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From: "Jim Ward" <>
Subject: Re: (647)Germanna Colonies, History of
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:24:07 -0500


John:

Just noticed the Spilman/Spillman reference below...outside of possibly
yourself, who else is researching the Spillman family line of Germanna?

The reason for my question is that I have a Hiram Spillman (b. 1807, VA) in
my father's Kitchen family line. I know that Hiram was the progenitor for
the Spillman line in Lawrence County, KY, but little else is known about
him.

Any thoughts?

Jim

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From: John Blankenbaker <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 6:33 AM
Subject: (647)Germanna Colonies, History of

>The six hundred and forty-eighth note in a series on the Germanna Colonies
>
>In talking about the John Rector family, there has been some confusion
>because there were two Catharines and two Henrys. In this note, the
>confusion will be compounded because there were more John Rectors. All of
>our discussion has centered on the family of Hans Jacob Richter, the 1714
>immigrant and his children. He did have a son John and this John has been
>deeply involved in the recent discussions.
>
>Today we introduce John Rector who came in 1734. He arrived at Philadelphia
>with nineteen other Nassau-Siegen colonists on 23 Sep 1734 on the ship
Hope.
>This John did not live long in Virginia as he died in 1742. This fact is
>used to distinguish him from other John Rectors. John Rector (d. 1742) was
>married by 1736 and B. C. Holtzclaw thought that he was married to a
>daughter of John and Mary Spilman of the 1714 group. The records provide
>ample evidence that John (d. 1742) and his wife had two sons, John, Jr. and
>Nathaniel. Nathaniel was the younger of the two and he married Anne and
died
>by 20 February 1805 when his estate was sold.
>
>Until a few years ago when Barbara Vines Little researched the question,
>John, Jr. was confused with another John Rector. She pointed out that the
>records generated by John Rector would have been difficult for one person
to
>generate. She traced a path of land purchases and sales that led south for
>John Rector and another path which led north. It would have been very
>unlikely that one individual would have been involved in these land deals
>which were not in the same region.
>
>One John Rector purchased and sold land in Fauquier County, then in
Culpeper
>County, and then appears in North Carolina. He had a son Benjamin who said
>in his Rev. War pension application that he had originally been of Culpeper
>County and that he had served as a substitute for his father, John Rector,
>in a North Carolina regiment. Barbara Vines Little made a convincing case
>that this John Rector was the son of John Rector (d. 1742).
>
>Meanwhile, there was another John Rector who was appearing in the records
of
>Fauquier County at this same time as the North Carolina John. They must
have
>different individuals though in the past they had been treated as one
>person. Holtzclaw, for example, said that the Fauquier John had a second
>wife, Mary, and left a will of 1815 and nine children. Holtzclaw also said
>that this Fauquier John and the North Carolina John were the same
>individuals. But the work of Little made it clear that this could not be
the
>case.
>
>With this challenge, John Alcock examined the records again (using his own
>book, "Fauquier Families, 1759-1799") and found the second John who had
been
>overlooked. The lesson for us is that we must examine the records outside
of
>the action arena to find the anomalies. John (d. 1742) came to Fauquier Co.
>in 1734 and left a son, John, Jr. Because Little went outside of Fauquier
>Co. and looked at the records in other areas, she was able to prove there
>were two John Rectors whereas previously there had been thought to be only
>one. Coming up, who was the second John Rector?
>
>John Blankenbaker, PO Box 120, Chadds Ford, PA 19317
>Beyond Germanna, A Newsletter/Journal of Germanna Information
>http://www.germanna.com/
>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/johnsgermnotes/germhis1.html
>http://www.inficad.com/~genelea
>http://www.pretext.com/mar98/shorts/short3.htm
>
>
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