Henckel responded by reporting the incident to the consortium in Heidelberg, whereupon the church council referred him to the elector.
In 1714 Henckel assumed the parish priest position in Mönchzell again,[2] and began the following year to work as a pastor in Neckargemünd.
In 1717 upon the invitation of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, Henckel immigrated to New Hanover Township, where he likely arrived in September.
The reasons for his immigration are assumed to be the re-catholicisation of the Pfalz and the penurious condition of the Lutheran church.
[4] On 12 August 1728, Henckel died in the house of Herman Goothausen in Springfield from injuries resulting from falling off a horse earlier that day while en route to a hospital visit.