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| Descendants of Hans Jacob HoltzclawHans Jacob Holtzclaw, one of the sons of Hans Henrich Holtzclau of Siegen, Germany, was part of the organized group of iron workers brought from Germany in 1714 and settled at "Germanna" in present day Orange County, Virginia possibly for the purpose of mining ore and building an iron works. Hans Jacob was their schoolmaster and one of the first two of the group to be Naturalized - by Gov. Spotswood himself.
The website for the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia
is here.
Additional information about Germanna can be found
here.
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