John Nicholas Saeger, ancestor of the greater part of the family in this country, was born in 1694 and came from Reichenbach, Bavaria. His wife, Anna Barbara was born in 1705, and with their seven children they sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, in the ship Richmond and Elizabeth, arriving at Philadelphia on Sept. 28, 1733. He settled upon a tract of 350 acres along the Coplay creek in Whitehall Township, which he secured by a warrant dated March 28, 1737. The plant of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company is now located on this land. On Jam 24, 1739, he secured by warrant a tract of forty acres adjoining his other land on the east. This land he farmed and improved until his death, when by his will dated October 32, 1753, and probated Feb. 5, 1762, it became the property of his two eldest sons. He was a Lutheran in faith and worshipped at the Jordan Lutheran church and at Egypt church. He died in January 1762, ten of his thirteen children surviving him.