brought
their own customs and manners, which are not entirely gone even in our
modern Virginia. Later, as we shall see, many of this first colony left
Germanna and settled on Licking Run near Warrenton.

In 1717 came a second German colony to Germanna. They too were brave,
loyal, and devout; but were different from the first, being Lutherans
and representing twenty families from Pennsylvania.

Two years later, the third colony of Germans came to Germanna and from
there they settled in Orange and Madison counties.

If Governor Spotswood earned the title of "Tubal Cain of America", it
was because these Germans were industrious, thrifty and honest.

The Governor liked the neighborhood so well that he had a palace built
for his family. There was a terraced garden, which one may trace in the
ruins found there today. A courthouse was built there, for a new county
had been cut from Essex and was called Spotsylvania, in the Governor's
honor. Nearby was a bubbling fountain spring at which tourists stop
today to quench their thirst. This has been marked by the Colonial Dames
and over it there is a hand-wrought iron standard, giving the legend of
the spring.

In 1732, Colonel William Byrd of Westover visited Governor Spotswood at
Germanna. He was one of the Commissioners who ran the boundary line
between Virginia and North Carolina. He held many positions of honor and
trust in the colony. His writings give an intimate picture of Governor
Spotswood's settlement:

_Progress to the Mines._

"Here I arrived about three o'clock, and found only Mrs.
Spotswood at home, who received her old acquaintance with many
gracious smiles. I was carried into a room elegantly set off
with pier glasses, the largest of which came soon to an odd
misfortune. Amongst other favorite animals to cheer this lady's
solitude, a brace of deer ran familiarly about the house, and
one of them came to stare at me as a stranger. But unluckily
spying his own figure in the glass, he made a spring over the
tea-table that stood under it, and shattered the glass to
pieces, and falling back upon the tea-table made a terrible
fracas among the china. This exploit was so sudden and
accompanied with such a noise, that it surprised me and
perfectly frightened Mrs. Spotswood. But it was worth all the
damage to show the moderation and good humor with which she
bore the disaster. In the eveni