The current material for the Notes is based on an article in the last issue of Beyond Germanna . The credit line for it reads, "Mielke-Yelton Research Team." The source for the document is the Public Record Office (London), Class RG4/4625, and the Crown Copyright is reserved. The information was actually copied at Westminister Archives by Sandra Yelton. To their work, I added some editorial comments, so maybe I should get a little credit, but not much.
I failed to mention that in most of the baptisms reported in the last Note the officiating pastor was Ruperty (a "y" and "i" are generally interchangeable). There was one two more records that I did not include in the last note. They are:
September 21. Married Michel Phillip Schrack and Anna Maria Niederman, both Pfaltzers. By Ruperty.
September 30. Married Christian Ringelsbach and Anna Maria Cruckenmeier, Pfaltzers, going to Pensylvanien. By Ruperty.
Generally, but not always, the people are identified as Pfaltzers, even for some that we know who technically were not Pfaltzers (i.e., from the Palatinate or Pfalz). The term Pfaltzer here means from "Germany".
In the last marriage above, on September 30, the parties are expressing the thought they hope to go to Pennsylvania. Does this mean that the ship Scott with Capt. Tarbett as master has not yet left London? The last record with a definite 1717 Virginia immigrant is September 8, when Maria Dorothea Koch is baptized. The size of the party who emigrated with the known 1717 Colony members is quite a bit larger than we had ever suspected. There are several names that clearly identified with the "1717" immigrants, but who did not get to Virginia in 1717. These are names that we should remember when searching the German records. These individuals perhaps did return to Germany, or were delayed in getting to Virginia, or did make it eventually to Pennsylvania.
Four consecutive signers on a petition for financial aid to return to Germany are Hans George Forchel, Christoph Uhl, Frederic Kapler, and Hans George Long. The last three of these names are from Sulzfeld, where Christopher Zimmerman had been living. Perhaps Forckel came from Sulzfeld also. There is a Germanna name above who is not generally credited as a member of the 1717 group, and that is Maria Barbara Weiland (Wayland) whose husband was Thomas.
(11 Mar 05)
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