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According to Borneman family records published by J. H. Borneman of Boyertown, Pennsylvania in 1881 and written in 1878, Hermannus (Harmonious) left his family and went to work as a blacksmith with his brother Henry in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, then left for Canada, British America, and "at that time his history ceases."
In 1796 Hermannus sold the farm in Rockland Township to his brother in law Adam Ruppert, giving a life tenancy to his father Hermannus Sr.
In 1797 Hermannus Zimmerman came from Western Pennsylvania and originally made the deal with Moses Nevill to purchase 200 acres of land, Lot 23, Concession II, in the Township of Humberstone, County of Welland, Ontario, Canada. The original deed lists purchaser as Harmonious Zimmerman, Blacksmith. He went back to Pennsylvania and came back to stay in 1798.
Next record of Hermannus Zimmerman is in 1808 when he sold Lot 15, Con 2, Humberstone Twp. to ? Augustine of Ridge Road. Now a stone quarry. Tradition tells us Hermannus Zimmerman left a living wife and four children in Pennsylvania when he came to Upper Canada. He had six more children here from a second relationship. Every year at Christmas time he would send money to the States.
From Robert Zimmerman, November 30, 2003, Message on Rootsweb:
If we are talking about the same person, Harmonius Zimmerman was born in Rockland twp. Berks County, Penna. His parents were Hermannus and Susanna (Borneman) Zimmerman. Harmonius left for Canada some time after 1797. His father landed at Philadelphia in 1753 aboard the ship Rowand and appears in the tax records for Berks County from the 1770s until 1797 when the property was sold by Harmonius to Adam Ruppert and his wife who was a sister to Harmonius.
At the time that Herman Sr. arrived in Philadelphia he was accompanied by a Mathias Zimmerman who was from Bolsberg, Germany; there is a possibility that they may have been brothers.
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