Page:Augustine Herrman, beginner of the Virginia tobacco trade, merchant of New Amsterdam and first lord of Bohemia manor in Maryland (1941).djvu/133

 in his own right, with the “Bohemia Sisters” estate of his wife he was among the largest landowners of Maryland of his day. Their son Richard like his father attained a great age, being over one hundred years at the time of his death. His descendants have been prominent in Maryland and Delaware. Among Judith’s descendants is the Bayard family of Delaware which contributed many statesmen to the nation.

The Bassett family also traces its ancestry from Judith Herrman. Richard Bassett was a great-grandson of Augustine Herrman. He was a Captain in the Continental Army, a member of the Convention at Philadelphia which framed the Federal Constitution; a member of the Delaware Convention which shortly thereafter adopted the Federal Constitution; a United States Senator from Delaware in the First Federal Congress; Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Delaware; Governor of the State of Delaware; and United States Circuit Judge.

The third and youngest daughter of Augustine Herrman, Francina, was born March 12, 1662 in New Amsterdam, just a few months before the family was united at the Manor for the first time. She lived for a time in Holland, but returned to Maryland where she married Joseph Wood. She had a long line of descendants but her share of “The Three Bohemia Sisters” has long since passed out of the family. We have but one other person intimately connected with Augustine Herrman’s life, and her descendants to discuss. Anna Hack continued to reside in Maryland with her two sons, George Nicholas and Peter, and two daughters, Katherine and Ann, after the death of her husband. It seems, however, that she returned to Virginia, probably after Herrman’s death, and she died about the year 1700.

George Nicholas Hack married Ann Wright, daughter of