Individual Details

Data source and researcher is Douglas Mumma, 2123 Farmington Place, Livermore, CA 94550
Data source is various books, Deeds, Will and other documents.

George Anthony is first identified on the captains list of passengers for Palantines who arrived in Philadelphia on September 18, 1732 aboard the ship, "Johnson", commanded by David Crocket. Anthony Momma, the eldest son, along with his two younger brothers are identified as being boys under 16 years of age. His two sisters are also listed. This is the only record upon which his name is listed as Anthony (or Antoni). All other records, including church, tax, deed, and his Will only show his given name as George. Through the process of elimination and alternate documents, we can confirm this Anthony to be George. Why the ship's captain made the error in writing his name, we will never know. For this reason, he will always be known and identified as "George Anthony Mumma", even though he never used the middle name of Anthony. George's brothers who were born in America were baptized with two given names so it is most likely that George also had two names, but chose to only use the one.

I have only recently (August 2000) discovered that Geoge Anthony Mumma had a first wife by the name of Alice Baughman, daughter of John Baughman who lived in Hempfield Township of Lancaster County*.

While George was brought up in a Lutheran/Reformed Church setting and environment, he married Barbara Weber (Beverly Weaver) who was a Mennonite. Barbara is a descendant of Heinrich Weber and Maudlin Kendig. Maudlin's grandparents in the Pequea Valley near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. While it is interesting to have such interesting and famous Mennonite ancestors, this means George and Barbara's children have no church birth or baptismal records because the Mennonite Church does not believe in infant baptism or maintain church records. For this reason we don't know the precise date of many of his children's birth dates and birth dates must be inferred indirectly.

George first received a grant for 175 acres land in Hempfield Township from the Penn Family on May 10, 1748. He sells off 20 acres of this grant for £31 on 26 July 1750. Barbara was required to sign her name and relinquish her dower rights so we know that they were married prior to this date. On December 1, 1767, he purchased an additional 202 acres from the estate of George Smith. From 1758 until his death in 1786, George appears on the Assessment Lists for Hempfield Township.

On the 2 November 1763, he loaned 82 pounds to Frederick Mumma of Donegal Township, taking a mortgage for 150 pounds on Fredericks's farm of 233 acres. This is an important document because it clearly demonstrates that George was fairly close to this Frederick Mumma. No direct relationship has been established between these two men, however.

Prior to his death, George owned over 500 acres of land. In his will, he named all of his children, gave three of his sons the opportunity to own approximately a third of his land holdings. Although his exact death date is unknown, he wrote his will on 9 April 1785 and his will was probated on 29 July, 1786, Therefore it is likely that he died sometime in July of 1786.

All documents that required his signature only show his Mark, suggesting that he was not literate. His Mark, as he made it on his Will written in 1785, is shown at the top of this page and is quite unique. He used the letters "IMA" and this mark has never been used by anyone else.. Likewise, his wife Barbara was also not literate and she used a styled "P" for her Mark.

* The crucial evidence of George Anthony Mumma's first wife is most interesting because it was not discovered in any documents filed in Lancaster County, but documents filed in Frederick and Augusta Counties, Virginia. A document was filed in Lancaster County where George Mumma, along with Nicholas Bower, were given Letters of Administration on 8 October 1757 for the estate of John Baughman. No other documents relating to this Administration can be found in the Lancaster County records. However, quite by accident, two copies of quit claim deeds were discovered in the Chancery Court files of Augusta County relating to a lawsuit between Hite and Ready. These documents list George Mumma as a beneficiary of John Baughman's estate because George had married one of John's daughters. This daughter had since died, but George maintained an interest in John's estate because he and Alice must have had a child. This is the same George Anthony Mumma of Lancaster County because George Mumma signs one of the documents with his distinctive Mark, "IMA". I have since determined that this child was most likely his eldest daughter, Elizabeth. One strange fact that was previously puzzling was that Elizabeth was given additional monies in her father's Will, written in 1785, yet Elizabeth is not even mentioned in George's wife's Will, (Barbara Weber Mumma). I had always wondered why Elizabeth was left off of Barbara's 1788 Will and some researchers speculated that Elizabeth had already died. From a Will written by her sister's husband, Jacob Hertzler, we know that Elizabeth is still alive when Jacob writes his Will in 1793 and after Barbara's death in 1788. Now, a reason surfaces as to why Barbara left Elizabeth out of her Will, simply Elizabeth was not her child. While we don't know when this first marriage took place, we do know that Geoge Anthony was married to Barbara Weber in 1750 because her name appears on the deed of a piece of property that he sells and she signs away her "dower rights". Although we don't know George's exact age, we can make a fairly good educated guess. He was the eldest son, as stated in his mother's will. Since there were 5 children, we can assume the typical "2 years" between children which would make him about 10 years old. We know he was not older than 16 because he was listed as being "under 16 years" on the immigrants list. So, we might assume he was born about 1722, 10 years before the voyage to America, and certainly not earlier than 1716. We might speculate then that he married when he was about 20-22 years of age which would have been about 1742-1744. They probably had a child within a year of marriage and then Alice died soon there after. My guestimate would be that he married about 1742, that Alice was born about 1743-44 and that Alice died about 1746, possibly during the birth of a second child. I would then expect that George would have immediately found a new wife, Barbara Weber, to help his raise his young daughter. These dates are, of course pure speculation, but quite likely. Unfortunately, the births of almost none of the children are known because no baptisms were ever recorded.

A more detailed description of the documents relating to the evidence for George's first wife can be downloaded by clicking on this web address: http://www.mumma.org/archives/IMA.pdf

A transcription of George Anthony Mumma's first Will can be viewed at http://www.mumma.org/archives/Will-PA-Lanc-E-1-368.pdf

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