The Shultz Family
John Shultz, of Germany
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Michael Shultz, son of John Shultz, was born about 1750, probably in America. (See �Michael Shultz and his Descendants� by Charles Ross Shultz.) He was a private in Captain Reading�s County, 3rd Regt. (See DAR Patriot Index), and belonged to Zion Lutheran Church. Michael Shultz was married/1 7 March 1772 to Deborah Fries, who died prior to October 1776, New Jersey.
He was married/2 27 October 1776, to Maria Rush, of Somerset County, or Hunterdon County, New Jersey, who died about 1793 to 1801, in Somerset County, daughter of Conrad Rush (son of William Rush) and his wife Johanna. There was a Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
He was married/3 about 1793-1798, to Mary Woy, who was born about 1763. He died in 1804, in Middle Creek, Millford Township, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Mary was married/2 to Martin Gonder (or Gunter, Guntner), who died in 1821. Mary was living with her daughter, Anna, when she died about 1862, in Stoyestown, Pennsylvania.
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Peter Shultz, son of Michael Shultz and Maria Rush, was born 4 August 1779, in Tewksbury, Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He was christened 17 September 1779 at the Zion Church, New Germantown, New Jersey.
He moved to Pennsylvania in 1800 and was married in 1804, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Jones, who was born about 1779, in Somerset County, daughter of Jehu Brooks Jones, son of David Jones.
�Peter and Elizabeth moved to Adams County, Ohio, in 1804, and joined the Methodist Church in 1807. With the idea of acquiring more land, early in 1826, Peter moved to Newton, Richland Township, Fountain County, Indiana, with a stock of boots and leather collars. Their son-in-law, William Crumpton, was in business there. Peter improved a farm just north of Newton, established a tannery, and in the fall of 1830, went to Ohio for his family, and his brother, William Shultz.
�The first school in the McClure neighborhood was in a house near to them on the south bank of Coal creek. Peter was one of the teachers. He built the second flour mill in the Township, which was short-lived because of the lack of water. In 1827, the first organization of the Presbyterian Church was in his home, near Newton, and it continued to meet there, with Peter as class leader, for several years.
�He was the owner of about 1,000 acres of land, mostly under cultivation. His children settled on it here and there with the expectation that it should be theirs, though not yet deeded to them. In an evil hour, he endorsed for his son-in-law, who was in the mercantile business in Attica, and in the financial crash that occurred in 1838 and 1840, he failed, and with his failure swept the whole of Mr. Shultz�s valuable property from under him, except about 150 acres, which the creditors deeded to his wife to induce her to relinquish her right in all the balance.�
Peter died 24 October 1848, Fountain County, Indiana; Elizabeth died 6 March 1866.
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William Shultz 2, son of Peter Shultz and Elizabeth Jones was born 13 December 1811, in Adams County, Ohio.
He was married about 1831/2 to Permilia Scowden (or Scroggins), who was born 27 September 1813, in Ohio. William 2 died 17 March 1843, in Fountain County, Indiana. Permilia was married/2, 6 January 1848, the first wife of William Shultz 3, born 1820 in Ohio (son of William 1 and Mary Trick, (or Trig)), who was a 1st cousin of her first husband. Permilia died 31 October 1857, and William 3 was married to Catherine ___. In Sarah�s obituary, it was said that Sarah was left to make her own way the best she could, at the age of 10, at the time her father died.
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