9838 Individuals in our Database | | | | |  | | Birth Date | | | | | | Father | Christian Sr. Lauffer THE PIONEER | Born: 1723 MAY 17 Weisenheim Am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany | Died: 1796 JUN | | Mother | Susanah Catharina Best | Born: 1735 | Died: 1796 JUL 19 | | Henry Lauffer Notes: | Henry is enrolled among the "Rangers of the Frontiers" 1778-1783 for Westmore~ )and County
| | Notes: | There was a warm friendship between :Henry Lauffer, Jr., and Simon Drumm, "they called each other cousin," "my father was always very fond of his Lauffer relatives.\ "Sams fathet· and my father were very intimate," the General asserts. He thinks Col. Christopher Truby ( elsewhere mentioned) was related to the Drumms and the Lauffers, for the daughter of Christopher Truby used to call his father "Cot.sin Simon." As to the source of our people he knows we are from the Palatine, a country beautiful beyond anythin1~: when General Tourans was sent into it, its devastation was so complete that irt delivering his report to the French monarch hi! could truthfully say: "Sire I have not kft a stick standing as b :g as that finger." The people homeless, in destitution, came into the province of P<>nnsylvania, to find civil and religious libe:iy, and a chance to live.
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Ancestors Chart | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | Christian Lauffer Sr. THE PIONEER DAR #A067003 b.1723 Weisenheim Am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d.1796 | Johan Henrich Lauffer b.1683 Weisenheim am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, German d.1730 | Joseph Lauffer b.1660 Weisenheim am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, German d.1713 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anna Catherina
See Notes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024-persons | - | Susanah Catharina Best b.1735 Germany d.1796 | Wilhelm Best Jr WILLIAM
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