Nickname Hans or Adam. He settled in Cocalico Twp., Lancaster CO., PA most likely because relatives of his sister Margaretha and her husband Lorenz Haushalter already lived in the area. They were members of the Emanuel Lutheran Church, known then as the Warwick Congregation, Brickerville, Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster CO., PA. Most likely he left Germany to escape being drafted into the Prussian army as Prussia was in control of what is now known as Germany at that time and was in the midst of a succession of wars knnow as the wars of Austrian Succession.
Nickname Hans or Adam. He settled in Cocalico Twp., Lancaster CO., PA most likely because relatives of his sister Margaretha and her husband Lorenz Haushalter already lived in the area. They were members of the Emanuel Lutheran Church, known then as the Warwick Congregation, Brickerville, Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster CO., PA. Most likely he left Germany to escape being drafted into the Prussian army as Prussia was in control of what is now known as Germany at that time and was in the midst of a succession of wars knnow as the wars of Austrian Succession.
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