Johannes Ehrenhardt was born in about 1689 in the Palatinate, Germany. His father was Johan Counrath Ehrenhart. Johannes married Anna Margaretha Funchen in about 1688 Ilbesheim, Bavaria, Germany. They had two sons. He married Anna Sybilla Taubin in 1721. They had eight children. He emigrated in 1744 with his son Johan Philip Ehrenhardt and settled in Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.

Johann Nicholaus Heinrich Kress (1721- ) emigrated, with three brothers, from Steinau on the Road, Hesse-Nassau, Germany to America in 1752. By 1770, he settled at Mecklenburg (now Cabarrus) Co., North Carolina and died in 1783.

Hans Johannes (Pheiffer) Phifer, son of Leonard Pheiffer and Brigetta Haner, was born 19 July 1685 in Bretzwill, Basel, Switzerland. He married Agnes Moschinger, daughter of Hans Moschinger and Agnes, in 1706 in Rumlingen, Switzerland. They had eleven children. Five of their sons immigrated to America, settling in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.