This is great, Craig, and I'm glad that I could help! Yes, Martin Fishback donated the land for the Academy, it's on his property, behind his house in Jeffersonton. The house is huge, 4000 sq ft on 3 acres. It's located across the street from Fleetwood, then there's another Fishback house across the street from Martin's house, but I can't remember who's it is right now. And, the Harman Fishback house is located on the 229, it's called "Hebron." I will have to get Martin's War of 1812 information, too, we are compiling a database of Germanna descendants that served in that war for the Germanna Foundation. Barb Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:46:24 -0400 From: Craig Kilby <craig@craigkilby.com> Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Martin Fishbach and Lucy Amiss To: germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <876DDF65-827E-4C10-9012-A94AA74579E0@craigkilby.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Barbara, Thank you. We are showing his service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, source being _US Army Registrar of Enlistments 1789-1903_. He served from July 1813 to June 1815--nearly the entire duration of the conflict. We also note that he donated land and buildings to the Jefferston academy. We did not have the RW service in his notes, which is surprising because the man leading this whole project is very conscientious about this, and his home chapter is the Minutemen chapter in Culpeper, and he was undoubtedly at the ceremony in 2002. In fact, our next project is already underway, and that is a similar book on burials of RW veterans in Virginia. This greatly expands the information done in 2001 known as the JLARC report (Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee). That report is on line at: http://jlarc.virginia.gov/revwar.htm ______________________________ I will leave the marriage information as it is. Again, many thanks, Craig