Hello listers, Here is another article from the Eygner Eagles. This one July 1986. There is more in this particular issue that I will share another time. >From time to time I will post more of the articles that I think may be of interest. Please remember any information that these articles may contain should be treated as CLUES to your own research. =========================== (begin article) EYGNER EAGLE, VOL. I, NUMBER 2 ......as you have seen from that first issue not all of the lines are descended from that early PETER EYGNER. Another family was started in Pennsylvania by a JOHN MATHIAS EGNER/EIGENER according to an article on the EGNER family in The history of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (1914) which was sent by DOROTHY SWEZAK of Bethleham, PA. JOHN MATHIAS arrived in Philadelphia on September 30, 1727 on the ship "Molly" supposedly the third ship on record "in the lists of arrivals of Germans at the port of Philadelphia". He is believed to have settled first in Lancaster County where sons JOHN and MATHIAS were baptized in 1733 and 1735 respectively. By 1739 he secured a warrant for land in Macungie township where he raised a family as a member of the Lutheran congregation at Lehigh Church. Dates aof birth and death are given as 1693 and June 20, 1771 and burial was in the Lehigh Church. 1 JOHN MATHIAS EGNER and his wife, ANNA ELIZABETHA had the following children: JOHN, b. 15 June, m. CATHERINE ?, d. 20 July 1796 Children: ANNA ELIZABETHA 1756, MATHIAS 1762, PETER 1765, JOHN 1769, MARIA 1772 MATHIAS, b. 29 June 1735, m. MARIA BARBARA KNAPPENBERGER (1742-1801). Children: MATHIAS 1762, PETER, HENRY 1767, JOHN and CONRAD?, twins 1771; DANIEL 1774, SOLOMON, CHRISTINA 1761, CATHERINE, EVA, ELIZABETH LUDWIG (**1/89 now believed to be son of JOHANNES AEGENDER ) HENRY, b. 8 January 1739, m. SUSANNA ROMIG (1745-1835), d. 2 November 1835. Children: ELIZABETH 1767, CATHERINE 1769, SUSANNA, MAGDELENA 1772, ANNA MARIA 1775, ESTHER 1777, SALOME 1779, CHRISTINA 1780, LYDIA 1783, RACHEL 1787, JUDITH 1791 This is the HENRY EGNER mentioned in the D. A. R. "Patroit Index" who according to this article had eleven children all daughters. I would be interested in seeing any service records or the D. A. R. application if it is available. ============================== (end of article) Note from the list owner: Anyone researching this line, please note there is WRONG or incomplete information listed above. If you feel you have a connection to this family, PLEASE goto the following site for more accurate information: http://www.kerchner.com/des735.htm There is still work that needs done on the Johan Mathias Egner--not all sons and grandsons are yet accounted for. Anyone who feels they have a connection to the Ludwig Aegender (who is listed above and often mistaken to be Johan Mathias Egner's son), PLEASE contact me at Gen_Searchin@yahoo.com as he is my ancestor. --Celia H.