Jacob Steiner I (surname anglicized to Stoner) was born in 1732 in Germany, and married Autrain Ferguson. He lived in Berks Co. and Lancaster Co. in Pennsylvania, and then Carroll Co., Maryland. He died in 1831 near Beaverdam, Frederick Co., Maryland.
Jacob Stoner I (1731/32-1804) emigrated from Germany about the middle of the eighteenth century. He married Autrian Ferguson. They settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1758 they and their two sons moved to Anne Arundel County, Maryland. By 1765 their family had grown to include three daughters. At this time they purchased a 373 acre farm in Frederick County, Maryland. They named their farm "Spring Garden" They lived on this farm for the rest of their life and the farm remains in the Stoner family to this day. Descendants, chiefly of their grandson Jacob Stoner (1781-1836) live in Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and elsewhere.
This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.
Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.
This "Supplement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress" lists all genealogies in the Library of Congress that were catalogued between 1972 and 1976, showing acquisitions made by the Library in the five years since publication of the original two-volume Bibliography. Arranged alphabetically by family name, it adds several thousand works to the canon, clinching the Bibliography's position as the premier finding-aid in genealogy.