Our Emigrant arrived at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia on September 15, 1736 after a harrowing 12 weeks at sea. His name was eventually changed to "Castor", since the German pronuciation of Gerster with the umlaut sounds a lot like Castor. It was also spelled, Caster, Kester, Carster, Coster, but eventually the Pennsylvania family settled on Castor. Through 11 generations plus, we estimate that there are over 78,000 persons carrying Hans' DNA in the United States. Many different surnames from the female descendants.
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