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From: John Blankenbaker <>
Subject: [GERMANNA] (1160)Germanna Colonies, HIstory of
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:29:06 -0400

The eleven hundred and sixtieth note in a series on the Germanna Colonies

The eldest son of George Hume was George II who was born in 1729. Four of
the children of George II and his wife Jane Stanton married Germanna
people. George III married in 1782 Susannah Crigler, Reuben married Anna
Finks, John married Anna Crigler, and Sarah Ann married in 1789 John
Crigler. Other children of George II and Jane (Stanton) Hume were Charles,
William, Elizabeth, and Frances.

George III (1759 – 1816) and Susannah (1762 – 1831) Hume moved to Madison
Co., Kentucky and left issue. As the eldest son of the eldest of the eldest
son, George III tried in the period 1810 to 1816 to recover the estates in
Scotland. Sarah Ann Hume and John Crigler moved to Madison Co., in KY also.
Of their eight children, there were marriages to two Germanna descendants:
Katherine Hume married John Wilhoit and George Hume married Mary Utz.
Traces of the Hume and Crigler pioneer families in Missouri remain in the
Columbia and St. Louis areas.

Moses Wilhoit married, 12 Dec 1789, in Culpeper Co., VA, Anna Hume. Her
parents are uncertain.

To clarify the relationship between the Hume and Spotswood family, Francis
Hume and Alexander Spotswood were second cousins. The grandmother of George
Hume, the surveyor, can trace her ancestry back to Robert the Bruce, King
of Scotland in 1328.

There were other Humes in Virginia besides the ones that we have been
writing about. An Andrew Hume is thought to have married Margaret Holtzclaw
but proof is lacking. One of their descendants married a Rector descendant.

The name Hume is sometimes spelled Home but by either spelling it is
pronounced hUme. George Hume, the immigrant, at first spelled his name as
Home but after about 1746 he spelled it Hume. It appears both ways, even
for the same incident. One story says that a leader in battle was trying to
rally his forces and called out hOme as we would pronounce it. Some of the
troops misinterpreted the cry as meaning “let’s go home.” So they changed
to pronouncing the name as hUme.

I did not start our second “convict” so he will have to wait.

John Blankenbaker
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