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Ephraim Georgius Herman (1652- 1689) was baptized September 1, 1652 in New Amsterdam. He accompanied his father's family on their removal to Maryland, but in 1673 he was a resident of New York City. He was a. man of note who held severaloffices under the English government in New York and later in Delaware to which he removed around 1676, and settled in Newcastle.

In 1673, when the Dutch fleet captured New York, he was a. Clerk in the Secretary of States Office, andwas commissioned by the Dutch Council of War to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants on Long Island. Removing to Delaware, he was appointed in 1676 Clerk of the Courts of New Castle and Upland. In 1680 he was appointed Surveyor for the Counties of New Castle and St. Jones.

About this time he joined the Labadists, a short-lived religious sect founded by Jean do Labadie. It is said, that his father was so outraged by this that he pronounced a curse upon his oldest son "that he might not live two years. He actually died in 1689.

Ephraim Georgius Herman married in New York, September 3, 1679, Elizabeth Rodenburgh, a daughter of Lucas Rodenburgh and Catrina Roelofs. She was born on the Island of Curacao where her father was vice director during 1646-1657.

They had issue, baptized in flew York: Augustinus, 1680; Augustina, 1684; Samuel, 1687 and Ephraim, 1688. Although no direct information exists on their death, it is believed that they all died before reaching maturity.

Upon the death ofEphraim, his widow returned from New Castle and rejoined the Dutch Church in New York in September 1689. In 1692 she married as her second husband, John Donaldson on Delaware River and bore him two daughters, Catherine (who married Michiel Vaughton) and Maria (who married George Yates).