I am seeking links to the family of Jacob (may be middle name) Bossinger and wife Frances, both born around 1800-1804 in Switzerland. These names are assumed to be middle names by German/Swiss naming conventions, because thought that is what is found in family documents, I have been unable to locate them in LDS IGI indexes under those as first names.

Jacob & Frances (maiden name unknown) settled first in Ohio with their Swiss born daughter Ann b. about 1830. There they had sons, Jacob N. b. 1836, Isaac b. 1841 and John J. (my great great grandfather), born about 1844.

They then moved to the Five Points area of Manhattan (think Gangs of NY.) Their son John J. married Alice King there and they had a very large family, losing several children prior to adulthood. It is not known what happened to the other boys or if there were any other children.

Frances appears in the 1850 census in New York with only Jacob & Isaac. Where John was, I don't know, but he did survive and remain in the area until moving to the Greenpoint/Williamsburg section of Brooklyn during the 1900s.