Johann Valentin HOH

                   According to an August 8, 1988 letter from Dr. Richard Hoh this is the
Valentine that arrived on the Ship Sallee at Philadelphia on October 5,
1767. However, he returned to Gerhardsbrunn about 1775 to claim his in-
heritance. Due to the Revolutionary War between 1776 and 1783 he stayed
at Gerhardsbrunn. (We have speculated that he might be the Valentine of
Woodberry Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania who bought a 98 acre farm
in December of 1797 since his wife had died in February of 1796 and he
may have decided to return to America again. However, as of 8-1988 we
really have no basis for this assumption and several items which weigh
against it such as several small children that he would have had to leave
in Gerhardsbrunn.)