That's interesting. would love to read the book. Can you give me the name of the book?
AARON'S Sr.'s father Matthias, (Matthew) was born about 1718 in Elsoff, Westphalia, Germany. He came to America in 1725 as a seven year old boy with his father, Johan Krofft Horn, his mother Catharina Elisabetha Hayn Bach and his three siblings: Johanes, born 1716, Christine, born 1719 and Anna Maria, born 1720. Their names are listed among 389 emigrants from Westphalia, approximately half of whom "secretly absconded to Pennsylvania", according to "A 1725 List of Wittgenstein Emigrants", translated and edited by Don Yoder. Source: In The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 26:3 (1970), pp. 133-143. The passenger list is available on ancestry.com. Aaron Horn Sr. is my 6th great grandfather and I have done much research on him and he definitely was born in America. His father Matthew died in 1744 in Kent, Maryland.
