I have struggled for hours today trying to separate Johannes BINKLEYs, to see if I could pin down an 1717/1719 immigrant and separate him from the 1736 immigrant of that name. What I have come up with is the idea that people have been mixing up John BINKLEY and John BUNDELY. I confess that for several years I too have been thinking that BUNDELY was a mistranscription from old handwriting, and that any BUNDELY was probably really a BINKLEY, in the Pequea area, especially when mentioned as a neighbor of Felix LANDIS. I'm pulling away from that idea, and here's what I dug out of the sources I have on hand: Confusion as to the immigrant Johannes BINKLEY, whether arrived 1717 or 1736: • The early dates 1717, 1719, 1721 may truly refer to the family recorded as BUNDELY rather than BINKLEY -- the first being Johann Rudolph BUNDELY (Rudolph also being a name not common in the BINKLEY family but common in early Mennonite records). The question is whether BUNDELY is only a misreading of early handwriting. • The 1908 Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr... mentions John R. BUNDELY on p. ix as being with Hans HERR in 1709 in buying 10,000 acres of land on the south side of Pequea Creek, warranted 10 Oct 1710, surveyed 23 Oct 1710. • H. Frank Eshleman also mentions BUNDELY eight times in his Historic Background...Pioneer Settlers...; p. 87 he mentions Hans WEBER having bought the Rudolph BUNDELY tract containing 30 acres in the NE section of the original 6,400 ac. Then, p. 149 says the [Jacob] Taylor [surveyer’s] Papers in the Hist Society at Phila. dated October 16, 1710 show a warrant 8 Oct 1710 to survey and lay out to Rodolph BUNDELY and company ten thousand acres ... twenty miles easterly from Conestoga and near the head of Pequea Creek. • Rupp on p. 85 says John Rudolph BUNDELY got 500 ac adjoining the 10,000 to be laid out to the Palatine Company. • Eshleman p. 152 says King Frederick of Prussia had a “Berne Ambassador” named Von BUNDELI. On p. 193 he says the settlers living in the Pequea Valey in 1712 included Johan Rudolph BUNDELI. On p. 209 he says that in 1715 the commissioners of PA decided to give Harmon RICHMAN of Hamburg Germany a part of the land that was first laid out to John BUNDELI in Strasburg Tp. • J. I. Mombert (1869, edited and expanded by the Iscrupes) names John Rudolph BUNDELY as a pioneer in the Swiss company set up for emigration to America that came to "Conestogo" in 1709, selected a tract of 10,000 acres on the north side of Pequea creek and got a warrant dated 10 Oct 1710, surveyed 23 Oct 1710 and subdivided by the Surveyor General 27 Apr 1711. • Lanc. Co. PA Land Records 1729-1750 and Land Warrants 1710-1742 for 16 Oct 1710 shows Reudolph [sic] BUNDELI as warrant #572 for 1,700 ac near the head of Pequea Creek and John Rudolph BUNDELI as #573 warranting 500 ac with no location given. • Tax records 1718-1726 for areas that ended up in Lanc Co show both John and Joseph BUNDELEY /BUNDELOW /BUNDILE /BUNDLEY paying on *nonresident* land “upon the river Pequea” in 1710, 1718, 1719, 1721. John BUNDILE had 500 acres. In 1750 no one of that name apparently paid taxes in Lanc. Co. The key here is that they were NOT residing on the land -- could have been back in Switzerland by that time, but temporarily holding on to the land, maybe renting it to Mennonites who had actually emigrated. • Presumably there really were BUNDELYs, who appear early as Rudolph and later as Johannes (a son?) and Joseph (a son?) and perhaps people researching Johannes BINKLEY have confused the two names, leading them to conclude that there was a Mennonite Johannes BINKLEY who immigrated in 1717 or 1719. So,does anyone have reliable sources that would contradict this and firmly establish that a John BINKLEY came before 1736? Jan