Almost all American Broyles descend from Hans Jacob's father Johannes Breyhel and Ursula Ruop. I also descend from Cyrus and Maria Wilhite through son Daniel and Unknown wife. I have not done much original research but thanks to the research of others on this list, I have the Wilhite and Fleischmann line in my database as well as the Broyles line back a few generations. I could send it to you. Oh, I did locate a Samuel Thomas living in Culpepper. I would guess they were friends and neighbors of Cyrus and Maria. Cyrus had a mill in Tennessee, located at Little Limestone creek and the Nolichechy (sp?) river. He may have had a mill in Virginia as well and may have known many English neighbors such as the Thomas's. I located Cyrus's will at the library in Seattle. There is also a picture of Adam Broyles house. Cyrus was portrayed as a man of means in Broyles Family Ties and had land including 28 acres on Little Limestone Creek by the Nolchecky River. Brothers Adam, Nicholas and Matthias lived in area in 1780's. Some Broyles later joined in and purchased land in Horse Creeke. There is Broylesville in area. I have been researching a connection with the family of neighbor Samuel Weaver. Samuel Weaver also purchased acreage- 600 acres on Limestone Creek, and I have attempted to see if there was a family connection. The Weavers were connected with Germania and some Weavers married into Broyles families. The Wilheit's were also living in the area. Cyrus was about 50 when he moved his family to Tennessee. Daniel and Adam were young adults and Daniel married somewhere about the time Cyrus left for Tennessee in the early 1780's. Samuel Thomas would have been a teenager. It must have been quite an adventure. In 1810 at the age of about 70 when he could not longer work the land, Cyrus had liquidated his mills and most property. He lived until 90 or so. Cyrus was clearly a hard working and generous man, perhaps to a fault. According to the will there were several people who had borrowed money from him and never repaid him, even when he was in need in his old age. It is difficult to evaluate what happened from the documents but in examination of his will there were clearly hard feelings between the children of Cyrus at the time of his death. I can see this generous pattern repeated and characteristic of many Broyles family members. Cyrus took a bold move when he relocated to Tenn at such a late stage in his life. Like his grandfather Johannes, his relocation did not bring him instant wealth but provided greater benefits to his children and grandchildren. I think most of Cyrus's children left Washington County Tennessee after his death in the mid 1820's.

At 01/21/2003 11:12 AM Tuesday, Sperong@aol.com wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Almost all American Broyles descend from Hans Jacob's father Johannes >Breyhel >and Ursula Ruop. I also descend from Cyrus and Maria Wilhite through >son >Daniel and Unknown wife. I have not done much original research but >thanks >to the research of others on this list, I have the Wilhite >and Fleischmann >line in my database as well as the Broyles line back a few >generations. I >could send it to you. >(snipped) **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Hello "SPERONG": Just a word about your first paragraph. I know you were just being conservative and careful when you say "Almost all..." . Actually, this subject has been raised many times in the past and from all the research that has been done, NO BROYLES descendants have ever been found that did NOT descend from Johannes BREYHEL and Ursula RUOP. And, there is a very good reason for this. Johannes' name in German was spelled variously BREHEL, BREYEL, BREYHEL, etc., but NEVER was it spelled BROYLES, BRILES, or any of the other Americanized spellings in Germany. Johannes, his wife, and children arrived here with the German spelling. It was not until the British clerks entered the name in various court records as BROYLES, BROYL, BRILE, BRILES, etc., that we have the American versions. Thus, anyone with the name BROYLES does descend from Johannes. Anyone arriving later with the spelling BREHEL, or one of the other German spellings, would very likely not have been entered in the records as BROYLES. Plus, there is absolutely no record of any other emigrant in the early 1700's arriving with any of the various spellings, either German or Americanized. So, I think we can safely say that all American BROYLES or BROYLES descendants descend from old Johannes. Nothing is, of course, ever a 100% certainty, but during the course of genealogical research no BROYLES has EVER been found that can't be traced back to our Johannes. Regards, George