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    Peter Bernhard Shafer

    Male 1744 -


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    Generation: 1

    1. 1.  Peter Bernhard Shafer was born on 28 Jul 1744 (son of Casper Shafer and Maria Catherina Bernhardt).

      Notes:

      baptised as "Valentyn" 9 Mar 1747 at Machackemeck Dutch Reformed Church.


    Generation: 2

    1. 2.  Casper Shafer was born about 1712; died on 17 Dec 1784; was buried in Stillwater Cemetery.

      Notes:

      Came from Europe on the "Queen Elizabeth"

      arrival date: 16 SEP 1738

      Port: Philadelphia, PA

      Place of origin: Unknown

      Source: "Memoirs and Reminiscences...of Sussex County, NJ",

      Rev. C. Schaeffer, MD 1907 p.26

      Notes:

      Casper Schaeffer was one of the founders of Stillwater, Sussex County, NJ. The name Schaeffer has been spelled in a variety of ways - Schaeffer, Schaffer, Shaffer, Shaffar, Shaver, and Shafer. Casper Schaeffer was a delegate from Sussex
      County to New Jerseys Provisional Congress of 1776.

      Casper married Maria Catherina Bernhardt. Maria (daughter of John Peter Bernhardt) was born about 1721 in Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa (Rhenish Bavaria; died on 1 Dec 1794; was buried in Stilwater Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    2. 3.  Maria Catherina Bernhardt was born about 1721 in Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa (Rhenish Bavaria (daughter of John Peter Bernhardt); died on 1 Dec 1794; was buried in Stilwater Cemetery.
      Children:
      1. 1. Peter Bernhard Shafer was born on 28 Jul 1744.
      2. Valentine Shafer was born about 1746.
      3. Margaretta Shafer was born about 1748.
      4. Maria Susanna Shafer was born about 1753.
      5. Abraham Shafer was born on 17 Dec 1754.
      6. Isaac Shafer was born on 4 Jun 1760.


    Generation: 3

    1. 6.  John Peter Bernhardt was born in in Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa (Rhenish Bavaria; died on 28 Aug 1748; was buried in Stillwater Cemetery, Stillwater, Sussex Co., NJ.

      Notes:

      He was the first person buried in the Stillwater cemetery, where the old German Church was years after erected. The inscription reads as follows:



      " Here Rests

      The John Peter Bernhardt who was born in the Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa (Rhenish Bavaria). Came with his frau and children to America in the year 1731 and died December 28, 1748."





      From the history of Sussex county we are told that John Peter Bernhardt first settled in Philadelphia in 1730, and in 1742 located in the wilderness where the village of Stillwater now stands. (The above dates are evidently wrong, as the
      inscription on the tombstone of Bernhardt and his daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, who married John George Windemuth, both say they emigrated in 1731, and it seems to be as evident that he made his settlement at Stillwater at an earlier date than
      that given, we think not later than 1736.) Sussex history also says that Peter Windemuth came about the same time, an inexcusable error, as there was no Emigrator by the name of Peter.





      Johan Peter Bernhart

      Date of arrival: 26 Sept 1741

      Ship: St. Mark

      Port of destination: Philadelphia

      Children:
      1. Johanna Margaretha Elizabetha Bernhardten was born on 5 Aug 1721 in Kezenheim, Grafschaft Bolander, Europa; died on 15 Feb 1800 in Stillwater, New Jersey; was buried in 1800 in Buried in Stillwater, N.J. Cemetery.
      2. 3. Maria Catherina Bernhardt was born about 1721 in Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa (Rhenish Bavaria; died on 1 Dec 1794; was buried in Stilwater Cemetery.
      3. Christina Elisabetha Bernhardt was born in in Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa (Rhenish Bavaria.
      4. Jacobina Bernhardt