The story of the Bininger, Carscallen, Detlor, Dulmage, Embury, Heck, Switzer and other families, most of whom emigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Ireland, then to the United States, finally settling with other Loyalists in the area of the Bay of Quinte, Ontario.

"Our Family Tree, as far as is known, was first planted in America by the Reverend Mr. James Clack, who came from Marden, in Wiltshire, England, to Gloucester County, Virginia, as a minister of the Established Church in the year 1678. It was his grand daughter, Sarah Clack, daughter of James Clack II, who married William Maclin III, in Brunswick County, Virginia, in 1754"--Forward. Descendants and relatives lived in Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Kentucky, Louisiana and elsewhere