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Descendants of Georege SCHAEFFER
(Alias SHEFFER)

Ancestry of Gorg/George SCHAEFFER (alias SHEFFER)

Up Dated 6 February 2008

Johann Conrad KUHN
and
Margretha KOENIG

Johann Conrad KUHN was born in Huttengesass and christened 9 July 1693, in Langenselbold, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. He married about 1713, Anna Margretha KOENIG, the daughter of Michael KOENIG and Cathrin SOMMERS, in New York. She was Christened 22 Jan 1697 at Sankt Ludger Roemisch Katholische, Alme, Westfalen, Preussen.

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He was an adult in 1710, a Palatine soldier from Annsburgh in July 1711, and was probably among those who went to Schoharie in the winter of 1712/1713. Conrad KUHN and Anna Margretha with two children were listed next to Johannes WISS at Neu-Annsberg circa 1716/1717. The children of Anna Margretha call her KONING. For some reason the baptizms of his older children were not recorded at West Camp, Athens, Albany, or elsewhere, as far as we have been able to learn, and we can only suggest approximate dates for most of them. He may have moved to the vicinity of Canajoharie after 1741, where his younger son Adam lived, or to a place then called Normanskill, about 2 miles North East of Voorheesville, Albany County, where his son George located about 1742. He is mentioned at Schoharie in Feb 1741 and last mentioned at Normanskill June 26 1743.

George Coon,(a son of Conrad) aged 46 born Albany, La ourer, 5' 5 3/4", dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair, was in Capt. Christopher Yates company in 1760 in Albany
(Report of the State Historian, vol. II, p 587).

Jeurre, Conradt, Simon, and John Coon were under the command of Lt. John M. Veeder and Ensign Gerret Banker in the Colony of Rencelarwick in 1767.
(Report of the State Historian, Vol II, p 820)

CHILDREN of Johann Conrad KUHN and Anna Margretha KONING:

   1. GEORG              b:    Abt 1714; of , Albany, New York.
                        md:            ; , , New York.
                                         Anna Rosina EHRHARDT.
   2. ANNA MARGARETHA    b:    Abt 1716; of , Albany, New York.
                        md:            ; , , New York.
                                         Ludwig WARNER.
 + 3. JOHANNA ELIZABETHA b:    Abt 1718; , Albany, New York.
                        md: 23 Feb 1739; , , New York.
                                         Johann Hendrich LAUX or LOUCKS.
   4. ELISABETHA BARBARA b:    Abt 1720; of , Albany, New York.
                        md:            ; , , New York.
                                         Rudolph FOORE or FORRER.
   5. JOHANNES           b:    Abt 1722; of , Albany, New York.
                        md: 29 Sep 1751; , , New York.
                                         Hillitje ZEGERE.
   6. ADAM             chr:  6 Oct 1731; Schoharie, Schoharie, New York.
                        md: 13 Jan 1757; , , New York.
                                         Maria VAN DER HOEF.

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SOURCES FOR THESE HISTORIES

          I. Bible Records Johannes SCHAEFFER Jr'S (in German)
         II. Church Records:
               A. Dutch Reformed Churh, Stone Arabia, Palatine Twp.,
                  Montgomery, New York.
               B. Schoharie, Schoharie, New York.
               C. German Flatts, Herkimer, New York.
               D. Albany, Albany, New York.
               E. Langenselbold, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
               F. Huttengesass, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia.
        III. Census Records:
               A. 1820; Sharon Twp., Schoharie, New York.
         IV. Histories:
               A. Allegan County, Michigan Published in 1892.
                    1. Sketch on Clark M. SHEFFER.
                    2. Sketch on S. G. SHEFFER, (Samuel George).
               B. Koon and Coons families of EASTERN NEW YORK A History
                  of the descendants of MATTHIAS KUNTZ and SAMUEL KHUN
                  (two distinct families). Who came with the Palatine
                  Immigration from Germany and settled on the Hudson
                  River in New York in 1710.
               C. The Palatine Families of New York, by Henry Z. Jones,
                  Jr. published 1985, LAUX Family pages 538 and 539,
                  KUHN Family pages 494 to 497.
               D. History of Schoharie County by Jeptha R. Simms.
               E. History of Schoharie County by William Roscoe
          V. The Internarional Genealogical Index.
         VI. Reminiscences of Samuel G. SHEFFER, Written in his 86th
             year (1909)