Posted on: Lutheran Roots Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Special/LutheranRoots/68 Surname: DEBUS, WEIDNER, RAUSCH, KOCH ------------------------- Please look up these four surnames, particularly DeBus. I am researching Jacob, Lodwick, Daniel and Baldt DeBus who came here from Germany in the early 1700's from Baden. I also am researching Johann Weidner and Johann Adam Rausch who also came here in the early 1700's also from the Palatine area. Jacob DeBusk helped build the first Lutheran Church in Philadelphia and is buried there somewhere. I am trying to find the father of two ancestors, Elijah and Elisha DeBusk, who I believe to be Jacob's sons who migrated with Paulser Rouse and John Widener (as they were written when they got to VA)on the valley road to SW VA. Later Adam Koch migrated to NE NC with his children. Please help me find records of these people. Thank you.