THE WARFIELDS FLORENCE MACNAUGHTON “ ‘Twas the 18th of April in ‘75/Hardly a man is now alive/Who remembers that famou date and year/The midnight ride of Paul Revere.” So Grandmother Florence MacNaughton Warfield made the claim that her birthday was the hundredth anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. After she turned 90 she added […]
LITZES Johann Philip Litz, born in Germany around 1709, the second Litz to bring his family to America, sailed from Rotterdam on the ship “Patience.” Arriving in Philadelphia September 9, 1751, with his son Johann Wilhelm, he settled in Derry Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Johann Wilhelm married another German immigrant, Maria Katarina Deininger (1729-1810), […]
