Don, � > In the Tacy book it lists Samuel as having been born in 1705 in Westphalia, > Germany. OK, I have two bits of info now. According to Don Norman (From the Hacker's Creek Homepage) Samuel was born before 1700. Don Norman never has any source material Available.� I had also gotten (from an unknown source) that he was born in the Holstein Area.� Which I originally took as Germany.� Later I found that it was somewhere around Tygart Valley.� I find that harder to believe.� Samuel being the original immigrant from Westfalia, Germany would make much more sense.� Can you tell me more about this "Tracy Book"? According to this source: ������������������������������ The Stalnaker Family ��������������������������� Written by Knight Wees ��������� Published in the Randolph Enterprise, Thursday, August 25th, 1932 That Captain Samuel Stalnaker was the first to arrive in America is proven by the fact that there is no earlier record of the name in German settlements of Colonial New York, Pennsylvania or Delaware. � > It would also be hard for Samuel to be born in 1746, when we have > record of a grandson, Valentine Stalnaker, chr. 13 Feb 1757 in York County, PA No, he was definately not born in 1746.� According to Don Norman, that is the year he came to Augusta Co., VA.� Yet his son Jacob did not come till 1772.� However, I have that Jacob was born ca 1710, I do not have a location. according to MR. Wees: "The Virginia Historical Society believes him to have been one of the Germans who were the first settlers in the valley of Virginia in 1732, in which year Jost Hite and others whose names are not recorded, emigrated there through Pennsylvania. That he was in Bucks County, Pennsylvania is proven by his connection with the Truby family who were settlers near Doylestown, and who came with the Stalnakers into Virginia and West Virginia. That he was in Augusta County before 1748 is proven by the Journal of Dr. Walker, who states that in April, 1748, he met Samuel Stalnaker on his way to the Cherokees. (Filson Club Papers, No. 13, Page 42)" On March 23, 1750, Dr. Walker again met Stalnaker, who had just come to the place to settle on Middle Fork of Holston River, the last western settlement in Virginia. Here his house was built and here, no doubt, the Cherokees wished to meet the Commissioners of Virginia. On the map of 1751, this settlement is located on the Middlefork of Holston River, a few miles above its junction with the south fork, which is now Washington County, formerly a part of Fincastle, and the first county in Virginia named for George Washington. When Samuel Stalnaker was born; where he was born; when and where he was married, is unknown. > son of Jacob and� Maria Elizabeth Truby Stalnaker.� This christening record > may be found in the Pastorial Record of Jacob Lischy. Matches the birth date I had for him of abt 1758. > Samuel's wife is listed in the Tacy book as Sarah Williams. Great, I had her first name as Sarah, but not her maiden name. > Many of the Frederick County, Maryland families passed through and lived in > what is now Adams and York Counties, Pennsylvania before coming to Maryland. > Many of these Frederick County families then proceded west into what is now > West Virginia.� Some went on to Kentucky and other points west and south.� On > the route to West Virginia which took them some through Fort Bedford, PA you > can still find remenants of these families today. I hope this helps out. As above, the Stalnakersd have ties with the TRUBYs.� Have you seen any info on that family. They are my family line, more than the STALNAKERs. Maybe you can shed some light on this, Eva. Jay