probably Ellen), Julia Ann S. and Eliza A. E. Maught:

1 Thomas J. Maught, son, born 25 Dec 1816 and died 20 Apr 1899. Thomas married Civila/Savilla Wolfe, born 5 Feb 1821 in Maryland and died 3 Oct 1901. All of this information from Holdcraft [1966; citing Frederick Mt. Olive Cemetery] who had her first name as Civila.

In the 1850 Petersville District census, the household listed just before that of John's widow Mary was that of their son Thomas J. Maught, age 33, and wife Savilla, age 29. In their home was a Hulda Stine, 15 years of age, and the value of Thomas' farm was $1250. In Petersville in 1860 Thomas J. Maught, age 43, was censused as a merchant with $1000 of real estate and $4000 personal estate. The given name of the 37 year old female Maught in the household starts clearly with "M", and is at most three or four letters long (possibly "Mrs."?). James and Annie Dixon, 17 and 14, were in the household, as was 36 year old George Nixdorff, a Lutheran Minister. By 1870 the retail grocer Thomas, 53 and Sabilla, 49, were living in the 5^th Ward of Frederick City with personal estate valued at $1200. Living alone next door to them was his uncle William Maught, aged 75. By 1880 he and Savilla, 63 and 58, were still in Frederick (City), where he was working as a Clerk in a store. In 1900 the widow Savilla was living in a boarding house (with 14 others) in Frederick where her name was recorded as Civalo, and she reported her birth as Feb, 1821.

2 Andrew C. H. Maught, son, born 17/20 May 1818 and died 12/13 Jul 1892 in Frederick, Maryland [Holdcraft, 1966; citing Jefferson Union] (various sources citing Holdcraft give slightly different days). Andrew C. H. was married 8 May 1848 in Frederick County to Mary Ann Rebecca Long, born 11 Jan 1823, daughter of Christopher and Betsy F. (Easter/Fiester/Feaster) Long and died 3 Aug 1902 [Holdcraft, 1966; citing Jefferson Union with the surname Easter; McDaniel, 2007]. Considering the other Maught associations with the Easterday family, it might be asked if Mary's mother was an Easterday rather than an Easter. However, there are records on WorldConnect Rootsweb.com of the marriage 27 Dec 1817 of John Long, born 17 Aug 1790 in Frederick County, MD, to Elizabeth Fiester/Feaster, born 12 Dec 1794 in Jefferson, Frederick Co., MD. Some of those records list eight children including Mary Ann Rebecca, so her parentage is quite uncertain. One of those records states that she died in Burkittsville, and was buried in the Lutheran Cemetery, Jefferson, Frederick County.

Andrew was born near Burkittsville, and lived all of his life on the farm he received from his father. The farm was passed on to his son Charles. [Williams and McKinsey, 1910].

The census record for Andrew Mocht of 1840 lists him and his wife as born 1810 to 1820, a male in the household born 1825 to 1830, another born 1750 to 1760, and three slaves. The elder man was not Andrew's father John, who was censused separately, but could have been his father-in-law Christopher Long. I could not find a census record for Andrew in Frederick County in 1850.

In 1860 Andrew and Mary, ages 42 and 38, were censused in Petersville with John, 11 and Charles, 6. Andrews was a farmer with real estate valued at $11,935 and personal estate at $2,250. The 1870 census is amusing, as the couple were censused as Anna C. H., female 52 years old, and Mary A. R., female 48 years old. John's and Charles' ages were recorded as 20 and 16. The real estate that year was valued at $16,000 and the personal at $3000.

In 1880 Andrew (by then a male, again) and Mary were censused in Petersville with their son John and his wife Florence living with them. Three relatives were in the household, including sister-in-law Susan Long:

By 1900, Mary (incorrectly indexed as Manght by Heritage Quest) was living with relatives in the home of Emory R. and Annie M. Remsburg, married 16 years, recorded as having no children. Emory was born Jan 1858, and Annie Feb 1862. Mary was listed as a widow and aunt, born Jan 1823 having borne two children, one (Charles) still living. Also in the household were Joseph W. Long, brother-in-law, born Aug 1879, and Mary P. E. Easterday, servant, born Aug 1880.

The two children of Andrew C. H. and Mary Ann Rebecca (Long) Maught:

i John Maught, son, born in 1849 and died in 1880. John married 1880 to Florence M. Horine, born in Dec 1856, daughter of Ezra and Eliza Ann (Hanes) Horine and died in 1945. All of this from Holdcraft [1966; citing Burkittsville Lutheran Church] and in part confirmed by the 1880 census of John's father, with whom they were living at that time, with ages 30 and 23. Florence in 1900 was living with her father and mother (listed as Anna E.), censused in Burkittsville seven households after her brother-in-law Charles Maught, and next to a Lewis and Martha Easterday family. In 1910 she was still with her parents, with age recorded as 53. There were several Horine and Ahalt families living in nearby households. In 1920 she and her mother were living alone together, ages 63 and 83, in Burkittsville, some 10 households from John Ahalt and his sisters. By 1930, at age 72, Florence M. Maught was living with her sister Mattie E. Kefauver in Braddock, Frederick, MD, and reported that she had been married at age 24. Mattie, aged 71, owned her own home, worth $5300, and reported that she had been married at age 46.

The only child of John and Florence (Horine) Maught:

1 John A. E. H. Maught, son, born 30 Jan 1881 [SSDI] or 1876/78 [censuses], died Mar 1966 in New Orleans. John married Cecile Cassard, daughter of Adrien Benjamin and Marie Aglaee (Materre) Cassard [www.marin-turpin.com/ aqwg55.htm#1869], born 1879/85 in Louisana. John A., born MD, and Cecile Maught, ages 33 and 30 and married less than a year, were living 1910 in a boarding house in New Orleans, he working as a clerk for the Internal Revenue, if I read the census record correctly. By 1920, with ages given as 42 and 35, they were still in New Orleans, on Audubon Blvd., with a son Adrian aged 8 years. John's occupation was given as Federal ..., the remainder unreadable, but Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff write that he worked for the U. S. Revenue Service. Cecile's name and birth year are from these two censusus. The online marriage indexes for New Orleans, searched from 1908 through 1911, do not include this couple, so Cecile's home was probably not in the city [www.genealogybranches.com]. There is a Social Security Death Index record for John Maught, born 30 Jan 1881, died Mar 1966 [SSDI]. The final residences listed are identical to those of his son Adrien. I feel sure that this is the same John Maught, and so have adopted its dates, but this suggests he reported his age as three or four years older than reality in all of the censuses.

The only son of John A. E. H. and Cecile Maught:

i Adrien A. Maught, son, born 18 Sep 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died 8 Dec 2002 [SSDI]. Adrien married Elizabeth ____, born 6 Sep 1912 and died 18 Dec 1990 [SSDI]. Both of their final residences were Lafayette Square and New Orleans, Louisiana. Adrien was 91 years old when he died. He was a 1933 graduate of Tulane University

[www.freeman.tulane.edu/freemanmag/fall03/ alumni2.pdf.].

A son of Adrien A. and Elizabeth Maught:

1 Adrien A. Maught, Jr., was a Director, COO and President 1996 and 1997 of DataMetrics Corp. of Orlando, Florida. He before then was President of the Adrien A. Maught Company, an industrial real-estate and management consultant firm.

ii Charles Christopher Maught, son, born 16 Mar 1854 on the farm "Happy Home" in Burkittsville, Frederick Co., on the road to Harper's Ferry, and died 12 Feb 1943. Charles was married 20 Jan 1880 to Julia K. Bowlus, born 31 Oct 1857, daughter of Captain Stephen R. and Caroline (Remsburg) Bowlus and died 4 Mar 1922. They were both buried in the Jefferson Union Cemetery [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991]. Charles middle name is from a WorldConnect record. Charles and Julia were censused 1880 in the 3^rd District of Montgomery County, MD. By 1900 they were back in the Burkittsville District, Frederick County, from which we obtain the childrens' names and birth dates. In Burkittsville 1910 he was censused as Charles C. (but indexed as Charlie C. by Heritage Quest), age 56 and married 30 years, Julia was 52 and listed three children, all living. In 1920 Chas. C. and Julia K. Maught were living with their daughter Esther Routzahn in Burkittsville.

The three children of Charles and Julia (Bowlus) Maught [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991]:

1 Marget A. R. "Mayme/Mamie" Maught, daughter, born Oct. 1880, died 5 Oct 1969 [IGI], married 3 Dec 1902 in Frederick, Frederick Co., MD to Elmer E. Guyton [IGI], born 20 Dec 1878 in Frederick Co., MD [WorldConnect].

The two children of Elmer E. and Marget A. R. (Maught) Guyton:

i Velma Gertrude Guyton, daughter, born 12 Sep 1904, died 17 May 1996, Jefferson, Frederick Co., MD, married Lee Arnold House, born 14 Sep 1900, son of Greenberry Dillard and Elizabeth (Arnold) House of Burkittsville, died 29 Jan 1978, also in Jefferson. This couple had two children, still living according to a FHL Ancestral File.

ii Julia Loretta Guyton, daughter

2 Andrew Roy Maught, son, born Mar 1882 MD, married 1902/03 Julia E. ____, born 1881/82 MD. In 1910 they were censused in the Jefferson District, Frederick Co., MD; in the 26 Jan 1920 census they had a son Charles J. A., age 3y 9m. In 1930 they were in Burkittsville, and their son's middle initials were recorded as "J. E.".

The son of Andrew Roy and Julia E. Maught:

i Charles J. A./E. Maught, born Mar/Apr 1917, MD

3 Esther Maude Maught, daughter, born 30 May 1895 [SSDI], died 9 Mar 1997 in Middletown, married Clark O. Routzahn, born 28 Oct 1887 [SSDI] in MD, died 4 Jul 1988, resided in Arnoldtown, Broad Run and Burkittsville. Clark O. and E. Maude were censused 1920 in Burkittsville with their son Grafton and her parents. In 1930 the couple were censused next door to Eva M. Routzahn, 36, who had two daughters and a son living with her. I did not find Grafton in the 1930 census index, nor was I able to find Clark as a child in the 1900 index.

The son of Clark O. and Esther Maude (Maught) Routzahn:

i Grafton C. Routzahn, son, born Oct/Nov 1918 MD,

3 Conrad W. Maught, son, born 29 Feb 1820 and died 17 Aug 1857 [Holdcraft, 1966; citing Burkittsville Union 154]. Conrad W. married Myra Wilson, born 1821/1822 [1850 Census].

Conrad and his wife and son drove off a company of Confederate soldiers from his home in September, 1862, during the invasion of "Stonewall" Jackson into Frederick County. His farm was near Burkittsville, which is some five miles southwest of Middletown in Frederick County [Williams and McKinsey, 1910]. He was killed in Knoxville, Frederick, MD, by a Baltimore & Ohio engine while loading wheat [Alexander-Fonde and Alexander-Groff, 1991; Williams and McKinsey, 1910].