"Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, now gives us a new study of the deep roots of the 1630s migrants in their "godly" (Puritan) communities of England. Stretching well back into the 16th century, in Puritan Pedigrees Anderson explores the connections among these first migrants that were genealogical, social, intellectual, and most of all, fundamentally religious. This is the book that will give readers a better understanding of the conditions that led...

Christoffell Jacoby (1709-1786) was born in the Rhineland in Germany. He came to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1739. He married Johanna Elizabeth Eberhardt. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Also traces family of John Adam Schneider (1696-1746), born in Hohenburg, Germany. He came to Philadelphia in 1737.