https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/8171/germantown.html&date=2009-10-25+06:22:35 In 1718 twelve German emigrant families left the employ of Governor Alexander Spotswood and the mining settlement of Germanna for a 1805 acres parcel of land in modern southern Fauquier County.