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- Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Hans Michel Milcker Year: 1732 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6223 Primary Immigrant: Milcker, Hans Michel Annotation: Abstracts of Virginia Land Office patent books 9 through 14, covering the early decades of the eighteenth century. Includes numerous references to land patented by "French refugees," the Protestants (Huguenots) who fled France after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The index is on pages 430-578. Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION, abstractor. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 3: 1695-1732. Richmond [VA]: Virginia State Library, 1979. 578p. Indexed. Page: 412
Name: Sophia Catherina Milcker Year: 1732 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6223 Primary Immigrant: Milcker, Sophia Catherina Annotation: Abstracts of Virginia Land Office patent books 9 through 14, covering the early decades of the eighteenth century. Includes numerous references to land patented by "French refugees," the Protestants (Huguenots) who fled France after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The index is on pages 430-578. Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION, abstractor. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 3: 1695-1732. Richmond [VA]: Virginia State Library, 1979. 578p. Indexed. Page: 412
Name: Maria Parvara Milcker Year: 1732 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6223 Primary Immigrant: Milcker, Maria Parvara Annotation: Abstracts of Virginia Land Office patent books 9 through 14, covering the early decades of the eighteenth century. Includes numerous references to land patented by "French refugees," the Protestants (Huguenots) who fled France after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The index is on pages 430-578. Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION, abstractor. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 3: 1695-1732. Richmond [VA]: Virginia State Library, 1979. 578p. Indexed. Page: 412
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In 1713, forty-odd Germans left their homes in Nassau-Siegen expecting to mine silver in the New World. In 1717, about eighty Germans left their homes in southwest Germany expecting to go to Pennsylvania. Neither of these groups fulfilled its expectations. Instead, they became guardians of the frontier in Virginia and a vanguard in the westward expansion of English civilization on the North American continent.
The "1st Colony" arrived in Virginia in 1714; the "2nd Colony" arrived in 1717
The Second Germanna Colony came from many different villages which were mostly south and east of Heidelberg with a few from outside this area. They worked seven years for Spotswood and his partners in naval stores projects and in vineyards. When they did move, they went about twenty-five miles farther west to land in the Robinson River Valley at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This again was an extremely exposed position but they chose this general region because land there was free at the time and there were few or no English settlers which gave them space for expansion. By religion they were predominantly Lutheran. In 1740, they built a church which is still being used today as a Lutheran church (it is now the oldest building in the Americas still in use as a Lutheran church).
The makeup of the Second Germanna Colony is a topic of continuing research and interest. The area around Madison, VA, where they eventually settled was the home of dozens of families of German origin, beginning with those who came on the ill-fated voyage with Capt. Scott. A relatively small number of families made that voyage, and the table below shows the families that are most likely to have come at that time. Many more families arrived in the years that followed, either directly to Virginia, or through ports such as Philadelphia. A second table shows some of those families.
Those coming on the ship Scott in 1717
Milcker, John Michael Muhlecker, Hans Michael no further record
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