Biographical Sketch (1937):967, p. 195. "Kolb, Dielman (1691-1756). A Mennonite minister at Skippack and Salford, Franconia Conference district, from 1717 to 1756, and for about forty years a coworker with Bishop Heinrich Funck. He was a native of the Palatinate in Germany and was evidently ordained a Mennonite minister in Europe before migrating to America in 1717. After coming to America he was one of the most active leaders and ministers in the Franconia Conference district. He belonged to a family of ministers. His father was said to be a minister, and three of his brothers (Peter, Martin, and Henry) were in the ministry. Among his most notable works in American was the supervision, in connection with Bishop Heinrich Funck, of the translation of Van Braght’s Martyr’s Mirror from the Dutch into the German language, completed in 1749. He was a staunch defender of the faith and aggressive in Christian work."

Biographical Sketch (1986):168, p. 646. "Dielman Kolb — He was born Nov. 10, 1691, Pfalz, Wolfsheim, Palatinate, Germany. He was well educated for that day and was probably a Mennonite minister, possibly the Tilman Kolb mentioned in the above letter; several of Dielman Kolb’s brothers were also Mennonite ministers.

Dielman and Elizabeth (---) (Schnebeli) Kolb came to Pennsylvania in 1717, settling in Philadelphia County, which then included all of present Montgomery County and the southeast corner of Berks County. On Oct. 10, 1733, Dielman Kolb ‘et ux’ sold to Jacob Schnebly, merchant of Mannheim, Germany (Elizabeth’s son), 250 acres in Salford Township (includes the present townships of Upper and Lower Salford, Montgomery County, as well), for £58 8s 4p. This tract adjoined that of Gerard Clemens, Gally Hoefflyfinger, and John Lederach as well as other property of Dielman Kolb, and was probably near the present village of Lederach in Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County. Dielman Kolb died Dec. 28, 1756 and is buried in Lower Salford Township. Elizabeth (---) (Schnebeli) Kolb and Dielman Kolb had a daughter, Elizabeth who was born about 1715 and married Andrew Ziegler. They lived in Lederachville (now Lederach), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania."

Biographical Sketch (1992):672 "Dillman wrote in his Bible that he went to Ibersheim on 21 March 1717 on his way to Pennsylvania. He arrived in Pennsylvania on 10 Aug 1717. Elizabeth was probably from Ibersheim as she left her children there, probably with relatives, while she and her husband traveled on to Pennsylvania. Dillman and Elizabeth had a daughter, Elizabeth born about 1715 who went to Pennsylvania with them. The children of Hans Jacob Schnebeli and Elizabeth apparently remained in Ibersheim with relatives until they were adults."736, v. 1, p. 347-348.

"Preacher Hans Jacob Schnebelli, died by 1714 and his widow [daughter? See note below] Elizabeth remarried Dielman Kolb (1691-1756) of Wolfsheim or Mannheim on St. Jacob's Day (July 25, 1714, as recorded in Dielman Kolb's family Bible).677, p. 484. They then migrated to Pennsylvania in the summer of 1717 and settled in (Lower) Salford Township, where Dielman became a preacher in the Skippack and Salford Mennonite congregations.

It was this Dielman's father, Dielman Kolb, Sr. (1648-1712), who was a preacher at Mannheim and who assisted with preacher Hans Jacob Schnebelli in the 1710 flight of Swiss Anabaptists down the Rhine River. And so when the Preacher Schnebelli died, his widow married the Preacher Kolb's son!" [Note: Littrell69, p. 98-99. writes that unpublished material from Ken Hottle indicates that it was Maria's sister Elizabeth who married Dielman Kolb]

1717 Immigration:671 "August 24, 1717 arrivals on three ships: Dielman Kolb, (He left Mannheim, Germany on Mar. 21, 1717, and arrived in American on Aug. 10, 1717, according to his Bible), age 26, Wolfsheim, Germany, d. Dec. 28, 1756, Lower Salford Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.; wife, Elizabeth Schnebeli, age 30, Ibersheim, Germany; child, Elizabeth Kolb, age 2, Mannheim, Germany, d. Montgomery Co., Pa."