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come to John Jacob Rector (Hans Jacob Richter), a
skilled iron worker who was born in 1674. He married
Elizabeth Haeger on January 17, 1711, and they emigrated to America in the summer of 1713, arriving at Germanna, Virginia in April of 1714. John Jacob Rector
died in Germantown, Virginia ca. 1726.2
THE IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA
In the year 1713 agents of Baron D. Graffenreid
arrived in Siegen seeking skilled workmen to develop the
iron industry of the American colony of Virginia for
Governor Spottswood. Siegen is now, and then was, the
center ofsome of the most famous iron mines in Germany,
dating back to 1303. Twelve heads of families from the
Musen and Siegen area (aggregating some forty persons)
agreed to accept Governor Spottswood’s invitation and
go to Virginia. They left Germany in the summer of
1713 and wintered in England, arriving in Virginia in
April, 1714.
The names of the twelve householders making this
German colony of 1714 were Brumbach, Cuntze, Fischback, Huffman, Hitt, Holtzclaw, Kemper, Martin, Rechtor, Spilman, Utterbach and Weaver. From this handful
eo of meager estate but thrifty and moral habits
lave come through more than two and one-half centuries
nee most prominent men. It gave a great general to
: press army who was also governor of Virginia,
ae Pye: the colonies of Illinois, Missouri
Stiteor pM ss Rector), four governors of the
liam Fishback and ames Conway, Elias Conway; Wilnd Henry M. Rector, besides hundreds
of others in so
; mewhat less eminent ee
Writes J. . Shinn positions.
It is doubtful if
any Other single group of men
Of the same siz i de alk €, or of ten times the size, in.