Johannes Heintz
JOHANNES HEINTZ AND HIS DESCENDANTS BY JOHN CLAGEIT PROCTOR, LL M. GREENVILLE, PENNA. 1918 Mr.• John P. Hines, of Stoneboro, Pennsyl vania, and his brother, Samuel Hines, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, through their :finan cial assistance, have made it possible to have published this geneaology, and I tender them rey everlasting gratitude. To my dear mother, Mary A. Proctor, who died January 11, 1916, I owe all the good there is in me, and I fervently dedicate this work of years to her sweet memory. -J. C. P. I I l .\.: i_~ .)=~ '.~i~ ~ -:-~· -~ ~~ ,~ PREFACE CCORDING to Rupp, in his "Thirty Thousand Names of A Immigrants in Pennsylvania," the name Heintz is derived as follows: ''Heinrich, Heinerich, Henrich, Henry, a cour ageous man, a spirited hero-F. Pichler; probably from the Anglo Saxon heutan, hren, heut, to seize, to lay hold of, to conquer, or to overcome,. as hren, heutan, sich einer Sache bemre-chitigen, and ricca, ric, rich, possessing a large portion, literally, possessing a large portion of courage, to overcome. It may be derived from the Greek enorea, manly courage; vigor-abbreviated Hein, Heintz, Hintz.'' The name first appears in American records in 1730, the first person noted being Johan Ludwig Heintz, who qualified at the Port of Philadelphia, November 30th of that year. From that date until 1775, there were upward of thirty-two individuals bearing the name Heintz, or what is meant for the same, who entered Pennsylvania, and strangely too, half of these included the Christian names John, Johan, and Johannes. It is presumed that in the majority of instances at least, they ,vere Palatines, coming from the Rhine valley, then the Palatinate, and quite probably they were all related.
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