Contains a short history of Germanna and Germantown, Virgina; the ancestry of John Joseph Martin who emigrated from Germany in 1713 with the first Germanna colony of 1714 back to the 1500s; and his progeny. Major allied families are Ehresmann, Fischbach, Heimbach, Knieling, Moore, Otterbach, Richter, Stuell, Turner, Wendling and Zachmann.