there were two earlier arrivals in Lancaster county from Germany of members of the Heintzel- man family, and, whilst we have not been able to trace any kinship be- tween them and the General's family, yet I beg to refer to them briefly, with the thought it may probably be of some assistance in future

Geschichten der Mennoniten, p. 151, which he cites, translated as follows: "Several families from the Palatinate, descendants of the distressed Swiss, emigrated to America and settled in Lancaster county in the year 1709" (Rupp, 74). Bishop Benjamin Eby was the grandfather of Ezra E. Eby, who wrote the "Eby

source, the case from another, assembled and put their names on the clock and sold it to some personal friend whom they were able to secure as a customer. �The greater number of the clocks made in this county were from the shops of •the following weil-known men: Shreiners, of Lancaster; the Ebermans, of

, coming up through southern Chester county, and incidentally, along the bor- der of Lancaster, and some have the idea that an old gentleman by the name of Thomas Garrett, in the city of Wilmington, had much to do with giv- ing them direction to their friends in Pennsylvania. Another channel seems to have

, who is now deceased. Of the sons, I have time only to take up the life and family of John Whiteside, the oldest, who became Congressman He came to Lancaster some time prior to 1800, although he seemed to retain some interests in Colerain township thereafter, especially in the distillery, which his