John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 243

The youngest child of Anna Barbara (nee Schöne) and her third husband, Cyriacus Fleischmann, was Hans Peter Fleischmann, born 10 April 1708  When he was nine years old, Anna Barbara and all of her descendants left the lands of the "Bishops of Speyer" for Pennsylvania.  It appears that all of her family who left Neuenbürg did arrive in Virginia.

We do not know whom Peter Fleshman married.  There were six children:

  1. John Fleshman, born c1731,
  2. Barbara Fleshman, b. early 1730's,
  3. Robert Fleshman, b c1735,
  4. Catherine Fleshman, b c1736,
  5. Elizabeth Fleshman, b c1738,
  6. Peter Fleshman, Jr., b c1740.

  1. John Fleshman died in Culpeper Co., VA 1787.  He married his (half) first cousin, Elizabeth Blankenbaker, daughter of John Nicholas Blankenbaker.
  2. Barbara Fleshman married Adam Cook, the son of Michael Cook and Mary Barbara Reiner.
  3. Robert Fleshman married Dorothy Baumgardner, the daughter of Frederick and Catherine (___) Baumgardner.  After 1787 they lived briefly in Shenandoah County but were in Greenbrier County by c1790.
  4. Catherine Fleshman married Christopher Barlow.  Apparently Christopher and Catherine moved to Boone Co., Kentucky where his will is recorded (besides in Madison Co., VA).
  5. Elizabeth Fleshman married Christian Reiner and they were living in the Hebron community where they worshiped from 1777 to 1782.
  6. Peter Fleshman, Jr., m.1 Winifred Smith, the daughter of Isaac Smith, Sr.and Margaret Rucker.  By 1803, Hannah ____ was the wife of Peter Fleshman, Jr.  The latter two moved to Monroe County in 1804.

We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.