Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States: Descendants of John Kemper of Virginia; with a Short Historical Sketch of His Family and of the German Reformed Colony at Germanna and Germantown, Va

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Willis M. Kemper, Harry Linn Wright
G.K. Hazlett & Company, Printers, 1899 - 248 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 19 - There are but nine families, and they have nine houses, built all in a line; and before every house, about twenty feet distant from it, they have small sheds built for their hogs and hens, so that the hog-sties and houses make a street.
Σελίδα 29 - Spotswood's enchanted castle on one side of the street, and a baker's dozen of ruinous tenements on the other, where so many German families had dwelt some years ago; but are now removed ten miles higher in the fork of Rappahannock, to land of their own.
Σελίδα 21 - The stock of the said company and its branches shall be exempt from taxation for and during the term of seven years from and after the completion of the said...
Σελίδα 35 - Michael the Archangel the Fee Rent of One Shilling Sterling Money for every Fifty acres of Land hereby granted...
Σελίδα 21 - Whereas certain German protestants, to the number of forty-two persons or thereabouts, have been settled above the falls of the River Rappahannock, on the southern branch of the said river, called Rapidan, at a place named Germanna, in the County of Essex, and have there begun to build and make improvements for their cohabitation, to the great advantage of this colony and the security of the frontiers in those parts from the intrusions of the Indians, " it is enacted that they shall be free from...
Σελίδα 35 - Acres of Land Together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in any Wise Appertaining Except before Excepted to him the said...
Σελίδα 22 - That the freeholders and housekeepers of the same, respectively, shall meet, at such time and place, as the governor, or commander in chief, of this dominion, for the time being, with the advice of...
Σελίδα 15 - Frontiers, and in order to supply that part, w'ch was to have been covered by the Tuscaruros, I have placed here a number of Protestant Germans, built them a fort and finished it with two pieces of Cannon and some Ammunition...
Σελίδα 35 - Holtzclaw, their heirs and assigns, shall not pay the before reserved annual rent so that the same or any part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by the space of two whole years after the same shall become due if Lawfully demanded that then it shall and may be lawful for us or our heirs or assigns, proprs.
Σελίδα 39 - The first year at Germantown they packed all their provisions from Fredericksburg on their heads, and raised their first crop with their hoes, in both which their women bore a part. My grandfather invented the first shovel plow, and in a few years they had large stocks of tame and very large cattle. I recollect well when my father had many horses nearly or quite wild in the woods about the year 1760.

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