| Parents:
Immigration: Marriage: |
Joannes "John" Hottel Margaret Sept. 11, 1732 Port Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on ship Pennsylvania Hans George Keller Pennsylvania |
| Children: | George | Abt. 1734 | † Feb. 1840 |
| John Carl | June 12, 1736 | † Nov. 8, 1800 | |
| Isaac | Abt. 1737 | ||
| Anna | Abt. 1740 | † 1840 | |
| Mary | Mar. 1, 1743 | † May 15, 1806 | |
| Margaret | 1747 | † 1834 | |
| Elizabeth | 1748 | † Feb. 15, 1801 | |
| Jacob | Jan. 16, 1750 | † Mar. 25, 1810 | |
| Barbara | Abt. 1754 | † Feb. 1850 | |
| Henry | July 6, 1759 | † Apr. 14, 1823 |
| Notes: | Barbara Anna Hottell was born in Bei Gronau, Bavaria, Germany about 1730. She, with her parents and four of her |
| brothers, all under the age of sixteen, left Rotterdam, Holland on the ship Pennsylvania and
landed in Colonial America at Port Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1732. The family located in
the northern part of Bucks County, Pennsylvania where they lived for eighteen years. In religion
they were either Lutherans, Reformed, or possibly Mennonites. They spoke the German language and
swore their allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain.
In 1750, Barbara Anna along with her parents and brothers Charles and George, emigrated to the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, which at that time was a blooming prairie, the only timber being along the rivers and creeks. This valley is from thirty to fifty miles in width and over a hundred miles in length, and is one of the most beautiful valleys in the world. The Hottel family located their original homestead over near North Mountain on the head waters of Tom's Brook, out a short distance from the village of Tom's Brook. The homestead contained 341 acres and was purchased from Lord Thomas Fairfax on Aug. 30, 1750. The Hottel home stood near the Hottel spring on the back road leading to Mt. Olive, which in 1930 was located near the residence of David H. Keller. Siblings Charles, George and Barbara Anna Hottell married and lived their entire lives near the vicinity of their parents. Charles was the father of 11 children; George was the father of 9 children; Barbara Anna, who married George Keller, was the mother of 9 children. Their descendants in the Shenandoah Valley are legion. During the American Revolution, Barbara Anna's husband George Keller was a patriot who furnished beef for the troops and served as a member of the Committee of Safety for Dunmore County, Virginia. |
| Ancestry: | The Johannes Keller Line [through marriage] |
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