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Note: # Name: HANS HEINRICH JOHANN SCHOENEFELDT # Given Name: HANSHEINRICH JOHANN # Surname: SCHOENEFELDT # Sex: M # Birth: ABT;1675 in LOWER SILESIA, SAXONY, GERMANY # Death: JULY 27, 1756 inGERMANTOWN, PA. # Note: THE NAME SHANAFELT(SCHOENEFELDT) MEANS"BEAUTIFUL FIELD" IN GERMAN, PERHAPS REFERRING TO AREAS OF THEBEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE OF GERMANY-SILESIS, OR TO THOSE WHOACCOMPLISHED THE CULTIVATION OF THE "BEAUTIFUL FIELDS".NIKOLAUS, BARON OF SCHONFELD, OF THE ERA PRE 1644 OF OR NEARPRAGUE IS FOUND IN THE REGION OF MORAVIA OR BOHEMIA OF OLDNETHER(OR LOWER) SILESIA. THE CZECH NAME FOR SCHONFELD IS"KRASNO", AND WE FIND THE VILLAGE OF KRASNO IN WESTERNBOHEMIA,CZECHOSLOVAKIA. IT IS THOUGH THAT THE SCHOENFELDS CAMEFROM THE ZWICHAN AREA NOW PART OF SAXONY,GERMANY. JOHANN MET AELIZABETH POET AND MARRIED HER. THEY HAD SEVERAL SONS. THESCHOENFELD FAMILY WERE BEFRIENDED BY COUNT NICHOLAS LUDWIG VONZINZENDORF AND GIVEN A HOME ON THE PROPERTY OF HIS RELIGIOUSENCLAVE KNOWN AS HERRNHUT. WHEN JOHANNES WAS IN HIS LATEFORTIES, HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE HAVING PROBLEMS. FOR WHATEVERREASON, COUNT ZINZENDORF PLACE THIS FAMILY ON AN ENEMY LISTFORCING THEM TO LEAVE IN 1726. IT GOT BAD ENOUGH THAT JOHANN SAWA WAR WAS COMING. IN FACT, THERE WAS A BIG WAR IN THE LATE1730'S OR EARLY 1740. THEY TOOK A BOAT DOWN A RIVER, NAMEUNKNOWN, UNTIL THEY REACHED THE COAST. THIS WAS JOHANN,ELIZABETH AND THEIR SONS. ALSO ALONG FOR THE RIDE WAS ELIZABETHSBROTHER AND HIS FAMILY. AFTER MAKING IT TO THE NEATHERLANDS,THEY SETTLED THERE, AROUND ROTTERDAM. THIS IS THE REASON WHYSOME PEOPLE THINK THAT THE SCHOENFELD FAMILY IS DUTCH. THEYLIVED THERE FOR A GOOD MANY YEARS. I IMAGINE THAT THERE WERE AFEW COUSINS, OR WHAT HAVE YOU, THAT MADE THE TRIP WITH JOHANNES.THE SCHOENFELD NAME IS QUIET COMMON IN THE NEATHERLANDS. THEFIRST SCHOENFELD TO FILL THE URGE TO SAIL TO NORTH AMERICA WASJOHANNES SCHOENFELD JR. HE ARRIVED IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE YEAR1728. THERE WAS NO UNITED STATES AT THIS POINT. THE AREA WASUNDER ENGLISH RULE. JOHANNES SR. AND ELIZABETH AND A VERY YOUNGGEORGE,THEIR SON, ARRIVED IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE YEAR 1733.THEY LEFT ROTTENDAM ON THE SHIP "PENNSYLVANIA MERCHANT OFLONDON." STOPPED IN ENGLAND, AND THEN TRAVELED ON TO NORTHAMERICA. THEY ARRIVED ON JULY 18,1733 INGERMANTOWN,PHILADELPHIA,PA. ONE STORY THAT I HEARD WAS THAT THEYWERE BEFRIENDED IN THE NEATHERLANDS BY A GROUP CALLEDSWAKENFELTERS. FREDERICH, ONE OF THEIR SONS AND OUR ANCESTER,DIDN'T COME TO NORTH AMERICA UNTIL 1737. JOHN PETER SCHOENFELDCAME IN 1752. THE SCHOENFELD'S OPENED UP WHAT IS NOW CALLEDMARYLAND. THEY WERE AMONG THE FIRST TO SETTLE THERE. THEIRRELIGION WAS GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH AND HIS TOMESTONE SAYS "THESCHOENFELD." JOHN AND ELIZABETH ARE BURIED IN GERMANTOWN SECTIONOF PHILADELPHIA,PA. Father: MARTIN DER MITTIERE SCHOENEFELDT b:1625 in HARTMANNSDORF,LEIPZIG,SAXONY,GERMANY Mother: DOROTHEAEYSSER b: 1625 in HARTMANNSDORF,LEIPZIG,SAXONY,GERMANY Marriage1 ELIZABETH POET b: ABT; 1690 in REICHENBACH, GERMANY *Married: BEF; 1707 in GERMANY Children 1. Has ChildrenFREDREICH SCHOENEFELT b: ABT; 1714 in GERMANY 2. Has No ChildrenJOHANNES SCHOENEFELDT JR. b: ABT; 1708 in SILESIA,SAXONY,GERMANY 3. Has No Children JOHN PETER SCHOENEFELDT b: ABT; 1712in GERMANY 4. Has No Children GEORGE SCHOENEFELDT b: ABT; 1730in GERMANY 5. Has No Children WILLIAM SCHOENEFELDT b: 1736 inGERMANTOWN, PA.
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