Although we know little about the life of our ancestor Lodowick Metz Sr before he left Europe for Pennsylvania, then part of British Colonial America, We do know much about his life after he arrived here, and because of the people around him we are learning more about what his life may have been like in Europe. He apparently immersed himself within the Mennonite communities and persons in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His first wife , Margaret Gut , was daughter of a well known Mennonite and they had three children. After the death of his first wife 1741, he married a Barbara Long and they were parents of four more children. Every son of Lodowick Metz served in the Lancaster Militias during the American Revolution. Nearly every member within the first two generations married a Mennonite from a well documented family, with the few others being the German Reformed Church and possibly Hueguenot.