Notes for Hugo Ernestus Krebs

Notes for Hugo Ernestus Krebs

!Information below is from the web site established by David M. Krebs:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/r/e/David-M-Krebs/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0067.html

His Godfather was Hugo Ernst Braun, Canon of the Order of St. Pauline in Trier.

The first account of Hugo Krebs' cotton gin was written in 1772 by Bernard Romans, an English traveler, botanist and promoter whose duty it was to find commercial opportunities in British West Florida and report them to the home government. His report on his findings in this southern region tells of a visit to the Pascagoulas in 1772 where he finds Krebs' efficient gin and describes it in his report to English interests. Krebs was suspicious of the British and avoided any publicity. He disassembled his gin to prevent copying of his design, and never patented it, which was compared in later years to Eli Whitney's gin that was not invented until 1792.
It may be of interest to the reader that Hugo Ernestus Krebs (1714-1776+), a German immigrant, who settled at Pascagoula in the 1730s, is believed to have invented the cotton gin twenty years prior to that of Eli Whitney. Bernard Romans, a Dutch-born botanist and cartographer, in the employ of the British Crown observed the Krebs machine during his journey through British West Florida, which was made in 1771-1773. (The History of Jackson County, Miss., 1989, p. 250)

More About Hugo Ernestus Krebs:
Property 1: Abt. 1730, Lived on a land concession granted to the Duchess of Chaumont, to whom he may be related, in 1718 by King Louis XIV.
Property 2: 1741, Inherited property through marriage.
Residence 1: 1730, Arrived to the Pascagoula area.
Residence 2: Kept a home in Mobile.
Residence 3: Abt. 1729, Lived in the Alsace-Lorraine, France area prior to coming to North America.
Will: 21 Sep 1776, Wrote out his will in the City of New Orleans.