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Casparus Augustus Herman (1656 - 1691) was born in New Amsterdam. In 1661 he removed with his parents to Maryland. Dy 1676 he had established residence on Delaware River in the vicinity of New Castle. PA. following the death of his older brother, he inherited Bohemia Manor and moved to Maryland, namely Cecil County.

By profession he was a planter and merchant who carried out commercial activities in New York. As a contractor he built the first State House in Annapolis. He was a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly from Newcastle in 1683-85 and a member of the Legislature of Maryland fromCecil County in 1694.

Casparus married three times. With the second wife, Anna Reyniers, he had three children: son. Col. Ephraim Augustus whose descendants are living presently in the Baltimore area (2), and two daughters, Susanna and Augustina, Susanna married James Creager with whom she had a daughter Catherine who married William Gravenrod. Nothing is known about their descendants. Augustina Herman was married three times, first to Thomas Frisby, second to RogerLarramore and third to Henry Rippin. Prom the marriage with Roger Larramore there were at least two children, including Augustina who married William Drummond. No information exists about their descendants,

For his third wife, Casparus Augustus Herman took Katherine Williams who bore him Catherine. Catherine Herman took for her husband Abel van Burkelow with whom she had at least four children. No information exists about their descendants.

Anna Margarita Herman (1658 -l729) was baptized March 10, 1658. According to the Labadists' account, she was keeping house for her brother Ephraim at New Castle when they visited him in 1679. They spoke of her as "little volatile, but of sweet and good disposition." She complained to them "that she was like a wild and desolate vine, trained up in a wild and desolate country, that she wanted to know more of God andto serve him, and hoped the Lord would be merciful to her.

She became the wife of Captain Henry Ward, a wealthy planter and legislator of Cecil County. They bad at least one son, by name of Henry, whose daughter Margaret later married Benjamin Pearce, The descendants of the latter are living today.

Upon Henry Ward's death, Anna Margarita married as her second husband, Matthias Vanderheyden, a wealthy merchant, planter and Maryland legislator from Cecil County, Prom this marriage came at least four daughters, namely Anna Francina., Jane V., Augustina and Ariana. Lots of information exists about the descendants of Ariana Vanderheyden who was married three times: first to James Frisby, second to Thomas Bordley and third to Edmund Jennings. In contrast to the wealth of information about Ariana, very little is known about the descendants of her three sisters.