FLEISCHMANN, Zacherias Cyriacus

1659 - Aft 1748  (> 89 years)

• Name	FLEISCHMANN, Zacherias Cyriacus
  Birth	5 Mar 1659	Neuenberg, Schwarzwald, Württemberg, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1 Jul 1748	Orange County, Virginia, United States
  Person ID	I3679	Pickel_Bartlett
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2009

  
  

  Family	SCHONE, Anna Barbara,   b. 26 Sep 1664, Neuenberg, Schwarzwald, Württemberg, Germany d. 5 Mar 1746, Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1703	Neuenberg, Schwarzwald, Württemberg, Germany
  Children	1. FLEISCHMANN, Mary Catherine,   b. 26 Jan 1703, Neuenberg, Schwarzwald, Württemberg, Germany d. 1761, Culpeper County, Virginia (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F1120	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2022

  
  

• Notes

  (He was also known as Ziriakus or Cyriacus) Came to Virginia with the 1717 colonists. The German Colony of 1717 consisted of twenty German Lutheran families from the Palatinate, Hesse, Alsace, and neighboring areas of Germany. The boat was delayed in England for several weeks when the captain was thrown in jail for debt in London. The journey continued when the captain was finally released but supplies ran low during the long crossing and many of the passengers died. Their original plan had been to land in Pennsylvania but they were driven ashore in Virginia by storms. Due to the long delays in England the passengers were unable to pay the captain for their voyage and in return for Gov. Spotswood's payment of their passage they became his indentured servants at Germanna where the colony of 1714 was established. They gained their freedom after serving eight years for Gov. Spotswood and reestablished themselves in the Robinson River in Orange County in 1725. This region became Culpeper County in 1748 and 1792 became Madison County. Here they receive large patents of land. In 1725, Ziriakus Fleischmann returned to Germany along with Michael Cook to bring a minister for these "High Germans." but the effort was unsuccessful. In 1733, Rev John Caspar Stoever became their regular pastor and in 1740 the Hebron Lutheran Church was built.