Introduction

This website is dedicated to providing access to primary sources, messages, and other resources for the research of the Stiffler family in America. I'm planning for this to be a place where the many of us researching the Stiffler family can share those primary records we've collected over the years with as many others as are interested. Rootsweb provides data boards for various subjects, labeled with icons on the lower left of this page. Please post obituaries, biographies, wills, deeds, bibles and pensions to those baords, to get the maximum public exposure. Other data, such as births, marriages, deaths, cemetery, census and military will be posted on this site.

Stiffler Family Beginnings

Family tradition states that three brothers, John, Peter and Jacob Stiffler, came to America in 1742. John and Peter settled in York Co, Pennsylvania, while the youngest, Jacob, married in New Jersey.

Peter Stiffler appeared on the tax lists for Bedford Co, Pennsylvania as early as 1773.

John Stiffler and his wife, Eva Feuerstein, moved to the "German Settlement" of northern Loudoun Co, Virginia in the early 1780's, with most of his descendants living a few miles north in the adjacent Washington Co, Maryland.

Jacob Stiffler and his wife, Catharine Meyers, came to the same Washington Co, Maryland during the Revolution, and then moved to McKee's Gap in Bedford Co, twenty miles north of Peter, by 1783.

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