I am posting on this board because the family and census takers prior to the mid 1800's spelled the name in all of the above listed ways. I am seeking information on Joseph and Barbary, who may have emmigrated from Germany, lived in Pennsylvania, and then traveled by flatboat to KY, where they lived in a fort before settling in Shelby county. Based on the birthdates of their children, Joseph and Barbary would have been born before 1755. Their children were MAthias, Eliza Jane, Mary, Joseph, as possibly others.