Henry Schaeffer

Family/Spouse: Mary Maxwell. Mary was born in 1842; died in 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Peter Schaeffer was born in 1869; died in 1938.

Peter married Catherine Otto on 9 Mar 1806. Catherine was born in 1786 in United States of America; died in Jul 1870 in North Stormont Township, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Memorial Hill Cemetery, Lunenburg, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Frederick Shaver of Osnabruck, United Empire Loyalist
Revolutionary War - Served with Butler's Rangers 1778-1784. Died in Lunenburg, Osnabruck Twp., Stormont Co., Upper Canada in 1818. Son of John Shaver U.E.L.
Married to Catherine Ecker, born 1762, daughter of Peter Ecker.
1783 - Frederick Shaver, age 23, and his wife Catrina, age 22, are on the Return of Persons under the Description of Loyalists in Capt. George Dame's Company in the Corps. of (Butler's) Rangers at Niagara dated 30 November 1783.
Land grant by Order in Council dated 26 April 1838.
Death record - Frederic Shaefer - born Aug. 14, 1760, died Apr. 26 1818 aged 57 years, 6 m., 12 days. Church records.

Lived on Lot 6, 4th Concession, Osnabruck Twp., Stormont Co., Ontario Canada

Served in "Butler's Rangers" from 1778 to 1784

He emigrated to Osnaburck Township, Stormont Co., Ontario Canada, in the early 1800's and
resided at Lunenburg, Ontario, near his brother, Nicholas. "When living in Canada, he declined to accept some
1400 acres or equivalent cash as compensation for losses during the American Revolutionary War although his
children successfully made this claim twenty years after Frederick's death".

"Frederick Schaffer supported the English during the Revolution and with his brother Nicolas,
joined Butler's Rangers in 1778. He was in Col. Ten Broeck's company in the raid & massacre in the Wyoming
Valley of Pennsylvania in July, 1778. In 1780 Butler's Rangers swept thru the Schoharie & Mohawk Valleys.
Frederick was captured and held at Johnstown but escaped in October 1780 and made his way to Niagara. He was
discharged at Niagara January 1784 and returned to New York. He took his family to Canada in the fall of 1800."
(THE MOHAWK VALLEY STARINGS AND ALLIED FAMILIES, by Sterling O. Kimball, 1998) Martha Foland
says that he came back to the USA. He did, but according to the previous paragraph, "He took his family to Canada
in the fall of 1800." (And he was buried there.)

Frederick served in "Butler's Rangers from 1778 to 1784. He was in Col. Ten Broeck's company in the raid and massacre in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania in July, 1780, and in October 1780 he made his way to Niagara. He was discharged at Niagara in January 1784 and returned to New York. He immigrated with his family to Osnaburck Township, Stormount County, Upper Canada West, in the fall of 1800 and resided at Lunenburgh, near his brother Nicholas. "When living in Canada, he declined to accept some 1400 acres or equivalent cash as compensation for losses during the American Revolutionary War, although his children successfully made this claim twenty years after Frederick's death".

Frederick married Catherine Ecker. Catherine (daughter of Peter Ecker and Maria Elizabeth ?) was born on 13 Mar 1762 in New York, USA; was christened on 26 Jun 1762 in Schoharie, New York, USA; died in in North Stormont Township, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Memorial Hill Cemetery, Lunenburg, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]