John Gaver Sr (1753 - 1808)

Born 1753 in Catoctin District, Frederick, Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Black) Gaver — married 18 Nov 1783 in Catoctin Furnace, Frederick, Maryland, United States

Husband of Susannah (Beckenbaugh) Hay — married 24 Apr 1794 in Middletown, Frederick, Maryland, United States

Descendants

Died 1808 at about age 55 in Catoctin Furnace, Frederick, Maryland, United States

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Biography

John Gaver Sr was a Marylander.

A John Gaver, possibly this one, married Margaret Schwartz/Black in 1783. (The wife's surname is given as Schwartz in the German church records^[1] and as Black on the county marriage license^[2])

John is named in his father Daniel's will, but no property is left to him (possibly because he's dead; possibly because of parental disapproval). Instead, Daniel leaves property to Susannah Peckenbaugh "who lived with my son John and who had seven children by him" and to the said seven children Daniel, Elizabeth, John, George, Susannah, Catherine, and Henry. (He doesn't specify whether the children's surname is Gaver or Peckenbaugh.) Some land is specified for distribution among the grandchildren when grandchild Henry turns twenty-one.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Frederick Sheely Weiser, ed. Record of Marriages and Burials in the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, MD, and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the City of Frederick, MD, 1743-1811. National Genealogical Society, 1982
2. ↑ Margaret E. Myers. Marriage Licenses of Frederick County, 1778-1810, second edition. Family Line Publishing, 1994.
3. ↑ Will of Daniel Gaver, Frederick County, Maryland, Liber GM-3-354, "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-24294-37792-47?cc=1803986 : 20 May 2014), Frederick > Wills 1794-1803 vol 3 > image 191 of 332; Hall of Records, Annapolis.

• 1790 US Federal Census; Census Place: Frederick, Maryland; Series: M637; Roll: 3; Page: 245; Image: 507; Family History Library Film: 0568143