The further experiences of the two families [Heyer and Rieger] are known through a
letter by Lienert Heyer written two years after his emigration and an entry in RP 129, Aug. 7, 1756. Lienert Heyer lost his youngest child, Clara, by the smallpox in England and the next youngest, Hans Ulrich, in America, but had another son Antoni. In 1739 he and Antoni Rieger were living at 'Dolben Hagen,' apparently meant for Tulpehocken, Pa. In 1756 the Junt brothers attest his presence in Virginia and report his willingness to renounce his claims to an inheritance in favor of his son-in-law who stayed in Switzerland.** Besides it can hardly be amiss to recognize him in the Lieni who renders such generous assistance to Jacob Pfau, the writer of the unsigned letter of Sept. 17, 1750, printed by A. B. Faust, Jahrbuch der Deutsch-Amer. Hist. Ges. von Illinois, 1918-19.†
He took his fellow-villager with his family and his things all the way up from the coast to Frederickstown, Virginia.
**Lienert's son-in-law must have been the husband of his daughter Orsilla, whom he mentioned in his will.
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