Conrad Metzger is the progenitor of a large and early settled PA family. The first definite record of him is found in theta list of 1757 of Maxatawny township. Bet county. There he was married and reared a family. Among his children was a son, Conrad, Jr.. The pioneer
was a farmer near Rothrocksville. Pa., and his homestead is still in the family name. John Metzger is the present owner. He succeeded his father. Henry, a son of Heinrich, a son of Conrad. The ancestor was first buried on a private graveyard but later during, the nineties, he was reinterred and buried in the cemetery of the Maxatawny Zion's Church.

Conrad Metzger Jr., after the birth of his son, Jacob, in 1776, but prior to the year 1800. had settled in Heidelberg township, now Lehigh county. There he owned property and is believed to have died and that he was buried on the old graveyard of Heidelberg Church. His wife, Anna Maria was born Sept. 4. 1745, and died on May 12, 1828, at the ripe age of 82 years, 8 months and 8 days. She is buried on the old graveyard at Heidelberg Church.