Georg Adam Hamann

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Johannes Hodel, founder of the extensive Hottel-Huddle family in America
lived at nearby Alsheim-Gronau until the time of his marriage to Maria
Margaretha Rheinwald, widow of Casper, at Meckenheim in 1728 and apparently lived at Meckenheim until they emigrated in 1732. They had a son, Johannes, baptized at Meckenheim, 4 Sept. 1731. The two youngest children of Jacob Hammann (#13, below) married grandchildren of Johannes Hodel (Hottel) in Virginia.

13-JOHANN JACOB HAMMANN (of Johann Georg #7) was born at Lachen, 18 Apr.
1706, may have married twice, emigrated to America in 1749 and died in York
Co. Pa. after 1755, before 1762. He married at nearby Duttweiler, 24 June
1732 to ANNA MARGARETHA CLAMM (KLAMM), She was born at Duttweiler, 8 Sept.
1711, daughter of Stephan Clamm (Klamm) and was still living in 1748. By
1755 Jacob's wife was named MARIA DOROTHEA. Children: probably all by Anna
Margaretha:

18-(1) JOHANN PETER HAMMANN, b. 19 Apr. 1733, 1787.
(2) ANNA ELISABETHA HAMMANN, b. 17 Sept. 1735.
19-(3) PHILIPP LORENTZ HAMMANN, b. 27 Oct. 1737, d. 1794.
(4) GEORG MICHAEL HAMMANN, b. 4 Jan. 1741, d. May 1741.
20-(5) GEORG MICHAEL HAMMANN, b. 25 Mar. 1742, d. 1791.
21-(6) JOHANN PAUL HAMMANN, b. 8 Aug. 1745, d. 1789.
22-(7) ANNA CATHERINA HAMMANN, b. 18 Mar. 1748.
23-(8) JOHANN JACOB HAMMANN, b. Sept. 1750, d. 3 Feb. 1824.
24-(9) ANNA CHRISTINA HAMMANN, b. 1752, living 1816.
Jacob was confirmed at Lachen, Easter, 1721 and sponsored the baptism of
several children in the years before his marriage. He is referred to as a
Gemeinsmann and Burger (citizen) at Lachen in various church records.
Members of the Clamm family of Duttweiler sponsored a number of Jacob and
Margaretha's children at baptism. The last record of Jacob and his family
at Lachen is the baptism of his daughter Anna Catherina in the Spring of
1748 and confirmation of his son Peter at Easter of that year. They
emigrated to America soon after that, perhaps with other relatives and
neighbors, including his cousin Georg Meess (see Burgert, Lachen-
Speverdorf, op. cit. pp. 12-3).

There is no record of Jacob's arrival in America, unless he is the Jacob
Hamman who arrived on the Edinburgh, 15 Sept. 1749. However, the evidence
is that Jacob Hamman on the Edinburgh is the one from Ruschberg, near
Baumholder, who left for America in 1749 with his wife and children since
other names from Ruschberg are on that list (Burgert-Western Palatinate,
p. 153). Not all records of arrivals have survived and some ships destined
for Philadelphia went to Annapolis, Maryland and there are no records of
people who arrived there. Most likely, however, Jacob and his family
arrived in Philadelphia in the Fall of 1748 or Summer of 1749. His cousin
Georg Meess express his desire to leave Lachen in the Spring of 1749, but
he too does not appear on any ship lists, so perhaps they left together.

Jacob and his family were definitely settled in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania by the Fall of 1750 when a son, Johann Jacob, was baptized
by Rev. John Waldschmidt in September ("Baptisms and Marriages of Rev.
John Waldschmidt", Pennsylvania Archives, Series 6, Vol. VI, p. 170).
Jacob Hamman also appears on a tax list of Cocalico Township in Lancaster
County for 1751 (Gary Hawbaker and Clyde Groff, Lancaster Count Before The
Federal Census, Vol. III, 1750 Tax List of Lancaster County,
[1982], p. 41).

It is very likely that Anna Margaretha died in 1752 or 1753, after the
birth of Christina and shortly before or after the family moved to York
County. By 1755 the family had definitely moved to York County in southern
Pennsylvania and Jacob was remarried. Several members of the family appear
in the church records of Dover and Paradise Townships and Jacob and wife
Maria Dorothea sponsored baptism of a child in May, 1755 at Hanover
(Records of St. Matthews Lutheran Church of Hanover, Pa.). This is the
last record of him and he does not appear in the 1762 tax list of York
County.

Jacob's oldest sons, Peter and Philip appear on the tax lists of Paradise
Township in 1762 and had children baptized by Rev. Jacob Lischy, a
Reformed minister in York in the early 1760s (Records of Rev. Jacob Lischy
at Historical Society of York Co. Pa.). Jacob's third son, George Michael
was also married and had daughters baptized at the Salem (Strayer's)
Lutheran Church in Dover Township in 1765 and '67 (Records of Salem
Lutheran Church, York Co. Pa.). In the mid 1760s Peter and Philip moved to
what is now Washington County, Md. and by 1768 George Michael and the
younger children went on to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.