The original holder of the Bible was M.M. Schultze (1652-1724) who lived in the village of Butzfleth in modern-day Germany. He was married to (1) Margarethe Bockleman (died 1693) and (2) Maria Elysebet La Kemuns in 1694. The Bible includes a diary of the Schultze family, 1687-1775. Also includes records of the Dreffein family. Ancestry is traced to August Heironimus Dreffein of Blumenthal, Kingdom of Hannover. He married (1) Anne Sophia Mahlstedt...

"My personal objective in this genealogy effort has been to trace every directly-related family back to the time when they arrived in America. I have, as a result, never done any research on any family members in Europe or their country of origin. To the extent that European information was found in the course of my research I have retained it and included it in this booklet ..." (Note on leaf [3]). John Myers (b.1816), son of Blasius and Elizabeth...

Andrew Schreiber married Anna Margaretha, widow of John Young, before 1712, and they immigrated in 1721 from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia, and settled near Schuylkill in what is now Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Andrew Shriver (b.1712), a son, married Ann Maria Keiser in 1733, and settled at Conewago, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere....