[email protected]: Will you please post this article in your Switzerland-D & L @Rootsweb.com....?? Thanking you, JOHN A. MEHRING John A. Mehring (1-717-642-8153) 28 Tree Top Trail, Fairfield, PA 17320-8237 E-MAIL: [email protected] ============================================================================================ Searching for home villages and Parental family data of BALTHASAR CLAR (Claar); born akt. 1660-1663 Canton Bern, Switzerland; died Feb. 26, 1703 Mimbach, Krs. Webenheim/Saarland; married (1) Unknown--; married (2) Jan. 14, 1698 as Widower in the Ref. Church at Mimbach, Germany, ELISABETHA (Hussong) WOLF; b. 1662; d. 1713 (51 Years) at Mimbach, dau. of Anthoni Hussong, Judge to Mimbach & Catharina Unknown; d. Dec. 1699 (66 Years) at Mimbach. First wife bore Balthasar 6 children: Hans J.; Caspar; Heinrich; Joh. Peter; Rudolf H.; & Anna. Elisabetha bore Balthasar 2 children: Joh. Jakob (b. 11-16-1698; Bapt. 11-23-1698 Ref. Church at Mimbach, Saar; Desc's, Joh. SIMON & Barbara, who arrived alone aboard Ship Samuel, Dec. 3, 1740 at Phila., PA., and were Indentured, since their Parents died aboard ship and were Buried at sea enroute to America) & Maria Margaretha Clar. Any data would be gracious appreciate JOHN A. MEHRING 28 Tree Top Trail, Fairfield, PA 17320-8237 E-MAIL: [email protected]