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From: "Roy Preston" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Ancestor Arrivals/Hausell-Trimmer
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:58:17 -0500


I to have been searching for any information that could establish when
my ancestors arrived in this country. My

gggggrandfather was Peter Casper (Caspar) who I find in Hunterdon County,NJ
during the mid 1750's.
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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Ancestor Arrivals/Hausell-Trimmer


> Hi,
> I am also so interested as my Johannes Trimmer settled in Amwell and lived
> near the Hausells (Hausscheilt). Let me know what you find.
>
> My Johannes (born ~1700) seems to have arrived ~1730 here as his eldest
son
> Matthias (b. ~1723) wrote in beautiful German script while the younger son
> Andreas did not. If I remember correctly from Chambers' Early Germans of
NJ,
> he and son were naturalized in NJ in 1749. I always wished we know which
> boat they came over on. The German group in Amwell there all seemed to be
> German Reformed (Deutsche Reformierten)(later merged into Dutch Reformed
> (Ref. Church in Am.) and Presbyterians). Our oldest Trimmer family Bible
only
> goes back to 1802; have never been able to find out who has the Johannes
> Trimmer Bible.
> Jones' book mentions the probably location in Germany of the Trimmers as
> Neuwied on the Rhine (Neuwied am Rhein).
>
> Merry Christmas
> Robert Trimmer
> Germantown, MD
>
>
>
>
>
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