Magdaline Shaver, daughter of Michael Schaeffer and Anna Marie. Born ± 1715 at Berks County, Pennsylvania, died after 1747 Alias: Some sources list her birth in about 1730 in Switzerland. According to Jesse Byran in his "Whetstone Genealogy" paper: " Jacob Stuckey married Magdalene Shaffer, daughter of Michael and Annie Marie Schaffer. The Lea Kersting papers state that Magdalene Shaffer was a granddaughter of Balthasar Shaffer of Baden Wuetemburg who was a religious dissident who immigrated in 1708 and settled at Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Married 1740 at Lancaster, Pennsylvania (at least 7 years married) to: Johan Jacob Stucki, son of Carolus Stucki and Maria Barbara. Born Aug 30, 1710 at Breitfurt, Pfalz, Bayern/Berne, Switzerland, died Jan 1783 at South Branch of the Potomac (about 12 miles above Moorfield), Hampshire Cou, 72 years. Occupation: at Shoemaker; Alias: According to "Myers of WV and various family branches" (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bubblesam07&id =I10396): "Simon and Jacob, brothers, came to the states in 1737 on the "Virtuous Grace" to Philadelphia. Their brother John (Johan) came over in 1735 and he spelled his name Stuckey. They were all refugees from religious persecution that was going on in Switzerland. They were protestants, (Amish--Anabaptist--Swiss Bretheren). The name is spelled Stucki in Switzerland. They moved into the Palatinate region of Germany where they were safe from persecution and spoke the same language. From there, they emigrated to the Colonies. Our line settled first in Lancaster Co., Pa. (Which is Pennsylvania Dutch to this day.) Then they moved on into what is today West Virginia (Grant and Hardy Counties.) They settled on a plantation owned by Lord Fairfax of England. He owned nearly 1,000,000 acres and rented parcels along the South Branch of the Potomac River. All of those early related families, Shaver, Reger, Shobe, Hire, Armentrout, Bush, Powers, Peterson, Hagler, Wise, intermarried with each other. Abraham Stookey fought in the Revolutionary War, 1776..." Children: 1. Jacob StookeyBorn 1740 at Maryland, died between 25 Jan and Feb 10, 1802 at Hardy County, West Virginia, 61 or 62 years Alias: According to "Wayndot and Shawnee Lands" dated 10/3/1870 in Kansas: Jacob Stookey was given Allotment 226 from the Wyandot Treaty of 1855. So this Jacob Stookey evidently left some descendants among the Wyandots. There is also a Jacob Stookey among the Wyandots listed in Ohio state records at www.rootsweb.com that lists a family two adults (over age 25) and 4 children (under age 25) in the Muster Roll of Wyandot Indians Who Departed Sandusky Ohio in July 1843. "The Return of Jacob Stookey Hardy County Superior Court Record 1797-1800" submitted by David Armstrong reports with an Editor's note: " Few documents of eighteenth century Virginia are packed with the kind of human drama or genealogical value as the case of Shobe vs Hyer in the Hardy County Superior Court record. Jacob Stookey was a youth who was captured by the Indians during the French and Indian Wars in Maryland in the 1750's. He lived among the Shawnn Indians (as an Indian) for the subsequent half century. Meanwhile, his family migrated from Maryland into what is now Hardy County, West Virginia. Jacob Stookey was never heard of again until the early 1800's when he, as a sick old man, wandered back into the east and demanded his share of his father's land grant...Evidence of Velantine Power who proved that about the year 1757 having been previously taken by the Indians from the South Branch of Potocomauk he saw a white man a prisoner among the Indians at Detroit called Jacob Stooky, that he conversed with said Jacob Stookey who informed him that he was taken by the Indians at Connoch colgheauge in Maryland, that he was called among the Indians by the Indian name of Nonegehaw & Jacob Stooky told the Witness that his fathers name was Stooky & wore a long beard, that the Witness was a prisoner among the Indians between four & five years & most of that time knew & frequently seen said Jacob Stooky, that a part of the time the said Jacob Stooky lived on opposite Sides of the river, that soon after the Witness returned from the Indians to the South Branch he met with Jacob Stooky the father and enquired if the Witness had seen a prisoner among the Indians the name of Jacob Stooky, the Witness replied he had and described him his age & other circumstances upon which the said Jacob Stooky the Elder replied that is my son. the Witness in the month of February 1802 saw Jacob Stooky the Devisor & from all circumstances vizly the foregoing & his conversation with him at this time believes him to be the same man whom he saw by that name among the Indians that he resembled the Stooky family that Jacob Stooky Senr did wear a long beard." NOTE: Witness: Margaret Shobe with Signatures by D. Welton and Adam Fisher (Justices of the Peace, Hardy County. Virginia) 2. Sarah Susanna StookyBorn between 1740 and 1755, died after 1776 Alias: 4. Abraham StookeyBorn 1742 at Hampshire County, Virginia or Hagerstown, Maryland, died 1802 at Hardy County, West Virginia (now Grant County), 59 or 60 years Alias: Cause of Death: 5. Michael StookyBorn ± 1744 at Virginia, died 1783 at South Branch of the Potomac River, Virginia (now West Virginia), approximately 39 years Some sources list his death in 1794 in Virginia. 6. Margaret StookyBorn 1747, died Jun 1, 1816 at Ross County, Ohio, 68 or 69 years Alias: Family records state that she was born in 1747 and the youngest family member, but her testimony recorded in "The Return of Jacob Stookey Hardy County Superior Court Record 1797-1800" submitted by David Armstrong includes: "10th By same: was you wolder than your said brother? Ans. yes about two years." Since Jacob Stookey was captured by Indians in August 1756 at the age of sixteen that would put his birth in about 1740. If Margaret was two years older than Jacob then her birthdate would be about 1738. |