This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ORRIS, BITNER, PERRY, EICHELBERGER, METZ, BATTS, ARBOUGH, COUGH, CRISLIP Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/odB.2ACI/483 Message Board Post: My 5GGF Johan Adam Arris came to America on 4 Oct 1752 on Ship Neptune with son, Johannes Adam Arris Jr who d. 21 Jul 1806 in Tyrone Tp, Perry Co PA. (PA GERMAN PIONEERS, p.94 & 30,000 NAMES OF IMMIGRANTS, I. D. Rupp, p.285). My 4GGF Johannes Adam ORRIS Jr lived NW of Ickesburg, Saville Tp, Perry Co PA had the following children: Henrich ORRIS 1770-1833 m. Anna Maria EICHELBERGER George ORRIS Joseph ORRIS m. Sarah METZ Adam ORRIS d 1826 m. Martha -- Johannes ORRIS III Elizabeth ORRIS m. Thomas BATTS Catharine ORRIS m. Godfrey ARBOUGH Mary ORRIS m. Joseph COUGH Agness M. ORRIS m. John CRISLIP Susannah ORRIS c1776-aft 1822 m. William BITNER Jr c1760-1794 my 3GGP lived in Tyrone Tp, Perry Co PA were he was a carpenter, came from Caernarvon Tp, Lancaster Co PA, and was in the Cumberland Co PA Militia. Their daughter, my 2GGM, Mary Jane BITNER 1808-1882 m. Samuel PERRY 1795-1852. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kl2u/Genealogy.html