Col. Augustine Herman

Abt 1621 - 1686  (65 years)

• Name	Augustine Herman  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Col.
  Birth	Abt 1621	Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Anecdote	Bohemia Manor, Cecil Co, Maryland   [1, 3]
  	Augestine Herman, brother-in-law of Dr. George Nicholas Hack, lived at Bohemain Manor, Cecil Co, MD. They married sisters.
  Anecdote	1654/55	New Amsterdam, Manhattan, New York City, New York   [4]
  	In 1654-1655 in N'hamp County it was recorded that Augustyne Harman of New Amsterdam in New Netherlands is the brother (meaning brother-in-law) Dr. George Hacke. In 1655-1656 in N'hamp Co it was recorded that Augustyne Herman is a Bohemian German.
  Court - statement in	27 Apr 1657	Northampton Co, Virginia   [5]
  	This day Augustine Harman of Amsterdam in New Netherlandes, merchant, appeared before Edm: Mathewes, Clerk of the County Court of Northampton, and declared & manifested by a bond signed by Capt. Jno Stringer of Accowmacke als Northampton County in Virginia, bearing the date of 4 Aug 1656. That the said Capt Stringer is "ingaged" unto the said Augustyne Harman & one James Cade of the said New Netherlandes, merchant, a considerable sum & quantity of tobacco (for the half part of the vessell Beginninge) to be paid at or before the last of March 1657 (which time is long since expired) ^ a certain good quantity of tobacco as yet not paid, or received; great indev'rs being Expressed to receive the said tobacco; (As is testified by Levyne Denwood of said County of Northampton). And said Augustyne Harman taking his voyage out of Virginia, he therefore to be excused by his partner Mr. James Cade. Signed by Augustyne Harman 28 May 1657.
  Court - Certificate named in	2 May 1657	Northampton Co, Virginia   [6]
  	These are to certify all whom it may concern, that Charles Scarburgh, the master of Jno. Coale, hath absolutely set free & discharged the said Coale of all service or duty (due to the said Charles Scarburgh) in case the said Charles Scarburgh should misconceive [?] any wages; but (if the said Charles Scarburgh cometh in by the last of May next) within a twelve month, then the said Jno. Coale is to serve the remained of his time to the said Charles Scarburgh (or his Assigns). Signed 2 May 1657 by Charles Scarburgh. Witt: Levin Denwood & August Harman. Recorded in Northampton 15 May 1657.
  Court - Certificate named in	17 Jun 1657	Northampton Co, Virginia   [7]
  	These may certify all whom it may concern, that Mr. William Kendall, one of the commissioners of Northampton County alias Accomack in Virginia, did upon the request of Capt. Jno. Stringer, by his letter to him written to make payment of what tobacco was due from him the said Stringer by obligation to Mr. Augustine Harman of Manhatus [Manhattan] merchant, so to his attorney; receive; or agent (appointed by this purpose) whereupon the said Mr. Kendall sent for Mr. Levin Denwood (one of the magistrates of the said county), and formerly agent for the receiving of said tobacco from said Capt. Stringer for the said Augustine, and the said Mr. Denwood refused (before me) to accept the tobacco; or any other goods equivalent to the said debt, of the said Stringer, saying that he had order from the said Augustine not to meddle, or act any further in the premises: This argued & done before me, Francis Pott. This certificate is subscribed by Capt. Francis Pott, one of the magistrates of the Quorum in Northampton County. Recorded in Northampton County 18 June 1657.
  Anecdote	12 Oct 1659	Maryland   [8]
  	On Sunday, October 12/2, 1659, the secretary of the colony of Maryland, Philip Calvert, welcomed New Netherland ambassadors Augustine Herrman and Resoled Waldron to his plantation near Saint Mary's City. Dispatched to Maryland as emissaries of Director General of New Netherland Petrus Stuyvesant, Herrman and Waldron were in the English colony to settle a border dispute between New Netherland and Maryland. Just two months earlier, Maryland Governor Josias Fendall and his council had decided to enforce Lord Baltimore's claim to the west bank of the Delaware River (what the Dutch called the South River) below the fortieth parallel (present-day Philadelphia) and demanded that the Dutch settlers there depart immediately from what Fendall and Baltimore considered part of Maryland. As far as Stuyvesant was concerned, these lands were rightful Dutch terriories by virtue of West India Company patents, land purchases from Native Americans, and three decades of occupation. Already well-connected in the Netherlands and New Amsterdam, Herrman solidified his trade to the Chesapeake when he married Jannetje Varlet (var. Warleth) in December 1651. Varlet was also the sister of Anna Varlet, who had recently moved to Virginia after marrying German-born Dr. George Hack. Trading on her own account, Anna Varlet Hack organized a steady trade between the Chesapeake and New Netherland. Soon after he married her sister, Herrman became one of Anne Varlet Hack's trading partners. Seeking to further augment his Chesapeake trade, Herrman also acquired land in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore, near Hack's plantation, in 1655. Whether he intended to plant tobacco there or simply use his land as a place to store trade goods is unclear, but it is more certain that Herrman did not remain in Virginia long. By January 1656 he was back on the South River as one of the witnesses of a land sale between the West India Company and the Native American inhabitants of lands along the Schuylkill River just north of its intersection with the Delaware. At the same time, Herrman also began to trade to the Caribbean, mixing personal trade with work on behalf of the West India Company. During the next decade, Herrman took advantage of his new Virginia connections, variously supplying horses, lumber manufactured goods, salt, and slaves to Virginia correspondents. He traded indiscriminately with English colonists, such as John Custis and Grace Vaughan of Northampton County, Virginia, and Major John Billingsley and Colonel John Price of Maryland, and with Dutch planters who had migrated from New Netherland, including Simon Oversee and Anna Varlet . .
  Anecdote	1666  [9]
  	In 1666 the Maryland Assembly "granted this petition of Augustine Herman of the realm of Prague, in the Kingdom of Bohemia, Anna Hacke born at Amsterdam in Holland, George and Peter Hack, her sons, born in Accomack in Virginia, have long there inhabited and now removed into this Province . . ."
  Reference Identifer	#@
  Record ID	26035
  Death	Sep 1686	Bohemia Manor, Cecil Co, Maryland   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I26035	MilesFiles23
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	Jannetje 'Jane Varlet,   b. Abt 1624, Utrecht, Holland d. Bef 1666 (Age < 41 years)
  Marriage	10 Dec 1650	New Amsterdam, Manhattan, New York City, New York   [8, 10]
  	Koot shows they were married December 1651.
  Children	+ 1. Judith Herman,   b. Bef 9 May 1660, New York City, New York d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F23222	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1008] Sheppard, Ayres - Dawson & Allied Families Vol 1, (New York, The American Historical Company, Inc, 1961), p. 478 (Varlet Family), 1008. [S2165] Beard, Timothy Field, Ahnentafel of Elizabeth Ellen Sudler, 2165. [S572] Ralph T. Whitelaw, Whitelaw, Ralph T. - Virginia's Eastern Shore, (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1968), p. 658 (tract A23), 572. [S497] Marshall, James H. Wills & Adm N'hamp Co,1632-1802, (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1994), p. 122 (note at the end of the will of Teague Harman), 497. [S2136] Dr. Howard Mackey and Marlene A. Groves, Mackey, N'hamp Co Record Bk 06 & 7-8, 1655-1668, (Picton Press, Rockport, Maine, 2002), p. 117 (27 Apr 1657), 2136. [S2136] Dr. Howard Mackey and Marlene A. Groves, Mackey, N'hamp Co Record Bk 06 & 7-8, 1655-1668, (Picton Press, Rockport, Maine, 2002), p. 156 (2 May 1657), 2136. [S2136] Dr. Howard Mackey and Marlene A. Groves, Mackey, N'hamp Co Record Bk 06 & 7-8, 1655-1668, (Picton Press, Rockport, Maine, 2002), p. 122 (17 June 1657), 2136. [S2080] William & Mary Quarterly, Oct 2010, p. 612-613 (The Merchant, the Map, and Empire: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake and Interimperial Trade, 1644-73 by Christian J. Koot), 2080. [S572] Ralph T. Whitelaw, Whitelaw, Ralph T. - Virginia's Eastern Shore, (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1968), p. 687 (tract A31), 572. [S1008] Sheppard, Ayres - Dawson & Allied Families Vol 1, (New York, The American Historical Company, Inc, 1961), p. 473 & 478 (Varlet Family), 1008.