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From: John Blankenbaker <>
Subject: (12)Germanna Colonies, History of
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:25:08 -0500


Retransmission of Note 12

Continuing a list of the Germans who came to Germanna in 1714:

22. John Hoffman, b. 1682, was a bachelor. A popular spelling in America is
Huffman.

23-24. Peter and (Mary) Elizabeth Hitt. The name in Germany was Heite but
in Virginia the spelling was always Hitt. Peter was thought to be in his
young 30's.

25. John Kemper was a 22 year-old bachelor. Sometimes the name is spelled
as Camper.

26. Joseph (Jost) Martin was also a bachelor, a year older than John Kemper.
The German form of the name is Merden but Martin is universal in America for
this branch.

27-29. Jacob Rector, b. 1674, his wife, Elizabeth, b. 1685, (the daughter
of Philip Fishback above) and their son, John, b. 1711. The German spelling
is Richter.

30. John Spilman (Spielmann) was another bachelor, about 35 years of age.

31-35. The Weaver (Weber) family consisted of John Henry Weaver, b. 1667,
his wife, Anna Margaret Huttman; son, John, b. 1693 (who appears to have
died young); daughter, Catherine, b.1697; son, Tillman, b. 1701.

There is documentation for all of the preceding families. About eight
individuals are still needed to make the official count of 42 persons.
Prof. Holtzclaw offered the suggestion that one family, whom he named and
described, could have been the missing people. His reasons for selecting
this family include (1) they were related to other families in the group,
(2) they disappeared from the church records in Germany at the right time,
(3) and the family has several women in it to provide wives for the
bachelors. This family is:

36-43. Harman Utterback (Otterbach), b. ca 1664, his wife, Elizabeth
Heimbach, b. 1662; son, John Philip, b. 1692; son, John, b. 1702; daughter,
Elizabeth, b. 1689; daugher, Alice Catherine, b. 1697; daugher, Mary
Catherine, b. 1699; daughter, Anna Catherine, b. 1705. There is no record
of this family in Virginia including the two sons. (Later, Utterbacks did
come which strengthens the argument that Utterbacks came in 1714.)

This count gives 43 persons but Holtzclaw included at least two problematic
people and did not include Albrecht.

to be continued

John Blankenbaker
Beyond Germanna
PO Box 120
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
http://www.wp.com/germanna/

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