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According to a story written in German by his grandson, Dr John Lewis Metz, Lodowick Sr was born “near Metz” in what is now Moselle, Grand Est, France and family lore says his father was a “Frenchman”. 

We are researching within many kilometers of the the area in France as well as areas in Germany such as Zwiebrücken where many French soldiers are known to have settled during and after the Thirty Years War.