This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: photo66666 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.myers/5523.1.1.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you look into the general meaning of Myers, it means farmer in Germany and expert in France. It used as doctor in England. Governor Alexander Spotswood started Germanna. He did import many Germans who knew iron making to work the iron words at Germanna. The Myers family I am looking at seem to be from France or at least have family from France and Switzerland. They are boat makers and expert wood and iron workers. They also know how to build a large stone iron works. One Myers family I am looking at is headed by Jacob Myers who built the Slate Creek Iron Works in Kentucky. The Iron Works building is well recorded in History. This Iron Works was built in the 1780's from 10,000 acres of land given to Jacob Myers by Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry is married to Gov Alexander Spotswood granddaughter. Jacob Myers later sold the Iron Works to Thomas Dye Owings with Owings family members in Kentucky and Baltimore. This same Myers family is noted in a Kentucky land distribution Court Order as heirs to the Spotswood Family. On top of that, the Myers family owns over 1 million acres of Kentucky land spread over 250 Land Grants from 1783 to 1786 all signed by Patrick Henry. This family is also noted in building boats in Pittsburgh connecting Pittsburgh to the Slate Creek Iron Works in Kentucky. Coal from Pittsburgh was shipped down river and iron items were shipped up river to Pittsburgh. Then iron items were shipped overland on the National Road (US 40) to Baltimore. The Widow Myers Tavern in Pittsburgh is noted by George Washinton spelling it as the Widow Mires Tavern. He visited the Tavern in the early 1770's and recording the event in his notes. The Tavern is located at Turtle Creek where General Braddock was defeated by the French in 1755. George Washington and Robert Spotswood fought along side General Braddock when he was shot on that battlefield. Gen Braddock died a day later in Uniontown PA. Story goes they buried him in the middle of road on US 40. The Spotswoods are married into the Washington's. The Braddock Battlefield later became the Myers Land Grant at Turtle Creek. A wood tavern was later built on the land around 1769. A stone Myers Block House was also built 1/2 mile from the tavern at the mouth of Turtle Creek and the Mon river. It was used as a boat dock for river shipping. This all started for me about 2 years ago when I found paperwork that my Pittsburgh Myers family was somehow related to Gov Alexander Spotswood. Since Gen Robert E Lee is also related to Gov Alexander Spotswood, my Pittsburgh Myers family more or less went into hiding in Pittsburgh or moved to Baltimore during the Civil War. Most of the Lee family is also in Baltimore during the Civil War. I have way more on this but I think you get the idea of the interrelationship of the Myers family to the Spotswood family who started Germanna. Larry Myers Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.