formerly, a fact that Herrman himself no doubt much regretted. We would judge, too, from both the direct evidence of the Labadist diarists and from other indirect sources that Catherine Herrman made life uncomfortable for the children of her husband by his first wife.
Yet after the death of Jannetje there was another woman besides his daughters who was always a source of happiness to Herrman. This was Jannetje’s sister, Anna Hack who, during the New Amsterdam period of Herrman’s life had played such an important part. In 1665 (or early in 1666) her husband, Dr. George Hack had died, leaving her two sons, George Nicholas and Peter, and two daughters, Katherine and Ann. The Hacks, as we have before pointed out, were also large landowners in Cecil County, one of the largest of their estates, Hackston on the northern shore of the Sassafracx River, consisting of eight hundred acres. Another of the Hack estates was located on the southern shore of the Bohemia River nearly opposite the manor house and this site is still known as Hack’s Point.[1] After the death of her husband, Anna Hack with her sons and daughters continued to reside in Maryland, though she still retained much land in Virginia. Peter Hack bought more land in Cecil County, but it seems that at about the time of Augustine Herrman’s death he returned to Virginia, where he became active in the political life of that colony.
Among Herrman’s long list personal friends, the names of the third Lord Baltimore, Govert Loockermans and Adriaen Van der Donck figure most prominently. Lord Baltimore was lavish in his grants to Herrman, never tiring of the hospitality of Bohemia Manor and always ready to increase Herrman’s influence and prestige. Loockermans and Van der Donck were
- ↑ Johnston, George, History of Cecil County, Md., 1881. p. 71.
