Bolich Family in America by Mary Margaret Bolich

Johann Adam (Adam) Bolch Sr aka Bolig, Bolick

Born 24 Sep 1728 in Vosgues Mountain, Alsace, Germany [uncertain]

Son

of [male parent unknown] and [female parent unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Descendants

Died 13 Jan 1794 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.s.a.

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Contents

• one Biography
  • one.one Will of Adam Bolch_Lincoln County
  • one.2 Children
• two Research Notes
• 3 Sources
  • 3.1 Acknowledgments

Biography

The last name has been spelled in various ways through the generations including Balch, Balich, Boalich, Bohlich, Bohlig, Bolch, Boleck, Boley, Bolich, Bolick, Boliek, Bolig, Boligh, Bolih, Bolish, Bollich, Bollick, Bollig, Bolligh, Bolock, Bolsch, Boulch.

Johan Adam Bolch and his wife Anna Christina (final name unknown, mayhap Hauck or Schwarztwald) landed in Philadephia on 24 September 1753 on the ship Neptune (John Mason, Main) from Rotterdam, terminal from Cowes. They had two children with them, Jacob who was born in Germany prior to the voyage and Sebastian who was born during the journey. They settled in Berks Canton, Pennsylvania. Sometime prior to 1770 the family migrated to Lincoln County, North Carolina.

Johannes Adam Bolich was baptized at the Trinity Lutheran Church building at Reading, Pennsylvania on Feb 6, 1755. His son, Johan Caspar Bolich was baptized when 7 weeks quondam on Feb 16, 1757. Adam Bolich appears on the list of taxable in Exeter Townsip, Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1757, and Adam Bolick on a list of taxable in Oley Township in 1758.^[1]

Johan Adam was a shoemaker by trade. According to family stories, he had considerable property in Germany. Frg had strict limits on the corporeality of holding immigrants were allowed to take with them when they left the country. Johan Adam converted his belongings into golden which he then melted into thin plates. He fabricated new shoes for the family unit, with an extra pair for each. He placed the sheets of gilt between the soles of the shoes and the family carried the gold to America.

Johan Adam Bolch was the pioneer of the Bolch/Bolick family in Lincoln/Catawba Canton, N Carolina. ^[2]

By 1770, Adam Bolch had secured a country grant in then Rowan County (at present Catawba Co.) Over the years, he caused a considerable corporeality of property. About of it west of the Catawba River along Lyles Creek and Mechlin Creek. Adam Bolch was a shoemaker by trade. He was also plain well-educated for the times, judging from the number of books he had to bequeath to his children.

The will of Adam Bolch was written 13 January 1794. Lincoln Co. N.C. in which he states that he was a shoemaker and very ill and weak in trunk just of perfect mind. He provides for his wife, Christina, and gives her his domicile, which, at the end of her life, is to be accounted real property of his son, Godfrey. He instructs his children in the intendance of their female parent. His wife and 7 children survived him, and all are mentioned in the document.^[3]

He died in 1794 and was buried in what became the Bolch Family Cemetery, Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA.^[4]

Will of Adam Bolch_Lincoln County

In the proper name of God, Amen. I, Adam Bolch of Lincoln County in the Country of Due north Carolina, Shoemaker, being very sick and weak in body but a perfect heed and memory, Thank you BE TO GOD, calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men in one case to die, do make and ordain this my terminal will and testament, that is to 24-hour interval principally and beginning of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried at the management of my Executors, hereinafter named, nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive same again by the mighty Power of God. And touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleasedGod to anoint me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

Beginning I give and bestow unto Christina my dearly beloved wife, my home I now live in to be freely enjoyed by her during the time of her life, and at the expiration of her natural life the same shall be deemed The Real Property of my son Gottfried, and likewise my garden to be freely possessed and enjoyed past her, to her only proper utilise during the fourth dimension of her natural life and after her death to exist the absolute property of my son Gottfried. I also requite her the post-obit effects to be and remain her absolute property forever, to wit: my plumage bed, and bed-stead and article of furniture; 1 fe cot, one Sermon volume, one Hymn book, one frying pan, one milk cow and all the cash I have with me, besides one third of all my movables. I give to her my linen chest, and all the linens and other appurtenances therein, to deadening mentioned, to be her absolute property forever; and whereas all my children are in possession of state which I have provided for them, and my Son Jasper hath received from me all the purchase money for same my absolute will is that each of my children shall exist liable to pay yearly on the offset day of October, every year unto said married woman two bushels ofauthentic skillful and lawful well cleaned wheat; one quarter of a hundred pounds skillful meat, one-half pork and one-half beef; iii pounds of well cleaned picketed flax, and in total they shall find and provide for her every year one pair of good shoes.

The oldest shall exercise it commencement, then the side by side shall notice and provide for the said shoes and the following year and so on in society to the youngest, and then if death not happens, to begin in the same social club with the eldest as aforesaid, and to prevent defoliation or errors that might happen in the whole I say all and every articles above mentioned to be paid unto my dearly honey wife on the first day of October every twelvemonth after my expiry, expressly by each and every ane of my children. I encounter but cause to proper name them all in particular. ane. Jacob my son, 2, Sebastian my son, iii, Adam my son, iv, Jasper my son, 5, Godfrey my sone, six, Christina my girl. 7. Elizabeth my girl.

And whereas they altogether hold land as aforesaid my absolute volition is that each of them shall be liable to pay said described articles per annum on the limited time, and in case that any of my children should happen to die before my wife, that in this case their heirs or heirs of them or any of them whoever shall hold state or lands of the deceased shall be liable to the aforesaid duties, for the maintenance of my married woman during the fourth dimension of her natural life only whatsoever longer; and my son Godfrey shall provide food and all necessities for her milk moo-cow same also for an ewe which I do give hereby; and in case I should happen to die in a curt or a long time my will is that my sons shall split up my wearing apparel and clothes among them in equal portions, and after the death of my wife my daughters shall carve up her apparels and clothes amid them in said order as in said of mysons. And whereas I have declared that my son Godfrey shall keep the said milk moo-cow and ewe to the but use of my wife at his own proper cost and that in recompense of which I bequeath hereby and in virtue of this, my folio Bible, printed in Nurenberg, unto him, the said Godfrey hereby forewarning all the balance of my children, their heirs, executors or administrators, from all claims of the aforementioned by any lawful pretense any.

I give and bequeath unto my son "'Jacob'" the sum of twenty shillings to be paid out of my money past my executors, besides purchase coin I have given him before to pay for his country and this shall exist his portion which he hath already received earlier.

I requite and bequeath unto my son Sebastian, all that portion or parcel of state lying and situate on the Western or Northern side of Lyle'southward creek, adjoin the land of George Adam Schmitt and on other rail of my own land, being part of a big tract that I bought of Henry Schmitt by virtue of Imperial Grant (Patent) bearing date of Twenty First of July 1774 as the said patent will more fully and conspicuously announced, to have and to hold the said tract on said creek, which shall set a limit between him and his blood brother Jasper (Casper) unto my son Sebastian Bolch his heirs, executors, and assigns forever; and further,

I give and bestow unto my sone "'Jasper'" all the remainder of the said described tract I bought of the aforesaid Henry Schmitt that is situated in the Eastern or South side of said Lyle's creek which shall set limits between him and his blood brother, "'Sebastian'", adjoining Philip Adam and Philip Giger, to have and to agree the said tract existence part of the aforesaid larger tract unto the said Jasper Bolch and his heirs, executors and assigns forever.

Also I give unto my son "'Adam'" all that tract of piece or packet of land situate on the Eastern side of a sectionalization line laid off by Joseph Rankin in a line of a larger tract at the N of a co-operative on Macklings Creek running Due north fifteen West to a post oak then 10 corner from start in the lines of the said larger tract of the plantation I live on, to have and to hold the said described tract, slice or package of land existence part of a larger tract granted to me by virtue of a states grant bearing the date of 20th solar day of October 1782. Where the limits volition exist more than fully and largely appear unto the said Adam Bolch his heirs, executors and assigns forever; and farther I requite also unto my son Godfrey, the remainder of the said tract bound by the line aforesaid described which shall prepare limits between him and his brother Adam, and is situate on the Western side of said Rankin line, to have and to concur the said country as part of the larger tract unto the said Godfrey Bolch, his heirs,executors and assigns (except that before excepted for the dowry) forever.

Further I give unto my daughter Christina the lawful wife of Fredrick Trefflested 1 hundred sixty acres of land adjoining the state of Sebastian beingness role of the larger tract granted me past virtue of states grant bearing the date September 20th, 1770, situate on both sides of Eke Creek to exist divided by a line kickoff across the said creek in the middle of the whole tract, setting limits between her and her sister, dividing the whole tract into divisions and parallel parts.

I give unto my girl Elizabeth the other half or remaining 160 acres of the aforesaid tract, beingness the upper or Western part thereof adjoining the land of Jacob Mitchell, to have and to hold the aforementioned premises unto the said Christina and Elizabeth, their lawful heirs, executors and assigns forever, and finally, and all the residuum of my furnishings not willed herein, my will is it shall exist divided amid all my children in equal proportion without regard to sex or historic period, but selling thereof to strangers either by individual or public sale I exercise hereby prohibit.

P.Due south. I give my iron pot, called a dutch oven, two pewter basins, one one-half dozen of ditto (probably pewter) spoons, unto my wife to utilize during life, but after her death to be considered function of my movables to be divided among my children in manner and grade to a higher place directed.

Lastly, I practise hereby constitute, appoint and ordain Godfrey Bolch my well loved sone to be my whole and sole executor of this my last volition and attestation and do hereby do utterly disallow, revoke and disannounce all and every other onetime testaments, wills, legacies, bequeaths and executors by me in ways before willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to exist my last will and testament, in witness whereof I take prepare my hand and seal this thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, on thousand seven hundred and ninety four.

(Signed) Adam Bolch

Signed, sealed and published, pronounced and declared past the said Adam Bolch equally his final will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names.

Witnessed Conrad (X) Maugro and Jacob (X) Diehl and Andrew Cloninger (or Bollinger)

Children

Johan Adam Bolch and Christina had the following children^[5]:

1. Jacob Bolch, married Maria Salome Grimes on Mar 21, 1775 in Rowan Canton
2. Sebastian Bolch, married Margaret Heffner on Feb xviii, 1776 in Lincoln County
3. Adam Bolch
4. Johan Casper/Jasper Bolich, married Christina
5. Godfrey Bolch, married Catherine
6. Christina Bolch
7. Elizabeth Bolch

Research Notes

Andreas Balch arrived in Philadelphia on the same send as Johan Adam Bolch. The next year a Johan Georg Bohlich arrived in Philadelphia on December 13, 1754 besides on the Neptune (Walliam Malane, Principal) from Hamburg, Hanover and Saxony. It has been theorized that these three men, Johan Adam Bolch, Andreas Balch and Johan Georg Bohlich were either cousins or brothers. As far as I know, this has yet to be proven. Johan Georg Bohlich and his son Johan Peter were shoemakers by trade. At this fourth dimension I practice not know what profession Andreas pursued.^[6]

• "Collections of the Genealogical society of Penna., Baptisms by Rev. Daniel Schumacher (1754-1774)" vol. 279, page ten, constitute among the records of the Historical Society of Penna. in Philadelphia.

• "Collections of the Genealogical society of Penna., Baptisms past Rev. Daniel Schumacher (1754-1774)" vol. 279, page 34, found amidst the records of the Historical Society of Penna. in Philadelphia.

• Enquiry of Judge Koch.

• "Roster of Soldiers from Northward Carolina in American Revolution" by N Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution pages 441 and 573, Lincoln County, North Carolina Militia, a copy of which volume is in the possession of the Historical Guild of Penna. at Philadelphia.

• The foregoing information was given in a letter to the Honorable Westward.F. Kopp, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., by the Banana to Administrator, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C. All replies to exist referred to BA-J/EEL Casper Bolich, W18566.

Note: September 24, 1753 Emigrated with his wife Anna Christina on ship "Neptune" to Philadelphia. The Shoemaker Co-ordinate to Alexander Co. Heritage (NC) article 82, "J.Adam, was a shoemaker in Deutschland. The story goes that he melted downwards his gilded into thin plates, hid them in the soles of the shoes of the family that came to America with him (since Germany would simply let immigrants to take a small amount of their property with them when they left the land, Catawba Co., (Heritage Article 68). Christina (their dauhgter) married commencement Fredrick Trefflested, 2nd Granis Trefflested. Abraham, a son of Adam, gave the country where the start Mt. Pisgah Lutheran Church building was situated and where the cemetery is now. (alongside the Catawba River).

Sources

1. ↑ #Bolch
2. ↑ #Pioneers
3. ↑ #Volition
4. ↑ Detect a Grave, database and images (accessed 08 February 2021), memorial page for Johann Adam "Bolig" Bolch Sr. (1725–1794), Find A Grave: Memorial #159213592, citing Bolch Family Cemetery, Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, Us ; Maintained past civilwarbuff (contributor 47049540).Bolch Family Cemetery.
5. ↑ #Bolch
6. ↑ #Pioneer

• Emigration: 24 Sept. 1753 Emigrated with his wife Anna Christian on send "Neptune" to Philadelphia

• Source: Will of Johan Adam Bolch, recorded at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1794

• Military machine Service: 1775 all the Bolch sons served in the Revolutionary State of war

• Source: "Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Baptisms by Rev. Daniel Schumacher (1754-1774)", Vol. 279, page 10, found among the records of the Historical Society of Penna. in Philadelphia.</span>

• Source: "Collections of the Genealogical society of Penna., Baptisms by Rev. Daniel Schumacher (1754-1774)" vol. 279, page 34, found among the records of the Historical Society of Penna. in Philadelphia.</span>

• Source: Inquiry of Judge W.F. Koch, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. dated of  ?</span>

• Source: "Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in American Revolution" by North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution pages 441 and 573, Lincoln County, Northward Carolina Militia, a copy of which book is in the possession of the Historical Society of Penna. at Philadelphia.</span>

• Letter to the Honorable W.F. Kopp, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., by the Assistant to Ambassador, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C. All replies to exist referred to BA-J/EEL Casper Bolich, W18566.

• Source: Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Vol. I, Tape for Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Vol. I, pg 538 thru 542

• Source: The Bolich Families in America with Genealogies, Link, Bolich, Mary Margaret (Mary Margaret Shimer), 1895- (Main Writer), Allentown, Pennsylvania : Schlechter's, 1939

• Source: Repository: #R-1199181569 Ancestry Family unit Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Beginnings.com. Original data: Family unit Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://copse.beginnings.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=60643301&pid=550

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