John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 733

John Young of the Little Fork community is believed to be the Johannes Jung who arrived at Philadelphia on 23 Sep 1734, on the ship Hope.  Other names on the ship include two Richters, a Fischbach, a Huffman, and a Noeh (as found in Rupp's "Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants).  B. C. Holtzclaw cites Strassberger's " Pennsylvania German Pioneers " and gives more information:

The family unit which arrived was:

• Johanis Jung, 40;
• Anna Maria Jung, 32;
• Maria Gerderuth Jung, 5;
• Harman Jung, 4;
• Elizabeth Jung, 1;
• Elizabeth Catherine Jung, 32; and
• Anna Cathrin Jung, 20.

  (The latter two ladies are believed to be cousins of John Young.  John Young was the son of the eldest sister of Jacob Holtzclaw so he was a nephew of Jacob.  John Young settled in the Little Fork with some others who came on the same ship.)

Jacob Holtzclaw had patented his land in the Little Fork in 1729.  Apparently, he started writing letters back to the "old country" telling people there of the opportunities available in Virginia.  Communications being what they were in those days (slow), and the time for the emigrants to reach a decision, it would seem to be consistent with the delay from 1729 to 1734.

B. C. Holtzclaw has reported the research in the German church records done by others.  Highlights include the following:

• Johannes Jung was born in Trupbach on 29 Feb 1693.  [I can offer no explanation for this strange date which is not a theoretically possible date except possibly it was a mistake for 1 March.]

• He was the son of Johann and Anna Katherina (Holzklau) Jung of Trupbach.

• The son married, for the first time, Else Maria Bender of Langenholdinghausen on 22 Oct 1720.

• She died at Trupbach 21 Nov 1723 and was buried the next day at the age of 24 years.

• Johannes Jung, widower, married 10 Oct 1726 Anna Maria Baeumer of Bockseifen.  (She was perhaps a relative of Henry Huffman of Bockseifen who came on the same ship to America.)

In Trupbach, the three children mentioned above were born.  They came to Virginia with the parents.  Though the Young family seems to have settled in the Little Fork, Jacob Holtzclaw did not sell them land immediately.  On the 6 Jun 1748, Jacob obtained his grant from Lord Fairfax.  On 22 Aug 1748, he and his wife Catherine sold 200 acres to John Young, Jr., and Katherine Young, children of John Young and his wife Mary.  The parents were to have a life interest in the property.  Three other children of John and Mary Young were John, Jr., Katherine, and possibly Samuel, though the evidence for Samuel is not clear.

Like his Uncle Jacob, John Young seems to have been well educated.  He served as reader in the church and is one of the two people mentioned by the Moravian missionaries when they visited the Little Fork.