Posted on: Griest-Greist Queries Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/surnames/gri/Griest?read=82 Surname: Griest, Cadwallader, Garretson, Greist, Underwood, Wierman ------------------------- Justin, If you receive any information I would appreciate receiving same also. I presume you are referring to the references to the early oral histories recounted by Samuel Cross that John Griest(e) was Welsh and probably initially moved to the Netherlands as a result of the early Quaker persecutions and thence to New Jersey. The burning to the Philadelphia Customs House by the British during the shelling of Phila. during the War of 1812 destroyed the early passenger manifests. There may be a very remote possiblity that John embarked to New Sweden on the Delaware and thence moved up to New Jersey. I have the remaining publisher's inventory of Samuel Benjamin Cross's "The Griest Family", 1966, Vantage Press, Inc., 543 pages, all in new condition, most unopened, some with light scuff marks on the front and back covers from being stored for 34 years, for $50 + $5 priority mail. I have not yet had a chance to put up a web page with the details of what is included in Cross's geneology book. BTW, for those who get a chance to visit, the Warrington Meeting now holds weekly meeting and the Christmas meeting is beautiful, decorated with pine boughs, tapers and the original fireplaces, etc. The only change is that the interior arrangement no longer segregates men and women. Sid Griest Phoenix, AZ