Person:Hans Leatherman (4)

Type: aka Starting these pages after finding detailed migration information from ProGenealogists.com was only available in the Wayback Machine. Am attempting to reproduce it here so it won't be lost. Hopefully this isn't duplicative - although I wasn't able to find this info elsewhere on WeRelate.

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In 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of poverty, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America. The trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus. Many immigrants, particularly children, died before reaching America in June 1710.

The Palatine immigration of about 2100 people who survived was the largest single immigration to America in the colonial period. Most were first settled along the Hudson River in work camps, to pay off their passage. By 1711, seven villages had been established in New York on the Robert Livingston manor. In 1723 Germans became the first Europeans allowed to buy land in the Mohawk Valley west of Little Falls. One hundred homesteads were allocated in the Burnetsfield Patent. By 1750, the Germans occupied a strip some 12 miles (19 km) long along both sides of the Mohawk River. The soil was excellent; some 500 houses were built, mostly of stone, and the region prospered in spite of Indian raids. Herkimer was the best-known of the German settlements in a region long known as the "German Flats"

Biography

Stony Lick

The Stony Lick tract of land on Catoctin Mountain was patented on the year 1749 by Gabriel Thomas Sr. ( 6-12-1721-- 1-18-1794 ). Mr Thomas and his brother Valentine emigrated from Schifferatadt, Pafaltz, Germany. The Thomas families settled at Mountville, a community near today's Jefferson, MD, south of Frederick, and are buried there in the Thomas family graveyard.

On March 17, 1757, Gabriel Thomas Sr. deeded 100 acres of Stone Lick to Peter Lederman/ Leatherman Sr.. The land started at Great Meadow at the head of a draft of Little Hunting Creek. Witnesses to the deed were David Lyn and William Griffith. See Ledger F-178, Frederick Co., MD court house records.

This Peter Lederman/Leatherman Sr., second child of ( John ) Theobald Sr. and ( Anna Maria ) Margaretha ( Engel ) Lederman/Leatherman was born Sept. 18, 1711 in Mattstall, Alsace, Germany, and baptized in Lembach, Germany.

Peter likely married in Germany. The name of his bride is unknown. He immigrated to the "New World" in 1731, on the ship Brittania, Michael Franklyn, Master. Among the 269 passengers were the Geber and Beyer ( Gaver and Boyer ) families. Some of them settled in Frederick Co., MD and intermarried with Leathermans and other families.

Peter's younger brother Daniel, who came to America four years earlier with their parents and surviving siblings, married (Marie) Catherine Boyer and settled on Germany Plains, their farm located along the present Harp Hill Road south of Wolfsville, MD.

The Peter Lederman/Leatherman family lived in a small log cottage at the cold family spring. The cabin is long gone. Peter died March 28, 1774 on his Stony Lick farm and is buried there in the Bussard Cemetery, his grave stone a crudely inscribed native rock.

The fate of his wife remains a mystery. She may also be buried here, her marker a plain small field stone, or perhaps she moved away with some of her children.

In 1777 their son Nicholas sold 40 acres of Jacob's Good Luck to John Buhrman. This land lay along the south branch of Hunting Creek.

In 1758 or 1778 ?, Conrad Hogmeir ( Hogmire ) purchased some of the Stony Lick land. Conrad and "Mandlin" Hogmire lived across the mountain in Washington Co., MD, on the Old Fox Deceived property, east of Hagerstown, MD.

The German Baptist ("Dunker") Bishop Christian Newcomer, in his journal, notes the death of Conrad Hogmire on Jan. 4, 1798. Bishop Newcomer also mentioned the burial of Elder Daniel Leatherman Sr. on Nov. 11, 1797.

Following Conrad Hogmire's death, the Andrew Harshman family resided on the Fox Deceived farm until moving to the Three Tracts Altogether farm, located along today's Stottlemeyer Road between Foxville and Wolfsville. This land just south of Foxville and Maryland State Route 77 is only a mile or so west of Peter Leatherman's Stony Lick.

On April 28, 1784 Peter's son Nicholas deeded the farm to Daniel Sr. and Sophia (Renner) Bussard for 320 pounds Pennsylvania money, and the area acquired a new name: Bussard Flats.

It was ten years after the death of Peter when Nicholas sold the farm to Daniel and Sophia Bussard and moved to Virginia (HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, now Mineral County, West Virginia). He moved with his wife, Susannah Roderick, daughter of Ludwig Roderick of Frederick Co., MD, and their children. The long trek was made by covered wagon in company with other area families.

Daniel and Sophia Bussard moved to Stony Lick with 11 children ( a tiny baby to 23 year old Peter Bussard ), and two more arrived in 1786 and 1788. Peter Bussard married Margaretha Rebecca Householder on June 17, 1784 and they soon became parents of a dozen children.

A new farm house was built about 1790. Peter's family continued to live in the Leatherman "Spring House" until his father sold the farm to him.

: Though the years, farm ownership has changed numerous times. In the 1930's, it was owned by a wealthy Washington, DC lawyer for a game preserve. Ranch mink were raised in wire cages. An 8 foot high fence was constructed to enclose acres of the property (some segments of the fence still remains) and the place became known as the Old Mink Farm. Present owners have beautifully landscaped acres of gardens all around the homestead and have named the property Valhalls.

The Leatherman - Bussard family Cemetery is equably well preserved. Sixty feet square, it holds 25 or 30 graves. Although all but 3 or 4 are marked only with plain native rocks.^[2]

Birth/Christening

Hans Peter Leatherman was born on 18 Sep 1711 and christened on 20 Sep 1711 at Lembach Konfessionalen Kirch (Lutheran Church) in Lembach, Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace.^[3][4]

Travel

Two Hans Peter Leathermans are identified as coming over from Rotterdam to Philadelphia: One, age 16, with his parents and siblings on 27 Sep 1727; Another, age 20, by himself on 21 Sep 1731. These could be the same Hans Peter if he went back to Germany between 1727 and 1731. Another theory is that another (adopted?) Leatherman child, Hans Gottfried Leatherman, took Hans Peter's spot at the last minute in 1727 and that Hans Peter stayed in Germany until 1731.

Ship: 1727 James Goodwill [List 2 A, B]

Captain: David Crockett

From: Rotterdam

By Way of: Falmouth

Arrival: Philadelphia, 27 Sep 1727

Hans Theobald Lederman (1-6)

Anna Maria (Engler)

Hans Peter, 16

Catharina Barbara, 11

Hans Daniel, 9

Johann Melchior, 6

Anna Catharina, 4

Johann Nickel, 3:: [Alt.]Leatherman; to Falkner Schwamm and Lancaster Co., PA.^[5]

Ship: Britannia of London [List 16 A,B,C]

Captain: Michael Francklin/Franklyn

From: Rotterdam

By Way of: Cowes

Arrival: Philadelphia, 21 Sep 1731

106 Palatines, who with their families, made in all 269 persons.

Immigrant: Ledermann, Hans Peter

Age: 20

Page Number: 331

Document Type: Immigrant Record:: Source: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index^[6][7][8]

Marriage

Hans Peter was married about 1731, spouse and place unknown.

Death/Burial

Hans Peter died at Bussard Flats (Stoney Lick Farm) on Cotoctin Mountain, Frederick, Maryland, 28 Mar 1774, and was buried at the Leatherman-Bussard Cemetery in Thurmont, Maryland.^{[9][10][11][1]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Memorial 103705605, in Find A Grave.
2. ↑ Leah Leatherman Spade, a Frederick County Maryland Historian. Info given to Charles William Harvey. Hans Peter Leatherman is my 5th great grandfather on my father side. Charles William Harvey, 7/25/2018
3. ↑ Brian & Tim Dowling, Dowling Family Genealogy (Rootsweb WorldConnect)
4. ↑ Notes from Helen Cadd Benter (Fall 2002). HCB is a gggdaughter of Nancy Leatherman, daughter of Abraham Leatherman.
5. ↑ Ancestry.com: ProGenealogists, The Palatine Project: Lists of emigrants travelling from the Palatinate to British America, 1683 - 1791. www.progenealogists.com/palproject/.
6. ↑ Ancestry.com: ProGenealogists, The Palatine Project: Lists of emigrants travelling from the Palatinate to British America, 1683 - 1791. www.progenealogists.com/palproject/.
7. ↑ Burgert, Annette K., Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America, Picton Press, Camden ME: 1992. 690p.
8. ↑ Strassburger, Ralph Beaver. Ed. by William John Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia, 1727-1808, Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, PA, 1934, 3 vols.
9. ↑ Brian & Tim Dowling, Dowling Family Genealogy (Rootsweb WorldConnect)
10. ↑ Notes from Helen Cadd Benter (Fall 2002). HCB is a gggdaughter of Nancy Leatherman, daughter of Abraham Leatherman.
11. ↑ Email: Bruce Leatherman, dated 4 Aug 2011 ([email protected]). I have visited the cemetery where Peter Leatherman is buried near Thurmont, MD. The cemetery is not easy to find, but is located about 1/2 mile from the home. The home is very close to Camp David. Peter owned the Stoney Lick Farm until his death.