At the Hellertown, Pennsylvania Historical Society, where a rifle made by my family is on permanent exhibit.

The first recorded Moll in Pennsylvania arrived from Germany in 1683, and I can trace my branch of the family to about 1689. There is much to my family's history in Pennsylvania, and that's the purpose of this website.

I started this project over 20 years ago at the University of South Carolina when I was an undergraduate student there. During the summer of 1982, while taking a United States history course, my professor assigned us to write a paper on our family's genealogy. At the time I knew very little about the Moll family, other than my father and my close family. What I found doing some research was amazing, and for the past two decades I've learned a great deal about my heritage.

This website is very much a work in progress. Many members of my family tree left very little records of their life that survives today. Moll is a very common name in Eastern Pennsylvania, and as our family has lived in America for over 300 years, there have been many branches of our family tree that have not been traced.

I've come to the conclusion if you can trace your branch of our family to these eastern Pennsylvania counties, we are probably related to each other in some way.

One common thread of confusion in performing geneology research is that many people in the family have the same first name. Throughout this website, when possible, I've attempted to differentiate my ancestors by providing dates of birth and death if I know them, as well as a generational number if I can determine it. That will help the reader determine relationships such as cousins, aunts, uncles and such.

On the left is a table of contents, which I've attempted to organize the history of the Moll family in Pennsylvania. There are many branches to the Moll family tree, and this website doesn't attempt to trace all of them. I've limited the scope to my branch of the family, but I have added links to other branches of the family as I've became aware of them.

Several members of our family served in the Revolutionary War, and War of 1812. I've written a page about their service. Also, I've discovered over fifty (50) members of our family from over a dozen states who served in either the Federal or Confederate armies during the Civil War. There are numerous pages about them, and their service during the conflict. If you have a bloodline relationship to any of them, you may be qualified to join one of the several historical socieites I have linked.

There are links to several online message boards that you can post to, or perhaps find some information about your branch of the family. Also, I've added a guestbook, and if you could take a moment to let me know your thoughts about the site I would appreciate them very much.

In these pages I've included family names, dates of births and deaths, locations of where they lived, and other information about their lives as I've discovered it. To help those of you who are interested in the genealogy of the Moll family, I've indexed the pages and included a website search engine that you can enter names and keywords that will hopefully help you in your search around the website.

I must thank many people whose work over the years and information they have provided has made this possible. My mother, Alma Huber and my Aunt Geraldine Dreher.

I also wish to thank many of the members of the Moll family whom have shared their knowledge either personally or online in the Moll Genealogy Forum on geneology.com and ancestory.com which I have included a link to at the bottom of the table of contents. David C. Moll has shared much information about his branch of our family tree in Montgomery County, PA. Deena Cross, has provided much information about the Allentown and Hellertown Molls in the 19th Century, as well as the "Iowa Moll" link, which is the branch of the family tree she is from. Alan Moll has shared a wonderful manuscript about his branch of the family, writing about the Moll families in Niagara County, New York.

I also would like to thank those who have performed genealogical research on my family, such as Earl S. Heffner, Jr. who wrote the book "The Moll Gunsmiths", whose works I have included here, and Jan Durst, who has provided much information about Thomas E. Moll and our family in Colorado. The archives and the volunteer staff members of the Lehigh County Historical Society have been of tremendous assistance during my visits to Allentown over the years.

I welcome any information about our family from my distant relatives around the United States as well as the world. If there is any information you have about the Moll family which you would like to share, please let me know by email and I will be more than happy to add it to the website.