John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 1744

There are two Tithe Lists that are of interest because they may indicate the source of some of the names found at the German Lutheran Church in the Robinson River Valley.  Neither list encompasses the region of the Church itself.  The first list is:  " The List of Tithables in the presinks of Samuel pound Constable ".  Some names of interest are:

Stevin Bacom,
Samuel Beccker,
Nicolus Christopher,
John Christopher,
William Bacom,
Thomas Russel,
John Floyd,
Joseph Mortun, and several
Edings/Eddens.

• We have a Maria Baccon who communed at the church in 1777.
• Elisabetha Becker communed in 1775 and 1776.
• Elisabetha Christopher took communion in 1775 and in 1777.
• Maria Rossel took communion in 1778.
• When Dieterich Hoffman and wife Jemima had Ezechiel baptized in 1782, two of the sponsors were his sister Agnes, who had married Robert Fleit, whose name might have its source as Floyd.
• Elizabeth Wayland married Morton Christopher.
• Several of the Christopher name also appear in the Baptismal Register.
• The surname Becker also appears in the Baptismal Register.
• Rossel also appears in the Register of Baptisms.

Isaac Hadon's "persinct" includes a few names whose residence I know.  I will just mention Fredrack Cobbler and Christophar Zimmerman.  The area is to the east of Mt. Pony, and runs over the Rapidan River to include Germanna, where Spotswood was living.  He had 14 tithables.  This list also includes a Jacob Miller.  (The area may not have covered all of Germanna, as some of Spotswood's Tithables may have been located in the Great Fork, and were included in the Tithables there.)

Henry Rice's list seems to be on the south side of the Rapidan River, as it mentions Mine Run.  One name of interest in the area is Jeremiah Dear.

All of the lists in this Note are undated.  The next list is John Mickell's, but it will take perhaps more than one note itself, as it is the heart of half of the German Robinson River Valley community.
(27 Aug 03)