Dankaerts’ journal this match was consummated after a series of romantic adventures, but afterwards Ephraim mended his “wild life and reckless manner of living”. Later, however, due to the very persuasion of the Labadists, he left his wife to join the bizarre order. In time he returned to his wife, doubtless before the death of Herrman, inasmuch as the codicil was never admitted to probate. According to the records in the Dutch church in New York, a son was born to them June 7, 1680; his name, Augustinus. A daughter, Augustina, was born June 1, 1684. Samuel was born April 20, 1687; Ephraim, October 7, 1688.[1] Ephraim Herrman the elder died in 1689 and inasmuch as the title to Bohemia Manor passed to his brother Casperus, we suppose that Ephraim’s three sons died in childhood. Nothing further is known of the daughter Augustina.
Casperus Herrman was born in New Amsterdam prior to January 2, 1656.[2] He was a member of the Council of New York and moved from that city to Augustine on the Delaware, later known as Fort Penn.[3] He was a member of the General Assembly from New Castle and after becoming third lord of Bohemia Manor he represented Cecil County in the Maryland General Assembly.[4]
Casperus Herrman was three times married. His first wife was Susanna Huyberts, a Dutch lady of New York. On August 23, 1682 he married Anna Reyniers; and on August 31, 1696 to Katherine Williams. Although a capable man and certainly more steady than his elder brother Ephraim, Casperus had by no means the energy, ability and personality of his father. He died in 1706, leaving his vast estate to his only son, Colonel Ephraim Augustine Herrman, who represented Cecil
