by Marc | Sep 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
In 1776, Jacob Livezey was enlisted in the Flying camp/Second Associator Regiment under captain John Moore, Colonel Robert Lewis. Moore who was promoted, and captainship of the company fell to Christian Snyder. Livezey may have participated in the Battles of Trenton...
by Marc | Sep 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Penman & Brown Families of Newbattle A child of eight crushed under the wheels of a coal cart. A young father hacking up black phlegm. A half-starved mother pulling a wagon of salt because she was cheaper to employ than a mule. These were the grim realities of...
by Marc | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Jacob Warner Oberlander was born to a German farming family in 1819, in Chanceford, York County, Pennsylvania. He was the sixth of twelve children born to Michael Baugher Oberlander and Maria Catherine Warner. He was named for his paternal grandfather, Jacob...
by Marc | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Greedy lairds. Religious schisms. Wars and clan battles. Biting winters, famine, disease, and hazardous mining conditions. These were the day-to-day realities that peasants living in the Newbattle parish experienced, and ones that the Russell and Moffat ancestors...
by Marc | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Anna Catharina was a European woman who became a legend, mostly of her own imagination. Presumably born to a Lutheran peasant family in Palatinate, near Alsace, she would marry Jacque Sellaire, and bear six children, including ancestor Henry. Due to religious and...
by Marc | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Maria was one of the fiercest and determined women of colonial history. Born and married in France, she and her husband Daniel Fierre, would have six children, including ancestor Catherine who was born in 1679. As Huguenot, the Edict of Fountainebleau who cause Marie...
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