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- Per Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins; Taken from the French Family History: "Elizabeth Smith LaBaw was a descendant of the Martin and Otterbachfamilies, who were among the 13 families from Muesen, Nassau - Siegen,Germany, who emigrated to Fauquier County, Virginia in 1714 - startingthe first iron works in the Virginia Colonies." [Transcribed, SLJuhl,29 Oct 2005]
"FRENCH FAMILY HISTORY, PAGE 164; Crawfordsville Public Library,Montgomery County, Indiana
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA HISTORY BOOK, 929.2 1823-1988
ELMER FRENCH'S mother, ALICE LABAW FRENCH, 1858-1936, was a daughterof Benjamin and Elizabeth Smith LaBaw. Benjamin was a descendant ofPenelope Van Princin, who was ship wrecked at Sandy Hook off theJersey coast, later being rescued by friendly Indians and taken to NewYork where she married Richard Stout and in 1648 returned to MonmouthCo., NJ, as its first settlers.
BENJAMIN LABAW (m. Elizabeth Smith) was a descendant of Penelope VanPrincin who was ship wrecked at Sandy Hook off the Jersey coast, laterbeing rescued by friendly Indians and taken to New York where shemarried Richard Stout and in c.1648 returned to Monmouth County, NewJersey as its first settlers.
ELIZABETH SMITH LABAW was a descendant of the Martin and Otterbackfamilies, who were among the thirteen families from Muesen,Nassau-Siegen, Germany, who emigrated to Fauquier County, Virginia inc.1714 - starting the first iron works in the Virginia Colony." Thisinformation is from a handwritten note of Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkinsa direct descendant.
[Transcribed 29 April 2008, SLJuhl, Compiler & daughter ofJoyce-sljuhl1234@yahoo.com]
Sources: Covington Library at 622 - 5th Street, Covington, Indiana765-793-2572;
Fountain County Genealogy Society, Inc., West Central IN GenealogyResearch Library 405 North Mill Street, P.O. Box 273, Veedersburg, IN. 47987, 765-294-4954 with this e-mail site: FoCoGenSoc@netscape.netand this website use:
http://www.k-inc.com/~darliercenter/fcgslibindex.html
Source:www.Germanna.com
Source: Crawfordsville Library site, Montgomery County, Indianawww.cdpl.lib.in.us
Crawfordsville District Public Library
222 South Washington Street, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933,765-362-2242
The connection between the above families has been found. Pleasereview the register reports and follow the family lines for (1).Benjamin B. Labaw & Elizabeth Ann Smith, (2). Elizabeth Martin &Berryman Smith, and the couple (3). John Joseph Martin & MariaCatherine Otterbach. Elizabeth Ann Smith's grandmother is ElizabethMartin who is a direct descendant of John Joseph Martin from Muesen,Nassau - Siegen, Germany who settled in the first Germanna Colony ofFaquier County, Virginia in 1714. The family line has been tracedback to John Joseph Martin. A Michael Clore, a part of the Douglass/LaBaw descendants, or vice-versa (the families have extensivehistories of their own), is one of the first settlers to the samecolony in Faquier County, Virginia in 1717, just a few years later.These families are all related to each other through differentgenealogy lines. Conclusion: The families all had to have known eachother well for it was a very small community and they had all workedtogether and lived in the Fort together at Germanna, Virginia fornearly ten years until their passages to the new world were paid off.[SLJuhl, 30 Oct 2005]
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1831 - 1861 (30 years)
