John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 2357

I believe the children of Henry and Catherine Huffman were:

1. Maria Elizabeth, born in 1736, married Peter Weaver (II).
2. Anna Catherine, born in 1738, used the name Anna, no marriage by the age of 30.
3. Elizabeth, born in 1739, no record in Virginia.

4. Lewis, no marriage.
5. Anna Mary, married George Cook as his second wife.
6. Henry, married Margaret Harnsberger.
7. Ambrose, married Mary Railsback.
8. Teter or Dieter or Dieterich, married Jemima Barlow.
9. Agnes, married Robert Fleit (Floyd?).

I published a chart of the first three generations of this family in volume 8, number 4, page 438 of Beyond Germanna .  I would amend that chart in the following ways:

(1) I would eliminate Daniel as a son of Henry and Catherine.  There is no evidence in the Madison or Culpeper Civil Records or the Church Records at the German Lutheran Church for his existence.

(2) Teter Huffman married Jemima Barlow.

(3) I would add the child Agnes, who married Robert Fleit, where the surname might possibly be Floyd.  (The same day, April 20, 1787, that the tax collector visited 21 Huffmans, he also visited John and Robert Floyd, who were each independent heads of families.)

B. C. Holtzclaw in Germanna Record 5 , page 364, gives the same set of children except that he does not give Agnes.  The Church Records establish rather clearly that she was another daughter.  The Church and Civil Records also indicate that Agnes married Robert Floyd.  Holtzclaw does not give the spouses of all of the children, in particular, none for Henry, Ambrose, or Teter.

One question for research in Germany is how Catherine Schuster, who married Henry Huffman, is related to Elisabeth Schuster, the wife of Johannes Steinseifer.  The history of the two families indicates that there must have been some relationship.
(23 Aug 06)