Philip Peter Visinard was born in Germany in 1684. He married Allena Neff in 1710 and in 1731 he brought his wife and two of his sons to America settling in Pennsylvania. Later his descendants moved to North Carolina and on to Indiana and later further west. Information on many of his descendants who later changed their names to various forms of Whisnsant are included in this book along with some families which can not be positively connected to this family. Several children's lines are followed giving as much information was readily available or submitted. Descendants now live in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere throughout the United States.

Christopher Moll arrived in America in 1731 with a group of emigrants from the Palatinate, Germany, and settled first in the Goshenhopen region of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Anna Catherina, probably had five or six children. Anna Catherina probably died in Pennsylvania before 1750. He and his family late migrated to North Carolina and settled in Rowan County. Descendants listed lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and elsewhere. Descendants spell their surname "Mull."

James Cooper was born 16 September 1789. He married Delilah Simpson, daughter of James Simpson and Sarah Hornbuckle, 31 August 1811 in Caswell County, North Carolina. Her maternal grandmother was Cherokee. They had nine known children. Their son, John Wortham Cooper, was born 18 November 1824 in Alabama. He married Elizabeth McAdams (1829-1865) in 1845. They had ten children. He married Emily Frances Pearce (1842-1917) in 1865. They had eleven children. John died in 1895 in Oklahoma. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Oklahoma and Texas.

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