Hello & happy weekend. I have new information ready for descendents of Westerhouse and Waggoman, two related Dutch families who settled in Eastern Shore Virginia and Maryland. Dutch merchants had been trading for Virginia tobacco since before the 1630's. By the 1650's, a small but well-connected community of Dutch skppers, merchants and manufacturers was living among the English residents of Virginia and Maryland. English citizenship had become crucial for the continued export of products (such as tobacco) into Holland, due to the trade embargo imposed during the Anglo-Dutch wars. Several of these Dutch families were originally from Amsterdam. I have recently finished a research project in the archives of Amsterdam, Netherlands, which makes it possible to identify ancestors of Adriaen Westerhouse, who died in 1705 in Northampton County, Virginia, a son of William Westerhouse and Margaretha van Hoochstraten. William Westerhouse is not my ancestor; his wife Margaretha van Hoochstraten is, through her daughter Weyntje Schyn, a child of her first husband, Lourens Schyn, who died in Amsterdam in November, 1638. Weyntje Schyn married Henry Wageman (Waggoman) in 1660 in Hungar's Parish, Northampton County, Virginia. In Amsterdam, I have also found a few generations back of the Dutch ancestors of Henry Wageman (Waggoman), my ancestor. Reports on both sets of families (Westerhouse and Waggoman) can be found on my website, where these reports contain the details, and are annotated with citations to baptism and marriage records & etc. I am not posting the full reports here because the information on the families, plus the notes, would make very long messages to LDR. I hope Westerhouse and Waggoman descendents will find this useful and helpful.To see the articles, go to: Westerhouse: http://17thcenturyhollanders.pbworks.com/w/page/54776247/William%20Westerhouse Waggoman: http://17thcenturyhollanders.pbworks.com/w/page/54777217/Henry%20Waggoman%20of%20Amsterdam%20and%20Virginia I make no profit from visits to this website. It's simply neater to post my reports on the website, where the formatting remains intact. If anyone needs hard copy of the Amsterdam records, feel free to PM me iris.gates AT gmail.com. If there are any questions, I can answer them here or in PM. Best wishes, Liz J

Does anyone have access to Ruth Dryden's EB 14 Somerset county will book 1748-1749: (includes administrators accounts and inventories from 1678 thru 1745? On page 61 according to Colonial families Vol 8 (Peden and Wright) there is a reference to a distribution of Thomas Adams 15 July 1739 when Moses Owen and Rachel his wife (admx alias Addams) made distribution to children William and Anne" (SOWD EB14:61) Can anyone confirm that a daughter Anne is mentioned. The CD of Md. Probate records only mentions "distribution to widow 1/3, residue to two children unnamed" dated same date 15 JULY 1739. thanks in advance. Liz