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Re: Netta Core
| Jade (View posts) | Posted: 27 Nov 2005 10:15AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Re: "Baragmann" signatures--
The man who was Fayette Co. Clerk was a literate and interesting person. He did not give us a narrative about exactly what he was doing, but when recording Fayette Co. deeds in the deeds books, for German-speakers selling land, he rendered their signatures in German script.
Three examples for John Barrackman's land records may be found at Fayette Co. deeds A:151 (John Barrickman to Hendry Core, son-in-law, bond for deed); B:24 (John Barrackman and wife Catherine to Henry Core, for 91-1/4 acres of tract "Encampment"); D:209 (John Barrickman and Catherine his wife to Jacob Lawrence, 110 acres of "Encampment"). In each case the Clerk wrote the surname as Barrickman or Barrackman in the English text of the deed, but wrote the name for John's signature at the end as "Johann Baragmann" in German script. How do we know that this was the Clerk writing, rather than John Barrickman actually signing? Because each of the "signatures" is in a different style of 17th- and 18th-century script! If you have an opportunity to look at the deeds books, and give a bit of study to how writing styles changed, you can see the Clerk practicing the different styles for his own reason.
We know that Henry Kohr / Core of German Twp. married a daughter Salome / Sarah of John Barrickman. It is possible that there was an earlier association between the families. It is even possible that John Barrickman (Baragmann) married a widow or daughter of George Kohr (who appears to have been father of Henry of German Twp. as well as John of German Twp. and Christopher of Monongalia Co.). This is speculation, awaiting evidence. But it is quite common, here as elsewhere, for associated families to intermarry in several generations.
The John Barrickman (Baragmann) of German Twp. moved to Monongalia Co., (West) VA around 1800. He was the father of John Barrickman (d. 1851) who owned the farm that John Sr. (the father) had bought near Cassville. John-the-younger (d. 1851) married 'the girl next door', Barbara nee Franks, and this couple provided a huge number of descendants, some of whom also married descendants of Christopher Core
The man who was Fayette Co. Clerk was a literate and interesting person. He did not give us a narrative about exactly what he was doing, but when recording Fayette Co. deeds in the deeds books, for German-speakers selling land, he rendered their signatures in German script.
Three examples for John Barrackman's land records may be found at Fayette Co. deeds A:151 (John Barrickman to Hendry Core, son-in-law, bond for deed); B:24 (John Barrackman and wife Catherine to Henry Core, for 91-1/4 acres of tract "Encampment"); D:209 (John Barrickman and Catherine his wife to Jacob Lawrence, 110 acres of "Encampment"). In each case the Clerk wrote the surname as Barrickman or Barrackman in the English text of the deed, but wrote the name for John's signature at the end as "Johann Baragmann" in German script. How do we know that this was the Clerk writing, rather than John Barrickman actually signing? Because each of the "signatures" is in a different style of 17th- and 18th-century script! If you have an opportunity to look at the deeds books, and give a bit of study to how writing styles changed, you can see the Clerk practicing the different styles for his own reason.
We know that Henry Kohr / Core of German Twp. married a daughter Salome / Sarah of John Barrickman. It is possible that there was an earlier association between the families. It is even possible that John Barrickman (Baragmann) married a widow or daughter of George Kohr (who appears to have been father of Henry of German Twp. as well as John of German Twp. and Christopher of Monongalia Co.). This is speculation, awaiting evidence. But it is quite common, here as elsewhere, for associated families to intermarry in several generations.
The John Barrickman (Baragmann) of German Twp. moved to Monongalia Co., (West) VA around 1800. He was the father of John Barrickman (d. 1851) who owned the farm that John Sr. (the father) had bought near Cassville. John-the-younger (d. 1851) married 'the girl next door', Barbara nee Franks, and this couple provided a huge number of descendants, some of whom also married descendants of Christopher Core