Mattern Sphar and Margaret Shively

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Husband Mattern Sphar ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1743 - Switzerland
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           Died: Abt 1822 - Allen Twp, Washington Co, PA
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       Marriage: Abt 1776 - Williamsburg, VA

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• Note: This may be the same person as : [Unk] Sphar.

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Wife Margaret Shively ^{3 4}

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           Born: Abt 1753 - Frederick Co, MD
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           Died: Bef 1822 - Fallowfield Twp, Washington Co, PA
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         Father: Ulrich Shively (1721-1776) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Thommen (1722-1777) 3

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Children

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1 M John Sphar ^{1 3 5 6}

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           Born: 1777 - Loudoun Co, VA 3 7
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           Died: 4 Feb 1856 - Allen Twp, Washington Co, PA 3 8
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         Spouse: Susanna Redd (1774-1851/1852) 1 3 4
           Marr: 1797 - Fallowfield Twp, Washington Co, PA 3

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2 M Mattern Sphar ^{1 7}

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           Born: Abt 1780 - Loudoun Co, VA
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           Died: Abt 1826 - Indiana
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3 M Henry Sphar ^{1 7}

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           Born: 1782 - Allen Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1859 - Allen Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
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General Notes: Husband - Mattern Sphar

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"VIRGINIA, ss:
"At a General Court held at the Capital in the City of Williamsburg, the 21st of April, 1767, Mattern Sparr, a Native of Switzerland, who hath resided in this Colony upwards of Seven Years, and hath not been out of the same the space of two Months at any one time, came into Court between the Hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, and produced a Certificate of his having Received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Act of Parliament in that case made and provided, and took and subscribed the Oath appointed to be taken instead of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. The Oath appointed by an Act of Parliament made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the third, entitled An Act for Altering the Oath of Abjuration, and the Assurance and for amending so much of an Act of the Seventh Year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, entitled an Act for the Improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms. After the time therein limited requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to persons Indicted of high Treason or Misprison of Treason') and made and subscribed the declaration thereby also appointed in order to his being naturalized.
"Ben. Walley."
He removed to Washington County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1780, and purchased from Col. Edward Cook, the farm later owned by his grandson Henry, where he spent the remainder of his life. Two brothers and one sister came to Washington County with him. Two other brothers were killed on the way to their new home. [HWC 1882, 651]

He was born in Switzerland, and, in company with two brothers and one sister, immigrated to America at the age of seventeen years, about the year 1760. He first settled in Williamsburg, Virginia, and on April 21, 1767, took the oath of allegiance under King George. He was there married and in 1780 came to Pennsylvania, and purchased of one Col. Cooke 200 acres, on the Monongahela river, in what is now Washington County. He took an active part in the Whiskey Insurrection, and was a soldier in the War of 1812.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 651.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 866, 1033, 1071, 1344.

3 Robert Phillips, Descendants of William Rodgers and Sarah E. Sphar (Unpublished genealogy research, Dec 2016).

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 866, 1344.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 866, 1071, 1344.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1033.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1344.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1071.