In 1749 Hans departed Germany with his wife and 4 children for America, destination “The Carolinas”, aboard the English ship “Edinburg” at Rotterdam 1749, landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They arrived on 15 September 1749 and settled at Jackson Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

Records on Maria Eva Hamen and some of her children and their descendants can be found in the books, Abraham Brown the Miller and Jacob Brown the Wagonmaker” by John B. Fisher, and in “Michael Brown of the Old Stone House” by Joseph Fisher.

Records on the four German-born children of Hans Jacob Hammann and wife Maria Catharina can be found in the Baumholder Reformed KB in Ruschberg.

reference books mentioning this family -

"Pennsylvania German Pioneers," by Ralph B. Strassburger, vol. 2 page 402

"Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands To North American" Vol 2: the Western Palatinate," by Annette Junselman Burgert. Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania German Society, 1985.