Federal Constitution forbidding all manorial estates and hereditary titles. In all there were seven men who held the title “lord” but only the first, the founder and greatest of them all, ever attained more than a local prominence.
We shall now briefly trace the fortunes of the daughters of Augustine Herrman and their descendants. Anna Margareta was born March 10, 1658 in New Amsterdam. About the year 1680 she married Matthias Vanderhayden of Albany, who was related to the Schuyler family. One of their daughters, Ariana, was a celebrated beauty. She was born in 1690 and was educated in England and Holland. In both countries she was greatly admired for her beauty and fine accomplishments and is said to have been courted by noblemen of both nations. She was twice married. Her first husband was Thomas Bordley of Bordley Hall, Yorkshire, afterwards Attorney General of Maryland.[1] Upon his death, Ariana married Edmund Jennings of Annapolis, son of Sir Thomas Jennings of Yorkshire. In 1737 she accompanied her husband to England and while there she was inoculated for the small-pox, from the effects of which she is said to have died, 1741.[2] Her daughter married John Randolph of Virginia whose son Edmund (Jennings) was Secretary of State under Washington. One of Ariana’s sisters married a Philadelphian, Edward Shippen, whose daughter, Margaret, also a celebrated beauty of her day, became the second wife of Benedict Arnold.
Judith, the second daughter of Augustine and Jannetje Verlett Herrman, was born in New Amsterdam May 9, 1660. She married Colonel John Thompson, a provincial judge and an intimate friend of her father. Colonel Thompson is said to have attained the age of 109 years. Although a wealthy man
