The Samuel Fox Diary [HARDCOVER], Berks County, Pennsylvania

Traces the European origins of the immigrants as well as descendants of a large group of Berks countians arriving in Pennsylvania in the 1700s. Original German script diary (written 1840-1881) with translation names over 200 persons and includes supporting biographies and ancestry of Pennsylvania immigrants of the 1700s. Learn about the Fox family (entrusted caretakers of the Pricetown Meeting House) and their associations with French Protestant, Lutheran, Moravian, Catholic and German Baptist families of Berks County and the Labidist Community of Bohemia, Maryland. Read about Samuel's family connections to: William Penn's maternal ancestry (Mennonite Quakers from Krefeld); General George Washington's elite body guard; early Pennsylvania Governors Schneider and Ritner; and prominent families Weiser, Lincoln and Boone. Hardcover. Author, 2016. 515 pages.