Display Patriot - P-345867 - Johann Georg SCHAEFFER
Johann Georg SCHAEFFER
SAR Patriot #:
P-345867
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 15 June 1724 Ilsfeld / Wurttemberg / Germany Death: 01 Dec 1810 Lovettsville / Loudoun / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Supplied beef to Army
Paid Supply Tax
Additional References:
Loudoun County RMB [Rough Minute Book] 1782-83, 1782, pg 95
Loudoun County Personal Property Tax List, First Battalion: 1783A, pg 38
Spouse: Maria/Magdalena XX; Children: John;
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Johann Georg Wilhelm Schaeffer was reportedly born in 1724 in Ilsfeld, Württemberg.1
Johann Georg (George) Schaeffer was married to Maria (possibly Maria Magdalena), who was born around 1728; they married in 1748.2
The DAR record for George Shaffer (1724-1810) lists his Patriotic Service as “furnished beef 280 lbs at 4 shellings.”3 Payment for goods and services is also recorded in the official records of Loudoun County.4 Examination of a copy of the original record shows Entry 156 on the page for 9 April 1782: “George Shaffer for 280 (ditto: Beef at 4 [illegible]).”
George Schaeffer also paid the Supply Tax in 1783.5
His son John was born 1765 at Lovettsville, died 1822.6 His son’s wife was Anna Catharina Marckert; they were married on 4 May 1787 at New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, in what is now Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Virginia.7
Georg Schafer was one of 25 signers of the Articles (Constitution) of New Jerusalem Lutheran Church on 25 March 1786.8 He also regularly appears as Georg Schäfer or Schäffer on the church communicant lists, which begin in 1784.9
The church burial register lists “Old Georg Schäffer, 86 years, less (illegible)” with a burial date of 1 December 1810.10 This would yield a calculated birth date of sometime in 1724.
Sources:
Ancestry.com. The evidence that this is the same Georg Schäffer is not compelling. However, Ancestry.com shows George’s mother as having died in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on 30 January 1758.
DAR Descendant Search for Ancestor # A052871, George Shaffer.
DAR Ancestor Search # A052871 George Shaffer.
Loudoun County, Virginia, Revolutionary War Papers: Rough Minute Book 1782-83, 1782, George Shaffer, Payments for Goods and Services Supplied to Army and Militia, Page 95.
Patricia B. Duncan, Loudoun County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2004), 1783A, p. 38.
DAR Descendant Search for Ancestor # A052871, George Shaffer.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, “Marriages,” 4 May 1787.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Parish, “A People of God in Mission” (Brunswick, Maryland: Benchmark Printing, 1990), p. 5.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, “Communicanten.”
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, “Burials,” 1 December 1810.
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