Hoodenpyl  Miscellaneous  

"The typical Dutchman is an honest man...."

Items of interest to researchers.

Portion scanned from Land Survey for Phillip Hoodenpyl Sen.
Bledsoe Co. TN - 100 Acres on Cumberland Mountain
...crossing Glade Creek - 24 Aug 1824

Glade Creek - Bledsoe Co. TN
Picture by Tammy Rogers

Burke Co. NC Document

From Burke Co. NC Civil Action Papers - 1793
Copy made 14 Mar 1984 from the original at the North Carolina State Library & Archives
(Document trancription on Hoodenpyl page)

Paint Rock - Buncombe Co. NC
Located a short distance from Hot Springs (Warm Springs) NC
The French Broad River flows by just across the road.  A beautiful spot.
~Picture by Tammy Rogers~

"One of the principal Indian routes came through Paint Rock and followed the French
Broad River to the present site of Hot Springs...The earliest building at Paint Rock...was a
blockhouse, built in 1793 for the protection of travelers along the river road.  Indians were a
constant threat to traders and settlers who moved up and down the river, so guards were
stationed in blockhouses along the way. "
 
"a Pikeville excerpt"

"Bledsoe County (TN) was created November 30, 1807...The county seat had been moved
from Madison to the 'little frontier village' of Pikeville by 1818.  Pikeville had grown up
around a large spring.  This spring for many years was known as the 'old town spring.'  The
first court ever held in Pikeville was held at the home of Phillip Thurman, the upper story of the
log house being used as the court room...Pikeville is located on the west banks of the Sequatchie
River twenty miles from its source.  In 1833, (the year Phillip Hoodenpyl died) it was described
as having 150 inhabitants...was on the stage route between Knoxville and Huntsville, Alabama in
1834...Pikeville was incorporated into a town in 1830."
                          ~"Bledsoe County, Tenn. 1807 - 1976" by Elizabeth Robnett

Land Survey - Bledsoe Co. TN

Land Survey for Phillip Hoodenpyl Sen. - 21 Aug 1824 - Bledsoe Co. TN
50 Acres on the side of Cumberland Mountain
Copy made from original Surveyor's Book A, p. 43 - Bledsoe Co. Court House - 1987

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A TYPICAL DUTCHMAN

"The typical Dutchman is an honest man, that's the noblest
work of God...a free man, Liberty is his passion...prudent
man, free to choose for himself; but he generally chooses
to do nothing rash...a devout man, he could not respect
himself if he did not reverence God...liberal man, he
believes but does not persecute...man of few words
holding (his) tongue."

                                                         ~Excerpts from a speech by the Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke at the fifth                                                                                                                                   annual banquet of the Holland Society of New York, January 10, 1890.