My Ditty line: Susan Fergus b. 27 Dec 1815, Montgomery Co., Va; d. 23 Dec 1859 Wythe Co., Va. md Reuben Fisher 19 Jan 1835, Montgomery Co., Va. ......parents....... Catherine Ditty b. 23 Oct 1790 Montgomery Co., Va.; d. bef 1840 md Samuel Fergus. ........Catherine, dau. of John David Ditty b. 12 Sept 1755 bapt. 5 Oct 1755 (Lancaster Co., PA Church Records of the 18th Century, vol. 2, by F. Edward Wright, pg. 29); d. 1 Feb 1847 White Co., TN md Magdalena Spangler b. 1762, PA; d. 1 Nov 1849 White Co., TN. Ch: Mary Ditty b. 16 Oct 1783 Susannah Ditty b. 16 Jul 1786 md Fleming Trigg 3 Sep 1803, Wythe Co., Va. Elizabeth Ditty b. 20 Dec 1788 md Charles Neil Abraham Ditty b. 1 Jun 1789 d. 27 Dec 1869 Ditty, Putnam, TN md Jincy Fergus 11 Dec 1811, Montg Co., Va. Catherine Ditty b. 23 Oct 1790 Montg Co., Va. d. bef 1840 md Samuel Fergus John J. Ditty b. 2 Dec 1802. .......John David, son of Abraham De Die b. 1727 and Maria. Abraham De Die shows in Penn. German Pioneers by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, pg 592: (List 215B) Foreigners Imported in the Nancy, Capt. Ewing, from Rotterdam, took and subscribed the usual oaths and declarations on Saturday, the 14th Sept. 1754. (List 215C) pg. 593 & 594, At the court house at Philadelphia, Saturday, the 14th Sep 1754. The Foreigners whose names are underwritten, Imported in the ship "Nancy" from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes did this day take and subscribe the usual Oaths and Declarations to the Government. Captn Ewing. Inhabitants of Lorain. No. 87: Abraham De Die and Abraham Gobat (sponsor at Margaret De Die's baptism, daughter of Abraham). Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, Vol. II, from the State Archives of Bern and Basel Switzerland, compiled and edited by Albert Bernhardt Faust, A.B., Ph.D and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, M.S., M.D., pg 41, listed: ..........."DEDIE: 1754...Munstertal, Schaffnereirechnung. Abraham DEDIE of Corcelles, who has emigrated to Pennsylvania, has paid on property amounting to 245 pounds, 10 shillings, emigration tax of 10 percent, 24 pounds, 11 shillings, 3 pence. (Corcelles is a little commune in the district of Moutier or Munster in the French-speaking territory. This neighborhood belonged in 1754 to the bishopric of Basel. The DEDIE Family has home-rights only in this one commune.)" Children of Abraham and Maria DEDIE are: John David b. 12 Sep 1755 Margaret b. 9 May 1757 Abraham b. 19 Sep 1758 Then in the "Pennsylvania German Marriages, Vol. 2, pg 207 it lists Abraham DEDIEU md Anna Reguel 20 Mar 1759 by Rev. Henry Wm. Stoy, First Reformed Church. 1736-1806" I'm not sure if Maria died and Abraham remarried at this time or not. Some baptisms for Abraham and Ann/Anna: Bapt on the Susquehanna, Pa. 20 Aug 1767, infant: Salomen, Parents: Abraham De Dieu and Anna. b. 16 Mar 1767. "Record of Baptisms of Rev. John Conrad Bucher 1763-1769, pg. 18." Ann Maria DEDIEU, dau of Abraham & Ann b. 24 Mar 1762, bapt 20 Jun 1762 (pg. 259, Penn. German Church Records, Vol.1 (From the Penn. Germ. Soc. Proceed & Addresses) Geneal. Publ. Co., Inc. 1983.)