Philipp Joseph Weber, to use his baptismal name, arrived in Virginia with the Second Colony as Joseph Wever. The only time that his name appears in Virginia was in the list of 48 names that Alexander Spotswood used as head rights in paying for a piece of land. That he actually did arrive in Virginia may be inferred from his appearance in this list. To be used as a head right, a person had to arrive in Virginia (fraud excepted).
The cost of transportation was independent of whether a person arrived in America. Even if a person died en route, his fare was still due to the ship owners. If one died, then his family was obligated to pay his fare. If everyone in the family died, the captain of the ship would claim the possessions to help pay the fares. In general though, to be a head right, a person had to arrive in Virginia.
The only surviving son of Joseph Weaver (as the name is usually spelled in America) was Hans Dieterich (as given at his baptism in Germany) or Hans Fredich Wever (as given in the Spotswood head right list). "Dieterich" became "Dieter" or "Teter" and finally "Peter." Whom Peter Weaver married is not known except that her first name was Elizabeth. It is very improbable that she was the daughter of either 1714 John Huffman or his younger brother Henry Huffman. John Huffman did have a daughter, Elizabeth who was born in 1744 (much too young to be a wife of Peter Weaver) and who married Henry Back. Henry Huffman was about twenty years younger than his brother John and his daughters would have been too young to be a wife of Peter Weaver, the young immigrant of 1717. A daughter, Maria Elizabeth, of Henry Huffman did marry Peter Weaver, Jr. Sometimes, the two Peter Weavers, father and son, are confused.
Joseph Weaver’s wife was Susanna Clore who married Jacob Crigler after Joseph died. She is now known to have had two sons and two daughters by Jacob. The two sons were Christopher and Nicholas. The two daughters were Elizabeth who married Michael Yager, the son of Adam Yager, and Susanna who married Michael Utz, the son of the immigrant George Utz.
The thought that Susanna had a daughter Anna Margaretha Crigler who married Henry Aylor is false. It has been shown, satisfactorily, that the wife of Henry Aylor was Margaret Thomas, the daughter of Michael Thomas. (See Beyond Germanna, page 574.)
There were two Weaver families, one each in the First and Second Colonies, and the two are sometimes confused.
(23 Nov 05)
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