Interactive Family Tree - Person Sheet
Interactive Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameGeorge May Sr. 
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Biographical notes for George May Sr.
“In 1701 George and John May, in company with thirteen other refugees, all from Saxony, Germany, in the disguise of sailors, landed at Philadelphia. They were all implicated in the College and University Students’ Rebellion of 1700-01 in the German States. Five hundred were arrested and imprisoned, and at least fifteen escaped to America. These fugitive students had their girls whom they left behind them; however, these brave girls in due time followed and married their fugitive beaux. The girls brought over many of the books belonging to the students, some of which, many years ago, fell into the hands of James G. May, who was born on the 21st day of April, 1805, and is now teaching school at Salem, Washington County, Ind., and the one to whom we are indebted for these facts.”1116