Theodorus (Durst) Aebi emigrated from Switzerland to the Palatinate of Germany and then (via Rotterdam) to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1717. Andrew Abee (b.1761), direct descendant in the fourth generation, moved to Shenandoah County, Virginia by 1778, and by 1800 moved to Burke County, North Carolina, where he died after 1840. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas and elsewhere.