Jacob Schantz[1, 2, 3]

Male Abt 1710 - 1781


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  • Born  Abt 1710  Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Gender  Male 
    Immigration  8 Oct 1737  Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8
    • From Janet Bjorndahl: He most likely immigrated on the ship Charming Nancy, arriving in Philadelphia on 8 Oct 1737 (as suggested by Richard Davis). Ezra Eby (in 1896) says he came on the 'Townshead' (Townsend), which arrived on 5 Oct 1737, but Davis suggests that this was a different Jacob Schantz, who was the step-son of Hans Georg Kraus, who was also on the Townsend ship list. The other Schantzes on the Charming Nancy were most likely Jacob's mother (Catrina), siblings (Hans, Barbara, Catrina, Elizabeth, Ferona, and Christian) and wife (Magdalena).
    Buried  1781  Sprogell Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10
    Died  5 Feb 1781  Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Notes 
    • From Ezra Eby, vol. 2, page 373: 'Shantz, Jacob was born in Switzerland about the year 1710. Owing to religious persecutions, he, with others, left their native home and went to Holland where they had the promise of protection from the persecuting parties by the Prince of Orange. Here he lived some fifteen years. Seeing so many of his co-religionists emigrating to America, besides being informed of the proclamation issued by William Penn, he at last decided to emigrate to America and settle among his co-religionists. He crossed the ocean in a vessel named "Townshead" [sic] and landed safely at Philadelphia in the summer of 1737. He may have resided in Germantown for some time. In the year 1745 we find him and his family located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. What number of children he had could not be ascertained. We know that he was married twice. The children of his first wife were Isaac, Esther, and Susannah [sic], and from his second wife we have the record of only one son named Christian. Old Jacob Shantz died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, February 5th, 1781, aged a few months less than 71 years. He was buried in the Sprogell Cemetery, beside Magdalena, his first wife.'
    Person ID  I7742  ShowalterFunk
    Last Modified  5 Sep 2007 

    Mother  Catrina 
    Family ID  F6148  Group Sheet

    Family 1  Magdalena Erb,   b. Abt 1718, Canton Bern, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location, Sprogell Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Abt 1737  [12, 13
    • From Janet Bjorndahl: The identity of Jacob Schantz's first wife as Magdalena Erb, daughter of Nicholas Erb, is not certain. However, his first wife was stated to be Magdalena (Ezra Eby, Richard Davis), and Magdalena Erb was stated to be married to a Johns (Shantz) of Leacock township (Alex Harris), and Jacob most likely resided in Leacock township for a while (Alex Harris).
    Children 
     1. Abraham Shantz,   b. Abt 1746,   d. 1778, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Isaac Shantz,   b. 14 Jan 1748, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1802, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Jacob Shantz,   b. 14 Jan 1748,   d. 11 Mar 1823, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Mary Shantz,   b. Abt 1755, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1781
     5. Elizabeth Shantz, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Mar 1832, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F6280  Group Sheet

    Family 2  Catherine Beery,   b. Abt 1736,   d. Dec 1797, New Hanover Twp, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Abt 1756  [14
    Children 
     1. Catharina Shantz,   b. 12 May 1757, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Dec 1789, Limerick Twp, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Magdalena Shantz,   b. Abt 1760,   d. 19 May 1847
     3. Susannah Shantz,   b. 15 Mar 1764, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Aug 1838
     4. Esther Shantz,   b. Abt 1766, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Mar 1821, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Christian Shantz,   b. 11 Jul 1769, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1857, Berlin (now Kitchener), Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F6237  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S69] Mennosearch.com, Richard W. Davis online [www.mennosearch.com], His name is given as Jacob Schantz, which appears to agree with the spe, lling on the ship list of the Charming Nancy..

    2. [S91] RootsWeb submission from John Larkins, online [worldconnect.rootsweb.com, database jhlarkins], last updated 8 Feb 2002, accessed Aug 2005, His name is given as both Jacob Schantz and Jacob Shantz..

    3. [S67] Ezra E. Eby, A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character (Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, Canada, 1895 (vol. 1) and 1896 (vol. 2)), online [http://ebybook.region.waterloo.on.ca], vol 2, page 373, His name is given as Jacob Shantz..

    4. [S67] Ezra E. Eby, A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character (Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, Canada, 1895 (vol. 1) and 1896 (vol. 2)), online [http://ebybook.region.waterloo.on.ca], vol. 2, page 373 (year and country), His birth year is given as about 1710, which agrees with his age at dea, th from the same source (not quite 71)..

    5. [S69] Mennosearch.com, Richard W. Davis online [www.mennosearch.com], (year only), His birth year is given as about 1718..

    6. [S91] RootsWeb submission from John Larkins, online [worldconnect.rootsweb.com, database jhlarkins], last updated 8 Feb 2002, accessed Aug 2005, He assumed (possibly following Eby) that this is the Jacob Shantz who a, rrived on the Townsend on 5 Oct 1737..

    7. [S67] Ezra E. Eby, A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character (Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, Canada, 1895 (vol. 1) and 1896 (vol. 2)), online [http://ebybook.region.waterloo.on.ca], The ship's name is given as Townshead, and the date as summer of 1737..

    8. [S69] Mennosearch.com, Richard W. Davis online [www.mennosearch.com], 'It is not yet clear but he may have been the Jacob Schantz who arrived i, n Philadelphia on 8 Oct 1737 on the ship "Charming Nancy" from Germany w, ith a group of Mennonites and Amish. Also on board the "Charming Nancy" i, n 1737 was his possible mother Catherina, Hans Schantz (his possible br.

    9. [S67] Ezra E. Eby, A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character (Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, Canada, 1895 (vol. 1) and 1896 (vol. 2)), online [http://ebybook.region.waterloo.on.ca], vol. 2, page 373 (name of cemetery).

    10. [S82] RootsWeb submission from Darren Arndt, online [worldconnect.rootsweb.com, database darndt], last updated 7 Aug 2005, accessed Aug 2005, (name and location of cemetery).

    11. [S67] Ezra E. Eby, A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character (Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, Canada, 1895 (vol. 1) and 1896 (vol. 2)), online [http://ebybook.region.waterloo.on.ca], vol. 2, page 373.

    12. [S91] RootsWeb submission from John Larkins, online [worldconnect.rootsweb.com, database jhlarkins], last updated 8 Feb 2002, accessed Aug 2005, Larkins assumes that the Magdalena that Jacob Schantz married was Magda, lena Erb, based on the Harris evidence. He gives a marriage date of ab, out 1740 in Pennsylvania, but it appears that they were already married w, hen the Charming Nancy arrived in Oct 1737..

    13. [S100] Alexander Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County [Pennsylvania]: Being a History of Early Settlers and Eminent Men of the County (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: E. Barr & Co., 1872), (names only), via John Larkins, 'Magdalena Erb, daughter of Nicholas Erb, married to a Johns of Leacock t, ownship.' (John Larkins notes that 'Johns' is almost certainly a transl, iteration of 'Schantz'.) According to Larkins, Harris describes 2 of t.

    14. [S69] Mennosearch.com, Richard W. Davis online [www.mennosearch.com], 'She [Catherine Beery] married Jacob Shantz as his second wife in about 1, 756.'.


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