Note: Just one tract over from Heinrich's land was a 300 acres tract owned by Jacob Hestaandt with a warrant date of May 14, 1735 (just six days earlier than the Henry Heestant tract).
Source: Grantee Township Map of East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA, located somewhere online.

*Note:  This would have been the John Rodes whose family was massacred by Indians in 1764.

Note: Henry Hestant's name does not appear on the July 24, 1758 poll list.  George Washington was elected as a Frederick County Burgess in that election.  Henry Hestant's name also did not appear on the May 18, 1761 poll list.  George Washington was re-elected at that time.

1754-1763 French and Indian War
Did the Heinrich Hiestand family retreat to Lancaster County, PA in the mid-to-late 1750s, as did many of the other white settlers of that era and area, because of the Indian attacks that were occurring in Shenandoah Valley of VA at that time?  Daniel Hiestand/Haston would probably have been approximately four to thirteen years old at the time, if he was born in about 1750 (approximate date).

This letter, dated 7 September 1758, and signed by Michael Kauffman, Jacob Boner, Samuel Bohm, and Daniel Stauffer, says, "We were thirty-nine Mennonite families living together in Virginia. One family was murdered and the rest of us and many other families were obliged to flee for our lives, leaving all and going empty-handed." The letter goes on to say that in addition to "our brother and companion in the faith Johannes Schneyder, who is contemplating a journey to the friends and brethren in Holland, . . . our minister and elder, Martin Funck," would go along to Holland to assist in presenting the request for help. Funck was "still a single man, and by occupation a miller. He, too, was compelled to flee and leave all behind." Apparently Martin Funck was the bishop of the Page County congregation, which numbered 39 families or about 100 members in 1758.
Source: http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/P346.html

Note: An undated entry (in the abstract book) indicates that Peter Tear assigned 400 acres in Powell's Fort on Passage Creek to Henry Hestant.  In 1756 Jarvis Daugherty of Stafford County had assigned this land to Peter Tear.  From the survey, the warrant was granted to William Rodin who assigned it to Jarvis Daugherty.
Source: Page 11 of Volume III (1710-1780) -- Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys Dunmore, Shenandoah, Culpepper, Prince William, Fauquier & Stafford Counties compiled by Peggy Shomo Joyner (Portsmouth, VA: self published, 1986). 

Note: The abstract goes on to refer to the widow of Christian Harnisch (earlier referred to as "Chrisley Harniss") as "Barbara Ross."  Other Hiestand family sources indicate that Heinrich Hiestand's oldest daughter, Barbara, married Christian Harnisch.  Apparently, soon after the death of Christian Harnisch, Barbara Hiestand Harnisch married a Mr. Ross.  This probably explains why Heinrich Hiestand, four years later in 1777, recorded in his will that "my eldest daughter Barbara shall have nothing of this inheritance so long as she lives with this man in wedlock."  Apparently Heinrich did not approve of Barbara's marriage to Mr. Ross.

See "Daniel's Wife" page on this site for more information related to the known clues and speculation regarding the wife of Daniel Haston.

This was about the time that Abraham and Daniel Hiestand/Haston moved to what was then North Carolina (later to become east Tennessee).  The final settlement of their father's will was probably the marker event that made them feel free to leave their home area.