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Hans Schad

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Birthplace: Hesse-Cassel, Germany
Death: United States
Immediate Family:

Husband of Elizabeth Shadd
Father of {Unknown} Shadd; Jeremiah Shadd and Hans Shadd

Managed by: Dan Cornett
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About John Shadd

Hans Schad, alias John Shadd, a native of Hesse-Cassel who had entered the United States serving as a Hessian soldier with the British Army during the French and Indian War in 1754. Hans Schad was wounded and left in the care of two African-American women, mother and daughter, both named Elizabeth Jackson. The Hessian soldier and the daughter were married in January 1756 and their first son was born six months later.

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John Shadd's Timeline

1730
1730
Hesse-Cassel, Germany
1756
July 1756
1770
1770
Delaware, Colonial America
1772
1772
Delaware, Colonial America
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United States