Marsha - I noted after my previous reply that the 1800-1813 treasurer's book for the Snells Bush Church is in the St. Johnsville Library. (St. Johnsville is a small town about six or seven miles east of Little Falls, along Route 5. Perhaps you can contact them for a lookup. Helen Burwell C M Strong wrote: > At 07:35 AM 6/14/99 -0500, you wrote: > > Hi Helen! -- Sorry those Pavaloch's weren't yours, but hope they will > indeed help the other researcher. > > >I just realized that I have a copy of Palatines Along The Mohawk: Their > >Church In The Wilderness, by Ada L.F. Snell. Copyright 1948, reprinted > >in 1960. > > I have three "Palatine" family lines -- all pretty hard to find though. > First I have Adam F(reidrich-?) GUNDERMAN ("Countryman"), born abt > 1765 and wife MARY. I'm thinking *maybe* Mary might be found in one > of your books as there is a kind of "famous" story about her in that > she was captured by the Mohawk Indians in the raids around the time > of the French-and-Indian War, but she had once befriended the noted > Mohawk chief, Joseph Brandt in some way (either gave him cookies or > let him sleep in her barn, accounts differ) so he saw her and let > her go. Anyway, Adam F. and MARY COUNTRYMAN have a daughter Rebecca > who marries ADAM NESTLE and they have a son SOLOMON NESTLE who > married LUCINDA PHIILIPS. So those are my three Palatine surnames: > COUNTRYMAN, NESTLE, and PHILLIPS. If you can find any of these > people, I would very mcuh appreciate it! :-) > > Marsha Strong > Gainesville, FL > > ==== NYHERKIM Mailing List ==== > Visit the Herkimer/Montgomery Counties GenWeb page at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/