A man in the Robinson River Valley about whom little is known is Henry Frederick Beyerback. Three facts about him are:
Henry was born 9 Feb 1684, at Windischbach, and he married at Öhringen, both villages being in Württemberg. These villages are slightly to the east of the Wieland villages in the last note, so Beyerback (Beurbach or Beirbach) now takes the prize for coming from the easternmost village. Whether the Beyerback family had any impact genetically in Virginia is not known. While reading his history, I was struck by another name which makes the Beyerback history more significant.
A sister of Heinrich Friedrich Beyerbach, Dorothea Margaretha, married, on 19 Sep 1719, Andreas Leonhard Bullinger. The birth of Dorothea Margaretha Beyerbach was in Windischbach. Now, the name Andreas Leonhard Bullinger is getting too close to Andrew Ballenger in Virginia to let this observation pass by without comment. Andrew Ballenger was sued by Spotswood who seems to have favored the Germans with his attentions, not the English. An Edward Ballenger appears in the community slightly later, and his relationship to Andrew is uncertain. From the dates, Edward could hardly have been a son of Andrew, nor does the name Edward sound all that Germanic. So Andrew Ballenger may have had this spelling of his name just because it was close to the English name Ballenger.
Another individual in Virginia who is a mystery is Johann Michael Stoltz, who is first mentioned in land patent (as a neighbor), in Hanover County, in 1725. In that same year and county, he had his own land patent. Then in 1732, he had a patent on the north side of the Robinson River. He is a tithable in 1739, and died about 1742. Cerni and Zimmerman found two individuals in Germany of this name, both from Württemberg. Not enough is known about the man to tell if either one of these is the correct man. The locations in Germany are close to those of other emigrants so no clue is furnished by that information.
Another early immigrant to Virginia in the time frame of the Second Colony is Jacob Crigler. Like Christopher Barlow, we are uncertain as to the spelling of the name in Germany. And we have not yet found the location from where he came. Jacob was the first of the Germans to be sued by Spotswood, but Jacob was lucky. Spotswood had sought 34 pounds sterling, an astronomical sum; the suit was dismissed with the consent of both parties, with Crigler agreeing to pay the cost of the suit.
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.