Susanna Agnes (Seibel) Schäffer (abt. 1685 - 1768)

Born about 1685 in Henweiler, Pfalz, Rhineland, Germany

Wife of Sebastian Backus — married May 1706 in Roth, Germany

Wife of Jost Henrich Schäffer — married 5 Sep 1710 in West Camp, New York

Descendants

Died 1768 at about age 83 in Rhinebeck, New York

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Biography

Susannah Agnes Seibel or Siebert was christened 1681 at Henweiler, Pfalz, Rhineland, Germany and died 1768, in Rhinebeck, New York. In May 1706, in Roth Germany, Agnes married Sebastian Backus, who died. As a widow, Agnes migrated around 1710 to America as part of the Palatine movement and settled in Ulster County, New York. ^[1]

On September 5, 1710, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp, New York, Agnes Backus married Jost (Justus) Henrich Schafer. The marriage was recorded in the records of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp, New York. 1708-1711 and is part of the collection of Colonial New York Church Records: Southern New York Church Records Of Churches Organized Before 1788, in the present counties of Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Ulster, Sullivan and Westchester in New York; Hudson County in New Jersey, 1660 which may be found here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/dchsouth.html

• "Sept 5th: Just Henrich SCHAESTER, widower, of Hochspeur, earldom of Hartenburg, and Agnes BACKUS, widow of the late Sebastian BACKUS, of Roth near Bingen." http://www.threerivershms.com/nameskocherthal.htm
• "Agnes, wid/o Sebastian Backus of Roth by Bingen, md. Just Henrich Schaster 5 Sept 1710... The entries for 6531 Roth (8 km. w. of Bingen) are contained in the chbks. of 6534 Stromberg (4 km. farther w.); Chbks begin 1646. Sebastian Backes, single man from Roth, md. Agnes Seibert single girl from Wartenstein in May 1706...."

Children of Agnes and "John Henry" Schafer (Schaffer) were baptized at St. Paul's Lutheran Church and include:

• Johann Henrich Schaffer, (1712-1748) married Maria Elisabetha Berringer

• Johann Phillip Schaffer, born September 7, 1713, baptized October 6, 1713, parents recorded as Jost Henrich Schaster and Agnes https://web.archive.org/web/20111121010025/http://www.bettyfink.com/stp002.htm

• Johann Adam Schaffer (March 22, 1715-1772) married Gertraud Feller, baptism on April 3, 1715, parents recorded as Just Henrich Schaster and Agnes https://web.archive.org/web/20111121010148/http://www.bettyfink.com/stp003.htm

• Johann Jacob Schaffer, born 1717

• Anna Elizabeth Schaffer (1720-1766) married Johannes David Reichert (1714-1784)

• Anna Maria Schaffer, born 1722, married Johann Friederich Neher

Researcher's Notes

The baptisms are recorded in the records of the Baptisms at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp, New York. 1708-1711 ^[2] and are part of the collection of Colonial New York Church Records: Southern New York Church Records Of Churches Organized Before 1788, in the present counties of Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Ulster, Sullivan and Westchester in New York; Hudson County in New Jersey, 1660 which may be found here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/dchsouth.html

The spelling of the names are transcribed various ways due to the difficulty of reading different clerks and ministers handwriting.

Sources

1. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MWQL-2PB : accessed 2016-11-29), entry for Susannah Agnes SEIBEL OR SIEBERT.
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111121005955/http://www.bettyfink.com/stp001.htm

• The Palatine Families of New York 1710, by Henry Z. Jones Jr., Published at Universal City, California, 1985, page 824

* Source: S25 Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, by Henry Z. Jones, Jr. (Universal City, California 1985)

• "New York Marriages, 1686-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK1K-MQF : 12 December 2014), Just Henrich Schaffer and Agnes Backus, 05 Sep 1710; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 982,336.