The last note was filled with a series of frustrations. I continue in this note. Theobald Fite, and his wife Barbara, sold land to John Zimmerman in 1759. He is shown as Tebald White, in the Culpeper Rental of 1764. He was a chain carrier for Henry Aylor, in 1776, as Tivolt Fife.
John Fray purchased land in 1764,in Culpeper Co. Where he came from, and when he came, are not known. Probably, he married Rebecca Swindell.
There are mysteries enough to keep researchers, on both sides of the Atlantic, busy for a long time. We have an Anna Mary Gabbard, who wrote her Culpeper will in 1761,leaving everything to her grandson, Henry Jones. In 1731, the ship, Pennsylvania Merchant , brought a contingent from Schwaigern, including Frederick Gybert, Catrina Gybert, Elizabeth Gybert, Julian Reiner, Barnet Reiner, Sabina Gybert, and Matthias Gybert. Catrina Gybert was the step daughter of Michael Willheit, early pioneer from Schwaigern. Catrina had been married twice, and Frederick Gybert was her second husband. He signed a road petition on 3 Feb 1742/3, in the Shenandoah region of Orange Co., as Frederick Gabbart. I have wondered if Gabbart and Gybert might be the same name, and if Anna Mary Gabbard was a relative of Michael Wilheit by marriage.
Andrew Garr and his family landed at Philadelphia in 1732, lived a short while in Pennsylvania, and then moved down to the Robinson River Valley. Why? I don't think he had any relatives in the area, or even friends. Apparently, moves were sometimes made for other reasons. The origins and ancestry of Andreas Gar are perhaps as well known as for any Germanna citizen. In Germany, he came from a region that was well to the South-East of the Second Colony origins, and was in what is now called Bavaria.
I mention the Garriott family here, because there were a number of marriages between this family and the English and German families. The Garriotts may have been neither. The Culpeper Classes show a Garriott Vandyck which suggests a connection to this family also. The Garriott origins are unknown, even the nationality. The only safe thing to say is that the family did not come with Lafayette.
(NOTE from Webmaster of these Pages: Might the GARRIOTT family not have been GAROUTTE, a French family, who immigrated about this same time to New Jersey, and then migrated into Virginia? )
The Gerhardts were in Orange Co. in the 1740's. Very little is known about them.
It is surprising how much is known about the first immigrants, but the immigrants of twenty, thirty, or more, years later are less well known. Is this because the later ones are coming for reasons that have little to do with who is already there? There is a lot of research to be done and meanwhile there is a lot of frustration by descendants.
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