Johannes Georg Schuck

Johannes Schuck was born about 1692 probably along the valley of the Rhine River in the Southwestern section of modern Germany. In the years near his birth this area was the seat of the Thirty Year's War between the Protestant countries of Europe and the Catholic powers led by France. France at the beginning of the 18th century pushed into the Rhineland and occupied the area known as the Palatine.

In 1732 Johannes Schuck? took his family away from Rotterdam in Holland and headed for the New World. In a small ship called a "Pink" named the "John and William", an English vessel, he crowded his family on board with several hundred other refugees and set out upon the seas to find a new life among thousands of Palatines who had gone to America before him in the previous twenty years. The idea of going to America had grown more and more popular in the years after the Quaker John Penn had first invited the Palatines to join him in his new colony of Pennsylvania.

Even more so, as word came back from those who had gone before about the wonderful climate, rich and cheap lands and, more than anything, religious toleration. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the destination of the ship, and after a short stopover in England the ship set out across the Atlantic. The crossing was to be an awful one however. Benjamin Franklin in his published newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette for October 19, 1732 reported the plight of the John and William; "17 weeks at sea. Forty-four persons died during the voyage.

Three weeks before their arrival in Philadelphia the passengers mutinied on account of ill treatment and took command of the vessel" "upon arrival the leaders of the mutiny were imprisoned." The tortured ship and its occupants finally sailed up the Delaware River on the afternoon of October 17, 1732. Here the port authorities recorded the name of "Johannes Schook" and those of his family in the registrar's office.

Johannes Schuck (1694-1767) traveled from Neckar Valley Germany via Rotterdam arrived at the port of Philadelphia on the ship "John and William" on 17 Oct 1732, after a voyage of 17 weeks, in which 44 of the passengers died during the trip. With him were his wife Rosina Barbara Berhard, 1 son, and 5 daughters. They settled in Northampton Co. PA. Their son Johannes, who married Maria Elizabeth Grub (m. 8/8/1748), was in Lincoln Co. NC in 1763; the [change in the] spelling of the name to "Shook" occured around this time. They had 10 children.

Anna Maria was his second wife.

Marriage 1 Rosina Barbara BERHARD b: ABT. 1696

Married: 1717 in Mosback (Mosburg) Germany

Children

• Christina Halstead Schuck (SHOOK) b: ABT. 1725 in Germany
• Johannes George Schuck (SHOOK)
• Maria Catherina Schuck (SHOOK)
• Rosina Barbara Schuck (SHOOK)
• Dorothea Schuck (SHOOK)
• Anna Barbara Schuck (SHOOK)

Marriage 2 Anna Maria WITTER b: ABT. 1729

Married: 1747

GEDCOM Source

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GEDCOM Note

• Birth/Origin
Possible nativity, using surname localities:
Ulmet, Bayern, Germany

• Immigration:
Possible; U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name Johannes Schuck
Arrival 1732 - Pennsylvania

• Will
Re.: ancestry.com
Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993
Will Book, Vol 1-3, 1752-1800.
“Last Will Ye of John Schuck
The fourth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand,seven hundred, sixty three, I John Schuck of Williams Township in the County of Northampton in the Province of Pennsylvania being in good bodily health and of sound & well disposing of mind & memory and being mindful of my mortality & desirous to settle my worldly affairs in the best manner I can do make, This is my Last Will and Testament of and concerning all my temporal Estate in manner and form following (hereby revoking all other Wills) that is to say, First it is my wish that that all my just Debts & Funeral Expenses duly paid And I do give unto my Daughter Maria Catherina the wife of Henry Eigner of the Province of North Carolina yeoman, the sum of five Pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania And I go give unto my Daughter Rosina the wife of Francis Nerbager of Springfield Township in the County of Bucks, Yeoman, one Shilling if the same shall be lawfully demanded which I will & ordain shall be in full of all her demands & Expectancy out of my Estate And I give unto my much Beloved Wife, Anna Maria all and singular my Messanges, Lands & Tenements and …………………. whatsoever and wheresoever with the Appurtenance To hold to her my said Wife, Anna Maria and her Assigns for and during all the term of her natural life without Impeachment of Waste And I do will and devise that the Premisses upon her Decease of my said Wife shall be sold by my Executors herein after named and for that End I do hereby give full Power and Authority unto my said Executor & the Survivor of them & the Executor of the Survivor as soon as conveniently may be after the decease of my said Wife to grant bargain & sell the same Premisses unto any person or persons whatsoever his, her or their Heirs & Asign for ever for the best price and consideration that can reasonably be gotten for the same. And as for and concerning the proceeds arising from each sale as afore said I do give and bequeath the same unto and amongst my children namely George, Dorothea, the Widow of Jacob Yount, deceased, Christina the wife of William Fullbright of the Township of Williams aforesaid and the said Maria Catherina Part & Share alike and to their several Heirs and Executors Administrators of Assign.
MOREOVER I do give unto my said Wife, Anna Maria, the use and occupation of all the rest and residue of my Goods and Chattels and personal Estate for and during all the Term of her natural Life and from & immediately after her Decease I would have what is left thereof to be equally divided amongst my said children namely the before named, named George, Dorothea, Christina & Maria Catherina my meaning is not to lay my said Wife under any Restraint or to make her or her Executor Adm. responsible or accountable for any for anything that shall hereby come to my said Wife …………… for I will not trust her under the control of any of my children And I do hereby nominate and appoint my ………. Friends, Christopher Bittenbender and Jacob Best, both of Williams Township, aforesaid Yeoman to be the Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.
Signed and sealed with Testators mark, John H.S. Schuck