Another thought. Couldn't the BACHER family have gone on to Orangeburg Dist. (Saxe Gotha) with the GEIGERS, et al, and there had perhaps a son or two ... All the children grow up and marry ... Thos. BACHER dies 1748 ... Abraham GEIGER dies 7 May 1766 ... Apollonia and Ulrich are married and by 1 Jul 1766, have four children (mentioned when he applies for permission to remove to Georgia) - they being perhaps Christian (b. 1756-died 25 Jan 1770, buried Zion Cemetery, Ebenezer, GA.) and for sure, Abraham (est. 1758 to 1761), Felix (1763) and John (1765). Rachel (1769, b. across the Great Ogeechee), Mary (1771) and Cornelius (1774) were born in GA. [these are all I know of.] Jones' "Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America" says Apollonia's older sister Maria BACHER married Balthasar RIESER in 1752 - could that not have been in SC? And thus, could they not have moved to GA with the others? Perhaps their brothers didn't want to uproot their families from SC and may be the source of the BAKER/GEIGER families there. The William BAKER (b. 1759) whose dau. married John Conrad GEIGER might easily be a nephew of Maria and Apollonia! If all this is correct, I suspect that both grandmothers had died in SC by mid-1766 or Ulrich and Apollonia would never have left! Anne C. -----Original Message----- >Without looking it up at 1:00 a.m. ... I'm sure the RESTER land bordered >Ulrich's land. I couldn't find BACHER or SCHWEIGER in my data base, but I >did find a BAKER family in the Orangeburg District. William BAKER (b. 1759) >and Barbara LYKES had a dau. Eleanor Barbara BAKER, who married John Conrad >GEIGER in 1829. He was a great grandson of the famous Herman GEIGER and >Elizabeth HABLUTZEL .... Herman being the son of Gov. Hs. Jacob GEIGER. >