That is so very interesting. The Thomas guys mostly used styled initials but it's good to know they were able to do that. Take care. Marilyn -----Original Message----- From: George W. Durman <GermannaResearch@comcast.net> To: germans-va <germans-va@rootsweb.com>; germanna_colonies <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 1:50 pm Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] [GERMANS-VA] Signature Marks Marilyn, I don't seen any specific marks for any of the Germanna Colonists, but I do have one for the SNAPP family over in the Shenandoah Valley. One of the SNAPP men came over the mountain and married one of the Germanna women, I forget which family right now. Many of the SNAPP descendants migrated from the Shenandoah Valley down to Washington and Greene Counties, TN, where they married into just about all of the Germanna families there. Anyway, when Anna Catherine HABER, wife of Lorentz SCHNEPP (SNAPP) died in 1725 there was a settlement of her estate. Johannes SCHNEPP (SNAPP), Sr. , (1695-1762), signed a note that he had received his share as her son, with a very distinct signature mark. It was a shepherd's crook through an "S" in an oversize "H". This same exact signature was used to sign the ship manifest of the Samuel in 1733 and on the will of John SNAPP, Sr., in Virginia in 1762. The SCHNEPP family were shepherds in Alsace-Lorraine (now Bas-Rhin, France). Sarge At 9/8/2011 08:35 AM Thursday, gneolog@aol.com wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >I have been scanning the marks made by the Thomas men from copies of the original land deeds when land was sold and got to wondering -- How many of the sons of the first settlers ( and the first settlers themselves) were able to make a specific mark for their signatures -- or even sign their names. If you have any samples of these marks or signatures -- you might want to think of posting a copy to the Germanna tree -- I have gotten quite a few comments about how special they are for descendants. In the Thomas line I have John/Hans and Michael and some of their sons. Take care, Marilyn > >**********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html TN Germanna Reunion - Sept. 9-11 http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/easttennesseereunion2011.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message