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Brenda; Something you wrote “rang a bell” in my head and I rememberd. The Pa. Germans especially the Beckers/Bakers were great forging smiths. They brought that over with them from Germany. They are credited with creating and producing the “Kentucky Rifle” at their Pa. village.
A short essay on the “Kentucky Rifle” and it’s origins is at http://johno.myiglou.com/kyrifle.htm
Dan.
Linda and all;
Just one more thing before I leave this subject. It is possible that Johann Christan Gerlach’s Indian maiden bride was Anna Maria Margaretha Timmerman/Zimmerman. It would have been the second marriage for both of them.
The father of Anna Maria Timmerman Gerloch was none other but Chief Hendrick (Tiyonoga) of the Mohawks.
On a deed from the Mohawk Nation to Anna Marragrietta Timmerman in 1733 it notes that she is a spinster and at the bottom the deed is signed by the Mohawks, Hendrick Pieters (Bear), Seth (Wolf), Marragriet (Turtle) (her mark).
She signed the deed to herself and thus making all three clans of the Mohawks represented. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/zimmerma.html
These are the kind of Mohawk Dutch that settled in Pa. then s.w. Va. and n.w. N.C., then the Clinch and Holston river valleys and were neighbors of the Saponi/Melungeons.
Dan Akin.
This is a Timeline:events related to my Eddleman ancestors
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/eg803.htm
1750. Pennsylvania Germans were living in Alamose, Guildford, Davidson, Rowan, Cabarens, Stanley, Iredell, Catawba, Lincoln Counties of North Carolina.
1753 Nov 17. Wachovia Settlement. A group of Germans (Monravians), coming directly from Germany, received a grant of 100,000 acres by Lord Granville. They settled the villages of Bethabara, Bethania, and Salem (now Winston-Salem). The group later moved and founded Hope, Indiana. Their diary is published and is an excellent source of very limited information. Abotts Creek flowed out of the south edge of this 100,000 acre tract.
1753 or 1754 Jersey Settlement began in central Davidson County. Pastor Rev. Benjamin Miller arrived in 1756. They were particular Baptists.
???? NC Abbots Creek. Known as the Dutch Settlement (German) on Abotts Creek. (I think this is now flooded by the High Rock Dam.) At first, the Germans (Pilgrim Church Area) did not have pastoral leadership. However, the German Reformed and Lutheran settlers brought German bibles, catechisms, and hymn books. In 1753 or 1754 they began holding outdoor services and soon erected a log building for meeting house and school.
Dan Akin wrote: Bill; I think I found them. In 1749 Moravian missionaries noted that in the region of Dunkard’s Bottom (New River Valley) they found a “..kind of white people who wore deer skins, lived by hunting, associated with the indians, and acted like savages.”
My grandma was Lee Omeida Starnes. (It sounds like my family.)
The web-site is http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapcgc/doc/DunkardsBottom.html
It is real interesting to me that my Baker family was also a part of this German community as was the Harmon family which was associated with my other grandma’s Neal family. My grandma’s were second cousins.
Dan Akin.
I tried this link…didn’t work. So I looked up Dunkard’s Bottoms…here is the link, very interesting.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapulask/doc/DunkardsBottom.html
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