This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3dB.2ACI/3848.3887.4215.1.1 Message Board Post: My donation of gathered ship records: http://www.palproject.org/pa/1738qe.htm 1738 Queen Elizabeth [List 56 A, B, C] Queen Elizabeth Captain: John Mirion or John Davies From: Rotterdam By Way of: Deal Arrival: Philadelphia, 16 Sep 1738 Qualified 104 (men), women & children 220: total 324. Name, Age Place of Origin (Town, Province) Source Remarks (USA, Spelling Variations, Occupation, Relationships, etc.) Johann Peter Specht, 44 ===== http://www.palproject.org/pa/1741smark.htm 1741 St. Mark [List 83 A, B, C] St. Mark Captain: William Wilson From: Rotterdam By Way of: Cowes Arrival: Philadelphia, 26 Sep 1741 Johann Martin Spegt ==== http://www.palproject.org/pa/1744friend.htm 1744 Friendship [List 107 C] Friendship Captain: John Mason From: Rotterdam By Way of: Cowes Arrival: Philadelphia, 2 Nov 1744 74 [men]. The discrepancy in the figures may be due to the death of several passengers. Dewaid Speck ==== http://www.palproject.org/pa/1750sand.htm [List 150 C] At the Court House at Philadelphia, Saturday, the 18th August 1750. The Foreigners whose Names are underwritten, imported in the Ship St Andrew. Friedrich Specht (several local w. Md/WV surnames on list-cs note) ==== http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/1pa/ships/1736harle.txt Ship Harle Johan Jacob Daubenspeck age 22 immigrated on September 01, 1736 on the SHIP HARLE, OF LONDON, RALPH HARLE, MASTER, (this means he also owned the sailing ship.) FROM ROTTERDAM. QUALIFIED SEPT. 01, 1736. (date came into Phila. Pa, Port) NAMES AGES J. Wilhelm Speck 23 Christina Speckin 56 Mar Catharina Hochstettlerin 42 Ma Eva Hochstettlern 28 === http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/1pa/ships/1738qeliz01.txt PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN PIONEERS pg 216-219 A List of all ye Mens Names from 16 years & upwards, Passengers on board ye Ship Queen Elizabeth, Alixander Hope, Commander (Qualified Sept. 16, 1738). Last from Deal in England Peter Spikt 44 Johann Peter Specht === I am looking for a Specht m. to Godfrey Stemple b. c. 1760, IF there is one. Some say he married a Boyles. Just another puzzle to solve. Carolyn