I am trying to make the jump back from Guilford/Orange Co, NC, to Pennsylvania on my Starr family. They were "poor Germans" and hard to trace, therefore I am trying to trace related lines in hopes of running into my Starrs. One branch of the Starrs migrated to Lincoln Co, and married with grandchildren of Nicholas Fry. A friend sent me the info below that was found on-line. >> According to the book, "The Heritage of Catawba County North Carolina," Vol 1 1986,p 159: " When Johannes Nicholaus Frey ( later angelicized to Frye or Fry) arrived in Pa from Rotterdam aboard the ship, Brittania, on September 21,1731,he was 6 years old. He arrived with his father, Johanis (also spelled Johannes) Frey,age 30(born about 1701) and his mother,Johaneva, age 33( born abt 1704). The Freys became part of the Moselem Lutheran Congregation in Berks County." >> According to Moselem Church records, Nicholaus married Maria Elizabetha Pabst (angelicized Bobst/Popst/Pope) in 1744. According to the above book, the children born to this couple were baptized in the Tohicken Reformed Church in Berks Co, PA. The following children's names are found in the book above: >> Hannah,born 1745;Niocholaus,Jr,born 2 February1746;John Jacob,born 28 February 1758; John George,born 10 March 1760; Philip,MAry, Susannah. >> Nicholaus was in NC sometime after1761. He was given a land grant by King George III January 25,1773, of 150 acres in Tryon CountyNC on both sides of the South Fork River. I find a couple of things wrong with the above. First, they have Nicholas marrying when he was 18 or 19 years old. Very possible, but I have found that most German men married between the ages of 25 to 30. Second, they show a son, John Jacob Frey, born 28 Feb 1758 in the Tohickon Reformed Church in Berks Co, NC. The records of the Tohickon Church, which is in BUCKS County, not Berks, shows the son born on the date above listed simply as John Frey. In normal German naming patterns, the name John was given to the eldest son in the family. A son named John Jacob would be baptized that way. I am wondering if the above researcher picked the wrong Nicholas off of ship lists, and, or got the children of two different Nicholas Frys mixed together. Is anyone researching Nicholas Fry of Lincoln Co, NC, who has already figured this out? Thank you, Don