HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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-svitli her son-in-law, George \V. Ott, in 

 Doj'lestown; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph 

 Scott, who lived and died at Passaic. 

 New Jersey; Williain, who lived and 

 died near Frenchtown, New Jersey; 

 Christian, now residing in Doylestown; 

 Clara, wife of Edward Lovett, of Penns 

 Manor, Bucks countj'; Mrs. Ellen Jen- 

 kins, who died in Trenton, New Jersey; 

 and Samuel, who lived and died in Tin- 

 icum. John Weaver, the father of Brice, 

 was also a resident of Tinicum township 



-and of English parentage, and his wife, 

 Elizabeth McCauley, was of Scotch Irish 

 parentage. 



Stacy L. Weaver married ^Marietta 

 Worman. of another old Tinicum fam- 

 ily, a descendant of Johannes and Bar- 

 bara Woerman, who came from Ger- 

 many in 1735 and settled in Rockhill 

 township. Bucks countj^ removing to 



• Bedminster in 1754. and to Tinicum in 

 1761. where Hohn Worman died in 1768. 

 Stacy L. and Marietta (Worman) 

 Weaver are the parents of four children: 

 Burton, Estella, Anna, and Clarence. 



THE SCHEETZ FAMILY is an ex- 

 tensive one in Bucks county, as well as 

 in other parts of Pennsvlvania and in many 

 other states of the Union, south and we=t. 

 They are the representatives of probably 

 no less 'than thirty pioneer emigrants of the 

 name who emic^ated from Germanv to 

 Pennsylvania between the years 1700 and 

 1760. All these pioneer emigrants probably 

 trace to a common ancestor at or near 

 Prankfort-on-the-Main. Germany, in the 

 seventeenth century or earlier. 



The earliest record of the family in con- 

 nection with Pennsvlvania was in 1683. 

 when Johan Jacob Scheetz. a minister of 

 ■Crefeldt, on the Rhine, purchased of Will- 

 iam Penn four thousand acres of land to be 

 laid out in Pennsylvania. He was one of 

 about a score of Palatines who purchased 

 large tracts of land of Penn with the pur- 

 pose of establishing a German colonv in 

 Pennsylvania, and later organized them- 

 selves into a company known as the Frank- 

 fort Company, and named the eminent 

 scholar and teacher Francis Daniel Pas- 

 torious and others to come to Pennsylvania 

 and take up the land for them. In accord- 

 ance with this plan the thirteen families, 

 principally from Crefeldt. came to Penn- 

 svlvania in 1683 and founded Germantown. 

 Not nearly all the purchasers were includ'- ' 

 in these thirteen families. Johan Jacob 

 Scheetz never came to America, but died 

 in Crefeldt prior to 1701, when William 

 Penn patented to his widow Cntharine the 

 land originally purchased bv him. Cath- 

 anne sold the greater part of the land to 

 Daniel Falkner, Arnold Stork and George 

 Miller. Later, however, representatives of 

 the family began to make their appearance 



at Germantown. Conrad Scheetz, said to 

 have been a son of Johan Jacob, arrived at 

 Philadelphia in the ship "Samuel," August 

 30, ^7Z7, aged thirty years, and George 

 Scheetz followed him in October of the 

 same year. Conrad Scheetz died in 1771, 

 leaving a widow Catharine and several chil- 

 dren. He is supposed to be the father of 

 Henry Scheetz. who married Catharine 

 Rubinkam, daughter of Justus and Susanna 

 (Rittehuissen) Rubinkam, and was the 

 father of General Henry Scheetz, of Mont- 

 gomery county, who commanded a brigade 

 in the Fries rebellion, and later in the war 

 of 1812-14. Conrad Scheetz was a "paper 

 maker" in Lower Merion in 1763, as shown 

 by the Philadelphia records, and Henry, 

 the father of the General, ivas later the pro- 

 prietor of a paper mill at Sandy Run, 

 White Marsh township, where the General 

 was born in 1761. 



Conrad Scheetz, of Germantown, "hatter" 

 and later a "storekeeper," doubtless a son 

 of Conrad, the "paper maker," though 

 possibly the *Johan Conrad Scheetz who 

 emigrated from Germany in the "Loyal 

 Judith" in 1743.) was the ancestor of the 

 Scheetz family of Kellers' Church, Haycock, 

 and Doylestown, Bucks county. He died 

 at Germantown in 1812. and his widow 

 Christianna survived him many years. He 

 was associated in the ownership of land at 

 Germantown and Chestnut Hill with Philip 

 Scheetz, probably a son. who was an "inn- 

 keeper" in Haycock township, Bucks coun- 

 ty, 1798 to 1802. when he purchased of 

 Conrad the real estate at Chestnut Hill 

 and removed there. Philip had come to 

 Bucks county in 1788. and followed the 

 trade of a hatter at or near Sellersville for 

 ten years prior to his removal to Haycock, 

 where he purchased a farm of 114 acres 

 in 1798. Conrad and Christianna were the 

 parents of three sons and three daughters, 

 who died unmarried. 



George Scheetz, son of Conrad and Chris- 

 tianna. was born at Germantown. December 

 12. 1785. and was also a hatter by trade. 

 He came to Bucks county when a young 

 man. and lived at Keller's Church, Bed- 

 minster township, for forty-five years, dving 

 there September 17. 1863. He was a school 

 teacher for many years, and many old resi- 

 dents of that locality acquired their early 

 education at his school at Keller's Church. 

 For twenty years prior to his death he 

 was a member of Keller's Reformed 

 Church, and served several years as a 



*This Conrad Scheetz settled in Upoer Hanover 

 Montgomery county. Pennsylvania, in 17.55. 



Note— There is another branch of the Sheetz family 

 in Bucks county, the descendants of George Ludwig 

 Scheetz who arrived in the " Dragon." September 30 

 l<d2. and soon after settied in Milford township Bucks 

 county, where he purchased land in 17.5.S which he and 

 wife Ann Mary conveyed to their son George in 1767 

 Adam Scheetz. of Nockamixon. propablv of the same 

 branch, died in 1819 at an advanced age He had 

 sons Conrad. John. Andrew. Adam. Jacob. John and 

 Michael, and three daughters who married and reared 

 ffmihes bv name of Althouse, Raisner and Stone 

 Some of this family removed to Virginia and North 

 Carolina about 1800. 



