Johannes Walborn

Johannes Walborn^1,2

• Name Variation: John Walborn

• Birth*: circa 1791; Birth year is calculated from age at confirmation: "aged 17 years".¹

Parents:

Notes

• Note*: The following three notes support the assertion that Christian Walborn and his wife Elisabeth Lescher had a son named Johannes. Nothing has been found to prove what became of him, or to link him to siblings.
• Note: List of Confirmations on June 3, 1805 at Shoop's Church, Lower Paxton Twp., Dauphin County:
  
  "1. Johannes Walborn, aged 17 years"
  "12. Elisabeth Walborn, aged 16 years"
  
  List of Communicants, same day:
  
  "Christian Walborn and wife Elisabeth"¹
• Note: Harrisburg Zion Lutheran, 7 Jun 1813:
  (Note that this same list appears in the Shoop's church records - see below)
  List of confirmations:
  #24 Anna Maria Walborn
  
  List of communicants:
  #11 Christian Walborn
  #12 frau. Elisabeth
  #13 Johannes Walborn
  
  Note:
  No Walborns appear in the earlier lists for Harrisburg Zion Lutheran church, 1796 through April 1813. The earliest Walborn entry found in this church is the 18 March 1813 marriage of Valentine Hummel and an Elisabeth Walborn.
  
  Harrisburg Zion Lutheran, 15 May 1814, list of communicants:
  (#11) Christian Walborn
  Frau Elisabeth
  Maria Walborn
  Joh Walborn
  
  Harrisburg Zion Lutheran, 25 Dec 1814, list of communicants:
  (#39) Christian Walborn
  #40 Johannes Walborn³
• Note: Shoop's Church, Lower Paxton Twp., 7 Jun 1813:
  (Note that this same list appears in the Harrisburg Zion church records - see above)
  
  List of confirmations:
  #24 Anna Maria Walborn
  
  List of communicants:
  #11 Christian Walborn
  #12 frau. Elisabeth
  #13 Johannes Walborn
  
  Shoop's Church, Lower Paxton Twp., date unavailable, about 1815, list of communicants:
  Joh Walborn⁴
• Note: The following six of notes support the assertion that there was a John Walborn, of about the right age, who lived in Lower Paxton Township and then Middletown, had wife Margaret, and daughters as listed in the census. It is likely that he was Christian and Elisabeth's son.
• Note: Tax lists, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County:
  
  John Walborn appears as a tenant in 1815 & 1825; then as a freeholder in 1834-1835, with 17 acres, a Preacher and a Justice of Peace; then as a tenant as 'Esquire' for 1828-1833, Justice of Peace in 1828 and 1831.⁵
• Note: In a newspaper section 'Notes and Querys Relating to the History of Dauphin County', with a piece on 'The Taverns of Paxtang Valley':
  
  "Jacob Shultz the younger...opened the first public house in the valley...the mansion house...three miles east of Harrisburg..sold...1791 to Jacob Shultz...Mr. Shultz became the owner of the property, and about 1808 or 1810 erected buildings on the eastern part of the farm, to which he retired from all business same that of farming, and leased his tavern property to Henry Grove, who conducted the inn for a few years, when he was succeeded by John Walborn, father of Cornelius Walborn, late postmaster of Philadelphia. Mr. Walborn was an active man and a genial landlord. During his occupancy, in 1819, the turnpike road was built, which added considerably to the business of the house. Mr. Shultz died in 1819, and in the spring of 1820...the tavern house...were sold."⁶
• Note: Harrisburg Zion Lutheran, April 1822:
  
  List of communicants:
  John Walborn - Shoemaker⁷
• Note: A letter dated April 2, 1827 from the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the Speaker of the Senate informed the speaker "that various documents, together with dispositions, interrogatories and cross-examinations, taken in the case of John Walborn, Esquire, a justice of the peace of the county of Dauphin...pursuant to...An act directing the mode of taking testimony in cases of complaint against justices of the peace."⁸
• Note: Obituary of Margaret Walborn:
  
  "Decease of an Aged Lady - Mrs. Margaret Walborn, widow of the late John Walborn, Esq., of Middletown, died in that place yesterday, in the 79th year of her age. She was highly esteemed by all who knew her. The funeral will take place on Wednesday afternoon at half past two o'clock."⁹
• Note: 1850 US Census - Portsmouth, Dauphin Co. (near Middletown)
  John Walborne 59
  Margaret Walborne 53
  Mary Ann E Walborne 22
  Pricilla Walborne 16
  Amos Walborne 14
  
  1860 US Census - Middletown, Dauphin Co.
  Margaret Walborn      66
  Mary A E Walborn      30
  
  1870 US Census - Middletown, Dauphin Co.
  Margaret Walborn 75
  Mary A Walborn      40
  
  1880 US Census - Middletown
  Pricilla Fortney 46, sisters
  Rufus Fortney      24
  Sylvester Fortney 21
  John Fortney 19
  Ethel Fortney 6
  Mary Walborn 57, sisters¹⁰
• Note: The John Walborn(s) described above are not to be confused with the following John Walborn, who died by 1838:
  
  On 6 Nov 1838 Perry H. Walborn and William Gaugler/Gauchler, guardian of William Walburn, a minor, (appointed by the Orphans Court of Union Co.), both of Pennstownship, Union Co. Penn., granted to John App, in consideration of $250, lot number fourteen in the town of Selinsgrove, Pennstownship, Penn., on the west side of Water St., fifty feet by one hundred sixty feet. The lot had last been sold 2 Jan 1812 by Peter Beistle and his wife Mary, daughter and one of the heirs of Nicholaus Gougler, to John Walborn who died intestate "leaving three children to wit. Perry H. Walborn, William Walborn, and Mary Ann Walborn (the wife of the said deceased also died since)". Mary Ann and her husband Henry Hoch, by Deed of Release 17 Aug 1838, quit claimed all their rights to this lot and to the rest of the estate of John Walborn and Elisabeth his wife.
  Abstracted by Jeff Moore.¹¹
• Note: The John Walborn(s) described above are not to be confused with the following Johannes Walborn, whose died 1856:
  
  Burial register of Zion Lutheran Church, Jonestown, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania:
  "Johannes Walborn, died 9 June 1856, age 67 years 12 days, born 27 June 1788, buried Stumpstown [Fredericksburg, Lebanon Co.]"
  He appears to have been a long time member of that congregation.¹²
• Note: It is asserted in Henry W. Walborn's book that Johannes Walborn son of Christian Walborn and his wife Elisabeth Lescher was born 6/27/1788 and died 6/9/1856, was buried at Fredericksburg or Shoop's or Middletown, and (written in) married Anna Kleinfetter who died 10/8/1856 age 55 years, and that he had three children: Perry Harrison Walborn born 1815, Cornelius Augustus Walborn born 1816, and John Joseph Walborn born 6/18/1818.
  
  That John Walborn of the book appears to be an amalgamation of disparate facts, some listed above. This compiler has found no evidence connecting the said sons.¹³
• Note: Also a John Joseph Walborn was found, resident of Middletown, Dauphin county, Justice of the Peace, died 9 Apr 1874, wife Susan. But no evidence was found linking him as a son of Johannes, or as a brother of Perry or of Cornelius. (Middletown records have not been studied by this compiler.)^{14,15,16,17,18}
• Note: This Johannes Walborn is numbered (1-5-4-1-1) in the Herman Walborn book.¹⁹