I have done some research on a Kessler family that lived in Frederick County, MD during the colonial period. Members of this family show up on the non-enroller's listing (pacifists/Tories) for Frederick County, and some later moved to Fayette/Westmoreland County area of Pennsylvania, where they were definitely German Baptists. Any idea if John Kessler or B.E. Kesler has ties to this Brethren family? Bill Thomas