[The issuance of these notes may be erratic including none, or more than one, on a single day. More than one builds up a credit which allows me to take time off. :>)]
This is a follow up on material that was initially brought to the attention of Andreas and me by Sandra Yelton.
On 16 September 1717 (OS), a number of German-speaking individuals in London petitioned His Majesty for transportation costs to Holland and to their own country. We do not know whether they obtained the support or whether they “went home”. The list of names is called the 5th Return Party , but that represents an assumption. We do know that there are Germanna names on this list that came in a couple of years after the Second Colony. They may have been able to stay around London until they were able to come later.
Four of the names are consecutive and of special interest to us. They are:
Hans George Forchel, 4 persons
Christofle Uhl, 8 persons
Frederic Kapler, 3 persons
Hans George Long, 4 persons
Some of these spellings are not German, which may mean the list was prepared by an Englishman.
The latter three names are recognized as slightly later immigrants (after the Second Colony) to Virginia. Christopher Uhl (Yowell) and Frederick Kapler were from Sulzfeld, the same village that Christopher Zimmerman came from. Hans George Long (Lang) did not patent land in Virginia until 1731. He referred, in his proof of importation, to arriving in 1717 by which he may have meant his original departure from Germany.
Johann Georg Förckel had a daughter baptized in London, with sponsors Matthias Schmidt and Maria Barbara Weiland (Wayland). His origin is unknown. He was also a sponsor for Matthias Schmidt’s child. He seems to be closely aligned with the individuals who formed the nucleus of the Second Colony, but his fate is unknown.
This list comes from the Public Record Office as their document T.1 / 208, and was transcribed by Marlene Groves, CG, and published by Jones & Rohrbach in “ Even More Palatine Families ”.
This report does not exhaust the interesting items in the list, but I am waiting for additional input from a couple of sources.
(14 Nov 03)
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.