General Notes

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Email 7-22-2001 Sandra Benham <skbenham@@earthlink.net>
Sources of Information
1. Baptism Records Parish Elgg, Schottekin, Canton Zurich, Switzerland
2. Book "List of Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century to the American Co
lo nies from Parish Elgg
for PA and the Carolinas
3. Book "30,000 Pennsylvania German  Pioneers - Ship Francis & Eliza
be th arrived Philadelphia 30 Aug 1743
4.Various World Family Tree CD's
5.Register KY State Historical Society Vol. 36, No. 116 - Baughman's De
fe at was in
October 1782 on the Wilderness Road and head of Dicks River. Jacob Baug
hm an and
his mother killed, Mrs. Hammons came into Crab Orchard in her linen wo
ol ey wounded
in the head with an arrow
6.Margaretha Baughman had been visiting her daughter Susannah Baughm
an Co ok in
Greenbriar Co., VA (now Monroe Co., VA). A huge party of relatives g
ot to gether to make
the trip from Greenbriar Co. VA to Montgomery Co., KY with Phillip a
nd Ch ristina Cook
Hamman, to where Phillip was to settle on land grant. In the party we
re M argaretha
Baughman, her son Jacob Baughman and his son Jacob, her daughter Marare
th a
Baughman Ferrill and her husband Jonathan Ferrill, her son Heinrich Bau
gh man, his
wife Anna Marie and some of their children, Philip Hammon and Susann
ah a nd Valentine
Cooks only daughter, name unknown. They traveled on the Wilderness ro
ad a nd stopped
outside the town of Crab Orchard, KY to freshen up before entering t
he to wn. Indians
attacked them killing Margaretha Buaghman, Jonathan Ferrill, Jacob Baug
hm an, Jr.,, and
his son Jacob, Heinrich Baughman and his wife Anna Marie, and Phill
ip a nd Christina's
baby. Christina was shot in the head with an arrow, but it didn't ki
ll he r, for the history
book reports that she ran down the main street of Crab Orchard with t
he a rrow in her head
attired in her underwear.
7.Book " Lincoln Co., KY Wills & Estates 1781-1807" - will of Susann
ah Co ok
8.Book "Swiss Immigrants to United States" by Faust & Beumbaugh c. 1920