To Hallmans, So many missed Clark Hallman's posting of the Carolina Hallmans, I decided to divide it into 5 parts to see if it will go through that way. This is part One. Faith The following are excerpts from two "Hallman" books which touch on the Carolina branch. Clark Hallman Early Carolina Heilmans (Hallmans - Holmans) 1736-1800 by Elmer Berley Hallman Columbia, S.C. 1972 Introduction: As a result of its geographical location the Carolina of the I 730's was a unique colony. It was truly, as Verner W. Crane described the southern colonies generally in his book of that title, "The Southern Frontier." On all sides were Indian tribes, frequently unfriendly: Yamasees, Cherokees, Creeks, Westos, Choctaws, and others. To the south were the Spaniards, disputing the ownership of the English settlers and stirring up Indians and negro slaves against the struggling settlements along the Carolina coast. To the southwest, more distant, but equally dangerous, were the French on the lower Mississippi, they with their Indian allies striving to block the westward expansion of the Carolina fur traders and eventually to line up with their fellow countrymen of the upper waters of the same river. They, too, would have enjoyed witnessing the destruction of the English colonies. Added to these major perils were the increasing numbers of negro slaves. These Africans, many fresh from the jungles, were not as submissive as their descendants were generally to become - and they were beginning to outnumber the whites. Insurrections of slaves soon taught the colonial leaders the need for some solution to this additional problem. The colonization of Georgia as a buffer settlement gave a partial remedy, but not enough. The solution adopted and realized was the encouragement of Protestant settlers to enter Carolina and form a protective cordon around the coastal inhabitants. The logical step at this stage would have been to have sought the addition of more settlers from England. But the British government was opposed to more draining away of its human resources. So the colonial government, following the example of Pennsylvania, offered and publicized attractive inducements to promote the immigration of Switzers and Germans Until 1750 these were very largely Swiss: but a rising tide of Germans followed until the Revolutionary War hindered migration. The inducements included the promise of free land, with no taxes for 10 years; live stock and tools; seed for planting; provisions for a year; and even free passage for those without money for the journey, this last to be repaid by service to those advancing the necessary funds. Pamphlets were printed and distributed in Switzerland and along the Rhine river.. describing in glowing terms, sometimes extravagantly so, the joys and advantages of Carolina some of these strikingly similar in their exaggerations to the literature of modern land speculators. Earlier settlers were persuaded to write back to friends and relatives with like pleasing accounts. The appeal was irresistible. Conditions of serfdom in the Europe of that day, the devastations of numerous wars, the horrors of religious persecutions, economic deprivations, love of adventure, the opportunity for economic or social advancement, or just the desire for change, all played a part. But, whatever the reason in the case of an individual or of an individual family, Switzers and Germans came because they were wanted and invited. .Among these were the Carolina Heilmans (Hallmans, Holmans). The Hallmans and Holmans of whom this is a history were not originally of this surname, but were Heilmanns or some variant. In the Journal of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the noted Lutheran preacher of Pennsylvania, as he recorded it in his Journal on August 3, 1778, was this reference to the name: "Regarding the origin and passing of the deceased, he was ihe legitimate son of the late Anthon Heilman, born in KIenniedesheirn, Germany, October 16, 1710, and was baptized on the twenty-first of the same month. He came to this country with his parents when he was young..." The surname of the father, Anthon Heilman, is also found with like spelling on an inscription above the entrance to old Augustus Lutheran Church at Trappe, Pennsylvania; on a deed; on his will; and on the tombstone of his wife, Maria Salome, in the Mennonite Cemeterv of this area. The Pennsylvania Hallman family Association followed up in 1963 this reference by Muhlenberg through research in Kleinniedesheim, a town in the Palatinate section of West Germany. In old Church records at nearby Grosniedesheim they discovered this entry, a record of the baptism of a daughter, Anna Maria, to Anthony and Maria Salome Hallman: "Anthony Heyllmann & Maria Salone 14, 10 1718 Anna Maria Taufzeuge Anna Maria Haesurers von Pfifffligheim." (Anna Maria, daughter of Anthony and Salone, was baptized on the 14th day of October, I718. The god mother was Anna Maria Hauser, of Pfifffligheim.) With the rare exception of a few who took Holman as their name, the descendants of Anthon Heyllmann became Hallmans.