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Subject: Re: Shires, Schehrer , Scherer
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:36:22 EDT

The following is some information I found in a book entitled PENNSYLVANIA
BIRTHS, NORTHAMPTON CO. 1733-1800. I hope it will be of help to someone.

Schehrer
Maria Catharina 14 Aug 1789 Ludwich Margrtha 11
Scherer
(Blurred) 29 May 1800 Philip Susanna 6
Abraham c 1785 Adam Margaretha 1
Anna Catharina 4 May 1779 Johannes Anna Maria 10
Elisabeth 29 Oct 1783 Adam Margaretha 1
Elisabeth 11 Mar 1798 Jacob Barbara 10
Jacob 14 Nov 1786 Philip Susana 1
Jacob 10 Jan 1800 Ludwig Margaret 8
Johann Adam 13 Apr 1776 Johanne Anna Maria 10
Johann George 1773 Johannes Anna Maria 10
John Jacob circa 1771 John Barbara 4
Joseph circa 1765 Henry Dorothea 5
Magdalena 20 Aug 1795 Jacob Barbara 10


McCubbins did extensive genealogical work primarily in the Carolinas. From
a film of his handwritten records I have made notes of the various
Shirey/Schuerers mentioned. I did not record his notes in their entirety,
but hope this will give someone a clue for further research.

Rev. Simeon Scherer (1819-1876) a Lutheran minister of Rowan Co., NC married
Mary A. Davis

Capt. Joseph Sherer of PA of the militia and member of the PA Constitution of
1776

Samuel Sherer m. Elizabeth Barnet
Joseph Sherer m.......

Christian Shirers (Hambees Creek) recorded Bk. 22, pg 300 or 400 Nov. 9, 1811
and Mar 1799, Rowan Co., NC

John Shires, SS Hambees Creek and Stoney Run, Bk 10, pg 97 Nov. 4, 1784,
The State Grants (#798 at 50 shilling, the 100 ac) to John Shiver....

John Shires Bk. 10, page 286 July 16, 1785 (a German and no wife signs)
lets Wm. Bodenhamer....both of Rowan Co., NC....500 ac on Hambees Cr and both
sides Stoney Run....

James Augustin Brown Scherer born in Salisburg, NC 22 May 1870

Jacob Daniel Scherer b. 1730 (2nd son of Nicholas Sherrer of the Rhine
Palatinate) came to Philadelphia, PA in the "Richard and Mary" in 1752
changed the orginal Swiss spelling of his name "Scherrer" to Sherrer, settled
in Berks Co., PA; removed to Guilford, NC: was a minute man in American
Revolution, married Hannah Sophia Dick

Frederick Sherrer (born 1763) a pvt. in 1st NC line of American Revolution
and was severely wounded in service; married Barbara Smith

Rev. Jacob Sherrer b. 1785 adopted the present spelling of name "Scherer",
was a Lutheran minister in 1810 m. Elizabeth Moser.

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