From Forerunners: A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families Their Kith and Kin, by Harry M. Strickler (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1925), pp. 92-94:

The Brubakers,
and the family of
Catherine Brubaker Strickler

Catherine Brubaker Strickler, wife of Henry D. Strickler, was the daughter of John and Barbara Mauck Brubaker, the said John being the son of Abraham and Barbara Miller Brubaker, and the said Abraham being the son of John and Anna Brubaker. The last mentioned John came to New York from Berne, Switzerland, June 16, 1710, with three brothers, Jacob, Henry and Abraham.

Also Henry D. Strickler's wife, Catherine Brubaker, was a sister of Mrs. John (Major) Strickler, and they became the parents of a large family. Then Christina Brubaker, her sister, married Abram Strickler. Their sister, Barbara, married a Mr. Miley, and their daughter married Joseph Strickler of Egypt. Peter Brubaker, their brother, married Barbara Coffman, who became the mother of Gideon Brubaker, grandfather of Elder Rueben T. Strickler of Egypt.

From deed records, John Brubaker purchased land in Massanutten in 1735. This makes John one of the early settlers of Massanutten. He never came to Virginia, but his son, Abraham, located on the Massanutten plantation.

The French and Indian war began in 1754; Braddock was defeated in 1755. The war continued until 1763 during which time the valley settlements were harassed by the Indians, sometimes led by French officers.

Kercheval, in referring to an Indian raid in Massanutten in 1758, says that they plundered old man Brewbecker's home. He was referring no doubt to Abraham (the first) Brubaker. Abraham was not an old man in 1758. Kercheval probably knew Abraham or knew of him in his old age and was referring to him at that time. A neighbor, Mr. Stone, was killed at this time. He says John Brewbecker was then (1830) living on the farm.

John Brubacher (Brubaker) emigrated from, Switzerland and came to America about 1710. On the 27th of September, 1717, he (in company with Christian Hershey) took out a warrant for 1,000 acres of land, lying on the Little Conestoga in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pa. Tradition says that he was accompanied by three brothers.

The four Emigrants were:

1. Jacob

2. Henry

3. Abraham

4. John m. Anna. He came to New York from Berne, Switzerland, with his three brothers, Jacob, Henry and Abraham, landing in America June 16, 1710.

Unto John and Anna Brubaker were born nine sons and one daughter...

John and Daniel settled on 300 acres of land on Hammer Creek, Warwick Township, Lancaster Co., Pa.

Christian, David, Henry, Jacob, and Joseph married and lived in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster Co., Pa.

Abraham came to Virginia, located in Massanutten, m. Barbara Miller, daughter of Jacob Miller, founder of Muellerstadt (Woodstock now), and by this marriage came into possession of much of the landed estate of his father-in-law. He gave the land whereon the Court House of Shenandoah County now stands. His son, Abraham, lived at Woodstock...

Some of the above information was given to me by Mrs. Irene Spitler of Constantine, Mich., daughter of Jonas Strickler, son of Henry D. and Catherine Brubaker Strickler. She obtained her information from Mrs. Sallie Brubaker of Massanutten who lives on the old Brubaker homestead. She had the tradition of the four emigrant brothers. Her list did not contain Anna and Catherine Brubaker, daughters of Abraham of Massanutten, neither did it contain the list of the nine sons and the daughter of John of Pennsylvania. Mr. Joseph A. Brubaker and his sister, Miss Mary Brubaker, of White House, gave me a very complete list including the Pennsylvania branch, but their list did not contain the tradition of the four emigrant brothers.

Mrs. Spitler's information was that Abraham Brubaker married Susan Long. The Miley Notes state that he married Barbara Long. It seems, however, that he married Barbara Miller, daughter of Jacob Miller, Sr. of Woodstock. Mrs. Spitler's list also contained the name of David Brubaker who married Miss Stover. This was evidently Abraham of the Miley Notes. His name was probably David Abraham.

From page 259:

Abram was the son of John Brubaker the pioneer in Maassanutten. (ft. nt. ...John Brubaker it seems never came to Virginia. His son Abraham occupied the Massanutten plantation.