Well, I thought while I was waiting for someone to comment on the parents of Mathias possibly being Wilhelm and Paulina Behringer, I would also throw out this alternate possibility. I understand a Sheridan Reid Barringer has a book out that puts forth the position the parents of Mathias and John Paul BARRINGER are actually Johaan Matthaus BERINGER and Anna Catharina BOGER. They had 11 children in Schwaigern, Germany. He cites abstracts from church records of the Evangelical Lutheran City Church, Schwaigern, West Germany, used in the book "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German Speaking Lands to North America," Vol. 1, by Annette Kunselman. I have not personally seen either Sheridan's book or the Kunselman volume, can anyone else comment on this? Thanks, cuz Gene in Gotha