Michael Scheurer (1743 - 1767)

Born 1743 in Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died 15 Mar 1767 at about age 24 in St. Phillips Parish, Charlestowne, South Carolina

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Biography

Palatines in South Carolina http://upamerica.org/roots/rootsappC.html

Revill lists http://upamerica.org/roots/rootsappC.html#Dec.%2024,%201764

http://upamerica.org/roots/rootsappC.html#Feb.%2027,%201765

Herein is found the story of the "poor palatines" who traveled to London to board Christian DeStumpel's boat to start a new life in Nova Scotia only to be swindled by DeStumpel and left to die on the streets of London. Luckily the people of London gave of their hearts to rent boats to take the poor palatines to the New World. http://upamerica.org/roots/roots2.html

Sources

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

View Record Name Michael Sherer Arrival Year 1764-1765 Arrival Place Charles Town, South Carolina Source Publication Code 7343 Primary Immigrant Sherer, Michael Annotation From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761. Source Bibliography REVILL, JANIE. A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773. Columbia [S.C.]: State Co., 1939. 163p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1981. Page 41

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s View Record Name Michael Sherer Arrival Year 1765 Arrival Place Charleston, South Carolina Source Publication Code 3627.37 Primary Immigrant Sherer, Michael Annotation Place and date of immigrants' or discharged military person's petition requesting reimbursements of passage, additional land, headrights, bounty, etc. from the South Carolina government or of letter expressing satisfaction with the voyage to America. Extr Source Bibliography JONES, JACK MORELAND, and MARY BONDURANT WARREN. South Carolina Immigrants, 1760 to 1770. Danielsville, GA: Heritage Papers, 1988. 430p. Page 104