Daniel Roth, born in 1703, sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, in the ship Hope, with his wife and two children and his sister, Anna Magdalene, and her husband. John. Jacob Schreiber, having left Niederbronn on May 4, 1773, where his sister had been married on April 28th. The ship carried 389 passengers and arrived at Philadelphia on Aug. 28, 1733 where all male passengers over sixteen took the oath of allegiance to the King of England.

The Roth and Schreiber families lived for some time in Skippack township, Montgomery county, but in 1737 removed to Whitehall township, where Daniel Roth applied for a warrant for a tract of 150 acres of land, on which he had located, situated on the Jordan Creek where the village of Sherersville is now located. Before the warrant was granted to him he was taken sick and died in April, 1737, the same hour in which his son, Peter, was born The warrant, dated May 25, 1737, was then granted to his widow, who did not remain long upon the land but with her youngest, son removed further south and resided among the Quakers. She died Feb. 25, 1757, aged about fifty-four years. The land warranted to Daniel Roth was subsequently granted to John Reinhard Benny, on Aug. 10, 1748, who died in September, 1758. His widow, Regina Louisa Benny, matted Gottfried Knauss, who received the land and on June 25. 1761, Daniel Roth and Peter Rhoads, only surviving issue of Daniel Roth, released to Gottfried Knauss, all their right, title and interest in the above tract of land.

Daniel Roth and his wife. Anna Margaret, had three children: Daniel; Jacob, confirmed at Egypt in 1753, and died prior to 1761; and Peter, who, having been educated among the Quakers, spelled his name Rhoads, became a prominent Revolutionary patriot and judge and died at Allentown in 1814. A descendant of this line. Chas. It Roberts, is the writer of the several Roth family histories.