Hanss Peter Hillegass

• Preferred Name: Hanss Peter Hillegass^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: 21RR-SN4
  
• Birth: 12 APR 1647 in Daudenzell, Mosbach, Mosbach, Baden, Germany with note: it doesn't print on family group sheets when the birthplace is too lengthy.
  
• Christening: 12 APR 1647 in Daudenzell, Mosbach, Mosbach, Baden, Germany
  
• Religious Persecution: with note: Description: The Religious persecution of the Huguenots and the Germans of Alsace and Lorraine, drove the Hillegass Family with others by the way of Baden into the Palatinate of Germany prior to 1724.
  
• Death: 12 OCT 1719 in Sinsheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany at LATI: N9.19 LONG: E0.8872
  
• Occupation: Wagonmaker, as was his son Frederick in Frederick's marriage record23 AUG 1712 in Sinsheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany at LATI: N9.19 LONG: E0.8872
  
• Surname+History: with note: Description: The Hillegass name was derived from Hildedgraz, Hildegraz, Hill De Graz meaning grassy battlefield and is of Old Gothic-German origin of great antiquity. The name at times varies as it is written before and around emmigration to America as Hilldwgrass, Hillingas, Hilligraz to finally Hillegas or Hillegass. The Coat of arms of the Hillgass Family is as follows; quarterly; first quarter, gule (red), a pineapple (hospitality), argent (silver). Second and third quarters, azure (blue), a star of eight points, argent (silver). Fourth quarter, or gold, a deer springing, natural color. Over all a fesse (broad band) of argent, three musical staves, sable (black) indicating an honor conferred for great musical ability. Surmounted by a German Earl's coronet.
  
• Occupation: Wagonmaker
  
• sanft+und+seelig+eingeschlafen+46+Jahr+weniger+3+Wochen: 1693 in Sinsheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany at LATI: N9.19 LONG: E0.8872 with note: Description: fell asleep gently and peacefully for 46 years less than 3 weeks
  
• Notes:

  Hans Peter Hillengass and his wife Anna were born in Germany. Together they had 7 children, of those children three of their sons immigrated to America.

• m. 1684 in Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden

1. Joh. Friedrich Hillegass Sr., b. 24 NOV 1685 in Sinsheim, Sinsheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany     d. 6 JAN 1765 in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

1. Title: Hanß Peter Hillegass, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
   Author: "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP64-8PYM : 9 March 2023), Hanß Peter Hillegass, 12 Apr 1647; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Breitenbronn, Bezirksamt Mosbach, Kreis Mosbach, Republik Baden, Deutschland, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP64-8PYM;
   
2. Title: Peter Hilligaß in entry for Joh Jacob Hilligaß, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
   Author: "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPDL-8NTK : 26 October 2021), Peter Hilligaß in entry for Joh Jacob Hilligaß, 11 Jan 1693; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Sinsheim, Baden, Deutschland, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPDL-8NTK;
   
3. Title: Hanß Peter Hilligeß in entry for Georg Michel Hilligeß, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
   Author: "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPDL-87L7 : 26 October 2021), Hanß Peter Hilligeß in entry for Georg Michel Hilligeß, 19 Nov 1696; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Birth, Sinsheim, Baden, Deutschland, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPDL-87L7;
   
4. Title: Descendants of Hans Peter Hillegas
   Publication: Name: https://web.stanford.edu/~chasst/HilligossFamily/HILLIGOSS_Nola%20Martin.pdf;
   Note: Family Tree Maker 2005
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Hans Peter Hillegaß -
   Author: Public Member Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members., Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247361288
   
6. Title: Hanss Peter Hillegass, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
   Author: "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V416-JF3 : 27 October 2021), Hanss Peter Hillegass, 1647.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V416-JF3;