John, Who told Spotswood the Germans were coming? Also, how do you like the new site? www.germanna.org It's still a work in progress but it will be quite a resource as it gets developed. Thanks, Michael john.blankenbaker@comcast.net wrote: > It was requested that I give a time line for the First Colony. Here is my estimate: > > Late spring of 1713: the people left Nassau-Siegen, apparently not in a single group. > Summer of 1713: the people arrived in London. > January 1714: they left for Virginia on a unknown ship. > Late March 1714: Spotswood finds out, for the first time, that Germans are coming. > April 1714: they arrived in Virginia. > 1716: they started mining operations at the silver mine. > 1718, early in the year: they were instructed to search for iron. > During 1718: the search for iron continued and a statement in a > courthouse says they worked until December of 1718 at mining > and quarrying. Also during the year they made their commitment > to buy land at "Germantown." By December of 1718, Spotswood > says he spent about 60 pounds on the endeavor so > there was no iron furnace. > January 1719: they moved to Germantown. Pastor Haeger may not > have moved at this time. By this time they had completed the > four years of service they committed themselves to in London. > > Someone else built the iron furnace after they had left. > > -- > John.Blankenbaker@comcast.net > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >