About this Book

Theobald (or Dewalt) Mechling/Macklin was born in about 1701. He emigrated from Bavaria, Germany to Pennsylvania in 1728. He married Ann Elizabeth Lauer, daughter of John Peter Lauer and Elizabeth, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He died in 1765 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Theobald and Ann had seven children. Focuses on the descendants of their son, John Peter Mechling (1736-1766). Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.