In a message dated 98-09-15 18:42:52 EDT, you write: << The maiden name of John, Sr's wife, Rinker >> I've seen the Surname RINKER in the the book "The Brethren in Colonial America" Edited by Donald F. Durnbaugh, The Brethren Press Pg. 177 The families belonging to the society are about Twenty whereof twent-eight persons are baptized. Thus stood things with them in 1770. In Greatswamp, Pa. ( John Frick exhor (ter) and wife, Lawrence Erboch and wife, Andrew Meinzinger, John Demud and wife, John Sleifer and wife, Henry Kun, Philip Goodman and wife, Philip Deal, Frederick Deal, John Redroch and wife, Egite Christian and wife, Lodowick Christian and wife, Jacob Staut and wife, Mary Christian, Widow: RINKER, Catherine RINKER, Widow Olinger, Widow Crayling, Freny Triffel.) Deanna