Philip Hupp died in Culpeper Co. in 1761, leaving a family, which probably had children who were teenagers, or even older. When he came to Virginia, and what was his origin in Germany, are unknowns. Families that had some association with him include: Aylor, Baumgartner, Rowe (Rau?), and Thomas.
Members of the Jacoby family start appearing in the 1740's, in Orange County. Later, John Francis Lucas Jacoby married Frederica Lotspeich, in London (apparently, when he had returned to England on a visit), and they returned to Virginia. The Lotspeichs were from the village of Frankenthal, in the Palatinate, a few miles northwest of Ludwigshafen. The nationality of the Jacoby family is not absolutely clear, but it is assumed they were German.
John Kaines (Kains, Kines) received a patent for 400 acres, in 1736, adjacent to John Huffman, Christian Clements, and Edward Ballenger. He was an appraiser of the estate of John Stinesyfer in 1761. He died in 1767, and appointed his friends, Harman Spilman and John Stinecyfer, Jr., as executors. Since these latter two men are from the Siegen area, it may indicate the origins of Kaines. In a verbal codicil to John Kaines' will, the witnesses were Harman Spilman, John Henry Stinecyfer, and Anne Mary Huffman. (The two men who had been nominated as executors refused to serve.)
Matthias Kerchler proved his importation in 1736. Peter Weaver used his headright in obtaining his 1736 patent, for 400 acres. Kerchler is not to be confused with Andrew Kerker.
Rev. Klug came from eastern Germany. He was ordained as a minister at Danzig.
Probably, Joseph Kooper (Keuper, Cooper) was a German. He lived in the Mt. Pony area, with Zimmerman and Kabler. He patented tracts of land acres in the Fork of the Rappahannock River in 1726 and 1728.
John Kyner was in the 1739 Orange Co. tithables list. B. C. Holtzclaw confused his name with Reiner, a family which came later.
Mostly, the names that are recounted above are "mysteries". The next one has a known source, from a community well known as a source of Second Colony immigrants. The man is Paul Lederer, and he came from Schwaigern, in 1733. I have not tallied the families completely, but Schwaigern and Trupbach are in a race for the most emigrants. Schwaigern would win if the emigrants to the eastern lands were counted (i.e., Russia). Both of these places would lose to Freudenberg for the number sent to Virginia, if the voyage of the Oliver, in 1738, had not been so disastrous.
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