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Fourth Generation 4. Johann Heinrich HAGER , Sr.1 was born on 24 Sep 1645 in Antzhausen (Siegen), Wittgenstein, Westphalia, Germany. He died on 10 Apr 1737 in Germanna, Prince William (Fauquier) Co, VA. Johann Heinrich Haeger (Heger), clergymen and scholar, B 27 Aug 1644 Anzhausen (christened at Netphen), D 1 Jan 1737/38 Germantown, Prince William (now Fauquier) County, Virginia. Johann Heinrich Haeger (Heger) was the son Heinrich and Guda (Schramm) Haeger [schoolmaster at Anzhausen ]. Johann Heinrich married about 1678 to Anna Katharina Friesenhagen, born 1663. Johann Heinrich was admitted in April 1668 to the Teacher’s College in Herborn, about a third of the way from Siegen to Giessen to the southeast. In 1669, he taught at the Latin School in Hanau east of Frankfurt about 65 miles southeast of Siegen). In 1678, he was teaching at Siegen. In 1689, Johann Heinrich was “Konrektor” or Associate Director of the school at Siegen at the same time was a pastor. From 1703 until 1711, he was a pastor at Oberfischbach, just west of Siegen. Members of this Lutheran Reformed church boarded a ship in Rotterdam and sailed to New York in 1709, likely because of religious persecution. On April 3, 1711, Johann Heinrich received permission to retire from the pastorate because of ill health, but this did not prevent him and his family and 12 other families in the mountains from leaving Oberfischbach in the summer of 1713, and emigrating to the New World. In early 1713 Lieutenant-Governor Al exander Spotswood of Virginia had asked Swiss nobleman Christoph von Graffenried to send him some miners to search for iron ore on his estates along the Rappahannock River. Once he had arrived to New York, Johann Heinrich moved down to Virginia. Thus, he undertook and led the families arriving in April 1714 to Tappahannock and then up about 20 miles west past Fredericksburg to construct the Germanna Colony settlement and Lutheran Reformed Parish on the Rapidan River. (Sources: Translated by Jaque Pinton of Chambrun, who wrote about events after 1660 through 1690. Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno, Geschichte der Stadt Sieg en (1872), page 244; H.J. Ruetenik, Bahnbrecher der deutschen Reformiert en Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika (1901), page 81; Sie gerland: Blätter des Siegerländer Heimatvereins (1926), pages 49-54; William J. Hinke, The 1714 Colony of Germanna, Virginia (1933), page 121; Alfred Lück, Erz und Abenteuer (1955), pages 28-30, 70f.; Friedrich Wilhelm Ba uks, Die ev. Pfarrer in Westfalen von der Reformationszeit bis 1945 (1980 ), page 175; and Otto Renkhoff, Nassauische Biographie (2l992), page 265.) Johann Heinrich HAGER , Sr. and Anna Katharina FRIESENHAUGEN were married on 3 Dec 1678 in Freudenberg, Wittgens.1 Anna Katharina FRIESENHAUGEN1 was born on 24 May 1663 in Freudenberg (Siegen), Wittgenstein, Westphalia, Germany. She died after 1733 in iGermanna, Prince William (Fauquier) Co, VA. Johann Heinrich HAGER , Sr. and Anna Katharina FRIESENHAUGEN had the following children: +5 i. Rev. Johann Heinrich HAGER , Jr..

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