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- Johan Adam Schauer was baptised on 14 August 1701 as recorded at the Evangelical Parish in Massenbach, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany (witnessed by Anton Bikel and Anwald).
His parents were Michael Schauer (possibly born in Bavaria, perhaps Bayern) and Anna Magdelena, likely from Massenbach anorth of Stuttgart.
Johann Adam was naturalized on 8 and 9 September 1715 according to the Kingston Naturalization records. He married Mary Elizabeth Fritz on 3 April 1720 in Claverack, Columbia County, New York. He was living in the Teerbosch at Claverack and that marriage was recorded in the New York City Lutheran Churchbook.
He was a Palatine Debtor in 1722, 1726, and 1747. He made his initial appearance on the tax rolls in the Middle Ward in 1726/27.
Children:
- Elisabetha (baptised on 11 August 1723 as recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Linlithgo, wit. by Pieter Sch{midt} and Elis.; she died young);
- Maria Elisabetha (baptised on 2 March 1726 as recorded at the West Camp Lutheran Church, wit. by Balthazer Loot and wife Elisabeth; she was also recorded as being baptised at aged 8 months on 24 April 1726 according to records of the Lutheran Church of New York City; she died prior to 1734);
- Magdalena (no birth or baptismal record, but was confirmed on 17 June 1744 as Martina at Rhynbek; she married Georg Zufeldt, a son of Johann Wilhelm Zufeldt and Anna Maria Stahl, who was baptised on 15 February 1730 as recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, wit. by Jury Toevelt and Catrina Zaam);
- Michael (had no birth or baptismal record, born ca. 1733 and married Hannah Von Toch; he moved his family down the Susquehanna River to 300 acres in present Bradford County ca. 1772; these lands were disputed by both Pennsylvania and Connecticut; he was loyal to the crown during the Revolution, fled with his family to Canada in 1778 and served in Butler's Rangers and was named as present during the actions that led up to the Battle of Wyoming {Pennsylvania} on 3 July 1778 according to "A History of Wilkes Barre, Luzeren County, Pennsylvania" Vol. 2; he received 86 pounds compensation for his lost property on Dec. 7, 1787 and lived on in Canada the rest of his life ;
after the war he settled his family in Canada along with his sister Anna as two of her sons also fought for British);
- Wilhelm (he served in the militia in 1767; married Margaretha Kreisler - see link below);
- Catharina (born on 25 September 1735 and baptised on 22 January 1736 as recorded at St. Peter's Lutheran Church of Rhinebeck; wit. by Joh. Wilhelm Simon and wife Anna Maria; in 1754 she married Wilhelm Kreiseler, a son of Johannes Kreisler and Anna Eva Catharina Manck, who was born on 26 July 1727 in East Camp, Columbia County, New York, baptised on 13 August 1727 as recorded at the West Camp Lutheran Church, wit. by Wilhelm Lehman and Maria Eva his wife and died in 1808 in Echo Creek, Schoharie County, New York);
- Anna (born in March 1737 and baptised on 17 July 1737 in Teerbosch as recorded at the Zion Lutheran Church of Loonenburg, wit. by Niclas Rauw Annatje, h.w.; about 1755 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, she married as her first husband Johann Joseph Sypes, who had no birth or baptismal record and was born about 1738; in 1778 she married as her second husband Edward Stookes. Johann Joseph, known as Jacob, appeared on 18 May 1767 in the Militia returns in Captain Jeremiah Hogeboom's Company that was centered in Dutchess County, New York; also shown there was his brother-in-law Wilhelm Shower; sometime between 1767 and 1774 Jacob moved his family from Dutchess County to Bradford County, Pennsylvania and probably died there ca. 1776 though it is uncertain whether he might have been killed in skirmishes between the British and American revolutionary forces). When Anna arrived as a war refugee at Niagra in Canada in 1778 she stated she was the widow of a soldier from the French and Indian War; two of her sons were soon to join their uncle Michael Schauer in Butler's Rangers; that same year she married Edward Stocks who was also a Loyalist soldier in Sir John Johnson's regiment, and they settled in Canada after the War);
- Henrich (born on 8 February 1739 and baptised on 29 May 1739 in Goghkameko as recorded at Zion Lutheran Church of Loonenburg, wit. by Balthas Loot and Sophia Lootin);
- Eva (born on 5 February 1741 and baptised on 16 June 1741 in Ancram as recorded at Zion Lutheran Church of Loonenburg; perhaps she was the Eva who married as his second wife Philip Kilmer, the widower of Anna Margaretha Striver and a son of Georg Kilmer and Anna Scheicher, who had no birth or baptismal record and was born about 1713 in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York).
Key Source: The Ancestry of John Howard Camp
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