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Philip Fishbach
1661–1715
Elizabeth Heimbach
1662–
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"Uhrmeiersch," the ancestral home of the Richter/Rector family, was built around 1640 and was destroyed in the closing days of World War II, in April 1945. "Uhrmeiersch" was the home of the Germanna colonial family of Hans Jacob Richter and his wife Anna Elisabeth Fischbach. Their son Johannes married in Virginia to Anna Catharina Fischbach, granddaughter of Germanna colonists Rev. Henrich Haeger and his wife Anna Catharina Friesenhagen.
A painting of the house "Uhrmeiersch" appears in Dieter Tröps and Udo Bohn, Trupbach 1389-1989: Ortsgeschichte in...
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Name is spelled both ways
Parents
Philip Fishbach
1661–1715
Elizabeth Heimbach
1662–
http://www.germanna.org/germana_message_board?page=1
"Uhrmeiersch," the ancestral home of the Richter/Rector family, was built around 1640 and was destroyed in the closing days of World War II, in April 1945. "Uhrmeiersch" was the home of the Germanna colonial family of Hans Jacob Richter and his wife Anna Elisabeth Fischbach. Their son Johannes married in Virginia to Anna Catharina Fischbach, granddaughter of Germanna colonists Rev. Henrich Haeger and his wife Anna Catharina Friesenhagen.
A painting of the house "Uhrmeiersch" appears in Dieter Tröps and Udo Bohn, Trupbach 1389-1989: Ortsgeschichte in Texten und Bildern (Heimatverein Trupbach, Siegen-Trupbach, 1989), at 198.
There is a charming photograph by Otto Arnold taken on April 8, 1931 of "Uhrmeiersch" with five children in the foreground leaning on a fence. The Germanna Foundation has a framed copy of this photograph, which can also be found in Otto Arnold, Otto Arnold Photographie: 1927-1938; Siegerlaender Landschaften, Bilddokumente einer Suedwestfaelischen Kulturlandschaft (Siegen: Verlag Arnold, 1986) at 124.
Both of these books, rare in the United States, can be found in the library of the Brawdus Martin Germanna Visitor Center.
The history of "Uhrmeiersch" is given on pages 197-198 of Tröps and Bohn.
Haus Nr. 18 Uhrmeiersch (Trupbacher Str. 65)
Erbaut ca. 1640. (Built around 1640.) [Ownership of the home transferred in 1668 from Johannes Schmidt to Hermann Becker. Further research needs to be done, but it appears at this time that ownership of the house descended in the same family (frequently through the female line) since at least 1668].
1668 Hermann Becker
1680 Christoffel Richter, Uhrmacher (Clockmaker) mit (with) Anna Cath. Becker
1707 Johannes Richter, Uhrmacher (Clockmaker)
1760 Hermann Richter, Uhrmacher
1812 Johann Henrich Hoffman, Vorsteher mit Maria Elis. Richter
1862 Johannes Henrich Stracke, Kleinschmied (locksmith) mit Cath. Hoffman
1880 Carl Zimmer, Landwirt (farmer) mit Helene Stracke
1910 Carl Zimmer, Landwirt
1940 Carl Zimmer, Landwirt
"Bei den Kaempfen um Trupbach im Jahr 1945 wurde dieses schoene Fachwerkhaus von Granaten getroffen und brannte voellig nieder." [During the fighting in Trupbach in 1945, this beautiful half-timbered house was hit by a grenade and burned to the ground.]
The owners of the Richter house site, which is now used as a barn, are brothers Fritz and Theo Bottenberg, who have hosted the Germanna Foundation visitors to their home over the last several years. Fritz even made the transatlantic flight to come to a reunion several years ago.
On the 2005 Germanna Trip, Cary Anderson recalls that Fritz
mentioned in his remarks to the group that they were living in the house when it blew up and burned. Fritz then stated that his mother owned the current house where she had a grocery store. He contined: "We just moved over here."
In December 2009, Jurgen Schneider wrote that "The Trupbach Rector Home was destroyed by phosphor bombs two days before the end of World War Two in 1945. Near the house was at that time an anti-aircraft defence position.
"The last three generations of farmers who lived in the house were clockmakers in the wintertime. Older generations combined the farm with a blacksmith's shop. Till 1867 the house was for many generations inherited in the women's line.
"My mother, born in 1907, spent in her childhood many vacations in the Rector House. It was the house of her grandparents. Her father Gustaf Zimmer was born in the house in 1868."
As a gift to visiting Germanna Foundation, Fritz and Theo Bottenberg, on behalf of the Trupbach Heimatverein, presented a square section of the herring-bone stone floor to the Germanna Foundation, on display now in the Visitor Center. The Germanna Foundation maintains close ties to the Heimatvereine of the ancestral villages of Germanna families, maintaining communication and friendships with the historical associations that promote the preservation of the history of the ancestral villages and surrounding areas.
"Uhrmeiersch" and the family that lived in this house for some 300 years has been a topic on the "Germanna Colonies" e-mail list. Join in the conversation by sending an e-mail to [email protected] with the word "subscribe" in the subject line.
Better yet, sign up with the Germanna Foundation trip to Trupbach and other villages you would never see on a commercial tour. See http://www.germanna.org/germany_trip for details.
Ref: The Memorial Foundation of The Germanna Colonies, Inc.
P.O. Box 693
Culpeper, Virginia 22701-0693
Phone: 540-423-1700
Fax: 540-423-1747
[email protected]
http://www.germanna.org/settlers.html
First Germanna settlers list
Rector, John Jacob 1714
Two German Colonies came to Virginia during the administration of Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood and settled at or near Germanna in 1714 and 1717. The first consisted of 14 men with a total of 42 persons, as shown by an order of the Virginia Council passed April 28, 1714
Mr. Charles E. Kemper, a Germanna descendant of Staunton, Virginia, contributed an article to the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Vol. XIII, pp. 367-70) and gives their names as follows:
Jacob Holtzclaw, wife Margaret, sons John and Henry
John Joseph Martin, wife Maria Kathrina
John Spillman, wife Mary
Herman Fishback, wife Kathrina
John Hoffman, wife Kathrina
Joseph Coons, wife Kathrina, son John, Annalis, daughter Kathrina
John Fishback, wife Agnes
Jacob Rector, wife Elizabeth, son John
Melchior Brumback, wife Elizabeth
Tillman Weaver, mother Ann Weaver
Peter Hitt, wife Elizabeth
At the court session on June 2, 1724, several more of the 1714 Colonists had their headrights certified: John Spillman, Thomas Fishback, John Huffman, Joseph Cuntz, John Fishback, Jacob Rickart [Rector], Melchior Brumback, and Tillman Weaver
admitted to Guild of Steelsmiths and Toolmakers Jan 7, 1712-farmer
elder in German Reformed Church [Presbyterian
Germantown is on Licking Run in Stafford/Prince William, and now Fauquier Co. Virginia
Ref: By John Blankenbaker - Notes Germanna History Notes
Nr. 653:
[Forgive my absence from these notes for the past few days. Every couple of years or so, my back will "give out" and I have to take the bed rest cure with a heavy emphasis on the "rest".]
We have just about finished with Rector corrections. We had decided that John and Harmon, Jr., were sons of Harmon, Sr., and we decided that Uriah and Maximilian belonged to John (John, Hans Jacob). Harmon, Sr., used the phrase, "my three sons", in his will. Some people had believed that this meant he had three and only three sons. Others took it to mean that out of all of his sons he was specifying a subgroup of three without naming them. This required the assumption that Harmon was expecting his executors to know which three sons he had in mind. John Alcock, in his analysis, assumed that the meaning was what most of us would assume, namely he had three and only three sons.
John looked at all of the individuals who had a possible claim (and this was before the true parentage of Uriah and Maximilian was found), and concluded that Henry, the younger, was the third son besides Harmon, Jr., and John. His claims, even though circumstantial, were better than any other candidate. There were Daniel Rectors in the community whose identity and placement were uncertain, but nothing hinted at their placement with Harmon, Sr. Henry had traditionally been assigned to Harmon, Sr.
John McJohn made another correction to the Rector history. First, he observed that B.C. Holtzclaw, in Germanna Record 4 had assigned Lucinda Rector to either Moses Rector or William Rector. In Germanna Record 5, he assigned Lucinda to William, but only as a probability, not a certainty. McJohn found that Lucinda was the daughter of Joel Rector. His evidence was quite good as the heirs of Joel Rector, on 15 Dec 1845, agreed to sell a parcel of land (this being in Campbell Co., KY). Among the sellers were Daniel Moffett and his wife Lucinda Rector of the county of Edgar in Illinois. A marriage record for Lucinda and Daniel is to be found in Fauquier Co., VA, on 24 Mar 1817. A source of information about Joel Rector and his daughter Lucinda is the book by Thomas Woodyard, "A Hanna-Moffett Sims-Hybarger History", printed at Riverton, Wyoming in 1980.
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I would like to give thanks to all of the people who have contributed to the Rector research that I have been writing about. It all started with John Gott who rummaged around in the loose papers and found material that had been forgotten. This showed that what had been accepted truth was, in fact, false. This is the first step in improving any theory. Find and highlight the flaws and don't cover them up.
Before the problem was solved, it grew more complex. Barbara Vines Little found there was another John Rector who needed a home. The records that Barbara used were all public information that was available to all. No one had ever put it together and come up with the correct answer until she did so.
John Alcock located where this "newly found" John Rector should be placed, which only compounded a problem as to who Harman Rector, Sr.'s, sons were.
Through the years, Tommie Brittain had been asking questions, gathering data, and hoping to place her Uriah Rector. She had been led down a false path by B. C. Holtzclaw but her problem was eventually solved by John Alcock who found the necessary information in the records.
Meanwhile, James McJohn, with the assistance of William H. Rector, found that an assumed relationship was not supported by the records. He also found the correct placement for Lucinda Rector.
My role in this was to provide a place where the information could be published and made available to the public. As a result it is now stored in major libraries throughout the nation. In these notes I have given the highlights of the information but generally there is more detail in the printed format than has been given here. The full set of information, in the court case that John Gott found, is available from me for the cost of mailing, i.e., an SASE (business size with 55 cents of postage).
NOW, in all of this there is a lesson for researchers of all families. One should never be complacent about the history that is given to you. Many major researchers worked on the Rector history prior to the research that I have recently outlined. There were some major mistakes yet it looked good on the surface. It should humble us to realize how incomplete is our data, and how insecure are the conclusions that we draw from. More effort should be devoted to improving the quality of our information rather than the quantity of it.
Nr. 1226:
Finding where Uriah Rector hung on the Rector tree was not easy. (Maybe that statement did not come out the way it should have.) The question is, "Who was Uriah Rector’s father?" For more than 200 hundred years he was assigned to Harmon, son of the John Jacob Rector, but there were problems in this assignment. The will of Harmon was ambiguous and only named one of his sons. In an effort to solve this problem, Tommie Brittain collected data on Uriah and Maximillian Rector to see if she could find a clue.
Uriah Rector was born about 1756, according to his pension application, and Maximillian was born a couple of years later, according to his pension application. Uriah joined the company of Capt. John Ashby, in the regiment of Col. Thomas Marshall, in the line of the State of Virginia, in 1776. He suffered by getting his knee out of place, and was discharged at the end of two years. Maximillian joined the same company, and served at Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. Later he was taken prisoner at the siege of Charleston, which was his fate until the war was over.
Uriah was married to Elizabeth, perhaps a Hill, in 1777. They sold land not long after they were married in Fauquier County, Virginia. Maximillian has no land records in the county. In 1779, Uriah made the county records again, when he was indicted for gambling. From 1781 to 1787, Uriah appears on the tax lists of Botetourt Co. In 1786, Maximillian appears in this latter county as a witness to the marriage of John Rector and Chloe McPherson.
The story gets a bit hazy for a few years, but eventually, both men appear in Tennessee. From 1792 on, Uriah appears in a variety of records, in Tennessee, of every type imaginable. In 1803, Uriah is in Washington Co., Tennessee. A mystery occurs in 1805, when Uriah married Winifred, in South Carolina. Uriah and Winifred moved to Roane Co., TN. In one record, a John Kaebler is mentioned. In 1823, Uriah Rector, age about 67 years, made a pension application from Roane Co. TN. The pension was approved, and Uriah died in 1833, and is buried at Rockwood.
Winifred moved with some of the children to Illinois, from where she made a pension application in 1854. Winifred's daughter, Nancy Rector, married a Harris. Winifred's son, William Rector, also lived in Illinois. Tentatively, there were three children of Uriah by Elizabeth, and four by Winifred.
Maximillian had a history similar to Uriah the same company in the Revolution, ties to South Carolina, in Botetourt County, and in Tennessee. He was in the Greene County tax list in Tennessee in 1804. The similarity of experiences suggests that Uriah and Maximillian were brothers. There is a lot more information that could be used to show other similarities, but this will establish that these two Rectors were in Tennessee (to go with some earlier Rectors).(03 Aug 01)
Nr. 1227:
We have John Alcock to thank for finding where Uriah should be hung on the Rector tree. When Jack sent me the results, he added a few comments.
"Since it was snowing this morning [March 19, 1997, in Fauquier County, VA], I went over to the courthouse instead of working outdoors. I paid particular attention to the "loose" papers in the Fauquier Co. Courthouse which have been catalogued and indexed. I was especially drawn to the name Rector but without any unusual finds. When I finished, I called my wife Mariana to say I was on the way home for lunch, but there was no answer. So I said to myself, 'It will take only a few minutes to look at the Chancery indexes.' I turned to the index of plaintiffs and my eye caught the name Uriah Rector as defendant to John Peyton Harrison. This was no accident; it was only one page out of perhaps two hundred. Finally, a little bit of luck was with me, as the case identifies Uriah Rector’s parentage. You can follow the details in the copies which I am enclosing. The originals are ID 204 in Box 4, 1792 item 007."
John Peyton Harrison filed a complaint on 15 April 1784 against Uriah Rector, the eldest son and heir at law to John Rector, who had been "killed by thunder" before he made a deed for his sale to Harrison of the lot on which John Clark then lived. Uriah refused to honor the bond of his father that the formal conveyance would be completed. Uriah said Harrison had not paid for the tract. The bond was dated 15 April 1773.
The John Rector who was "killed by thunder" was the son of John Rector, and the grandson of the 1714 immigrant, Hans Jacob Richter. John, Jr., died before the end of June 1773, when administration of his estate was granted to William Kincheloe (a relative?). John Rector, Sr., had died before the end of March 1773, leaving 100 acres to his grandson, John, who would have been a brother to Uriah.
The sheriff was ordered to bring Uriah into court to answer the complaint, but he could not be found, since he was no longer resident in Fauquier County. A final decree was issued in August 1792, but no copy was in the file.
John Alcock is the author of "Fauquier Families, 1759-1799", which has been acclaimed as an outstanding source of reference material on the people of Fauquier County.
We all have our little serendipity stories pertaining to our research. Just think, if Mariana Alcock had been able to answer the phone, then John would have gone home for lunch and perhaps he would never have found this all important case. It has been my pleasure to work with John (or Jack to most people) on other Rector problems.
(04 Aug 01)
Nr. 1228:
Recently, Harmon Rector (son of Hans Jacob Richter) was mentioned, and a question was raised as to who his wife was. I believe the correct answer is that no one knows. Even her given name is a mystery. Harmon is thought to have had five children, three sons and two daughters. If I remember correctly, John is the only child mentioned by name in his will. He went on to say "my three sons", which led to a question of interpretation. Did the "three sons" refer to people other than John, or did it refer to the total number of sons? It was under the possibility that there were four sons, that some people thought that Uriah might have fit in here. The current thinking is that there were only three sons in total, namely:
John (married Mary ___),
Harmon (married Mary, who probably was a Nelson), and
Henry (married Elizabeth McPherson).
The two daughters were Caty, who married John Martin, and Elizabeth, who married Tilman Weaver.
Of the four sons of Hans Jacob Richter, Henry married Anne Robinson, not Anne Spencer. Anne Robinson was the daughter of Catherine Taylor Robinson, who married, as her second husband, John Rector, the eldest son of Hans Jacob Richter. Because one of the children of Henry was named Spencer, it had been an erroneous guess that Henry might have married Anne Spencer.
The youngest son of Hans Jacob Richter, Jacob, married Mary Hitt.
At the Germanna Reunion this past July I talked to someone who was not aware that John Rector, the oldest son of Hans Jacob Richter, was married twice, and very probably his second wife was the mother of most, perhaps with only one exception, of his children. This second wife was Catherine Taylor Robinson, a young widow who had a few Robinson children. One of these was the Anne who married Henry Rector above.
The mother of Henry, Daniel, and Jacob, children of John Rector, is not known with certainly, but most researchers are betting that Catherine Taylor was the mother. After these three sons, most researchers say the next child is Charles, who would seem clearly to be Catherine Taylor's son, named after her father Charles Taylor. The implication from the court case, which established that Catherine Taylor Robinson was the second wife, is that she married John Rector quite early, very probably not long after the eldest child of John, another John, was born. This child had, as a mother, Anna Catherine Fishback. Between John, the eldest child, and Charles born in 1742, the mother is uncertain.
John Gott and John Alcock have cleared up many questions concerting this family in recent years. It is frightening to consider how unreliable many family histories must be. Until John Gott found the court case in the loose papers, John Rector was considered to have had only one wife. How many other families have a similar situation but do not have a court case which would make things clear?
(06 Aug 01)
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(Note from Web Page Manager: We have combined these two Notes in order to ensure continuity.)
This note starts the family of Hans Jacob Richter, a member of the First Germanna Colony who came to Virginia in 1714.
1. Hans Jacob RICHTER (Generation 1)
Born 1674 in Trupbach, Nassau-Siegen, Germany
Married 17 Jan 1711, Elizabeth Fischbach at Trupbach
Left Germany in 1713, arrived in Virginia in 1714
Died ca 1728/29 at Germantown (now Fauquier Co.), Virginia
Elizabeth married secondly John Marr
Children (of Jacob and Elizabeth):
2. John Rector
3. Henry Rector
4. Harmon Rector
5. Jacob Rector
2. John RECTOR (Generation 2)
Born 1 Dec 1711 at Trupbach
Married first Anna Catherine Fishback
Children:
6. John, ca 1733 - 1773
John Rector, #2, married second Catherine (Taylor) Robinson
The mother of the next three children is probably Catherine
7. Henry, 1 Mar 1736 to 1782
8. Daniel, ca 1738 to 1 May 1814
9. Jacob, ca 1740 to 1779
The following seem to be definitely Catherine's children
10. Charles, 24 Apr 1742 to ?
11. Catherine, ca 1744 to ca 1790
12. Elizabeth, ca 1746 to ?
13. Benjamin, 1748 to 1808?
14. Frederick, 16 Jul 1750 to 18 Sep 1811
3. Henry Rector (Generation 2)
Born ca 1720 probably at Germantown
Married Anne Robinson
Died 1799 Fauquier Co., VA (estate distribution shows children)
Children:
15. John, ca 1745 to 1775
16. Jacob, ca 1745 to 1795
17. Catherine, ? to 1799
18. Agnes, ? to 1793
19. Hannah, 1750 to 1816
20. Dinah, 1745 to 22 Feb 1841
21. Nancy Ann, ca 1760 to ?
22. Sally,
23. Moses, ca 1761 to ca 1804
24. Elijah, ca 1763 to 1828
25. Spencer, 1765 to 1793
26. Winifred (f), ? to 17 Sep 1809
4. Harmon Rector(Generation 2)
Born ca 1718 at Germanna (possibly Germantown), Virginia
Marrried before 1743, wife's name is unknown
Left will in Fauquier Co., dtd 23 Sep 1782, probated 28 Sep 1789
Will names "my children", "my three sons", "son Harmon, Jr."
Executors were sons-in-law, John Martin and Tillman Weaver
Based on research of John Alcock and others, children are:
27. Harmon, Jr., bef 1743 to after 1800,
28. John,
29. Henry, after 1745 to 1829,
30. Elizabeth, ? to after 1795,
31. Caty,
5. Jacob Rector(Generation 2)
Born ca 1723 at Germantown, VA
Married 1749 Mary Hitt
Moved to Rowan Co., NC ca 1787, later to Grayson Co., VA
Will dtd 31 Jul 1810 and filed in Grayson Co. names children:
32. Peter, 1 Nov 1749 to ca 1821
33. Nancy, deceased when father's will written, left family34. James, 22 Aug 1754 to ca 1839
35. Jesse, 26 Dec 1759 to 22 Jan 1843
36. Bennett, 10 Mar 1767 to after 1816
37. Elizabeth, 5 Nov 1769 to 1855.
Notes on Hans Jacob Rector family. Not all researchers agree on the structure of the families or the dates. In particular, recent research has shown that:
#2. John was married twice;
#3. Henry married Anne Robinson;
Uriah was not a son of #4. Harmon;
while #4 Harmon did have a son named John.
Sources: Larry King's "Rector Records" and research (by John Gott and John Alcock), reported in "Beyond Germanna". Comments are invited.
Nr. 191:
Recent notes have elicited several comments.
(Ref. 1)Sally Baughn has corrected the record as it pertains to Eve Baumgartner who married Mordecai Boughan/Baughan/Vaughan. Sally was very modest in her recital and used the pronoun, "we", where it might have been more appropriate to use "I". Her voyage of discovery was told in Beyond Germanna in the volume 3, number 4 issue. Her search had taken her far and wide until she was able to make an important connection. In note 187 here, which lists immigrants to Northern Virginia, correct the wife of Michael Aylor to Sarah Boughan, the daughter of Mordecai Boughan and Eve Baumgartner.
Sally asks if the parents of Mary Zimmerman (who married Mordecai Boughan, Jr,. as his first wife in 1801) are known. I would draw attention to the family of John Zimmerman (1737-1819), the son of John Zimmerman, who married Ursula Blankenbaker. John, Jr., was married three times and I do not know how the children divide among the wives. One child was Mary, born ca the time of the Revolution, who has not been given a husband. Based on the name, Mary, the age, and the lack of an assigned husband, this Mary is a strong candidate.
Ann in Kansas ([email protected]) asks about Maximilian and Uriah Rector. Larry King's "Rector Records" does not even list Maximilian, and assigns Uriah as a son of Harmon (number 4 in the notes here). In Beyond Germanna, v.9, n.3, Tommie Brittain presents circumstantial evidence that Uriah and Maximilian were brothers. They probably had another brother, John, at whose marriage (to Chloe McPherson), Maximilian was a witness on 29 September, in Botetourt Co., VA. In the same issue of Beyond Germanna, John Alcock relates his searches among the "loose papers" in Fauquier Co., VA, where he found the lawsuit of John Peyton Harrison against Uriah Rector in 1784. Uriah was the youngest son and heir at law to John Rector who had been "killed by thunder" before John made a deed for sale of land to Harrison.
Harmon's will mentioned three sons, but he only named one, Harmon, Jr. Some people had assigned Uriah to Harmon, but they failed to note that two John Rectors had been merged into one John. When split apart separately, the new John had to be assigned to Harmon based on a record which named a son of Harmon as John (this point was shown by John Alcock). It was Barbara Vines Little who found that one John Rector should be split into two men. Her research is given in Beyond Germanna, v.8, n.2.
While mentioning these modern day researches, much of it started with the findings of John K. Gott who found the lawsuit which made it clear that John Rector (#2) was married twice. The lawsuit was reported in BG:2:1. An analysis by John Alcock was published in BG:6:6.
There is a moral to be drawn from all of this research. Most everyone had been happy with the reported structure of the Rector family. There was not much evidence of any problems. Almost accidentally, evidence was found to the contrary. You have to ask, "When the evidence is all in family X, how will it change?" Perhaps it is best to remember that every assignment up your tree has a probability attached to it. More work should be done on improving these probabilities rather than collected sheer numbers of ancestors.
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[P.S. Speaking of errors (which I have been doing recently), in note 191, Uriah Rector should be referred to as the eldest son since he was the heir of John Rector. MY mistake.]
Nr. 219:
Barbara Vines Little did an analysis of John Rectors in the Germanna community and found that two separate John Rectors had been merged into one individual. First, a John Rector arrived in 1734 at Philadelphia on the ship Hope. Though B.C. Holtzclaw thought this John Rector was a nephew of the 1714 immigrant, John Jacob Rector, James McJohn has refuted this argument in Beyond Germanna (vol. 4, n. 2). That he was indeed from Nassau-Siegen seems certain judging by the large number of other immigrants from Nassau-Siegen on the same ship.
The 1734 John Rector married, shortly after arrival, an unidentified woman who is thought to have been the daughter of John and Mary Spilman of the 1714 group. The records supply ample evidence that there were two sons, John, Jr., and Nathaniel. There are no hints that there were any other children. The 1734 John Rector died in 1742 so his span of life in Virginia was very limited. The widow married Timothy Reading.
Nathaniel, the younger of the two sons, married Anne ?, and died by 20 February 1805, when his sales account was recorded in Fauquier County, VA.
A grant of 115 acres of land was made to John Rictor and Nathan Rictor. This was paid by Tim Reading, father-in-law [sic] to the applicants. On 22 Sep 1766, John Rector and Rebecka his wife, sold this 115 acres for nine pounds and five shillings to Nathaniel Rector. John Rector of Culpeper Co. had purchased, in 1761, eighty acres lying on the north side of Bloodsworth's Road from Joseph James. This land was sold to Nathaniel Brown in 1771 by John, with Rebecca's release. In 1774, William Lodspik [Lotspeich] and his wife Magdaline sold 62 acres in Brumfield Parish in the Great Fork of the Rappahannock Rivers on a head branch of Crooked Run. In 1776 this land was sold and this is the last record of John and Rebecca in Culpeper County records.
On 4 March 1831, Benjamin Rector of Iredell Co., North Carolina, filed an application for a Revolutionary War pension. He said that he was born in Culpeper Co. in 1761. In 1779 he entered the war as a substitute for his father John Rector in Surry Co. Thus it appears that John, Jr. (son of the 1734 immigrant) moved from Culpeper Co. to Surry Co. between 1776 and 1779. Benjamin is the only child that has been identified. He died 11 Feb 1849 in Alexander Co., NC.
Holtzclaw stated that John, Jr. had a second wife, Mary, and that he left a will of 1815 recorded in Fauquier Co., VA, where he had nine children. Clearly, Holtzclaw is speaking about another John Rector whom he has confused with John, son of the 1734 immigrant. This second John Rector has been identified by John P. Alcock. He is the son of Harman Rector, Sr., and is a grandson of the 1714 immigrant, John Rector.
Both of the articles, by Little and by Alcock, are in vol. 8, n. 2 issue of Beyond Germanna.
Nr. 1210:
The Rectors tended to go to the north, and left a reminder of their presence in Rector Town.
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NO ISSUE BY JOHN MARR
MARR, JOHN
Prince William Co., Va. Will filed May 28, 1744.
wife Elizabeth
s. Christopher Marr
John, s. of Daniel Marr
John Allen will 3 Nov 1759 26 March 1761
to son John Allen, land in Marsh neck and slaves
to son thomas Allen all land below Indiana Springs
to son William Allen land that I bought from John Hopper where Gerrard Edwards now lives
sons Joseph and James to have land on which I now live
to daughter ANN MERR OR MARR 2 slaves
exrs wife and son Thomas
wit George Crump, Benjamin crump, William McDaniel
SOMEONE ELSE'S RESEARCH STATES BUT IS INCORRECT
My resource 93 has actual wording when will proven. Provides information that Elizabeth (Anna Elizabeth Fishbach) is his widow (and executor). (another resource indicates John and Elizabeth had one child, Catherine born 1710 or 1711 in VA). THIS IS WRONG, NO CHILDREN WITH ANNA ELIZABETH FISHBACK. CATHERINE'S MOTHER WAS ELSBETH UTTERBACK
Various children mentioned in the text of will. Three sons of John's are mentioned: John Bradford Jr (executor), Daniel, Christopher. Also, John - son of Daniel and John Rector. (I am wondering if Elizabeth was previously married to someone with last name of Rector and John Rector is her son with him but recognized in step-father, John Marr's will) At this point a daughter Mary who is married to Thomas Kingcart Jr is mentioned. MARY MARR MARRIED 1ST THOMAS KINGCART ON 17 FEB 1711 AND 2ND JOHN BRADFORD ABT 1717. MARY IS THE STEP SISTER OF MY GF HENRY RECTOR B 1715 D 1799.
JOHN BRADFORD DIED 1748/1753 and MARY MARR DIED 1776
THEIR CHILDREN: DANIEL MARRIED ALICE MORGAN, HANNAH MARRIED LAZARUS TAYLOR, DINAH MARRIED JOHN DUNCAN, SARAH WHO MARRIED WILLIAM TAYLOR AND 2ND HOSEA ROSE), ALEXANDER MARRIED JEMIMA JONES, WILLIAM MARRIED MARY MORGAN, AND TWINS JOSEPH MARR 1ST MARY GEORGE, 2ND MARGARET WILSON AND SOME CLAIM 3RD SUSANNAH BUSH AND BENJAMIN B 1738 MARRIED ANN ALLEN, DTR OF JOHN ALLEN AND URSULA WITHERS WHO IS MY 2ND COUSIN 9X REMOVED.∼The wife of Hans Jacob Richter married 17 JAN 1711. Was born on 15 Apr 1685/1687 in Trupbach, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.
She was christened in 1685. Her godmother was Anna, the daughter of JOHANNES HEIMBACH.
She died in 1760/1761 in Germantown, Fauquier County, Virginia.
She was buried Unknown Rectortown, Fauquier, Virginia.
Daughter of Philipp Fischbach of Trupbach and his wife, Elizabeth Heimbach. Philipp Fischbach was the won of Johannes Fishback of Seelbach and his wife Catherina Heimbach. She was the daughter of Johannes and Clara Heimbach, of Trupbach.
The original ancestor of the Fishchbachs was a prominent iron-master, Tiel Van Fishchbach (otherwise called "von Hollenstein"), born about 1415-20 who was "Schultheiss" of Freudenberg: (ie: Chief Justice of the District Court and other official representative of the Count of Nassau-Siegen in that district.)
1714? D. Rectortown, Va., 1775, and buried there by the side of her husband.
m. Before March 1733, John Rector, son of John Jacob Rector, d. bet. 1724 an d 1729 (one of the Germantown colonists) and Elizabeth, dau. Parson Henry Hager (b. 1687).
John Rector was born at Maidstone, Kent, England, 1713(?), d. Rectortown, Va., Mch., 1773.
His will is in B. I. 205-7, Fauquier Co., Records, dated 5 Nov., 1772, probated 22 Mch., 1773."
(JOHANN) JOHN/HANS JACOB RICHTER married (1) ANNA ELIZABETH FISCHBACK on 17 Jan 1711 in Trupbach, Nassau-Siegen, Germany.
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