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ter at Staunton, is named as the founder of Frankfort, the Capital of the present State of Kentucky. 148) Its name was given it by the German settlers, who came mostly from Frank- furt on the Main in 1786-87. - Major Bernhard Niederland, born of German parents in Powhatan county, Va., on Febru- ary 27th, 1755, was the first land-owner at Lexington, Ky. - Major Georg Michael Bedinger, of Shepherdstown, Va., came to Kentucky in 1779, distinguished himself as a valiant officer in the battle on Blue Lick, August 19th, 1782, was elected delegate of Bourbon county to the first Legislature of the State in 1792, and a member of the United States Congress from 1803-7. - Georg Muter, of Madison, Va., was a member of the conventions in 1785, 1787 and 1788, elector of Wood- ford county in 1792, and was appointed First Chief-Justice of the new State .- Karl Springer, the father of the noble founder of the magnificent Music Hall at Cincinnati: Reuben R. Sprin- ger, came about the year 1788 from Botetourt county, Va., to Fayette county, Kentucky, and some time later removed to Frankfort. - The first physician of Frankfort was Dr. Louis Marschall from Virginia, father of Humphrey Marshall, - (he anglicized his German name), - noted in both the civil and military history of Kentucky. - Among the pioneer settlers of Bourbon and Pendleton counties numbered: Hans Waller, born at Germanna, Va., in 1749; Peter Demoss, who had served in Muehlenberg's regiment and founded Demossville; and Simon Luetzel, of Prince William county, Va. - Bracken county149) commemorates the name of the German surveyor, Matthias Bracken, who was sent to Kentucky in 1773 by Governor Dunmore and laid out the city of Frankfort. The German Virginian : Bernard Weier, Wyer or Weyer, who dis- covered the beautiful cave in the Shenandoah valley that bears his name: "Wyer's Cave," - settled in Highland county, Ohio.
These few historical facts show, that the German-Vir- ginian immigration has done much for the development of Kentucky and Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Missouri
148.) "Deutscher Pionier," Band XII, Seite 301. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1880.
149.) "Deutscher Pionier," Band XII, Seite 293-444. Cincinnati, Ohio.
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also received a large portion of this desirable, industrious ele- ment150) and many of the most prominent families in those States are descended from these German pioneers, and it can be asserted, that by their assistance the great natural resources of the Great West of the Union became known and partially de- veloped. Richard Edwards, in his valuable History of the Great West, characterizes that German immigration as follows :
"Wherever they are found, the Germans are remarkable by the possession of those elements of character which always con- tribute to their worldly prosperity. They are not as fast in their ideas as Young America, but they have more solidity of charac- ter, and are more constant and untiring in their pursuits and are generally more sure of gaining the race in life and arriving at the goal of fortune. They resemble the tortoise in the fable- slow, constant and successful !"
According to a statistical report151) 99,267 white and col- ored people emigrated from Virginia, previous to 1860, to Ken- tucky and Missouri, - and 163,644 to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa.
150 ) Compare : Klauprecht's "Deutsche Chronik in der Geschichte des Ohio Thales," - Stirlin's "Der Staat Kentucky und die Stadt Louisville," - and Edward's "Great West and History of St. Louis."
151 ) "U. S. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture," p. 44. Washington, D. C., 1863.
END OF VOLUME I.
INDEX.
A
Adam, Rev., von Bremen Page Antilia ... 7
10
Apianus, Petrus,-or Peter Bienewitz 12
Alfinger,-or Dalfinger
12
Assignment of land to each colonist .
28
Anglican High Church
47, 110
Anabaptists.
51
Appalachian Country
58
Augusta County 87
Alexandria. .
102, 103
Alliance between the English and the Six Nations. 106
Armand's Legion 134
138
B
Bjarn or Bjarni
7,8
10
Brazil. .. 10, 11
Buckler, Maister Andrew 22
Berkeley, Sir William .30, 36, 40, 45, 46, 76
Buckner, John .
30
Batte, Capt. Heinrich
42
Bacon, Nathaniel.
45, 46, 76
Baltimore, Lord.
47
Blue Ridge Division
58
Byrd, Col. Wm.
102
Bouquet, Heinrich
109
Brake, John
142
C
Columbus, Christopher 8, 9, 10, 11, 15
Cano, Diego.
Cabot, John and Sebastian 13, 15
Chesapeake Bay. 19, 56
Cooke, John Esten . 19
21, 23, 26
Criminals imported .
29
Cavaliers, Virginia.
32
Cromwell. .
35
Charles II. 35
Cultivation of Cotton, Silk, etc 35
Culture of European Grape-vines
37
Berryville in Clarke County
73
Buckner Family. 80, 81
10
Carpenters, German-in 1607
Arnold, General .
Behaim, Martin
II
Page
Calvinists or Reformists
.43, 91
Culpepper, Lord.
46, 88
Clayborne. . .
47
Causes of German Immigration
60
Carpenter, Nathan .
95
Colonial Policy of Great Britain.
110
Colonial Congress
115 .
Cherokees ...
123
Clarke, General George Rogers. 126
Conway, Inspector-General 136, 137
D
Death, the black
8
Dudley, Ambrose-Earl of Warwick.
13
Drake, Francis.
14
Dutchmen
.21, 24, 27
Delaware, Lord.
.27, 28
Dale, Sir Thomas.
28
Dunkards, Tunker or Dunker
52, 91, 96, 141
Deckers, The.
96
Darke, General W.
102, 108, 133
Darkesville. 102
115
Dunmore War, The. .120, 121
119, 120, 123
E
Eric the Red
7
Erich, Bishop.
8
Edward III.
13
Elizabeth, Queen of England. 13, 14
Eldorado
15
Education. Public. 30, 75, 76
Effects of Slavery . .30, 31
Ephrata, Sect, or Beisselians 53, 94
Ege, Samuel .
80
Eden, Land of.
.82, 83
English Colonies
104, 108
F
Freydis
8 Finnbog
Federmanr
12
First Settlers in Virginia
13
Frobisher, Martin.
13, 14
First Dwelling Houses in Virginia
21
Feudal System
31
Fabian, Peter
42
Fry, Josue ..
42
French Invasion of Germany .60, 61
Fairfax, Lord. 86, 88, 89
Flohr, Dr. Georg Daniel. 92, 93
French and Indian War. 104, 106, 107, 108, 110
Frankfurt in Hampshire County 102
French Colonies. 104
8
Declaration of Rights
Dunmore, Governor Lord.
Page Franklin, Benjamin . First Continental Congress. 118
116 First Declaration of Independence.
119
Fleming, Colonel William .. 121
Fort Henry besieged by Indians 124, 125
Fort Rice besieged by Indians 126
French-German Allied Troops. 147, 148
G
Greenland.
7, 8
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
14
German Participation, The First Information of 14
Grievances of German Colonists
23
Germans appreciated .
29, 111
Germans and Slaveholders 30
Grants or Patents of Land. 31, 32
German Victims of the Indian Massacre in 1622. 33
Grape-Vines.
37
German Names of Places. .39, 102
Grafenried, Baron Christopher von. 43, 66, 67, 69, 72
German Settlers in Henrico and Norfolk County . 44, 45
German Sects.
47,91
German Swiss Immigration. 62, 66, 67, 82
German Exodus to America via England .62, 63
Germanna ..
67, 69, 71, 72, 73
Germanna Ford.
67
German Settlements on the Rappahannock and the Rapidan . . 68, 69, 74, 103, 158.
Germantown, Fauquier County 73
Germans and Slavery .. .76, 97
.76, 77
German Settlements in Piedmont and Middle Virginia.
German Churches.
76, 90, 91
German Farmers and Farm-hands. 97, 103, 142
German Customs and Mode of Life 98-101
German Mass-immigrations. 103
Gist, Christopher. 107 German Emigration to the West 108, 154, 156, 157, 158, 160
German Immigration to Virginia 110, 111
German Soldiers of the Colonial Army 112, 148
German Subsidiary Troops. 112, 144-153
German Feeling towards Great Britain. 114
General Congress proposed
117
German Committee of Safety at Woodstock, Va. 117, 118
German-Virginian Officers in the Colonial Army 128
General Washington's German Body-guard. 137
German Prisoners of War 148, 149-152
H
Helluland 7,8 Herjulf
7 Halg. 8 Hanseatic Union or Hanse 9, Hurter, Jobst von. 10 13
Herrera ...
11
Humboldt, Alexander von 11
Henry VII
13
IV
Page
Hampton and Hampton Roads . 19, 55, 65, 82 Hulsius, Levinius. 20 Herrmann, Augustine 37 Hack, Georg
Herrmann's Geographical Survey 38 39 Huguenots. . 43, 62, 81
Howard, Lord.
Herrnhuter.
Hinkel or Henkel, Rev. Gerhard. 70,71,92
Hopeful Evangelic Lutheran Church
76
Hebron Church in Madison County.
77
Hite, Joist, (Justus Heid) 85, 86, 87
Harper's Ferry .86, 101
Henkel Family 92
Henry, Patrick . 114, 115, 119, 121
I
Italy
.9, 13
Indians
19,24-28
Iron Furnace, Chesterfield County 28
Iron Works in the Wilderness . 72
Indian Devastations on German Settlements. 104, 105, 109, 110, 120, 121, 123
154-156 Indian Hunters
J
James I.
15, 34
James River .15, 19
Jamestown. . 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 33
Joist Hite Grant. . 86
Jewish Immigration. 95, 96
Jurisdiction of Virginia 123
Jefferson, Thomas, and German Officers 151
K
Kopernikus.
11
Kempe, Richard ..
40
Kocherthal, Rev. Josua von
62
Kemper Family
Kapp, Friedrich 70,71
75
Koiners, The.
88
Kate Mountains 95
Kernstown ..
.90, 101
King George III
114, 115, 118, 119
L
Leif.
S
Leifsbudir. 8 London Company. 15, 18, 27, 34-37
Lists of Arrivals-1607 to 1620. 22
Lenau, Nicolaus.
25
Locker, Nicolaus
26
Lists of the Living and Dead in 1623. 34, 35 Lederer, Johannes. 40
Lederer's Scientific Report and Map. 41
46 53
V
Lutherans and Lutheran Churches
Page 48, 49, 90, 91, 92, 93 Louisa County .78, 79 Lynchburg ..
81 Lafayette. .. 113, 138, 140
Logan, Chief of the Mingos 120
Lewis, General Andrew .. 120, 121, 122
Ladner, Friedrich.
128
M
Markland.
7,8
Mediterranean Sea
9
Muñoz. .
11
Magelhaens.
11
Minnewit, Peter
13
Mining in Virginia.
28, 72
Massacre, Indian
32, 33
Michel, Franz Ludwig. .
Maryland, Organization of.
48, 49, 51, 91, 97, 141 49
Mystics
Moravians .. .49, 53
Middle Virginia. .
56, 96, 103
Muehlenberg, Rev. Heinrich Melchior.
71
Matre, John van. .
84, 85
Muehlenberg, Rev. and General Peter. .. 90, 92, 117, 118, 129-132, 138, 139
Morgantown in Monongahela County
96 Marshall County 96 Monroe County 102
Martinsburg in Berkeley County 102 124
Monument in Marshall County, W. Va.
Morgan, General. .126, 142, 144
Morgan's Dutch Mess.
127
N
Norse or Northmen.
Newport, Christopher 15, 18, 19, 21, 27 7
Negro-Slavery Introduced 29, 30, 31
Navigation Act. .37, 38
Naturalization Law . 43,. 44
Norfolk and Norfolk Bay 45, 55, 81, 82
New River Plateau. 58
New Berne. . 66
.67, 88
New Mecklenburg .91, 101
92
New Market.
97, 103 Negro Labor
O
Olaf Tryggvason 8 Opechancanough . 28,32, 33
Opequon Settlements 86, 87 Ohio County ... 102 Ohio Company . 104, 105, 107
Northern Neck
42
Maps of Virginia. . 43, 66 47, 48
Mennonites
VI
P
Page
Perestrello.
11
Purbach, Georg
11
Prince von Nassau-Siegen .
13
Printz von Buchau, Johann.
13
Penn, Wm ..
17, 49, 50
Pastorius, Franz. Powhatan River 19
17, 50
Point Comfort 19
20
Powhatan, Chief of Native Confederacy
20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 32
Pocahontas.
25
Publications in Printing.
30
Provocation of the Native Indians by the English
33
Population of the Colony .
46
Pennsylvania, Organization of
47
Puritans. .
48
Pietists.
48
Protest of Pennsylvania Germans against Slavery
51
Piedmont Division . .57, 103
· Pennsylvania Germans 58, 85, 87
Palatinate. .60,71
Petersburg in Dinwiddie County 80, 81
Portsmouth, Va. .81, 82
Pocahontas County 95
Peter, Christian 102
Post, Christian Friedrich 107
Pontiac's Conspiracy against the Whites 108, 109, 110
Political Connection of the Colonies 113
Point Pleasant, Battle of. 121
Q
Quakers ..
45, 49, 50, 97. 141
Queen Anne
.61,62, 63
R
Riccioli, Giovanni Baptista. 11
Regiomontanus, Johannes. 12
Ruckhammers. Jobst, or Ruchamers
12
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Roanoke Island 14, 15
14
Ralfe, John.
25
Representative Government. .
29
Richebourg, Claude Philippe de
43
Roman Catholics.
47
Religious Causes of German Immigration.
76, 85
Richmond, Va
80
83
Roanoke River 82, 87 Rockingham County Ruffner Family .. 87, 88
74
Robinson River, German Colony on
Reformists and the Reformed Church. 81, 83, 89, 93
Royal American Regiment. . .. . 109
Resignment of Home-Reminiscences and Language by Germans 113
Pasacus, Simon
Poles.
21, 22, 27
VII
Restraints upon the Commerce and Industry .
114
116
Reed, Secretary and Adjutant of General Washington 136 Riedesel, General Fried. Adolph von .. 145, 150
S
Swein
7
Skraelingers.
8
Schoener, Johannes.
12
Speyer, Georg von.
12
Smith, Capt. John.
18, 20-27
Straubenmueller, Johann
25
Schiller, Friedrich von .
25, 145
Starving Time. 27
35
Schwenkfelder. 48
Saur, Christian 51
Spotswood, Governor Alexander 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73
School for White Children, First Authentical
Schools, Old Field. 75
Stone House, Old. 80, 81
Smithfield in Isle of Wight County
82
Settlement of the Valley and North- Western Mountains.
84-90
Stephan, Peter
86, 101
Stephensburg
86, 101
Stauffer, Jacob.
87
Strasburg (formerly Stauferstadt)
87, 101
Shenandoah County
87
Schmuckers, The
88, 92
Streit, Rev. Christian
90, 92
Sebastian. Rev
90
Schools, German .75, 93
Salem in Roanoke County
91
Seybert, Frontier Fort
94
Shawnee Indians. 94, 95
Shepherdstown (New Mecklenburg). 91, 101
Stephan, General Adam 102, 107, 133, 134
Six Nations, The. 105, 106
Steuben, General von 113, 137, 140, 141
Stamp Act, The. 114, 115, 116
119
Staatsbote, Der ..
127
Schott, Capt. Johann Paul.
134-136
State Laws in German Print.
143
T
Tyrker, Dietrich. 7, 8
Torfin. .
8
Torfinsbudir 8 Tobacco .. 28, 35, 38, 56
41
Tidewater Division
55
Topp's Letter.
63, 64
Treatment of German Immigrants on Sea. 64, 65
Tuscarora Indians
66, 72
.
Second Continental Congress.
Talbot, Sir William
Page Regulators. . . .
Staple Products
Stoever, Rev. Kaspar .70, 74, 75, 75 75
VIII
Page 74 95
Trans-Mountain Order Tucker County Tories. . Tanner, Johann.
112, 142
157
U
United Colonies of America, The .119, 120
V
Vinland . 7,8
Vasco de Gama
9
Virginia . 14, 17
Virginia a Royal Province
34
Valley District 57, 96
Valley Forge. 131, 136, 137
W
Waldseemüller, Martin, or Waltzemüller 12
Welser, Banker at Augsburg.
12
Wingfield, Edward Maria. 18, 22, 23
Werowocomoco 20 22, 23, 28
Waldo, Capt. Richard
33 59
Waller, Benjamin.
71 78
Wagener, Major Andrew.
Winchester (formerly Frederickstown)
86, 89,92, 101
Washington, George.
89, 107. 111, 120, 136, 144
Woodstock (formerly Muellerstown)
90, 92, 101, 129, 131
Wythe County
92, 93
Wytheville.
.92, 93
White Sulphur Springs
95
Wheeling in Ohio County .
101, 124
West Liberty in Ohio County
102
Weiser, Johann Konrad 105
Weiser, Konrad. . 105, 106
112
Whigs ..
112
Wieden, General Gerhard von der
132
Wetzel, Ludwig.
154, 155
Y
York River. 20
Yeardley. Sir George .. 29
29
Yorktown, Siege of.
131, 138, 139, 145
Z ·
Zinzendorf, Count Nicolaus Ludwig von .53, 76
Zimmermann, Rev. Wm .. 77,92, 95 Zane, Col. Ebenezer 102, 124, 125
Zane, Elizabeth 125
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Wyatt, Governor.
West Virginia
War of Independence
Young Women Imported
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