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A THREE CENTURY TREK WEST


        In October 1770 the ship Minerva landed in Philadelphia Harbor and the ship master listed three of his passengers as Johann Peter Bossinger, Phi Jacob (b) Bessinger, Michael (x) Pessinger. The disembarkation fees for the three brothers were "purchased" by Mr. Thomas Willing, Esquire, of Willing and Morris's Store, Philadelphia, a mercantile house engaged in trade with the West Indies. The brothers quickly paid their debts and trundled west by wagon to Lancaster.... Click the title for the rest of the story.