Hi Cynthia & other Listers, I sent most of what you asked about before but will do so again with a little better information. My First Official record of the Peter Casper & Ann Mary ( Anna Maria) family I have yet to find is in the New Jersey Parish records of The German Reformed Church 1766 baptism of their Daughter Eva (Eve). My grandfather always said they were Pennsylvania Dutch so We will see in the future if that pans out. He was born a month after his father died and His mother also died when he was young so There was very little family information passed down. His older sisters raised him. As for the Peter Casper family> Children were: Conrad- abt 1750-1785, John - dates Unknown, Henry -abt.1760-1832, Adam -b. date unk - 1845, Eve-1765-unk. The church records show them still there in NJ in 1770 When Conrad and Ann Mary witnessed a baptism. What I have read but not documented the Date is the family moved to NC after the Rev War. The Census records for Rowan County pick them up in NC in 1790. Some of the family moved to Illinois in the early 1800's. To Union County and Pulaski County Illinois. I would be happy to share the information on the descendants with anyone thinking they might be linked. I have found no references to a Johann Casper in Rowan County, Where did they go? Was it in a part of the area that Changed to a new County when they broke it up? I will specify My Caspers of Rowan County were from the Salisbury area in the Rowan County area still in existence. For those not used to the Rowan County NC area, Old Rowan covered a lot Western North Carolina, also into Eastern Tennessee. to see a map and information on dates of New Counties formation you can go to the rootsweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncrowan/ro-oldrowan.htm Hope this helps some of Us merge our families. C.Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <LEARMACKAY@aol.com> To: <Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:31 AM Subject: Calling all CASPERs > > Hello to all, > So glad people are starting to share on this list. The information I have > is handed down by family and of course will have to be documented.....so I > take it now with a grain of salt. > My first Casper is Johann Michael CASPER born Argenthal Hunsruck, > Germany. No birth date for him. Steve Casper wrote to say that he had a > Johann Michael CASPER in Rowan County, NC in 1752!!!!! Maybe we have a hit > here. > I think it would be helpful to all who read this list, to please show > their 1st CASPER and all they know about him or her. Maybe we can get a > pattern of migration here and fill in some gaps for each other. > > Thanks, Cynthia >