Excerpt from Johannes Heintz and His Descendants The name first appears in American records in 1730, the first person noted being Johan Ludwig Heintz, Who qualified at the Port of Philadelphia, November 3oth of that year. From that date until 1775, there were upward of thirty-two individuals bearing the name Heintz, or What is meant for the same, who entered Pennsylvania, and strangely too, half of these included the Christian names John, Johan, and Johannes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.