Posted on: Pennsylvania Dutch Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/Dutch?read=4649 Surname: Sames ------------------------- George Sehm from Lauterecken, Germany, came to PA in 1732 and took up a warrant for land in Milford Twp., Bucks Co. in 1735. Descendents use the names Sames (my line) and Seem (George, Jr. who settled in Allen Twp., Northampton Co.) A cousin tells me that he heard from a man in England who says the Sames family is from Little Totham, Essex. One family member reputedly went to Germany to fight in the Thirty Years War and wound up settling there. Evidently his descendent then came to PA with PA German migration. I myself have no proof but it sounds plausible.