Daniel Freysinger is listed as a passenger on the Ship Jacob which landed in Philadelphia October 2, 1749 with other immigrants from Swabia, Württemberg and Darmstadt.  The ship cleared from Amsterdam and last form Sheilds England.  Ludwig came over October 16, 1754 or 5 years later.   Did they know each other? Were they from the same part of Germany.  I could not find any reference to Daniel in America and speculated he may have died on board or returned to Germany.  "Daniel"  looks like an Anglicized name although Google Translate says the name is the same in English and German. I did a search in 2018 and could not find any mention of him in America aside from the ships list of passengrers.
 There is a record in Ancestry.com of a Daniel Freisinger being buried on the 15th of March 1782 in Mannheim Baden (Baden Württemberg).  He was born around 1722. All the dates are consistent.

The passengers on the ship that Ludwig came over on were from Wirtemberg and the Palatinate.  The two ships have passengers from Wirtemberg in common.  Darmstadt is in the state of Hesse and is in West central Germany about 35 KM south of Frankfurt, about 20 KM east of the Rhine River and close to the boarder with Rhineland-Palatinate.  It is in the same general area as Wurttemberg and the Palatinate. Swabia is at the southern end of the state of Braden-Wattenberg.  In conclusion, there is enough overlap that both Ludwig and Daniel could have come from the same town although most German immigrants in this time period came from this general region so do not read too much into this.

Howard L Frysinger reported in 1979 that he had also run across Daniel's name on the ship registry but could find no trace of him in America.  Howard speculated that a lot of those German people went down to South Carolina. He tried to research South Carolina but couldn't find anything.  My search in 2018 should have picked up anything in South Carolina.

As of 11/7/17 I have not done any checking on this information but I mention it here as a clue to others. If you know something about Daniel or any of my other comments, please let me know.  bill@frisinger.net.

Note, Amsterdam is in the upper third of the map and Rotterdam is in the bottom third.  Rotterdam is on the main branch of the Rhine, Amsterdam is on a side channel.  That is why most ships sailed from Rotterdam.

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