Peder Gut

1727 Immigration	1728 Naturalization
1753 Will

Most of what we know of Peter and his family begins with their emigration journey in 1727 from Manheim on the Rhine to Penn's Landing at Philadelphia. This leaves quite a few open questions about Peter, which are cited below as "q1," "q2," etc.

1690-91 ca.: Born, perhaps in the Sinsheim area of the Rhine River valley. (q1, q2)

Peter's four wives and eight children appear below in the same order as in his will. (5) The will names the children from each wife, but it names only his fourth wife, Frany Hiestand.

Peter Good (GC) marries Wife #1. (5)

  1711-2: GC1 [an error occurred while processing this directive]/Anna
  1711-2: GC2 [an error occurred while processing this directive]/Jacob
  ______: GC3 [an error occurred while processing this directive]/Christian

Peter Good (GC) marries Wife #2. (5)

  ______: GC4 Nanse/Nancy
  ______: GC5 Bebi/Barbara

1723 Oct 6: Benjamin Franklin arrives at age 17 to begin his life in Philadelphia, PA.

1727: The Peter Good (GC) family prepares to emigrate to Pennsylvania. If the family traveled from near Sinsheim (q2), the first part of the journey would have been about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest by land to Manheim.

Family Connection When Peter came to Philadelphia in 1727, he became our first Good ancestor to arrive in America. He and our ancestors who descended from him all were farmers who moved west with the expansion of the United States through Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon and by 2014 many other places. Open Questions Peter Good (GC) Family in Pennsylvania Peter's Will, 1753 A copy of Peter's original will, written in German by his own hand, is available through the link above. The German names used on these pages are the ones from the will. The signature page of the proof of the will and a new translation done in 2007 also are available there. Daughter is [an error occurred while processing this directive], not Mary The 2007 translation reveals that the original 1754 ca. translation misidentified Peter's first child by his second wife. Her name is Nancy, not Mary. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Confusion