• Abraham Konig did not sign his name to the Oath of Allegiance and Abjuration at the port of entry as required by the provincial government, as did Jacob and Mattheus. His name was inscribed by the clerk and no trace has been found of him leaving the ship.
• Jacob Konig was unmarried on arrival at Philadelphia, it being recorded in the baptismal record of Maria Magdaline, daughter of Mattheus Konig, in 1754, that he was single. He was likely a lad when he left his native country.
• The records of the birth and baptisms of the first born of both Jacob and Mattheus Konig , namely Mathias, son of Jacob, born 1756, and Maria, daughter of Mattheus Konig, born 1754, indicate that Jacob and Mattheus were married about the same time and that there was no great difference in their ages.
• Jacob and Mattheus bought and lived on adjoining farms, they were sponsors on several occasions at the baptism of each other's children, and Jacob named his first born after his brother Mattheus.

The possibilities are that an entire family set sail for the new world; that the wife died on the long journey leaving the husband and the two sons to enter the new world alone; that the father, Abraham, also was taken sick, was too weak to sign the Declaration of Allegiance, died soon after leaving the vessel, and therefore no trace of him has been found; that the two boys, Jacob and Mattheus, left to care for themselves in a strange land, secured adjoining farms and raised their families in the same neighborhood.

For the purpose of this genealogical study, it is therefore presumed that ABRAHAM KONIG is the father of children JACOB and MATTHEUS KONIG (KING).

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