I continue with the families who are candidates to be included in the Second Colony. One family is the Barlow family, which had a land patent in 1726 and was sued by Spotswood, two good criteria. Unfortunately, this family has never been found in Germany. In fact, the German name is uncertain, which makes the search more difficult. Though many church records have been filmed, not all have. You will notice that the primary search is made in the church records. One does not need the complex German for these as would be the case with civil records.
Conrad Amberger was sued by Spotswood, and had a land patent in the year 1728, two years later than most of the Second Colony members. The delay in the land patent may have been due to the location, which was southeast of Mt. Pony, and outside the Robinson River community. The Amberger family has many associations with the village of Bönnigheim, though other locations are involved also. The " Before Germanna " monographs have a rich history for Conrad's ancestors. Descendants who plan on visiting the "home country" should consult this information. Just recently, the villages of Brackenheim, Botenheim, and Cleebronn were mentioned. You could walk from any one of these to Bönnigheim before Frühstück (breakfast). Bönnigheim is a little larger than the average village; it has two churches.
John Broyles has excellent credentials for membership in the Second Colony. He was sued by Spotswood, he had land in 1726, and his proof of importation says he came in 1717. Can't beat that! Johannes Breyhel is associated with two villages, Dußlingen, where he was born, and Ötisheim, where he married Ursula Ruop, and lived until he came on to America. These two villages are farther apart than you would want to try to walk in one day, and the reason for the move is not known. Dußlingen is about twenty miles almost due south of Stüttgart, and is a community (one church) that is about fifty miles away from the "center of mass" of the "Second Colony villages" that have recently been discussed Ötisheim is about six or seven miles south of Oberderdingen, where Matthias Blankenbaker was living. Oberderdingen is on the southwest corner of the region we have been talking about, so Ötisheim is definitely outside the region that has been discussed so far.
Excepting Dußlingen, all of the "Second Colony villages" are on one page of my Atlas, which has 176 pages for the old West Germany. One page would be more than ample in size for the villages of the First Colony.
In the name Dußlingen, the third character is "ss" for which the Germans have a special character, i.e., "ß".
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.