{"id":246,"date":"2015-11-12T07:15:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2015-11-12T07:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T11:15:52","slug":"oldest-known-hasselbacher-signature-1736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Known Hasselbacher Signature: 1736"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While rummaging through the Archives of an old Castle in Mittelfranken, I discovered what may be the oldest known signature of one our family Hasselbacher.  In 1736, Johann Paulus Hasselbacher of St\u00fcbach, Burghaslach, and Rehweiler signed a contract with the Countess of Castell to operate the Seem\u00fchlle (a mill) in R\u00fcdenhausen for one year.  Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/oldest-signature-500px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/oldest-signature-500px.jpg\" alt=\"oldest-signature-500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/oldest-signature-500px.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/oldest-signature-500px-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I questioned the archivist about whether the signature was actually his and not the writer of the contract. I wondered about the ability of the common-folk of that time to read and write.  My prejudice was that little schooling was available to our oldest families and that many of my ancestors were illiterate.  I was pleased to learn that schooling was available in Sunday schools, especially during the winter when all hands were needed for agricultural work.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Haselbacher is spelled with one \u2019s\u2019 just as Balthasar Haselbacher carved his name a few decades later.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was pretty cool!!  I will be writing more about this family line that included the Zinngiessers of Leutershausen and populated the area south of Ansbach that in which several modern Hasselbachers live today.<\/p>\n<p>Peter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While rummaging through the Archives of an old Castle in Mittelfranken, I discovered what may be the oldest known signature of one our family Hasselbacher. In 1736, Johann Paulus Hasselbacher of St\u00fcbach, Burghaslach, and Rehweiler signed a contract with the Countess of Castell to operate the Seem\u00fchlle (a mill) in R\u00fcdenhausen for one year. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hasselbacher.org\/hblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}