John. Thanks so much for responding. I really appreciate all of your work that you have done on the Germanna families. I live so far away from Virginia and I am still working so it is very hard to take time to travel. I was really thrilled at how beautiful and relatively undisturbed the Hebron Valley is even today. This presents a tremendous opportunity to identify and preserve early sites, not only the Germanna family settlement sites but also Native American sites. I was wondering if the Germanna Foundation has ever considered applying for a grant to hire an Anthropologist/ Archaeologist to identify and evaluate potential sites in the Hebron Valley or has this been done? Susan In a message dated 10/20/2010 5:38:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: The Second Germanna Colony, for the first seven years in Virginia, lived on the north side of the Rapidan River. Various documents indicate that they were scattered from each other by about one-half mile. So they had experience of living in a more isolated fashion than they had known in German. When they moved to their new homes in what became Madison County in 1725, they moved to land that they had already staked out. In 1726, they obtained their patents for this land. Since the land required clearing so they could grow crops, I believe they would have lived on their own parcels and not in any central area. Some of these tracts were quite remote from the center of the settlement. Also, remember that the Rushes (Quakers) were living there and they apparently lived on their land at the northern end of the Robinson River settlement. They probably lived on their own land. I see no reason to doubt that the Germans, even the first settlers, lived on the land that they patented. John Blankenbaker If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to your on-line data. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message