The Hitt Surname >From the first Colony "Settlers List" at Germanna.org. Heide/Heite/Hitt, Peter/Deiter Eisern wife Maria Elizabeth Freudenberg Kaan Marienborn Hoffmann/Hoffman/Huffman, Johannes Eisern I may be mistaken, but I am fairly sure of the following. The Germanna Tour 2007 visited the actual farm site of this family. I don't recall the Hitt family member's full name that was on the trip. Katharine or Tomm can you fill in on this? Cary Cary

There are several articles about the Hitt/Heide family from Eisern online. Google: Hitt Eisern Germanna There are several things that are well-documented that puts the First Colony Hitt in Eisern. There is a story of the 2007 Germanna Tour that tells of the Hitt homestead which we visited. Cary

Cary, It was Russell Hitt and Mary Doyle Johnson who are the two Hitts on the trip in 2007. That was the year that Horst Schneider located the original plat for the Rehbach farm overlooking the town of Kaan Marienborn. Horst, who is a retired govt. employee in the information technology saved this document from the shredder after it was digitized. Horst presented the plat to Russell who now has it framed and on the wall behind his desk at his office. As you might imagine it was quite an emotional moment for both Russell and Mary. Rehbach was the farm of Peter Hitt's mother-in-law's family and there is a "denkmal" (monument) on the property to the ancestor of the mother-in-law who is credited with initiating the Hauberg system of forest management still in use today. The settlers list you clipped below is out of kilter. The Eisern on the line with Heide belongs to the person above Heide in the list. Peter and his wife were both from Kaan Marienborn. Thom ----- Original Message ----- From: <drcary@cox.net> To: <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 4:52 PM Subject: [GERMANNA] Germanna Hitts > > The Hitt Surname > >>From the first Colony "Settlers List" at Germanna.org. > > Heide/Heite/Hitt, Peter/Deiter Eisern > wife Maria Elizabeth Freudenberg Kaan Marienborn > Hoffmann/Hoffman/Huffman, Johannes Eisern >