Giovanni Antonio Giannini and his wife, Maria Domenica Modena Giannini from the village of Fibbialla (now part of Camaiore), Lucca, Italy, immigrated to Virginia in the fall of 1773 from Italy with Fillippo (Phillip) Mazzei, who was endeavoring to establish a wine and olive industry in Virginia. Their 2-year old daughter Maria Caterina was with them. Anthony and Maria agreed to work for 5 years for Mazzei and were to be paid the same amount at the end of the term (and were)!
Mazzei was persuaded by Thomas Jefferson to settle on a parcel of land land, called Colle, adjoining Monticello. (Jefferson Vineyards is now on the ground cultivated by Mazzei's team.)
When Mazzei returned to Europe to seek aid for Virginia in the revolution, the Gianninis' indenture passed to Jefferson. Much more information is available in The Gianninis of Virginia, Third Edition (1999), available through Amazon. A family discussion and social group is on Facebook under "Family of Antonio Giannini & Maria Modena (Italy to Virginia, 1773)."
Anthony served with the Albemarle Militia at Yorktown, and is recognized as "Patriot" by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Later in life, Anthony was ordained as a Baptist minister, and performed 26 marriages in Albemarle and Nelson Counties between 1807 and 1823. Antonio and Maria moved to Nelson sometime between 1812 and 1820.
Anthony died after 3 Jul 1824 and before 25 Aug 1825 (deed of trust in Nelson County for all his possessions made, then executed, provides indirect evidence of death), in Albemarle or Nelson; Mary died between 1820 and 3 Jul 1824.
By family family tradition, Anthony and Mary were buried at his son Nicholas' home in Albemarle. A family member who visited a family gravesite (of persons the older family members present could not then identify or name) in the early 1960s reported that the graves were entirely grown over and by there were no readable inscriptions. That site was on the eastern bank of Buck Island Creek, on property long used as timber land, now owned by the James Justice Companies and recently designated by the owner for preservation of the historic viewshed. Another possible site is on land owned by Anthony and later by Nicholas G. and Anthony's sons-in-law in the Blenheim area on Quarry Creek (i.e. the "middle branch" of Buck Island Creek in early deeds, on the western side of Buck Island Creek). Nicholas' home in the Blenheim area was known to the family as "Cherry Hill" and by family legend was where Antonio and Maria were buried and probably also Nicholas and Polly. The exact boundaries have not yet been identified. This is NOT the location visited in the early 1960s...but more appropriately, is an area that is now the home to several vineyards (Blenheim, Rousse, and Trump (formerly Kluge)).
Antonio was the son of Nicholao Giannini (1725-aft 1786) (son of Giavanni Antonio Giannini, b. abt 1675) and Maria Settima Matelli (1727-?) (daughter of Matteo Matelli and Dominica Santoni).
These memorials are being created here to honor their memory, and to be able to link to the other family lines through FAG. Exact burial site is now unknown and cannot be visited.
Mazzei was persuaded by Thomas Jefferson to settle on a parcel of land land, called Colle, adjoining Monticello. (Jefferson Vineyards is now on the ground cultivated by Mazzei's team.)
When Mazzei returned to Europe to seek aid for Virginia in the revolution, the Gianninis' indenture passed to Jefferson. Much more information is available in The Gianninis of Virginia, Third Edition (1999), available through Amazon. A family discussion and social group is on Facebook under "Family of Antonio Giannini & Maria Modena (Italy to Virginia, 1773)."
Anthony served with the Albemarle Militia at Yorktown, and is recognized as "Patriot" by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Later in life, Anthony was ordained as a Baptist minister, and performed 26 marriages in Albemarle and Nelson Counties between 1807 and 1823. Antonio and Maria moved to Nelson sometime between 1812 and 1820.
Anthony died after 3 Jul 1824 and before 25 Aug 1825 (deed of trust in Nelson County for all his possessions made, then executed, provides indirect evidence of death), in Albemarle or Nelson; Mary died between 1820 and 3 Jul 1824.
By family family tradition, Anthony and Mary were buried at his son Nicholas' home in Albemarle. A family member who visited a family gravesite (of persons the older family members present could not then identify or name) in the early 1960s reported that the graves were entirely grown over and by there were no readable inscriptions. That site was on the eastern bank of Buck Island Creek, on property long used as timber land, now owned by the James Justice Companies and recently designated by the owner for preservation of the historic viewshed. Another possible site is on land owned by Anthony and later by Nicholas G. and Anthony's sons-in-law in the Blenheim area on Quarry Creek (i.e. the "middle branch" of Buck Island Creek in early deeds, on the western side of Buck Island Creek). Nicholas' home in the Blenheim area was known to the family as "Cherry Hill" and by family legend was where Antonio and Maria were buried and probably also Nicholas and Polly. The exact boundaries have not yet been identified. This is NOT the location visited in the early 1960s...but more appropriately, is an area that is now the home to several vineyards (Blenheim, Rousse, and Trump (formerly Kluge)).
Antonio was the son of Nicholao Giannini (1725-aft 1786) (son of Giavanni Antonio Giannini, b. abt 1675) and Maria Settima Matelli (1727-?) (daughter of Matteo Matelli and Dominica Santoni).
These memorials are being created here to honor their memory, and to be able to link to the other family lines through FAG. Exact burial site is now unknown and cannot be visited.
Giovanni Antonio Giannini and his wife, Maria Domenica Modena Giannini from the village of Fibbialla (now part of Camaiore), Lucca, Italy, immigrated to Virginia in the fall of 1773 from Italy with Fillippo (Phillip) Mazzei, who was endeavoring to establish a wine and olive industry in Virginia. Their 2-year old daughter Maria Caterina was with them. Anthony and Maria agreed to work for 5 years for Mazzei and were to be paid the same amount at the end of the term (and were)!
Mazzei was persuaded by Thomas Jefferson to settle on a parcel of land land, called Colle, adjoining Monticello. (Jefferson Vineyards is now on the ground cultivated by Mazzei's team.)
When Mazzei returned to Europe to seek aid for Virginia in the revolution, the Gianninis' indenture passed to Jefferson. Much more information is available in The Gianninis of Virginia, Third Edition (1999), available through Amazon. A family discussion and social group is on Facebook under "Family of Antonio Giannini & Maria Modena (Italy to Virginia, 1773)."
Anthony served with the Albemarle Militia at Yorktown, and is recognized as "Patriot" by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Later in life, Anthony was ordained as a Baptist minister, and performed 26 marriages in Albemarle and Nelson Counties between 1807 and 1823. Antonio and Maria moved to Nelson sometime between 1812 and 1820.
Anthony died after 3 Jul 1824 and before 25 Aug 1825 (deed of trust in Nelson County for all his possessions made, then executed, provides indirect evidence of death), in Albemarle or Nelson; Mary died between 1820 and 3 Jul 1824.
By family family tradition, Anthony and Mary were buried at his son Nicholas' home in Albemarle. A family member who visited a family gravesite (of persons the older family members present could not then identify or name) in the early 1960s reported that the graves were entirely grown over and by there were no readable inscriptions. That site was on the eastern bank of Buck Island Creek, on property long used as timber land, now owned by the James Justice Companies and recently designated by the owner for preservation of the historic viewshed. Another possible site is on land owned by Anthony and later by Nicholas G. and Anthony's sons-in-law in the Blenheim area on Quarry Creek (i.e. the "middle branch" of Buck Island Creek in early deeds, on the western side of Buck Island Creek). Nicholas' home in the Blenheim area was known to the family as "Cherry Hill" and by family legend was where Antonio and Maria were buried and probably also Nicholas and Polly. The exact boundaries have not yet been identified. This is NOT the location visited in the early 1960s...but more appropriately, is an area that is now the home to several vineyards (Blenheim, Rousse, and Trump (formerly Kluge)).
Antonio was the son of Nicholao Giannini (1725-aft 1786) (son of Giavanni Antonio Giannini, b. abt 1675) and Maria Settima Matelli (1727-?) (daughter of Matteo Matelli and Dominica Santoni).
These memorials are being created here to honor their memory, and to be able to link to the other family lines through FAG. Exact burial site is now unknown and cannot be visited.
Mazzei was persuaded by Thomas Jefferson to settle on a parcel of land land, called Colle, adjoining Monticello. (Jefferson Vineyards is now on the ground cultivated by Mazzei's team.)
When Mazzei returned to Europe to seek aid for Virginia in the revolution, the Gianninis' indenture passed to Jefferson. Much more information is available in The Gianninis of Virginia, Third Edition (1999), available through Amazon. A family discussion and social group is on Facebook under "Family of Antonio Giannini & Maria Modena (Italy to Virginia, 1773)."
Anthony served with the Albemarle Militia at Yorktown, and is recognized as "Patriot" by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Later in life, Anthony was ordained as a Baptist minister, and performed 26 marriages in Albemarle and Nelson Counties between 1807 and 1823. Antonio and Maria moved to Nelson sometime between 1812 and 1820.
Anthony died after 3 Jul 1824 and before 25 Aug 1825 (deed of trust in Nelson County for all his possessions made, then executed, provides indirect evidence of death), in Albemarle or Nelson; Mary died between 1820 and 3 Jul 1824.
By family family tradition, Anthony and Mary were buried at his son Nicholas' home in Albemarle. A family member who visited a family gravesite (of persons the older family members present could not then identify or name) in the early 1960s reported that the graves were entirely grown over and by there were no readable inscriptions. That site was on the eastern bank of Buck Island Creek, on property long used as timber land, now owned by the James Justice Companies and recently designated by the owner for preservation of the historic viewshed. Another possible site is on land owned by Anthony and later by Nicholas G. and Anthony's sons-in-law in the Blenheim area on Quarry Creek (i.e. the "middle branch" of Buck Island Creek in early deeds, on the western side of Buck Island Creek). Nicholas' home in the Blenheim area was known to the family as "Cherry Hill" and by family legend was where Antonio and Maria were buried and probably also Nicholas and Polly. The exact boundaries have not yet been identified. This is NOT the location visited in the early 1960s...but more appropriately, is an area that is now the home to several vineyards (Blenheim, Rousse, and Trump (formerly Kluge)).
Antonio was the son of Nicholao Giannini (1725-aft 1786) (son of Giavanni Antonio Giannini, b. abt 1675) and Maria Settima Matelli (1727-?) (daughter of Matteo Matelli and Dominica Santoni).
These memorials are being created here to honor their memory, and to be able to link to the other family lines through FAG. Exact burial site is now unknown and cannot be visited.
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