The way to get a response from the subscribers to this List is to make an erroneous statement. By now we know that Harman Wayman had about a dozen children, thanks to Cathi Clore Frost's submission. The lesson to me is that I failed to read all of the words in a sentence and quoted only a part of it.
John Young, born Johannes Jung on 29 Feb 1693 [How could there be a 29 Feb in a year which is not a leap year? Don't ask me.], at Trupbach, arrived in Philadelphia, on 23 Sept 1734, with his wife (Anna Maria) and three children. In his ancestry, John Young has a Holtzclaw family member. I have not been dealing with the relationships of these Little Fork people and the earlier immigrants, but there were several connections. Most likely, Jacob Holtzclaw was writing to relatives and friends in the old country and inviting them to come to Virginia.
The Moravian missionaries often tried to make contact with Henry Huffman and John Young. They were interested in John because he was the reader in the Little Fork Church, which had no minister, only visiting clergy.
Jacob Holtzclaw and his second wife Catherine sold 200 acres to John Young, Jr., and Katherine Young, infants, in 1748. There was a reservation in the sale in that the land was for the use of the parents (John and Anna Maria) during their lives. (The father seems to be called John Young, Elder.) The father died before 1764, when the land was in the possession of Harman Young.
The six children of John and Anna Maria Young are:
So far, three German villages or parishes have figured prominently in the Little Fork story. Freudenberg sent the most people. Seelbach is represented, as is Trupbach. Seelbach and Trupbach are very close neighbors. Today it is hard to tell where one ends and the other starts. This last May, I asked Lars Bohn, a resident of Trupbach, about civic relations between Trupbach and Seelbach. A frown came over his face and he admitted there was a rivalry. Actually, they are both a part of Siegen now. I have one photo which was taken from a hill overlooking both villages and each can be seen, though they merge where their respective valleys come together.
(05 Dec 02)
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