The district of Kusel was situated in the western part of the German Palatinate, from which area came many early emigrants to America. Considering the almost permanent residence of the Palatines in a given area (prior to emigration), the proof that a particular name occurs in an early visitation, as this publication does for Kusel, is almost sufficient evidence of the linkage between the emigrant and his forebears--a full century before the great period of emigration.

Jacob Bernhard, Sr. was born in about 1715 in Germany. He emigrated in 1738 and settled in Pennsylvania. He married Anna Maria and the had three known children, Jacob, Elizabeth and Peter. He died 1 October 1784. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana and Ontario.

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