John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 1747

I am skipping a list for 1739, except I will mention that it has the following surnames:

Christopher,
Smith [English Smiths],
Turner,
Baccom Edings,
Russell, and
(John) Fisher.

Next, we come to the list of James Pickett for 1739, another one that is famous for the Germans in it; however, it also contains many English names.  The general area is southern Madison County, probably all the way to the Rapidan River, and up to the Robinson River.

The first German name is Michael Holt, who was the southernmost German.

The German names start in earnest with:

Laurence Crees Courtney Browel George Lung John Hoffman John Carpenter Mathias Castler Michael Cook Henry Snider Robert Tenner George Tenner Lodowick Fisher Geo. Teter Phillip Root's Quarter Henry Moccoy Anthony Strother's Qtr. John Kelly Adam Carr (prob. Garr, as he is not in the list under the name Garr) William Carpenter Nich Yager Thos Watts Thos Edmondson Geo. Thompson John Phillips Wm Henderson Thos Coker John Edins Daywall Cristler Adam Yager Henry Crowder Mathew Smith Christley Browel John Hansborgow (Harnsberger) Michael Smith Daywol Cristler Michael Keiffer Geo. Moyers John Rowse (Rouse) Thos Weyland Mark Finks Henry Haws and a few more English names

Notice that there are two Broyles, Cortney and Christley.  People used to say these were the same person and the two radically different names were the result of "country spelling".  Conrad (Cortney) is known in the Germany church records but Christian(?) is not.  Their mother, Ursula, was married to John Broyles in 1703, and their first child was born in 1705.  (John Broyles was 26 at this time.)  If Ursula was 20 when her first child was born, she might have been having children up to when she was 42 which would (under the assumption being used here) be in the year 1727.  There could have been two or three children born in Virginia.  It is now considered that Cortney or Conrad (the same) is different from Christley who was born in Virginia.  This is also a reminder that there may have been daughters who were born in Virginia (Catherine is already accepted as a daughter born in Virginia).

The Tenners are a puzzle.  Robert Tanner is the immigrant who is accepted as the head of Tanner family.  George Tanner is next to Robert in the list, but otherwise George is unknown.  The list of names is from the south side of the Robinson River, but I had always thought of the Tanners as living on the north side, where the original land patent was.

Mark Finks has two tithes.  One would be Mark.  Since he had no slaves, the other one is probably a family member, perhaps a younger brother, since Mark's sons are not old enough to be tithes.

We will return to this list as there are some other "problems" in it.
(30 Aug 03)