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- [S52] ZZ: Personal: E-mail Messages, RootsWebb I'm looking for information on John Hiram Shrout's siblings.
- [S1239] PA: Pennsulvania 1754 Census, (Date posted to database 30 Jan 2018).
Name: J. Peter Schrot State: PA County: Philadelphia County Township: Philidelphia Year: 1754 Database: PA Early Census Index
[There is also a Johan Michael Schrott same year; Name: Johan Michael Schrott State: PA County: Philadelphia County Township: Philidelphia Year: 1754 Database: PA Early Census Index]
- [S1238] Book: A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousnad Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvan9a from 1727 to 1776.
page 332
218) Sept. 30, 1754. Ship Neptune, Ware, Captain from Rotterdam, last from Cowes. Inhabitants from Darmstadt and Zweibrücken, four Roman Catholics.
page 333
J. Peter Schrot
Joh Michael Schrot
J. Peter Schrot 1754 Pennsylvania
J. Peter Schrot 1754 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
J. Peter Shrot 1754 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- [S1225] Book: Book - New, Title: Pennsylvania German Pioneers, (Date posted to database 30 Jan 2018).
Title: Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LLD, Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1934, Repository: Archive.org (see WorldCat), Chapter number: Volume 1, 1727-1775, Page Number(s): 625, Person(s) of Interest: J. Peter (X) Shrot,
- [S1225] Book: Book - New, (Date posted to database 19 Jan 2018).
Title: Record Of St. Michaelis And Zion, Repository: Findmypast (see WorldCat), Page Number(s): 330, Person(s) of Interest: Peter Reeb - Johan Peter Schrot, (Date posted to database 19 January 2018)
Reeb - Peter s Johannes Reeb & w. Cathrina b. April 10, 1756 bap. May 3, 1757 sp[sponsar] Johan Peter Schrot - Ursula Harssin
[Who is Ursula Harssin? and is this our Peter Shrout?]
- [S1225] Book: Book - New, Title: Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, Births & Baptisms Transcriptions, Author: St. Michael And Zion Lutheran Church, Repository: Findmypast (see WorldCat), Person(s) of Interest: Samuel Schrot, (Date posted to database 13 December 2017); (Digital Image: Shrout, Baptisms.jpg).
[As transcribed at Findmypast]
page: 20, year: 1764, entry: 55
First name(s) Samuel Last name Schrot Year 1764 Birth year 1764 Birth date 30 Jun 1764 Baptism year 1765 Baptism date 22 Apr 1765 Father's first name(s) Johann Peter Father's last name Schrot Mother's first name(s) Anna Clara Mother's last name Schrot Diocese Philadelphia State Pennsylvania Country United States Institution St. Michael and Zion Lutheran Church Archive Historical Society of Pennsylvania Register Baptism Date range 1771-1784 Record set Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, Births & Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from Americas, United States
Sponsors [Godparents] were Conrad and Catherine Petzler
[I think there are some errors in the transcription for this person. In looking at the actual document I think the following would be a better transcription.
page: 20, year: 1764, entry: 55
Parents: Johann Peter Schrod and Anna Clara
Child: Samuel geboren [born] den [the] 30 tag [day] Juni [June] 4th jahre [years] alt [old] getauft [baptized] den [the] 22 tag [day] April
Sponsor/Godparent: Conrad Petzler and Catharina (?)
Samuel's birth year could be 1759 or 1760 depending on if the parents rounded his age. His birth day is just 2 months away]
- [S1225] Book: Book - New, Title: Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, Births & Baptisms Transcriptions, Author: St. Michael And Zion Lutheran Church, Repository: Findmypast (see WorldCat), Page Number(s): Line # 56, Person(s) of Interest: Johanna Bergina Schrot, (Date posted to database 13 December 2017); (Digital Image: Shrout, Baptisms.jpg).
First name(s) Johanna Bergina Last name Schrot Year 1762 Birth year 1762 Birth date 11 May 1762 Baptism year 1764 Baptism date 22 Apr 1764 Father's first name(s) Johann Peter Father's last name Schrot Mother's first name(s) Anna Clara Mother's last name Schrot Diocese Philadelphia State Pennsylvania Country United States Institution St. Michael and Zion Lutheran Church Archive Historical Society of Pennsylvania Register Baptism Date range 1771-1784 Record set Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, Births & Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from Americas, United States
Her sponsors were Johan Georg and Regina Harold.
[The transcription list her name as Johanna Bergina. I think this should be Johanna Rergina.]
- [S1223] PA: Pennsylvania, Births & Baptisms Transcription, (Date posted to database 1 Jan 2018).
Name: Johanna Regina Schrot Gender: Female Event Type: Christening Event Date: 22 Apr 1764 Event Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Birth Date: 11 May 1762 Birthplace: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Father's Name: Johann Peter Schrot Mother's Name: Anna Clara
- [S1225] Book: Book - New, Title: Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, Births & Baptisms Transcriptions, Author: St. Michael And Zion Lutheran Church, Repository: Findmypast (see WorldCat), Page Number(s): Line # 58, Person(s) of Interest: George Conrad Schrot, (Date posted to database 13 December 2017); (Digital Image: Shrout, Baptisms.jpg).
First name(s) George Conrad Last name Schrot Year 1764 Birth year 1764 Birth date 17 Feb 1764 Baptism year 1764 Baptism date 22 Apr 1764 Father's first name(s) Johann Peter Father's last name Schrot Mother's first name(s) Anna Clara Mother's last name Schrot Diocese Philadelphia State Pennsylvania Country United States Institution St. Michael and Zion Lutheran Church Archive Historical Society of Pennsylvania Register Baptism Date range 1771-1784 Record set Historical Society Of Pennsylvania, Births & Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from Americas, United States
- [S1217] VA: Virginia, Compiled Census, (Date posted to database 8 Nov 2017).
Page: 25, Column: 2
Name: Peter Shrote State: VA County: Hampshire County Township: 08 00 Year: 1782 Record Type: Continental Census Page: 25 Database: VA Early Census Index
[This shows Peter Shrote with 8 white persons and 0 black persons in his household?] [Next to John Bradford]
[I have linked the 6 children and his wife who I think would be living with Peter at the time. One daughter, Regina is already married.]
[Peter Shrout lived on Patterson Creek in Hampshire County, and was a neighbor to John Bradford, who was a Revolutionary War Veteran]
- [S1217] VA: Virginia, Compiled Census, (Date posted to database 14 Nov 2017).
Page: 70, Column: 2
Shrote, Peter; 7,1,0
Seven in household
[Living next door to John Bradford]
- [S1250] VA: Hardy County, 1789 Tax Records, (Date posted to database 19 Jan 2018).
Srout, Peter sen, County: Hardy, Tax List: 1789 Personal B, Page 9
- [S490] AA: Note, (Date posted to database 10 Nov 2017).
Hardy Co. Court Records in 1790, on p210, Peter Shrout has some sort of Debt case, either for or against him.
On p397 Peter Shrout is on record for paying Casper and Rebecca Shrout as witnesses against William Tucker.
- [S490] AA: Note, (Date posted to database 10 Nov 2017).
Hardy Co. Court Records in 1790, on p210, Peter Shrout has some sort of Debt case, either for or against him.
On p397 Peter Shrout is on record for paying Casper and Rebecca Shrout as witnesses against William Tucker.
(Court Records, hardy County, Virginia page 397
- [S1256] VA: Hardy County, Court Records, Digital Image Title: County Court Record Book, County Clerk, Repository: FamilySearch, ID Number: FHL Film # 007616765, Image Number(s): 71 - 71, Person(s) of Interest: Shrout, (Date posted to database 02 February 2018).
9 Aug 1790 - Image 68 Sparks vs Shrout continued
11 Sep 1790 - Image 70 Sparks vs Shrout continued
12 Oct 1790 - Image 70 Sparks vs Shrout continued
9 Nov 1790 - Image 71 Sparks vs Shrout Judgment
[No indication as to what the judgment was or who the Shrout person was]
- [S1222] VA: Hardy County, 1799 Tax Records, (Date posted to database 9 Nov 2017).
Shrout, Peter, County: Hardy, 1799PersonalB, page: 06
- [S1221] WV: West Virginia Wills, Volume 1, 1786-1811, Chapter number: Wills, Page Number(s): 290-291, Iamge: 144-145, Person(s) of Interest: Peter Shrout, (Date posted to database 09 November 2017).
The following is a transcription of the Will of Peter Shrout, late of Hardy County, Virginia which was written 24 July, 1804. It was transcribed by Ione B. Supplee.
In the Name of God Amen I Peter Shrout of the county of Hardy State of Virginia being in a weak State of Health but sound Mind and Memory at this time do make this my last will & Testament in manner following to wit that is to say first and principally I recommend my soul to Almighty God who gave it, my body to the Earth to be interred at the discretion of my Exec's herafter named. Secondly I give and bequeath to my daughter Peggy all the waring apparrel of which her Mother Ann Shrout died possessed.
Item I direct that my Exec's do immediately or as soon as possible after my decease make Sale of all my household furniture except a Tea Kittle and divide the money arising therefrom equally between my four children to wit George Shrout, Hannah Bradford, Peggy Shrout and Mary Richardson.
Item I give and bequeath to my grandson -- George Shrout son of George Shrout the plantation whereon I now live containing two hundred fifty three acres more or less but that my said son George Shrout, Father to the said George Shrout to whom the land is devised shall have the use of the said plantation for and during the Natural life of him my said son George Shrout.
Item It is my will that my Exec's do make sale of the following Stock to wit one Horse Foal Mare one Cow and Calf and one Yearling Steer and three head of hogs as soon as it convenient after my decease and divide the money therefrom equally between my aforesaid -- Children George Shrout, Hannah Bradford, Peggy Shrout & Mary Richardson to them and their heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my said Son George Shrout all the Grain now growing on the said Plantation after my decease.
Item I Nominate and appoint my said son George Shrout Executor of this my last will & Testament hereby ratifying & confirming this only as and for my last will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this 24th day of July 1804.
Peter (X) Shrout (his mark)
Signed Sealed published pronounced & declared as for the last will & Testament of the said Peter Shrout in the presence of
The words except a Tea Kettle' & the words after my decease. underlined before Signing & Sealing.
John J. Shorr, George Sly, Robert Cocklain ([The surname is not definite, I.B.S.) Edmund Waggoner
At a Court held for Hardy County the 12th day of December 1804. This last will and test Testament of Peter Shrout deceased was this day offered for proof by George Shrout the Executor. Ther?? waved and was proved by the oaths of George Ely and Edmund Waggoner two of the witnesses thereis unto is ordered to be recorded and the witnesses theres and is ordered to be recorded on the witness of the said Executor certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate therof in ?? force he having taken the oaths of ?? Executors together with James Scott his Security ex?? unto and acknowledged as how ?? the Penalty of five hundred dollars ??
Ed Williams Court
[This microfilm is shown to be in Hardy County Courthouse, County Clerks Office State of West Virginia. West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, after the American Civil War had begun. Delegates from some Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from Virginia, although they included many secessionist counties in the new state. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863]
- [S537] AA: To Do (RD), (Date posted to database 9 Nov 2017).
Need to go to FHL to read
- [S537] AA: To Do (RD), (Date posted to database 2 Jan 2018).
1804 August, Benjamin Bean was a member of the jury in Hardy County’s case against Johann Peter Shrout for the murder of his wife, Anna Clara Feuerbach Shrout. She died 24 Jul 1804 in Union
Township, Hardy County, VA.
“The Superior Court records of Hardy Co. show: ‘At a Court called and held for the County of Hardy on
Saturday the 28th of July 1804 for the examination of Peter Shrout charged with the murder of Ann Shrout. The Prisoner aforesaid was led to the Bar in the custody of the keeper of the jail of this County and the warrant of his commitment being read it was demanded of him whether he was guilty of the murder or not guilty, said he is no wise guilty thereof, whereupon sundry witness were sworn, it is the opinion of the Court that the prisoner is guilty of the murder that he go on trial for the same on the first day of the next District Court held at this place, thereupon he is remained in jail. Peter Shrout plead guilty. Jury: Ben Bean, John Foley Jr., John Cornell, Andrew Harvey, Wm. Fry, Jacob Hauss, Leonard Huffman, Jacob Huffman, Alex Simpson, Jacob Fisher, Arjalon Price, Solomon Vause. Prisoner guilty of murder of the first degree.’ See Chrisman, Pattie H., Gamble-Montgomery, History and Genealogy and Connected Families, 1979, p. 251. The murder and subsequent hanging is graphically detailed and can be found in the Hardy County, WV, Library in Moorefield. ‘Hardy County, Virginia, Superior Court Records, Monday 10th, September 1804: Peter Shrout again led to the Bar. Sentence of Death pressed against him and that Execution of said deed be made done by the Sheriff of Hardy on the 12th of October next between 10 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon.” (From Ancestors of Jeffery Thomas Shrout, posted at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/h/r/Jeff-Shrout-IN/BOOK-0001/0002-0018.html)
- [S1276] Book: Virginia, Hardy County, Order and Minute book - V 7, 1804 1812, Chapter number: Volume 7, Person(s) of Interest: Peter Shrout, (Date posted to database 27 April 2018); (Digital Image: Shrout, Peter 1804 Court 1).
At a Court called and held for the County of Hardy on Saturday the 28th of July 1804 for the examination of Peter Shrout charged with the murder of Ann Shrout.
The Prisoner aforesaid was led to the Bar in the custody of the keeper of the jail of this County and the warrant of his commitment being read it was demanded of him whether he was guilty of the murder or not guilty, said he is no wise guilty thereof, whereupon sundry witness were sworn, it is the opinion of the Court that the prisoner is guilty of the murder that he go on trial for the same on the first day of the next District Court held at this place, thereupon he is remained in jail.
(From Ancestors of Jeffery Thomas Shrout, posted at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/h/r/Jeff-Shrout-IN/BOOK-0001/0002-0018.html)
Peter Shrout plead guilty. Jury: Ben Bean, John Foley Jr., John Cornell, Andrew Harvey, Wm. Fry, Jacob Hauss, Leonard Huffman, Jacob Huffman, Alex Simpson, Jacob Fisher, Arjalon Price, Solomon Vause. Prisoner guilty of murder of the first degree.’ See Chrisman, Pattie H., Gamble-Montgomery, History and Genealogy and Connected Families, 1979, p. 251. The murder and subsequent hanging is graphically detailed and can be found in the Hardy County, WV, Library in Moorefield. ‘Hardy County, Virginia, Superior Court Records, Monday 10th, September 1804: Peter Shrout again led to the Bar. Sentence of Death pressed against him and that Execution of said deed be made done by the Sheriff of Hardy on the 12th of October next between 10 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon.”
- [S502] USA: Find A Grave, (Date posted to database 15 Jan 2018).
Johan Peter Shrout BIRTH 18 Aug 1733 Saarland, Germany DEATH 12 Oct 1804 Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 117600458
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 January 2018), memorial page for Johan Peter Shrout (18 Aug 1733–12 Oct 1804), Find A Grave Memorial no. 117600458, ; Maintained by Heritage (contributor 47588001) Unknown.
[This was from Find a Grave but there is no gravestone. And the Burial is marked Unknown. This leaves me the feeling that it was just created by someone with no knowledge if it is correct or not.]
- [S1254] VA: Virginia, Records, (Date posted to database 31 Jan 2018).
At a court held for Hardy County the 12th. day of December 1804, This last Will and Testament of Peter Shrout was on this day offered for proof by George Shrout the Executor as was named and was proved by the oaths of George sly and Edward Waggener two of the Witnesses and is ordered to be __________ and at the motion of the said Executor certificate is given for obtaining aprobate thereof in due form to having cottos of our Executors & together with James Scott his _________ his entered into and acknowledged as court in the ______________hundred dollors condition as law directs. Teste E. Williams Cp
- [S1220] Book: Pennsylvania, Marriage Records of St. Michael's and Zion Church, (Date posted to database 9 Nov 2017); (Digital Image: Shrout, Peter and Anna Marriage.jpg).
FHL Film # 1312257, Vol. 1 Marriages 1748-1764, Image: 75
Saint Michael's-Zion Lutheran Church Philadelphia County Peter and Anna were married by license with witnesses Johan Muler, Peter Muller, Ludwig Nonnenmacher and J.M. Walter
Name: Anna Feuersbach Marriage Date: 28 Mar 1760 Marriage Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spouse's Name: Peter Schraut
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