> Are there other ways to spell the name NUSS? Like > Ness, Neiss, Nuess, etc? > > Yours, > Dora Smith > Dora, Surname also spelled Nyce, Neiss, Nice, Nise, Niss, Neuss, Neues, Neusz, De Nice, Nyes, & someone said Gneiss has been seen, also. My Susanna Nyce married a Peter Fadley/Fedelee in 1758 and their daughter, Anna Maria Fadley m. Emanuel Custer b. 1754 Pa. I looked for your Elizabeth but only found 3 later births of that name in my data. my Notes: Most of Neues/Nyce info came from book " Bean's History of Montgomery Co., Pa." http://c-23.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/montgomery/history/local/mchb0055.txt ================ FREDERICK TOWNSHIP is bounded on the northwest by New Hanover and Upper Hanover townships; on the east by Perkiomen Creek, flowing from north to south, separating it from Marlborough and Upper Salford Townships; on the southeast by Perkiomen township; and on the southwest by Limerick and New Hanover townships. It contains an area of thirteen thousand four hundred and forty acres, is about five miles wide on the northwest border, four and three quarters miles long on the southwest, and one and one-half miles wide on the southeast. Its centre is fifteen miles distance northwest from. Norristown, the county-seat, and thirty-two miles from Philadelphia. ====== Michael Dotterer, of Falkner Swamp, son of George Philip Dodderer, on the 24th of January, 1726, bought of Hans Neues, of the Northern Liberties, one hundred and fifty acres on the east bank of Society Run, and facing the German tract. ======= October 26,1720, Hans Neues bought of John Budd and Humphrey Morrey seven hundred and twenty-five acres (part of the five thousand acres granted by William Penn, on the 12th of October, 1681, to William Bacon), of which five hundred acres were surveyed and located on the 1st day of November, 1720, in Frederick township, on both sides of Society Run, and facing the Frankfort Land Company's tract. ========= George Philip Dodderer, of Falkner's Swamp, carpenter, bought of Hans Neues, of the Northern Liberties, on December 22, 1722, one hundred acres, and on February 2, 1725, fifty acres, the two tracts adjoining and being located on the banks of Society Run. ========== -The first official list of taxables of Frederick township is furnished in the return made by the proprietaries' agent, in 1734, as follows: Johannes Neus (Nice) 200 acres =============================== This may help you pursue the family further. Warm regards, Carolyn