This Family Tree is in dedication to my Mother Jessie Buffington who passed away in November of 2001. Thank You Mom for all that you have taught me and  helping to make me who I am today.  
 Thank you to my Aunt Dora Fetrow for letting me borrow the book on our Family  which provided me the doorway to our past and most of the information gathered  for this site.
 Thank you To Samuel A. Lehman for writing a Short History of the Lehman Family in  Maryland from which I obtained this information.
 About two hundred and thirty years ago {1705} the condition of the people in Southern  Germany was deplorable. Queen Anne's War was raging. England ,France Spain and the  German Provinces were all engaged, with Engalnd the winner. The German's were the  greatest sufferes of ravages and plundering of the French. Towns were burnt, the men  killed, many of the women ravished and the children left to starve. Wurtemberg  population was reduced from 50,000 to 5,000. Only one in ten survived. With the help  of Queen Anne, thousands of German's fled there homes and sailed to New York.{1709} In 1725 Peter Lehman traveled with other settlers to Lancaster Co.Pa. then to Dauphin  Co. were he lived to a good old age and raised a family and used the German language  all his life. The number of children born to Peter is not known but one son, Jacob  Lehman was the first name in a long list that follows, and so we begin.