Matheus Schoch and Maria Margetta [Unk]

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Husband Matheus Schoch ¹

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            AKA: Mathias Schoch,2 3 Matthew Schoch 4
           Born: 16 Dec 1738 - Alsace-Lorraine, France/Germany 1
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           Died: 10 May 1812 - Snyder Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - near Selinsgrove, Snyder Co, PA

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         Father: [Father] Schoch (      -      )
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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -1832)

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Wife Maria Margetta [Unk] ¹

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           Died: 1785 1
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Children

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1 M John Schoch ¹

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2 M Henry Schoch ¹

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3 M Michael Schoch ⁵

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           Born: 20 Jun 1769 6
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           Died: 19 Mar 1853 7
         Buried:  - Mifflinburg, Union Co, PA

         Spouse: Ann Books (Abt 1769-1823) 6

         Spouse: Mrs.  Dreese (      -      ) 6

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4 M Peter Schoch ¹

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5 M Jacob Schoch ^{3 8}

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         Buried:  - New Berlin, Union Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth Hendricks (      -      ) 1 3

         Spouse: Unknown (      -      ) 9

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6 F Catharine Schoch ⁶

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7 U [Infant] Schoch ¹

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8 U [Infant] Schoch ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Matheus Schoch

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He was the founder of the Schoch families in Union and Snyder counties, Pennsylvania.

With two brothers and two sisters, he came to America from Germany in the eighteenth century, locating in Berks County, Pennsylvania. [CBRCP-CCUS, 832]

He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. At the age of eleven years he and a brother were sold as redemptioners to pay their passage to America, entering into a contract to pay for same by working for a term of years after their arrival. They landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1749, having come in the ship "Albany," of which Robert Brown was master. They remained in that city until they had carried out their contract and were again free. Here in the New World, realizing the advantages, and having well ingrafted the Swiss thrift and economy of their native home and blood, these two brothers very soon accumulated sufficient means to send across the ocean for a brother and sister still there.
Matheus Schoch first settled at Tulpehocken, Berks County, Pennsylvania, but in 1775 came to Penn township, then Northumberland (later Snyder) County, settling near where is now the town of Smith Grove, where at the time of his death he was the possessor of large landed interests. [CBRCP-CCUS, 1057]

He was born at Muhlhausen, Germany, and came to America in 1752, his labor for a term of years after his arrival going to pay for his passage. Landing at Philadelphia, he remained in that vicinity while he fulfilled the terms of his contract, and then located in Northampton [sic] County, Pennsylvania, near Tulpehocken. Later he accompanied Conrad Weizer, the noted Indian agent, to central Pennsylvania, and purchased a large tract of land where Kreamer now stands. [CBRCP-CCUS, 1077]

He came in 1749 from Schauffenhausen Canton, of Zurich, Switzerland to Pennsylvania. The Schoch family, originally of Alsace-Lorraine, settled in Switzerland in the 15th century. [PGSIG, 19]

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1057.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 832, 934.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 19.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1077.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 832, 1057.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 832.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 833.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 934, 1057.

9 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 934.