George W. Durman E-mail Address(es): GermannaResearch@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <Hdanw@aol.com> To: <rowanroots@rootsweb.com>; <saund@ix.netcom.com> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] 1714 Germanna Colony in Virginia > Dear Cousin Saunders, > > If you are descended from a Kemper of early Virginia, then you and I are > distant cousins, no doubt. > > If you are interested in contributing material for the unrecognized > Germanna > colonists which you list in your recent message, will you correspond with > Sgt. George, the webmaster of the Germanna colonies list? The rootsweb > message > board has not been too lively lately. > > I think I have sent some information today about various Germanna > websites > to a newly discovered cousin, who posted her queries on the Rowan Co. > list. > > I don't know Sgt. George's immediate e-mail address, but he shows up > frequently in the messages. > > The Kemper family of colonial Virginia [not Pennsylvania] are my > ancestors, > and they were part of the First Germanna Colony in 1714. They did not > stay > long with Gov. Spotswood, and he was forced to import others, from a > different > part of Germany, and they are called the Second Colony. > > As I understand from John Blankenbaker's notes which are on the webpage by > Sgt. George, the Second Colony were from a different part of Germany and > they > had a different religion. Many of the Second Colony can be found later in > Culpeper Co., VA and in Madison Co., VA records. > > The Kempers are found almost everywhere the Holtzclaws were located both > in > Virginia and in Kentucky. > > The immigrant Holtzclaw was a schoolteacher, as I learn, and he was the > agent with the Virginia authorities for acquring land, etc. He was > naturalized in > Orange Co., VA, which was a huge county at the time. > > The Kempers bought land from the Holtzclaws, in Kentucky intermarried with > them, and so on. After they got to Kentucky, however, my Kempers went > every > which way. My particular line went to Texas to fight in the Texas > Revolution--which war attracted a lot of Tennesseans, of course. Siblings > went to > Missouri. > > I don't think this Virginia group of Germans is of much interest to people > who have ancestors in Rowan Co., NC, but American are such mongrels [as > English > people say they are], who knows? I understand from some of the Germanna > notes that one of the Moravian clergy visited the Germanna colonies from > time to > time. Frederick, Maryland was one of their [Moravian] headquarters, and > there is frequent mention of that place in their journals, which have been > translated by Adelaide Fries. I believe her compiled books were published > by the > North Carolina Historical Commission years ago. I believe they are no > longer in print, more's the pity! > > E.W.Wallace > One of the American mongrels > > > > > > **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 > 48) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROWANROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.2/1271 - Release Date: 2/11/2008 > 8:16 AM > >