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Note: # Name: FREDREICH SCHOENEFELT # Given Name: FREDREICH # Surname:SCHOENEFELT # Sex: M # Birth: ABT; 1714 in GERMANY # Death: 1783in HAGERSTOWN, MD. # Note: FREDREICH MAY HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHINDWITH GRANDPARENTS AND OR FAMILY BACK IN EUROPE UNTIL HE WAS 21WHEN HIS PARENTS EMIGRATED TO PENNSYLVANIA. FREDREICH CAME OVERTO AMERICA FROM GERMANY VIA ROTTERDAM, NEATHERLANDS. HE CAMEOVER FOUR YEARS AFTER HIS PARENTS JOHANNES AND ELIZABETH.FREDREICH ARRIVED IN PHILADELPHIA,PA. ON SEPT. 26,1737 ABOARDTHE SHIP "ST. ANDREW GALLEY" MASTERED BY JOHN STEDMAN FROMROTTERDAM,NETHERLAND AND DEPARTING COWES,ENGLAND. FREDREICHOCCUPATION WAS A FARMER AND PURCHASE A LARGE PLANTATION WHICH HENAMED "CASTLE PLAINS" IN HAGERSTOWN,MD. THIS WAS DURING THEFRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. ON AUG.13, 1757, FREDREICH IS ON THE LISTFOR QUARTERING OF TROOPS, ALONG WITH THE LISTING OF HIS BROTHERSJOHN AND WILLIAM, GIVING HIM AND THEM CREDIT FOR MILITIA SERVICETO THEIR COUNTRY, RECORDED IN COLONIAL MARYLAND RECORDS. IN 1783AT ABOUT THE AGE OF 70, AND AFTER HAVING 8 CHILDREN, FREDREICHDIED AT CASTLE PLAINS ON THE CONOCOCHEAGUE, SOUTHWEST OFHAGERSTOWN. FREDREICH WILL WAS WRITTEN JULY 29,1783,REGISTEREDAT HAGERSTOWN AND WAS PROBATED AUG.23,1783. IN IT HE MENTIONSWIFE,MARY,HIS PLANTATION,GEORGE SHENIFELT,MY BROTHER AND HISCHILDREN MICHAEL,FREDERICH,MARY,CATHARINE,MARGARET,EVE,JOHN ANDELIZABETH. HE GAVE THE LARGEST PART OF HIS "CASTLE PLAINS" LANDTO HIS ELDEST SON JOHN BORN 1768 AND A SMALLER PORTION TO HISDAUGHTER ELIZABETH. BOTH CHILDREN WERE FROM 1ST MARRIAGE ON3/6/1763 TO MARY ELIZABETH WESCHEBACH. ELIZABETH MARRIED IN 1789TO HER COUSIN JOHN BORN 1766, SON OF WILLIAM OF ROCKHALL,HAGERSTOWN,MD. "WITH REFERENCE TO HIS OLDEST SONJOHN,FREDREICH WILL STATED" ALSO,I ASSIGNS....ALL THE TRACT ORPARCEL OF LAND AND HOUSES THEREON WHEREON I NOW LIVE,CALLED"BEST OF CASTLE PLAINS, SAID TO CONTAIN ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENACRES MORE OR LESS. Father: HANS HEINRICH JOHANN SCHOENEFELDTb: ABT; 1675 in LOWER SILESIA, SAXONY, GERMANY Mother: ELIZABETHPOET b: ABT; 1690 in REICHENBACH, GERMANY Marriage 1 MARYMAGDALENA b: ABT; 1753 * Married: ABT; 1772 in MARYLANDChildren 1. Has Children GEORGE MICHAEL SCHOENEFELT b: JAN. 6,1773 in WASHINGTON CO., MD. 2. Has No Children JOHN SHANAFELT b:1768 in HAGERSTOWN, WASHINGTON CO.,MD. 3. Has No ChildrenFREDERICK SHANAFELT JR. b: 1775 in WASHINGTON CO., MD. 4. Has NoChildren MARY SHENEFELT b: ABT; 1776 in HAGERSTOWN,WASHINGTONCO., MD. 5. Has No Children CATHERINE SHENEFELT b: ABT; 1777 inHAGERSTOWN,WASHINGTON CO., MD. 6. Has No Children MARGARETSHENEFELT b: ABT; 1778 in HAGERSTOWN,WASHINGTON CO., MD. 7. HasNo Children EVE SHENEFELT b: MARCH 10,1779 inHAGERSTOWN,WASHINGTON CO.,PA.
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