Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
Misc. Notes
“John Peter Bloom” Americanized.3
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Hiemlick [sic] Blum was first married in Germany. Then came to the U.S. in the early 1700's and lived in Nueva, Vacsaria, NJ where he married Patience Ayers from a prominent colonial family. They settled in Helm's Mill NJ, and had 5 daughters. He went back to Germany and returned with his 21 year old son, John Peter.504
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This source indicates Johann Peter Blum 1710-1793 married Elenora Pfeiff, second name Sarah Young Case.382
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I've hired a German investigator [Herr Uwe Porten]. The only Ancestor I'm sure of for Wilhelm is Johan Peter who lived and died in Hunterdon County NJ. Johan's father did in fact arrive with him on the Two Brothers but there is a lot of conflicting information on who the ancestors were before that. [While others have some different ancestors] from me, I'm pretty sure what I have is incorrect.
When emigrating from Germany in those days they had to pay a tax to get out and records were kept regarding this. I have to hope that some of them still exist. They would have embarked somewhere along the Rhine and traveled via that river to Rotterdam where the ship departed. The lineage back in Germany is interesting, and the LDS usually ha[ve] it right.
The German investigator will provide original and translated documents on what he finds.
It is questionable where these folk really resided in Germany since when they arrived in the colonies they might have given the Rhine River port they enbarked from rather than their home. A lot of the information people have on the German resident is incorrect based on what information the German investigator has already provided.
Many people speak of them coming from Dierdorf or Neuwied and place both locations either in RhinePflaz or Wurttemberg. My German investigator said that neither town is located in either of those localities.
I'm going to wait for the German investigators results before I believe anything definitive about where they came from in Germany and who the earlier ancestors were.779
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Hiemlick [sic] Blum was first married in Germany. Then came to the U.S. in the early 1700's and lived in Nueva, Vacsaria, NJ where he married Patience Ayers from a prominent colonial family. They settled in Helm's Mill NJ, and had 5 daughters. He went back to Germany and returned with his 21 year old son, John Peter.504
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This source indicates Johann Peter Blum 1710-1793 married Elenora Pfeiff, second name Sarah Young Case.382
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I've hired a German investigator [Herr Uwe Porten]. The only Ancestor I'm sure of for Wilhelm is Johan Peter who lived and died in Hunterdon County NJ. Johan's father did in fact arrive with him on the Two Brothers but there is a lot of conflicting information on who the ancestors were before that. [While others have some different ancestors] from me, I'm pretty sure what I have is incorrect.
When emigrating from Germany in those days they had to pay a tax to get out and records were kept regarding this. I have to hope that some of them still exist. They would have embarked somewhere along the Rhine and traveled via that river to Rotterdam where the ship departed. The lineage back in Germany is interesting, and the LDS usually ha[ve] it right.
The German investigator will provide original and translated documents on what he finds.
It is questionable where these folk really resided in Germany since when they arrived in the colonies they might have given the Rhine River port they enbarked from rather than their home. A lot of the information people have on the German resident is incorrect based on what information the German investigator has already provided.
Many people speak of them coming from Dierdorf or Neuwied and place both locations either in RhinePflaz or Wurttemberg. My German investigator said that neither town is located in either of those localities.
I'm going to wait for the German investigators results before I believe anything definitive about where they came from in Germany and who the earlier ancestors were.779