Display Patriot - P-334013 - John Frederick FISHBACK
John Frederick FISHBACK
SAR Patriot #:
P-334013
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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Jim Lester Wilson
John Frederick Fishback (German spelling - Fischbach, meaning fish stream) was born in 1716 in Fauquier County, Virginia, the son of Johannes Fischbach and Agnes Haeger, a couple who were among the original settlers of the Germanna Colony in northern Virginia. Agnes Haeger was the daughter of Johann Henrich Haeger, the first minister of the German Reformed Church in America, and Anna Catherine Friesenhagen. They also were among the original settlers of the Germanna Colony. The Germanna Colony settlers came to America from iron mining and smelting regions in Siegenland, Germany, in 1714 under the sponsorship of Alexander Spotswood, governor of Colonial Virginia. He recruited them with the plan to establish mining activities and as a barrier against Indian attacks on the Virginia frontier . John Frederick Fishback married Ann Elizabeth Holtsclau in about 1740, and they were parents of eight children: Frederick, Ann, John, Jacob, Elizabeth, Catherine, Sarah and Mary. After his first wife’s death, he married Eve Martin, in about 1757, and with her had one son, Martin . John Frederick Fishback aided the cause in the War for Independence by providing beef on two occasions and by providing pasturage in his meadow, presumably for horses. He died in Culpeper County, Virginia, on 20 September 1782 and was buried at his home, Fleetwood, at Jeffersonton, Culpeper County, Virginia. John Frederick Fishback was the father of Sarah Fishback, wife of Harmon Button, SAR Patriot Ancestor #P-126750.
Ref: 1) B C Holtsclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750, (Locust Grove, VA: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc, 1964), 145-174. 2) Janice L Abercrombie and Richard Slatten, Virginia Revolutionary Publick Claims, (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co, 1992), 257, 270, 275. 3) Philip Slaughter, Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper, Virginia, (Culpeper, VA: Raleigh Travers Green, 1900), 48.
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