However, Edelmann in America were often called Adleman, Attleman, and other phonetic spellings and it seems instructive to discuss a genuine Addleman so that Edelmann descendants will have a better understanding of their Surname. A second reason for discussing Addleman is that it appears that Daniel, a son of Filb Edelmann of Rott used many spellings of his name and eventually settled on the Addleman spelling. His brother David Edelmann seems to have been the progenitor of thousands of Eddleman but one wing of that family uses Eddelman in Indiana. The third reason is the main reason I have included a page on Hans Michael Adelmann. In 1991, Dr. Robert Paul Addleman of Los Angeles published a book The American Addlemans , Closson Press, Apollo, PA, which gives much German history and conventions of the early 1700s which will be helpful to understanding immigration by Edelmann or any family during that period.
Manumission is the release from slavery or servitude.
This is a first draft of this page and it still contains some errors. For example, Michael is not the only Adelmann to come to America. She is poor as a beggar and dissolute besides. We should like to be rid of her. While there is no extant diary of Michael's journey to America, Dr. Robert Paul Addleman did have documents handed down in the family which proport to be translations of documents brought to America by Michael Adelmann.