Notes, Queries, and Corrections

NOTES, QUERIES AND CORRECTIONS. HANS STAUFFER 'S ACCOUNT BOOKS. A STUDY. . ARRANGED AND CONTRIBUTED BY WILLIAM T STAUFFER OF NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA. [ Hans Stauffer, son of Daniel Stauffer, was born near Zurich, Switzer land, about 1655 In 1685, he married Kinget Heistand, the widow of Michael Reif , and the mother of Anneli Reif. They were Mennonites; and, because of the persecution of that faith, fled to Alshoim in the neighborhood of Strasburg, Germany, where he engaged in viniculture, renting an old estate and castle He inherited from his father 350 guldens and from his sister, Anneli, 23 guldens Through the influence of his step son-in law, Gerhart Clemens, Hans Stauffer migrated to America. He and his family and his daughter 's family, left their home on November 5, 1709, and after a three days ' journey embarked at Weissenau on the Rhine After ten weeks ' intermittent travel they reached London on January 26, 1710 From London, after a stormy and perilous voyage of sixty-seven days they reached Philadelphia in the spring of 1710, They settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near Valley Forge Hans and Kinget Heistand Stauffer are buried in a Men nonitc graveyard near that place No tombstone, or record of their deaths has been discovered Of their four children : Elizabeth and her husband, Paul us Friedt, settled near GrateT 's Ford, Skippack township, Montgomery county Their only child, Mary, married Jacob Grater. The three sons, Jacob, Daniel, and Henry settled near Bally, Berks County Anneli Reif , daughter of Kinget Heistand Reif , married Gerhard Clem ens, They settled in Salford township, Montgomery county W F S Z Inheritance , Item In Oswald 's reckoning there come from grandfather one hun dred and sixty-six guldens, thirty krentzers, 100 and 66 R., 30 kr I: 20, Moreover, I fetched from my father, Switzerland money, three hundred pounds: a pound in local money is half a gulden or 30 kr It amounts altogether to 100 and 50 R. [ This was at the time of his marri age in 1685] I: 101 Anno 1687, I, Hans Stauffer. Conrad Aschbaeher brought me 40 crowns and five dollars Local money 57 guldens, 30 kreutbers. II 36. Anno 1693, Hans Rotlischberger brought me from Undersehwang fifteen crowns Local money, 18 guldens, 45 kroutzers II : 36 Anno 1695, 26 February, Peter Zalifinger of Senxbaeh brought me from my father from Switzerland 22 R Local money twenty two gul dens I: 37 Moreover, my brother 's house from iny brother Uli of Holland re mitted to me 40 Swiss erowns, local money fifty guldens, [Ulrich was living in Friesland, Holland, as appears from the inside of the cover, only part of which has been preserved ] I : 100 Moreover, I have from my sister, Anneli, 23 R , local money, which she inherited, 1707. I : 100, ( 296 ) - . . . - . . . . - P . S . . .— . . . . .— — . . . — .— . . 1929 . . - ... — - — . . - . G . - - - — . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . PGM Vol X No.3 297 Notes, Queries and Corrections . — Grand total the whole amount yields three hundred and seventy-three R , say 373 R, [ This total probably includes the total inheritance from his father ] Anno 1707, Hans Gerber brought me 15 crowns together with the interest which I inherited from my sister, Anneli, 1707 Local money, 50 guldens, II : 36, II Concerning Kinget Hiestand Anno 1635, I took [ from ] my wife, Kinget Hiestand, of money and money 's worth 100 and 50 R , to say one hundred and fifty guldens. I: . . . — . . — . .My wife, Kinget Hiestand, 101 had money from her mother from Switzerland, 29 R., say twenty-nine guldens Moreover, my wife, Kinget Hiestand, when I got her, had 100 R from Michael Reif from Metterheim, 1685 I : 99 III . Concerning Anneli Reif . . — . . . — . . P Anno 1702, Gerhart Clemens married Anneli Reif II : 54 I gave out of that which came from Michael Reif for my daughter, Anna, called Anel, toward her wedding: First, an ox weighed one hundred and twenty pounds, a pound for a groschen. Is reckoned together six guldens, say 6 R. Lastly of the ox and wether and hog makes together five guldens. The groceries for the wedding, two guldens. Moreover, I gave toward the wedding in linen cloth two guldens Moreover, I gave Anel two guldens for the chest, 1703, August On the second purchase in the drug store glory wax mixed with other wax Moreover, 1 gave Anel a cow and the calf Is valued at twelve Rcichsthalers ( Rixdollars ). I : 41, 42. I, gave my step daughter, Anneli Reif , from the Michael Reif heritage, a cow with the calf, valued at eighteen guldens I : 45 Item. I, gave my step-child, Anli Reif, woolen cloth toward her wedding for eighteen guldens and woolen cloth toward the wedding for 12 guldens August 9, 1702 Ii 44, 45 Item I, Hans Stauffer, owe my son-in-law, Gerhart Clemens, of the goods from Metterheim, which comes from Michael Reif , one hundred and sixty guldens, say 100 and 60 R, I: 20 I, Gerhart Clemens, acknowledge that my father-in-law made a reckon ing with me, sixty -six guldens, say 66 R., January, 1704 Gerhart Clemens 1704. the 24 . I gave my son-in-law, Gerhart Clemens, in money 5 R,, say five guldens 1: 21. On New-years day, 1705, I again gave Gerhart Clemens 5 R I: 24 1705, in February, I gave my son -in -law, Gerhart Clemen3, at Lower Pflorsheim, 12 R. in money ; the horse and enough money to make 66 R., 1705, I: 23 Item, I, Hans Stauffer, gave my son -in -law in addition to the horse, 10 R., say 10 guldens 1705, the 19 September, I gave my son in-law four guldens Anno 1705, on Christmas day, I, gave my son-in law, Gerhart Clemens, in money 3 R. 44, 54, 24 Item I, gave my son-in -law 3 matters of oats, the 10 March, 1706 3 malters of oats, a malter for a dollar, 4 R, 30 kr, 1: 42, 43, S . . — - G .— . . . . — . . . . — . . .. . — — .— 1929 . . . . - . — - . - — Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . . PGM Vol X No.3 Notes, Queries and Corrections. 298 - Item, I, gave my son-in-law 2 R., the 27 July, 1706. I: 44. . IV . Concerning Elisabeth Friedt Item I, Hans Stauffer, bought my daughter, Elizabeth woolen doth for the wedding 4 R , to say four guldens, and two guldens pure linen cloth Anno 1707, the 5 June I: 69. . . . — . . V Other Items [Many not in Hans ’s writing]. I, Hans Stauffer, made a lease with the Lord Fieldmarshal General, Van Haunter, for the citadel of the castle and the castle goods 1697 for three years 1700 II: 55. Anno 1703, I, H St ,, gave for toll and fare over the Rhine 12 R. of my lord ’s crop as I took it to Geisenheim I: 64 1704, the 2 March, gave both burgomasters 5 guldens and 37 ( kreutzers ) French I : 25, 1704, the fifth March, gave defence-master, Fran, money, 3 R I: 25, The girl ’s receipts In October, 1704, I, Hans Stauffer, gathered eighteen quarters ( grapes ) An aam is worth ten guldens The third part yields the girl two guldens and fifty kreutzers. I: 55. Johannes Stauffer paid in the name of his lord principal from my vineyard in St. Ilolle 13 albuses, 7 pfennigs, for the years 1703 and 1704, with 27 albuses and 6 pfennigs. From the point of the garden back ; of Oberdorf two years 1 R , 2 albuses and of his house yearly 2 such rents [as] appertain to -the . . castle cellarage at Seemshekn . I: 65 The 1 day January, 1705, I kept the horseman three days and board : 1 gulden, 30 kr The 16 day January, I kept the horseman 3 days and board, again 1 R The 30 day January, I kept the horseman 3 days and board, again one dollar [ This is repeated for February 13, March 1, March 22, April 7, April 29, May 15] p. 47. 1705, the 8 day February, I gave burgomaster 5 guldens ( R ) and fifty eeven kreutzers ( 57 kr.) I: 22, 1705, March 26, sold malter for one dollar , I: 40 The 24 April, gave burgomaster KundHitz 1 ( gulden ) I: 40 The 25 May, 1705, with the burgomaster thirteen guldens and twenty kreutzers. 1: 47. The 20 day October, 1705 year, I gathered grapes, one aud one -half aams, and the third part belonging to the girl amounts to one - half an aam A half aam is worth 5 guldens Receipts 5 R I: 54 Deed, Alsheim, the 15 day December, 1705 I, paid to the burgomaster at Alsheim on the old Rhine for the lord and 4 R 7 kr Witnessed at Alsheim, the chieftain Junkheim for 7 16 December, 1705 David Hossman ( Hoffman ) John Scherff . The 16 December, 1705, I gave lord administrator Krauss of the foun dation [ charitable ] at Oppenheim 1 R. 7 kr 6 pfen, for 1703. I : 67. In the year 1705 I gave lord administrator Krauss of the foundation [charitable ] at Oppenheim 2 R. 15 kr. for the years 1704 and 1705 I : 67 Hans Stauffer paid the burgomaster of Alsheim on the old Rhine , . —. — . . . . . P — — S . . G . - — . . . . . ... . . . . 1929 . . . . — . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania .— — . . . —. - — . .. PGM Vol X No.3 Notes, Queries and Corrections. 299 nearer Metz 3. R. 2 kr. Witnessed at Alsheim, 28 December, David Hoffman, John Scherff , 1705, the . . gave Levler for 1704 of goods and oats, fifty -one . .— ... kreutzers I: 22. Sold , a malter for 1 ( gulden ) , 12 kreutzers. I: 40. paper, two sheets cost one gulden I : 47, Moreover, I bought Anno 1708, in the autumn on the apple trees, apples and blossoms hung together on the same tree or twig And this was found on many trees. Ill 34. Filled for Hans Meir 12 measures of wine the 27 November, 1708 II : 35 Praise the Lord, the Almighty King of Glory, my beloved soul, that is my desire [ part of a hymn ] I: 99 My man-servant, Daniel Spingel, 6 batzes to sole a pair of shoes as he wrote, a twopiece Moreover, Moreover , to Daniel Spingel 2 gave Daniel Spingel 2 guldens I : 102 Henry Hiestand ’s two men-servants have eight ticking, the 29 day December H: 34 Grammes [ probably Grimes ] cut straw for us two and one half days. Moreover Grammes cut for us one day Moreover one day, II: 35 — .. ... — . .— . — . . ... — — . . . . P . . — . VI , The Journey from Weissenau to London, . S [ Book 2 : 1, 2, 3 ] In the year anno 1709, I, Hans Stauffer, removed on the fifth of November with wife and children ; Jacob Stauffer 13 years ; Daniel 12 years ; Henry, 9 years ; Elizabeth, with her husband, Paulus Friedt, and one child Maria by name, with myself , eight, we set sail from Weissenau on the 8 day of November, At Bingen we remained one day and we left on the 10 day of November At Hebstet we set sail on the 11 day November. At Neuen Wirt we set sail on the 12 day November At Erbsen we set sail on the 13 day November and came to Millen There we had to remain one day On the 15 we left Millen. At Eiscn we lay two days On the 17 November, 1709, we sailed away, On the 18 we came to Erding And on the 20 day November we left Erding and sailed a half hour under the Wiesol and on the 21 we went to the shore There we had to remain until the wind became calm. And on the 22 ditto we sailed as far as Emrig There we had to remain until the wind became calm. And on the 24 ditto we left Emrig and came to Schingen Schantzs. There we had to remain until the wind became calm On the 27 November we sailed away from Schingen Schantzs and sailed toward Arm During the night to Bein and on the 28 ditto we came to Wieg and thence we came t o Ghert on the 29 day November. On the first day of December we arrived at Amsterdam. And on the 17 December we left Amsterdam and sailed a half hour before the City. There we had to remain until the wind became favorable ( good ) and calm And on the 19 day Decem ber we came to Rotterdam There we had to wait until the tide was ready for sailing Thirteen days we had to remain On the 29 December we sailed from Rotterdam nearly to Brielle, There we had to remain until the wind was favorble On the 20 day January we left Brielle and sailed to London We sailed six days on the sea to London . G . . . . . . . . . - . . . 1929 - . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . . PGM Vol X No.3 Notes , Queries and Corrections. 300 Family of Jacob Stauffer . My son, Henry Stauffer, was bom to me in the year 1725, the 3 August, My son, Christian Stauffer, was born to me in the year 1728, the 18 day December. My daughter, Susan, was born to me in the year 1730, the 11 day April in [the sign ] Gemini My daughter, Ester, was born to me in the year 1732, in June. My son, Abraham, was born to me in the year 1734, in December My eon, John, was born to me in the year 1737, October Children of Jacob Stauffer I: 70 71 . . —, . . - . Anno 1754, in November, I Jacob Stauffer, received from my son, Henry Stauffer, 60 pounds money. This he paid on his land. II: 9. Anno 1757, the 22 day October, I, Jacob Stauffer, paid to Stoffel Zigeler pound money for my son, Henry Stauffer, II: 7. Anno 1759, the 8 day April, I, received money from my son, Henry Stauffer, 26 pounds. This he paid on his land. Anno 1759, the 9 day June, received money from my son, Henry Stauffer, 8 pounds. This he paid on his land II: 9. Anno 1760, the 19 February, I, received money from my son, Henry Stauffer. The amount is 50 pounds. This he paid on his land. XI : 10. Anno, 1760, the 14 August, I, received money from my son, Henry Stauffer, 7 pounds. This he paid on his land. Anno 1760, The 30 August, I, received money from my son, Henry Stauffer, 10 pounds. This he paid on his land. Anno 1768, the 15 February, I , Jacob Stauffer, paid my son, Henry Stauffer, one hundred and fify pounds money on his inheritance. II : 21 Jacob Villweiller owes me two shillings and three pence. Henry Stauffer. II: 3. Anno 1743, the 7 day December, I, Jacob Stauffer, paid on the land of my son, Christian Stauffer, 145 pounds, and my son, Christian Stauffer, — — P — — S . — G — . . also paid 25 pounds Anno 1755, in May, I, paid on the land of my son, Christian Stauffer, the sum of 90 pounds, money Anno 1756, the 10 day July, paid on the land of my son, Christian Stauffer, the sum of 70 pounds II : 44 Anno 1757, in January, paid on the land of my son, Christian Stauffer, the sum of 27 pounds, 3 shillings. Anno 1757, the last day of June, paid on the land of my son, Christian Stauffer, •with the 15 pounds which Jacob Buchwalter gave me on his wife ’s inheritance, the remaining 20 pounds I paid Makes altogether thirty -five pounds II : 45 Anno 1768, the 6 January, paid my son, Christian Stauffer, one hundred and fifty pounds money on his inheritance. II: 21 Anno 1769, the 14 day November, my daughter, Susan, intermarried with Peter Allibacb, and I, Jacob Stauffer, paid on her inheritance one hundred and fifty pounds money. II: 22 1782, I paid Peter Allebach on his inheritance 18 pounds 1784, May 27, I paid Henry Stauffer 17 pounds for Peter Allebach *s inheritance, [these two are in the writing of John Stauffer,] II : 11 . .— . — . . . — — . . . — 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . PGM Vol X No.3 301 Notes, Queries and Corrections . Anno 1760, the 29 day May, my daughter, Ester, married, and I, paid her one hundred and fifty pounds money on her inheritance. II: 22. Anno 1763, in September, I, gave my son, Abraham Stauffer, money, ft is 400 pounds and 20 pounds and 5 shillings. This he paid on his land. Anno 1764, in February, gave my son, Abraham Stauffer, money, 7 pounds. This he paid on his land. Anno 1764, in April, sold my son, Abraham Stauffer, a mare for 12 pounds and a horse for 8 pounds, II : 13. Anno 1768, the 16 January, gave my son, Abraham Stauffer, money. The amount is 25 pounds, whieh Jacob Gemer received from me. II : 14 Anno 1769, the 2 day May, I, Jacob Stauffer, lent my son, Abraham Stauffer, money, 8 pounds. II: 11. John Bailey I sold Hans Belli one bushel of wheat for 3 shillings 4 pence and a half bushel of corn for 15 pence. 1741 he got 3 bushels of wheat at 4 shillings a bushel. And he got two bushels at 3 shillings. And he got one break for 5 shillings. And he got one plow for 5 shillings and he sold me one swarm of bees for 7 shillings. I made a plow for Hans Belli for 5 shillings year 1745. Anno 1746 in March, Hans Belli got one sieve 2 shillings. II: 4. Christian Gehman 1 sold Christian Geman wheat, 3 bushels, a bushel for 4 shillings in the year 1741 in May. November 24, 1740, I sold Geman 3 bushels and one half of corn at half a crown a bushel. April 18, 1740. I lent Christian Geman 6 bushels of corn , June 16. I lent or sold Christian Geman 3 bushels of wheat at 2 shillings 6 pence a bushel. Moreover, he got 1 bushel of seed wheat at 3 shillings. April 11, 1745, Geman got a plow for 5 shillings 1747 in August, Christian Geman got a bushel of wheat for 3 shillings. II: 5. Ulrich Conrad Anno 1758, the 24 October, I, Jacob Stauffer, sold for Ulli Cunrat dried apples, one bushel for half a crown. Anno 1758, the 8 December, sold fabric for Ulli Cunrat, 12 pounds for 2 shillings. Anno 1759, the 12 January, sold dried apples for 18 pence for Ulli Cunrat. II: 7 I, Jacob Stauffer, got from Ulli Cunrat a wash tub for 9 shillings. Anno 1763, I sold wool for Ulli Cunrat for half a crown, II : 8 I lent Casper Bauman three pounds money and 17 shillings in the year 1741 in December. Paid 25 Shillings. And I made a plow for 5 shilings in the year 1743, the 20 April II: 5. Anno 1755, 9 July, sold wheat to Peter Allerbuch for half a crown. — . — P . S . — G . . — . . — — . Family of John Stauffer My son, Henry, was born in the year 1767, the 20 November My daughter, Sally was born to me in the year 1771, the 11 November, My daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1779, the 19 October . . 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes, Queries and Corrections . 302 — — . 1785, the 6 day September, my eon, Jacob Stauffer, was bom. I : 73 My daughter, Elisabeth, died in. the year 1793, in June, I: 74. Date, 1821, May 31st day, my son, Henry Stauffer, died. His training, for the most part, was in reading and writing, and in brass and silver work very apt. I: 72. — — . NEWKIRK COLLECTION. Through the public spirit of Mrs Adamson Bentley Newkirk of Los Angeles, California, this Society has been made custodian of the late Dr Newkirk ’s source material of the Newkirk Nieukirk and allied families Upon its reception a fund was started, by Mr. Frank H Stewart of the Board of Directors and Mr. Philip Ford Nieukirk of the Society, for its further tabulation and binding, that the valuable addition to the Society ’s Collections might be made accessible to the membership and public. Dr Newkirk spent more than twenty years during the latter part of his life in collecting the data forwarded to the Society. Through travel and correspondence, at the expenditure of much time and money, he gathered this material out of interest in his family, and with the idea of eventually privately publishing much of it His search of the church and graveyard records, as well as legal files of vari ous localities in New York and Pennsylvania, was extensive and productive of much authentic data It was his wish that this be left to posterity in an available form. Adamson Bentley Newkirk, M.D , was born 12 March, 1858, at Hyde Park, near Chicago, Illinois. In 1865, his parents, Dr Adamson B New kirk and Lucy Mary Taliaferro Barker, removed to Memphis, Tennessee, where the father had been sent by President Grant as Internal Revenue Collector, returning to Hyde Park after the Reconstruction period At the latter place the son received his preparatory education and entered Rush Medical College at eighteen years of age, from which he was graduated in 1880, with special certificate for work in electricity. He began general medical practice in Fall City, Nebraska, but in November, 1889, engaged in practice as physician and surgeon at Los Angeles, and so continued until shortly before his death, 12 May, 1927 Dr, Newkirk was president of Ban Pedro Cancer Sanitarium for a number of years, specializing in radium treatment for cancer. He suffered severe X -Ray burns on right hand which necessitated amputation of first two joints of second and third fingers and entire fifth finger of Tight hand, but trained himself to operate with equal facility in spite of this physical disability. He married 7 June, 1887, Eva May Ingram, who survives him, and is the generous donor of the Newkirk manuscripts A sou, William Bentley Newkirk, bom at Fall City, 9 November, 1888, also survives . . — . . . P - . . . S . - G . . . — . CRAVEN. William Walling Craven, son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Walling ) Craven, was born at Stoney Brook, near Windsor, New Jersey, 25 May, 1751. According to the late Rev. E. R. Craven, he settled in Phila delphia, date unknown. Issue: i. JOHN CRAVEN , died unmarried. ii. ISHI CRAVEN , married Eliza. . . . In 1838, he was of the firm of Otis & Craven, lumber merchants at Nineteenth! and Chestnut Streets. Had at least two daughters, one of whom was married in 1848. 1929 - Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes, Queries and Corrections. . . . . 303 , iii. JOSEPH CRAVEN, married and tad issue : 1 Ishi Craven a broker in 1854 ; married Mary B , , 2 Charles Craven 3, Joseph Craven 4. William Craven, 5. James Craven . . . Information concerning any of the foregoing is greatly desired ; dates of birth , death and marriage, with places thereof , in particular The enquirer has collected considerable data on. the families of the brothers of William Walling Craven Lewis D Cook . . — . . .. . . Pollock, and died POLLOCK ROLLINS. Isabella Bollins married 23 October, 1824, probably in Buffalo Valley, Onion County, Pennsyl vania, and had, order uncertain: i Margaret Pollock , ii Elisabeth Pol lock iii James Pollock who died unmarried , iv Isabella Bollins Pollock , v. Ann Vernon Pollock 1797-1867 ; married 12 May, 1818, Jacob Ziebach, 1796 1882, of Buffalo Valley ; had twelve children An Isabella Bollins was joined with Anthony Bollins in the administration of the estate of James Bollins of Westmoreland County, 28 Novem ber , 1792. Vide PUBLICATIONS, Vol VI, 262. Is this the Isabella Bollins of the text ? If so, how related to the intestate ? Can anyone give record of a Bollins-Pollock Vernon marriage ? Mrs Frank A. De Boos, 890 Taylor Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. . . - , . , - - . . . - . P . - QUAKER GRAVEYARD AT YARMOUTH TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO, CANADA. Mrs. De Boos calls attention to the familiar colonial names on gravestones in this burying ground and offers to copy them before their valuable evi dence vanishes : Chase, Merritt, Palmer, Haight, Hathaway, Wilson, Cole, Steele, Freeman, Mills, A Lincoln, Thayer, Martyn, Jewel, etc., etc . S - . WEST. Wanted, by a descendant : the whereabouts of the Family Bible of the TFesta of Newtoun- hamilton co. Armagh Ireland and Antrim , co Down, said to have been taken to New England by Mrs. Jane West Poole Mrs M Stanton Taylor , . . G — , , . . . OLIVER. Supplementing PUBLICATIONS, Volume VII, pp, 275-6, and taken from family Bibles and manuscripts written by Nicholas B. Oliver and members of succeeding generations: William George Oliver, eldest child of Nicholas B. Oliver and Mary George, his wifo, was born June 21st, 1779. He married first, Hester Ward, q v , and second, Grace Powell, between 1817 and 1823. As Major William G. Oliver he was buried in Palmer 's Cemetery, Philadelphia, in 1824, or 1834. Betsy, or Elizabeth, Oliver, second child of Nicholas B Oliver, married Christian Busbyshell, July 9, 1799. John Bellman, husband of Catharine Oliver, sister of foregoing, also spelled his name Belmon. Bachel Oliver, sixth child of Nicholas B. Oliver, married Dr. James B. Cherington, M.D., April 12, 1811, at German Beformed Church, Phila- .. . . delphia George Powell Oliver, son of William George and Grace Oliver, was born February 1, 1824, in Old Kensington District, Philadelphia, He married, about 1852, Marie Louisa Suarez (1829-1899 ) , only child of Don 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 Notes, Queries and Corrections . 304 . . .. Pedro Nicholas Suarez, of Corunna, Spain Georg© Powell Oliver, M D , died at Philadelphia, February 20, 1884 Their son Charles Augustus Oliver was born December 14, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Philadelphia, April 8, 1911 He married Mary Schermerhorn Henry, June 6, 1888, in Grace Church, Orange, New Jersey, the Eight Bev Bishop Huntington of Central New York officiating Norris Schermerhorn Oliver, only son of Charles A, and Mary Henry Oliver, was born in Philadelphia, May 19, 1889 Katharine Powell Oliver, only daughter of Charles A and Mary Henry Oliver, was born in Philadelphia, April 30, 1892 Katharine Schermerhorn Oliver, middle name changed from Powell, married Rudolph Stanley-Brown of Cleveland, Ohio, at Grace Church, Orange, on June 6, 1922 Issue born in Cleveland : Edward Garfield Stanley Brown, born November 11, 1923. Katharine Oliver Stanley- Brown, born March 2, 1928 . . . . . . . - . - It is hoped that some reader of the PUBLICATIONS may be able to fur nish additional information on the following : 1 Major William George Oliver married first, at the German Reformed Church, Philadelphia, Hester Ward, May 4, 1805 Information desired as to their children : William and Mary. He married second, Grace Powell, supra. Information desired as to her parentage and date and place of marriage Her mother was Avis Eagleston, of Mt Holly, New Jersey, who first married . . * * Patterson, having a son Thomas ; Davis of Bristol. Powell. Her sister married and, second, The seeond husband of Grace ( Powell ) Oliver was a Fisher of Philadel phia She is buried in Monument Cemetery, gravestone dated 1802 1856, with Fred 'k S Fisher, Sarah M and Josephine Fisher 2 . Nicholas B Oliver, father of the foregoing, died February, 1840 His wife, Mary, or Maria, ( George ) Oliver, died July 12, 1802 Infor mation desired as to their place of burial and his middle name Where iD Kent county, England, circa 1740, was he born ? Who were her parents ? 3 Philip Henry of New York City, grandfather of Mary S Henry, wife of Charles A Oliver, married Mary Ann Lynch, January 3, 1804, at St Peter ’s Church, Philadelphia Information as to her parentage de sired She was born in Philadelphia, September 15, 1787 4 George Powell Oliver , M D , see supra , married Marie Louisa Suarez, c . 1852. Exact date and place desired, also the maiden name of the P . . . . . * . . . - . . - . .. mother - . . . - . . . G . . S . . . . . . Norris S Oliver, 26 Washington Street, East Orange, N J WILLS. THESE AEE TO CERTIFY all whom it may Concern That William Wills, late of Gloucester County, Taylor, Inlisted in the King ’s Service at Philadelphia as a Soldier in Captain Thomas Frame ’s company to go to the West Indies, and went under his Command accordingly, and there Dyed on or about the 25* day of June last past IN WITNESS I have hereunto Set my hand the Twentyeth day of March 1741/ 2 Lieu* Henry Hodge Found on wrapper for the will of William Wills of Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1742 * Mrs Harry Rogers . .— .— . . . * Cf . New Jersey Archives, Vo3. xxx , 536. 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3 305 Notes, Queries and Corrections . TIIE COMMISSION OF THE FLEAS FOR SALEM COUNTY, under date of August 21, 1707, was inadvertently omitted from the Abstracts of New Jersey Commissions in Volume vi, 293 of the Society 's Publications, It is as follows: Hugh Middleton, Joseph See res, James Alexander, William Dare, Jolin ( f ) Lewis, John Shepherd, Isaac Sharp, Assistants to the Judges appointed, but Judges not named Liber A, A A., folio 81 ‘ .— . . Simon Meredith and his four sons, Hugh, John, James and Thomas, came from Radnorshire, Wales, in, or about, 1708, and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania His will of 22 May, 1741, was proved 22 July, 1745 The descendants of Hugh, John and James Mere dith are pretty well accounted for Information is, however, desired of those of Thomas Meredith , who married Rachel Matthews, and resided near Doylestown -Mrs Annie Meredith Fretz, Oak Lane MEREDITH . . . . — - . . . P KEARSLEY. John Kearsley of Philadelphia, ‘ ' practitioner of physic and surgery, ’’ to whose good taste in architecture and skill in directing the remodeling and enlarging of Christ Church in 1727 the city is still indebted, as well as for the founding of Christ Church Hospital, died in Philadelphia, 11 January, 1772, aged eighty-eight years, hence born in 1684 He was twice married but left no descendants His will of 29 April, 1769, named, inter alia, his nephews John, Paul, David and Tim othy Kearsley, and nieces Mary and Ann Kearsley Of these legatees, John Kearsley was, like his uncle, a physician in practice in Philadelphia, while the others resided in England, all at Sedgefield, co Durham, where their father, Dr , Oliver Kearsley, had been a physician and where, in the charming old parish church, the son John had been baptized, 7 July, 1724 Dr John Kearsley, the elder, may have been the son of Oliver Kearsley and Frances Ilobman of Durham who were married 29 January, 1683, but evidence is wanting. Information leading to the establishment of his parentage and place and date of birth will be most gratefully received Arthur C Jacobson, M D , 24 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, New York . . - . S . — . . G . . . .. HOOVER. Ricardo W. Staudt of Buenos Aires, a member of this Society, is the author of the valuable article on the Origin of the Hoover Families , printed in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly for March, 1929. The article relates mainly to the immediate ancestry of — Andreas Iluber, who, as a boy of fifteen came to Pennsylvania on the snow Two Sisters, from Rotterdam, Captain James Marshall, master, and became the American progenitor of Herbert Hoover, President of the . United States . With the assistance of Mr Herman Friedrich Macco of Bcrlin-Steglitz, one of Germany 's eminent genealogists, Mr Staudt is able to show that Andreas Huber was born at Ellerstadt, in the district of Durkheim, in the Palatinate According to the Lutheran church book of Ellerstadt, he was there baptized 29 January, 1723, as the son of Jonas Huber and wife Maria. The father, Jonas Huber, died at Ellerstadt, 13 April, 1741, aged seventy- three years and eight months, and is identified in the register “ as a son of Johann Heinrich Huber, a citizen and linen-weaver at Oberkulm, in the county of Lenzburg, in the Swiss canton of Aargau " . . . 1929 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol X No.3