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Re: ipock family tree

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 2:27PM GMT
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The following two excerpts are taken from “The Heritage of Craven County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984” Barbara M. Howard Thorne, Editor, Published by The Eastern North Carolina Genealogical Society in cooperation with The History Division of Hunter Publishing Company Winston-Salem, North Carolina
IPOCK #272

Much has been said and written concerning this odd name. The clan is either Swiss or German, perhaps both. It is spelled Ipach and Ibach in Germany and it may well have been the name of a small village, as many hamlet and village names end in bach which means brook.

The name is rare in both Europe and America, apparently almost unheard of except in Craven County, N. C. Here it’s one of the most common last names around. Among the first settlers of New Bern in 1710, arriving here with Baron Christopher de Graffenried, were Elbach’s. A Jacob Elbach was one of the signers of a petition of the Palatines.

In land records circa 1741-1745 a Jacob Ipock was granted 150 acres of land in Craven County. He also purchased land, on Beaver Creek, and Christian Ipock land on the north side of Neuse River, west side of Swift Creek; also a Vallentine Iback is mentioned.

One historical roster lists seven Ipocks from this area in the Revolutionary War. Another roster lists fifteen Ipocks as having fought for the south during the Civil War.

Ipocks have wandered very little; they still tend to cluster in Craven County. A few have moved east to Beaufort, N. C. And a few others as “far west” as Kinston and Goldsboro, N. C.

In different records I have encountered these various spellings of the name: Elbach, Eback, Epagh, Iback, Slopak, Apock, Ipach, Hypock, Ispack, Spock, Ybach, Hubbach, Slobbach, and Impock.

An interesting observation was made by Stephen F. Miller in his booklet, Recollections of New Bern, N. C. Fifty Years Ago, page 45 “I was not aware, then, that the Ipocks belonged to the Swiss nobility who came over with the founders of Newbern. I have since been informed, however, that such is the fact, and I make this allusion for what it is worth, -- the original name being Ebach in Switzerland, which has degenerated into Ipock in the marshes and brambles of Craven County.”

Sources: Census records, land records, Revolutionary War roster, Civil War roster, personal knowledge and Recollections of New Bern, N. C. Fifty Years Ago by Stephen F. Miller.

-- Joselyn Paul Ipock

The Ipock Family Settlers #273

The Ipock Family of Craven County was among the first settlers of New Bern in 1710. The Swiss family of nobility was part of the Christopher de Graffenreid group that fled their homeland because of religious persecution and settled along the branches of the Neuse River. The earliest known member of this family in America was Vallentine Ibock, who was listed among the New Bern settlers from 1711 to 1714. The family name has been spelled various ways including Elback, Elbach, Ebach, Ispack, Ipack, and finally Ipock.

In 1739 a Jacob Ipock married the widow of John Wexdale. On August 2, 1740, Jacob Ipock is listed as one of the twenty-four Palatines, who signed a contract to build a house of worship on the south side of the Trent River between the ferry and John Kinsey’s plantation. The worship place became known as the High German Chapel or Palatine Church, in what is now Jones County.

Several deeds can be found in Craven County involving early members of the Ipock family. Jacob Ipack was granted 150 acres of land on September 25, 1741. The following year, Thomas Fisher conveyed 180 acres to Christian Ipock for fifteen pounds. This tract of land was located on the north side of the Neuse River and on the west side of Swift Creek beginning at a gum on Bare Branch. At a Council held in Bath on March 13, 1745, Governor Gabriel Johnston and others granted Jacob Ispack 150 acres. On April 10, 1745, at a Council held in New Bern, Christian Ipack was granted 150 acres of land in Craven County. In 1746 Jacob Ipock sold his 1741 patented claim on Beaver Creek to Frederick Isler. However, on April 11, 1749, Jacob Ipock was granted 80 additional acres in Craven County. In 1753 he sold 150 more acres more of his 1741 patented claim to Frederick Isler. Furthermore, in 1756 he conveyed to John Harper the 1749 parcel of land on the north side of the Trent River. Christian Ipock and his wife Mary sold 220 acres of land on the north side of the Neuse River to Thomas Little in March, 1751.

On July 13, 1747, Jacob Elbach is among the group of forty-two signers of a petition to King George II of England from persons identifying themselves as Palatines or descendants of Palatines. The group was pleading for assistance, since they had unknowingly lost the land they had claimed and settled along the Neuse and Trent Rivers of Craven County.

In 1769 four Ipocks are listed among the taxables in Craven County: Peter Jacob, Christian, and Jacob, Jr. When Jones County was established in 1779 as a new county from western Craven County, Jacob Ipock, Sr., and Felton Hypock were among the list of new county petitioners. Later during the 1784-1787 North Carolina Census of Jones County, Christian Ipock was listed as the head of the household with two males under twenty-one or above sixty years of age and two females with no indicated ages. Furthermore, William Ipock, between the ages 21 and 60, was head of a household with one female.

Craven County marriage records indicate the names of three Ipocks who married in the 1700’s: (1) Samuel Ipock to Ann Hickmand on October 18, 1789; (2) John Ipock to Nancy Pearce, February 20, 1787; and (3) Arthur Ipock to Seney Ipock, December 2, 1793.

At this point the writer knows the names of only a few children of the above named Ipocks, but many family-name descendants with similar names still live along the branches and creeks of the Neuse and Trent Rivers today.

Sources: “Historical Gleanings: Early Settlers, The Ipock Family” by Elizabeth Moore, January 20, 1961, Mirror, Craven County marriage bonds: Colonial Records; Craven County Records of Deeds; tax lists).
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