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Johann Adam Schauss (b. 1704, d. December 12, 1770)

Johann Adam Schauss (son of Johann Conrad Schauss, Sr and Anna Engle Conrad) was born 1704 in Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany, and died December 12, 1770 in Bethania, Rowan Co, NC. He married Maria Barbara Baum on January 16, 1724/25 in Evangical Church, Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany.

Notes for Johann Adam Schauss:

In his arrival deposition, Adam reported his age to be 32.

1736 SHOUS ADAM Philadelphia County PA Philadelphia PA Early Census Index

On Tax List Philadelphia Co, PA 1743 Adam Schaub

Adam was a miller and a tavern keeper.
"In 1743, the Moravians built their first grist mill at Bethlehem, at the foot of the declivity above which the original house of the settlement stood. Henry Antes undertook to superintend the construction, being assisted by John Adam Schaus, the miller. This was a great boon to the settlers surrounding it. It was replaced by another mill in 1751".
FN:The Pensylvania German in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783, page 466:FN

On December 16, 1750, Adam advertised his mill for sale in the newpaper "Pennsylvanische Geschictes-Schreiber", published in Germantown, PA, by Christopher Sauer. The name of the paper was later changed to "Pennsylvanische Berichte". The advertisement reads as follows: "December 16, 1750. Adam Schausz, miller on Perkiomen Creek in Pawling's mill, offers to sell his mill in Bucks County, at the Forks of the Delaware.
FN:Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory from Advertisements in German Newspapers Published in Philadelphia and Germantown 1743-1800:FN

History: Local: CHAPTER LV: Frederick Township : Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co, PA

A religious movement of importance, in which a number of the inhabitants of Frederick Township were interested, took rise in 1742 in Pennsylvania.
Count Zinzendorf came to America in 1741 upon a religious mission. Henry Antes, of Frederick, soon made his acquaintance. They conferred with reference to uniting "such souls out of the different religious denominations who sought their salvation through Jesus Christ, through the bonds of love," -a subject in which they both felt a deep interest. On the 15th of December, 1741, a call was issued, over the signature of Henry Antes, for a meeting of Christians at Germantown on New Year's day. Another meeting was held at the house of George Heebner, in Frederick township, on the 14th and 15th of January, at which John George Stieffel, William Frey, Andrew Frey, Henry Antes, Adam Schaus, all of Frederick Township, were in attendance. On the 7th of December 1742, Count Zinzendorf preached at Falkner Swamp (doubtless at the house of Henry Antes), from Psalm cxxx, 3: "If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" The unity movement meeting with opposition from many of the Lutheran, Reformed, Mennonites, Dunker, and Schwenkfelders now became a Moravian interest. The second week in March, 1745, the Moravian Synod met at the house of Henry Antes, in Frederick Township. it Moravian congregation was formed in Frederick township which, in 1747, numbered twenty-three persons. Of those who were permanently settled in Frederick Township, the following were connected with this Moravian congregation:
William Frey and family
Andrew Frey
Henry Antes and family.

Conrad Schaus, son of J. Adam and Barbara Schaus, born in January, 1738, in Henry Antes' mill

from http://cgibin.rcn.com/fmoran/dobbs.html

buried in the old graveyard at the "Dutch Fort", or what is now known as Bethabara in Winston-Salem, NC. During the Indian uprisings, these first settlers were protected by the Moravians within the fort walls of Bethabara. Should death occur during these times, these settlers were not buried in the Moravian Cemetery, but instead, at the "Stranger's graveyard" aka Dobb's Parish Graveyard, which was established Oct 5, 1759 and located south of the Bethabara Mill.

No. 15 Adam Schaus, a widower died at Bethanis, at home of his son

Records of Moravians in NC
by Adelaide Fries
Vol 1 page 399: Wachovia Memorabilia 1770: A widower, Adam Schaus, who passed away at the home of his son in Bethania, was buried in the Parish graveyard near the Mill.

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1. Title: Cornelius Holmes Shows of Jones County, Mississippi
Author: Pete Shows Baucum
Publication: 1999
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Media: Book
Page: 16

2. Title: The Church Record Book of the Evangelical Parish, Albisheim, Pfalz; Appendix B
Author: Evangelical Parish, Albisheim, Pfalz
Publication: Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT - microfilm #0192748
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4. Title: Unpublished Records of the Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, NC

5. Title: Cornelius Holmes Shows of Jones County, Mississippi
Author: Pete Shows Baucum
Publication: 1999
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Media: Book
Page: 12

6. Title: Pennsylvania German Pioneers, I
Author: William John Himke, PH.D., D. D.
Publication: 1975
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Page: 154-159

7. Title: Some of the First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware and Their Descendants, Being a Translation from the German ofthe Record Books of the First Ref
Author: Kieffer, The Reverend Henry Martyn, D.D. comp
Note: TITL Some of the First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware and Their Descendants, Being a Translation from the German ofthe Record Books of the First Reformed Church of Easton, Penna, from 1760 to 1852
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More About Johann Adam Schauss:
Burial: old graveyard at the "Dutch Fort" Winston-Salem, NC.
Census: 1736, Philadelphia County PA.
Confirmation: 1717, Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany.
Immigration: September 01, 1736, Ship Harle from Rotterdam.
Tax Roll 1: 1736, Philadelphia Co, PA.
Tax Roll 2: 1843, Philadelphia Co, PA.

More About Johann Adam Schauss and Maria Barbara Baum:
Marriage: January 16, 1724/25, Evangical Church, Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany.

Children of Johann Adam Schauss and Maria Barbara Baum are:

+Conrad Schauss, b. January 07, 1737/38, Falkner Swamp, Philadelphia Co, Pa, d. Aft. 1769, Rowan County, NC.
Friedrich Christoph Schauss, b. 1727.
Phillip Nicholas Schauss, b. December 21, 1728, Immesheim, Pfalz, Germany, d. 1810, Stokes Co, NC.
Heinrich Schauss, b. 1741, Easton, Northampton Co, PA, d. September 26, 1825, Mortonsville, Woodford Co, KY.