This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shaffer, Gamb(r)el, Binkley (Binggeli), Dorris, Shivers, Coe, Stewart, Cavert, Frost, Hickcox, Winter, Cunningham, Whitney, McNaughton, Murdock, Gerrin, Ordway, Emery, Cleveland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3hGBAEB/1344.1 Message Board Post: My ancestor, Richard Shaffer, b. c.1766., came to Tennessee, we think, from PA around 1780. There was at least one Shaffer (sp?) on the ship that brought Caspar Mansker's (Metzger) family over here from Germany. Am wondering if that Shaffer is my ancestor also, because Richard and Caspar settled in Nashville area during 1780's. Travelled down Cumberland River from ? with Hickman, Robertson, etc. Richard was a surveyor and had been in the Revolutionary War - Fought with Richard Henderson. Would really appreciate any help with tracing where in America they were first and from where in Germany. Thanks very much--