Davis, William W. H., A.M., History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III, page 197-200 http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/martinlsnyder.html Transcribed April 2001 by Joan Lollis of IN. as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., Published April 2001 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/ ~pabucks/.

Andreas VAN SCHNEIDER (or, as he signed himself in America, Andreas

SCHNEIDER), the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born

in the year 1739, in Zweybrucken, or Deux Ponts, Rhenish Bavaria, and is

said to have belonged to the nobility of that cosmopolitan town, but,

having taken part as a mere youth in an uprising against the government,

was stripped of his nobility and property and forced to flee from the

country. He sold himself to the captain of a sailing vessel bound for the

port of Philadelphia, where he arrived some time in the year 1759. He bound

himself to a merchant in Philadelphia whose name has not been ascertained,

by whom it is said he was employed in the capacity of a farmer in the

neighborhood of Germantown for some years, and that later his employer sold

him sufficient stock and farming implements with which to embark in the

farming business for himself, taking his note without security for the

same. It is probable that his employers and benefactors were Abel JAMES and

John THOMPSON, of Philadelphia, prominent merchants on whose plantation in

Richland township, Bucks county, we find Andrew SCHNEIDER in 1775, and five

years later they conveyed to him 140 acres thereof, on which he lived and

died. He was a member of the first Associated Company of Richland township

in 1775, and is said to have rendered active service in the defense of the

rights of his adopted country during the Revolution and served as an

officer under Washington when he crossed the Delaware to attack the

Hessians on that memorable Christmas night. It is related of Mr. SCHNEIDER

that he was in such haste to join the army in the time of his country's

urgent need, that he left his team in the field hitched to the plow. After

service in the army of five years he settled on his farm in Richland, and

devoted his energies to the tilling of the soil, meanwhile rendering such

service to the public as the needs of the community in which he lived

demanded. In the latter part of the war he served as a collector of militia

fines, and, having in his hands at different periods considerable public

funds, he kept the money hid in places known only to himself in order to

protect his family from the depredations of the DOANE outlaws, who did not

hesitate to maltreat and torture the families of tax collectors in order to

ascertain the hiding place of the public money. In religion Andreas

SCHNEIDER was a member of the Lutheran church. He had received more than

the ordinary advantages in the way of education, and took an active

interest in the establishment of schools in the community in which he

lived. He spoke the French language fluently, and while living in the

neighborhood of Germantown was generally referred to as "the Frenchman." He

died on his Richland farm about the year 1816. He married in 1765 Margaret

JACOBI, whose parents were also early settlers in upper Bucks county, and

they were the parents of eleven children, viz.: Frederick, who married a

Miss ECKHART and had seven children; Elizabeth, who married Stephen

KNIZELEY and had five children; Catharine, who married Isaac BEAN and had

five children; Andrew Jr., who married Mary MICKLEY and had five children;

Margaret, who married John WEISEL and had ten children; Magdalena, who

married Jacob BEAN; Henry, who married a Miss MESSIMER and had one child;

George, who married Mary MICKLEY and had ten children; John, who married

Elizabeth HINKLE and had eleven children; Mary, who married Philip RUMFIELD

and had four children; and Susanna who never married.

Bucks County Orphans Records 1685-1852 974.821 MYE Bucks County Historical Society, Mercer Museum, Spruance Library Doylstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. File 2446.

A “guardian” in this sense of the meaning is NOT one who cares for the minor, but looks after the financial aspects as an overseer to ensure there is no squandering of funds by the remaining parent that will hurt the children.

File 2446 Andrew Snyder, Richland Twp. May 27, 1816 Widow Margaret and eleven children, Frederick, Elizabeth (wife of Stephen Nicely), Catharine (wife of Isaac Been), Andrew, Margaret (wife of John Weisel), Magdalena (wife of Jacob Been), Henry, George (fourth son), John, Mary and Susanna. Owned 95 acres.

Ibid. File 3766.

A “guardian” in this sense of the meaning is NOT one who cares for the minor, but looks after the financial aspects as an overseer to ensure there is no squandering of funds by the remaining parent that will hurt the children.

File 3766 September 13, 1830 Margaret Snyder, Richland Twp. Eleven children: Frederick, Andrew, George, John, Elizabeth (wife of Stephen Nicely), Catharine (wife of Isaac Beihn), Margaret (wife of John Weisel), Magdalena Beihn (widow), Mary (wife of Philip Rumpfeldt), Susan and Henry (third son, deceased, left children Simon and Henry, both minors) owned 4 acres.

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Margaret Schneider Weissel

Birth: Jan. 7, 1777

Death: Jan. 31, 1844

Family links: 

 Parents:

  Andrew Schneider (1739 - 1815)

  Margaret <i>Jacoby</i> Schneider (1749 - 1828)

 Spouse:

  John Weisel (1768 - 1864)*

 Children:

  Maryann Weisel (1804 - 1827)*

  Hannah Weisel (1807 - 1826)*

  Rachel <i>Weisel</i> Walter (1815 - 1876)*

  Rebecca Catherine <i>Weisel</i> Fickes (1818 - 1897)*

 Siblings:

  Margaret <i>Schneider</i> Weissel (1777 - 1844)

  Magdalena <i>Snyder</i> Biehn (1778 - 1851)*

  John Snyder (1786 - 1844)*

Burial:

Old Union Cemetery 

Osterburg

Bedford County

Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: Albert Ledoux

Record added: Oct 25, 2006 

Find A Grave Memorial# 16323609