[Forgive my absence from these notes for the past few days. Every couple of years or so, my back will "give out" and I have to take the bed rest cure with a heavy emphasis on the "rest".]
We have just about finished with Rector corrections. We had decided that John and Harmon, Jr., were sons of Harmon, Sr., and we decided that Uriah and Maximilian belonged to John (John, Hans Jacob). Harmon, Sr., used the phrase, "my three sons", in his will. Some people had believed that this meant he had three and only three sons. Others took it to mean that out of all of his sons he was specifying a subgroup of three without naming them. This required the assumption that Harmon was expecting his executors to know which three sons he had in mind. John Alcock, in his analysis, assumed that the meaning was what most of us would assume, namely he had three and only three sons.
John looked at all of the individuals who had a possible claim (and this was before the true parentage of Uriah and Maximilian was found), and concluded that Henry, the younger, was the third son besides Harmon, Jr., and John. His claims, even though circumstantial, were better than any other candidate. There were Daniel Rectors in the community whose identity and placement were uncertain, but nothing hinted at their placement with Harmon, Sr. Henry had traditionally been assigned to Harmon, Sr.
John McJohn made another correction to the Rector history. First, he observed that B.C. Holtzclaw, in Germanna Record 4 had assigned Lucinda Rector to either Moses Rector or William Rector. In Germanna Record 5 , he assigned Lucinda to William, but only as a probability, not a certainty. McJohn found that Lucinda was the daughter of Joel Rector. His evidence was quite good as the heirs of Joel Rector, on 15 Dec 1845, agreed to sell a parcel of land (this being in Campbell Co., KY). Among the sellers were Daniel Moffett and his wife Lucinda Rector of the county of Edgar in Illinois. A marriage record for Lucinda and Daniel is to be found in Fauquier Co., VA, on 24 Mar 1817. A source of information about Joel Rector and his daughter Lucinda is the book by Thomas Woodyard, " A Hanna-Moffett Sims-Hybarger History ", printed at Riverton, Wyoming in 1980.
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.