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Note: N44 other WorldConnect sources: b. 1692, Wales
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2. Origins of the Name in Montgomeryshire
The Jerman/Jarman names are regarded as "old" Montgomeryshire names, but the name is not one of the "old" Welsh names, nor can it appear to be readily derivable from such through the ancient Welsh patrynomic system. Some sources suggest that it was present in the locality in at least the sixteenth century, the first recorded sources so far being identified in the Trefglwys area.
Powys - and particularly Montgomeryshire - attracted migrants from earliest times through easy access up the Severn and Wye valley; Romans, Saxons and Normans all found their way into the county at some point. However, set against these general migration flows can be found isolated examples of re-settlement of particular groups. It seems likely that the Jerman name came with a group of such migrants to this area, the likely origin being Flemish. Roberts and Owen ("The Story of Montgomeryshire, Cardiff, 1916) consider that the "Flemish element" in Montgomeryshire is represented by "Hamers, Woosnams, Jarmans, Ingrams, Bebbs, Ryders, Jarretts &c."
An early mention of Flemish in-migration is through Henry I's settlement of Flemings in Pembrokeshire in the twelth century. The extract below considers this:
"THE EARLY YEARS, A TRANSITION, AND A PARTING"
"The surename Jarman, German, Jerman, is said to have its origin with a small group of people sent by Henry 1 of England to Whales in the year 1107 "to civilize the Welsh people by arts of peace." These Flemish colonists spoke low german, and because of their language the Welsh people called them"Germans." No doubt their idenity was all but lost in the ensuing 550 years before any of them sailed for an american harbor. They were indeed peace-loving people as they came to America as members of theSociety of Friends. Amoung the early Welsh Quaker immigrants were John and Margaret Jerman, whocame from Langerig, Montgomeryshire, Whales, in 1683, and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
An Edward Jerman was prominent among the Welsh Quakers in the Philadelphia area as early as 1703 orbefore. It is on the Eastern shore that the Quakers are first found in Virginia. They were there as early as1656-7, and they settled first in Accomac County due to its sparce population and remote location from the seat of the government across the Bay at Jamestown."
http://members.tripod.com/~german_family/index-2.html This site concentrates on American descendants, and gives the name later attribution, but what is of interest is the reference to "Langerig", presumably "Llangurig". Please note that other spelling is retained as source..
Later, however, Roberts and Owen mention the implantation of a further Flemish element, "There is evidence of the code of laws compiled by Howell Dda that the making of woollen fabrics was a well-developed industry in Wales as far back as a thousand years ago (i.e. c.1000) In the Middle Ages, the industry was further developed after the coming of the Flemings. In 1331, Edward III introduced seventy families of Flemish weavers into this country, and during the succeeding hundred years several others reached our shores. Many of them settled in Wales and their coming resulted in a great improvement in the making of cloths...Thus Llanbrynmair, where dwelt several descendants of Flemish weavers, bcame a flourishing centre of the woollen industry"
There is also evidence that at the end of the seventeenth century, groups of French protestant refugees came over to escape persecution following Edict of Nantes - many any of these made their homes in Montgomeryshire, Breconshire and other parts of North East Wales; again they were involved in weaving, and some may have carried the "Germain" name or variant.
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http://members.macconnect.com/users/d/dalex/Pages/Welsh-Tract.html
The Welsh Tract
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What was it? Where did it start- and where did it go? Above all, why isn't it? The Welsh tract, also known as The Welsh Barony, was a gleam in the eye of William Penn when he directed his Surveyor-General that " . . . about forty thousand acres, may be layed out contiguously as one Barony...upon the West side of Skool kill river..." This direction was aGiven at Pennsbury, the 13th of First Month, 1684." Penn had promised the Welsh purchasers their own domain, in the area that now includes the townships of Haverford and Radnor, Delaware County, and Merion, Tredyffrin, Whiteland, Willistown, Easttown, Goshen and part of Westtown in Mont gomery and Chester Counties. The Welsh moved in and began to settle. Set up their Quaker Meetings. And almost immediately began to suffer en croachments on their lands. The Welsh petitioned the authori ties against these intrusions. Penn's deputies, who "well weighed the mater (sic), truly considered the case, and rightly understanding the Govern ment's intention in granting the war rant," issued their mandate on 25th day of Fifth month auly), 1687, forbid ding such intrusions. Difficulty didn't stop there, how ever. Further complaints about incur sions brought a clear statement from Penn himself: "...whereas I formerly granted a Warrant for forty Thousand acres for the Welch people, to Lye Con tiguous on the west side of the Schoolkill, and that I am informed In cursions have been made upon those lines contrary to equity...Look into the same, and to do Justice to both the Welch and the Surveyor General." But when the division line was run between Philadelphia and Chester County (which then included Delaware County), the boundarv ran
right through the Welsh Tract, separated the settlements of Haverford and Radnor from those of Merion, and brought the Welsh settlers to a boil. They petitioned the Proprietary and Governors of State & Property to rec ognize their right to remain au tonomous. They pointed out that many of their people "understand not the English tongue & soe were inca pable of giving due services to English Judicatures." They also reminded that William Penn was "plesed to give his most Soleme word (before they re moved from the land of their nativity) That they...should have forty thou sand acres of Land contiguously layd out as a Barony, and that they should not be obliged to answer nor serve in any Cort whatsoever, but should have Corts & magistrates of their owne..." The petitioners asked that "...what has been so as aforesaid granted by parol (editors note: 'parol' equals 'word or promise') may be Confirmed unto them & other purchasers & In habitants of the said Tract & their heires by Grant Charter or Ordi nances. . ." The petition was signed by 21 Welshmen:
�Thomas Ellis
�Griffith Owen
�John Bevan
�Hugh Roberts
�Henry Lewis
�William Howell
�John Evans
�Robert Davies
�Francis Howell
�William Jenlcirls
�John Humphrey
�Samuel Rees
�Moris Lewelin
�John Roberts
�David Meredith
�Richard Orme
�Rees Peter
�Hugh Jones
�David Evan
�John Jarman
�Phylip Evan
The Proprietary apparently ig nored their petition-at least an an swer has never been found. The Welsh dug in. But in January of 1689 Chester
County, pleading that they were other wise too small and too thinly settled to support an effective government, peti tioned for enlargement which would include the area of the Welsh Tract. The following day Thomas Lloyd and John Eckley appeared on behalf of the Welsh, and claimed that the proprietor had given them grounds to expect they should be made a county palatine; but having no written evidence thereof, the Governor and Council voted to con firm the division line between Philadelphia and Chester Counties. The Welsh Barony was not to be. At the June court of 1689 William Howell of Haverford was commis sioned as a justice, and William Jenkins of Haverford served as a juror. At the December court John Jerman was at tested constable for Radnor. This was the first official recognition that the Welsh were subject to the jurisdiction of Chester County. The Welsh then seem to have given up the idea of a Barony, and with as good a grace as possible submitted to the authority of Chester County. Thus "The Welsh Barony" faded into legend. Would it have made any difference, had the Welsh succeeded in maintaining their autonomy? Perhaps. Local use of the Welsh language might have persisted longer, had the courts and officials used exclusively Welsh. Would other immigrant groups have been slower to settle in an area known to be entirely Welsh in population, in language, and in governance? Possi bly. But eventually the Welsh lan guage must have faded, even as the population of Quakers diminished and their political influence grew less. So either way, today it would still linger only as a memory, that shining wisp of Welshness that was once to be "The Welsh Tract."
Submitted by David Eynon
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2617
Yet Franklin's almanac was also innovative. It linked anniversaries to aphorism. The fame of the almanac was so high that demand for it dramatically increased each year, in spite of the fact that Poor Richard's Almanack competed with those published by John Jerman and Thomas Godfrey in the colonies.
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http://groups.msn.com/AncestorChroniclesOurKinAndTheirTimes/quakers.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=18860&LastModified=4675466054330585964
MARGARET JERMAN.
���� Margaret, widow of John Jerman, of Haverford Monthly Meeting, was a consistent and worthy member of Religious Society. It pleased the Lord, while she was under the dispensation of affliction in the loss of her beloved husband, to commit unto her a gift in the ministry of the gospel. Her friends say of her service therein: "She faithfully laboured in great tenderness, according to the ability given;" adding, she was "zealous for Truth, a well-wisher for the good of all." She died Tenth mo. 6th, 1740.
THOMAS JERMAN.
���� Thomas Jerman, or German, as the name was often spelled, was a member of Haverford Monthly Meeting, residing in the Valley. He was a minister for very many years. He was "exemplary in life and conversation, zealous for good order among Friends." He died in "the Twelfth month, 1740, and was buried at Friends' burying-ground in the valley."
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The information that I have on the FOX genealogy is from the book:
DULANY - FURLONG & KINDRED FAMILIES
By: Roland Dulany - Furlong BS,MS 1975
Page 201 JOSEPH FOX's first wife was an Indian Princess, EMILY SAC, of
the Delawares, who called themselves Leni-Lenape or simply Lenape, "The
people." William Penn, in a treaty based on mutual trust, established good
relations with the Lenape Indians in his "Great Treaty" at Shackamaxon.
On a visit back to New Jersey, JOSEPH FOX met and married in 1789, JANE
(Jennie) WILSON, b. 1764, a sister to the grandfather of Woodrow Wilson, who
became President of the United States. JANE (Wilson) FOX died in 1834 in Greene
County, Pennsylvania;
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