Records of Winden, Germany, give Peter's birthdate as December 12, 1745. His tombstone at Apple's Church, Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland, states he was born September 10, 1745, died October 22, 1813, aged 68 years, 1 month and 12 days. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 3 months for his birthdate. Holdcraft's Names In Stone give his birthdate as November, but my personal notes from visiting the cemetery myself show September.---G. Freese
George Peter Schober, age 14, was confirmed on Easter, 1759 at the Frederick Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick County, Maryland.
Georg Peter Schober, along with Maria Magdalena Paulmannin sponsored the baptism of Maria Catharina, daughter of Daniel and Maria Michel, 1 Jan 1767, Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.
From Colonial Maryland Naturalizations:
"21 Apr 1773 Peter Shover, German."
Peter Schober was without a doubt the Peter Shover, who was a Lieutenant in Jacob Ambrose's Company during the Revolutionary War.
Article from the Catoctin Enterprise, by Frank Mentzer, Superintendent of Catoctin Mountain Park:
"Tannin for Dan Rouzer's Tannery. If you join the naturalist of Catoctin Mountain Park on the Annual Fall Colors Walk, you will travel through forests that supplied tannic acid for the first tannery in this part of Western Maryland. You will also travel through one of the earliest tracts on Catoctin Mountain to be granted private ownership.
"The walk begins at the Thurmont Vista Parking Area, on land that was part of a 7,715 acre grant given by Lord Baltimore to Benedict Calvert on June 26, 1771. The earlier grant of which we have definite knowledge was only ten years earlier.
"Benedict Calvert, like many of the original land owners -- not settlers -- acquired his land for speculation. Maryland's frontier had been steadily moving westward. Jonathan Hagar's Town, at the time of Calvert's grant for 'The Mountain Tract,' already numbered nearly a hundred houses. Valley lands, on either side of the mountain, had been taken up. But there still remained thousands of acres of mountain land unclaimed, and Calvert realized that sooner or later it would be in demand.
"Calvert was undoubtedly a good businessman. Most surveys of that period defined the properties with notches on trees and piles of stone. This vagueness was not for him. His surveyors were instructed to erect stone tablets at all corners and to engrave upon them the corner number. We know the location of stone number 77 and hope to locate more as we redefine the original boundaries of Benedict Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.'
"About the same time Calvert was given his grant, Peter Shover (or Schover) purchased the farm of the deceased Peter Apple, about a mile east of the handful of houses 'along the Indian Path' that would become known as Mechanics Town, now Thurmont. Apple had died without carrying out his plan of donating a portion of his farm for the construction of a church, school and cemetery for the congregations of the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the vicinity. Peter Shover, knowing of Apple's wish, donated the property and the log church built upon it was named Apple's Church to honor the old gentleman.
"During the latter half of 1775, Frederick County was called upon to furnish four companies of minutemen for the coming conflict. Shover volunteered and was commissioned a lieutenant in the company led by Captain Jacob Ambrose, a trustee of Apple's Church.
"We presume that after the American Revolution, Peter Shover settled in Hagar's Town. We know that his name does not appear on the Census of 1790 for Frederick County, and that his daughter was living in Hagar's Town in the early 1790's.
"One of Hagar's Town's families in those early days was the Rouzers. They had migrated from New Jersey and when they settled there, they apprenticed their son Daniel to a local tanner. Somehow Daniel came to know and fell in love with Sophia Shover and they were married. Their first child was named Peter after her father.
"In 1792, possibly at the instigation of Peter Shover, the 17-year-old tanner moved his young family to Mechanics Town and opened up his own business. It was located to the east of the town and possibly on part of the farm Shover owned.
"The process of changing hides into leather involved soaking them in pits of tan liquor. This was made from the bark of oak and chestnut trees. As an idea of the quantities needed, at one time we in America stripped more than a million tons of bark each year for tanning leather! If Daniel Rouzer was to be successful, he needed a good supply of tannin-rich bark.
"Father-in-law Shover came to the rescue. The various states of the young nation were making available to veterans, land at low cost and very favorable rates. As a veteran, Shover was entitled to such lands.
"We know that Maryland confiscated the lands of known Tories; Daniel Dulaney lost his property this way. And we can presume that Benedict Calvert was a Tory also. On July 1, 1795, Peter Shover applies to the land office for the Western Shore, for a re-survey of 200 acres of Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.' A special warrant was issued, specifying that all errors of the original survey be amended and any vacant lands contiguous to the tract be added to it. This survey was completed, probably by Samuel Duvall, the County Surveyor, on June 18, 1796. The 200 acres were found to be only 172 acres, but the vacant contiguous lands amounted to 79 acres."
[**note by Gregg Freese: I've found no evidence that the Rouzer family, other than Daniel Rouzer, ever lived in Hagerstown. Nor any evidence that the Shover family having lived there. Daniel Rouzer was 25 years of age in 1792, rather than 17 years old, as stated in the article.]
Tax Assessment of 1798, Frederick County, Maryland (from Antietam Ancestors, Vol. 1 & 2):
"Shover, Peter. Peace All round---160 acres; Simon's Delight---150 acres; Green Castle---55 acres; Rouser's Addition---118.5 acres; Empty Pocket---2.75 acres; new saw mill built, 120 acres Mondolphin sold to John Rarick since last assessment. The land not ass'd to him is mountain land. 486.5 acres; 490.0.0; +50.0.0."
As evidenced above, alternate spellings of Schober include Schover, Shover, Shober, etc.
George Peter Schober, age 14, was confirmed on Easter, 1759 at the Frederick Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick County, Maryland.
Georg Peter Schober, along with Maria Magdalena Paulmannin sponsored the baptism of Maria Catharina, daughter of Daniel and Maria Michel, 1 Jan 1767, Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.
From Colonial Maryland Naturalizations:
"21 Apr 1773 Peter Shover, German."
Peter Schober was without a doubt the Peter Shover, who was a Lieutenant in Jacob Ambrose's Company during the Revolutionary War.
Article from the Catoctin Enterprise, by Frank Mentzer, Superintendent of Catoctin Mountain Park:
"Tannin for Dan Rouzer's Tannery. If you join the naturalist of Catoctin Mountain Park on the Annual Fall Colors Walk, you will travel through forests that supplied tannic acid for the first tannery in this part of Western Maryland. You will also travel through one of the earliest tracts on Catoctin Mountain to be granted private ownership.
"The walk begins at the Thurmont Vista Parking Area, on land that was part of a 7,715 acre grant given by Lord Baltimore to Benedict Calvert on June 26, 1771. The earlier grant of which we have definite knowledge was only ten years earlier.
"Benedict Calvert, like many of the original land owners -- not settlers -- acquired his land for speculation. Maryland's frontier had been steadily moving westward. Jonathan Hagar's Town, at the time of Calvert's grant for 'The Mountain Tract,' already numbered nearly a hundred houses. Valley lands, on either side of the mountain, had been taken up. But there still remained thousands of acres of mountain land unclaimed, and Calvert realized that sooner or later it would be in demand.
"Calvert was undoubtedly a good businessman. Most surveys of that period defined the properties with notches on trees and piles of stone. This vagueness was not for him. His surveyors were instructed to erect stone tablets at all corners and to engrave upon them the corner number. We know the location of stone number 77 and hope to locate more as we redefine the original boundaries of Benedict Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.'
"About the same time Calvert was given his grant, Peter Shover (or Schover) purchased the farm of the deceased Peter Apple, about a mile east of the handful of houses 'along the Indian Path' that would become known as Mechanics Town, now Thurmont. Apple had died without carrying out his plan of donating a portion of his farm for the construction of a church, school and cemetery for the congregations of the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the vicinity. Peter Shover, knowing of Apple's wish, donated the property and the log church built upon it was named Apple's Church to honor the old gentleman.
"During the latter half of 1775, Frederick County was called upon to furnish four companies of minutemen for the coming conflict. Shover volunteered and was commissioned a lieutenant in the company led by Captain Jacob Ambrose, a trustee of Apple's Church.
"We presume that after the American Revolution, Peter Shover settled in Hagar's Town. We know that his name does not appear on the Census of 1790 for Frederick County, and that his daughter was living in Hagar's Town in the early 1790's.
"One of Hagar's Town's families in those early days was the Rouzers. They had migrated from New Jersey and when they settled there, they apprenticed their son Daniel to a local tanner. Somehow Daniel came to know and fell in love with Sophia Shover and they were married. Their first child was named Peter after her father.
"In 1792, possibly at the instigation of Peter Shover, the 17-year-old tanner moved his young family to Mechanics Town and opened up his own business. It was located to the east of the town and possibly on part of the farm Shover owned.
"The process of changing hides into leather involved soaking them in pits of tan liquor. This was made from the bark of oak and chestnut trees. As an idea of the quantities needed, at one time we in America stripped more than a million tons of bark each year for tanning leather! If Daniel Rouzer was to be successful, he needed a good supply of tannin-rich bark.
"Father-in-law Shover came to the rescue. The various states of the young nation were making available to veterans, land at low cost and very favorable rates. As a veteran, Shover was entitled to such lands.
"We know that Maryland confiscated the lands of known Tories; Daniel Dulaney lost his property this way. And we can presume that Benedict Calvert was a Tory also. On July 1, 1795, Peter Shover applies to the land office for the Western Shore, for a re-survey of 200 acres of Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.' A special warrant was issued, specifying that all errors of the original survey be amended and any vacant lands contiguous to the tract be added to it. This survey was completed, probably by Samuel Duvall, the County Surveyor, on June 18, 1796. The 200 acres were found to be only 172 acres, but the vacant contiguous lands amounted to 79 acres."
[**note by Gregg Freese: I've found no evidence that the Rouzer family, other than Daniel Rouzer, ever lived in Hagerstown. Nor any evidence that the Shover family having lived there. Daniel Rouzer was 25 years of age in 1792, rather than 17 years old, as stated in the article.]
Tax Assessment of 1798, Frederick County, Maryland (from Antietam Ancestors, Vol. 1 & 2):
"Shover, Peter. Peace All round---160 acres; Simon's Delight---150 acres; Green Castle---55 acres; Rouser's Addition---118.5 acres; Empty Pocket---2.75 acres; new saw mill built, 120 acres Mondolphin sold to John Rarick since last assessment. The land not ass'd to him is mountain land. 486.5 acres; 490.0.0; +50.0.0."
As evidenced above, alternate spellings of Schober include Schover, Shover, Shober, etc.
Records of Winden, Germany, give Peter's birthdate as December 12, 1745. His tombstone at Apple's Church, Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland, states he was born September 10, 1745, died October 22, 1813, aged 68 years, 1 month and 12 days. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 3 months for his birthdate. Holdcraft's Names In Stone give his birthdate as November, but my personal notes from visiting the cemetery myself show September.---G. Freese
George Peter Schober, age 14, was confirmed on Easter, 1759 at the Frederick Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick County, Maryland.
Georg Peter Schober, along with Maria Magdalena Paulmannin sponsored the baptism of Maria Catharina, daughter of Daniel and Maria Michel, 1 Jan 1767, Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.
From Colonial Maryland Naturalizations:
"21 Apr 1773 Peter Shover, German."
Peter Schober was without a doubt the Peter Shover, who was a Lieutenant in Jacob Ambrose's Company during the Revolutionary War.
Article from the Catoctin Enterprise, by Frank Mentzer, Superintendent of Catoctin Mountain Park:
"Tannin for Dan Rouzer's Tannery. If you join the naturalist of Catoctin Mountain Park on the Annual Fall Colors Walk, you will travel through forests that supplied tannic acid for the first tannery in this part of Western Maryland. You will also travel through one of the earliest tracts on Catoctin Mountain to be granted private ownership.
"The walk begins at the Thurmont Vista Parking Area, on land that was part of a 7,715 acre grant given by Lord Baltimore to Benedict Calvert on June 26, 1771. The earlier grant of which we have definite knowledge was only ten years earlier.
"Benedict Calvert, like many of the original land owners -- not settlers -- acquired his land for speculation. Maryland's frontier had been steadily moving westward. Jonathan Hagar's Town, at the time of Calvert's grant for 'The Mountain Tract,' already numbered nearly a hundred houses. Valley lands, on either side of the mountain, had been taken up. But there still remained thousands of acres of mountain land unclaimed, and Calvert realized that sooner or later it would be in demand.
"Calvert was undoubtedly a good businessman. Most surveys of that period defined the properties with notches on trees and piles of stone. This vagueness was not for him. His surveyors were instructed to erect stone tablets at all corners and to engrave upon them the corner number. We know the location of stone number 77 and hope to locate more as we redefine the original boundaries of Benedict Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.'
"About the same time Calvert was given his grant, Peter Shover (or Schover) purchased the farm of the deceased Peter Apple, about a mile east of the handful of houses 'along the Indian Path' that would become known as Mechanics Town, now Thurmont. Apple had died without carrying out his plan of donating a portion of his farm for the construction of a church, school and cemetery for the congregations of the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the vicinity. Peter Shover, knowing of Apple's wish, donated the property and the log church built upon it was named Apple's Church to honor the old gentleman.
"During the latter half of 1775, Frederick County was called upon to furnish four companies of minutemen for the coming conflict. Shover volunteered and was commissioned a lieutenant in the company led by Captain Jacob Ambrose, a trustee of Apple's Church.
"We presume that after the American Revolution, Peter Shover settled in Hagar's Town. We know that his name does not appear on the Census of 1790 for Frederick County, and that his daughter was living in Hagar's Town in the early 1790's.
"One of Hagar's Town's families in those early days was the Rouzers. They had migrated from New Jersey and when they settled there, they apprenticed their son Daniel to a local tanner. Somehow Daniel came to know and fell in love with Sophia Shover and they were married. Their first child was named Peter after her father.
"In 1792, possibly at the instigation of Peter Shover, the 17-year-old tanner moved his young family to Mechanics Town and opened up his own business. It was located to the east of the town and possibly on part of the farm Shover owned.
"The process of changing hides into leather involved soaking them in pits of tan liquor. This was made from the bark of oak and chestnut trees. As an idea of the quantities needed, at one time we in America stripped more than a million tons of bark each year for tanning leather! If Daniel Rouzer was to be successful, he needed a good supply of tannin-rich bark.
"Father-in-law Shover came to the rescue. The various states of the young nation were making available to veterans, land at low cost and very favorable rates. As a veteran, Shover was entitled to such lands.
"We know that Maryland confiscated the lands of known Tories; Daniel Dulaney lost his property this way. And we can presume that Benedict Calvert was a Tory also. On July 1, 1795, Peter Shover applies to the land office for the Western Shore, for a re-survey of 200 acres of Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.' A special warrant was issued, specifying that all errors of the original survey be amended and any vacant lands contiguous to the tract be added to it. This survey was completed, probably by Samuel Duvall, the County Surveyor, on June 18, 1796. The 200 acres were found to be only 172 acres, but the vacant contiguous lands amounted to 79 acres."
[**note by Gregg Freese: I've found no evidence that the Rouzer family, other than Daniel Rouzer, ever lived in Hagerstown. Nor any evidence that the Shover family having lived there. Daniel Rouzer was 25 years of age in 1792, rather than 17 years old, as stated in the article.]
Tax Assessment of 1798, Frederick County, Maryland (from Antietam Ancestors, Vol. 1 & 2):
"Shover, Peter. Peace All round---160 acres; Simon's Delight---150 acres; Green Castle---55 acres; Rouser's Addition---118.5 acres; Empty Pocket---2.75 acres; new saw mill built, 120 acres Mondolphin sold to John Rarick since last assessment. The land not ass'd to him is mountain land. 486.5 acres; 490.0.0; +50.0.0."
As evidenced above, alternate spellings of Schober include Schover, Shover, Shober, etc.
George Peter Schober, age 14, was confirmed on Easter, 1759 at the Frederick Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick County, Maryland.
Georg Peter Schober, along with Maria Magdalena Paulmannin sponsored the baptism of Maria Catharina, daughter of Daniel and Maria Michel, 1 Jan 1767, Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.
From Colonial Maryland Naturalizations:
"21 Apr 1773 Peter Shover, German."
Peter Schober was without a doubt the Peter Shover, who was a Lieutenant in Jacob Ambrose's Company during the Revolutionary War.
Article from the Catoctin Enterprise, by Frank Mentzer, Superintendent of Catoctin Mountain Park:
"Tannin for Dan Rouzer's Tannery. If you join the naturalist of Catoctin Mountain Park on the Annual Fall Colors Walk, you will travel through forests that supplied tannic acid for the first tannery in this part of Western Maryland. You will also travel through one of the earliest tracts on Catoctin Mountain to be granted private ownership.
"The walk begins at the Thurmont Vista Parking Area, on land that was part of a 7,715 acre grant given by Lord Baltimore to Benedict Calvert on June 26, 1771. The earlier grant of which we have definite knowledge was only ten years earlier.
"Benedict Calvert, like many of the original land owners -- not settlers -- acquired his land for speculation. Maryland's frontier had been steadily moving westward. Jonathan Hagar's Town, at the time of Calvert's grant for 'The Mountain Tract,' already numbered nearly a hundred houses. Valley lands, on either side of the mountain, had been taken up. But there still remained thousands of acres of mountain land unclaimed, and Calvert realized that sooner or later it would be in demand.
"Calvert was undoubtedly a good businessman. Most surveys of that period defined the properties with notches on trees and piles of stone. This vagueness was not for him. His surveyors were instructed to erect stone tablets at all corners and to engrave upon them the corner number. We know the location of stone number 77 and hope to locate more as we redefine the original boundaries of Benedict Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.'
"About the same time Calvert was given his grant, Peter Shover (or Schover) purchased the farm of the deceased Peter Apple, about a mile east of the handful of houses 'along the Indian Path' that would become known as Mechanics Town, now Thurmont. Apple had died without carrying out his plan of donating a portion of his farm for the construction of a church, school and cemetery for the congregations of the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the vicinity. Peter Shover, knowing of Apple's wish, donated the property and the log church built upon it was named Apple's Church to honor the old gentleman.
"During the latter half of 1775, Frederick County was called upon to furnish four companies of minutemen for the coming conflict. Shover volunteered and was commissioned a lieutenant in the company led by Captain Jacob Ambrose, a trustee of Apple's Church.
"We presume that after the American Revolution, Peter Shover settled in Hagar's Town. We know that his name does not appear on the Census of 1790 for Frederick County, and that his daughter was living in Hagar's Town in the early 1790's.
"One of Hagar's Town's families in those early days was the Rouzers. They had migrated from New Jersey and when they settled there, they apprenticed their son Daniel to a local tanner. Somehow Daniel came to know and fell in love with Sophia Shover and they were married. Their first child was named Peter after her father.
"In 1792, possibly at the instigation of Peter Shover, the 17-year-old tanner moved his young family to Mechanics Town and opened up his own business. It was located to the east of the town and possibly on part of the farm Shover owned.
"The process of changing hides into leather involved soaking them in pits of tan liquor. This was made from the bark of oak and chestnut trees. As an idea of the quantities needed, at one time we in America stripped more than a million tons of bark each year for tanning leather! If Daniel Rouzer was to be successful, he needed a good supply of tannin-rich bark.
"Father-in-law Shover came to the rescue. The various states of the young nation were making available to veterans, land at low cost and very favorable rates. As a veteran, Shover was entitled to such lands.
"We know that Maryland confiscated the lands of known Tories; Daniel Dulaney lost his property this way. And we can presume that Benedict Calvert was a Tory also. On July 1, 1795, Peter Shover applies to the land office for the Western Shore, for a re-survey of 200 acres of Calvert's 'Mountain Tract.' A special warrant was issued, specifying that all errors of the original survey be amended and any vacant lands contiguous to the tract be added to it. This survey was completed, probably by Samuel Duvall, the County Surveyor, on June 18, 1796. The 200 acres were found to be only 172 acres, but the vacant contiguous lands amounted to 79 acres."
[**note by Gregg Freese: I've found no evidence that the Rouzer family, other than Daniel Rouzer, ever lived in Hagerstown. Nor any evidence that the Shover family having lived there. Daniel Rouzer was 25 years of age in 1792, rather than 17 years old, as stated in the article.]
Tax Assessment of 1798, Frederick County, Maryland (from Antietam Ancestors, Vol. 1 & 2):
"Shover, Peter. Peace All round---160 acres; Simon's Delight---150 acres; Green Castle---55 acres; Rouser's Addition---118.5 acres; Empty Pocket---2.75 acres; new saw mill built, 120 acres Mondolphin sold to John Rarick since last assessment. The land not ass'd to him is mountain land. 486.5 acres; 490.0.0; +50.0.0."
As evidenced above, alternate spellings of Schober include Schover, Shover, Shober, etc.
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