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- Source: "Germanna: Outpost of Adventure 1714-1956, by John W. Wayland
Book: Sponsored and Published by, The Memorial Foundation Of TheGermanna Colonies In Virginia
Charted Organization March 14, 1956
the McClure Printing Company, Staunton, Virginia 1956."
Page 63; "The Germanna colonies, like most of the other Germans whocame to America in the 18th century, were from regions in southwesternGermany. The colony of 1714 came from Nassau-Siegen, a part ofWestphalia. Page 10: "The first consisted of twelve familiesnumbering 42 persons, as shown by an order of the Virginia Councilpassed April 28, 1714."
Page 62: "The town, now the city of Siegen, is situated on the riverSieg, which flows into the Rhine from the east side." Other wellknown cities in the area are Cologne and Bonn.
The two important remaining land marks are the Nicolai Church and theBaronial Castle for the locals of Siegen and the tourists. The cityof Siegen for centuries, according to the Germanna source, has beenknown for it's skilled metal workers with iron and other metals.Round about Siegen is the home town of Muesen for the Kempers,MARTIN'S, etc... and is located about nine miles north of Siegen.
The Germanna source also states that the settlers at Germanna in 1714were well educated according to the standards at the time sinceeducation was compulsory in Nassau-Siegen in the middle of thesixteenth century onward."
Page 65: "..., speaking of the second Germanna Colony of 1717(includes the CLORE Family), says: "The colony was composed chiefly ofLutherans. It numbered eighty persons, comprised in twenty families,coming from Alsace, the Palatinate and adjacent districts in Germany."
"of the antecedent history of the third colony, 1719, also mostlyLutherans, consisting of forty families, he says comparatively nothingis known."
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