Bob, > I have reference in some of my papers to a party of 100 German > Families from the Palatinate who arrived in America by way of Annapolis > in 1735. They settled on Carroll Creek near the MONOCACY and established > the town of Frederick. More families followed. Looking for any > information on these early settlers. Also what is the MONOCACY of that > time period? The Monocacy River area in Maryland was a picturesque, rich farmland region at the foot of Catoctin Mountain. Read _Pioneers of Old Monocacy_ by Tracey and Dern. In the time period of 1735, the area of the Monocacy Hundred extended from the mouth of the Monocacy River north to Pennsylvania, east to part of now Carroll County, MD, and all of now western MD. The area was particularly appealing to your group of pious Germans who settled along the German Monocacy Road, a path of German migration from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Some surnames of early German settlers in the region include Bachdold, Staley, Shoup, Getzendanner, Swinehart, Kemp, Fout, Stull, Lehnert, Shaver, Trout, Spuch, Ambrose, Chydler, Weller, Reisner, Bonnet, Wetzel, Baer, Manser, Barrick, Verdriess, and Gump. Jan