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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
record showed cemetery as "German Reformed Church"
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Author: James Michael Yohe
Frederick Shouse was too old for military service at the time of the Revolutionary War, however; he signed the Loyalty Oath, 1 June 1777,[i] and paid the supply tax in 1781.[ii]
Frederick was born Friedrich Christoph Schauss at Albsheim, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany, 13 April 1727, a son of Johann Adam Schauss and Maria Barbara Baum.[iii] He immigrated to Philadelphia with his parents and siblings, 1 September 1736, aboard the Ship Harle.[iv] An extensive biography of Adam Schauss says the family settled first at Falkner’s Swamp Creek near Philadelphia, later moving to the Bethlehem area and then to Easton by 1760. In the 1760s, most of his sons – and Adam with them – moved to Rowan County, North Carolina, leaving only Frederick at Easton.[v]
Frederick married Eva Catharina Knaus, possibly a daughter of Ludwig Knaus, about 1750 or 1751. She was born about 1730.[vi] Their first child, Anna Maria “Mary,” was born about 1752. In 1768, Mary married Michael Yohe.[vii] Frederick and Eva’s remaining children were: Christian, born about 1753;[viii] Henry, born about 1754;[ix] Jacob, born about 1764,[x] and John, born 1768.[xi]
Frederick, a stonemason by trade, was one of the early settlers of Easton. He arrived before 1760. Frederick did the masonry work on the Moravian House at Ferry Street at Easton in 1760-1762. This property was sold to the Easton Lutherans in 1763 and, after many changes of hands, was torn down in 1887.[xii] He was also responsible for the masonry work on the second jail, constructed about 1762, and on the Bull’s Head Tavern, neither of which is still standing.[xiii] He built his own house, and may have worked on the first courthouse.[xiv] He may have built or helped build other original buildings at Easton. It is not known whether examples of his work have survived to the present day.
Eva Catharina Knaus Shouse died 22 September 1787 and was buried at the German Reformed Church Cemetery at Easton.[xv] Frederick wrote his Will, dated 18 February 1788, and named “…my beloved son in Law Michael Yohe…” as his sole executor.[xvi] He was buried next to Eva Catharina, 20 February 1788.[xvii]
[i] Oaths of Allegiance of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Pg. 1, #31.
[ii] Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 331; online at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2497&h=1236522.
[iii]Bavaria, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1556-1973; Custodian: Zentralarchiv Der Evangelischen Kirche Der Pfalz, Speyer; Film Number: 193748. Online at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61112&h=252126.
[iv] Strassburger, Ralph Beaver. Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia, From 1727 to 1808. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980, Pg. 159.
[v] Welchley, Mark H. “Johann Adam Schauss, (John Adam Shouse), Immigrant to Pennsylvania from Germany and Settler of Bethlehem and Easton, Pennsylvania” Unpublished, unsourced, 2011. Published at Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/6449234/person/1205503498/media/a79659cd-8eae-449c-8279-de14347d3687?_phsrc=Ade6425&usePUBJs=true.
[vi] Weller, Nelson A L. The Shouse Book. self-published electronically, 2019.
[vii] SAR Patriot record for Michael Yohe. Online at https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/325985.
[viii] SAR Patriot record for Christian Shouse. Online at https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/335233.
[ix] Welchley, Mark H. “Henry Shouse of Northampton and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania” Unpublished, unsourced, Feb 2011. Posted on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/6449234/person/1205496461/media/bb23a782-ed69-4bee-8583-1d2bb24f53e9?_phsrc=Ade6472&usePUBJs=true.
[x] FindaGrave Memorial. Online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170672372/jacob-shouse.
[xi] Records of First United Church of Christ, Easton, PA, 1783. Online at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2451&h=1023764.
[xii] Condit, Uzal W. The History of Easton From the Earliest Times to the Present 1739-1785. George W. West, undated, Pg. 160-161. Online at https://archive.org/details/historyofeastonp02cond/page/160/mode/2up.
[xvi] Northampton County, PA, Will Book 2, Pg. 32. Online at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9SM-7FH8?i=303&wc=9PMK-DPV%3A268497601%2C272470901&cc=1999196.
[xvii] Records of First United Church of Christ, Easton; Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 536. Online at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2451&h=1011396.
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