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sors, these later arrivals ended up here through trickery. Gov. Alexander Spotswood, who accumulated vast landholdings in the Germanna area needed inhabitants for his lands in order to meet the peculiar requirements of early royal land grants. He conspired with ship’s Captain Andrew Talbot to turn this second group into 7-year indentured servants. Other Germans arrived under better circumstances over the next several years and by 1720, Germanna was a small, yet substantial community in the wilderness.
Around 1725 (possibly when their indentures were up* a number of the original inhabitants moved from Germanna to Madison, Fauquier. Culpeper (including the area of present day Rappahannock) counties. This insured many of their descendents a pretty decent claim as the original ‘come here's’ in many of these areas.
On Sunday, April 13, at 3 p.m. at the Washington Town Hall, The Rappahannock Historical Society will present a program entitled “A History of the Germanna Colonies.” Presented by Thom Fairdoth, president of the Germanna Foundation and Germanna descendiint, and Rob Sherwood, English professor at Germanna Community College and Germanna descendant, this talk will discuss the history of the Germanna Colonies and provide some of the links between those early settlers and some of our current day residents.
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