Jacob Hertzler immigrated in 1749 to Bern Township, Pennsylvania. He probably died in 1786. He was the first Amish bishop in America.

William Robb was born in 1824 in New Hampshire of Dutch descent. Helen McLean was born in 1831 near Mammouth Cave in Kentucky. They met and were married at Chester, Illinois, in 1849. They had six children, 1850-1864. The family lived near Breckenridge, Illinois, until 1855, when they migrated to Wayne County, Iowa. He died in 1901. Most descendants listed lived in Iowa. Includes Information found by Tedford W. Miles in 1957 in a History of Sangamon...

Shows ancestry of the author, Karen Marie Darnell Sonnen (1960- ), back to the 1700's. One of the earliest immigrants mentioned is Jacob Hertzler (1703-1786). Jacob was an Amish Mennonite minister and bishop. Due to religious persecutions, he left Switzerland and arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1749. Upon his arrival he became the first Amish Mennonite bishop in America. His first wife died in Europe. He later married Catherine Ruegy. Ancestors...

Anabaptist preacher Hans Zaug was born about 1630 near Bern, Switzerland. He and his family moved to the Palatinate of Germany. Eleven Zug immigrants (some of them probably sons of Hans) immigrated to Pennsylvania between 1727 and 1754.

"... these pages do not contain a family history of the usual kind. The purpose ... is to interrelate the currently known facts concerning a small group of American immigrants who appear to have a common surname and to call attention to some remaining problems ... the book includes the male lines for at least five generations beginning with all Swiss-German Zaugg-Zug immigrants who arrived prior to 1800"-- (p. i).

Lewis Miles was born in Cardeth, Wales. In the early 1800's he came to the United States. He met Hannah David, also from Wales, and they were married in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They had four children. The family moved from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia where they lived for 10 years. Then in 1818 they moved to Marion County, Ohio. In 1830 Lewis and Hannah David Miles died. The children moved on to Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, where they purchased land,...

Peter Hartline was born 5 June 1788 probably in Germany and died 17 March 1837 in Franklin Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio. He married (1) Christena Palmer, daughter of George M. Palmer and Mary Houseman, 6 April 1817 in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. She died 15 May 1826. Peter married (2) Regina Pfersich 3 July 1827. Descendants have lived mainly in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan and Indiana.

Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Mennonites, Amish, Anabaptists, and Church of the Brethren, whose ancestors originated in Alsace-Lorraine (now part of France), Germany (especially Bavaria, Pfalz, and the Palatinate areas), the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, Switzerland, and the Ukraine. Some immigrated to Central Asia and North America in the 1700's-1800's. Some settled in Manitoba and Ontario (Canada), Saudi...

Descendants of three Grossman brothers, Michael, Nicholas, Jacob who immigrated from Berlin, Germany to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in later 1700's. Michael was born 22 January 1748 in Berlin, Germany and died 7 October 1810 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His wife Marie was born 27 August 1755. She died 20 June 1852 also in Lancaster County. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,...

Christian Fisher (d.1768) was probably a son or a brother of immigrant Hein Ulrich Fisher, who immigrated in 1732 from Germany; Christian married Magdalena Miller and lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Christian Fisher (1757-1838), son of Christian and Magdalena, married twice and moved in 1791 from Chester County to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,...