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Deeded land to his Morgan grandchildren in Fauquier Co. Va.
Governor of Kentucky
REF: The Fishback Family in America by Willis M. Kemper of Cincinnati, Ohio. Several years prior to 1714, Gov. Spotswood discovered deposits of iron ore on the large tracts of land he had entered, where Germanna was afterwards located, in Spotsylvania (now Orange) county. He spent much time arranging his plans, and in getting the Queen's (Ann) permission, and in having the royal share determined. After these matters were adjusted, he needed iron miners and iron workers to mine the ore, and build furnaces and run them, and there were none. When the Baron de Graffenreid was in Virginia after his escape from the North Carolina Indian massacre, he arranged with Spotswood to get miners for him from Germany. Graffenried wrote to miners in Germany. The colony was gathered from the neighborhood of the village of Musen in the province of Nassau-Siegen, in Westphalia, some ten miles Northeast of the old city of Seigen. Musen is one of the most celebrated mines in Germany having been worked since early in the 14th century. The colony, as it reached Virginia, was composed of twelve heads of families, viz: John Kemper, Jacob Holtzclaw, Johannes and Harman Fischback, John Hoffman, Harmon Utterback, Tillman Weaver (Webber), John Joseph Martin (Merdten), Peter Hitt (Heide), Jacob Coons (Countz), ___ Wayman and ___ Handback. There also came their pastor, John Henry Hager, a very learned man, who had been pastor of the reformed church at Ober Fishback, in the neighborhood of Musen. They were settled by Gov. Spotswood at Germanna in April 1714, where cabins and a block house were built for them. Owing to some dissatisfaction with the governor's treatment, they removed, about 1720 to Germantown, in what is now Farquier county.
Ref: Mr. Lawson Pearce indicates that the Germana Colony started in 1714. In 1714 Siegen belonged to the House of Orange. The area around Siegen was part of the dowry of a French Princess when she married into the House of Orange.
John became a naturalized American citizen and in 1718 petitioned for land which wasn't given by Lord Fairfax until 1721. He owned land along the Shenandoah River and he and others leased granted land to unnaturalized citizens of Germantown. He was the first of the original colonists to die.
WILL: recorded at Manassas Court House. March 11, 1733.
In the name of God Amen, I John Fishback at Licking run in Prince Williams County, being very sick and weak but of perfect and sound mind may praise be to God for the same Do nomanate ordaine contribute & appoint this my last will & Testament in manner & form following & none other, that is to say I Give & bequeath my soule to Allmighty God my heavenly Father trusting in the mercy and intersefsion of my Blesfed Savior and Rediemer Jesus Christ as will be read in the day of our Lord and inheritt Eternall Glory forever more and I bequeath my body to the Earth to be burried Decent.
I Give unto my living wife Mary Doughterly the lot of all my movables and to have house & land During her life & after her death it shall fall to my son John Frederick Fishback living on the south side of Licking Run runing toward the mill.
And I leave to my Son Henry Fishback on the north side of the said Licking Run fifty more or les.
And I give to my Daughter Catherine Rulter fifty eakers of land more or lea whereon Henry Hager doth live the said land runs along John Hoffman's line. I give my daughter Elizabeth Fishback a hundred Eakers of land more or les lining Belwert Millers, Bromback and George Gent.
I give unto my son John Frederick Fishback a hundred & twenty eakers of land more or less living on the south East and of the base on Carter line.
I give to my sons Harman Fishback, John Jacob Fishback, John Philip Fishback & Josiah Fishback two hundred and fifty akers of land for to be divided in four parts everyone having Eaquall of those Of the said land living on Hunger Runn on the branch of Goose Run.
I give to my sons Henry Fishback one hundred Eakers of land running in the little fork of Rapknop an the north river.
I give to my son Frederick Fishback a two year old mare.
I give unto Jacob Fishback, my Cousin one cow and a calf at the end of two years for his ____. (last word not known).
I give to my wife Meary Doherty one Grey Horse for the plantation Cartfly.
I do constitute John Kemper and nomanate and appoint Harman Fishback to be my whole & sole Executor of this my last will and testament to see the faithful management of the said Estate. I have seth my hand faithful my sole the day and year of our God sin'd sealed and published this the 11th day of March 1733.
Jn Fishback
in the presence of us
George Gent
Jacob Holtzclaw
Joseph Martin
John Rutsor
REF: The Fishback Family in America by Willis M. Kemper of Cincinnati, Ohio. Several years prior to 1714, Gov. Spotswood discovered deposits of iron ore on the large tracts of land he had entered, where Germanna was afterwards located, in Spotsylvania (now Orange) county. He spent much time arranging his plans, and in getting the Queen's (Ann) permission, and in having the royal share determined. After these matters were adjusted, he needed iron miners and iron workers to mine the ore, and build furnaces and run them, and there were none. When the Baron de Graffenreid was in Virginia after his escape from the North Carolina Indian massacre, he arranged with Spotswood to get miners for him from Germany. Graffenried wrote to miners in Germany. The colony was gathered from the neighborhood of the village of Musen in the province of Nassau-Siegen, in Westphalia, some ten miles Northeast of the old city of Seigen. Musen is one of the most celebrated mines in Germany having been worked since early in the 14th century. The colony, as it reached Virginia, was composed of twelve heads of families, viz: John Kemper, Jacob Holtzclaw, Johannes and Harman Fischback, John Hoffman, Harmon Utterback, Tillman Weaver (Webber), John Joseph Martin (Merdten), Peter Hitt (Heide), Jacob Coons (Countz), ___ Wayman and ___ Handback. There also came their pastor, John Henry Hager, a very learned man, who had been pastor of the reformed church at Ober Fishback, in the neighborhood of Musen. They were settled by Gov. Spotswood at Germanna in April 1714, where cabins and a block house were built for them. Owing to some dissatisfaction with the governor's treatment, they removed, about 1720 to Germantown, in what is now Farquier county.
Ref: Mr. Lawson Pearce indicates that the Germana Colony started in 1714. In 1714 Siegen belonged to the House of Orange. The area around Siegen was part of the dowry of a French Princess when she married into the House of Orange.
John became a naturalized American citizen and in 1718 petitioned for land which wasn't given by Lord Fairfax until 1721. He owned land along the Shenandoah River and he and others leased granted land to unnaturalized citizens of Germantown. He was the first of the original colonists to die.
WILL: recorded at Manassas Court House. March 11, 1733.
In the name of God Amen, I John Fishback at Licking run in Prince Williams County, being very sick and weak but of perfect and sound mind may praise be to God for the same Do nomanate ordaine contribute & appoint this my last will & Testament in manner & form following & none other, that is to say I Give & bequeath my soule to Allmighty God my heavenly Father trusting in the mercy and intersefsion of my Blesfed Savior and Rediemer Jesus Christ as will be read in the day of our Lord and inheritt Eternall Glory forever more and I bequeath my body to the Earth to be burried Decent.
I Give unto my living wife Mary Doughterly the lot of all my movables and to have house & land During her life & after her death it shall fall to my son John Frederick Fishback living on the south side of Licking Run runing toward the mill.
And I leave to my Son Henry Fishback on the north side of the said Licking Run fifty more or les.
And I give to my Daughter Catherine Rulter fifty eakers of land more or lea whereon Henry Hager doth live the said land runs along John Hoffman's line. I give my daughter Elizabeth Fishback a hundred Eakers of land more or les lining Belwert Millers, Bromback and George Gent.
I give unto my son John Frederick Fishback a hundred & twenty eakers of land more or less living on the south East and of the base on Carter line.
I give to my sons Harman Fishback, John Jacob Fishback, John Philip Fishback & Josiah Fishback two hundred and fifty akers of land for to be divided in four parts everyone having Eaquall of those Of the said land living on Hunger Runn on the branch of Goose Run.
I give to my sons Henry Fishback one hundred Eakers of land running in the little fork of Rapknop an the north river.
I give to my son Frederick Fishback a two year old mare.
I give unto Jacob Fishback, my Cousin one cow and a calf at the end of two years for his ____. (last word not known).
I give to my wife Meary Doherty one Grey Horse for the plantation Cartfly.
I do constitute John Kemper and nomanate and appoint Harman Fishback to be my whole & sole Executor of this my last will and testament to see the faithful management of the said Estate. I have seth my hand faithful my sole the day and year of our God sin'd sealed and published this the 11th day of March 1733.
Jn Fishback
in the presence of us
George Gent
Jacob Holtzclaw
Joseph Martin
John Rutsor
This additional child is quoted in materials copied by "a relative" from Kempers 1914 book. Not sure if it is correct quote!
Ref: The Fishback Family - Kemper.
Was a schoolmaster. Immigrated April 1714 from Truppach, German to Virginia
Elsbeth (Elizabeth) Catharina Heimbach
CONFLICT: If death date was 30 May 1683 then she can not be mother to children who were born after this date.
Rev. Johann Henrich (Henry) Haeger
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: ANCESTRY & DESCENDANTS OF NASSAU-SIEGEN IMMIGRANTS OF VA, 1714-1750, by B.C. Holtzclaw.; ; copy from Chapter 9 of text found in book in Florida; EXTRACTION: Henry attended the Gymnasium or Latin School at Siegen and from there went to the Herborn Paedogogium for further training. Johann Heinrich Haeger studied theology and on September 25, 1678, his 34th birthday, was appointed the third teacher in the Latin school at Siegen and continued until 1689 when he was promoted to the position of Conrector or associate director of the school. Some of the members of his Reformed Lutheran church were among the first Palatines to sail to Rottrerdam and then on to New York. On April 3, 1711, Johann Heinrich received permission to retire from the pastorate because of ill health. Johann Heinrich did not spend all of his time teaching. Jacque Pineton de Chambrun, a cousin of William III of England and court preacher at Orange in France, was arrested in 1685. He suffered many hardships in prison but eventually escaped to Holland where he was protected by William of Orange, later King of England. He wrote in French an account of the sufferings of himself and his fellow Protestants. Johann Heinrich Haeger translated this work to German, at the request of Count William Morrice of Nassau-Siegen, a cousin of William III of England. It was titled "Story of Rev. Jacque Pineton de Chambrun". Johann Heinrich was later rewarded by a promotion to the pastorate at Oberfischbach for his work on this book. In 1714, he and his wife and two daughters, Elisabeth and Agnes, emigrated to the New World, where he became the first reformed minister in Virginia. His son, Rev. Johann Friederich, was already there.
Ref: The Journal of The Presby. Historical Society - Vol ii, No.1,2,3 by Rev. Hinke. This minister was of the Reformed Calvanistic Presbyterian Church and a man of great learning. Germantown is about 20 miles south of Licking Run.
SOURCE: The Palatine families Of New York 1710, by Henry Z. Jones, Jr.; Published 1985. pg 1175
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: ANCESTRY & DESCENDANTS OF NASSAU-SIEGEN IMMIGRANTS OF VA, 1714-1750, by B.C. Holtzclaw.; ; copy sent from Chapter 8 of text found in book in Florida; EXTRACTION: (name), daughter of (father), decd. .. She was born at (date, place) and was thus nearly 20 years younger than her husband. ... Rev. Henry Haeger died in 1737 in Prince William Co., Va., leaving his property to his wife, Anna Catherine, and to his Fishback and Huffman grandchildren. His wife was still living in 1733, when the will was written, but it is uncertain wherther she survived him.
Ref: Holtzclaw Family p. 55
The Germanna Record No. 1 July 1961 page 48.William A. Martin, A MARTIN GENEALOGY - TIED TO THE HISTORY OF GERMANNA, VIRGINIA, Heritage Books, Inc. 1540 E. Pointer Ridge Place,
Bowie, MD 20716 (c) 1995 (published) 1995. p. 38, 66.Ref: The Fishback Family by Kemper p. 85
Ref: Culpepper Co. History by Green
WILL: dated 29 Sep 1782, probated 21 Oct 1782 in Culpepper Co., Va.
See [Scrapbook] image. "This was found among the personal effects of my mother's aunt "Chess" (Charcilla) O. Mason who passed away her in San Antonio in 1934. Coz. Florida (Mason) McCoy seems to have had the info printed. Coz. Florida was a daughter of Uncle Luther Mason (brother of Lewis L. Mason, Dr. Peter B. Mason, John Calvin Mason, etc.) and a first-cousin of aunt "Chess" O. Mason. This could have been published before Kemper's book on the Fishback family (pub. 1914)."(From Mrs. Lawson)
Ref: See his grandfather's notes for source of letter. He and his wife are said to have had nine children.
Ref: Fauquier Co. Deed B. 10, p 313, 24 Jan 1791 is a deed from Richard Rosser & Judith his wife, Benjamin Morgan & Betty his wife, Daniel McKoy & Agnes his wife, Sally Kemper and Alice Kemper, all of Fauquier Co. to Charles Kemper, schoolmaster, conveying a tract of land formerly the property of John Peter Kemper, decd.
According to a letter from Willis M. Kemper from Cincinnati to Judge Swing on 26 July 1877, Elizabeth had nine children.
REF: Consult COLONIAL FAMILIES OF SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA by Stella Pickett Hardy, 2nd Ed 1967 for descendants.