In reviewing the Ziglars (Zieglers) in the last note, we were reviewing the Zimmerman family also, for Leonard Ziegler married Barbara Zimmerman. Her father, Christopher, the immigrant, gave Barbara Ziegler 200 acres of land on 25 Aug 1737. She was less than twenty years old then, for she was born after the family arrived in Virginia. Leonard died in 1757, so Barbara was less than forty years old, and she probably did remarry. She gave 200 acres to her unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, on 16 Nov 1758. Less than a year later, "Tebald" Fite and Barbara, his wife, deeded 100 acres of land to John Zimmerman, Jr., on 20 Sep 1759. This was her nephew, son of John of the Robinson River community. (It might be profitable to study this land transaction in more detail.)
Tebald Fite has not been identified satisfactorily. The name "Tebald" suggests a German. "Fite" might be Vite, Wite, or White. The family, if any, of Tebald and Barbara is unknown.
Another son of the immigrant Christopher was Frederick, who was born perhaps about 1721, probably after Barbara. The eldest son of Frederick, Reuben Zimmerman, was perhaps born about 1745 to 1750. Frederick appears in the personal taxes of Culpeper Co. until 1798. He was freed from levies by 1794. Deeds show that his wife was Sarah, otherwise unknown. B.C. Holtzclaw made the comment once that Frederick did not appear in the records of the German Lutheran Church (Hebron) as did his brother John. He did not realize that the two (half) brothers lived apart from each other. Frederick was about twenty miles from the church, living in a neighborhood of very few Germans. He and his full brothers and sisters adopted the culture of the neighborhood, which was English. Very likely, Frederick's wife Sarah was English.
Frederick did not leave a will, so his family has to be reconstructed from other evidence. He seems to have had three sons, Reuben who was probably the eldest, Frederick, and Christopher.
Christopher Zimmerman, the immigrant, had a son Christopher who was born about 1725 and died in 1781 as a single man. The younger Christopher's will left his property to Pollard and Robert Brown, and appointed his friends Thomas and Robert Brown executors. It was witnessed by Nicholas Kabler, John Brown, and William Kabler. Christopher had owned land (some at least from his father's original patents) and he deeded some of this away in 1757 and 1776 (on the last date to William Kabler).
Elizabeth, a daughter of Christopher Zimmerman, married James Conner. On 21 July 1757, James Conner and Elizabeth deeded 102 acres that she had inherited from her father. The family is unknown at this time. Elizabeth had a sister Catherine who may have married William Slaughter, but again no family is known.
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