Anna (Schaub) Shook (1719 - abt. 1780)

Born 31 Jan 1719 in Wittinsburg, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

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Descendants

Died about 1780 at about age 60 in Hampshire County, Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Anna Schaub was born in about 1719 and was baptized on 31 January 1719 in in Wittisberg, Canton of Basel, Switzerland. She was the daughter of Jacob Schaub and Barbara Würtz.^[1][2]

Her father died when she was a child, and her mother remarried to Antoni Rüger before 1729. By 1737, they were living in the village of Benken.^[1]

Emigration to America

Anna (Schaub) Shook migrated from Switzerland to America.

On 11 May 1737, Antoni expressed his intention to emigrate with his family to the Palatinate. He succeeded in obtaining the consent of the government to emigrate based on his claim to have friends in the vicinity of Mannheim, in Baden. The family presumably left Benken not long after that and may have resided for a brief period in Mannheim.^[1]

That September, they emigrated on the Virtuous Grace, departing from Rotterdam via Cowes and arriving at the Port of Philadelphia on 24 September 1737.^[3][4]

From Pennsylvania to Virginia

The Rügers are thought to have settled initially in the Tulpehocken Colony in what later became Berks County, Pennsylvania, where they were living in 1739.^[1][5]

By 1750, Anna's father and brothers had migrated southwest to settle on the remote Virginia frontier. Her father and her brothers Anthony and Burkhardt all appear in the minutes of county court for Augusta County, Colony of Virginia, adding them to the list of tithables for the county on 29 August 1750.^[6][7]

Speculative Marriage Claim

No clear evidence has been found yet to confirm whether Anna also migrated with her family to Virginia. However, many researchers claim that she did, and that she married Hermanus Shook, who appears on the same 1750 tithables list in Augusta County, Virginia, immediately adjacent to Anna's father and brothers. It is clear that the Shook and Regar families were closely connected in Virginia, as Hermanus Shook acted as the executor of the wills for both Anna's stepfather Anthony Regar in 1770 and her stepbrother Anthony Regar Jr. in 1780.^[8]

However, no record of this marriage has been found, and it appears to be speculative. Some careful researchers have expressed doubt that the claim is accurate.^[9]

Death

The circumstances of Anna Schaub's death are unknown. As noted above, no clear evidence has been identified confirming that she migrated with her family to Virginia. However, if the speculative claim that she was the wife of Hermanus Shook is correct, then she was still alive when he made his will in Hampshire County, Virginia, on 13 September 1780. This is apparently the basis for a frequently repeated claim that she died in or after 1780 in Hampshire County, Virginia.

Research Notes

Disputed Spouse

Some researchers (including, e.g., Frank Shobe in his two publications cited in the source list below) identify her as the Anna Schaub who married Peter Schaeffer on 21 May 1740 in "Manaquesen" in the Province of Pennsylvania.^[10] They are not the same person. The Anna Schaub who married Peter Schaefer was raised as an Anabaptist and baptized into the Lutheran Church as an adult in Pennsylvania on her wedding day. Her adult baptism record identifies her as the daughter of "Martin Schaub, an Immersionist," and indicates she was born in 1724.^[11][12]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Albert Bernhardt Faust & Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, 2 vols., (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1925), 2:111-112; images, FamilySearch, here.
2. ↑ Wright W. Frost, The Frosts and Related Families of Bedford County, Tennessee, (Kingsport, Tenn: Kingsport Press, 1962), 103; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/frostsrelatedfam00fros : accessed 24 Aug 2022).
3. ↑ Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, 3 vols. (Norriston, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), 1:175-177; images, Hathitrust, (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004390410 : accessed 25 Aug 2022) (lists 46A ("Anty Reigel"), age 48; 46B & 46C ("Antoni Rüger").
4. ↑ Daniel I. Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of 30,000 Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, (Philadelphia: I.G. Kohler, 1876), 107; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/collectionofupwa00ruppuoft  : accessed 25 Aug 2022) ("Antoni Rüger sen.").
5. ↑ Frost, Frosts and Related Families, at 104; citing a letter from Leonard Hire entered in the minutes of the city council of Basel.
6. ↑ Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 3 vols., (Rosslyn, Va.: Commonwealth Printing, 1912), 1:42; images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/258900 : accessed 24 Aug 2022) (index of tithables entry for Anthony Reger in Order Book 2, p. 423).
7. ↑ Augusta County, Virginia, Order Book 2, pp. 421 & 423; image, FamilySearch, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4H-HQCR-1 : accessed 24 Aug 2022); FHL 30,374, DGS 7,893,723.
8. ↑ See profiles for Hermanus Shook, Anthony Regar, Sr., and Anthony Regar Jr..
9. ↑ E.g. Frost, Frosts and Related Families, at 105 ("Others who have made a study of the Reagers and Shooks have alleged that Anthony Reager, Jr., married Catherine Shook, Hermanus Shook's sister. No verification of this has come to the attention of the writer, but these two wills make acceptance of this allegation justifiable. There has also been the suspicion that Hermanus Shook may have married either Barbara Reager or her half-sister Anna Shobe; but this seems less likely.").
10. ↑ Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever: Baptismal and Marriage 1730-1779, (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), 57; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/recordsofrevjohn01stoe : accessed 26 Aug 2022) (Peter Schaefer and Anna Schaub, m. 21 May 1740, Manaquesen).
11. ↑ Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever, at 14.
12. ↑ Grace L. Tracey & John P. Dern, Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland 1721-1743, (1987; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002), 181; images, Ancestry.com, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/49295/ : accessed 26 Aug 2022); Ancestry sharing link here.

See also:

• Frank D. Shobe, The Record of the Shobe Family in America from 1737 to 1954, rev. ed., (s.p., 1956); image, FamilySearch, here.
• Frank D. Shobe, A Genealogy of the Shobe, Kirkpatrick, and Dilling Families, rev. ed. (s.p., 1949[?]); images, FamilySearch, here.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #187182738, Anna Shook (1719-1780), no gravestone image; no sources cited.