Publisher's Synopsis
"This Festschrift contains seven scholarly essays, documented and indexed, which address aspects of the history of the first organized settlements of Germans in Virginia in 1714 and 1717 at Germanna. Topics include the journey in Germany of the first pastor of the 1717 group's Lutheran church to recruit funds and an assistant; the activities of a copper mining entrepreneur who helped recruit the 1714 group as iron miners and foundry workers near Siegen; a biographical study of the Moravian organ builder David Tannenberg from Herrenhut and Lititz, who in 1802 built the organ still in use at Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison, Va.; and a study of the trial for witchcraft of Gertrud Stuell, ancestor of many of the 42 German settlers of 1714"--.
