The Little Fork Henry Huffman married, 4 June 1734, Anna Margarete Huettenhen, who was born at Seelbach in 1713. In the 1960 notes on the Little Fork Colony by B. C. Holtzclaw, he said that Little Fork Henry had married Margaret Harnsberger. Later in his " Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants ", he admitted this was a mistake. Margaret Harnsberger married Henry Huffman, the oldest son of the Eisern Henry Huffman who came in 1743. When you talk about the Henry Huffmans, you must be careful. Sooner or later, everyone gets tripped up.
Henry Huffman was the estate administrator for a John Huffman, who turned out to be a cousin of Little Fork Henry, not a brother or a father. Another mistake that B. C. Holtzclaw found was that Catherine Huffman, the daughter of Little Fork Henry, probably never married. It had been said that she married Col. John Ashby of Fauquier County.
The key to unraveling some of this was the church records in Germany.
Harman Miller was the son of John Frederick Miller and his wife Anna Maria Arnd who came in 1738 from Freudenberg. Not only is a name like Miller an easy one to get confused, the John Frederick Miller family had sons named Harman and Haman. Harman married Mary Hutcherson, which is proven by a power of attorney given by Harman and Mary to deal with their interest in the estate of Daniel Hutcherson, dec'd, "our father, late of Stokes Co., NC. . ." This was in 1807. This information comes from Clovis E. Miller, who wrote about Harman Miller in the volume 11, number 4 issue of Beyond Germanna .
Henry Utterback is generally considered now to be a later comer who was not born in Virginia.
There is a lesson in all of this. Never be content to rest, but keep searching for evidence. Though Prof. Holtzclaw thought he had evidence in 1960, he later admitted that some of the conclusions were not correct. We should all show some humility. As I said in my talk at the Germanna Seminar last July, probabilities have to be attached to everything. Some things are guesses with probability of being true of 0.05 (1 in 20 chance). Very few things are certain or have a probability of 1.0. Most of the things that we believe are true are less than 1.0 (i.e., a certainty).
(18 Dec 02)
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.