Marilyn Hansen sent some information on the naturalization of John Thomas. Her report differs slightly from what I have. I have some suspicions as to how these might have arisen, but I do not have the final answer. I will give what Elke Hall and I found and reported in Beyond Germanna on pages 716 to 718.
Some of the naturalizations which were made at Williamsburg were sent along to England after the Secretary of Virginia registered the names for reference. Of the records that were sent to England, many of them were reported in the journal Huguenot Society, Quarto Series , vol. XXIV, 1921, by M.S. Giuseppi as " Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies ". This secondary work is the reference with which most people are familiar. To see the original documents, copies were obtained by Elke from the National Archives in Surry, England, under some restrictive terms.
These records are from the Public Record Office in England but are kept in the National Archives in Kew, Richmond, Surry. The records are filed in the series known as CO5/1326. The CO5 series consists of 1450 bundles and volumes and includes the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State, American and West Indies, Original Correspondence for the years 1606 to 1822. More specifically, the naturalizations here are in Piece Title V , Nos. 36-110 under the Header Title " Virginia " with the sub-header title " Correspondence, Original, Board of Trade, 1743-1747 ". There are restrictions on the reproduction and use of the information. Elke paid a special fee for the right to publish the information one time in Beyond Germanna . She may make a copy for a researcher if is not published and she does not charge for the information. If anyone wants to publish the page or pages as a part of their research, they must ask permission from the Public Record Office in London. As you can see, I must be slightly restrictive in reporting the information so as not to violate the agreement with the PRO. [As I remember some other work with the PRO, the term "reproduction" was never clearly defined, but it clearly would include photocopies, and transcriptions of selections were never clearly defined.]
In the approximate one year period, 20 Oct 1744 to 15 Oct 1745, seventeen Germanna citizens were naturalized along with four other Germans (probably from the Shenandoah Valley). On 19 Apr 1745, Zachariah Blankenbecker, John Thomas, Henry Ahlar [Aylor], and John Zimmerman were naturalized. The first two were "Natives of Nienberg [Neuenbuerg] in the Bishoprick of Spire", Ahlar was a native of "Wirtemberg" [Wuerttemberg], and Zimmerman was a native of "Sultzfeld"[Sulzfeld]. All four of these individuals were related by marriage or blood. All of these individuals used Form A (to be explained later).
(04 May 06)
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