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PETER SCHUMACHER, the earliest known ancestor to come to this country, was a native of Criesheim. in Kriegsheim, Germany, the name being so changed in 1752. He was born about 1622 and came to Germantown Pennsylvania, in 1686.
When William Penn visited Kriegsheim in 1677, among the inhabitants at that time were Peter, Jacob and Geoge Schumacher, . either brothers or cousins, all of whom gave up their native land for new homes in America.
The Schumachers were Mennonites, but had been among the earliest accessions to the faith of George Fox at Kiegsheim, under the preaching of William Ames, an English Quaker, who labored in that section from 1655 until his death in 1662. About this time fines of five shillings were imposed upon dissenters from the established church for assembling for worship, and among the greatest sufferers are found Peter and George Shumacher, their cattle and household goods having been seized and sold to pay these fines. From Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers, we gather the following:
"In 1663, for joining in an Assembly for worship, goods worth two guilders were taken from Peter Schumacher and from George Schumacher bedding worth seven rix dollars. In 1664 for refusing to bear arms there were taken from him two sheets worth three guilders. In 1660 Peter Schumaker and John Schumacher had each a cow taken away for fines for attending religious meetings."
The origin of the Mennonites is somewhat obscure. Van Braght and others of their own historians trace their theological and lineal descent from the Waldenses, some of whose communities are said to have existed from the earliest Christian times , and who were able to maintain themselves in obscure parts of Europe, against the power of Rome, in large numbers, from the twelfth.
century- The Waldenses carried the art of wearing from Flanders into Holland.
By others they are supposed to have been the outgrowth of the great Baptist
movement, which swept through Germany and the Netherlands in the early part
of the sixteenth century and which gathered into its embrace many of these communities
of Waldenses.
Menno Simons was born at the village of Witmarsum in Friesland, in the year 1492, and was educated for the Priesthood. He early became interested in the writings of Luther and Zwinglius, and at the request of a little community of converts living near him, he began to preach to them, and in 1536 formally severed his connection with the church of Rome. Before long he began to be recognized as a leader and gradually the sect assumed from him the name of Mennonites.
The Mennonites were opposed to infant baptism, believing
that such a ceremony unaccompanied by repentance, was vain. "They took
not the sword and were entirely non-resistant. They swore not at all. They practiced
the washing of the feet of the brethern, and made use of the ban or the avoidance
of those who were pertinaciously derelict. In dress and speech they were plain,
and in manners simple. Their ecclesiastical enemies, even while
burning them for their heresies, bore testimony to (he purity of their lives,
their thrift, frugality and homely virtues. They were generally husbandmen and
artisans, and so many of them were weavers that certain woven and knit fabrics
were known as Mennonite cloth.
No sect, not even the early Christians, suffered such
bitter persecution as these sorely tried people. Their meetings were held in
secret places, often in the middle of the night, and in order to prevent possible
exposure under pressure of pain, they purposely avoided knowing the names of
the brethren they met and of the preachers who baptized them." The result
of such persistent persecution was to cause a wide dispersion. Hamburg and Altono
were founded by refugees, the first Mennonites in Prussia, fleeing there from
the Netherlands, and others found their way up the Rhine.
Crefeld, a city on the lower Rhine, within a few miles of the borders of Holland, has always been noted for its manufactures of silk, linen and other woven goods and these manufactures were first established by persons fleeing from religious intolerance.
From the Mennonites sprang the general Baptist Church in England, the first of them having an ecclesiastical connection with the parent societies in Holland, and according to the late Robert Barcklay and others, quoted by Pennypacker in his History of Germantown, "it was from association with these early Baptist teachers that George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, imbibed his views," Says Barcklay: "We are compelled to view him as the unconscious exponent of the doctrine, practice and discipline of the ancient and Stricter party, the Dutch Mennonites."1 The similarity existing between the two sects is so marked, it is not surprising to find them later in close association.
The story of the introduction of Quakerism upon the continent
is a most remarkable one. Some of the followers of that sect had been banished
from England to the Island of Barbadoes and had been put upon a British vessel
to be transported. England and Holland were then at war, and while the vessel
was at sea, it was captured by a Dutch privateer, and the useless non-combatant
Quakers were put ashore on the coast of Holland. As we are told "They acquiesced
in their poverty and though they had been in no repute among their own people
either for riches or endowments" -they increased their small fortunes to
a considerable bulk
and "like the plants and trees the which the more they were shaken with
the winds the deeper and faster root they take," they propagated their
doctrines in Holland and Germany.
The meetings thus established were visited by preachers sent out by Fox, one of whom was William Ames, who spoke Dutch and German. In 1657 Ames and George Rolfe went to Criesheim a little village on the Upper Rhine, and succeeded in making converts of some Mennonites there. It was the farthest outpost of Quakerism in Germany, and was cherished by them with the utmost care. They converted seven or eight families which alarmed the clergy and incited the rabble "disposed to do evil, to abuse those persons by scoffing, cursing, reviling, throwing stones and dirt at them and braking their windows." The Magistrates directed that any one who should entertain Ames or Rolfe should be fined forty rix dollars.
On the 22nd day of August, 1677, William Penn left Frankfort on his way to Kriegsheim.. The Magistrate of the village, at the instigation of the clergymen, attempted to prevent him from preaching but with the help of friends and a "coachful from Worms" he had a quiet and comfortable meeting.
A few years later when Penn was founding the province which bears his name, he invited these Germans to join him in his new venture, promising them at least that they would be free from religious intolerance and "having nothing of their own to lose, and hearing of the great plenty in America and hoping to gain a livelihood by their handiwork * * * they forsook their cottages and lands and entered into a voluntary and perpetual banishment to Pennsylvania, where they lived in the greatest freedom and with sufficient prosperity."
The impulse leading to this first emigration came from Crefeld. On the 10th of March, William Penn conveyed to Jacob Telner, of Crefeld, engaged in business in Amsterdam, Jan. Streypers, a merchant of Kaldkirchen, a village in the vicinity, and Dirk Sipman of Crefeld, each five thousand acres of land to he laid out in Pennsylvania. This land was then sold to eight different purchasers, one of whom was Francis Daniel Pastorius, who formed what was known as the Frankfort Land Company. Though to this company is generally ascribed the settlement of Germantown, and with it the credit of being the originators of the German emigration, no one of its members, except Pastorius, ever came to Pennsylvania.
On June 11, 1683, Penn conveyed to Govert Remke, Lenart Arets, and Jacob Van Bebber, all of Crefeld, one thousand acres of land each, and they together with Telner, Streypers and Sipman, constituted the original Crefeld purchasers. Their purpose was colonization, and not speculation. The arrangement between Penn and Sipman provided that within a specified time a certain number of families should go to Pennsylvania, and it is more than likely that the same understanding existed between the Proprietary and the other purchasers. Before long thirteen families, comprising thirty-three persons, nearly all of whom were relatives, made preparations to depart for the new world. Thy were Lenart Arets, Abraham Op den Graeff, Dirclt Op den Graeff, Herman Op den Graeff, Willem Streypers, Thones Kunders, Reynier Tyson, Jan Seimens, Jan Lensen, Peter Keurlis, Johannes Bleikers, Jan Lucken, and Abraham Tunes. The three Qp den Graeffs were brothers, and the others all more or less related by marriage. Eleven of these thirteen emigrants were from Crefeld and the presumption is that the other two were also. On the 18th of June the little colony was in Rotterdam, having been accompanied by Jacob Telner, Dirck Sipman, and Jan Strypers. Telner conveyed two thousand acres of his land to the Op den Graeff brothers and made Herman Op den Graeff his attoney.
Through the efforts and influence of James Claypoole, a Quaker merchant of London,
a friend and business connection of Telner's, who was removing with his family
to Pennsylvania, arrangements were made for the little band of Germans to sail
from London on the same ship. After some delay the emigrants reached London
and on July 24th, act sail in the Concord, William Jeffries, master, a vessel
of five hundred tons burthen.
In the meantime, some weeks earlier, Pastorius accompanied by Jacob Schumacher, Isaac Dilbeeck, George Wertmuller, und Koenradt Rutters, had gone to America, to represent both the purchasers at Frankfort and Crefeld.
In due time the voyagers reached Philadelphia the "blessing of the Lord"
having attended "us so that we had a very comfortable passage, and had
our health all the way." On October 12th six days after the arrival of
the Crefelders, Penn issued a warrant to Pastonus for six thousand acres "on
behalf of the German and Dutch purchasers."
William Penn, Proprietary and General of ye Province of Pennsylvania and ye Territories thereunto belonging.
At ye Request of Daniel Pastorius in behalf of ye German and Dutch Purchasers
yt I would grant you Six Thousand Acres to settle upon. These are to will and
require the forthwith to survey or cause to he surveyed unto you ye said Number
of Acres on ye East side at Skulkill River and make returns thereof into my
Secretary's Office. Given at Philadelphia ye 12th day of 8br. 1683.
WILLIAM PENN
For Thomas Holme
Surveyor General.
On the back of the warrant is the following
endorsement in German, in Pastorius' own handwriting.
Warrant vor ein Downship von 6000 akers.
On the 24th of the same month, Thomas Fairman measured off fourteen divisions of land and the following day, meeting together in the cave of Pastorius they drew lots for the choice of location, and immediately they began to dig cellars, and build huts, in which, amid much hardship, they spent the following winter, and thus commenced the settlement of Germantown.
In addition to the emigration from Crefeld and the association at Frankfort, there was a third movement toward the new world, which was of especial interest in the settlement of Germantown. On the Upper Rhine, about two hours journey from Worms, one of the most interesting and historic cities in Germany, lay the little village of Cresheim. It is a small place situated in the midst of the beautiful and fertile Valley of the Rhine, having in 1890 "a population of perhaps two or three hundred people, whose houses mainly lined the road that passes from one end of the village to the other. About the village were the remains of an ancient wall that perhaps in former times served as fortifications and within it was an old time hostelry, inn whose stable the village guager watched over the hogshead of wine, the representative of an important industry." Some of the houses are quite old and an ancient stone tower is connected with the house of the Burgomaster.
Ere long other emigrants from the Palatinate began to come over and join their friends and compatriots. The town of Germanopolis, or Germantown, was "located upon a rich black soil, well supplied with springs, the main street was 60 feet wide, the cross streets were 40 feet wide and each family had three acres of land. It was covered with oak, chestnut and other nut trees and there was good meadow for cows,"' It was afterwards, 1690, divided into four villages: Germantown, Cresheim, Crefeld and Sommerhausen, the latter named for the birth place of Pastorius, Thus were commemorated the familiar places along the Rhine.
To quote further from Pastorius; "The inhabitants of the town are for the most part hard workers, Craftsmen, Cloth, Fustian and Linen Weavers, tailors, shoemakers, locksmiths, carpenters, who, however, are all acquainted with agriculture and cattle breeding," but he later adds "they are mostly linen weavers and not well skilled in the culture of the ground" Many also began to cultivate the vine as they had done in the Rhine country.
When Pastorius was asked to design a town seal, he chose a clover, placing in one leaf & vine, in another a bunch of flax and on the third a weaver's spool, accompanying it with the inscription: Vinuiri, Linurn et Textrinum. This in the course of time became a clover with the device "Der Wein, der Lein, und der Weberschrein" and indicated to the Germans the most promising of their industries in the new land.
It is therefore not surprising that having been subjected to persecution and
unjust treatment in the old country, that we should find all three, Peter, Jacob
and George Schumacher among the earliest of those of the Mennonite faith to
take advantage of the liberal offer of the great Quaker leader.
Jacob Schumacher came over with Pastorius in August "The ffrancis and Dorothy ffrom London, Richard Bridge-man commander, arived at Philadelphia the 16th of ihe 8th month, 1685."
Among the passengers were "Peter Schumacher and Peter his sonn, Mary his Daughter and Sarah his cozen and Francis and Gertrude his Daughters,"
George Schumacher, with his wife Sarah and his seven children sailed from London the next year, George the father died at sea. The others arrived at Germantown 1 mo. 20, 1686.
Peter Schumacher by an agreement with Dirck Sipman, of Crefeld, dated August 16, 1685, "was to proceed with the first good wind to Pennsylvania, and there to receive two hundred acres from Herman Op den Graeff, on which he should erect a dwelling, and for which he should pay a rent of two rix dollars."
In the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is deposited the original "Grund und Lager Buch" of Germantown, which was commenced by Francis Daniel Pastorius. It is written in Dutch and contains a record of all the early transactions, land and otherwise, relating to Germantown- This book has been translated by Professor Marion Dexter Learned, a copy of the translation being filed both with the Recorder of Deeds, City Hall. Philadelphia, and at the Library, The title of the book is:
Ground and Lot Book
of all and each real
Properties
of cleared and uncleared
Land
In the entire
Germantownship
Order of a General Court at that place
begun
by
Francis//Daniel//Pastorius.Grund und Lager Buch
Germantown
Pastorius.
The deed relating to the transfer of this land to Peter Schumacher and the agreement between Sipman and himself are fully set forth in the following documents:
This day the 16th of August Anno 1685 appeared before me Govert Van Gesel, public Notary qualified before the state of Holland residing within the city of Rotterdam in the presence of the undersigned witnesses Dirck Sypman, dwelling at Greefveld in the County of Meurs, as having bought of William Penn, Esquire, Governor and Proprietary of the Province of Pennsylvania in America 5000 acres of land English measure situate in the aforesaid Province, further according to a deed of sale thereof passed in London the 10th of March 1682, old style to this effect that the said Governor thereby has reserved for him a perpetual hereditary feof of the same of 50 shillings sterling annually but which was afterwards brought by him the witness Sypman down to 5 shillings Sterling perpetually ; and further according to the deed of sale thereof passed the 1st of April 1683 all on condition that he the witness Sypman is obliged to have some families transported thither within a certain time and he the witness Sypman declared in the quality of him and his successors that he had granted and hereby grants to him and his successors in perpetual hereditary enfoefment and right of enfoefment to and in behoof of Pieter Schoenmaker last residing in Krysheym in the palatinate and being now here on the point of departure to depart with the first good wind by way of England to Pennsylvania, for him and His successors which Pieter Schoenmaker also being present and acknowledging for himself and his successors that he has accepted and received of the aforesaid Dirck Sypman 200 acres of land English measure in perpetual hereditary enfoefment but of the aforesaid 5000 acres of land and groundenough in the city of Jerman town in the aforesaid Provice dwelling house. All which shall be assigned and delivered according to measurement by Herman Isaacks op den Graeff living at Germantown for said Sypman to him said Pieter schoenmaker and that for and in consideration of the sum of two Rix dollars (being 5 gulden Holland moneyat 20 stuyvers to the gulden) to fall due yearly and each year on the first of March stile loci the first to fall due the 1st year on the 1st of March 1687 the same style continuing thence forward from year to year to be paid exactly in sound current money without any reduction, whatsoever the pretence may be, notwithstanding the fact that statutes, rescripts, ordinances, or customs may direct or decree to the contrary, which he the said Peter Schoenmacker declares expressly that he renounces and disclaims, further under the expressed condition that said Pieter Schoenmacker shall be bound to live with his family on the 200 acres of land and to settle thereon for the execution and and fulfillment of the foregoing and each point each point of it said Sypman binding his person and his goods without exception and said Pieter Schoenmacker in particular the aforesaid land taken by him as hereditary feof together with the improvement thereof and whosoever shall be built or placed upon it . Also his person and generall all his other goods without exception according to the processes of law. Moreover said Sypman declares that he constitute the aforesaid Herman Isaacs op den Graeff with authority to assign and deliver for him by measurement to the said Peter Schoenmacker the aforesaid 200 acres and the aforesaid ground of sufficent size for a dwelling house and to also have this delivery recorded in the record or other public register in that place to repeat this contract if necessary all in accordance with the customs of the place. Moreover to receive annually the aforesaid two Rix dollars and further more to do and perform in regardto this even as the witness himself might wish to do , in case that anything should be required which is not her expressed promising by virtue of this (deed) to do and perform the same under the liability of this person and goods subject to the processes of law. Done in Rotterdam in the presence of Joacob Ocshooren and Pieter Heckenhoeck residing here as witnesses and was witnessed by Dirck Sipman, Petter Schumacker, Jacob Van Outeshoorn, P. Heckenhoeck.
To which witntsseth
Govan Gesel Nots, 1685,
Found to agree with the witnessed minutes,
The next record of interest is a deed executed after the arrival of Peter Shoemaker in Germantown by which he purchases a lot or half-lot in Germantown from the three Op den Graeff brothers;
Peter Schumacker
This deed made the 6th day of the 10th month of the year 1685 between Herman Isaac op den Graeff, Dirch Isaacs op den Graeff and Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff inhabitants of Germantown in the county of Philadelphia as grantor of the one part and Peter Schumacker a recent arrival from Kriesheim in the Palatinate in High Germany as grantee of the other part Witnessed that said three brothers Herman Dirck and Abraham Isaacs or, den Graeff, with the consent of their respective wives herewith bargain and release to said Peter Schumacker 25 acres of land or a half lot in Germantown of which 10 acres being 7 perches and two feet wide are in the village adjoining Hanns Peter Umbstet on the southeast and Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff on the northwest; the remaining; 15 acres 5 perches 15 feet and 11 inches wide in that portion of the sideland in which the remaining share for all other lots of the same quarter is laid out likewise adjoining said Hanns Peter Umbstet on the southeast and Abraham Isaacs on den Graeff on the northwest with all the right, title, appurtenances and usuances, which the afore-said grantors possess thereto by virtue of a deed of sale from Jacob Tellner, in men manner to witch that said Peter Schumacker his heirs and assigns shall hold in peaceable possession said 25 acres or any part of the same free and unencumbered (except the yearly quit rent which hereafter shall fall due to the Proprietary and Governor of this Province at the rate of one shilling old English for each thousand acres) and may and do dispose therewith as with their own property without the least molestation on the part of the aforesaid grantors or their heirs; and for and in consideration of five pounds of money of the Province receipt of which sum fully paid in cash the said three brothers, Herman, Dirck, and Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff acknowledge and herewith discharge him Peter Schumackcr his heirs and assigns fully and in due form on account of such payment. Moreover the said three grantors, Herman, Dirck, and Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff promise that in case said Peter Shumacker or his heirs within seven years from the dale above shall justly demand any legal confirmation and transfer for the further securing the said 25 acres, they the grantors at the particular charge of said Peter Schumacker or his heirs will give and furnish the same.
In witness and confirmation of this purchase both contracting parties have signed and sealed this deed with their own hand at Germantown the day and year aforementioned in the beginning.
Sealed and delivered in the presence
of us as witnesses;
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Jan
Lucken |
HERMAN
ISAACS UP DEN GRAEFF DERICK ISAX UP DEN GRAEFF ABRAHAM UP DEN GRAEFF PETTER SCHUMACKER |
Passed in the Court of record
14th of the 4th Month 1692.
Arnolt Cassell, Recorder
Fratz Daniel Pastorius, Bailiff
In the list of original ownders of Town lots in Germantown, 1689, we find from
this same "Lager Buch" that "Peter Schumacker lived on the west
side of the Main Street, toward Schuylkill"
William Penn in order to assure to these German emigrants the full rights and
privileges of the Commonwealth, by authority of the King of England, granted
to them the following right of naturalization. The original is also in the handwriting
of Francis Daniel Pastorius.
Copia Naturalisationis
Peter Keyser and Dirk Keyser.
Francis Daniel Pastorious
and of sixty on persons more
German Town
from
William Penn Esq.
Dated 7th May A.D.1691
William Penn, Proprietary- of the Province of Pennsylvania &c. By the King and Queens authority. To all to whom these presents shall come. Send greeting &c. Whereas Francis Daniel Pastorious, Jacob Telner, Dirck Isaacs op do Graeff, Herman Isaacs op de Graef, Tennis Conderts, Abraham Isaacs op de Graef, Jacob Isaacs, Johannes Cassel, Hewart Papen, Herman Bon Albertus Brandt, Jacob Schumacher, Wolter Simens, Dirick Keyser, Arnold Cassel, Dirick Keyser Jr., Jan Lensen, Jan Duplouvys, Peter Schumacker, Peter Schumacker Jr, Isaac Dilbeeck Jan Doeden, Abraham Tennis, Willm Rittenghuysen. Claes Rittenghuysen, Johannes Custers, Heinrich Buchholts, Isaac Jacobs, Matthis Jacobs, Wiggerd Levering:, Isaac Schoffer, Clas Tamsen, Hans Milan Dirick Sellen, Hendrick Sellen, Paul Wolff, Lenart Arens, Arent Klincken, Paul Kastner Willen Streipers, Keondradt Backer, Viet Scherkes, Hans Peter Umstadt, Anthony Duplouvys, Heinrich Kesselberg, Reinert Tissen, Jan Lucken, Peter Klever, Heinrich Frey, Hans Andreas Kramer, Jurgen Schumacker, Isack Schumaker, Peter Kurlis, Gerhard Levering, Johannes Bleikers, Herman op de Trap, Dirick Op de Klock, Cornelia Siverts Reinier Hermans, Anthony Loof, Andreas Souplis, Jan Williams, high and low Germans. Inhabitants and owners of land in German Town, and in the County of Philadelphia, being foreigners and so not freemen, according to the acceptation of the laws of England, have requested to be made Freemen of the said Province, pursuant to the Powers granted by the King's Letters patent and Act of Union and Naturalization, &c. made in this Government. Now, Know Ye, that for the further Incouragement of the Industry and Sobriety of the said Inhabitants end for the better and further security of their Estates, real and personal, to them and their heirs. They the said inhabitants, haveing Solemnly promised upon Record in the County Court of Philadelphia, aforesaid faith and allegiance to William and Mary, King and Queen of England, &cc,, and fidelity and lawful Obedience to me, according to Kings letters patent, aforesaid, I do declare and by these presents Confirm them the said Inhabitants before named, to be freemen of this Government, and that they shall he accordingly held and reputed in as full and ample manner as any person or persona residing therein. And that they, (hi said Freemen, have liberty and freedom, hereby to trade and traffic in this Colony or in any of the Kings Dominions and Plantations as other good subjects may lawfully do without any manner of Lett, Hindrance, or Molestation Whatsoever.
Witness: Thomas Lloyd, Deputy Govern* of the Province of Pennsylvania, &c. Given at Philadelphia, aforesaid, with the assent of the Provincial Council, the Seventh day of the third Month Anno Domi, l691,. and in the third year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary over England, &c.
Later a controversy arose whether these German emigrants were fully entitled to settle upon land and trtjoy all Ihc privileges of natural-born citizens. In order to settle this question finally an Act of Naturalization was passed by the Assembly, in 1708, and confirmed by Queen Anne February 20, 1713, which conferred upon these German settlers, and those who had come later, all the "advantages which would accrue to them as if they had been free and natural-born subjects of the province" And there-after all who came to Pennsylvania, who were not native of Great Britain, were compelled to take this oath of allegiance before they could enjoy the benefits of their new home.
After his settlement in GermantownPeter Shoemaker soon became an active citizen and man of importance n the community, and was one of four persons who signed the Certificate of Samuel Jennings in 1693, as a delegate from the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting to the Yearly Meeting in London.
Peter Shoemaker was about sixty-four years of age when he came to this country. His wife, whose name, not known, had apparently died in Germany before the date.of his emigration. According to Judge Pennypacker: ''Besides his son Peter, Jr., and his three daughters, Mary, Frances, and Gertrude, who accompanied over, he had two others. The fifth child a daughter, married Dielman Kolb. She died in 1705, aged 53 and is buried at Wolfsheim in the Palatinate, never having emigrated. The sixth child, also a daughter, married Reynier Hermans Van Burklow, who in 1704 removed to Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Maryland,"
Peter Schoemaker, the settler, died in Germantown in 1707, aged 85 years. It is not known where he was buried, but it is presumed he was laid to rest in the old Shoemaker Burying Ground. This graveyard, the final resting place of so many of this family, lies on the south aide of the present Cheltenham Avenue, in the early days called Graveyard Lane, just west of York Road. Six acres were bequeathed by Richard Wall the elder, to Friends of Cheltenham in 1697-8, for a burial place, but the ground must have been used for burial purposes several years prior to that date- In the early Friends Meetngs it is referred to as the Cheltenham Burial ground; it was lont known in the surrounding country as the Shoemaker Graveyard, but when it was first so called, is now not known.
There is no will on file, nor were there any letters of administration taken out of his estate at the time of his death.
Children of Peter Shoemaker
1.Peter Shoemaker, Jr., Born in Germany; died about 4mo. 1, 1741-married
by Friends Monthly Meeting, Abington, 2mo. 6, 1697 h Margaret Op De Graeff,
who died 7mo, 14, 1748. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, and
also took an interest in the affairs of the town.' Under the Genrantown Charter,
he was one of the Burcesses in 1686 1704, 1707.
2.Mary Shoemaker, who accompanied her father to this country. . Nothing
further is known of her
3.Frances Shoemaker, married in Abington Meeting, 5mo. 28, 1690, Isaac
Jacobs.
4.Gertrude Shoemaker, accompanied her father, no further record.
5.( ---- ) SHOEMAKER, bom 1652, in Germany! married DIELMAN KOLB. She
died in 1705, aged 53, and was buried at Wolfsheim, in the Palatinate, never
having emigrated to this country. All of their children but the two elder came
to Pennsylvania
6.( ---- ) Shoemaker, married Reynier Hermanns Van and removed to Bohemia
Manor, Cecil County, in 1704.1
DESCENT FROM PETER SCHUMACHER.
XI. Peter Schumacher
X. ---- Schumacher married Dieman Kolb.
IX, Dielman Kolh married Elizabeth Schnebli,
VIII. Elizabeth Kolb married Andrew Ziegler
VII. Michael Ziegler married ------- Clemens
VI. Andrew Ziegler married Catharine Lederach
V. Magdalena Ziegler married Jacob Schwenk
IV. Elizabeth Schwenk married Reuben Y. Strassburger
III. Jacob Andrew Strassburger married Mary Beaver.
II Ralph Beaver Strassburger married May Bourne
I. Johann Andreas Peter Strassburger
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Samuel W. Pennypacker, settbment of Gtrmanttoum Pennsylvania line, Volume IV,
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Jan Van Braght, Bloedigh Tooniel. Volume II, p. 448
Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers Volume II p.450
Life of Gerhard Roosen. pg 5-
Pennsylvania Magazine, Volume IV, p. 15,
Barcklav's Religious Societies,, pp. 72, 75, 95.
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p18
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1B5Z),
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