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Subject: [PABUCKS-L] Re: Ritter, Bucks, Berks & Northampton co.
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:30:25 EST

RITTER is a common German name meaning 'knight', so it is easy to confuse
families.

Four RITTER brothers and their sister Barbara, arrived on the Pennsylvania
Merchant, 11 Sept, 1732. They were Paul, Henry, Martin and Casper.
Fortunately that captain, John Stedman, bless him!, listed the entire family
including women and children: Paul's wife Elisabeth and son, Paul, the two
brothers who were under 16, Martin and Casper, Barbara who later married
Jacob Hertzel, who had a tavern near Nazareth, and someone named Anna, who
might have been their mother or, possibly more likely from the context,
another sister.

The family settled in Northampton Co, in the Allentown/Bethleham/Nazareth
area. Paul eventually migrated to Berks Co. I believe that some of the
children and grandchildren of the four immigrant brothers were in Spring
township, Bucks Co in the late 1700s and early 1800s, especially a Jacob
RITTER, who had a daughter Mary Elisabeth, or Mary E. Ritter. Can anyone
prove the parentage of Jacob?

Jane Lahey

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