South Carolina Gazette, 5 Feb 1737, page 2: "On Tuesday last [1 Feb] arrived twelve vessels in this Harbour, amongst them Capt. Dunbarr from Rotterdam with above 200 Switzers out of the Canton of Tockenburg, who are come to settle a Township on Savanna River called New Windsor..." Johannes Tobler from Herisau led a group of swiss to Carolina in America in the year 1736. Several received grants of land, 50 acres per family member, on their arrival. One of those grants in New Windsor was for three brothers, Leonard, Ulrich and Michael Meyer, bounded on the south by lands of Landshaupton Tobler. The obituary for Ulrich Meyer immediately follows that of Johannes Tobler in the Church Records of Rehetobel for the year 1765. Both of these men died in New Windsor, Carolina. Johannes Tobler died in 1765 but Ulrich Meyer had died in 1755 at the age of 47 years. Having this information I was able to determine that Ulrich was born about 1708. It is assumed that Leonard was the oldest, then Ulrich, and Michael was the youngest of the three, as they are listed in that order on the land grant they received in the year of their arrival in Carolina, 1736/7. With this new knowledge (Ulrich¹s approximate birth year) I proceeded to borrow FHL church records, one roll at a time, from various villages in Appenzell, looking for 3 brothers bearing the names Leonard, Ulrich and Michael, and Ulrich birth year about 1708. I have looked at the villages of Rehetobel, Speicher, Trogen, Teufen and Hundwill and not found the brothers. It is possible the brothers were not from Appenzell. The book America Experienced: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Accounts of Swiss Immigrants to the United States, by Leo Schelbert, is a compilation of letters written by immigrants in America to family and friends they left behind. In one of those letters is written ³When we arrived the government received us right away with love and distributed provisions. But our group spoiled it and quarreled. Reconnoiterers were sent out to seek out the best places. That brought a long delay so that those from the Appenzell with two households from the Toggenburg departed only eight days ago and in four small boats to Savannah, 190 miles distant.² In another letter Hans Wernhard Trachsler from Elgg stated ³he met many persons, also bound to go there (Carolina), from divers places but especially Switzers from Appenzell, from Pundten [Graubunden/Grisons], and the Rheinthal, (It appears that the church records for Graubenden, Toggenburg and Rheinthal for the 1700s were not filmed by the Mormon Church)among them Mr. Zubli from St. Gall, Pastor Zuberbuuhler from Troguen [Trogen], Chief Captain Tobler from Herisau, and others². The Meyers may have originated somewhere besides Switzerland since family tradition is that our Meyer immigrant came from Germany, though it is possible this was confused by the fact that his native language was german. Before I borrow any more film I wanted to ask once again, and two years since my last pleading, if anyone on the list has researched the Meyers in Switzerland and located these three brothers who went to Carolina. Gwen Boucher ‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰ Boucher Y-DNA Surname Project https://www.familytreedna.com/public/boucher/