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Welcome...I am David G. Beshore, a 12th generation Boshaar and 17th generation Kemper now living in Southern California.  My mother was a Hebert whose family traces back to 1595.  I am also this book's principal author.  Hope you enjoy this 11,000+ page web-book.

Our families have been in North America for over 300 years and helped forge the countries of the United States and Canada.

This is a compilation of the Beshore, Hebert, Mabrey, and Bergen Families of our children and their ancestors. You will also learn about other families in our bloodline and other old friends of the family:  Wagner's, Miller's, Royer's, Stump's, Myers', Kline's, and Rettig's .

The website is organized by family surname for an epoch in a world location:

About 1650, our first ancestors arrived in North America (Canada) from Paris. They were Augustin Jean Hebert and his wife, Adrienne Duvivier.  They had one child upon arrival - Jeanne Marie.  Later, they would have 3 additional children in Quebec, including Ignace.  Ignace had 15 children.

On July 4, 1710, our first ancestor arrived in present day United States.  He was Hans Jacob Boshaar, who crossed the Atlantic from Palatine Germany (southwestern Germany near the Lorraine), via England, with his wife and 6 children to arrive in New York City.  He and his family were indentured servants of the Queen of England for several years (a 4 year commitment).  In 1710, after a few months in New York City, they traveled up the Hudson at an English naval tar-producing location called West Camp (Elizabethtown) across the Hudson River from Germantown, NY.  

In 1713,  they trekked into Mohawk Indian territory of the Schoharie Valley to claim the 40 acres of farmland promised them by the Queen. Disputes over legal title with the local Indians and New York politics were common and led to disenchantment.

Around 1719, George Boshaar took the family to Pennsylvania via the Susquehanna and the Swatara rivers to what is today Bethel, PA (was initially Millersburg).  It is believed that Hans Jacob either did not go to Schoharie or died on route to Pennsylvania as noted by his burial in Hurley NY (near Kingston), south of Elizabethtown.

The American spelling of the Boshaar family first appears in the first U.S. Census of 1790 as 'Beshore'.  There are over 80 different spellings of family names who came from the Boshaars (Frances C. Francis).  Many of George's descendants still live in Bethel PA just 30 miles east of Harrisburg...their names are spelled 'Bashore'.

A legend in the family, Jacques Milne Le Baiseur, once lived in the southwestern area of Guyenne, France where Bordeaux and La Rochelle are today.  The Baise River runs into the Garonne River at Agen, FR.  The Garonne then proceeds northward through Bordeaux.  As of today we do not know directly how this individual (who escaped religious persecution in France by escaping to England in a barge around 1610)  is related to the Boshaars in Germany. 

At the turn of the first millennium, 'baisseur' meant 'builder' as we know from Fulk III, the 'grand baisseur', one of the great military rulers in France in 1000 AD.  However 'the Baise' also meant 'low' from 1500 to 1800 A.D. and can refer to the lower Dutch, which places them in the Netherlands or Belgium.  Today 'le baisseur' is a vulgar French term and few people have this surname.

Rupp (famous historian and ancestor of the Beshores) claims that Jacques returned to the Palatinate.  Also, George Boshaar (b. 1716) has stated that his great grandfather was Jacques Milne Le Baiseur (coincidently in our family tree this also marks Hans Jacob Boshaar I as George's great grandfather). 

The farthest back we can go today in the family tree is Jacob Boshaar in (b. 1590) from Zwiebrucken (once called Deux Ponts during French control) who in 1624 held the position of Mayor (More Palatine Families - Henry Z. Jones).  Jacob also means Jacques in French.   Perhaps Jacques and Jacob were the same individual, but this is not verified.

The Wagner's sailed with the Boshaars to America and also settled the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York.  Nancy Wagoner Dixon wrote about the adventures and the hard times of her family, the Wagners.    From records, the Boshaars probably endured the same voyage and strife with the Wagners.  Her book is Palatine Roots: The 1710 German Settlement in New York as Experience by Johann Peter Wagner, Picton Press, 1994.   Families normally stayed with the same Ship Listmaster (Gurlach on the 'James and Elizabeth').

Thanks to my uncle, Wendell O. Beshore (Beshore Family Genealogist), my Dad-Gloyd, Thomas and Abbey Mabrey, and Janice Kersanty (Hebert Family Genealogist ) for many of the artifacts contained in this story.  Thanks also to many of the web contributors...an incredible resource!

Finally, I dedicate this E-book to my father, Gloyd G. Beshore (also known by "John", a name his high school sweetheart first gave him) who passed away on 7 Jan 2005 at the age of 83.  Dad was awarded the Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross, after 34 Missions in WWII over France and Germany.  Many Beshores, even in the 1700s and 1800s, lived until their 80s and 90s as evidenced by the gravestones in Bethel, PA (gravestones can be found in this E-book).  Thanks Dad

God Bless and Thanks, this was fun!.......Dave

If you have more to add please send an E-mail or letter to enerspace@roadrunner.com  Updates of the family tree is at GEDCOM