The Averys and the Heimbachs and Yaples and Dumonds (DuMont/DuMond etc.)seem to be closely tied for several generations. Here is the Heimbach and Yaple family short course: Please contact me off list to get fuller version. :-) Matthias Heimbach and two bothers, Peter and Adam came to America from the region of Germany near present day Baumholder. Their family village is Heimbach Am Nehe a couple miles from Baumholder. Their names were really: Johannes Peter, Johannes Adam and Johannes Matthias, and they were sons of Johnnes Heimbach/Hymbach and Maria Englelin of Heimbach Am Nehe and Illgesheim villages. Illgesheim is no longer in existance. It is under the present day Baumholder air base. Matthias Heimbach settled in Lehigh Co. PA. There he married Susanna Vasqueau /Wiscoe/Wisko. She came to the area from Alsace with her brother Franz and was joined by their father Philip. Susanna and Matthias had four children and Matthias seems to have been a farmer and blacksmith. He died suddenly and left her with the small children to raise. A neighbor, Henry/Philip Henry Jebel's wife had just died leaving with small children. They married. They moved to NY before the Rev. War, as Pakatakatan (spelled every-which-way) was being settled in NY, present Delaware Co. area. The first families: Dumonds, Van Wagenens, Hendriks, were joined by the Jebels/Yaples plus Susannas' son, Peter Heimbach. There he met Catherine Dumond and married her. A Yaple son married into the Avery family, Peter Avery and Mary Yaple, specifically. Later when the families made the move to Ithaca area and then some on to Erie Co. PA, Averys went too. Peter Heimbach and Catherine Dumond's daughter Sally/Sellie Heimbach married Benjamin Avery. So you find a trail of Heimbachs/Himpaws, Kinpaws (every spelling possible!!!), Yaples, Dumonds, Averys along the way from Kingston to Delaware Co. NY to Ithaca/Danby NY to Erie Co. PA. I would like to find out more about your Averys. Susanna Vesqueau Heimbach Yaple was supposed to have lived with Mary and Pieter Avery until her death. They are buried together in a cemetery near Margaretville, (near where Peter and Mary lived,but I'm not certain which one. Peter and Mary were supposed to have requested that the graves not have stones! (All that old graven-image stuff.) Please contact me and we'll talk more. Also, I'd love to hear from other people from these families I've mentioned or who have Delaware Co. NY lines. I'm working on a book about the Heimbach family with Jane Daily. We want to include as much as we can. Elsie Elsie H. Wilson 5620 Harris Cir. Fitchburg, WI 53575 (608) 835-6791 ehwilson@charter.net