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We're still trying to figure out WHERE the whole "Adam" think came in with Laurenz.
There are essentially two stories about Laurenz Lagrone/Le Crown.
Story 1. This is the family tradition that he was stuck in a beet barrel by one of his brothers, and thereby stowed away on a ship to South Carolina in 1727 to avoid conscription in the Prussian Army. As far as can be determined, this story can be found only after the Lagrone Centenial reunion in 1927 in Deadwood, Texas. If anyone can prove an earlier instance of this story than 1927, a similar story in a different but related family, or heard it from relatives who did not go to the reunion in 1927 (and had no later connection with relatives who did). Please contact me at your earliest convenience, since we can't figure out where this story began or came from.
Story 2. In 1752, Laurenz Lagrone, wife, and his minor children, as well as his adult son Tobias, HIS wife and minor children left Schoenau, near Heidelberg, travelled to Rotterdam, and sailed from there to Charleston, their passage being paid for by someone else since they couldn't afford it (this being a very common way to bring people over in those days). Normally this sort of arrangement resulted in a set number of yeras of indentured servitude. Somehow the Le Crowns/Lagrones avoided this, and promptly applied for and received grants of land in the back country (two areas near what is now Newberry, SC).
Laurenz appears to have been born 9 Feb 1698, in Schoenau, the son of Hans Peter Gromm also known as: Johanness Petrus Gromme b. 15 Mar 1668, Schönau, Wurttemberg, Germany, m. 12 Sep 1692, Anna Margaretha Scheid, b. ? Jul 1672, Schönau, Wurttemberg, Germany, (daughter of Hans Philipp Scheid and Anna ____).
Hans Peter was a son of Mathias Freidrich Grom also known as: Fridrich Matthaus Grommé b. bef 1650, m. (1) Maria ____, m. (2) ____ ____, m. (3) Margaretha ____.
There are a number of Lagrone/Leckrone families, both in that part of Germany and in the US, and they all appear to come from the Schoenau vicinity.
This second story is based on the documentation (although once we get back to Germany, that gets a little thinner).
(It has been suggested that Laurenz stowed away in 1727, and was returned later, and then re-emigrated in 1757, but this seems to be pushing the evidence a little hard. Laurenz's first child was Maria Sophia, born in 1727, as far as we can determine, in Schoenau. He had other children as well. This would suggest that his return to Germany would have had to leave a paper trail that has yet to be discovered.)
Marc
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