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To: RegulatorCountry

My 5th g-grandfather (maternal) was the last Quaker in my line. He was a pacifist who helped both sides during the revolution. But four of this sons joined the revolution. My ancestor fought in the battle of Kings Mountain, NC, and other battles.

My father's ancestors include Mennonites from the Lancaster, PA area, one who was one of the earliest ministers of the Groffdale Mennonite Church in Groffdale, PA (he became minister about 1735). Other paternal ancestors were Jewish. They converted to Christianity after arriving in America in the late 1700's. Other paternal ancestors arrived in Jamestown in the early 1600's, and in New Kent County, VA about 1635.


464 posted on 08/23/2006 9:35:10 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau

I've got six in the Rev., but only one anybody would likely have heard anything about, his name was Landon Carter. I've also got a lot of surnames in my lines that I suspect were once Jewish, but records don't go back much before 1500 for them; they came over to Pennsylvania from Pfalz Am Rhein, German speaking but the region is now in France. Surnames Schauss, Frey, Zimmerman, Meier and others. I suspect they may have fled Spain due to the Inquisition, if in fact they actually were Jewish. They were Moravian, a Protestant sect.


466 posted on 08/23/2006 9:46:22 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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