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From: "Scott R. C. Anderson" <>
Subject: [HUPP] Fwd: [GERMANNA] (1439)Germanna Colonies, History of
Date: 30 Jul 2002 11:58:11 -0400


I saw this on another list, and thought it might be of interest to other Hupp folks. It addresses, briefly, the family of Philip Hupp (Hoop) in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and their German connections.

Forwarded with permission. Note the correction at the end. John says "I welcome feedback from members of the Hoop/Hupp list."

S R C A
cott obert ranston nderson


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Date: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:35 AM MDT
From: John Blankenbaker <>

Source:
Subject: [GERMANNA] (1439)Germanna Colonies, History of


The fourteen hundred and thirty-ninth note in a series on the Germanna Colonies

Continuing with the family of Michael Thomas, Margaret was a daughter who
married Everhard Hupp. Some say the marriage took place about 1768,
probably in Culpeper County, Virginia. The will of Philip Hoop (Hupp) is
recorded on pages 264-5 of Will Book A of Culpeper County. It was dated in
April of 1761 and proved in the fall of that year. The executors of the
will were the wife, Elizabeth, and Henry Aylor. Henry married a daughter of
Michael Käfer and Anna Maria Blankenbaker. Michael Thomas was a son of Anna
Maria Blankenbaker Thomas. About 1770 several members of the Hupp family
moved to southwest Pennsylvania in the general vicinity of Redstone Fort.
One fix on the time they moved is that Everhart and John Hupp deeded away
land in Culpeper County in 1769.

The moves of (Michael) Thomas family and the Hupp family to northern
Augusta County in Virginia, later to be a part of Pennsylvania, were
probably connected. The Hupps were among the earliest recorded settlers in
the Ten Mile Creek area. Another family from Culpeper that moved about this
same time was George Bumgarner. Some say that the Bumgarners were in the
area about 1766. Early road petitions mention Everhard Hupp’s mill.

It is said that Margaret Thomas, the wife of Everhard Hupp, was the first
white woman west of the Monongahela River. Even under the difficult
circumstances of life there, Everhard and Margaret had eleven children.
Everhard and Margaret did not move to Kentucky but lived their lives at Ten
Mile Creek. The region at first was shared by both the white man and the
Indian. In five generations, from Matthias Plankenbühler of Gresten,
Austria, members of the family had moved to western Pennsylvania along the
route, Neuenbürg, Germany, to Virginia, and on to Pennsylvania.

It was with some surprise, when I was looking through the church records
for Neuenbürg, Germany, that I encountered the name Hepp. In a village not
too far away from that, in Eppingen, I met the names Hepp, Hopp, and Hupe.
One starts to wonder if it was an accident that there was a Thomas and Hupp
marriage in Virginia. Perhaps the experience of the Thomases had something
to do with the Hupps being in Virginia.

In the last note, I gave some information about Samuel Thomas who was said
to be born in 1740. The Thomas family tradition is that another son, Henry,
was the oldest child. If so, then Michael Thomas must have been married at
an early age, perhaps 18 or 19.

John Blankenbaker
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Date: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:25 AM MDT
From: John Blankenbaker <>

Source:
Subject: [GERMANNA] Correction to Note 1439


I goofed:

Henry Aylor married a daughter of John Thomas and Anna Maria Blankenbaker
not a daughter of Michael Käfer and Anna Maria Blankenbaker. I had the
wrong husband of Anna Maria. It should have been her first husband, not her
second husband.

Henry Aylor's wife was Margaret Thomas who was a sister of Michael Thomas
and John Thomas, Jr. It was the niece of Henry's wife, another Margaret
Thomas, the daughter of Michael Thomas, who married Everhard Hupp. Henry
Aylor witnessed the will of Everhard Hupp's father.

George and Gene: Please correct the file copy by replacing the words
"Michael Käfer" by "John Thomas, Sr."

John Blankenbaker



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