This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EARHART, ERHARD, AIRHEART, RAMSOWER, RAMSOUR Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3dB.2ACI/5999.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My Peter Erhard/Earhart arrived in Philadelphia in Aug of 1750. On the same ship was Dietrick Erhard. I think (although I have no proof) that they were related possibly brothers or cousins. They were not father and son. Both Peter and Dietrick went first to Lancaster Co. and then Bucks Co. Dietrick remained in Bucks Co., but Peter Earhart is in Paradise Township, York Co. (tax records) in 1762 and 1769. Peter and Sophie had a son, Peter, baptised in St Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, York Co. on 15 Jan 1764. Then Peter Ehrhard was a witness at the baptism of Anna Maria Kramer daughter of Lorenz and Anna Maria Kramer, in Sep 1770 at Friedensaal Lutheran Church, York Co. PA. There are no records for a Peter Erhard/Earhart in York Co. after 1770 until the 1790s and this Peter is a different Peter (yours?) as my Peter went to Cumberland County where his sons are listed in military records there in 1776-1781. In 1782, Franklin County was formed from a part of Cumberland Cou! nty and the land Peter owned was now in Franklin Co. Peter died there sometime previous to May 1787. I do have a very faint and hard to read copy of "Evidences of Ehrharts in York Co PA to 1850" and am familiar with the Ehrhart families in York in the 1700s. I have looked for a connection between these York Co. Erhards and my Peter, but couldn't find any. I have a genealogy web site that has a lot of information on my Earharts/Erhards. The URL is http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lynnbran/index.htm Lynn