BIO: Frank William SHRIVER, Lancaster County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis J. Robison normadeplume@wmconnect.com February 4, 2009, 4:21 am Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/lancaster/ _______________________________________________ Author: Charles Alcott Flagg From 'Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania' by Charles Alcott Flagg 1911 FRANK WILLIAM SHRIVER FRANK WILLIAM SHRIVER, of Philadelphia, is a descendant from early German emigrants from the Pfalz, who settled in Pennsylvania early in the eighteenth century. The name Shriver is a corruption of the old German name of Schreiber. ANDREAS SCHREIBER, son of Jost and Anna SCHREIBER, was baptized in the church at Alsenborn, Oberant Lautern, Germany, in the Electorate Palatine, September 7, 1673. At the age of thirty-three years he was married in the same church at Alsenborn, the following being a literal translation of the record of his marriage: "Anno Domini 1706, August--Andreas Schreiber, legitimate son of Jost Schreiber of this place, was, after being regularly proclaimed, joined in wedlock with Anna Margareta, lawful widow of the late John YOUNG, who was a citizen of this place." She was a daughter of Theobald and Margareta HESS, "citizens and wedded persons of this place" says the quaint German record of Alsenborn Church, and was baptized there, October 22, 1674. Her marriage to John YOUNG, of Frankelbach, on August 14, 1698, the baptism of her two children by YOUNG, and three by Andreas SCHREIBER, are also of record. Andreas SCHREIBER, having decided to emigrate to America, applied for and received from the pastor of the church a certificate of character, of which the following is a translation...... From these German church records we learn further that the grandparents of Andreas SCHREIBER, of Alsenborn, were Lorentz and Margareta SCHREIBER, both of whom died in the year 1684; that his mother Anna, the wife of Jost SCHREIBER, died in 1690; that Lorentz had brothers, Peter SCHREIBER, whose wife Appolina died in 1686. The descendants of neither of the two brothers of Lorentz have been traced, but it has been ascertained that Lorentz and Margareta had, beside Jost, the father of Andreas the emigrant, two other sons, Johannes, who married Anna OTILLE, and had four children baptized at Alsenborn Church, 1681 to 1686; and James, with wife Anna Elizabeth, who also had several children baptized, 1675 to 1688, some of whom doubtless came to Pennsylvania. The children of Jost and Anna, beside Andreas, the emigrant, were: Matthias, born 1667, who married Sybylla VON HEIMBACH and had children; Anna Margaret born 1669; Anna Josephine; Cassines; and Francis Theobald. On the lists of persons naturalized, or qualified, as subjects of the British crown on their arrival in Philadelphia, under the Act of General Assembly of 1727, we find a great number of the name of SCHREIBER, between the year 1732 and the date of the Revolutionary War. Among these are: Hans Jacob SCHREIBER, aged thirty-four, and wife Anna, aged thirty, in the "Hope", August 28, 1733; Heinrich SCHREIBER, aged twenty, in the "Mercury", May 29, 1735; Lorents SCHREIBER, aged twenty -six, in the "Samuel", August 30, 1737; Nicolaus, Elias, Maria Elizabeth, Johan Georg, and Philip, in the "Charming Nancy, " October 8, 1737; Johannes SCHRIEBER, aged thirty-two, in the "Friendship," September 20, 1738; Johannes SCHREIBER, aged twenty-four, in the "Samuel," December 3, 1740; Adam SCHREIBER, in the "St. Marks", September 26, 1741; Johan Peter SCHREIBER, in the "Europa", November 20, 1741, "Aged 27". As we find a number of the name settled near Andrew SCHREIBER in York and Lancaster counties, it is presumed that some of his cousins or nephews or both, followed him and his family to Pennsylvania, in seach of religious freedom. In a number of cases the names of the above mentioned emigrants were spelled on either the original or duplicate lists as "Shriver" or Schriver"; nearly always, however, appearing on one of the lists as either "Schreiber" or "Shreiver". Whether the SCHREIBER family had decided upon their destination before leaving Alsenborn, to escape the "adversities" they had borne in the way of religious persecutions, alluded to in the certificate above quoted, or whether they were going "God knows where" as stated therein, does not appear, but they had probably decided to follow earlier co-religionists to Penn's Colony in the search for religious freedom and a betterment of their material interests. At any rate they landed in Philadelphia some months after the date of the certificate, and soon after settled near The Trappe, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, where was gathered one of the earliest congregations of the German Reformed Church. Here Andrew SCHREIBER died, and his widow took a third husband by the name of John STEIGER. The records of Alsenborn church show the baptism of three children, born to Andreas and Anna Margareta (HESS) SCHREIBER, who with their half-brother, David YOUNG, son of the mother by her first marriage, accompanied their parents to America. The names of these three children and dates of their baptism were as follows: Ludwig SCHREIBER, bapt. Oct. 14, 1709 Andrew SCHREIBER, bapt. Sept. 6, 1712 Anna Margareta SCHREIBER, bapt. July 25, 1715 ANDREW SCHREIBER Jr., the second son, baptized September 6, 1712, was apprenticed to a tanner, at proper age, and also to the shoemaker trade. He obtained his freedom in 1732, and worked at his trade one year thereafter prior to marriage. At about this date there had settled near the SCHREIBERs another German family by the name of KEISER, consisting of the father, Ulrich KEISER, who had been a tanner in the little village of Renche, five miles from Heidelberg, Germany; his wife Veronica, and two daughters, Magdalena and Anna Maria KEISER. This family had come to Pennsylvania in the ship, "Brittanica", of London, Michael Franklin, master, from Rotterdam, arriving in Philadelphia, September 21, 1731. The roll of passengers gave the age of Ulrich KEISER, the father as seventy years; that of his wife "Feronica" as sixty-six; Magdalena, as aged twenty-nine, and Anna Maria, aged nineteen years. In the spring of 1733 Andrew SCHREIBER Jr., married Anna Maria KEISER, the youngest daughter of Ulrich and Veronica KEISER, the former of whom had died at about this date. After his marriage Andrew SCHREIBER, accompanied by his wife and his step, or half-brother, removed to Conewago, York county, Pennsylvania, then a part of Lancaster county, six miles south of Hanover, in what became Heidelberg township, York county, where he purchased for on hundred pairs of negro shoes, one hundred acres of wild land of a Mr. DIGGS, who had a patent under Lord Baltimore, that section being then claimed as lying within the limits of Maryland. David YOUNG helped to clear the land and then returned to Montgomery county, but both he and Andrew's full brother, Ludwig SCHREIBER, later settled near Andrew. The SCHREIBER plantation lay on the road from the south, leading westward through "Standing Stone", now Huntingdon. Here Andrew SCHREIBER erected and operated a tannery, and later purchased larger tracts of land. On his first settlement in this section it was a wilderness, Indians living near him in every direction, but there was almost a continual war between the two tribes of the Catawbas and Delawares, but both were always friendly with the SCHREIBERs. Their nearest neighbors were the FORNEY family, living where the town of Hanover now stands, of which the late John W. FORNEY, of Philadelphia, was a descendant. Andrew SCHREIBER died August 12, 1797, near the end of his eighty-fifth year. His widow, Anna Maria (KEISER) SCHREIBER, died May 8, 1801, in her ninetieth year. They had three sons: David, Andrew and Jacob; and three daughters who married respectively, Henry KOONTZ, George KOONTZ and Jacob MILL. DAVID SCHREIBER, or SHRIVER, as his family spelled the name, eldest son of Andrew and Anna Maria (KEISER) SCHREIBER, was born at Conewago, York county, six miles south of Hanover, March 30, 1735. The exgencies and privations of life on the frontier of civilization prevented him from acquiring much in the way of an education in his boyhood. He assisted his father in the tilling of the soil and the conduct of other branches of business. Possessed of more than ordinary mechanical ingenuity, he acquired, without the formality of an apprenticeship, a knowledge of a number of mechanical trades, and was beside a farmer, a carpenter, "joiner" (cabinet-maker) miller, cooper, blacksmith, silversmith, comb-maker, and millwright, and later a surveyor. On coming of age he attracted the attention of one, Andrew STEIGER, a prominent business man of Baltimore, Maryland, and was engaged by him to conduct a branch country store not far from his father's residence. Realizing the disadvantages of his want of an education, he diligently applied himself to the study of such book as he could obtain, during his leisure hours, and during the five years he was employed in the store acquired much useful knowledge, including the art of surveying. While attending a fair at Lancaster he met Rebecca FERREE, who was attending school there, and later accompanied her to the home of her parents, Abraham and Elizabeth (ELTING) FERREE, in the Pequea Valley, and subsequently, May 8, 1761, married her. On his marriage, David SHRIVER settled on a tract of land purchased for him by his father at Little Pipe Creek, Frederick county, Maryland, where he cleared the land for cultivation, and erected a mill. He became active and prominent in the affairs of the new settlement, filling many honorable positions, and was frequently called upon to arbitrate disputes among his neighbors. He was active in promoting the establishment of schools, and in all matters tending to advance the interests of the community. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a staunch supporter of the cause of independence and liberty, and was a member of the Committee of Safety; a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Maryland in 1776, and a member of one or the other branches of the State Legislature for thirty years..... DAVID SHRIVER died January 29, 1826, in his ninety-first year, and was buried in the family burying ground at Little Pipe Creek. The eldest of his father's family, he survived them all. His wife died November 24, 1812, in the seventy-first year of her age and the forty-third of her marriage. She was a remarkable woman of affairs, managing her husband's affairs during his frequent absences from home on public service...... Rebecca (FERREE) SHRIVER, wife of David SHRIVER, was of French Huguenot descent. The name originally LA FIERERE has been spelled by the American descendants as VEREE, FERREE. Hugh LAFIERERE, was of the company of French Huguenots known as "Walloons" who emigrated to New York about 1660, and settled near Kingston, Ulster county, New York. He was likewise one of the "Twelve Patentees" under the leadership of Louis DUBOIS, who organized the settlement at New Palz, on the Hudson opposited Poughkeepsie, 1663. Louis DUBOIS, the great-great-grandfather of Rebecca (FERREE) SHRIVER, was born near Lyons, France, in 1630, married there Catharine BLANCON. Having become a convert to Protestantism, he was forced to flee with his family from France, and in 1658, with his wife and eldest son Abraham, he located at Mannheim, then the capital of the Electorate Palatinate, where he resided for two years, and where another son, Isaac, was born. In 1660 he joined with a number of Huguenots and they emigrated to New York and settled at Kingston as before stated. Louis DUBOIS, was the first elder of New Palz Church, and also its clerk, the earlier records of the church being entirely in his handwriting. He, however, returned to Kingston in 1686, and died there in 1696. Abraham DUBOIS, eldest son of Louis and Catharine (BLANCON) DUBOIS, born near Lyons, France, in 1656, died at New Palz, New York, October 7, 1731. He married Margaret DEYOU and had seven children, the youngest of whom, married Philip FERREE, who, according to data collected and published by the SHRIVER family, was a son of John LAFIERERE, generally know as FERREE, a silk weaver in France, who on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, fled with his family to Strasburg, Germany, where they resided for two years and then removed to Landau, a walled town on Lake Constance, on the borders of Switzerland, where John FERREE died, about 1704. He had married Mary WARRENBUER, who after his death set out for London with her six children, Daniel, Philip, John, Catharine, Mary and Jane, with a view of emigrating to America, where some of hers and husband's compatriots, and doubtless relatives, had long since located. Having ........ Philip FERREE, the second son, married Leah DUBOIS (DuBois), daughter of Abraham DUBOIS, before mentioned, and received, as her portion of her father's estate, two thousand acres in the Pequea Valley, on the Conestoga in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on which Philip and his family settled. Philip and Leah (DUBOIS) FERREE had eight children: Abraham, of whom presently; Isaac; Jacob; Philip; Joel; Lena, married William BUFFINGTON, or BAVINGTON; Leah, married Peter BAKER; Elizabeth, married her cousin, Isaac FERREE. Abraham FERREE, eldest son on Philip and Leah (DUBOIS) FERREE, born at New Palz, on the Hudson, in New York, married Elizabeth ELTINGE, of New York, a descendant of early Holland settlers at Esopus, and they had issue: Rebecca FERREE, born January 21, 1742, died November 24, 1812, married, May 8, 1761, David SHRIVER; Cornelius FERREE, who went to West Virginia, married and had children; Israel FERREE, who died at the age of twenty-eight years. Issue of David and Rebecca (FERREE) SHRIVER: Andrew SHRIVER, b. Nov. 7, 1762, m., in 1786, Elizabeth SCHULTZ, and soon after his marriage removed to Littlestown, Pa., but in 1800 purchased land on Big Pipe Creek, Carroll co., Md., and erected mills, a wool-carding factory, tannery, &c., named his place Union Mills; was a man of importance in the community, a justice of the peace, etc.; d. in 1847, aged 85. His son, Thomas SHRIVER, engaged in business in York co., Pa., and m. Ann E. SHARP of that town; was capt. during Was of 1812-14, and was at the battle of North Point; in 1818 removed to Sandy Mount, 18 miles from Baltimore; in 1826 to Frederick, Md., thence to Franklin, a little village near Baltimore; he and his brother, Joseph SHRIVER, prospected the route for the P. W. & B. railroad; he removed to Cumberland, Md., in 1834, and was several times mayor of that city, and prominent in financial and social affairs. Rachel SHRIVER, b. Jan 7, 1767, m., 1786, Adam FORNEY; David SHRIVER, b. April 24, 1769, m., 1803 Eve SHERMAN; he was associated with his brother Andrew in the erection and operation of the mills, etc., at Union Mills, Carrol co., Md., and a prominent business man of that section; Abraham SHRIVER, b. May 5, 1771, was associate judge of the Fifth Judicial District, of Md., 1805-43; wrote a memorial of his father David SHRIVER, and an account of his ancestry; he m. 1803, Ann Margaret LEATHERMAN, b. 1777; Mary SHRIVER, b. Nov. 29, 1773, d. May 1, 1855; m. April 1, 1792, John SCHLEY, b. 1767, a descendant of John Thomas SCHLEY, who emigrated from the Palatinate and settled in Md. in 1745, was the founder of the town of Frederick, having built the first house there, was a soldier in the Rev., etc., and d. in 1790; John SCHLEY, Clerk of Court at the time of his death, was widely known and respected. John Thomas SCHLEY, a son on John and Mary (SHRIVER) SCHLEY, b. Nov. 4, 1806, d. Oct., 1876, m. a Miss MCCLURE, and was the father of Commodore Winfield Scott SCHLEY, the "hero of Santiago" in 1898; Isaac SHRIVER, b. March 6, 1777, of whom presently; Jacob SHRIVER, b. Dec. 13, 1779, m. 1806, Anna Eva HUPERT; Susanna SHRIVER, m. Samuel FREY, and left numerous descendants. ISAAC SHRIVER, fourth son of David and Rebecca (FERREE) SHRIVER, born in the old family homestead at Little Pipe Creek, near Westminster, Maryland, received a good acadamic education and practical home training in business. Soon after his marriage, he settled in Westminster, Maryland, and actively engaged in business. He became the owner of considerable real estate there and was very prominent in pulbic affairs..... Isaac SHRIVER married, April 22, 1802, Polly LEATHERMAN, born April 4, 1781, died March 6, 1859, daughter of Henry and _______ (BALTZELL) LEATHERMAN, and a descendant of early emigrants from the Palatinate. Issue of Isaac and Polly (LEATHERMAN) SHRIVER: Rebecca SHRIVER, b. June 13, 1803, d. Jan. 9, 1837; m. Nov 28, 1826, Levi Davis, of Tiffin, O., who m. (second) her younger sister Julian; Henry SHRIVER, b. March 5, 1805, d. unm., Jan. 13, 1825; Betsy SHRIVER, b. March 5, 1805, d. October 26, 1807. Dr. George W. SHRIVER, b. Nov. 16, 1808, d. Dec. 11, 1839; practiced medicine in Westminster, Md. Francis SHRIVER, b. Feb. 27, 1811, of whom presently; Margaret SHRIVER, b. July 2, 1813, d. June 9, 1880; m. Nov. 10, 1836, Joshua YINGLING, who d. Oct. 28, 1881; Julian SHRIVER, b. Feb 11, 1816, d. May 12, 1905; m. March 14, 1839, Levi Davis, of Tiffin, O., whose first wife was her eldest sister Rebecca SHRIVER; Jesse SHRIVER, b. Feb. ^, 1818, d. July 7, 1870; m. March 15, 1854, Ann SPAYTH; settled in Tiffin, O.; was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War; Anna Marie SHRIVER, b. May 24, 1820, d. Dec. 4, 1829; Louisa Susan SHRIVER, b. Dec. 20, 1822, d. Feb. 23, 1852; m. Sept. 29, 1842, Alfred TROXEL. FRANCIS SHRIVER, third son and fifth child of Isaac and Polly (LEATHERMAN) SHRIVER, was born near Frederick, Maryland, February 27, 1811. At the age of seventeen he engaged in the tanning and currying business with his cousin, Jacob FORNEY, of Hanover, Pennsylvania. He later associated himself with his cousin, A. K. SHRIVER, of Union Mills, Maryland, in the same business....... Francis SHRIVER married, July 14, 1830, Matilda FRYSINGER, who died January 27, 1884, in her seventieth year. They had issue: Emmeline Eliza b. Nov. 11, 1831 Henry Leatherman b. Jan. 1, 1834 George Washington b. Aug 7, 1835 Mary Elizabeth b. July 19, 1837 Isaac b. Jan. 25, 1840 Horatio Price b. Apr. 18, 1842 Rebecca Davis b. March 22, 1844 Sarah Matilda b. Nov. 17, 1846 Annie Louisa b. Feb. 17, 1849 Edwin Wilmer b. June 4, 1851 Frank William b. March 17, 1853