J George Leitner

Copied from old website of Paul Lightner Whitehouse. This story mostly still stands, as of 27 Feb 2020, but Georg and William A Leitner may have been J Adam's brothers instead of sons:

JOHANN GEORG LEUTNER, presumed to have been born in Germany before 1709. It is said by some that Georg and Wilhelm returned to Germany and that one of them later "owned large sugar and spice plantations upon one of the islands in the Eastern Ocean, and he became possessed of a very large estate." Another account said that one "remained in Holland, and subsequently resided in India." Accounts among Wilhelm's descendants have Georg's wealth coming from the indigo trade. None of this seems possible without him working for the Dutch East India Company. There are a number of conflicts among the various accounts. It's not likely that any of the children was old enough to remain in Holland and one can only imagine how Georg could have followed such a path. There was a possibility that he was one of the youngsters, not all orphans, apprenticed by Governor Hunter, apprenticed to someone with the Dutch West India Company and thence onto the East India Company; however, no Lightner appears on the list.

Dead link of old site of Paul Lightner Whitehouse: http://home.comcast.net/~whitehouse-family/families/lightner/lightn...

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