This is a collection of biographical notices of nearly 1,000 persons whose names appeared on tax or military rolls prior to 1800 in what is now Snyder County, Pennsylvania, which then consisted of parts of Cumberland, Northumberland, and Berks counties. The notices generally give the dates and places of the subject's birth and death; the names of his wife and children; references to immigration and migration, residence, occupation, real estate, and military service; and notations pertaining to the marriages and baptisms of other family members.

The Presbyterian church was first organized in Goshen in 1720, and the first settled minister arrived the follow year. This volume contains the earliest extant vital statistics from the records of the Orange County church, which probably drew members from