Re: Jacob and Rosanna (Fadenland) Alderman

Rosanna Flanagan
-1820s
Rosanna was an orphan girl of Dutch parentage who was living with an Irish family and went by the name of Rosanna Flanagan.In another record provided me by Helen Alderman, my mother, in late 1960s her name was Roxina Flannagan.
[Information provided by Henry I. Jones, Jr. Oct 3, 1979 "Alderman Family"]
Jacob Olterman
1769 - 1820
Jacob was Moravian, born in Germany. When he was about four years of age, he was stolen from his home in Germany by a band of sailors and lived with them for thirteen years. He left them at the age of seventeen, about 1786, in Wilmington North Carolina and went westward.
He settled at the old town of Salem, NC (now Winston-Salem) which was a village of Moravians. Here he learned the weaver's trade and became a blacksmith.This is also where he met his wife.
He married Rosanna (Roxina) Flanagan in 1795 at the Moravian settlement, of Salem, which is now Salem, North Carolina. About 1797, taking his bride and handloom, he migrated some 70 miles across the Virginia border and settled in what was then Grayson County (now Carroll County) Virginia.
In the census between 1810 and 1870 in Grayson, Floyd, Carroll, and Montgomery Counties Jacob had changed his name to Alderman.
Prepared by Henry I. Jones, Jr. October 3, 1979 ALDERMAN FAMILY