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Name
Peter Finger   #5896
Suffix
Sex
M
Family Line
Born
abt 1724
Place
Palatine Region, Pfalz, Germany
Source
Died
Jun 1792
Place
Lincoln County, North Carolina
Source
     approx. age 68


Buried

Father
Mother

Spouse
Date
1752
Place
Source
  1  Jacob Finger abt 1754
  2  Catharine Finger 1757
  3  Johannes "John" Finger abt 1758
  4  Elizabeth Finger 1762
  5  Susannah Finger abt 1764
  6  Daniel Finger 1766
  7  Barbara Finger abt 1772
  8  Heinrich Finger abt 1774
  9  Margaret Finger 20 May 1776

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He moved to Lincoln County, North Carolina from Pennyslvania about 1760.

To Keith E. Norris, April 25th, 2003, on the Finger message board of Genform.com:

The clue to Peter Finger's identity is found on the ship list of the "St. Andrew" in 1749. He arrived with a large number of Mennonites, signing his name next to Mennonites from the same area of Germany where a Mennonite Finger family lived. I have traced Peter's family back a couple of generations to the year 1660. I plan on searching Swiss records in the near future to find more generations back. Most Mennonites who emigrated to Pennsylvania between the years 1717 and 1776 were from Swiss families who were exiled from Switzerland to Germany in the late 1600s. Although Peter was probably born into a Mennonite family, he left that faith sometime after his arrival in Pennsylvania. - Richard W. Davis

Found him on a ship's list with the following description:

"[List 128 C] At the Statehouse at Philadelphia, Saturday, the 9th Septr 1749.
Present: The Honourable, the Governor.
The Foreigners whose Names are underwritten, imported in the Ship Saint Andrew, James Abercrombie, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Plymouth in England, did this day take the usual Qualifications to the Government. By the List III. Person 400 Palatines."

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