 1760 - 1818 (57 years)
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| Name |
Frederick Schaeffer |
| Suffix |
UE |
| Born |
14 Aug 1760 |
Schoharie, New York, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
26 Apr 1818 |
North Stormont Township, Ontario, Canada |
| Buried |
Memorial Hill Cemetery, Lunenburg, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada |
| Person ID |
I29702 |
Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
10 May 2020 |
| Father |
Johannes Wilhelmus Schaeffer, b. 4 Jun 1717, Schoharie, New York, USA , d. 1 Aug 1785, Schoharie, New York, USA (Age 68 years) |
| Mother |
Anna Gertraud Stahring, b. 14 Feb 1717, Herkimer, New York, USA , d. 7 Dec 1767, Schoharie, New York, USA (Age 50 years) |
| Married |
11 Oct 1740 |
Schoharie, New York, USA |
| Family ID |
F14467 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Catherine Ecker, b. 13 Mar 1762, New York, USA , d. North Stormont Township, Ontario, Canada |
| Children |
| | 1. Hannah Schaeffer, b. 1781, d. Canada |
| + | 2. Peter Schaeffer, b. 1786, d. 1862 (Age 76 years) |
| | 3. Sarah Schaeffer, b. 10 Jan 1789, Schenectady, New York, USA |
| + | 4. Mary Elizabeth Schaeffer, b. 29 Dec 1790, Berne, New York, USA , d. 17 Dec 1892, Canborough, Ontario, Canada (Age 101 years) |
| | 5. Nicholas N. Schaeffer, b. 11 Sep 1813, North Stormont Township, Ontario, Canada , d. 15 Jan 1887, North Stormont Township, Ontario, Canada (Age 73 years) |
| | 6. Eva Schaeffer, b. 1813, d. 20 Sep 1888, North Stormont Township, Ontario, Canada (Age 75 years) |
| | 7. Jacob Schaeffer, b. 1814, d. 1877, Stormont County, Ontario, Canada (Age 63 years) |
| | 8. John F. Schaeffer, d. 1862 |
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| Last Modified |
7 May 2020 |
| Family ID |
F14444 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Headstones |
 | Family of Frederick Schaeffer (Shaver)
SHAVER
Frederick Schaffer 1760 - 1818
Pte. Butlers Rangers 1778 - 1784
His Son Peter 1786 - 1862
His Son Jacob 1814 - 1877
Interned Here
Jacob's Son Henry 1842 - 1920
Wife Mary Maxwell 1842 - 1928
Their Son Peter 1869 - 1938
Wife Mary Rombough 1874 - 1952
Their Son Wallace 1904 - 1997
Wife Mildred McPherson 1911 - 1997
In Loving Memory of Those Who
Came Before Us and of Their
Struggles to Build a New
Life In a New Land |
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| 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".
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