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SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS TO VOLUME I OF THIS HISTORY OF THE GERMAN ELEMENT IN VIRGINIA.
Since the publication of Volume I the attention of the author has been called to the following supplements and mistakes.
On page 26, line 4, is to be added after the words : “ ascertained to be in Norfolk,” the name of the country: “ England.”
Oil page 40, referring to Governor Richard Kempe, and after the words : “President of this body in 1644,” ought to be inserted: “1645 Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia.”
On page 67, line 34, should stand: “In Stafford and Orange counties German settlements were built up at Germanna Ford,” instead of only: “in Stafford county.”
On page 68, after the words : "in picturesque language,” ought to be subjoined: “Inconsistent with Colonel Byrd’s statement and II. A. .Rattermaun’s assertion ("' Deutscher Pionier,’ Ster Jahrgang, Seite 106: ‘Dem schottischen Edelmann [Spottswood] gefiel es unter den lleissigen und ruhigen Deutschen so wohl, dass er sich eine der deutschen Jungfrauen — eine llan- noveranerin Namens Theke — zur Gattin nahm,’) — that the historian Campbell denies that Spottswood married a German lady and that he asserts: that Miss Thccky (not Theke) was Miss Dorothea Bryan or Brain, and that ‘Thccky’ was the diminutive or pet name of her Christian name. Campbell says furthermore: that Miss Dorothea was a sister of Ann Butler Bryan, who was Spottswood’s wife.”
The author is not convinced that Colonel Byrd s statement in regard to Governor Spottswood’s wife and family-life are less ♦ trustworthy than Campbell’s. Colonel Byrd visited Germanna and was a contemporary of Governor Spottswood.