George Hack of the Eastern Shore of Virginia (Northampton County) and his wife Anna. It is not known the exact year the Hacks came to America but there is some undocumented evidence that they were first in New Amsterdam before settling in Northampton County, Virginia near the town of Eastville, the county seat.[1] Whether Dr. Hack, a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Cologne, practiced his profession in the Dutch village is uncertain, but he was living
- ↑ There has been some question as to the exact relationship between Augustine Herrman and Anna Hack. Some of the documentary evidence would lead one to believe that she was a full sister of Herrman. If we accept the account given by Čapek (page 8) and to which he seemed partially inclined to believe, Augustine Herrman, the son of Abraham, had three sisters, all of whom were apparently older than himself. Anna may have been one of them. If on the other hand we accept the Rattermann account of Herrman’s parentage and the date of his birth being around 1605, we find that the father died about the year 1618. (See also J. G. Wilson, Hist. Soc. Proc., Vol. XI. Pt. 2, p. 21.) If such were indeed the case, we might suppose that Herrman’s mother fled from Prague to Holland where she married a second time. If Anna Hack were the issue of the second marriage this would make her a half-sister of Herrman.
However, it would appear that Anna Hack was only a sister-in-law, if the following genealogical table is correct. (Court Minutes of New Amsterdam, in Records of New Amsterdam, edited by E. B. O’Callaghan, N. Y., 1897, Vol. I. p. 326, footnote.)
Casper Verleth or Verlett (Varleth), born in Utrecht; married Judith . . . . . . . . . . . .; later, 1666, wife of Nicholas Bayard.
Their Children
1. Nicholas married:
(ii)(i) . . . . . . . . . . . .
(ii) Oct. 1656 Anna Stuyvesant, sister of Peter Stuyvesant (and widow of Samuel Bayard).
2. Janneke, married Augustyn Heermans, Dec. 1650.
3. Anna, married George Hawke (Hack) of Virginia.
4. Maria, married:
(iii)(i) Johannes Van Beeck.
(iii)(ii) Paulus Schrick in 1658.
(iii) Willem Teller in 1664.
5. Catherine, married Francis de Bruyn in 1657.
6. Sarah.
