| Name |
Hans* Georg Moyer (Mayer) |
| Suffix |
Jr (immigrant) |
| Birth |
23 Oct 1674 |
Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Emigration |
1717 |
Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany |
| ship "Scott" |
| Immigration |
1717 |
Germanna, Orange Co, Virginia |
| ship "Scott" |
- The 1717 Colony from the Kraichgau of Baden and Württemberg, as well as some from the Rhineland Pfalz (Palatinate) settled first across the Rapidan River from Fort Germanna, then from 1725 to 1727 began to move to the Robinson River Valley in present day Madison County and patent land in their own names.
Majer/Moyer, George, and wife Anna Barbara; children: Christoph(er), John Melchior/Michael, Maria Susanna, Barbara Catherina from: Gross Sachsenheim
http://www.germanna.org/original_settlers
story as related by Christie Myers, Rootsweb Administrator for the MOYERS Newsgroup
found posted in Ancestry.
(comment: Her memory had some of the lineage and marriages mixed up, but basically a good write up.
Regarding poor Hans Georg MAJER /MOYER,
one of those that were part of the Culpeper, later Madison County; 2nd Germanna Colony, in Virginia; as he sat in an England port on the ship "Scott", while the Shipmaster sat in a prison cell, unreleased till he paid his debts to England. He did, using Hans George MAJER/MOYER and other passengers fares that were suppose to be used for the passage into North America. As they sat on this ship in England they had not choice but to begin to use their supplies, that were suppose to get them across the great Atlantic Ocean. They literally fought off starvation and it is believed that his wife Anna HENN died on the trip here.
This ship was suppose to land in PA, it did not, but rather they were detoured into VA where they took over the colony that was left behind from the first group of in Germanna. Because the Capt. of this ship spent their money paying his own debts in England, Hans Georg MOYER was forced into "indenture" for at least 7 if not 10 years. Records not in front of me as I type this from memory. He did fight in courts, but was an honorable man with many crosses to bear and made it through and eventually he migrated Into Greene Co., TN
|
| Death |
Aft 1750 |
Germanna, Orange Co, Virginia |
| Notes |
- (Note: 1683-1820 This emigration was largely caused by religious persecutions following from the changes wrought by the Thirty Years War, and by economic hardship. Many were Protestants from the Palantinate area of Germany)
Name also spelled: Majer
3 Feb 1708 is christening date. Birth date not known.
1717 Germanna, Virginia, immigrant
Listed in Frederick Co Will Book:
a Stephen Moyers, d 3/ April 1797, children John, Elizabeth, Catherine; Exr: Jacob. Will book 6, p 257-158
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This emigrants left their villages in southern Germany (Baden and Württemberg) about 12 Jul 1717 enroute for Pennsylvania by way of London. Starvation took the lives of several of the passengers (probably 50 people perished, most of them children) who had been swindled by their captain who was retained in London. The ship held about 138 passengers and did not land in Pennsylvania but to Virginia where the passengers were sold as indentured servants to Governor Spotswood.
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The Second Germanna Colony of 1717
The second group left Germany via. London to Pennsylvania 12 Jul 1717. Rather than land in Pennsylvania, the captain (Captain Scott) brought his approximately 100 German passengers to Virginia. There as payment for their passage the captain sold the immigrants as indentured servants to Governor Spotswood after confiscating their belongings. Spotswood held them longer than was customary for indentured servants. This group settled in Spotsylvania County, Virginia where Governor Spotswood's mansion house and land was located. All of the families that came with this group appear to have been from the northern (Protestant) Baden-Württemberg region of Germany
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From: "cathibeth ."
To: ; ; "SC Posner"
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:49 PM
Subject: [MOYER] Hans Moyer
Could this be our Pennsylvania Immigrant???
From
NOTES and QUERIES
HISTORICAL and GENEALOGICAL
CHIEFLY RELATING TO
INTERIOR PENNSYLVANIA
EDITED BY
WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M.D.
FIRST AND SECOND SERIES
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME I
PAGE 306
(second paragraph)
Hans Moyer purchased, 10th February, 1719, three hundred acres of land on Conestoga creek, from John Farrer, to whom it was warranted 2d August, 1716. Moyer subsequently died, leaving children:
i John
ii Jacob
iii Onela, m. Jacob Kendig.
iv Elizabeth, m. Henry Musselman.
v Mary, m. John Shank, who for the sum of (pound)75, deeded the same to Casper Loughman on the 25th December, 1739.
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The November issue of Beyond Germanna went in the mail yesterday. This is the closing number in the ninth volume, which now makes fifty-four issues (of ten pages each) that have been published.
In this issue, Nancy Dodge has a short article in the lead position which discusses aspects of the lawsuit brought by Alexander Spotswood against George Moyer, early Germanna colonist. William and Christopher Beverley had testified on behalf of Spotswood against George Moyer. Their testimony is not given which had left open the question of why they testified. Nancy uses the known history of the Second Colony to show that George Moyer had probably had his transportation paid by Robert Beverley who had been a partner with Spotswood in the enterprise which utilized the services of the members of the Second Colony. Thus George Moyer's position as a 1717 colonist is strengthened (he had not appeared on Spotswood's headright list).
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| Person ID |
I838 |
Roots |
| Last Modified |
21 Jan 2015 |
| Father |
Hans* Georg (Jerg) Mayer, Sr, b. 1647, Retschen, Elsau, Zurich, Switzerland d. 1693, Germany (Age 46 years) |
| Mother |
Anna* Henn, b. Abt 1648 d. Aft 1675, Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany (Age ~ 28 years) |
| Marriage |
31 May 1668 |
Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany |
- The marriage record of Hans( Johann) MAYER ( who m. Anna HENN) states that he was a native of " Retschen" Switzerland. There is no village by that name in Switzerland, but there is a Raterschen. In a report for DODGE # 178933,"Linages" researchers were able to go back for two generations.
(From: PNDodge@aol.com
Subject: [MOYERS] Cont-1717 Germanna Va. Colonists, George & Barbara MOYER
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:53:49 EDT
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| Family ID |
F407 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Anna Babara* Landis (?), (Immigrant), b. Abt 1674, Germany d. Aft 1720, of, Germanna, Orange Co, Virginia (Age ~ 47 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1700 |
Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany |
- Anna Barbara____
[Orange Co. Court 26 Mar 1748 - The wife of George MOYER is named as ANNA BARBARA MOYER]
|
| Children |
| + | 1. Christopher* Moyer, Sr (immigrant), b. 3 Feb 1708, Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany d. Aft 1756, Germanna, Orange Co, Virginia (Age > 49 years) |
| | 2. Johann Melchoir (John Michael) Myers (Moyer), (Immigrant), b. 12 Sep 1709, Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany d. Aft 1744, of, Rowan Co, North Carolina (Age > 36 years) |
| | 3. Maria Susanna Moyer, (immigrant), b. 14 Nov 1711, Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany d. Aft 1718 (Age > 8 years) |
| | 4. Barbara Catharina Moyer, (immigrant), b. 17 Aug 1714, Gross Sachsenheim, Wurttemberg, Germany d. Aft 1717 (Age > 4 years) |
| + | 5. Jacob Moyer, I (?), b. 1717, Germanna, Orange Co, Virginia d. Aft 1738 (Age > 22 years) |
| + | 6. George Moyers, Jr., b. Abt 1719, Germanna, Orange Co, Virginia d. Aft 1750, of, Orange Co, Virginia (Age ~ 32 years) |
|
| Family ID |
F406 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Feb 2011 |
1674 - Aft 1750 (> 77 years)
