Hans Adam RÖDER was baptized June 2, 1706, at the Mutterstadt Church. Present were his parents Hans Adam and Katharina Roder, and his grandparents Adam and Anna Maria RÖDER.

he first known records of the Roder family in Pennsylvania are found in the Falkner Swamp Reformed Church where Adam, son of Adam and Katharina RÖDER, was a member in 1731. Records from this church shows a Michael RÖDER becoming the 17th member of that church.

Adam and Anna Barbara came to the new world about 1724 with Adam's mother and possibly his sister, her husband and their children. There is not ship record of the RÖDER family from 1720-1724. The New Goshenhoppen Church records in Pennsylvania gives the year of emigration as 1724.

They settled in Falkner Swamp, Hanover twp, Pennsylvania. He was a deacon at the Falkner Swamp Reformed Church on January 6, 1740. February 26, 1744, is the last time his name appeared in the Pennsylvania Records. He was naturalized in Philadelphia on 22 September 1740.

Hans Adam and Anna Barbara RÖDER arrived in Virginia ca 1745, since the Revolutionary records show Adam's son, Anthony, birth occurred in 1745 in Augusta County, Virginia. Adam is also found in the Augusta County Vestry book in 1746 and 1748 and in land transactions dating from 1747.

Between 1745 and the time of his death in 1773, Adam owner 1500 acres
and operated a lead mine on the property.

Joseph Spangenberg and Matthew Reutz from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, kept a diary of their journeys. It says...

On the morning od July 26, 1748 they came to a marked path. It brought them to a salt lick which is frequented by the elks and where they are usually shot by hunters. A kind spirit led them to the right way which they continued their journey, till they came in the evening to a German plantation. Here Adam RÖDER lives, whose mother, 86 years of age lives at Makuntsche (Maucungie, now Emmaus, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania) and belongs to the Moravian congregation."

The missionaries were now in the vicinity of Timberville, Rockingham County, Virginia. About one mile west of this place stands Rader's church, which is known to be one of the oldest places in Rockingham. The diary of Rev. Charles Lange, pastor at Frederick, Maryland, who visited the congregation 17 April 1768.

When the War for Independence began Adam was too old to fight but his sons and grandsons joined the fight. His son Anthony is a Captain who fights at Williamsburg and Hot Watercreek, Virginia. His other son George was a private who preached daily and was given a copy of "Whitfield's Sermons" by Geroge Washington. Conrad, Henry, Michael and Shadrach Rader, grandsons of Adam and sons of Adam and Margaret, all served and received pensions except Shadrack.