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From: Marcia Davis <>
Subject: [KERN-L] Conrad Kern
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:42:57 -0700


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Surname: Kern, Billings, Riblin, Sears
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Eileen:
I have a Conrad Kern who came over from Germany through Rotterdam, Holland,
on the ship Phoenix, landing in Philadelphia on 1 October 1754. Your Jacob
Kern came from Holland and landed in Philadelphia about the same time.
Conrad Kern stayed in Pennsylvania only a short time as he shows up for
jury duty in North Carolina in 1762. He married Mary Magdalene (Billings?)
sometime before his first son, Adam, was born in 1762. Conrad seems older
than Jacob since Jacob's first child was not born until 1790. Conrad's
children's names were Adam, Gabriel, Simeon, Elizabeth, Conrad Jr., Henry,
and two other daughters. Conrad died in 1812 in North Carolina. Do you
think that our Jacob and Conrad could connect since they landed in Philadelphia
about the same time from the same place? I don't know where Conrad Kern
came from in Germany, except that I have had a clue that it might be somewhere
in the Palatinate, which is along the Rhine River in central Germany. Conrad
Kern is my 5th great grandfather, through my mother's line. She was a Kern.



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