If you are following the patents on the map on my web page, you will see that we have been moving to the north. We are now at the Weaver patent, or, more exactly, the Weaver grant for 400 acres recorded in Book G, page 491 of the Northern Neck grants. The man was Tilman Weaver.
The immigrant family is believed to be the father, Johann Henrich Weber, the mother, Anna Margarethe Huttmann, a son, Johannes, a daughter, Cathrin, and a son, Tillman. There are no records for the father Johann, the son Johannes, or the daughter Cathrin. The last record for the mother is in 1724, when she and Tilman made application for head rights in their names only. Had the other three members of the family arrived in Virginia, head rights for them could have been claimed. The only requirement to earn a head right was to be alive when you landed. The lack of any claim for the other three members of the family suggests they did not arrive.
Incidentally, B. C. Holtzclaw counted five members of the Weber family in his count of 42 people, but the head right application suggests that he should not have counted five, but only two. (Comments on this are invited.)
The Webers/Weavers were from Eiserfeld, which is just down the valley toward Siegen from Eisern, from where several other individuals came. The church in Roedgen is mentioned as the place where some of the marriage and baptism records are recorded. This church sits on a ridge of land above the valley.
Tilman Weaver's land grant was adjacent to many English people. On the west side was one of the land holdings of the Rev. Thompson, who built Salubria for his bride, the widow Spotswood. On the east side of Weaver was Picket and Reynolds. On the southeast, Capt. Green had a patent. On the south side is Button, and on the southwest corner is Harris. On the north side is James Spilman, whom I am not sure about (comments invited).
All of the descendants in the Weaver family are through Tilman Weaver, who was only fourteen when he came. By the time Spotswood put the men to work quarrying and mining in March of 1716, it would appear that Tilman was about 16, old enough to be one of the men.
Since the Weavers continued to live at Germantown until the 1900's, Tilman perhaps never lived on his grant in the Little Fork. No descendant appears to be in the Culpeper Classes of 1781. All of the Weavers in the 1787 Culpeper personal property tax list appear to be from the Second Colony.
(14 Dec 02)
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