PIERCE, TREXLER
                                by Amy Schmoyer
                                  27 Feb 1990
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               A few years ago, I purchased "The Trexler Family and 
          related kin" published in 1972 by John Trexler Warren. The 
          book deals with John Peter Drechsler, who sailed from London 
          in 1709 and settled in the "Mohawk Valley" area of New York. 

          John Peter Drechsler was one of the group of Germanic 
          farmers the English recuited to settle the unsettled regions 
          of the Colony of what is now New York State.  He was in New 
          York for several years but in 1720 can be found in 
          Pennsylvania, in the area that became Berks Co. 
 
               I looked for your Francis A. Drexler on the long-shot 
          that the author had included others of the Trexler name. 
          But found nothing. 
 
               John Peter Drechsler is said to have been born in 
          Dettingen, on the Mainz River, in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. 
          I suppose for the sake of not confusing the modern reader, 
          J. T. Warren chose to use all modern day geographic 
          references.  I don't have access to any period maps of that 
          area, so don't know how it would have been referred to in 
          1709 or 1680 the date of John Peter's birth. 
 
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          AMY SCHMOYER researching RINKER, SINGER, FRENCH, CARNEY, 
          WRIGHT, COMSTOCK, CHRISTMAN, HUSEMAN, DEPPE, BAUER in 
          Carbon, Monroe, Wyoming, Luzerne & Northampton Counties, PA. 

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