Linda's line goes to the early 1700's in Shenandoah County, as Valentine Windl was the first German to patent land in that county, and a descendant still lives on the property. We visited a couple of years ago to find old family cemeteries, and were shown the original grant from Lord Fairfax, and Valentin's Will (why they're not in a courthouse somewhere, I dunno..)
The grant has LF's signature and red wax seal.

Valentine had a gristmill on the North Fork at Tom's Brook, and we found the ruins on one of the visits. Awe-inspring. We were shown the ruins of one of the family's original stone outbuildings, and found a very crude horseshoe, which we were given by the current owner of the property, along with some of the original stones and mortar, still adhered...they now decorate our front flowerbed. The ruins date to the late 1700s, and are adjacent to what is known as Tom's Brook Racetrack, a Civil War battlefield, at least once attended by Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

It all make me wish I'd appreciated History more than I did in school.