LANTZ GENEALOGY

     the grey limestone in the Shenandoah Valley that was so
     much like Germany they called a halt and made their settle-
     ment.  A traveller through this part of Virginia during the
     French and Indian wars, writes: "The low ground upon the
     banks of the Shenandoah River are very rich and fertile.
     They are chiefly settled by the Germans who gain a suffi-
     cient livelihood by raising stock for the troops and sending
     butter down the valley to the lower parts of the country.
     I could not but reflect with pleasure upon the situation of
     these people, and I think if there is such a thing as happi-
     ness in life that these people enjoy it, far from the bustle   
     of the world they live in the most delightful climate and the
     richest soil imaginable surrounded by lofty mountains, trans-
     parent streams and falling waters, rich valleys and majestic
     woods, the whole dispersed with infinite varieties of flowers
     constitutes the landscape surrounding them.
          "They are subject to few diseases, are generally robust
     and live in perfect liberty.  They know no wants and are
     acquainted with but few vices, they possess what many
     princes would give half of their dominion for, that is to say,
     health, contentment and tranquility of mind." See Howes'
     Colonial History.
        From 1710 to 1766 there came to this country some six-
     teen persons by the name of Lantz; Johannes Lantz came to
     America in 1710, landing in New York, June 14, and was
     sent to Livingston Manor a large estate owned by Robert
     Livingston, which he purchased from the Indians, in all
     about 160,000 acres.  Lantz was sent there under indenture to
     Queen Ann.  The conditions were terrible, they were in small
     huts during the winter and in the spring they were turned
     out into the woods to grow hemp and manufacture tar.  He
     left there and went to Schohair, sixty miles northwest and
     from there to New York, as has been related.
          October 22, 1738, Palatines imported in Blander Thistle,
     George Huston, Commander, from Rotterdam last from
     Cowes off the Isle of Wight, Jacob Lantz, aged twenty-eight
     years, Michael Lantz, age twenty-two years, Hans Peter
     Lantz three years old, Hans Nicolaus Lantz eight years of
     age, Youghan Paul Lantz, and Johannes Lantz, last two
     under sixteen years of age.
          August 27, 1739, Palatines imported in the Snow Betsy,
     Richard Buden Capton, from Rotterdam last from Deil near
     Dover, Jacob Lantz.
          October 20, 1747, Foreigners imported from Rotterdam
     last from Leith, Scotland, Niclous Lantz, and Hans George

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