Person:Peter Schumacher (7)

On June 10, 1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius of Somerhausen, Germany, one of the Frankfort Company, sailed from London, reaching Philadelphia on August 20. He was the founder of a colony afterwards called Germantown.

On June 10 (or 11), 1683, Govert Remke, Lenard Arets, Peter Klever (or Kleber), and Jacob Van Bebber, a baker, all Quakers of Crefeldt on the Rhine River who had purchased 1,000 acres of land each from William Penn, went to Rotterdam this day with others (33 in all), then to London, and sailed for America July 24, 1683, in the ship Concord.

They settled on the land they bought from Penn, and other people spoke of the place as "A German Town." Today Germantown is part of the City of Philadelphia--the six miles of land between Penn's village and this German settlement is now all solid city. During the year 1683, the Friends held their first meeting at the house of man by the name of Kunder in the German colony.

The first Friends' Meeting House in Germantown was built in 1686. In 1685, Peter Schumacher, of a leading family of Kreisheim, came over and settled in the German colony. In 1691, the Germantown people were "naturalized" in the spelling of the names, so that Klever was changed to Clever, and afterwards became Cleaver; Schumacher became Shoemaker.

2011-By 1685, Peter's wife and his brother George had both died. Peter took his family, consisting of son Peter and daughters Mary, Frances & Gertrude, to America. They arrived in 1685 and settled in Germantown, Pa., where Peter died several years later. Another daughter, name unknown, the wife of Dielman Kolb, stayed behind in Germany, as did Peter's brother Arnold. According to "The Shoemaker Family" by Thomas H. Shoemaker, Peter and his family sailed from London on "Francis & Dorothy" on 8 mo: 14: 1685. The passenger list of that ship contains Peter Schumacher, son Peter, daughter Mary, cousin Sarah and daughters Frances & Gertrude. Peter had signed an agreement with Dirck Shipman of Krefeld before he left Germany, on August 16, 1685. It called for Peter to proceed to Pennsylvania and receive 200 acres from Herman Op den Graeff. He was to erect a dwelling on this land, which he apparently did. Peter died in Germantown in 1707 at 85 years of age. Peter Jr. married Margaret Op den Graeff on February 26, 1697. They had ten children, including Peter, Daniel, Isaac, John, Samuel and five daughters. http://www.gencircles.com/users/ken6680/1/data/7611

Agenes Schumacher (daughter of Peter Phillip Schumacher and Sarah Hendricks) was born 1652 in Wolfsheim, Palatinate, Pfalz, Germany, and died 07 Feb 1705 in Wolfsheim, Palatinate, Baden, Germany. She married Dielman Kolb on Abt. 1668 in Wolfsheim, Baden, Germany.