George Wayman (Weidmann) was a bachelor, age 35, when he emigrated to America with his cousin Harman Back (Bach). He appeared early in the Virginia records after his arrival when he obtained a life lease on 100 acres on the upper side of Little Indian Run in the Little Fork area. He married Catherine, maiden name unknown. B. C. Holtzclaw thought that perhaps she was from the Robinson River Valley where three of their four children chose to live.
Of the four children, Joseph appears to be the eldest and he lived near Jeffersonton all of his life. He married Ann Elizabeth Coons, the daughter of the 1737 immigrant Joseph.
George's son Harman Wayman lived in the Robinson River Valley near his brother Henry until 1793 when he (Harman) disappears. Harman first married Elizabeth Clore, daughter of Peter Clore and his wife Barbara Yager. Elizabeth Clore is identified by the will of Adam Yager, which mentions my granddaughter Elizabeth Wayman. A child of Harman and Elizabeth, Solomon, is shown in the Hebron Church records as born on 13 May 1777. Elizabeth died about 1790/91, since in 1792 Harman married Frances Clore, the cousin of Elizabeth.
Mary Wayman married Adam Utz prior to 1776. Adam Utz was a son of Michael Utz and his wife Susanna Crigler.
Henry Wayman was married twice. The second wife has been widely recognized and she was (Anna) Magdalena Blankenbaker, the daughter of John Blankenbaker and Mary Margaret Utz. John's will in 1791 names Mary Magdalena, "...who is now married to Henry Wayman." However, prior to this Henry Wayman was married to another woman whose name appears also to be Mary Magdalena. The two women, unfortunately, have been confused and condensed into one by many researchers.
The first wife is Mary Magdalena, the stepdaughter of Zacharias Blankenbaker. We do not know what this Mary Magdalena's mother's maiden name or Mary Magdalena's maiden name was. We know only that she was generally called Els at the church.
A book " Some Martin, Jefferies, and Wayman Families, and Connections of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Indiana " has comments about Henry Wayman which imply that he was married twice and that the name of one of the wives was Finks. There is no Finks who conveniently falls into place for this except the second tithe, in Mark Finks' family, in the late 1730s. Mark Finks had no sons who were old to qualify as tithes, nor does he appear to have been a slave owner.
The proof that Henry Wayman was married to someone in the Zacharias Blankenbaker family comes from the Church Records at "Hebron" which show that Henry was very closely associated with the family of Zacharias Blankenbaker.
(23 Oct 03)
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