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Silvii Records Through the Years |
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- 1738 Passenger List of the ship Queen
Elizabeth. Shows the names of males 16 and
above and their signatures, including #1 Henry's original
signature [see the blue dot]. Signature from Pennsylvania German Pioneers, The Original Lists of Arrivals In the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, L.L.D., President of the Pennsylvania German Society. Edited by William John Hinke, Ph.D., D.D., in three volumes--Volume II: Facsimile Signatures, 1727-1775, Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1934 Edition. [Image]
- Copy of the original list of the captain of the Queen Elizabeth. Pa. State Archives RG-26 List 56A. [Image]
- Copy of the original list of passengers of the Queen Elizabeth who took Oaths of Abjuration. Pa. State Archives RG-26 List 56C. [Image]
- 1755, December An 18 December 1755 account in
the Pennsylvania Gazette which recorded the December 10 massacre of the Hoeth
family, and others, through the deposition of George Caspar Heiss. A boy who worked
in the mill was noted as "the son of one Sylvas." #12 Nicholas was nearly
13 at this time and old enough to be earning money for the family by working (and
living?) at the mill. [Image]
- 1756 The Rose Tavern Stockade The "Sylvases" of Contented Valley were here on January 29,
1756 (we're not sure which ones though). Since Contented Valley was a larger version
of Chesnuthill Township before it was reduced in size and re-named, I believe these
"Sylvases" to be the #1 Henry family or the #2 William family. [Includes a picture of the
Tavern.]
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1756, 4 April, Manuscript (1758) published by William H. Rinkenbach, entitled "French and Indian War Victims of the Indians."
This manuscript, the only copy, is at the Easton Area Public Library,
Easton, Pa. In this work, Rinkenbach says that six lists of the
victims are included in the second volume of the Conrad Weiser
correspondence assembled by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Conrad Weiser was the individual who, in 1758, ordered local officials to
compile lists of those killed or captured by the Indians between 1755 and
1757. Finally! We know the date that Nicholas Silvius was
captured by the Indians!! 4 April 1756! On the same day, Henry Christman's son was taken which supports their family story that a Christman
boy was captured along with a Silvius boy. They both were noted as
"under age." [Image]
- 1757 Diary "Journal
of the company under command of Lieut. Engle, Stationed in Lechy [Lehigh] township for the
month of December, 1757" [They visited #1 Henry's home.]
- 1757, March 25, List of "The Surveys done by order of
Mr. William Parsons Esquire late decease in the County of Northampton and Province of
Pennsylvania per David Schultze in the years 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756 and 1757" [201 Acres 130 Perches--William Silfeus] [Image]
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1761, 1 September, Tax Assessment list of Lehigh
Township, Northampton County. [Conrad
Silvius] [Image]
- 1761, 1 September, Tax Assessment
list of "Heydelberg" Township, Northampton County. [#2 William Silvius and Singleman #4 John Silvius] [Image]
- 1761, 10 November,
Henry "Silver" was one of the many creditors of the Estate of Hans Dieter
Bauman, father of Anna Maria, Sybilla, Henry, and Bernhard Bauman/Bowman, of the Palmerton
area Bowmans. Sybilla married Christopher Truby.
- 1761, 30 November, Henry Silvius was paid some
unknown amount for an unknown service. Per Candace Anderson's book Abstracts of
Public Records, Northampton County, PA (and surrounding counties),
ClossonPress.com
"services
included payments to the tax collectors for doing their duty and payment to men who had
been commissioned to do some job for the county such as digging wells, making roads, or
hunting foxes and wolves. (Though these particular records do not list any payment
for crows destroyed, there is a reference to funds set aside for crow destruction in one
record listing the purpose for collecting taxes . . . .)" [Image]
- 1762, 16 September, Petition of inhabitants of Lehigh
Township for a road. [#4 Johannes Silfius was a
petitioner--includes original signature of John--not a re-copy by the clerk!] [Image]
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1766, 10 November 1766,
#2 William,
#4 John, and #3 Conrad, naturalized. Naturalizations of Foreign
Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies (Pursuant to Statute 13
George II, c. 7). Edited by M. S. Giuseppi, F. S. A. , 1969. All three
certified by Joseph Shippen, Jr., on 10 November 1766, Philadelphia. Henry was
not noted. Perhaps because he signed an Oath of Allegiance when he arrived in
Philadelphia in 1738?
[Image
of Statute]
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1792
Inventory of the Estate of Charles Kress, of Lehigh Township, Northampton
Co., dated 19 November 1792, Executor Jacob Leineberger, Appraisers
Conrad Silvius
(his X mark) and John Nicholas Kuester. Kress Family History, Vienna,
Austria: K.F. von Frank, 1930, 782 pages.
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