I have added a new file to my website pennsylvaniasettlers.com that contains analysis of a large migration from the German village of Reichelsheim to the American Colonies.

The emigrants largely settled in Pennsylvania, spanning the modern counties of Philadelphia, Montgomery, Berks, Lebanon, and Lancaster.

I welcome any information that can expand the first generation of these families in America.

Also--please know that there may be other emigrants from this village. My work is rather primitive as I could not view the original church books.


PROBABLE OR CERTAIN REICHELSHEIM EMIGRANTS:

1749 Adam Reifwein
1749 Jacob German (presumed)
1749 Balthasar Jaeckel
1749 Martin Schaffer
1749 Alexander Klinger
1749 Johannes Klinger
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1751 Philipp Klinger
1751 Adam Geiss
1751 Johannes Geiss
1751 Conrad Schepfnit
1751 Johann Georg Heist
1751 Johann Adam Heist
1751 Bernhard Jagel
1751 Melchior Trautmann
1751 Johann Peter Trautmann


POSSIBLE EMIGRANTS:

1749 Christoph Nagel
1749 Martin Rausch
1749 Johan Adam Rausch
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1752 Johann Adam Ares
1752 Johannes Ares
1752 Johann Henrich Heist


Best wishes,

Ed Wevodau
Grapevine, TX