Johannes (Spielman) Spillman (bef. 1679 - abt. 1728)

Born before 11 Nov 1679 in Oberschelden, Nassau-Siegen, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Elizabeth (Fischbach) Spielman — married 1714 in Germany

Descendants

Died about 1728 after about age 48 in Prince William County, Virginia

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Biography

John (Spielman) Spillman has German Roots.

John (Spielman) Spillman migrated from Germany to Virginia.

This profile is part of the Germanna, Virginia One Place Study.

Johannes Spielmann was baptized Nov. 9, 1679 at Oberschelden, Nassau-Siegen, Germany. His godfather was Johannes Spielmann, brother of his father. Johannes was the godfather of his nephew Johannes Grimm in 1701 (who later went to Virginia in 1740). In 1708 Johannes was living as a bachelor with his step-mother in Oberschelden.^[1]

"John Spilman and Mary his wife, the 1714 immigrants [to Germanna, Virginia], proved their rights June 2, 1724, stating that they had come to Virginia in April 1714 (Spotsylvania Co. W.B. 'A,' p. 73). As indicated previously, the immigrant seems to have been Johannes Spielmann, b. 1679, son of Henrich Spielmann of Oberschelden, and he died in Prince William County, Virginia around 1727/28. Everything indicates that he was a bachelor when he emigrated, and his wife Mary was probably one of the daughters of Philipp Fischbach named Mary Elizabeth, probably the younger one, b. 1696, as she was young enough to bear two children to her second husband, George Gent, whom she married about 1730. John Spilman died before Aug. 7, 1729, when the Germantown tract was distributed to the 1714 families, and the trustees deeded his share to his widow, Mary Spilman. This Spilman share wwas 150 acres, but on the advice of thee trustees, Mary Spilman deeded 50 acres of this to Jacob Rector. Mary married (2) soon after this date George Gent. Her eldest son, Jacob Spilman, in 1759 brought suit against Mary on the ground that she was about to deed the Germantown land to her Gent children... Mary Gen'ts testimony on May 28, 1762 throughs a good deal of light on her family....^[2]

Among the early German settlers to immigrate to the US are those who came to what came to be Germanna, Virginia in 1714. ^[3]

In the 1730s, more Germans settled the Little Fork area (Culpeper County): Harman Back/Bach, Harman Button, Johann Button, Johnann Just Coons/Cuntz/Koontz, Jacob Fischbach, Johann Crim/Grimm, Jacob Heimbach/Hanback, Heinrich Hoffman/Huffman, Johann and Harman Mueller/Miller, Johannes Noeh/Nay, Johann Henrich Otterbach/Utterback, John Rector, Georg Weidmann/Wayman, Tillman Wiessgerber/Whitescarver, Johannes Jung/Young.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750 (Harrisonburg, Virginia: The Germanna Foundation, 1964), p. 452.
2. ↑ B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750 (Harrisonburg, Virginia: The Germanna Foundation, 1964), pp. 452-53.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} History of Germanna

See also:

• Martin, William A. 1995. A Martin genealogy tied to the history of Germanna, Virginia. Bowie, Md: Heritage Books. (pg 45)

• Documented research by Hayes T. Watkins as reported in The Family History by Alva C. Spillman