Snyder County [Pennsylvania] Pioneers

Snyder County [Pennsylvania] Pioneers
Author: Charles A. Fisher
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Snyder County (Pa.)
ISBN: 0806350601
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Here is an essential guide to the formation and historical highlights of 100 Tennessee counties in existence at the time of the work's original publication in 1923. Each essay gives the county's date of formation, the names of all parent counties, the names of some of its earliest pioneers and landowners, the dates its courts were organized, locations of county seats, and additional information on each county's topography and economy.

Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, from the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War

Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, from the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War
Author: Henry Frank Eshleman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1917
Genre: Anabaptists
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"An authentic history, from original sources, of their suffering during several centuries before and especially during the two centuries following the Protestant Reformation, and of their slow migration, moved by those causes, during the last mentioned two hundred years, westward in quest of religious freedom and their happy relief in the Susquehanna and Schuylkill valleys in the new world; with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other non-resistant sects"--Title page.

Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 1794-1883, of Salisbury, Connecticut, Sullivan County, New York, Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, and Vermilion, Ohio, Including Known Descendants of His Brothers and Sisters, Most of Whom Went to Michigan

Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 1794-1883, of Salisbury, Connecticut, Sullivan County, New York, Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, and Vermilion, Ohio, Including Known Descendants of His Brothers and Sisters, Most of Whom Went to Michigan
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Total Pages: 748
Release: 1974
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Jeremiah Adams Sr. (1794-1883) moved from Connecticut to New York, and married Catherine Bowen in 1816. She died in 1836 in Erie County, Pennsylvania, leaving Jeremiah with 8 children. In 1837 he married widow Elizabeth (Willard) Shattuck, widow of Joseph Shattuck Jr., and later they moved to Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio. Descendants and relatives also lived in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, California, Texas and elsewhere. Includes family history and genealogical data for each generation back to immigrant Henry Adams (1583-1646) of Braintree, Massachusetts, and also for at least four generations of his ancestors in England.