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John or Johannes SCHAEFFER Sr. came to Schoharie co., New York with his father about 1735. See Johannes SCHEAFFER 1-8. He married 4 December 1759, Anna Margaretha, the daughter of Johan Hendrich LAUX or LOUCKS and Johanna Elisabetha KUHN at the Stone Arabia Church, Palatine Twp., Montgomery, New York. Family tradition says he was a baron from Germany and that when he arrived he purchased the township of Sharon naming it after the Rose of Sharon found in Germany. However I have found from the History of Schoharie County by Roscoe on page 403 it states that Johannes, "had a large family of boys and one daughter, she being Eva, the wife of Jeremiah BROWN, the mother of the present Mrs. John J. BORST. John or Hans SCHAEFFER took out a lisense in 1804 as an Innkeeper which business he followed to his death, in conjunction with the farm. He was followed by his son Peter. The oldest son Henry, was located upon the now owned by John WIETING and build a small gist-mill...
The second son David (David Casper), setteled upon the farm... another son Lambert settled upon the farm now owned by the VAN DRESSER Brothers. Here he kept an Inn..." When Schoharie County was formed, the town or the Eastern part was annexed to it (the County), under the name of Sharon, from a town in Connecticut, from which Calvin RICH and John RICE with their families came immediately after the Reveloution..... perfect formation of the town was not made until 1797. Also, on page 227 in talking about the "Dorlach Grant" and that the original town had layen wholly in it, is a list of people to whome the grant was made and we find the name of Johannes SCHAEFFER.
HISTORY
of
SCHOHARIE COUNTY,
and
BORDER WARS OF NEW YORK;
containing also
A Sketch of the Causes which led to the American Revolution;
and Interesting Memoranda of the Mohawk Valley;
together with
Much Other Historical and Miscellaneous Matter, Never Before Published.
by Jeptha R. Simms
Albany; Munsell & Tanner, Printers. 1845
Many of the Indian sales of lands in Schoharie county, were legalized by the governor and council of the colony. The following paper, which is copied verbatim et literatim, will show the usual form of a royal permit:
L.S.
"By His Excellency the Hon. George CLINTON, Captain-General and Governor in Chief of the colony of New York, and Territories thereon depending in America, Vice Admiral of the same and Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet.
"To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern, Greeting: --
"Whereas Johannes BECKER, Jr., Johannes SCHAFER, Jr., Hendrick SCHAFER, Jr., and Jacobus SCHAFER, by their humble petition presented unto me and read in Council this Day, have prayed my license to purchase in his Majesty's name, of the native Indian proprietors thereof, six thousand Acres of some vacant Lands, Situate, Lying and being in the County of Albany, on the North side of the Cobelskill, and on the East of the Patent lately granted to Jacob BORST, Jacob C. TENEYCK and others near Schoharie:
in order to obtain His Majesty's Letters Patent for the same or a proportionate quantity thereof. I have therefore thought fit to give and grant and I do by and with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, hereby give and grant unto the said Petitioners, full Power, Leave and lycense to purchase in his Majesty's Name of the Native Indian Proprietors thereof, the Quantity of Six thousand Acres of the vacant Lands aforesaid. Provided the said purchase be made in one year next after the Date hereof, and conformable to a report of a Committee of His majesty;'s Council of the second day of December, 1736, on the Memorial of Cadwallader Colden, Esq., representing several Inconveniences arising by the usual Method of purchasing Lands from the Indians. And for so doing this shall be to them a sufficient lycense.
"Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort George, in the City of New York, the sixteenth Day of November, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two.
"By his Excellency's command,............ G. CLINTON."
"GEO. BANYAR, D. Sec'y."
A conveyance made in December, 1752, of fifteen thousand acres of land in "New Dorlach," now in the town of Seward -- bounds it on "West creek" -- west branch of the Cobelskill beginning at a bank called in an Indian conveyance, "Onc-en-ta-dashe." This I suppose to have been the Indian name of the mountain south of Hyndsville. When the county of Tryon was organized, it took in "New Dorlach;" which was embraced in Otsego county on its organization; and subsequently became a part of Schoharie county.
The parties to an indenture, made November 30th, 1753, were Johannes SCHEFFER, Christ Jan ZEHE, Johannes LAWYER, Michael BORST, Johannes BORST, Johan Jost BORST, Michael HILKINGER, William BAIRD, Jacob BORST, Michael BOWMAN, Johannes BROWN, Barent KEYSER, Peter Nicholas SOMMER, Johannes LAWYER Ser, Hendrick HEENS, and William BROWN." It was a purchase of fifteen thousand acres of land on the north side of the "Ostgarrege or Cobelskill, about seven miles westerly from Schoharre."
Baptismal Date: 13 Jul 1760 Father: Johannes Schaeffer Mother: Anna Margretha Item Number: 162 Child: Henrich Sponsor: Henrich Laux; Anna Elisabetha Birth Date: 01 Jul Baptismal Date: 01 Aug 1762 Father: Johannes Schaffer Mother: Margretha Item Number: 329 Child: Casper Sponsor: Casper Keller; Barbara Laux Birth Date: 24 Jul Baptismal Date: 30 Dec 1764 Father: Johannes Schaeffer Mother: Margretha Item Number: 592 Child: Nicolaus Sponsor: Nicolas Schaeffer; Elisabeth Birth Date: 28 Dec Baptismal Date: 1767 Father: Johannes Schaffer Mother: Margretha Item Number: 886 Child: Andreas Sponsor: Adam Foore; Catharina Laux Birth Date: 08 Apr Baptismal Date: 30 Apr 1769 Father: Johannes Schaffer Mother: Margretha Item Number: 1152 Child: Petrus Sponsor: Pieter H: Laux; Margreth Arnhold Sielebach Baptismal Date 09 Sep 1771 Father: Johannes Schaffer Mother: Margretha Item Number: ???? Child: Johannes Sponsor:
CHILDREN of Johannes SCHAEFFER and Anna Margaretha LAUX or LOUCKS:
1. HENRICH chr: 1 Jul 1760; Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia,
Montgomery, New York.
md: 2 Apr 1782; German Flats, Montgomery, New York.
Anna SNELL.
d: 1832; , Schoharie, New York.
2. CASPER chr: 24 Jul 1762; Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia,
Montgomery, New York.
3. NICHOLAUS chr: 28 Dec 1764; Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia,
Montgomery, New York.
4. ANDREAS chr: 8 Apr 1767; Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia,
Montgomery, New York.
md: Bef 1791; , , New York.
Anna BELLINGER.
5. PETERUS chr: 27 Apr 1769; Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia,
Montgomery, New York.
md: ; , , New York.
Elizabeth.
d: 29 Apr 1859; Cobleskill, Schoharie, New York.
+ 6. JOHANNES chr: 9 Sep 1771; Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia,
Montgomery, New York.
md: 5 Apr 1795; Dutch Reformed Church, Stone Arabia,
Montgomery, New York.
Dorothy STAMM or STAMMEN.
md: 26 Mar 1806; St. John's, Evengelical Lutherin Chuch,
Sharon Twp., Schoharie, New York.
Maria BEISSER.
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