Person:John Parthemore (2)

Emigrated to America in 1744, landing at Philadelphia on October 20, 1844, from the ship Phoenix, William Wilson, captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes. He resided prior to his emigrating at Sprendlingen, in the province of Rhein-Hessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, southern Germany. The town has now about 2,000 inhabitants (in 1885) and lies about fifteen miles due south of Frankfort-on-the-Main. (Parthemore Genealogy, pg. 1)

1. ↑ Parthemore, E. Winfield Scott. Genealogy of the Parthemore family, 1744-1885. (Harrisburg, Pa.: L.S. Hart, 1985).