In the previous note, though we only discussed three families, one could get the feeling that there were relationships among the families, both between the immigrants and the people already here. Another family in this category is George Wayman. He was born in 1703 at Freudenberg, and emigrated, in 1738, on the ship Oliver, along with his cousin Harman Bach. George was unmarried at the time. He acquired property in the form of a life lease on the upper side of Little Indian Run from William Beverley after about a year here. A son Joseph would appear to have been born about 1745. George fell behind on his land payments and James Spilman took over the land. In 1754, Jacob Holtzclaw deeded 98 acres in the middle of the Little Fork to George. However, George and his wife Catherine sold this land in 1760 to Henry Huffman.
Catherine Wayman's maiden name is unknown. Since her children, Harman, Henry, and Mary, married descendants of the Second Colony, the question arises as to whether she might have been from that group. The daughter Mary married Adam Utz, and Catherine seems to have been living in the Robinson River Valley in 1776. Catherine gave a full deed to Adam Utz for a female slave on the condition that the slave be maintained for the rest of her life by Adam. Another child of Catherine and George Wayman was Joseph, who lived all of his life near Jeffersonton in the Little Fork.
The son, Henry Wayman, of George and Catherine, married Magdalena Blankenbaker; however, the story is more complicated than that and it could form a subject for a few notes in itself.
The son, Harman Wayman, of George and Catherine, lived near his brother Henry until about 1793, when he disappears from the records. Harman never had tithables other than himself, so it might appear, at first, that he had no sons. ( Web Manager's Note: See Note Nr. 1538 below. ) Harman married Elizabeth Clore as his first wife. Adam Yager, in his will, mentions a granddaughter (deceased) Elizabeth Wayman. One son, Solomon, of Harmon and Elizabeth, is named in the Hebron church records [more research is needed here]. As his second wife, Harman married Frances Clore, the daughter of John Clore, and a cousin of his first wife.
The Little Fork region is not in what became Fauquier County, where the First Colony settled at Germantown. For a variety of reasons, two of the First Colony members acquired land across the Rappahannock River in the fork between the Rappahannock and the Hazel River, a region known as the Little Fork. From about 1722 to 1730, land was free in the area between the Rappahannock and the Rapidan Rivers. Jacob Holtzclaw took advantage of this to acquire a parcel. Much of the land acquired by the later comers was from this Holtzclaw tract.
(Two maps of the Little Fork area have been posted on this Web Site. The first is of
Early Patents of the Little Fork Area
, then in Culpeper County; this map shows the land patents of all land owners, including German and English. (The date of this first map is unknown.) The second map shows only the land patents of the 12
Germanna
families who made up the congregation of the Little Fork German Church in 1748. There were other German families (
non-Germanna
) in the Little Fork area, besides many English.) To see these maps, go
here
.
(03 Dec 02)
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