BECHTEL, John, born Weinheim (Bergstrasse), Baden, Germany, 5 Oct. 1690; resided at Heidelberg, 1704-1709; Frankenthal, 1717-1726; turner apprentice, 1704, journeyman, 1709, master, 1714- 1726; arriv. Philadelphia, 1726.
BEISSEL, Johann Conrad, b. Eberbach, Baden, Germany, Apr. 1690; arriv. Boston, Mass., 1720; Germantown, Pa., Fall of 1720; Ordained Conestoga (Lancaster) Pa., Dec. 1724; sett. East Lampeter (Lane.) Pa.
BRECHT, Catharina, sister of Johann Michael, born Schriesheim, came to America in 1725, settled in York Co.
BRECHT, David, born 1719 in Schriesheim. Son of Johann Michael and and his first wife, Anna Margaretha ULRICH. David Bright sold homestead to Jost Hoffmann.
BRECHT, Hans Steffen, born 1692
BRECHT, Hans Wendel, born Schriesheim, son of Johann Michael Brecht and his first wife, Anna Margaretha ULRICH
BRECHT, Johann Michael, born 1706 Schriesheim, emigrated 1726, went to Germantown and then moved to Sheridan in Heidelburg Township PA; died in Reading.
BRECHT, Susanna Margaretha, born Schriesheim. Emigrated with husband Gabriel Röscher on Britannia, arriving in Philadelphia 21 September 1731.
HOFFMANN, Ann Catharina, born 1684, mother of Johan Michael BRECHT
KREMER, Anna Praxedis, 2nd wife of Hans Steffen BRECHT.
MACK, Alexander, born in Schriesheim. Joined the Pietist movement in Schriesheim and then was forced with other religious dissenters to move to the village of Schwarzenu, Wittgenstein [Westfalen, Prussia] near modern-day Bad Berleburg]. He formed Schwarzenau Brethren Church [Dunkards] and moved to Friesland about 1720. In 1729 Mack and 30 other families left Rotterdam on the ship Allen and arrived in Philadelphia. He died in 1735 in America.
MECKENDöRFER [McIndorfer or McInterfeer], Johannes married in Neckerau near Mannheim. 1729 Ship Allen. Settled in Germantown and then to the Shenandoah Valley in 1780s.
REIBER, Jacob, born 1727 Sandhofen. Ship: Dragon 1749. Lived in Upper Milford Township in Lehigh County, then Monaghan, York.
RöSCHER, Gabriel, born Schriesheim in 1703. Married Susana Margaretha Becht. Arrived Philadelphia 21 September 1731 on the ship Britannia.
SAUER, Johann Christoph, born 1695 Ladenburg, the son of a Reformed pastor. He lived in the village of Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein, [Westfalen, Preussen], near modern-day Bad Berleburg, Nordrhein Westfalen. He also had ties to Laaspe. He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1724 and settled in Germantown, before moving to Lancaster County. His wife joined Conrad Beissel's Ephrata colony in Lancaster County and Sauer and his son moved back to Germantown where he became a German-language printer and publisher. in 1743, Sauer published the first German-language Bible to be printed in North America. He also published Der Hoch-Deutsch Pensylvanische Geschichts-Schreiber which was an influential publication.
SCHAEFFER, Alexander, born 1712 Schriesheim.
STORM, Jacob. He emigrated on the "Mortenhouse". He was married in Neckarau (Mannheim) and married Johann Sauer's daughter. The birth of his daughter Elisabeth appears in the New Holland Church Records in Lancaster (Stoever's records).
Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44539283.pdf
Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society: https://erhistoricalsociety.org/pennsylvania/