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From: "Fletcher Bishop" <>
Subject: Thank you!
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:38:19 -0400
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Pierre:

Thank you for taking the list!

I research SACKENREUTER in Asswiller, Drulingen, Domfessel, Keskastel etc.
but am not an accomplished European researcher since I am limited with
respect to language skills in German and French.

Brenden's recent list interests me as a "shot in the dark" particularly with
respect to HIRT. My immigrant ancestor Christian Sackenreuter arrived in
Philadelphia in 1731 aboard the Brittania. He was single but married soon
after, someone named Mary Elizabeth ?????. I have never found the
marriage (if it occurred) but there was a child and Christian deserted to NY
State leaving Jr. and mother. I mused that the romance may have blossomed
on board the Britannia. There were four female HIRTs on the ship; no male
Hirts. Three were young. Christian's home shortly before leaving for
America was Asswiller or Drulingen where Brenden's Hirts seem to have lived.

I wonder whether a Hirt researcher might have followed the family to America
and the possibility of their shedding light on where the Hirts settled after
arriving. Also whether they might have a spare Christian Sackenreuter
Jr. whom later married in Montgomery Co.

Fletcher Bishop.

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