2 Documents 1763 & 1777 Over Meierhöfe Der Men's V. Dam IN Ildehausen (Seesen)

You bid two documents from 1763 and 1777 In reference to Ildehausen and the Lords of Dam.

Ildehausen is now a district of Seesen (LK Goslar) on the western edge of the Harz Mountains.

1.) Contemporary copy of a decree of the Kirchberg court dated 2 (or 22nd?) May 1763.

Concerns a complaint "by the innkeeper Brenecke (?) that the municipality of Ildehausen has arbitrarily presumed to divide up the 15 acres of Meyerland leased from H. von Damm among themselves, even by Hans Heinrich Borchers and others mentioned Land invaded and started plowing it."

The court now decides that the municipality of Ildehausen and Hans Heinrich Borchers should withdraw from the piece of land.

Scope: a written page (34.3 x 20.8 cm); three blank pages follow.

Note:Kirchberg means today's Seeesen district of Kirchberg.

2.) Letter Ildehausen, 9. January 1777.

A Mr. Menge (verifiably as a clerk in Ildehausen) writes to a secretary with whom he has been friends for many years and "not long ago through the Acta that the Lords of Damms (!) reached the local court also found out otherwise that Eh. well-being are the consolent of the Lords of Damms in the matter of the Drugsche Meyer Hof, which is located here. With this farm now very irresponsible proceeding against the Guth's lord. So consider it my duty [...] to shed light on the actual circumstances [...]."

Signed"Eh. well-being obedient servant multitudes."

Circumference: three written pages (34.3 x 20.8 cm); a blank page follows.

Condition: The document from 1763 browned, with marginal damage. The Bailiff's cover in excellent condition. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: Kostbhf. 22-10-2

About the noble family von Damm (source: wikipedia):

dam(also (from) Damme or similar) is the name of a Lower Saxon-Westphalian noble family.

History: The family is originally a Lower Saxon noble family, which first appears in Braunschweig as a patrician and city noble family, in the 17th and 18 Century then also in Soest. The early property of the family was in Braunschweig in Bansleben (documented 1325–1544) and in Halberstadt in Hornburg in the district of Osterwick (1325–1375). The family also owned mines in Werningerodeschen (1515) and in Pomerania Kloxin, Pyritz district (1798).

The family first appears in a document with Eckehard de Dammone in 1267. Andreas Dietrich von Damm (* 1623 Braunschweig, † 1684 Soest), son of Christoph von Damm and his wife Helene von Pawel, came from the now extinct first line. Ten years later he became Soester mayor. A grandson of Andreas Dietrich von Damm, Johann Georg Ferdinand von Damm, became a Prussian major general and acquired Kloxin in the Pyritz district. His son Ferdinand von Damm in turn became the mayor of Soest. With his death in 1846, this line of those from Damm died out. In other lines the sex continues to flourish.

personalities

Tile von Damm (1310-1374), councilman in Braunschweig, executed in the course of the "Great Shift", his direct descendant in 5. Generation:

Bertram von Damm (around 1495–1542), Braunschweig town physician, early follower of Luther

Henning von Damm (1517–1566), Braunschweig councilor and mayor

Andreas Dietrich von Damm (1623-1684), Mayor of Soest 1675-1677, direct descendant of Tile von Damm in the 9th generation, whose son:

Friedrich von Damm (1672-1740), Mayor of Soest 1729-1731, his son:

Johann Georg Ferdinand von Damm (1717–1797), Prussian major general, commander of the Stettin fortress and magistrate of Tangermünde

Kurd von Damm (1862–1915), lawyer, politician and entrepreneur, 1903–1912 member of the Reichstag

Helene von Damm (b. 1938), second marriage to Christian von Damm, a German banker at Bank of America; former US politician (Republican Party) of Austrian origin, 1980–1983 assistant to then President Ronald Reagan, 1983–1986 Ambassador of the United States to Austria

Coat of arms: Blazon in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility: Black dog jumping to the right in silver with golden collar and ring. On the crowned helmet two silver buffalo horns, between them a cock's tail waving to the left. The helmet covers are black and silver.

In the Brunswick shift book of 1514, the coat of arms of the executed Tile von Damm (Tile van dem Damme) († 1374) is shown with three ostrich feathers in a silver shield. Similarly, Mülverstedt states that an extant seal impression shows five or six ostrich feathers. Contrary to the representation in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility, which speaks of a "rooster's tail" as part of the crest, other coats of arms typically show ostrich feathers as part of the crest.