With respect to the children of Henry Huffman, a correspondent of B. C. Holtzclaw said the children were Henry, Teter (Dieterich), Lewis, Ambrose, John, and Mary (who married William Taylor). A second correspondent of Holtzclaw said the children were Henry, Anne Mary, Teter, Ambrose, Lewis, Daniel, Mary (who married William Taylor). The Madison County records show Henry, Teter, Ambrose, and Lewis. A deed in 1803 of Henry Huffman, the eldest son, shows that Lewis died young without issue. Henry, Teter, and Ambrose all moved to Barren Co., KY (Teter in 1786, Ambrose in 1797, Henry in 1804).
Anne Mary Huffman witnessed the will of John Kaines in 1767. He was a neighbor of the immigrant Henry. Assigning Anne Mary to Henry would mean that she was one of the oldest children of Henry born in Virginia, since she has no record in Germany up to 1743.
Some of the children married Lutherans (the family itself was Reformed) and they appear in the Baptismal Register of the German Lutheran Church in the Robinson River Valley. This gives us some more insight into the family.
Peter Weaver II married Maria, who by tradition is said to be a daughter of Henry Huffman. The baptismal sponsors of their children confirm Maria was a Huffman. I would identify this Mary as the oldest daughter of Henry and Catherine, born in 1736 in Germany. Her full name was Maria Elisabeth. The other two daughters of Henry and Catherine who were born in Germany were named Anna Catharina and Elisabeth. No other daughters are known before 1743, the year that the family emigrated. If we identify Maria as the first child of Henry and Catherine, she would have been about 25 when she married Peter Weaver II. Peter Weaver II is thought to have been born about 1736 (he is believed to be the fourth child of Peter I). This would make the ages of Peter II and Mary Elizabeth about the same.
At the baptism in 1766 of Helena (later known as Eleanor) of Peter II and Maria Huffman, one of the sponsors was Anna Hoffman. This would seem to be the sister of the mother. She, Anna, witnessed the will of John Kaines in 1767 so we would believe her to be an unmarried daughter of Henry and Catherine. Anna was also a sponsor for Diana born in 1768. There was an Agnes Hoffman in 1778 (?) as a sponsor for Maria Barbara, and in 1774 for the twins, Moses and Peter Weaver. This Agnes had a cousin Agnes, the daughter of John Huffman who married Stephen Harnsberger. This Agnes was too old to be unmarried in 1774. Dieter Huffman was a sponsor for Elias Weaver in 1773.
So the baptismal sponsors show the following siblings of Maria Huffman: Anna, Agnes, and Dieter. One other sibling in the sponsors will require a more involved analysis.
(17 Aug 06)
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