The Bressler, Matter, and Walborn families came from Germany to the British colonies in America between 1710 and 1751. The Matters and Bresslers settled in William Penn's colony, the Walborns in New York. Amanda Matter, great-great granddaughter of Johannes (John) Matter, married Daniel Walborn, the great-great-great grandson of John Adam Walborn, head of that family when it came from Germany. In 1874, John Henry Bressler, great-great grandson of...

Richard Austin was born in 1598 in England. In 1638 he and his wife and two sons immigrated to America. They settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York and elsewhere.

Henry Rheyer (1721-1766) was the son of Sebastian and Agnes Rheyer of Hassloch, Germany. He married Catherine. He was the grandson of Hans Georg Rheyer (d.1719) born near Metz, Lorraine, France. A short time after the Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685, Hans fled to Bohl, the Pfalz, Germany. He married Maria Magdalena at Bohl and they were the parents of three sons: Sebastian Mathias (1676- 1758), Samuel (b.1689) and Johan Phillip Rheyer (b.1696)....

Matthias Dek (1699-1777) immigrated in 1736 to Philadelphia, probably from Switzerland or from the Palatinate of Germany, and settled in the Tulpehocken area of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants (usually spelling the surname Deck) and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere. Includes Bevill, Brossman, Hower, Peiffer (Pfeiffer), Reimert, Snyder (Schneider), Walborn, Weidman, Zerbe and related families.

George Friend, parents and spouse unknown, was born about 1752 and possibly lived in Pennsylvania. His son George Friend was born about 1774. He married Mary Magdelene Knable, daughter of Jacob Knable and Marie Salome Cassel, on 22 July 1797 in Brothers Valley, Somerset, Pennsylvania. Mary was born about 1778 in Bethel, Berks, Pennsylvania. They had 4 children. No death date is listed for Mary. George died 4 July 1857 in Milford, Somerset, Pennsylvania....

Traces the ancestors of the author's grandmother, Beryl B. Bottorff (1896-1993), who was born in Washington County, Indiana. Her parents were George McClellan Bottorff and Dora Belle Douglass. She married William Holsapple March 1, 1916. Ancestors and relatives lived in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky and elsewhere.

Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Tullis (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Ireland and Scotland. Some immigrated ca. 1730, to Kentucky, New Jersey, Virginia, and West Virginia. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Moses Tullis, who was born ca. 1730 in New Jersey, and died before 1777 in Berkeley County, West Virginia. He married Mary Elizabeth Van Dyke, the daughter of Jan...