Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Meyer (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from France, Germany, and Switzerland. In the 1700's, some immigrated to Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. During the 1800's, some moved to Canada, and to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin....

John Jacob Schnebele emigrated from Switzerland to America between 1707 and 1718 and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He died at age eighty-four leaving several children, one of whom was Jacob Schnebele (1694-1766), He married twice and had seventeen children. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Many descendants used the surname Snively. Samuel Bachtel was born 4 Oct. 1732 at Goshenhoppen, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He...

Johann Georg Wien/Wine, his wife, Marguretta, and two sons, emigrated from the River Rhine, near Heidelberg, Germany, in 1752, and settled in Hanover Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Their son, Michael Wine (1747-1822), migrated to Frederick County, Maryland, where he married Susannah Miller (1754-1848) They had twelve children, 1774-1797. The family migrated to Shenandoah County, Virginia, in 1782. He is buried at the Beaver Run Church Cemetery,...

Christian Reck Sr. (d.ca.1791) immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia in 1754 and settled in York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and elsewhere.

Jeremiah Robertson (1814-1879) married Ann Smith (1818-1869) in Carroll County, Maryland in 1837. Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and throughout the United States.

Johannes Huthmacher (1811-1872) married Friederika Wüst in 1834. The widow and family emigrated from Germany to Chillicothe, Ohio. Descendants lived in Ohio, Kentucky and elsewhere.

Hans Grumbacker, age 27, arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1733. His son, Jacob, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania ca. 1738. He bought land in Frederick County, Maryland in 1767. He later died in 1785. Descendants lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and elsewhere.

The immigrant ancestor, Peter Lampman, of Stockheim, Hessen, Germany came to America in 1710. On January 17, 1715/16 Peter Landman/Lampman took the Naturalization Oath at Albany, N.Y. He married Catharina Deckmann (bpt. 1665) in 1698 at the Parish of Dudelsheim, Stockheim. She was the widow of Conradt Frikk (d. 1692), and the daughter of Conradt Deckmann and Juliana Stroh. Descendants and family members live in New York, Michigan, Vermont, Indiana,...

Johannes Garber Sr. (ca. 1732-1787) married Barbara Miller, daughter of Michael Miller and Susanna Agness Berchtol, ca. 1752. They lived in York County, Pennsylvania and then moved to Frederick County, Maryland in 1768. In 1775 they moved to Flat Rock, Virginia. Early descendants lived in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and later spread throughout the U.S.

John Drayton (Draton?) Slater (1818-1894), of Quaker lineage, was born in Newberry District, South Carolina, moved to Hamilton County, Indiana, married Harriet Florer, moving later to Jasper County, Iowa (and owning land in Missouri and Kansas), and then to Lebanon, Oregon. Descendants lived in Indiana, Iowa, Oregon, California, Alaska, Wyoming, Colorado and elsewhere.