Continuing a list of the Germans who came to Germanna in 1714:
Name 22 John Hoffman, b. 1682, was a bachelor. A popular spelling in America is Huffman.Names 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.
Name 25 John Kemper was a 22 year-old bachelor. Sometimes the name is spelled as Camper.
Name 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.
Names 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.
Name 30 John Spilman (Spielmann) was another bachelor, about 35 years of age.
Names 31-35 The Weaver (Weber) family consisted of John Henry Weaver, b. 1667, his wife, Anna Margaret Huffman; 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:
Names 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; daughter, Alice Catherine, b. 1697; daughter, Mary Catherine, b. 1699; daughter, Anna Catherine, b. 1705. There is no record of this family in Virginia including the two sons. (Later, other Utterbacks did come which strengthens the argument that some Utterbacks came in 1714.)
This count gives 43 persons but Holtzclaw included at least two problematic people and did not include Albrecht.
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