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John Baker went on to serve in the War of 1812 as a private in the New Brunswick Fencibles. Database online.Following the death of the major, and the subsequent death of the major’s son, Robert – who had inherited the enslaved family – the Bakers were freed. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. GEDCOM Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA:.

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April 18, 1833, Adam applied for Revolutionary War Pension as a resident of Greenfield Township in 1806. After two weeks contracted camp fever and discharge thereafter. Adam took part in General Sullivan's Canadian Campaign and in the battle of Three Rivers, New York. Adam was allowed a pension on his application executed, while then a resident of Greenfield Township., Bedford Co., Pennsylvania. Places Marched: Schifflinsburg to Carlisle thence to Harrisburgh, Lancaster, Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey on to Burnswick, New York, Albany to Fort George on Lake George to Crown Point, and then to Fort St. Irvines's Pennsylvania regiment, in Battle of Three Rivers. Served under Captain Abraham Smith's Co., In Col. War: Enlisted in Cumberland, PA in spring 1776. Adam married first Elizabeth Swartwout, daughter of Thomas Swartwout and Elizabeth Ennes, about 1795.Īdam served in the Pennsylvania Continental Army.

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Shafer like many other enterprising men failed, and the property was sold in 1825 by the sheriff to George M. Thus Adam Shafer was the first tavern keeper, and operator of one of the first coal mines in the Wyoming Valley which Adam opened prior to 1808, under an agreement with Zachariah Hartsouff, for in the deed of Peter Baab to Joseph Swetland, there is a reservation to Adam Shafer of one half of this coal bed. In early days every farmer raised a field of flax, from which the wife and daughters made linen cloth for the family the flax seed was taken to the oil mill, where it was crushed and the oil pressed out. The oil mill was used for the manufacture of linseed oil. traces of this race may still be seen in the yard of the former Henry Schooley house. It was conveyed by a race, which ran parallel with the road for some distance, and then crossed it near the present Linden Street, and then ran on the westerly side of the road to the oil mill.

The water, to supply this mill, was taken from a pond, the dam of which stood below the Louisa Furnace, and above the Island School House. Hartsouff, in early times possessed all the mill seats at the Hollow. He enlarged his possessions to the west of the oil mill, by purchasing from Peter Babb, in 1813, the lower portion of Babbs part of lot #132 and as all that part of lot #14 not sold to Hartsouff was owned by Anning Owen and Mr. Hartsouff, what was known as the oil mill, and what was probably a part of the Sutton mills. In 1825 the Sheriff sold all of his property and Adam moved to Fairmount Township, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania.ĭEED BOOK 3: In 1798 Adam purchased from Mr. He started an oil mill in Mill Hollow, Luzerne Borough and was first tavern keeper. Sarah is burried at Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Columbia, PA.Īdam was a shoemaker by trade, but he owned several businesses in and around Kingston, Pennsylvania and was first coal operator, in 1806. Second she married Adam John Schafer on Dec. She was the widow of William Baker, who was a Revolutionary soldier and had been a widower with children when she married him. Sarah was born in Huntington Twp., Luzerne Co., PA. He married second Sarah Malissa Wilkinson, daughter of Jonathan Wilkinson and Elizabeth Worden, on 15 December 1814. Adam married first Elizabeth Swartwout, daughter of Thomas Swartwout and Elizabeth Ennes, about 1795.