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Anthony Hallman and his wife, Marie Salome (surname unkown) had a family of at least eight known children: Dorothea, Christiana, Johann, Anna Catharine, Mary Salome, Henry, Barbara, Anna Maria. His son, Henry, is my direct line. Henry was married twice. His children from his first marriage to Anna Maria_____,are thought to be: Anna Catherine, Anna Christiana, Anna Maria, Henry, b. 1742, d. 1745, Anthony, Henry. Children from his second wife, Anna Maria Bersons, are thought to be: John Henry, Sarah, Ann, Margaretha, b. 1756, d. 1756, Jacob, Benjamin, Margaret, Isaac, Susanna, Abraham, Elizabeth, David. There may be others.
My lineage from Henry comes down through Benjamin. Benjamin married Anna (Fronica) Gotwals, Their children, not all proven, are: Jacob, Henry, Joseph, Abraham, Michael, Samuel, Adam, Susan, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Catherine, Isaac. Benjamin's son, Benjamin II, and his wife, Elizabeth Detweiler Hallman, with their family, emigrated to Canada in 1825. Their fourteen children are: Jacob, Margaret, Maria (Polly), Joseph, Catharine, John, Veronica, Elizabeth, Christian and Hannah (twins) both died as infants, Benjamin, Christian, Hannah, Wendell. All these children were born in Montgomery Co., PA, with the exception of the two youngest, who were born in Waterloo Co., Ontario, Canada. The youngest son, Wendell, was my gr-grandfather, and father of Henry S. Hallman, my grandfather
Our progenitor, Anthony Hallman, was a resident of Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, probably as early as 1720. He was a Warden in the Augustus Lutheran Church, Trappe, PA., and was on the building committee of this Church in 1743. (See pictures.) Over one of the doors of the Church building is a stone containing the names of the building committee, and his name is given in Latin: "A. Heilmano." He made his will January 25th, 1759, and it is recorded in book L., page 301, in the Register of wills office in Philadelphia, PA.Anthony's great-grandson, Benjamin Hallman II, was born September 18, 1783, in Perkiomen Township, Montgomery County, PA., where he followed farming. During the great financial depressions from 1816 until 1827 many of that calling in Montgomery and other counties failed financially, and in order to save their creditors from losing any money, the distressed farmers sold their farms at a great sacrifice and paid their debts, and with whatever little balance left they wended their way to Canada where land could be had cheap and thus made another attempt to gain a free home. And as a rule all these parties in a very few years were the proud possessors of valuable farms. Such was the case with Benjamin Hallman, our Canadian progenitor who moved to Canada with his family in 1825.
This book was updated by Joan Hallman, Waterloo, Ontario, and published in 1991.
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(Back row, l to r: Manilla, Rev. Henry S. Hallman holding his youngest child, Frances Ruth, Lorne, Nancy Ellen. Front row, l to r: William Howard, Grace Isabel, Mrs. H. S. Hallman (Maria Rosenberger), Annette, Alice Myrtle, Abner.
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