Heiner (Henry) Weber (b. 1690) emigrated from Switzerland to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania about 1717, and married Maudlin Kendig. Record follows line of descent to Francis R. Weaver (1835-1917) of the fifth generation. He married Magdalena Musser (1840-1903) in 1861. They had a son and five daughters, 1862-1873. Most descendants listed lived in Pennsylvania.

John Schelly (1749-1819) was born son of Abraham and Eve Shelly and the grandson of Abraham and Elizabeth Schelle, the immigrants. He and his wife, Mary Yellis, had eight children, 1774-1789. He is buried at the Brick Mennonite Meetinghouse Cemetery. Mary Yellis Schelly, is buried at the Kilmer family cemetery, near Mt. Hope Schoolhouse, Tuscarora Township, Juaniata County, Pennsylvania. Descendants spelled their name Shelley. Includes Brubaker,...

Thomas Fry/Frye/"ffrie"/Frey (1632-1704) and his wife, Mary Griffin (1649-1717) were both born at Yarte, Devonshire England. They immigrated to America before 1669, and both died in Newport County, Rhode Island. Descendants lived in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, California, Washington and elsewhere.

Hans Peter Gebhart (1642-1708) was born in the village of Abtweiler, County of Kreuznach, in the Palatine (now Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany), the son of Joachim Gebhard (b. 1609). He and his wife, had at least three children, 1666-1680?, born at Desloch, a village near Abtweiler. He died at Desloch. Descendants listed, chiefly descendants of his grandsons: Johann Nickel Gebhart (1710-ca. 1778), who immigrated to America in 1741 and died in Berks County,...

Frederick Reinhart Waltz married Mary Seltzer and immigrated to Philadelphia in the mid-eighteenth century. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska and elsewhere. John Walts was born in Pennsylvania in 1795. His wife, Susannah Keithley, was born in Virginia in 1801. They had thirteen children, 1820-1846, all born in Greenville Township, Floyd County, Indiana. Includes the Hausen (Housen), Milliron, Schrader, Seltzer,...

Philip Christian Gross (1729-1793) immigrated in 1754 from Germany to Bucks (now Northampton) County, Pennsylvania, and married twice. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Texas, California and elsewhere.

Thomas Bryant (1634-1661), son of Thomas Bryant and grandson of Thomas Bryant, immigrated from England to Barbadoes and later to Boston, Massachusetts. His son Edmund Bryant (d.1662) and his grandson, William Bryan (1645-1697), also immigrated from Barbadoes to Boston. Thomas D. Bryant, Jr. (d.1854), possibly a descendant, moved fron North Carolina to Owen County, Indiana. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma,...

Christian Schmucker/Smoker/Smucker was from Berne, Switzerland, but immigrated to Philadelphia from Wurtemburg, Germany in 1752. John Schmucker (1740-1809) married Barbara Stoltzfus (1752-1838) and they reared their family in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives remained chiefly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois.

William Weatherspoon was living in Orange County, North Carolina by 1764. He married and had five children. Traces the descendants of each of these children in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado and elsewhere .