This is the personal and business journal of Peter Leibundgutt, an Amishman, who was a weaver.
Summary
Amishman Peter Leibundgutt/Livengood (d. 1826) kept an interesting financial journal of personal and business transactions between 1758 and 1824. A weaver, Peter is thought to be the first Amishman to go by Conestoga wagon across the Allegheny Mountains to settle in what is now Elk Lick, Somerset Co., Pa. This journal is transcribed here along with an introduction, a listing of Peter's descendants for three generations (Beachy, Breneisen, Fike, Forney, Haag, Hardman, Kepple, Miller, Saylor, and Yoder)
A Chronologically arranged collection of nine generations in America : descendants of John Nissley dating from 1717 to 1949; with condensed historical data and noteworthy folklore, pertinent to our Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry