The West Conestoga: Lancaster County's First Amish SettlementThis is an account of the Amish families who settled along the Conestoga River between 1734 and 1740 in Lancaster Co., Pa. Frequent surnames: Beiler, Erb, Garber, King, Kurtz, Rupp, Smucker, Yoder, etc. (196pp. illus. index. Author, 2021 rev.)

With his German family

John Slonaker m

of Jacques (Jacob) Augspurger

and linguistic—that nudged their social development in subtly different directions

Two chapters on the Sauder and Hoover ancestors are helpful

married Anna Beachy and raised 18 children

Besides Coffroad/Koffroth variations

but also traces Blank

Christian began recording his activities when he was 17 years old and continued until a few years before his death

and churches

The author based his information on the book Descendants of Mast Stoltzfus

000 families or individuals from the original books are updated with the help of 100 researchers