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was donated by the Grayson family to the Germanna Foundation for historic preservation. The Foundation maintains a research library, a memorial garden, and plans interpretive walking trails to various historic and archaeological sites. In addition, the Foundation publishes histories and genealogical
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some time in 1722. Historians suggest his removal may have been the result of years of disharmony between himself and the council, as well as when he accepted such a large amount of land, that he showed a disregard for the Crown policy which held that no single person or family could claim more than
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The Germanna Foundation owns land on the original Germanna peninsula, on both sides of the Germanna Highway, State Route 3, near the site of the original Fort Germanna, once the westernmost outpost of colonial Virginia. The Germanna Foundation operates the Brawdus Martin Fort Germanna Visitor Center
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1710 May 18 Incorporation of the George Ritter Company in London a joint stock company to be in business for 20 years. Partners include Christoph de Graffenreid and Franz Ludwig Michel. The Agent for the George Ritter Company is Johann Justus Albrecht, sent to the Siegerland to recruit miners in
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Spotswood established a colony of German immigrants on the Germanna tract in 1714, partly for frontier defense but mainly to operate his newly developed ironworks. Germanna was the seat of Spotsylvania County from 1720 to 1732. Spotswood erected a palatial home and, after the Germans moved away to
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The first colony consisted of the family surnames: Albrecht, Brombach/Brumback, Fischbach/Fishback, Hager, Friesenhagen, Heide/Heite/Hitt, Heimbach, Hofmann, Holzklau/Holtzclaw, Huttmann, Kemper/Camper, Cuntze/Koontz, Merdten/Martin, Otterbach/Utterback, Reinschmidt, Richter/Rector, Spielmann,
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Copy of Original letter from Pastor Knabenschuh was found by Emil Flender while researching the Siegen Archives for Dr. BC Holtzclaw, Emil Flender sent it to Dr. Holtzclaw along with the translation which was found in the Germanna Foundation Visitor Center in the papers of Dr.
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1720 May 17: Johann Justus Albrecht file statement regarding "eleven Labouring men to work in Mines or Quarries at or near Germanna and we began to work March One Thousand Seven Hundred and 15/16 and so continued until Dec. One Thousand Seven Hundred &
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County in 1720, of which the Germanna tract was the first, while he was Lieutenant Governor and actual executive head of the Virginia government. He served in this capacity between 1710 and 1722 and, in 1716, he carried out his famous
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in 1978. Traces of the terraces of Spotswood's mansion which came to be known as the "Enchanted Castle" are still discernible. The Germanna Foundation is conducting archaeological exploration of the Fort Germanna, Siegen Forest, and
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Charles Herbert Huffman, Editor; Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw, The Germanna Record, Germanna Record No. 1: Hitt, Martin, Weaver (Culpeper, Virginia: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc. 1961),
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Charles Herbert Huffman, Editor; Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw, The Story of Germanna Descendants in Reunion at Siegen Forest Virginia (Virginia: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc. 1960),
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on the Siegen Forest side of the Germanna Highway, 15 miles (24 km) east of Culpeper and 20 miles (32 km) west of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Foundation also owns a nearby 18th century mansion,
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Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750 (Virginia: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc. 1964), 185-192.
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books, a newsletter, offers educational programs at an Annual Historical Conference and Reunion and to the community, and offers group travel to Germany geared to the origin of the Germanna families.
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area of Germany brought in 1717, but also include other German families who joined the first two colonies at later dates. Although many Germanna families later migrated southward and westward from
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Willis M. Kemper and Harry Linn Wright, Genealogy of the Kemper Family in The United States: Descendants of John Kemper of Virginia (Chicago: Geo. K. Hazlitt & Co., 1899), 31, 40, 51.
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As part of a series of land grants awarded to settlers to create a buffer against the French, the Privy Council granted Spotswood 86,000 acres (350 km) in the newly created
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1713 Jul 12 Pastor Knabenschuh goes to Oberfischbach to find that Pastor Haeger is gone and the Schoolteacher, Hans Jacob Holtzklau "is also willing to travel away."
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William J. Hinke, “The First German Reformed Colony in Virginia: 1714-1750 “(Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society (1901-1930), Vol. 2, No. 2, 1903), 2, 8.
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1713 Jul 17:Jacob Holzklau request permission to immigrate. Hermann Otterbach requested permission to immigrate on 5 Sep 1711, first of the group to do so.
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1717: Eighty-odd Germans from Wuerttemberg, Baden, and the Palatinate agree with Capt. Tarbett in London to take them to Pennsylvania in the ship Scott.
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The site of Fort Germanna is mostly open fields with intervening thickets of second-growth timber. The Fort Germanna site was listed on the
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Dr. Lothar Irle, Siegerlander Personlichkeiten- und Geschlechter-Lexicon (Siegen: Selbstverlag des Siegerlander Heimatvererins, 1974), 131.
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Virginia, genealogical evidence shows that many of the families intermarried for generations, producing a rich genealogical heritage.
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Germantown, continued the ironworks with slave labor. In his later years he served as Deputy Postmaster General for the Colonies.
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January 1719-20: Pastor Haeger and the members of the First Colony moved to Stafford County, Virginia which is present day
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area in Germany brought to Virginia to work for Spotswood in 1714, and the Second Colony of twenty families from the
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1717/1718: Capt. Tarbett hijacks the Germans to Virginia where they become indentured servants of Lt. Gov. Spotswood
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counties. Many Germanna families played roles in important events in early American history such as the
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By December 1718, Spotswood says he spent about 60 pounds on the endeavor so there was no iron furnace.
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1713 Jul 31:Philip Fischbach/Hans Jacob Richter; Jost Cuntz request permission to immigrate.
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The Germanna Colonies consist primarily of the First Colony of forty-two persons from the
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1712 May 12 Johann Justus Albrecht composes the Union Book for the George Ritter Company
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1711 Aug 15 Johann Justus Albrecht signs a contract with the Ministers of Siegen
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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
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Hinke, William J. (October 1932). "The 1714 Colony of Germanna, Virginia".
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Spotsylvania County Deed Book A, pg. 165--Naturalization of Jacob Holtzclaw
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The site of the first settlement, Fort Germanna, is located in present-day
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Staatsarchiv Munster, Furstentum Siegen Landesarchiv 11, No. 28 BS2.
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to move to Virginia and establish a mining industry in the colony.
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1718, early in the year: they were instructed to search for iron
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National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Virginia
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Staatsarchiv Munster, Furstentum Siegen Landesarchiv 24, No. 76
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1711 Sep 5 Hermannus Otterbach requests permission to Immigrate
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Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc.
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1725: Most of these Germans move to the Robinson River Valley
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1733: Johann Caspar Stoever becomes their (Lutheran) pastor
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on the continent, which doubled as a defensive blockhouse
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1716: they started mining operations at the silver mine
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January 1714: they left for Virginia on an unknown ship
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Spotswood was replaced as the lieutenant governor by
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sites that it owns in Orange and Culpeper Counties.
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Culpeper, Virginia
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