From FIRST FAMILIES OF AMERICA, Vol VI, page 637 & Vol VII, page 773:
David was born in Germany, went to Holland and then to America, before 1727, settling in the Shenandoah Valley of the then quite vast Augusta County, Viginia. His son, Hancrist ( Johannes Christ), was a soldier in the American Revolution His son, Abraham, though too young to volunteer, made bullets for the American soldiers and later fought in the War of 1812.
David is in the court records in February 1762, concerning a dispute with John Gratton, in Brock's Gap. [www.genealogy.com. Document not named]