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Ufta! I was so delighted to finally resolve the puzzle of the two Margarets and that Jonathan was a son and not grandson. Now you given me much more to think of. Jonathan is interesting. He lived his life, babe or toddler through old age in the wilderness. First in MD where he lived on the frontier during the Indian Wars. He lost his father probably in 1763 which was during Pontiac's War. He lived not far from Hagerstown where Washington started building the road toward Ft. Pitt. Do you think thet stopped work long enough to go listen to the fifes and drums? Wasn't much music back then. There is no record of him taking the oath of fidelity to MD and you had to do that before you could own land. There is no record of him serving in Rev. War. He was starting a young family at the time. When he went to the Juanita Valley, PA it was about as far a settler could go because the gov. had decreed the top of the Alleghenies as the limit according to the Treaty of _______. The Germans did not like Negroes and were against slavery and yet one brother and one sister had slaves. He moved from PA to Ohio in 1816 and I haven't researched just how wild OH was at the time. I've seen a drawing of the clothes they wore with short fringe on their buckskin and gaitors over their shoes. I've seen a painting of the thick forest which must have reminded them of the Black Forest. I didn't want to get into PA too far until I was done with NJ.
There is a website that gives the whole tree on Johannes Nicholas Herzog of Lancaster County. Do you have that?
If you are interested in what life was like around Monocacy circa 1750s here are a couple of websites. www.nps.gov//cato/hrs/hrs2.htm and www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/places_articles/stony_branch/hsbv_part2.htm
We have been snowed in for a spell so this was good time to work on the computer.
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