Excerpt from A Genealogy and History of the Kauffman-Coffman Families of North America, 1584 to 1937: Including Brief Outlines of Allied Swiss and Palatine Families Who Were Among the Pioneer Settlers in Lancaster and York Counties of Pennsylvania From 1717 On Kauffmans, who in some way might be related to my ancestor prior to coming to America. To accomplish the results of this work, research necessitated my examining court records of over fifty counties in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. Church records, other genealogies, tombstones, libraries, and numerous letters of inquiry added bits of information. To secure data from Switzerland and, Germany, I was compelled to learn German sufficient to read and write to various German and Swiss who gave me in most cases the kindest consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.