The notes have been discussing the German spellings of some of the Germanna names. When discussing the Button family, I mentioned research by Frank Dake III. Taking a little extra space to discuss that, I would mention that a prominent member of the Little Fork community was John Young, who was a reader in the church at Little Fork. The Young name is spelled in Germany as Jung. There was a possible connection between the Young and the Button families in Germany.
Wilhelm Jung and his wife, Anna Maria Dietz, had eleven children, one of whom, Maria Margarete, married as his second wife, Jacob Bouton (Jakob Boutton) of Hanau, son of the Huguenot David Bouton by his second wife, Rachel Haseur. David was born in Metz, France and went as a young man to Hanau where he married and became a businessman. One of Jacob's sons was Jean Daniel, baptized in the French Reformed Church in Hanau on 25 January 1691. His German name was Johann Daniel and the Bouton surname was spelled occasionally as Boutton and Button in the Hanau records. Jean passed through Holland, where his first given name would have been Jan, on his way to England and thence to Philadelphia. He arrived on the ship Samuel in the summer of 1739 and took the oath of allegiance on 27 August 1739. The ship's captain spelled Jean Daniel's surname as Buttong, which would be an approximate phonetic spelling of the nasal sounding name in French. He, Daniel, wrote his name as Bouton.
Apparently he lived for a while in Philadelphia, as he was naturalized on 1 Feb 1746 with the name Johann Daniel Bouton. It would have been natural that he was a city dweller to judge by his immediate ancestry. His father, Jacob, was a beer-brewer in Hanau. His grandfather, David Bouton, was a businessman in the Hanau suburbs, and his great-grandfather, Theodore Bouton, was a hatter in Metz. On the Jung side, his grandfather and great-grandfather Jung were city dwellers as ministers.
That Johann Daniel Bouton of Philadelphia was the Daniel Buttons who was a taxpayer in the Elk Run District of Prince William County, Virginia, in 1751 is not proven. The circumstantial evidence is in favor of this supposition. Research has been hampered by the fact that there was a Button family of English descent and there has been a tendency to give the family in the Germanna community an English history. However, Dake's research shows that why the family is not to be found in the Siegen area while they still had ties in Germany to members of the Germanna community.
Frank Dake died a few years ago while still a very productive man of unusual talents. He was a member of four French genealogical and historical societies, as well as two Swiss genealogical societies, and a German genealogical society, as well as the German Huguenot Society. He was able to correspond with all of these European centers in their native languages. A note on the possible connection between the Button and Jung families was published by Frank in Beyond Germanna, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 394.
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