Hi, grandfather, Martin Pastouis, was an assessor of the Court of Erfurt. When Gustavus Adolphus captured the town the soldier were quartered in the house, which was upon the horse-market, and plundered it driving out the children with their drawn sword. The father rode to Mayence to make complaint, but again fell into the hand of the Swedish soldiers and was driven out naked and so badley beaten in a few weeks he died. He was married to Brigitta, a d/o Christian Flinsberger of Mulhause. Melchior Adam, son of Martin, was born Erfurt, then containing twenty thousand people, on the 21st of Sept 1624. He went to school in Erfurt, studied poetry and rhetoric there, and at Frankfort, Mayence, Aschaffenburg, Wurtzburg, and to Rome, where Aug 26, 1644, he entered college, and after 4 years was graduated Lit. Doctor. He married Magdalena, d/o Stephen Dietz and Margaretha Fischer, widow of Henrich Frischman. Francis Daniel Pastorius, son of Melchior and Magdalena, was born in Sommerhausen, Sept. 26, 1651. He had a brother, Johannes Samuel Pastorius. Their step- mother was Dorothea Esther Volckmans. On the 4th of May 1683 he sailed to Rotterdam, and on the 8th reached London, accompained by Tobias L. Kohlaus. Togethers with a little party of emigrants, Jacob Schumacher, George Wertmuller, Isaac Dilbeck and his wife" Marieke" and two boys, Abraham and Jacob. Thomas Casper, Conrad Bacher (alias Rutter) and and English maid, Frances Simpson, he on the 6th of June sailed from Gravesend, on the ship America, whose captain was Joseph Wasey, on the 7th rearched Deal, on the 10th left England, and on the 16h of Aug.,1683 reached the New World. When arriving at PA., went at once to see Wm. Penn. Best Wishes, Geri