Hans Jacob Holzklau

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Holtzklau Hans Jacob Holtzklau, born in 1683 in Trupbach, was the youngest child of Hans Heinrich Holtzklau and Gertrud (maiden name uncertain). He was baptized in Nikolaikirche on Laetare Sunday, March 28, 1683, the fourth Sunday of Lent. Like his brother Johannes and his father Hans Henrich before him, Hans Jacob was a schoolteacher. On August 8, 1708, in Siegen, he married Anna Margretha Otterbach (born 1686), daughter of Hermannus Otterbach of Trupbach and his wife Elisabeth Heimbach. In 1708, Hans Jacob became the schoolteacher at Oberfischbach following the death of his brother, Johannes, who had been the schoolteacher there.

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The Holtzclaw family immigrated to the United States from the principality of Nassau-Siegen, Germany in 1714. Hans Jacob, known as Jacob, was the first generation of Holtzclaw's in America. He was born in 1683 in Truppbach, Nassau-Siegen, Germany. Jacob was a schoolmaster as was his father and older brother. Jacob immigrated to Viriginia in April, 1714 with eleven other families who were also relatives. They first settled at Germanna, Orange County, Virginia. In Virginia, Jacob held the position of "Reader" in the German Reformed Church. For this he received 30 pounds of tobacco annually from each family. In 1748, Reverand Matthew G. Gottschalk, a missionary, spoke of Jacob as "getting old" and "quite religious". Another missionary stated that "he [had] lodged with an old friend by the name of Holzklau. The little village is settled with Reformed miners from Nassau-Siegen. They live very quietly together and are nice people" (Holtzclaw, 27). A full history of the family is found in a book entitled "The Genealogy of the Holtzclaw Family 1540-1935" by B. C. Holtzclaw, Ph.D. It is an official publication of the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, Inc. The book begins by telling about the origin of the Holtzclaw family in Germany from 1540.

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D: I196 Name: Hans Jacob HOLZCLAW Surname: Holzclaw Given Name: Hans Jacob Sex: M Birth: 1683 in Trupbach, Westphalia, Ger. Death: 29 Feb 1760 in Hamilton Parish, Prince Wm., Va. _UID: 66502F907B41D511BD9EBDC3D7961731A760 Note: Jacob Holtzclaw was naturalized by Lt. Gov. Spotswood 11 July 1722 (only two days before Nicholas Yager) in Williamsburg. For unknown reasons, Jacob Holtzclaw had his naturalization paper recorded at Spotsylvania Court House 5 October 1725, thus we have the clerk's copy available to us today. At the time, he was living in Stafford County.Given that at least one person from the 1714 group and one from the 1717 group were naturalized within a few days of each other, it may be useful to search records available from that time frame in Williamsburg. It is possible that John Hoffman and John Fishback were naturalized at the same time. It is also possible that some of the Germanna colonists were never naturalized.Jacob Holtzclaw, John Hoffman and John Fishback were the three who received the land at Germantown "in trust" for the 1714 group because they were naturalized. I use quotes for the phrase "in trust" because the actual document used when the land was dispersed to the others was a lease for 99 years plus 99 years which is most definitely not a deed in fee simple.Suzanne Collins Matson

This is day two of the Holtzclaw article on The Little Fork ColonyThe Little Fork Germans are referred to indirectly in 1743 in the diary of Leonard Schnell and Robert Hussey, Moravian missionaries, on their journey to Georgia. They stayed with Jacob Holtzclaw in Germantown from Nov. 23 to Nov. 25, 1743, and were told that Matthew Hoffman, a Moravian of Bethlehem, PA., had written several letters to his brother, who lived 10 miles away; that the brother had brought the letters to Holtzclaw to read, because he was afraid that Matthew Hoffman had fallen away from the true religion; but that Holtzclaw read the letters and liked them very well (Va. Mag., Vol. 11, pp. 376-8).The center of the Little Fork settlement was on land that belonged to Jacob Holtzclaw of Germantown. He was granted 680 acres on the branches of Indian Run in the Little Fork of the Rappahannock in 1728, and the tract was enlarged to1300 acres by a later grant in 1748. On Aug. 22, 1748, Jacob Holtzclaw and Catherine his wife of Prince William Co. deeded parts of the tract to four families, as follows: Harman Back 100 acres (Orange Co. D. B. 11, p 85); John and Frederick Fishback, sons of Jacob Fishback and Catherine his wife, 150 acres, with life tenure to the parents (p.88); Henry Huffman 225 acres (p. 83); and John Young, Fr., and Katherine Young, infants, son and daughter of John Young and Mary his wife, 200 acres, with life tenure to the parents (p. 86). The Orange Co. list of tithables for 1739 shows that Jacob Holtzclaw was charged with 4 tithables on his Little Fork land, who were apparently the above 4 men, as the 1748 deeds state that the grantees were already living on the land. We can thus be pretty certain that the Little Fork group from Nassau-Siegen, or at least part of it, was established in 1749. Henry Huffman of the 1748 deed was quite clearly the John Henry Huffman of Brother Gottschalk's report, while John Young was John Jung, the Reader of the group.A fifth man, George Wayman, was also a member of the settlement as early as 1739, for on Feb. 26 of that year William Beverly gave him a life lease on 100 acres of land just southeast of Jacob Holtzclaw's tract (Orange D. B. 3, p. 389), and on May 24, 1754, Jacob Holtzclaw deeded him 98 acres of the old Holtzclaw grant between Henry Huffman and John Young (Culpeper D. B. "B", p. 115). Professor Hackley and I think that this tract of 98 acres, roughly a triangle, was probably the land on which the church was located; that it had been originally intended as the minister's glebe; and that it was not deeded to George Wayman until after the colony had given up hopes of securing a minister. Rev. James Kemper, who was born at Germantown in 1753, thought that Wayman (as well as Hanback and Utterback below) was a member of the original 1714 group from Nassau-Siegen, but except possibly in the case of Utterback, he seems to have confused members of the second Nassau-Siegen group with the first.Two other men who were in the Little Fork group in 1747 were sons of the original 1714 immigrants from Germantown. The first was James Spilman, son of John Spilman of Germantown. The William Beverly Papers in the Virginia Historical Society Library at Richmond show that in 1747 Spilman had assumed an arrears of debt of George Wayman (probably on the 1739 land deeded to Wayman by Beverly), but that Spilman had paid up the arrears by 1752. It is not improbable in view of the above that Spilman had married Wayman's daughter, as he was a young man, born ca. 1720-25. Spilman himself got a grant of 400 acres in the North Little Fork in 1751.{to be continued}Thom Faircloth

following was found by E W Wallace: I highly recommend that researchers of the First Germanna group, in particular, access the Library of Virginia website and search the land records for the surnames of interest. URL: _http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/land/index.htm_ () (Remove the punctuation at beginning and end of URL--added by rootsweb for security reasons.)The land grants for the First Germanna colony, in particular, are grouped under the Northern Neck land grants [land which was claimed by Lord Fairfax.] Much of my research on this group has been done in the books by Gertrude E. Gray, VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS [before the internet became a household word]These notes are longish. I shall divide into two parts.E.W.Wallace [female]JACOB HOLTZCLAW / HOLSCLAW OF NORTHERN NECK VIRGINIA One of the 1714 German immigrants to Germanna, Virginia (First Colony of Germanna). The Kemper family of later Garrard Co., Ky were closely associated--indeed, intermarried--with members of the Holtzclaw family.This information is from the Library of Virginia website--under Land Records:Holtzclaw, Jacob. Publication 9 July 1731. Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311. Note Location: Prince William County. Description: 362 acres adjoining a small branch of Goose Creek and on the Broad Run Mountains adjoining land of John Fischback. Source: Northern Neck Grants C, 1729-1731, p. 198, folio (Reel 290). >From Stafford Co., VA Deed Bk J-p. 275To all to whom .. Know ye that whereas JOHN FISHBACK, JOHN HOFFMAN and JACOB HOLTZCLAW all of Stafford County have for themselves made a survey and obtained a deed from the Proprietors office for 1805 acres and 108 perches of land .. Now this Indenture witnesseth that it is hereby mutually agreed between the above mentioned .. that they / nor either of them shall .. take any advantage of survivership [sic] .. upon or after the Death of any or either of them but that the heirs .. shall and may Inherit enjoy the same rights .. to the lands by the above mentioned deed conveyed by the party dyeing at the time of his death did Inherit and enjoy anything in the said deed .. 13th July 1726.Presence Thos. Whittlidge Junr.,Burr Harrison, John x Jackson John ffishbackJohn HoffmanJacob HoltzclawAt Court held for Stafford County 13th July 1726 .. John Fishback, John Hoffman and Jacob Holtzclaw came into Court .. acknowledged this Writeing which on their Motion is admitted to record(Ruth & Sam Sparacio, VIRGINIA COUNTY COURT RECORDS: DEED ABSTRACTS OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1722-1728, 1755-1765 [McLean, VA: The Antient Press, 1987], p. 35-36)Prince William Co. RecordsA Jacob Holtzclaw resided in Prince William Co. in 1745 (witness to a deed) , and he may be the progenitor of the Jacob Holtzclaw who is found later in Kentucky. He appears with a John Holtzclaw on the 1738 Rent Roll of Prince William Co., Va. DB 1745-1746: pp. 108-113 Indenture, 16 and 27 May 1746 between William Bailey and Elizabeth his wife [only child of John Blowers] of Prince William Co. and Jacob Holtzclaw of same, 197 A, [originally] patented to John Blowers of Stafford Co. (lapsed lease); resurvey 9 Sep 1745, lns. of Waugh Darnall, Macquire, branch of Broad Run. /s/ William Bailey. Elizabeth relinq'd dower rights. Wits: Natha. Chapman, George Gent, John Holtzclaw, William X Wood. pp. 122-126 Indenture, 20 and 21 June 1746, Harmon Kamper and Catherine his wife of Par. of Hamilton & Prince William Co. to Jacob Holtzclaw, 40 A, E. sd. of Licking Run, being part of a grand [grant?] patent taken up by John Fishback, John Hufman, and Jacob Holtzclaw and by them conveyed by deeds to Joseph Counts decd, and by him given and bequeathed in his will to Catherine Kemper, wife of said Harmon Kamper, lying between land of Elizabeth Ricter now Elizabeth Marr and land of Jacob Holtzclaw. /s/ Harmon + Kemper; Catharine (stylized C) Kemper, 23 Jun 1746.pp. 127-130: 23 Jun 1746 Tilman Weaver [another Germanna descendant] and Jacob Holtzclaw of Hamilton Par., Prince William Co. to John Wright and Joseph Blackwell of same 62 pds., 8 shillings 208 A, lns of Jeremiah Darnal, Carter's line, German Roling Road, for use of a glebe /s/ Tilman Weaver [in German] Jacob Holtzclaw.(Probable source: Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Prince William Co., Virginia Deed book I, L (1745-1746/1748-1749 [McLean, VA: The Antient Press)Other records show Jacob Holtzclaw was active in Prince William Co. buying and selling land.Fairfax Co. was formed from Prince William Co. in 1742.Northern Neck Land Grant Bk F-293: Jacob Holtzclaw of Pr. William Co. 335 A. in Fairfax Co. Surv. Jacob Lasswell. On Fork of William's Gap Br., adj. George Carter Esq. dec'd. John Hanby, Jacob Pedrick, Fairfax Manor of Leeds. 2 June 1748. (Gertrude E. Gray, VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS, V. ?, p. 16)Fauquier Co. RecordsFauquier Co. was formed from Prince William Co. in 1759>From Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee, FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA [Warrenton, VA, 1959], p. 48-49: "Runs Flowing into the Occoquan Creek": "Broad Run - Rises in the Rappahannock Range and, with its named and unmentioned branches, flows into the Occoquan.""Runs Running into Goose Creek": "Little River - Jacob Holtzclaw's grant in 1731 is located 'at the head of a small branch of Goose Creek,' Little River."Jacob Holtzclaw died before Feb 1760 in Prince William Co. as evidenced by this abstracted will:15 Jan 1759. 29 Feb 1760. Hamilton Parish, Prince William Co. To son, Joseph Holtzclaw, 374 acres of land. To son, Jacob Holtzclaw, 200 acres of land that I purchased of Harman Kamper and Harmon Button, also land that I purchased of Thomas Barton. Son, Joseph Holtzclaw, to have the liberty of taking as much timber off 150 acres as he has need for building a dwelling house. Son Harman Holtzclaw, to have land that I bought in Prince William County of Thomas Stone. Grandsons, Henry and Joseph Holtzclaw, sons of John Holtzclaw (son). Grandsons: Henry Hall, Joseph Hall. To daughter, Eve Wiley (hus. Allen Wiley), 300 acres of land. To daughter, Elizabeth Miller (hus. Harman Miller) land. To daughter, Alice Katherine Hitt, 1 Negro boy. Grandson, Joseph Darnall, son of Jeremiah Darnall, to have 355 acres of land in Prince William County. Grandson, Jacob Fishback, son of Frederick Fishback, to have 1Negro. Land in Augusta County to be sold and the money to be divided among all my children. Exrs: son Jacob Holtzclaw and Jeremiah Darnall (son-in-law). Wit: Peter Hitt, Thomas Marshall, Henry Kamper. (p. 10)(J. Estelle Stewart King, ABSTRACTS OF WILLS, ADMINISTRATIONS AND MARRIAGES OF FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1759-1800 [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1986 reprint & improved of 1939 edition], p. 2)Correction to above abstract posted by e-mailCatherine, had died between 1754 and 1759 (the date of writing his will). His will, dated January 15, 1759, was proved in Fauquier County, Virginia, February 29, 1760.Submitted by E.W.WallaceThis is to continue the preceding message about Jacob Holtzclaw - one or several. By the married names of the daughters indicate this Germanna group [of 1714] started intermarrying early with the Anglos in the neighborhood. However, Hitt and Miller are believed to be German names.For some information on a later Hitt, do a google.com search for harmon hitt and put the name in quotation marks.There is an abstract of a land grant for Herman Hitt on the Library of Virginia website - land records.Do the same kind of Google.com search for Jacob Holtzclaw.An additional note: Some of the writings of B. C. Holtzclaw now have been digitized and are on the library-only subscription of HeritageQuest. Ask your public librarian to help you find a library where you can obtain a card with a number on it--so that you may be able to remotely access HeritageQuest. Also the Kemper family genealogy has been digitized and is on the same database.E.W.WallaceThis is my transcription of Jacob's will [submitter not noted, unfortunately. Thanks to whomever submitted this.]:WILL OF JACOB HOLTZCLAWIn the Name of God Amen. I Jacob Holtzclaw of the Parish of Hamilton and County of Prince William, being of Perfect sense and memory do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament as followeth. Imprimis. I Give and bequeathe to my son Joseph Holtzclaw three hundred and seventy five acres of land more or less being the land I bought of Warner Toward. To him and his Heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever and in default of such Heirs to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body.Item. I Give and bequeathe unto my Son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body all that tract of Land on Licking Run and containing Two hundred acres more or less being the Land whereon I now live including forty acres I bought of Harman Kemper and also that forty acres bought of Harmon Button, being all the land joining the said Tract.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my son Jacob Holtzclaw all that Tract of Land which I bought of Thomas Barton in Prince William County containing one Hundred and fifty Acres more or less, to him and his Heirs forever Lawfully begotten of his Body, only reserving to my son Joseph Holtzclaw the liberty of taking as much timber off of the said hundred and fifty acres of Land as he shall have occassion for in Building a Dwelling House for himself.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my son Harman and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body two Hundred acres of land more or less being the Land I bought of Thos Hone (?) whereon the said Harman now lives. Also I give and Bequeath to my son Harman Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever one Hundred acres of Land, being part of a Tract of Land containing three hundred and fifty seven acres and lying of the Branches of Hungar Run in Prince William County and hereafter given to my grandsons Henry and Joseph Holtsclaw.Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Eve Wiley the Wife of Allen Wiley and her Heirs Lawfully Begotten of her body Three Hundred Acres of Land lying in Loudon County on Goose Creek Granted to me by Patent in the year one thousand seven Hundred and fifty. But if my said Daughter Eve should Die without Heirs Lawfully Begotten of her Body or in Default of such Heirs the said Land to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body.Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Alice Katherine Hitt the wife of Henry Hitt three hundred acres of Land where the said Henry Hitt now lives being Part of a Tract of Land lying in Culpeper County containing one thousand three hundred acres and Granted to me by Patent in the year one thousand seven Hundred and forty eight to her and her Heirs Lawfully Begotten of her Body forever, and in default of such Heirs to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body. Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Daughter Elizabeth Miller the wife of Harman Miller three Hundred acres of Land whereon the said Harman Miller now lives being Part of the above said Tract of thirteen Hundred acres, to her and her Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of her body and in default of such Heirs to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs Lawfully Begotten of his Body forever.Item. I Leave to son Henry Holtzclaw two Hundred acres of land whereon he now lives being part of a Tract of land of 496 acres lying upon Broad Run and taken up on the year 1724--during his natural Life and at his Death to his son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body and in default of such Heirs said Land to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his heirs forever Lawfully Begotten.Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Grandson, Henry Holtzclaw, the son of John Holtzlcaw, one hundred acres of land lying upon the Branches of Hungar Run, being Part of a Tract of land containing three hundred and thirty-seven acres, to him and his Heirs forever.Item. I Give and Bequeath to my Grandson, Joseph Holtzclaw, the son of John Holtzclaw, the Remaining Part of the above said Tract of land of 337 acres, being one hundred and thirty seven acres more or less, to him and his Heirs forever.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Grandson Joseph Darnal, the son of Jere Darnal, three hundred and thirty five acres of Land lying in Loudon County near Williamses Gap joining the Land of George Carter, to him and his Heirs forever.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Daughter, Katherine Darnal, the wife of Jeremiah Darnal, Three Hundred and sixty two acres of land in Prince William County joining the land of the Heirs of John Fishback, to her and her Heirs forever.Item. I Give and Bequeathe unto my Son, Joseph Holtzclaw, above mentioned, one Negro Woman named Nan, one Featherbed and Furniture, one cow and calf, one Pewter Dish and Bason and two Plates and one Desk.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my son, Jacob Holtzclaw, one Negroe Boy named Anthony, one Featherbed and Furniture one Cloathespress, one cow and Calf, one Pewter Dish and Bason and two Plates.Item. I Give to my Daughter, Eve Wiley one Negroe Girl named Hale now in the Possession of Allen Wiley, Husband to Eve.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Daughter, Alice Katherine Hitt, one Negroe Boy named Daniel.Item. I Give and Bequeathe unto my Daughter, Eliz. Miller, one Negroe Boy named Soloman now in the Possession of Harman Miller, Husband to the said Elizabeth.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Son, Harmon Holtzclaw, one Negro Wenchnamed Sarah now in his Possession.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Son Henry Holtzclaw one Negroe Boy named Ned now in his Possession.Item. I Give and Bequeathe unto my Grandson, Jacob Fishback, son of Frederick Fishback, one Negroe Boy named Toney.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Daughter, Katherine Darnal, one Negroe Man named Robin, one Feather Bed and Furniture and one warming Pan.Item. I Give and Bequeathe unto my Grandson, John Fishback, son to Frederick Fishback, one Hundred and seven acres of land lying in Loudon County on Goose Creek being the Remaining Part of the Tract of land whereof a Part is Given to my Daughter Eve Wiley above mentioned, to him and His Heirs forever.Item. It is my Will and Desire that one Tract of Land containing five hundred and eleven acres in Augusta County being in two Patents, together with all my Personal Estate not herein before mentioned be sold at Publick sale by my Executors hereafter mentioned and the money arising therefrom after paying my just debts to be Divided between all my Children herein before mentioned.Item. I Constitute and appoint my Son in law Jeremiah Darnal and my son Jacob Holtzclaw my Executors to this my Last Will and Testament in Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this 15th Day of January Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine.Signed Sealed and Published In the first line of in the presence of this page was Peter Hitt interlined the word (his mark) (estate) and in the Thomas Marshall second D the words Henry Kamper (by my Executors here after mentioned) before assigned as also was the other Interlineations.(signed) Jacob HoltzclawSealed with Double Headed Eagle SignetAt a court held for Fauquier County the 29th Day of February 1760 this Will was proved by the oaths of Thomas Marshall and Henry Kamper Witnesses thereto and was ordered to be recorded and on the motion of Jeremiah Darnall one of the Extrs herein named who made oath according to law Certificate is granted him for obtaining aprobat whereof in due Form and Liberty I granted the other Extr. to join in the probat when he shall think fit.Teste(signed) Humphrey Brook, ClkA Copy Test: H. L. Pearson, ClerkCircuit Court of Fauquier County, VirginiaWill Book 1, Page 10Kentucky RecordA Jacob Holtzclaw (generation unknown but probably second or third) entered land on 8 Feb 1780, 400 acres, on Dicks R. (Lincoln Land Entries), page 9, Bk. 1. On the same date, he entered the same amount of land, again on Dicks R. in Jefferson Land Entries, page 9, Bk. 1. His kinsman, Jacob Fishback, on 12 Sep 1780, entered 1,000 acres at "Holsclaw Settlement." Bk 1, page A12. (Comment: "Grants on Dicks' River" lists Jacob Holtsclaw, 400 acres, 1781--Buena Vista or Harmony Church.][Forrest Calico, HISTORY OF GARRARD COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND ITS CHURCHES p. 205)Holsclaw, along with Elijah Holsclaw appears on the Mercer County Tax List, 1789, when Mercer Co. was still part of Virginia.The Holtzclaws, Fishbacks, and Kempers were intermarried. Holtzclaw's land was later in Mercer Co. KY. According to deeds of Garrard Co. KY of John Kemper (one of two John Kempers in early Garrard Co.) Kemper bought part of Holtzclaw's land. In other words, Kemper did not enter land of his own.Lincoln Co., KY [then VA] records indicate that Jacob Fishback deeded [indentured] land 15 Nov 1785 to Jacob Holtclaw, Charles Spilman, and William Shoemaker. They all are believed to have been descendants of Germanna Colony settlers.From Mercer Co., KY deed index:Holsclaw [sic], Jacob, grantor; Grider, Henry, grantee, 1788, 1-65.Holsclaw, Jacob, grantor; Holsclaw, Jacob, Jr., 1794, 2S4-40 (?)Submitted by E.W. WallaceHOLTZCLAW, Jacob, land grant to, 105; named in warrant for Germantown tract, 122; trustee, 123; lay reader, 127; land grant to, 128; will proved, 130.

lived in Pr. Wm Co. Will probated in Fauquier Co. . J. Blankenbaker says he was a landowner and a recruiter of Germans from the Siegen region to come to Va. James Ashley on internet claims descendent from 4th child Jacob who m Susannah Given. Their Child Nellie B. who m Christopher Grider. Patented land in Little Fork in 1729 according to John Blankenbaker. In 1748 he sold 200 acres to John Young, Jr. and his wife Mary. John Jr.'s parents were John Young Sr., either his first wife Else Maria Bender or his 2nd wife Anna Maria Baumer. Both of these marriages took place in Germany prior to John Young's journey to America in 1734 on the ship Hope which landed in Philadelphia. Mentions daughter Eva Wileyin will, also.

The eleven hundred and thirty-second note in a series on the Germanna Colonies

Looking at some of the individuals who made the trip from Siegen to London, there is one family to whom we might ascribe a motive with some certainty. That is Rev. Häger whose son had arrived in New York in 1710. All of the family that remained in Germany consisted of Rev. Häger, his wife, and his two young daughters. If all of these went to the New World, the living members of the family could be reunited. This was certainly a motivation. It was not an easy decision to make for Rev. Häger was about 70 years old, retired, and, it was thought, not in the best of health. If he died, then his wife would be left to care for the two daughters. Possibly, Rev. Häger had been influenced by the Protestant pastors in Siegen. They had signed an agreement with Albrecht in which they were to receive money from the profits of the mine. Perhaps they, the Siegen pastors, had encouraged Rev. Häger to go as an encouragement toward the recruiting of the other individuals. The Häger family seems to have been giving up a comfortable life as a retired family. They had a house with servants. If anyone in the group had a reason for not leaving, the Häger family could claim the prize. Another family who would seem to have little reason for going was the Jacob Holzklau family. He held a job as a school teacher and was probably farming. It would not seem that he was under any economic pressure. But like the Hägers, there were family reasons. The family of Margaret Holzklau, Jacob's wife, seems to have been going "in masse." (These were the Otterbachs.) So perhaps the Holtzclaws and the Hagers were primarily motivated by family reasons. They went either to keep a family united or to be reunited with family members. Hans Jacob Richter earned his admission to the Guild of Steelsmiths and Toolmakers in 1712. To be admitted, presumably as a Master, meant he had studied the craft for many years. The existing members of the guild did not admit members freely to the guild since the primary purpose of the guild was to ensure a comfortable living for the members. They did not want too much competition. Someone who had won the status of Master could expect a comfortable living. So why did Jacob Rector leave Trupbach? Again, one reason is family. Jacob Richter had married Elizabeth Fischbach and the Fischbach family was leaving. So of the first three families that we have examined, it would appear that none of them had a pressing economic reason for leaving. The three families seem to be trying to keep a family united or to reunite a family. This leaves the basic reasons with the Otterbachs and the Fischbachs and we will look at them in another note but I will not promise any answers. Incidentally, both the Otterbach and the Fischbach families lived in Trupbach. Trupbach itself, from the historical description, seems to have been a small, quiet village, basically of farmers.

John Blankenbaker

At a court held for Fauquier County the 29th Day of February 1760 this Will was proved by the oaths of Thomas Marshall and Henry Kamper Witnesses thereto and was ordered to be recorded and on the motion of Jeremiah Darnall one of the Extrs herein named who made oath according to law Certificate is granted him for obtaining aprobat whereof in due Form and Liberty I granted the other Extr. to join in the probat when he shall think fit.Teste(signed) Humphrey Brook, ClkA Copy Test: H. L. Pearson, ClerkCircuit Court of Fauquier County, VirginiaWill Book 1, Page 10

on 10/10/03 11:50 PM, RockCatt@aol.com at RockCatt@aol.com mailto:RockCatt@aol.com> wrote: the lower grant of 5,000 acres to Jacob Stover, which a previous note shows was in the vicinity of present Luray, Va. What steps, if any, were taken to colonize this land, are not known to the writer. The next succeeding Order seems  to indicate that the grant was assigned to McKay and Hite, but John Fishback was still owning land on the Shenandoah in 1734, as shown above. McKay and Hite also seem to have had designs upon both of Stover's grants previously mentioned, but did not obtain them. However, Stover may have been one of the "German Protestants"mentioned in this Order, whose names are not recited."  I have asked for a copy of the Order having to do with Rob't McKay and Jost Heyd to see what that may say.Fairfax Harrison's "Landmarks of Old Prince William" has some informationabout the June 1731 document you found in the "White Plains" chapter.page 258a Parson Scott took two land grants in Fauquier region Aug 10, 1726 for 781acres and July 10, 1727 --included the abandoned site of the Piscataway fortand cornfields of 1697. It adjoined Russell and Warren, but straddled thedivide between the waters of the Rappahannock and the Potomac at the head ofthe Rappahannock Range, reaching from the foot of Pignut to and includingthe furture site of Marshall.. . ."following Parson Scott came an overflow from Germantown. In June, 1731,John Fishback took a grant of 1,028 acres 'at the head of a fork of twobranches of Broad Run of occoquan' and a few months later Jacob Holtzclawsurveyed 362 acres adjoining and 'at the head of a small branch of GooseCreek.' reach together, these boundaries reached to Little River andincluded that 'Fishback Ridge' which ever since has been a landmark on themap of Fauquier.." In 1741 Tilman Weaver had a grant between Crummye's andChattin's Run, north of Ball's Hosrsepen, which, by 1772 had passed toanother descendant of Germantown, John Rector, when the Assembly found thelocation to be 'convenient for an inland town' and authorized Rector to layone out upon it.. .. Rectortown."Cecil O'dell, "Pioneers of Old Frederick, County, VA, 1995, has a lot ofinformation about the early settlers in the Valley area; chapter 3 isexclusively on "Jost Hite." The Fairfax-Hite lawsuit summary and actionstaken in 1745, 1769, and 1771 are presented in the book.but only these two Fishbach references which you have. . .page 1921 day of Oct 1731--petition of McKay and Heyd of PA setting foth that theyand divers other families in the number of one hundred. .. want to relocate'on back of the Great mountains with this colony and praying that 100,000acres lying between the lines of the Land granted to John Vanmeter, JacobStover, John Fishback and others may be assisned them. . .page 210Nov 29, 1736 Fairfax had a grant surveyed by John Warner prepared in hisname for 26, 535 acres. ..tract was located between Ashby's Bent USHWY 50and William's Gap VA Hwy 7 adjacent land of Mann Page, Robert Carter,Marquis Calmes, Major Beesley, Landon Carter, Lord Fairfax, George Carter,John Warner, John Fishback, Col. Tayloe and Thomas Ashford and by MeetingHouse Tap Tract 109, Map 6. . ."This land located in Clarke & Loudoun County liesbetween Snickers and Ashby's Gaps east of Shen River on both sides of BlueRidge."Sandra
Sandra,Thanks for the info!! Looks like our Germans and Jost Hite were in competition for the same land. I will have to look closer at the lawsuit of Jost Hite and see what I can glean from it. Hmmm.....Also, who are these men:"Henry Setler Jacob Senzaback Peter Reids Michael Shower John Vaindehoase George Wolf Wm Carpenter & John Richler in behalf of themselves & other German Protestants ?" John Richler is probably John Richter/Rector? The tract below is well laid out by Eugene Scheel on his map called "Map of Snickersville Turnpike Loudon County, Virginia":"Nov 29, 1736 Fairfax had a grant surveyed by John Warner prepared in hisname for 26, 535 acres. ..tract was located between Ashby's Bent USHWY 50and William's Gap VA Hwy 7 adjacent land of Mann Page, Robert Carter,Marquis Calmes, Major Beesley, Landon Carter, Lord Fairfax, George Carter,John Warner, John Fishback, Col. Tayloe and Thomas Ashford and by MeetingHouse Tap Tract 109, Map 6. . ."This land located in Clarke & Loudoun County liesbetween Snickers and Ashby's Gaps east of Shen River on both sides of BlueRidge."So, is this land that the Holtzclaw home is on part of the 50,000acre grant? It's certainly not part of the Germantown grant. And, the site of the Holtzclaw home in Warrenton is next to Thomas Lord Fairfax's property, the 26,535 acres called "Leeds Manor", mentioned above, and also borders George Carter's tract, as well as John Hanby and Jacob Pedrick . Snicker's Gap is clearly visible, as well as the boundaried of Clarke and Loudon Counties. Thom, I'm also sending a copy of the section of the map that I'm referring to you, so that you can see what I'm talking about.Has Eugene Scheel ever spoken at any of the Germanna Reunions? I was lucky enough to meet him while here for the 1999 reunion and he is very knowledgeable, if not for him, I would not have known of the existence of the Holtzclaw farm.Barb Price

The Holtzclaw home is located in Warrenton, VA, adjacent to the 211--Thom, correct me if I'm wrong--and is on Holtzclaw Road. It is called Ashland Farm and is comprised of about 350 acres. It is a beautiful home, built between 1724 and 1740, but owned by the Holtzclaw family until 1920, when it was purchased by the Carhart family. They owned it until 1995, when Sam Cummings bought it for his two daughters and they still live in it. Thom has a photograph of the home on the Germanna website and I have just sent some other photos to him that were taken by Bill Holtzclaw in July, 1999. There is a graveyard at the left side of the property that is fenced in, as Mr. Cummings was very interested in the history of the family, so it is protected. Chad Holdsclaw has told me that he thinks there is another graveyard at the back of the property, but I've not seen it. Bill, and his wife, Susan, contacted the owners in 1999 and they allowed us to visit them, they were most gracious and took us on quite a tour. I would love for William and Mary guys to take a look at the property, as I'm sure they could help us surmise the date of it's building.I've been trying to contact John Gott, as he wrote about Ashland Farm at one time and I'm hoping that he might have more information about it.Barb Price

In a message dated 10/7/03 10:04:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, RockCatt@aol.com writes:< john,is="" there="" documentation="" of="" jacob="" holtzclaw="" "talking="" about="" leaving?"="" was="" he="" in="" contact="" with="" rev.="" haeger?="" are="" there="" records="" in="" rotterdam?="" were="" all="" of="" the="" first="" colony="" in="" england="" together?="" lots="" of="" questions,="" i="" know.barb="" price="">>1]a) Yes, an actual conversation bit is recorded by pastor Knabe[n]schu[c]h, the 1711 successor of Heinrich Haeger and joint proprietor of glebe lands. He mentions Jacob's reference to his willingness After a permission to leave from the authorities. As the function of Knabenschuh's July 1713 letter to the Synod is to inform them of Haeger's clandestine departure, one has to wonder if Haeger had such permission. It does not look like it - an application for permission could not have remained unnoticed by Knabenschuh. [I have some speculative thoughts here.]b) Yes, both Haeger and Holtzklau worked under the same supervisor, the superintendent J. Daniel Eberhardi. Initially, the transferred Latin teacher Haeger did not receive positive evaluations as a preacher; but after a few years, BOTH he and the [unnamed] school teacher were commended for their work. I conclude (therefore), that teacher Holtzklau's direct superior was pastor Haeger himself. Thus they had plenty of contact.Jacob (and this is a feeling) seems less surprised by Haeger's departure than the pastor's colleague and co-proprietor, Knabenschuh - but Knabenschuh claims that he did not reveal his plans to ANY one - deliberately leaving [them] in the dark.c) The perhaps most puzzling aspect of this letter to the Synod - which I found in the B.C. Holtzclaw archives and published in Beyond Germanna - is the fact that B. C. did NOT publish this important letter lthough he had it in his possession. I have not even seen a reference to it in any previous research.d) The departure scene the BC friend Lueck published in Siegen is mere fiction.e) The pastor's ignorance here does not preclude that the Synod's inspector Eberhardi was equally in the dark. On the contrary, he represents the missing link between Albrecht and Haeger.2] I have no knowledge about Rotterdam documents. The last historian who has done serious research there [relating to Virginia] may have been Klaus Wust. The only reference I have found to the actual travel events come from the Graffenried report according to which chief miner JJ Albrecht - the tool purchaser - was arrested by imperial authority and released after interference by the English ambassador. Although I could identify the latter, I cannot identify a document, or even the date of this event [yet]. I assume it took place at a border [probably between imperial lands and Holland because the emperor had no say in the General States or in England. The Swiss Rhine traffic, incidentally, was guarded both On the ships and by the imperial authorities in the ports.]3] a) We do not know whether all of the First Colony were in England together. We have Graffenried's account as to the number of miners - which seems to include women and children. There may have been more or fewer "miners." Besides, Graffenried sometimes gets his facts wrong. [He too has problems with the date of Queen Anne's death.]b) Some 1709 Palatine names look so familiar to me that I would not be surprised to find that while other Siegerlaender went to NY, a Fischbach or a Hoffmann or Peter Heydee lingered on in London [for whatever reasons- and there were many] and only later joined the 1713-14 Nassau emigrants. The families that came together to Virginia apparently did not leave together.[See Holtzklau above.]c) Haeger was at the SPG in October 1713; he did not find the support he wanted [following his son's example, but not successfully so.] I found another document that proves that he went to the Reformed Church in London, but have not found the church itself, nor its records [except one, procured by the Swiss Zollickoffer]. There were Dutch and Huguenot Reformed churches - and the only Reformed Church I still have to find is a contemporary German [Swiss] Reformed church in London [with pastor Werndli, a Swiss name]. I am close but not there yet - it is probably the church&congregation that was attached to/ or joined with St. Mary's le Savoy [German Lutheran since 1694]. The fact that the pastor attended this church does locate him there in 1713-1714; it does not mean that the other emigrants resided there or even close by. This deserves more attention as the Lutheran records at St. Mary's le Savoy from August and September have a good number of "Germanna" names of the 1717 immigration.d) The work projects the waiting emigrants are said to have been engaged in are too vague for me to understand, or even discuss. For the time being I must admit that I don't have anything proven or recorded outside Graffenried's statement. [Speculations on some Richter birth notwithstanding.]e) The search for "Capt. Scott" or her master, Andrew Tarbett, is ongoing - we still have neither departure nor arrival dates; we don't even know who owned the ship and who advanced the transport costs - we have not done enough research in London.Andreas The Little Fork Germans are referred to indirectly in 1743 in the diary of Leonard Schnell and Robert Hussey, Moravian missionaries, on their journey to Georgia. They stayed with Jacob Holtzclaw in Germantown from Nov. 23 to Nov. 25, 1743, and were told that Matthew Hoffman, a Moravian of Bethlehem, PA., had written several letters to his brother, who lived 10 miles away; that the brother had brought the letters to Holtzclaw to read, because he was afraid that Matthew Hoffman had fallen away from the true religion; but that Holtzclaw read the letters and liked them very well (Va. Mag., Vol. 11, pp. 376-8).The center of the Little Fork settlement was on land that belonged to Jacob Holtzclaw of Germantown. He was granted 680 acres on the branches of Indian Run in the Little Fork of the Rappahannock in 1728, and the tract was enlarged to 1300 acres by a later grant in 1748. On Aug. 22, 1748, Jacob Holtzclaw and Catherine his wife of Prince William Co. deeded parts of the tract to four families, as follows: Harman Back 100 acres (Orange Co. D. B. 11, p 85); John and Frederick Fishback, sons of Jacob Fishback and Catherine his wife, 150 acres, with life tenure to the parents (p.88); Henry Huffman 225 acres (p. 83); and John Young, Fr., and Katherine Young, infants, son and daughter of John Young and Mary his wife, 200 acres, with life tenure to the parents (p. 86). The Orange Co. list of tithables for 1739 shows that Jacob Holtzclaw was charged with 4 tithables on his Little Fork land, who were apparently the above 4 men, as the 1748 deeds state that the grantees were already living on the land. We can thus be pretty certain that the Little Fork group from Nassau-Siegen, or at least part of it, was established in 1749. Henry Huffman of the 1748 deed was quite clearly the John Henry Huffman of Brother Gottschalk's report, while John Young was John Jung, the Reader of the group.A fifth man, George Wayman, was also a member of the settlement as early as 1739, for on Feb. 26 of that year William Beverly gave him a life lease on 100 acres of land just southeast of Jacob Holtzclaw's tract (Orange D. B. 3, p. 389), and on May 24, 1754, Jacob Holtzclaw deeded him 98 acres of the old Holtzclaw grant between Henry Huffman and John Young (Culpeper D. B. "B", p. 115). Professor Hackley and I think that this tract of 98 acres, roughly a triangle, was probably the land on which the church was located; that it had been originally intended as the minister's glebe; and that it was not deeded to George Wayman until after the colony had given up hopes of securing a minister. Rev. James Kemper, who was born at Germantown in 1753, thought that Wayman (as well as Hanback and Utterback below) was a member of the original 1714 group from Nassau-Siegen, but except possibly in the case of Utterback, he seems to have confused members of the second Nassau-Siegen group with the first.Two other men who were in the Little Fork group in 1747 were sons of the original 1714 immigrants from Germantown. The first was James Spilman, son of John Spilman of Germantown. The William Beverly Papers in the Virginia Historical Society Library at Richmond show that in 1747 Spilman had assumed an arrears of debt of George Wayman (probably on the 1739 land deeded to Wayman by Beverly), but that Spilman had paid up the arrears by 1752. It is not improbable in view of the above that Spilman had married Wayman's daughter, as he was a young man, born ca. 1720-25. Spilman himself got a grant of 400 acres in the North Little Fork in 1751.Copied by E.W.Wallace Thom and Suzanne,The concert at the St Martini Church in Siegen was mindblowing!! Not only because of the music, and the musician, a very famous organist in Germany, there for our benefit, but also because the Holtzclaw family had quite a link to this church:The 7th Great Grandmother of Hans Jacob Holtzclaw, the Immigrant, was Hilla Busch. Hilla was born around 1475 and she died around 1554 in Siegen. Hilla was the daughter of Gotthard Bush and the first cousin of her husband, Gerhard Busch b. around 1470 in Schneppenkauten and died around 1502 in Schneppenkauten. Gerhard was the son of Hen Busch, owner of a Hammer at Buschhuetten and the nephew of Gotthard Busch, owner of a Hammer at Buschgotthardshuetten and Hilla's father--both of these Hammers were located in the Weidenau District of Nassau-Siegen. In fact one of them, Buschgotthardschuetten, may still exist in the town of Weidenau, founded in 1465 by the Holtzclaw, Brumback and Flender families!!! I'm hoping this will be a stop on our next trip. No pressure, Thom, I can hire a car!! Check out what BC says of Gotthard Busch:"Gotthard Busch was one of the wealthiest and most enterprising iron-masters of the 16th century in Nassau-Siegen. In addition to his own Hammer at Buschgotthardschuetten and his part ownership of the Hammer at Schneppenkauten, inherited through his wife(Gertgen Scholt, dau of Henchen Scholt of Alchen), he also owned property and a part of the Hammer at Buschhuetten, owned part of an iron-mine called Kirschbaum near Eiserfeld, was part owner of some smelter (probably also inherited through his wife), accumulated considerable captial, and was owner of a house in Siegen." Gottard died at Buschgotthardschuetten in 1498. The Flender surnames arise from the Busch families, i.e. Hen Busch, brother of the above Gotthard and son of Cone Busch, and Hen's sons, Johann, Tilchen and Gerhard(Hilla's husband).Gerhard and Hilla Busch inherited both of the Hammers. Hilla was a member of the Miners Guild and the Steelsmiths Guild in Siegen around 1550, the memberships would have been inherited from her husband, probably a citizen of Siegen.Hilla Busch lived in Siegen for many years and she had a nickname, "Hilla uff dem Ort ", or "Hilla on the corner" because she owned a shop on a prominent corner in Siegen--I sure would like to find this corner!! Hilla also attended church at St Martin's church and contributed substantial amounts of money to the Church in 1514 and 1516 for repairs, so it was quite overpowering to be sitting in that same church!!All of this information is from BC Holtzclaw's book, Ancestry and Descendants, which I took along with me on the Germanna Germany Trip. I would check out our itinerary for the next day, then open the Red Bible to see who lived where and what we might find there, it worked out great and kept me in touch with the history of our ancestors. Barb Price

This is day two of the Holtzclaw article on The Little Fork ColonyThe Little Fork Germans are referred to indirectly in 1743 in the diary of Leonard Schnell and Robert Hussey, Moravian missionaries, on their journey to Georgia. They stayed with Jacob Holtzclaw in Germantown from Nov. 23 to Nov. 25, 1743, and were told that Matthew Hoffman, a Moravian of Bethlehem, PA., had written several letters to his brother, who lived 10 miles away; that the brother had brought the letters to Holtzclaw to read, because he was afraid that Matthew Hoffman had fallen away from the true religion; but that Holtzclaw read the letters and liked them very well (Va. Mag., Vol. 11, pp. 376-8).The center of the Little Fork settlement was on land that belonged to Jacob Holtzclaw of Germantown. He was granted 680 acres on the branches of Indian Run in the Little Fork of the Rappahannock in 1728, and the tract was enlarged to 1300 acres by a later grant in 1748. On Aug. 22, 1748, Jacob Holtzclaw and Catherine his wife of Prince William Co. deeded parts of the tract to four families, as follows: Harman Back 100 acres (Orange Co. D. B. 11, p 85); John and Frederick Fishback, sons of Jacob Fishback and Catherine his wife, 150 acres, with life tenure to the parents (p.88); Henry Huffman 225 acres (p. 83); and John Young, Fr., and Katherine Young, infants, son and daughter of John Young and Mary his wife, 200 acres, with life tenure to the parents (p. 86). The Orange Co. list of tithables for 1739 shows that Jacob Holtzclaw was charged with 4 tithables on his Little Fork land, who were apparently the above 4 men, as the 1748 deeds state that the grantees were already living on the land. We can thus be pretty certain that the Little Fork group from Nassau-Siegen, or at least part of it, was established in 1749. Henry Huffman of the 1748 deed was quite clearly the John Henry Huffman of Brother Gottschalk's report, while John Young was John Jung, the Reader of the group.A fifth man, George Wayman, was also a member of the settlement as early as 1739, for on Feb. 26 of that year William Beverly gave him a life lease on 100 acres of land just southeast of Jacob Holtzclaw's tract (Orange D. B. 3, p. 389), and on May 24, 1754, Jacob Holtzclaw deeded him 98 acres of the old Holtzclaw grant between Henry Huffman and John Young (Culpeper D. B. "B", p. 115). Professor Hackley and I think that this tract of 98 acres, roughly a triangle, was probably the land on which the church was located; that it had been originally intended as the minister's glebe; and that it was not deeded to George Wayman until after the colony had given up hopes of securing a minister. Rev. James Kemper, who was born at Germantown in 1753, thought that Wayman (as well as Hanback and Utterback below) was a member of the original 1714 group from Nassau-Siegen, but except possibly in the case of Utterback, he seems to have confused members of the second Nassau-Siegen group with the first.Two other men who were in the Little Fork group in 1747 were sons of the original 1714 immigrants from Germantown. The first was James Spilman, son of John Spilman of Germantown. The William Beverly Papers in the Virginia Historical Society Library at Richmond show that in 1747 Spilman had assumed an arrears of debt of George Wayman (probably on the 1739 land deeded to Wayman by Beverly), but that Spilman had paid up the arrears by 1752. It is not improbable in view of the above that Spilman had married Wayman's daughter, as he was a young man, born ca. 1720-25. Spilman himself got a grant of 400 acres in the North Little Fork in 1751.Copied by E.W.Wallace

Yes Vickie, Holtzclaw, Hoffman, Spillman, Fishback and others patented landin the Little Fork in the 1730s as speculation land to encourage otherSiegenlanders to immigrate to Virginia. This is the present day town ofJeffersonton in Culpeper County. The Fishback house among others is stillstanding and is a point on our annual tour of the Germanna homesteads duringthe Annual Reunion. A visit to Jeffersonton Baptist Church will reveal manyGermanna names in the cemetery behind the church building. The Little ForkChurch (now Episcopal) was the second church formed in the new St. MarksParish, the boundaries of which coincided with the boundaries of The GreatFork. The present church building, built in the 1770s still stands and isone of the best examples of Colonial Church architecture. The first churchin the parish was called the Great Fork Church and was located near Lignum,VA on land now owned by the T.O. Madden Family. For convenience of theminister the Glebe was located about half way between the Great Fork Churchand the Little Fork Church. As a side note, even though Spotswood's home wasin the old St. George Parish on the south side of the Rapidan River, he wasgiven his choice of pews in the new Great Fork Church. There are a fewunmarked (and maybe several undiscovered graves) near the site of the GreatFork Church, and a spring bubbles up near the church which is known as "LadySpotswood's Spring".Finally, Holtzclaw also built a home further north from Little Fork nearAmissville which was not associated with the Little Fork. That house stillstands on Holtzclaw Road in Fauquier County. Barb Price knows lots aboutthis house, so maybe she can chime in here with more about it. And John B.can jump in anytime too, as he knows a lot about the Little Fork Colony.ThomThom and Vicki,I had known about my Holtzclaw ancestors for many years, but imagine my surprise when I learned that the home of Hans Jacob Holtzclaw was still standing!! I attended my first Germanna Reunion in 1999 and I got acquainted with another Holtzclaw descendant, Bill Holtzclaw, and his wife, Susan. They had heard of the Holtzclaw home and contacted the present owners, the Cummings family, to ask permission to visit. Bill and Susan invited me along and it was wonderful, the Cummings family very gracious in allowing us to visit.The Holtzclaw home is located just outside of Warrenton, Virginia at the corner of Route 211 and Holtzclaw Road, this was known as the Snickersville Turnpike. The land consists of about 350 acres with the main house, built ca. 1740, and several outbuildings. The front portion of the main house appears to be the original portion of the home, it's made of stone with stone foundations and a slate roof. The interior is half-timbered. According to John Gott, the home was built between 1725 and 1740 and was called Ashland Farm. It was owned by the Holtzclaw family until 1920 when it was sold to the Carharts then sold to the Cummings family in 1995. Sam Cummings was always very interested in the history of the Holtzclaw family, so much so that he had a Historical Marker placed on Hwy 211 that states:(CB2) ASHLAND FARMThe Holtzclaw family acquired Ashland through a grant issued by Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood in 1724, and lived on this land until the 1920's. While a portion of the house dates to about 1725, the main residence was completed by 1889, and was remodeled and enlarged by architect William Lawrence Bottomley in 1929. Between 1861 and 1864, the Union Army stationed pickets at Ashland, as it was used as a Federal medical dressing station. Legend claims that a Union army payroll, hidden by a paymaster who died in 1862 at nearby Waterloo, Virginia, is still buried here. (Route 211, 4.4 miles west of Warrenton). Mr. Cummings also placed a protective fence around a graveyard that is located in a horse corral. We walked around the little graveyard, bordered with old stones, but were unable to see any carving of any kind on the stones from where they lie, we didn't want to disturb them. From what Chad Holtzclaw has told me, he thinks there is another graveyard at the back of the property, but I have yet to see this. Mrs. Cummings told us that she wished her husband was still alive to meet descendants of the Holtzclaw family, but he died about 6 months prior to our visit.The land was orginally owned by Hans Jacob Holtzclaw and passed through the family in this way:Hans Jacob Holtzclaw and Anna Margreth OtterbachJohn Holtzclaw and Catherine Russell ThomasJ oseph Holtzclaw and Caty James--he inherited the land from his grandfather, Jacob--will dated 1760Eli Holtzclaw and Sarah Barnett--supposedly, he was born at Ashlawn Farms and died there, too.Lucy Holtzclaw--b. 1806 d. 1885 supposedly born and died at Ashlawn Farmsm. Richard R. Holtzclaw, son of Josiah, son of John, son of JacobCharles Eli Holtzclaw b. 1846 d. 1922--supposedly born and died at AshlawnFarmsm. Katherine PayneMy research continues on the history of the home, I'm hoping to have the Holtzclaw Home also placed on the Reunion Tour, and I would love to make contact with descendants of any of the above Holtzclaws., especially Charles Eli Holtzclaw. Who knows, someone might have more information about the home and it's occupants over the years.I hope this has helped!! Oh, Thom has placed my photo of the Holtzclaw home on the Germanna Foundation's website, too.Barb Price

The statement in the Essex County Courthouse said:"The Honable Alex Spotswood His Majesty's Leut. Governour & Commander in Chief ofVirginia did put under my command Eleven Labouring men to work in Mines or Quarriesat or near Germanna, and we began to work March One Thousand Seven Hundred and15/16 and so continued ti1 Dec. One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighteen.John Justice AlbrightWhat is subscribed above by the Hofman is true, for I kept the accounts for him & was oneof the men.Hs. Jacob HoltsclareAt a Court held for Essex County on Tuesday the 17th day of May 1720 -Then sworn to by the above named John Justice Albright and Hans Jacob Holsclare &ordered to be recorded."

Schuetz has been discussed in connection with the Moravians who traveled through and met "old Mr. Holtzclaw who was becoming pious in his old age". ( The "old Mr. Holtzclaw" being Hans Jacob Holtzclaw) It has been a point of speculation for some time among some of us as to how Hans Jacob Holtzclaw would have known Schuetz who (as Sandra Yelton indicated) is well documented in Craven County NC. The Moravian ministers kept diaries (it is my understanding that most Moravians did and still do). Moravian diaries are archived in Winston-Salem NC at Old Salem for the southern section and in Bethlehem PA for the northern section. I don't know if these have been researched thoroughly for reference to our ancestors, but it might prove to be a great source of information. The archives at Winston-Salem allows access to the diaries but no photocopies are permitted.There is a German source that gives a Holzklau as the "hofmann" on a farm near Niederholzklau. The farm was owned by the Keppel convent. There were a total of six farms in Niederholzklau-four of them were owned by the church at Oberholzklau as distinct from the convent. The references I have found thus far go back to the late 1400's-all church records. If anyone knows how to get a copy of the actual documents from a German archives-please contact me.Suzanne <> The questions about the identity of Hans Jacob Holtzclaw's second wife, Catherine, haunt me, too, Susan! I find it most disturbing and frustrating that we do not know her maiden name. She must have died prior to Jacob because she isn't named in his will, only his children and grandchildren.BC Holtzclaw surmises that the first 4 children--John, Henry, Catherine and Ann Elizabeth--are the children of Anna Otterbach. John and Henry definitely were their children, as we have their baptism records from Oberfischbach. He thinks that the youngest 3 children--Joseph, Jacob and Eve--are the children of the second wife, Catherine. And the middle 3 children--Harman, Elizabeth and Alice Katherine--probably are the children of his first marriage to Anna Otterbach as they seem to have been born between 1720-1729. He cites the second marriage as Catherine Holtzclaw, wife of Jacob, releases her dower in land deeded to Mary Spilman on 13 Aug 1729 and his source is "Fauquier Co.., Va., Miscellaneous Records, 1759-1807, p.9)As far as their Bible, I wish we knew where that was, too! Wish I could be of more help, Susan, but we will keep searching!I have the baptism record for Hans Jacob Holtzclaw, the death record of his father, Hans Henrich, and his marriage record to Anna Margreth Otterbach that I would be happy to send to you via email. I have photos of Hans Jacob's house in Trupbach, Germany, and Anna Margreth's house in Trupbach, they lived just a few hundred feet from one another. I've traveled with the Germanna Foundation to Germany 3 times and have alot of photos that I would be happy to share with you, too. Barb Price

John,I have just replied to your notes about Jacob Holtzclaw being the Reader for the Church after the death of Rev. Haeger and I did address the subject of Ashland/Ashlawn farm, but I'll do it in a little more detail here as I've been researching this land for several years, as have Bill and Susan Holtzclaw. We originally thought that this land was purchased by Jacob Holtzclaw early on and was the same land that Jacob left to his grandson, Joseph, in his will of 1759, but last year, with the help of Don Tharpe, found that the land was purchased by Joseph Holtzclaw, in 1768. The land consisted of 163 acres and was sold to Joseph Holtzclaw by Joseph and Caty Thomas. I found the deed at the Fauquier Co Courthouse in July. I think that this land was originally owned by Henry and Mary Martin, the children of the Immigrant, John Joseph Martin. This land was granted to his children, Henry and Mary Martin, in 1729, they being very young children at the time and the total acreage am!ounted to 327 acres, 163 acres to each of them. Next to this property was land that was granted to John and Jacob Kemper, also the 2 young children of the Immigrant, John Kemper, granted on the same day in 1729 and consisting of 327 acres. I found a great description of both of these tracts, along with a map of their boundaries and to whom they were granted.Now, back to the land that we thought was what is today, Ashland/Ashlawn---Bill Holtzclaw found a deed to Jacob Holtzclaw that is dated 1724, if I remember correctly, in Stafford Co at the time, and Bill thought that this deed was Ashland/Ashlawn. Don Tharpe looked at it and it was not Ashland/Ashlawn, but it was the earliest deed that he has seen for the First Colony and for Jacob Holtzclaw and we have yet to actually locate it in present day Fauquier Co. While researching at the Fauquier Co Courthouse last July, I did find a document having to do with the division of land in Jacob Holtzclaw's estate after his death and this document had a map of a tract of land at the top of it and it bears resemblance to the land that he bought in 1724, but I have to do some more research on this.Also of note is the relationship between Joseph Holtzclaw, Jacob's grandson and the owner of the land at Ashland/Ashlawn, and Joseph and Caty Thomas--we know that Joseph Holtzclaw's mother, Catherine, was married prior to her marriage to Joseph's father, John Holtzclaw, to a man whose last name was Thomas and she had a son named Jacob Thomas. BC Holtzclaw speculates that Jacob Thomas married Mary Martin and that their son is the Joseph Thomas that sold the land to Joseph Holtzclaw as he was in possession of Mary Martin's land when he sold it to Joseph in 1768. The land that Joseph Holtzclaw purchased in 1768 was definitely part of the Martin tract per the deed of 1768: "...that the said Joseph Thomas and Caty his wife for and in consideration of the sum of five shillingscurrent money of Virginia to them in hand paid the receipt where as they doth hereby acknowledgethemselves to be fully satisfied and paid hath demised granted bargained and sold to the saidJoseph Holtzclaw one hundred and sixty three acres of land in the County of Fauquier it being part ofa larger tract of land taken up by Henry and Mary Martin as appears by a Deed from the proprietorsoffice bearing date one thousand and seven hundred and twenty nine and bounded as follows........Joseph Holtzclaw was the builder of the home on Ashland/Ashlawn, although it certainly didn't look like it does now! Joseph is probably buried there, as there is a small cemetery that had been fenced off by Sam Cummings several years ago and we did find a marked grave with the name S. Holtzclaw and the appropriate dates for this to be Sarah (Barnett) Holtzclaw, Joseph's wife. I have traced the ancestry of the home to the sale of it to the Carharts in 1929, I believe, for around $36,000, after the death of it's last Holtzclaw owner, Charles Eli in 1922, the land was sold by his wife, Katherine. It sold about a year ago for around $4million!Yes, the Historical Marker on the 211 and Holtzclaw Rd is wrong ! Thom Faircloth has been trying to get this corrected for about 2 years now. Hopefully, that will be finished soon.I thank you for your wonderful notes, John, and for the information regarding Jacob Holtzclaw and the mystery of the lost church records.Barb Price

Hi Cary and _list_ () land of Jacob Holtzclaw I have a small old map and it shows where Jacops land was. Where the North Hedgeman-Rappahannock River and the South -Elk-Eastham-Hazel River join is the land of Robert Beverly. Joining his land was Richard Young, on the left side was Wm. Beverlyand on the right was Robert Slaughter. Jacops land joined Wm. Beverly, Richard Young and at the end cotner of Robert Slaughter. Muddy Run runs into the South Elk-Eastham -Hazel River and that point is the lt. northern part of Robert Beverlys land. The lt southern land of Wm. Beverly and Richard Young. It has portions of which, in 1748, were sold to Harman Back, Jocop Fishback, J. Henry Huffman and John Young. Jim

-----Original Message-----From: rockcatt@aol.com To: johblank@pipeline.com ; germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 3:58 PMSubject: Re: Jacob Holtzclaw and Ashland/Ashlawn FarmJohn,I have just replied to your notes about Jacob Holtzclaw being the Reader for the Church after the death of Rev. Haeger and I did address the subject of Ashland/Ashlawn farm, but I'll do it in a little more detail here as I've been researching this land for several years, as have Bill and Susan Holtzclaw. We originally thought that this land was purchased by Jacob Holtzclaw early on and was the same land that Jacob left to his grandson, Joseph, in his will of 1759, but last year, with the help of Don Tharpe, found that the land was purchased by Joseph Holtzclaw, in 1768. The land consisted of 163 acres and was sold to Joseph Holtzclaw by Joseph and Caty Thomas. I found the deed at the Fauquier Co Courthouse in July. I think that this land was originally owned by Henry and Mary Martin, the children of the Immigrant, John Joseph Martin. This land was granted to his children, Henry and Mary Martin, in 1729, they being very young children at the time and the total acreage am!ounted to 327 acres, 163 acres to each of them. Next to this property was land that was granted to John and Jacob Kemper, also the 2 young children of the Immigrant, John Kemper, granted on the same day in 1729 and consisting of 327 acres. I found a great description of both of these tracts, along with a map of their boundaries and to whom they were granted.Now, back to the land that we thought was what is today, Ashland/Ashlawn---Bill Holtzclaw found a deed to Jacob Holtzclaw that is dated 1724, if I remember correctly, in Stafford Co at the time, and Bill thought that this deed was Ashland/Ashlawn. Don Tharpe looked at it and it was not Ashland/Ashlawn, but it was the earliest deed that he has seen for the First Colony and for Jacob Holtzclaw and we have yet to actually locate it in present day Fauquier Co. While researching at the Fauquier Co Courthouse last July, I did find a document having to do with the division of land in Jacob Holtzclaw's estate after his death and this document had a map of a tract of land at the top of it and it bears resemblance to the land that he bought in 1724, but I have to do some more research on this.Also of note is the relationship between Joseph Holtzclaw, Jacob's grandson and the owner of the land at Ashland/Ashlawn, and Joseph and Caty Thomas--we know that Joseph Holtzclaw's mother, Catherine, was married prior to her marriage to Joseph's father, John Holtzclaw, to a man whose last name was Thomas and she had a son named Jacob Thomas. BC Holtzclaw speculates that Jacob Thomas married Mary Martin and that their son is the Joseph Thomas that sold the land to Joseph Holtzclaw as he was in possession of Mary Martin's land when he sold it to Joseph in 1768. The land that Joseph Holtzclaw purchased in 1768 was definitely part of the Martin tract per the deed of 1768: "...that the said Joseph Thomas and Caty his wife for and in consideration of the sum of five shillingscurrent money of Virginia to them in hand paid the receipt where as they doth hereby acknowledgethemselves to be fully satisfied and paid hath demised granted bargained and sold to the saidJoseph Holtzclaw one hundred and sixty three acres of land in the County of Fauquier it being part ofa larger tract of land taken up by Henry and Mary Martin as appears by a Deed from the proprietorsoffice bearing date one thousand and seven hundred and twenty nine and bounded as follows........Joseph Holtzclaw was the builder of the home on Ashland/Ashlawn, although it certainly didn't look like it does now! Joseph is probably buried there, as there is a small cemetery that had been fenced off by Sam Cummings several years ago and we did find a marked grave with the name S. Holtzclaw and the appropriate dates for this to be Sarah (Barnett) Holtzclaw, Joseph's wife. I have traced the ancestry of the home to the sale of it to the Carharts in 1929, I believe, for around $36,000, after the death of it's last Holtzclaw owner, Charles Eli in 1922, the land was sold by his wife, Katherine. It sold about a year ago for around $4million!Yes, the Historical Marker on the 211 and Holtzclaw Rd is wrong ! Thom Faircloth has been trying to get this corrected for about 2 years now. Hopefully, that will be finished soon.I thank you for your wonderful notes, John, and for the information regarding Jacob Holtzclaw and the mystery of the lost church records.Barb Price

From Stafford Co., VA Deed Bk J-p. 275To all to whom .. Know ye that whereas JOHN FISHBACK, JOHN HOFFMAN and JACOB HOLTZCLAW all of Stafford County have for themselves made a survey and obtained a deed from the Proprietors office for 1805 acres and 108 perches of land .. Now this Indenture witnesseth that it is hereby mutually agreed between the above mentioned .. that they / nor either of them shall .. take any advantage of survivership [sic] .. upon or after the Death of any or either of them but that the heirs .. shall and may Inherit enjoy the same rights .. to the lands by the above mentioned deed conveyed by the party dyeing at the time of his death did Inherit and enjoy anything in the said deed .. 13th July 1726.Presence Thos. Whittlidge Junr.,Burr Harrison, John x Jackson John ffishbackJohn HoffmanJacob HoltzclawAt Court held for Stafford County 13th July 1726 .. John Fishback, John Hoffman and Jacob Holtzclaw came into Court .. acknowledged this Writeing which on their Motion is admitted to record(Ruth & Sam Sparacio, VIRGINIA COUNTY COURT RECORDS: DEED ABSTRACTS OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1722-1728, 1755-1765 [McLean, VA: The Antient Press, 1987], p. 35-36)Comment: Researchers will find other material about some of these persons in Prince William Co. VA records, many of which have also been transcribed and published by The Antient Press. Some of Prince William Co. records are missing, alas!E.W.Wallace

He's asking for the will of Jacob Holtzclaw that died in 1808, not Jacob Holtzclaw that died in 1760. Here's the complete Will of Jacob Holtzclaw that died in 1760:WILL OF JACOB HOLTZCLAW"In the Name of God Amen. I Jacob Holtzclaw of the Parish of Hamilton & County of Prince William, being of Perfect sense and memory do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament as followeth.Imprimis. I Give & bequeathe to my son Joseph Holtzclaw three hundred and seventy five acres of land more or less being the land I bought of Warner Toward. To him & his Heirs Lawfully begotten of his Body forever & in default of such Heirs to faill to my son Jacob Holtzclaw & his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body.Item. I Give & bequeathe unto my Son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body all that tract of Land on Licking Run & containing Two hundred acres more or less being the Land whereon I now live including forty acres I bought of Harman Kemper & also that forty acres bought of Harmon Button, being all the land joining the said Tract.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my son Jacob Holtzclaw all that Tract of Land whick I bought of Thomas Barton in Prince William County containing one Hundred & fifty Acres more or less, to him & his Heirs forever Lawfully begotten of his Body, only reserving to my son Joseph Holtzclaw the liberty of taking as much timber off of the said hundred and fifty acres of Land as he shall have occasion for in building a Dwelling House for himself.Item. I Give & bequeathe to my son Harman and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body two Hundred acres of land more or less being the Land I bought of Thos Hone (?) whereon the said Harman now lives.Also I give & Bequeath to my son Harman Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever one Hundred acres of Land, being part of a Tract of Land containing three hundred & thirty seven acres and lying on the Branches of Hunger Run in Prince William County and hereafter given to my grandsons Henry & Joseph Holtsclaw.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Daughter Eve Wiley the Wife of Allen Wiley and her Heirs Lawfully begotten of her body Three Hundred Acres of Land lying in Loudon County on Gooss Creek Granted to me by Patent in the year one thousand seven Hundred & Fifty. But if my said Daughter Eve should Die without Heirs Lawfully Begotten of her Body or in Defualt of such Heirs the said Land to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heris forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my Daughter Alice Katherine Hitt the wife of Henry Hitt three hundred acres of Land where the said Henry Hitt now lives being Part of a Tract of Land lying in Culpepper County containing one thousand three hundred acres and Granted to me by Patent in the year one thousand seven Hundred & forty eight to her and her Heirs Lawfully Begotten of her Body forever, and in default of such Heirs to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Daughter Elizabeth Miller the wife of Harman Miller three Hundred acres of Land whereon the said Harman Miller now lives being Part of the above said Tract of thirteen Hundred acres, to her & her Heirs forever Lawfully begotten of her body & in default of such Heirs to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw & his Heirs Lawfully Begotten of his Body forever.Item. I Leave to son Henry Holtzclaw two Hundred acres of land whereon he now lives being part of a Tract of land of 496 acres lying upon Broad Run and taken up in the year 1724--during his natural Life and at his Death to his son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten of his Body and in default of such Heirs said Land to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw & his Heirs forever Lawfully Begotten.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Grandson, Henry Holtzclaw, the son of John Holtzclaw, one hundred acres of land lying upon the Branches of Hungar Run, being Part of a Tract of land containg three hundred and thirty-seven acres, to him & his Heirs forever.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Grandson, Joseph Holtzclaw, the son of John Holtzclaw, the Remaining Part of the above said Tract of land of 337 acres, being one hundred and thirty seven acres more or less, to him & his Heirs forever.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Grandson Joseph Darnal, the son of Jere[miah] Darnal, three hundred & thirty five acres of Land lying in Loudon County near Williamses Gap joining the Land of George Carter, to him & his Heirs forever.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Daughter, Katherine Darnal, the wife of Jeremiah Darnal, Three Hundred and sixty two acres of land in Prince William County joining the land of the Heirs of John Fishback, to her and her Heirs forever.Item. I Give & Bequeath unto my son, Joseph Holtzclaw, above mentioned, one Negro Woman named Nan, one Featherbed 7 Furniture, one cow & calf, one Pewter Dish & Bason & two Plates & one Desk.Item. I Give and Bequeathe to my son, Jacob Holtzclaw, one Negroe Boy named Anthony, one Feather Bed & Furniture one Cloathspress, one cow & calf, one Pewter Dish & Bason and two Plates.Item. I Give to my Daughter, Eve Wiley one negroe Girl named Hale now in the Possession of Allen Wiley, Husband to ___Eve.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Daughter, Alice Katherine Hitt, one Negroe Boy named Daniel.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Daughter, Eliz. Miller, one Negroe Boy named Solomon now in the Possession of Harman Miller, Husband to the said Elizabeth.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my son, Harmon Holtzclaw, one Negro Wench named Sarah now in his Possession.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my son Henry Holtzclaw one Negroe Boy named Ned now in his Possession.Item. I Give & Bequeathe unto my Grandson, Jacob Fishback, son of Frederick Fishback, one Negroe Boy named Toney.Item. I Give & Bequeathe to my Daughter, Katherine Darnal, one negroe man named Robin, one Feather Bed 7 Furniture, & one warming Pan.Item. I Give & Bequeathe unto my Grandson, John Fishback, son to Frederick Fishback, one hundred & seven acres of land lying in Loudon County on Gooss Creek being the Remaining Part of the Tract of land whereon a Part is Given to my Daughter Eve Wiley above mentioned, to him & His Heirs forever.Item. It is my Will & Desire that one Tract of Land containing five hundred and eleven acres in Augusta County being in two Patents, together with all my Personal estate not herein before mentioned be sold at Publick sale by me Executors hereafter mentioned and the money arising therefrom after paying my just debts to be Divided between all my Children herein before mentioned.Item. I Constitute & appoint my son in law Jeremiah Darnal & my son Jacob Holtzclaw my Executors to this my Las Will & Testament in Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand & seal this 15th Day of January Anne Dom. one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine.Signed Sealed and Published In the first line of this page was interlined the wordin the presence of (estate) and in the second D the words (by my ExecutorsPeter Hitt here after mentioned) before assigned as also was the other(his mark) Interlineations.Tho. MarshallHenry Kamper(signed) Jacob HoltzclawAt a court held for Fauquier County the 29th Day of Feb. 1760 This will was proved by the oaths of Thomas Marshall and Henry Kamper witnesses thereto and was ordered to be recorded and on the motion of Jeremiah Darnal one of the Extrs herein named who made oath according to law Certificate is granted himfor obtaining a probat whereof in due Form and liverty is granted the other Extr. to join in the probat when he shall think fit.Teste(signed) Humphrey Brook, ClkA Copy Test: H.L. Pearson, ClerkCircuit Court of Fauquier County, VirginiaWill book 1, Page 10(Note: This will of Jacob Holtzclaw was sealed with a Double Headed Eagle Signet.)

Someone is asking about Holtzclaw, and I forget the exact question. The Holtzclaw family is a family allied with my Kemper family of several different Northern Neck counties, and later of Garrard Co. and Mercer Co., KY.Maybe this will help a Holtzclaw researcher. (Remember, he is not my ancestor, but perhaps one of his daughters may be, as there were several Holtzclaw-Kemper marriages in Kentucky. My research indicates there were a number of men named Jacob Holtzclaw, so be careful of the dates--and the places.)These notes have not been edited, but in most cases, I have tried to cite the sources. I suggest you check those sources and then compare with the originals. I find sometimes the abstractors have trouble reading the old handwriting and leave out a valuable piece of information--just the piece you need to make the proper linkage!!! Warning!!!E.W.WallaceA Kemper-Utterback descendantJACOB HOLTZCLAW / HOLSCLAW OF NORTHERN NECK VIRGINIA One of the 1714 German immigrants to Germanna, Virginia (First Colony of Germanna). The Kemper family of later Garrard Co., Ky were closely associated--indeed, intermarried--with members of the Holtzclaw family.Note the dates - may not be in date order.This information is from the Library of Virginia website--under Land Records:Holtzclaw, Jacob. Publication 9 July 1731. Other Format Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311. Note Location: Prince William County. Description: 362 acres adjoining a small branch of Goose Creek and on the Broad Run Mountains adjoining land of John Fischback. Source: Northern Neck Grants C, 1729-1731, p. 198, folio (Reel 290). >From Stafford Co., VA Deed Bk J-p. 275To all to whom .. Know ye that whereas JOHN FISHBACK, JOHN HOFFMAN and JACOB HOLTZCLAW all of Stafford County have for themselves made a survey and obtained a deed from the Proprietors office for 1805 acres and 108 perches of land .. Now this Indenture witnesseth that it is hereby mutually agreed between the above mentioned .. that they / nor either of them shall .. take any advantage of survivership [sic] .. upon or after the Death of any or either of them but that the heirs .. shall and may Inherit enjoy the same rights .. to the lands by the above mentioned deed conveyed by the party dyeing at the time of his death did Inherit and enjoy anything in the said deed .. 13th July 1726.Presence Thos. Whittlidge Junr.,Burr Harrison, John x Jackson John ffishbackJohn HoffmanJacob HoltzclawAt Court held for Stafford County 13th July 1726 .. John Fishback, John Hoffman and Jacob Holtzclaw came into Court .. acknowledged this Writeing which on their Motion is admitted to record(Ruth & Sam Sparacio, VIRGINIA COUNTY COURT RECORDS: DEED ABSTRACTS OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1722-1728, 1755-1765 [McLean, VA: The Antient Press, 1987], p. 35-36)Prince William Co. RecordsA Jacob Holtzclaw resided in Prince William Co. in 1745 (witness to a deed) , and he may be the progenitor of the Jacob Holtzclaw who is found later in Kentucky. He appears with a John Holtzclaw on the 1738 Rent Roll of Prince William Co., Va. DB 1745-1746: pp. 108-113 Indenture, 16 and 27 May 1746 between William Bailey and Elizabeth his wife [only child of John Blowers] of Prince William Co. and Jacob Holtzclaw of same, 197 A, [originally] patented to John Blowers of Stafford Co. (lapsed lease); resurvey 9 Sep 1745, lns. of Waugh Darnall, Macquire, branch of Broad Run. /s/ William Bailey. Elizabeth relinq'd dower rights. Wits: Natha. Chapman, George Gent, John Holtzclaw, William X Wood. pp. 122-126 Indenture, 20 and 21 June 1746, Harmon Kamper and Catherine his wife of Par. of Hamilton & Prince William Co. to Jacob Holtzclaw, 40 A, E. sd. of Licking Run, being part of a grand [grant?] patent taken up by John Fishback, John Hufman, and Jacob Holtzclaw and by them conveyed by deeds to Joseph Counts decd, and by him given and bequeathed in his will to Catherine Kemper, wife of said Harmon Kamper, lying between land of Elizabeth Ricter now Elizabeth Marr and land of Jacob Holtzclaw. /s/ Harmon + Kemper; Catharine (stylized C) Kemper, 23 Jun 1746.pp. 127-130: 23 Jun 1746 Tilman Weaver [another Germanna descendant] and Jacob Holtzclaw of Hamilton Par., Prince William Co. to John Wright andJoseph Blackwell of same 62 pds., 8 shillings 208 A, lns of Jeremiah Darnal, Carter's line, German Roling Road, for use of a glebe /s/ Tilman Weaver [in German] Jacob Holtzclaw.Other records show Jacob Holtzclaw was active in Prince William Co. buying and selling land.Fairfax Co. was formed from Prince William Co. in 1742.Northern Neck Land Grant Bk F-293: Jacob Holtzclaw of Pr. William Co. 335 A. in Fairfax Co. Surv. Jacob Lasswell. On Fork of William's Gap Br., adj. George Carter Esq. dec'd. John Hanby, Jacob Pedrick, Fairfax Manor of Leeds. 2 June 1748. (Gertrude E. Gray, VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS, V. II [Baltimore: Genealogical Publ. Co., 1988, third printing 1997], p. 16)Fauquier Co. RecordsFauquier Co. was formed from Prince William Co. in 1759>From Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee, FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA [Warrenton, VA, 1959], p. 48-49: "Runs Flowing into the Occoquan Creek": "Broad Run - Rises in the Rappahannock Range and, with its named and unmentioned branches, flows into the Occoquan.""Runs Running into Goose Creek": "Little River - Jacob Holtzclaw's grant in 1731 is located 'at the head of a small branch of Goose Creek,' Little River."Jacob Holtzclaw died before Feb 1760 in Prince William Co. as evidenced by this abstracted will:15 Jan 1759. 29 Feb 1760. Hamilton Parish, Prince William Co. To son, Joseph Holtzclaw, 374 acres of land. To son, Jacob Holtzclaw, 200 acres of land that I purchased of Harman Kamper and Harmon Button, also land that I purchased of Thomas Barton. Son, Joseph Holtzclaw, to have the liberty of taking as much timber off 150 acres as he has need for building a dwelling house. Son Harman Holtzclaw, to have land that I bought in Prince William County of Thomas Stone. Grandsons, Henry and Joseph Holtzclaw, sons of John Holtzclaw (son). Grandsons: Henry Hall, Joseph Hall. To daughter, Eve Wiley (hus. Allen Wiley), 300 acres of land. To daughter, Elizabeth Miller (hus. Harman Miller) land. To daughter, Alice Katherine Hitt, 1 Negro boy. Grandson, Joseph Darnall, son of Jeremiah Darnall, to have 355 acres of land in Prince William County. Grandson, Jacob Fishback, son of Frederick Fishback, to have 1 Negro. Land in Augusta County to be sold and the money to be divided among all my children. Exrs: son Jacob Holtzclaw and Jeremiah Darnall (son-in-law). Wit: Peter Hitt, Thomas Marshall, Henry Kamper. (p. 10)(J. Estelle Stewart King, ABSTRACTS OF WILLS, ADMINISTRATIONS AND MARRIAGES OF FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1759-1800 [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1986 reprint & improved of 1939 edition], p. 2) Years ago, when I first became interested in this crazy hobby of genealogy, I attended a lecture by a well-known genealogist-historian-lecturer-author on doing genealogical research in Virginia.She commented, If you are researching Virginia, then research ALL the counties. I thought the lady was nuts, until I started digging into my father's colonial ancestors' lives. She was and is so right!My Dad's paternal grandmother was a direct descendant of the 1714 Germmana immigrant, John Kemper [whose many descendants sometimes bear that frustrating first name!]Here is an example for the colonial Holtzclaw family, whose records I find in many Virginia counties, including Orange Co., although Jacob Holtzclaw and his wife Catherine were residents in 1748 of Prince William Co., which divided into other counties--of course!!! Some of the Holtzclaw descendants migrated to Kentucky.Perhaps these abstracts will help you find some of your *missing* Germanna relatives:By the way, if you know the relationship of Jacob Holtzclaw and his Catherine, of ca. 1748, to the grantees in these deeds, will you post the info on this list--so that we can all share your knowledge--and perhaps in turn help you with some knotty genealogical problems.If you use these excerpts in your own notes, please add the citations, which I have tried to give, in most cases. (Your descendants will ask: Where did you get this information? Did you make it up?)Submitted by E.W.WallaceFirst, two abstracted land grants for land in Stafford Co. and later in Fairfax Co. (Note how the counties kept dividing. Also, note that this first Northern Neck land grant is dated 1724, ten years after these first Germanna colonists were imported by Governor Alexander Spotswood. I understand Jacob Holtzclaw was a teacher, and therefore seemed to acquaint himself with the land laws/customs of Virginia in a short time.)Northern Neck Land Grant A-125 Jacob Holtzclaw of Stafford Co. 496 A. 82 Per [perches] in said Co. adj. Wm. Stone, on Broad Run. 9 Feb 1724.(Gertrude E. Gray, VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS, 1694-1742 [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987, Third printing 1997], p. 79) Northern Neck Land Grant Bk F-293: Jacob Holtzclaw of Pr. William Co. 335 A. in Fairfax Co. Surv. Jacob Lasswell. On Fork of William's Gap Br., adj. George Carter Esq. dec'd. John Hanby, Jacob Pedrick, Fairfax Manor of Leeds. 2 June 1748. (Gertrude E. Gray, VIRGINIA NORTHERN NECK LAND GRANTS, V. II, 1742-1775 [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988, Third printing 1997], p. 16)Apparently earlier than August 1748, Jacob Holtzclaw and his wife seem tohave owned land in Orange Co., VA, which land they sold to persons who probably were relatives of some degree.Orange County Deed Bk 11 pp. 83-84Indenture 25 Aug 1748 between Jacob Holtzclaw and Catherine, his wife, of Prince William County, and Henry Huffman, of Orange County.. for seventeen pounds .. grants 225 acres .. bounded .. John Young .. Harmon Back's line....No witnesses Jacob HoltzclawRecorded Orange County Catherine (X) Holtzclaw25 August 1748DB 11 - pp. 84-86Indenture 25 Aug 174- between Jacob Holtzclaw and Catherine, his wife, of Prince William County, and Harmon Back, of Orange County.. for twenty pounds .. grants 100 acres land in Orange County in the Little Fork of the North Branch of Rappahannock River .. bounded .. Jacob Fishback...No witnesses Jacob HoltzclawRecorded Orange County Catherine (X) Holtzclaw25 August 1748DB 11 - pp. 86-88Indenture 25 Aug 1748 betwen Jacob Holtclaw and Catherine, his wife, of Prince William County, and John Young, Junr..., and Katherine Young (Infant).. son and daughter of John and Mary Young of Orange County .. for sum of twelve pounds .. grant 200 acres in the North Little Fork of Rapphannock River .. bounded Henry Huffman .. Little Indian Run .. Chisum's line .. to be divided between John Young and Katherine Young in the manner following .. [description of the land] .. to the use of John Young Junr. and residue of land to Katherine Young (reserving to John Young, the Elder, and Mary, his wife, parents of John Young, Junr. and Katherine Young .. the free use of the land during their natural lives...No witnesses Jacob HoltzclawRecorded Orange County Catherine (X) Holtzclaw25 August 1748(Ruth L. and Sam Sparacio, DEED ABSTRACTS OF ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA (1743-1759) [McLean, VA: The Antient Press, 1985, second printing], pp. 98-99).. Change Date: 16 Oct 2007 at 01:00:00

Father: Hans Heinrich HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1646 in Wiedenau,Ger. Mother: Gertrut SOLBACH b: ABT 1645 in Siegen,Nassau-Siegen,Ger.

Marriage 1 Anna Margaret OTTERBACH b: 1686 in Trupbach, Westphalia, Ger. Married: 7 Aug 1708 in Oberfischbach,Nassau-Siegen,Ger. Children Has Children Johannes HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1709 in Oberfischbach,Nassau-Siegen, Ger. Has Children Henry HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1711 in Oberfischbach,Nassau-Siegen,Ger. Has Children Elizabeth HOLZCLAW b: 1716 in Trupbach,Westphalia,Ger. Has Children Catherine HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1722 in Germantown,Fauquier,Va. Has Children Ann Elizabeth HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1715/1725 in ,,Va. Has Children Alice Katherine HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1725/1730 in Germantown, Essex, Va.

Marriage 2 Catherine b: ABT 1710 Married: ABT 1729 Children Has Children Joseph HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1734/1735 in ,Prince William , Va. Has Children Jacob HOLZCLAW b: 17 Feb 1738 in ,Prince William,Va. Has Children Harman HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1730 in Germantown,Faujquier,Va. Has No Children Eve HOLZCLAW b: ABT 1741

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THE HOLTZCLAW FAMILY

Hans Jacob Holtzclaw and Anna Margreth Otterbach Hans Jacob Holtzclaw, was born in Truppbach, Germany, in 1683, the son of Hans Henrich Holtzclaw and his wife, Gertrut Solbach. He was christened at St. Nicolai Church in Siegen, Germany on Laetare Sunday, 1683. Jacob grew up in Truppbach with his ten brothers and sisters. His parents had moved there in about 1680, when his father, Hans, took the position of Schoolmaster. It is probable that Jacob attended the famous Latin School in Siegen. Jacob's brother, Johann served as schoolmaster at Oberfischbach, a nearby village. In 1707, Johann, who was only thirty-eight years old, died. Immediately after the death of his brother, Hans seems to have been asked to take the position of Schoolmaster in Oberfischbach left vacant by his brother's death. He was then twenty-four years of age. No doubt the acceptance of this new position enabled him to marry the following summer. On the 5th Sunday after Trinity, August 7, 1708, Hans Jacob Holtzclaw, schoolmaster at Oberfischbach, married Anna Margreth, daughter of Hermann Otterbach of Truppbach and his wife, Elizabeth (Heimbach) Otterbach. Anna Margreth was born at Truppbach in 1686, being christened at St. Nicolai Reformed Church in Siegen on the 9th Sunday after Trinity, 1686.

For five years after his marriage, Jacob Holtzclaw lived quietly at Oberfischbach, carrying on his work as schoolmaster. There, too, were born his eldest children, both sons. The eldest and our ancestor, Johann (John) was born in 1709.

In the year 1710, Alexander Spotswood became the Governor of Virginia. Having discovered evidence of iron ore in the direction of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he began immediately suggesting in letters to Queen Anne and to the Council of Trade in England that they should open iron mines in Virginia. A friend of Governor Spotswood was the Baron Christopher de Graffenried. de Graffenried had already begun negotiating with a John Justus Albrecht to bring workers for the mine from the neighborhood of Siegen. Albrecht seems to have exceeded his authority in getting his workers. When de Graffenried went to England in the summer of 1713, he was dumbfounded to find Albrecht and 40 people already in London. They had used up practically all their money in getting to London, but Spotswood and de Graffenried were not ready for them and advised them to return home. This they absolutely refused to do, saying that if necessary, they would sell themselves for four years as indented servants in order to pay their passage, rather than go back. de Graffenried and Spotswood managed to get them some work to do in England during the autumn of 1713. They lumped together all the money that they possessed in order to help pay their passage, de Graffenried got two London merchants to advance the balance of the passage money, on condition that they would be repaid by Spotswood when the colony reached Williamsburg, and in the beginning of the year 1714 they set sail for Virginia.

They landed in Virginia in April of 1714. Spotswood on July 12, 1714, wrote to the Lords Commissioners of Trade in London: "In order to guard the frontiers from the Indians, I have placed here a number of Protestant Germans, built them a fort and furnished them with two pieces of cannon and some ammunition." It was the policy of the Virginia Government to place foreigners on the frontier to protect the English against the Indians. The new colony was called Germanna, and was situated in Orange County, on a remarkable horseshoe shaped peninsula containing about 400 acres with the Rapidan River surrounding it on the north, west and east. Our ancestors set up the first iron furnace in America, manufactured the first pig-iron, and established the first German Reformed Church on the continent. The colony worked for the Governor for over two and a half years, and no doubt by that time they had fully repaid what they owed him.They were granted land further to the north and west, in Stafford County, Virginia, and founded the settlement of Germantown. The original grant was made to only three members of the colony, John Henry Hoffman, John Fishback and Jacob Holtzclaw because only these three men had been naturalized. (Hans Jacob Holtzclaw was naturalized July 11, 1722, and the copy of his naturalization has been preserved in the records of Spotsylvania County, Deed Book A, page 165.) The actual legal transfer from the three to the remainder was not made till August 1729. Jacob Holtzclaw on his death left over 3,000 acres to his children, giving over 200 acres to each one male and female, and some to his grandchildren. The center of the colony was the church (German Reformed) and after the death of the pastor, Henry Haeger in 1737, our ancestor, Jacob Holtzclaw, was employed as "Reader." For this he received annually from each family thirty pounds of tobacco. Jacob always acted as schoolmaster in both Germanna and Germantown.

Harman Utterback (Hermann Otterbach), father of our ancestress, Anna Margaret (Otterbach) Holtzclaw, who with his children and second wife, Anna Catherine (Hitt) Holtzclaw, also came to Virginia at an early date and settled near the colony.

These people who had immigrated to the New World were not ordinary people. Our ancestor, Jacob Holtzclaw, had never been anything but a schoolmaster, and Henry Haeger, was both a teacher and a minister. They all worked in setting up the iron furnace at Germanna. However, they were by no means mere laborers. Rev. James Kemper, in the Kemper Genealogy states that they were "mostly mechanics and master workmen in their several trades." They had been prosperous middle-class citizens in Germany. All our colonists could read and write, and were thus far ahead of a vast number of Virginians of their day. One of their first cares after building a church, was to set up a school. Rev. Kemper said of our ancestor that he was a "good scholar."

Jacob Holtzclaw's wife, Anna Margaret, seems to have been still living in 1729 when the Germantown land was distributed to the various families legally. She seems to have died soon after that, and Jacob married again. His second wife was named Catherine, though there is no evidence of her maiden name. Jacob and Catherine had three known children. She probably predeceased him, as there is no mention of her in Jacob Holtzclaw's will.

Jacob Holtzclaw died early in the year 1760, aged 77 years. His second wife, Catherine, had died between 1754 and 1759) the date of writing his will). His will, dated January 15, 1759, was probated in Fauquier County, Virginia, February 29, 1760.

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Hans Jacob (Jacob) Holtzclaw formerly Holzklau Born 1683 in Trupbach, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germanymap Son of Hans Heinrich Holzklau and Gertrud Solbach Brother of Anna Katherine Holzklau, Johannes Holzklau, Anna Margaretha Holzklau, Christina Holzklau, Johann Hermann Holzklau, Guetje Holzklau, Thoeniges\Anton Holzklau, Caspar Holzklau and Clara Holzklau Husband of Anna Margareth Otterbach — married August 7, 1708 in Siegen, Germanymap Father of Johann Holtzclaw, Johann Heinrich "Henry" Holtzclaw, Ann Elizabeth Holtzclaw, Catherine Holtzclaw, Harman Holtzclaw, Elizabeth Holzklau and Alice Katherine Holtzclaw Died February 29, 1760 in Fauquier County, Virginiamap

Biography

Godfather at his baptism was Han Jacob Spiess. Quite possibly Holzclau was named for him, but any familial relationship is unknown.

Took the position of schoolmaster at Oberfischbach when his brother died; he was 24. He married the following summer.

The twelve families went first to London to await passage; they were there about a year.

The first organized body of Germans who came as permanent settlers to Virginia included Jacob and Margaret his wife and sons John and Henry - April 1714. Settlement was called Germanna (located in Orange County of today) and became the first county seat of Spotsylvania Co in 1722. Came from the principality of Nassau-Siegen (Westphalia) and most were skilled workers in iron. Said to have built the first blast furnace in North America.

Families were John Spillman & wife Mary, Herman Fishback and wife Kathrina, John Henry Huffman and wife Kathrina, Joseph Coons and wife Kathrina and son John, John Fishback and wife Agnes, Jacob Rector and wife Elizabeth and son John, Melchior Brumback and wife Elizabeth, Dillman Weaver and Ann Weaver his mother, Jacob Holtzclaw and wife Margaret and sons John and Henry, John Kemper and wife Alice Kathrina, John Joseph Martin and wife Maria Kathrina, Peter Hitt and wife Elizabeth. Certificates for 100 acres of land issued 30 May 1729. (Holtzclaws recieved 200 acres)

From Essex Co VA, Will Book 16, p.180 is the following statement: The Honable Alex Spotswood His Majesty's Leut. Governour & Commander in Chief of Virginia did put under my command Eleven Labouring men to work in Mines or Quarries at or near Germanna, and we began to work March One Thousand Seven Hundred and 15/16 and so continued til Dec. One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighteen.

Signed: John Justice Albright What is subscribed above by the Hofma

References

• Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogi