Notes for: Johann Simon Friedrich SCHLEMP

Sailed from Amsterdam in 1751 to Norfolk, VA or to Philadelphia, PA. This could have been a preliminary trip, since there is another record
Johann Frederich Schlemb arrived on the ship "Sally" Oct. 5, 1767.
Schlemps sailed from Amsterdam, Holland, were nine months on the ocean; that their son Jacob was born on the boat, and that they landed at Norfolk, Virginia.
Frederick Schlemp served as a Private in Capt. William Love's Company, Montgomery Co., VA. during the Rev War.
Ironworker. His sons built the first forge west of the blue ridge mountains (for which special land grants were awarded). This was very primitive work, digging iron from the ground and smelting it, casting it into "pigs" which were transported to larger towns to be "wrought" into useable goods. Cutting the huge volumes of wood to make charcoal to melt the iron out of the ore was horrendously grinding work.