The name John Motz appears only a couple of times in Virginia, once in a land patent, and once on a proof of importation. After that, he disappears. There is a candidate person in Germany, where Johannes Motz married Maria Apollonia, daughter of Johann Leonhard Maubars, at Bonfeld. The one church village of Bonfeld is about four miles north of Schwaigern. This marriage was in 1716, and a daughter, born later in the year, did not live. A more famous and visible resident of Bonfeld was Jost Hite who left in 1709.
George Moyer (Majer) may be from the "two-church" village of Gross Sachsenheim, which is about halfway between Heilbronn and Stuttgart, but slightly to the west of a direct line. In Virginia, George Moyer was an indentured servant of Robert Beverley, the historian, who was a partner with Spotswood in western land speculations. Spotswood picked up the partnership interest after the historian died, and George Moyer became one of the people that Spotswood sued.
Philipp Paulitz was sued by Spotswood, and stated, in 1727, that he came nine years earlier, which is close enough to 1717 to count. In Virginia, he did not lead a very active life, and little is known about the family. In Germany, Philipp Paulitsch was the father of eight daughters, of whom six died in infancy. These daughters are recorded in the church at Ottmarsheim, which is about eight miles south of Heilbronn. As such, this village is on an adjoining atlas page and, of the villages we have discussed, the mostly easterly.
Christopher Zimmerman came from Sulzfeld. His land patent was dated 1726, and he stated, in his proof of importation, that he came in 1717. Sulzfeld lies in the middle of an irregularly shaped space, whose corners are Neuenbürg, Oberderdingen, Zaberfeld, and Gemmingen, all villages that have been mentioned.
All of the villages that we have mentioned so far lie in the modern German state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1717, the political picture was more murky. Many of the people lived in the Kraichgau, which was a series of independent feudal estates. And, the people from Neuenbürg lived on the lands of the Catholic Church.
One other person who is a candidate for Second Colony membership is Nicholas Yager, and he came from the west side of the Rhine River, in the State which, today, we would call the Palatinate. He was living in the very small village of Falkenstein, which is about twelve miles north of Kaiserlautern.
Recently, when recounting those Second Colony people, who did not live in a village on the common map atlas page, I failed to include George Utz, who lived to the north of this page. There have been a few people to the north, west, south, and east of the basic map page.
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