Valentine SCHAFFER
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Name Valentine SCHAFFER Born 31 Dec 1765 Upper Milford Twp, Lehigh Co, PA Gender Male Baptism 12 Jan 1766 St. Paul's Church, Upper Saucon Twp, Lehigh Co, PA Unknown Between 1801 and 1808 Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA Migrated Unknown Abt 1837 Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA Migrated Occupation Farmer Reference Number 11611 _UID 07F4DA8AF3684030B3BE4FE81B320C0C3708 Died 1 Dec 1852 Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA Buried St. James Lutheran Church, Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA Person ID I11611 My Genealogy Last Modified 17 May 2014
Father Johann Martin SCHÄFFER, b. 30 Aug 1724, Bochenrod, Hesse, Germany , d. Aft 1800, Upper Saucon Twp, Lehigh Co, PA
(Age 76 years)
Mother Elisabetha Catharina LAUDENSCHLAGER, b. 4 Feb 1728, Germany , d. 9 Oct 1809, Upper Saucon Twp, Lehigh Co, PA
(Age 81 years)
Married 29 Apr 1749 Reichelsheim, Germany Family ID F549247305 Group Sheet
Family Catherine STAUB, b. Abt 1769, PA , d. 1842, Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA
(Age ~ 73 years)
Married Abt 1787 Lehigh Co, PA Children 1. Anna Catharine SCHÄFFER, b. 14 Aug 1791, Eldred Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA , d. 14 Nov 1868, Eldred Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA
(Age 77 years)
2. Johann SCHÄFFER, b. 14 Aug 1788, Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA , d. 14 Nov 1858, Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA
(Age 70 years)
3. Dorothea SCHÄFFER, b. 7 Dec 1793, Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA , d. 10 Mar 1870, Porter Twp, Jefferson Co, PA
(Age 76 years)
4. Anna Maria SCHÄFFER, b. 21 Jan 1795, Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA , d. Aft 1836, PA
(Age 41 years)
5. Peter SCHÄFFER, b. 15 Dec 1796, Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA , d. 13 Jan 1850, Columbia Co, PA
(Age 53 years)
6. Isaac SCHÄFFER, b. 18 Jan 1799, Upper Milford Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 16 Apr 1868, Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA
(Age 69 years)
7. Elisabeth SCHÄFFER, b. 11 May 1800, Upper Milford Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 4 Apr 1886, Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA
(Age 85 years)
8. Andreas SCHÄFFER, b. 23 Mar 1802, Upper Milford Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 12 Jan 1897, Warsaw Twp, Jefferson, CO, PA
(Age 94 years)
9. Joseph SCHÄFFER, b. Abt 1803, Upper Milford Twp, Lehigh Co, PA , d. 4 Jan 1866 (Age ~ 63 years)
10. Magdalena (Polly) SCHÄFFER, b. Abt 1806, Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co, PA , d. Aft 1850, Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA
(Age ~ 45 years)
Last Modified 17 May 2014 Family ID F3002 Group Sheet
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Notes - also Valentin, Vallendin; Schaefer, Scha:ffer, Scha:fer, Scherer (!)
(Schaffer writeup says he lived in Milford Twp, Bucks Co...)
1790 census, Bucks Co, 1-1-1
1800 census, pg 576, Upper Milford, 21010-21010
1810 census, pg 261, Upper Mahanoy, 22101-22010, farmer
1820 census, pg 008, Upper Mahanoy, 0013 01-0100 1
1830 census, pg 230, Upper Mahanoy, 0000 0000 1-0000 1000 1
1837 -> Ringgold Twp, Jefferson Co, PA
1840 census, pg 174, Porter Twp, JeffersonCo, PA
(many of his children to have moved to Jefferson Co, PA with him)
1850 census, #36/38, Ringgold Twp, Faltin 84 (with Michael 45)
single sp -> 1783 George Schaffer and Catharina
single sp -> 1785 Peter Schaffer and Maria E
single sps -> 1786 Andreas Schaffer and Margaretha
sp - 1788 Simeon Schaffer and Magdalena Stap (Staub)
sp - 1791 Martin Paul and Catharine
sp - 1793 William Huber and Dorothea Schaffer (?who)
sp - 1795 George Schaffer and Catharine
sp -> 1798 George Schaffer and Catharine
sp - 1799 Isaac Marsteller and Margaretha Witteman
sp - 1801 Abraham Marsteller and wf
sp -> 1811 Michael Paul and Elisabeth [Geiss]
sp -> 1811 Isaac Knerr and Catharine [Schaffer]
sp -> 1811 George Miller and Maria Elisabeth (at Himmel)
sp -> 1822 Isaac Schaffer and Christina [Geist]
- also Valentin, Vallendin; Schaefer, Scha:ffer, Scha:fer, Scherer (!)