Download or read book The Beachy Family written by William Vernon Beachy and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Beachy (1725-1805) and his family immigrated from Switzerland to Baltimore County, Maryland before 1768, and in 1783 moved to Somerset (then Bedford) County, Pennsylvania. Descendants (many were old Amish, many were Mennonites) lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and elsewhere. Some immigrated to Ontario and else- where in Canada.