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- From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
- Subject: Re: Mosser Family, Berks & Lehigh Cos., PA
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.174241.25970@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <ROOTS-L%92111806521671@VM1.NODAK.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:42:41 GMT
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- In article <ROOTS-L%92111806521671@VM1.NODAK.EDU> Bob Oliphant
- <oliphant@BBN.COM> writes:
- >Last Friday I found an ancestor, George Mosser (b. c. 1756 or 1761, d.
- >19 Jan 1826 or 1825), who served in the Revolutionary War and lived in
- >Berks and/or Lehigh Cos., PA. [Lists typically German first names...]
- >I suspect he is of German ancestry. ... Before I do much more
- >digging on George, I wondered if anyone in ROOTS-L/soc.roots land could
- >give me some pointers to specific information on this family.
-
- Absolutely. I strongly suspect that you've run into the same family which
- provided the Mussers of Lancaster County, right next door. My ancestor
- is Frena Musser, born early 1700s, and I have very little information on
- her personally -- but the histories of Lancaster County I've been browsing
- are overrun with Musser names. :)
-
- (Since Frena Musser is supposed to have married Abraham Herr, son of
- the Hans Herr who arrived with his son Christian and their friend
- Martin Kuendig c. 1710, the Mussers were almost certainly among the
- Swiss-German Mennonite families which originated in Zuerich canton.)
-
- Anyone who has information on Mossers or Mussers: I'd love to talk.
-
- -- __
- Ellen Keyne Seebacher \/ elle@midway.uchicago.edu
- Currently researching: BERG, BOMBERGER, COBLE, DARIG, ERISMAN, GEUNDER,
- HABECKER, HERR, HERSCHE/HERSHEY, KAUFFMAN, KENDIG, KLINE, LAMERE, MUSSER,
- NEWCOMMER, SHELLENBURGER, WITMER (early Pennsylvania Germans, mostly Swiss)
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