Johann Hartman Windecker

Hartman and his family left Germany in 1709, along with thousands of other Palatines, and went to England via the Netherlands. Hartman was appointed listmaster of the ship Hartwell which arrived in New York in 1710. He was in charge of a group of the migratory Germans, becoming, of sorts, a representative of the English Queen. His first wife died on the journey and the Germans settled on a plot of land that came to be known as Hartman's dorf, which was a Palatine Camp north of mondern-day Middleburg, New York.

 Hartman is recorded in New York State historical documents as a participant in an ill-fated English mission to take Quebec from the French. For these and other reasons, his name briefly occurs in histories of upstate New York.