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AUGUSTINE HERRMAN

grandparents, for he settled in Somerset County, Maryland. His sister Mary married John Graham of Northumberland Co., Va., and his sister Ann married John Gordon of Lancaster County.

Peter John Tunstall Hack or Heck, as the name was beginning to be spelled, had two sons, Daniel David and Balser, probably born in Somerset County, Md., but later removed to Frederick County. Daniel David served in a Maryland regiment during the American Revolution, where his name is spelled both “Hack” and “Heck”.[1] Daniel David Heck married Christina Lane, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. David, the eldest son, born Sept. 1, 1783 at Frederick, Md., served in a Virginia Regiment during the War of 1812 and in 1818 removed with his wife, Magdalena Spittler and his family from Botetourt Co., Va. to Montgomery Co., Ohio, where he became the ancestor of a long line of descendants scattered all through the western and southern states. Daniel David Heck who fought in the American Revolution married again, by whom he is said to have had a large family, many of whose descendants are still living in Frederick Co.

Nothing is known of the descendants of Katherine and Ann Hack, daughters of Dr. George and Anna Hack. It is not known if they married.

One could, if space permitted, continue with a discussion of the other numerous families who lived on or near Bohemia Manor at the time of Augustine Herrman. But that would extend to greater lengths than we have planned. The best account of these families and their descendants so far written is to be found in Charles Payson Mallery’s “Ancient Families of Bohemia Manor”, published by the Historical Society of Dela-

  1. Maryland Archives. Muster Rolls of the Revolution. Office of Adjutant General, Annapolis. Office of U. S. Adjutant General, Washington, D. C.